Re:  "without speculating about matters which neither you nor I have any knowledge of"

You have made many worthy comments today, Mr. Brown, but you are barking up the wrong tree here.  Your correspondent has many commendable qualities, including being able to disagree with posters without being disagreeable, but her whole posting history contains such wild and sweeping generalizations, both here and on disqus (k - ya know I love ya, in the agape way, of course).