Well, Chris. Rest assured that my passport was promptly cancelled. No worries on that account. Wouldn't want a Belize terrorist to make his way into our wonderful country, right?

But I admit - you do have a point as to the line about how Belize "sucks." I think I'll edit that. It was a frame of mind born of frustration. I think I relived the moment in a narrative fugue.

Anyway - this is all very interesting to me.

klcman - I think you may have a point. And I'll grant you that my reliability would be better served by a bland, purely factual account. But I'll stake a possible libel claim on the facts that do count - I wouldn't name names lightly. I may not have lived through the McCarthy Hearings, but I've read about them.

As for my previous observation - the tendency to "blame the victim"... I think that may warrant its own topic... a new idea for my blog.

And finally, as to the tendency of the forum to silence the negative comments, let me leave you with some words of the famed Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death..." (Abrams, dissenting)

After all, "time has upset many fighting faiths." (Holmes, again).