Thank you, sir, for your kind reply. It does sound like an interesting book to read.

Hooded Marxists, you say? My goodness!

I had a long reply almost prepared to send to the good gentleman, Mr. Gillespie, which contained (among other things) my thoughts concerning my views about the inevitable lack of success in trying to legislate peoples opinions. That is, laws concerning some things involving morality don't work very well. This is historically found in laws against such things as, not only school segregation, but prohibition of alcholic beverages, abortion, and, actually, most "illegal drugs".

Surely no one today in the U.S.A. thinks it's morally ok for one person to own another. However, some of us (myself included) sometimes resort to using all sorts of analogies to get others to see our viewpoint - including some that might appear as if we're talkin' about 2007 and not 1860, when we aren't meaning it to be taken that way at all.

Anyway, when it was nearly ready to post, my computer crashed, so what I wrote will go unsaid for the most part.

It's never laws that have to be changed so much as people's hearts and minds; that is, if you really want change. But, that's just my silly old opinion.

Again, thanks for telling me about Mr. Taylor's book.

Regards,
Penny