[Porsche-O-Phile]

*sigh*

I was hoping that this would be a discussion of the CURRENT EVENTS issue. Same way we discuss current events dealing with everything else in PPOT. There is no need for this to become a "political" discussion per se. Nor is there any need for it to become a "religious" discussion per se. Yes, this is a current events issue that deals with a political uprising against a totalitarian theocratic regime, but I fail to see how that alone makes it necessarily a "politics or religion" discussion.

PARF exists so that the blatantly political and religious discussions that flare up from time to time have a place to live without polluting the general OT forum. The benchmark (IMHO) should be "is this a thread that's going to create more heat or more light?" If it's the former, it belongs in PARF. If it's the latter, it goes in PPOT. My hope was that this would be a CURRENT EVENTS discussion to share information, opinions and insight into the goings on over there, not a "political" discussion and not a "religious" discussion. Any mention of either is incidental.

That's why I put it here.

If any of the mods disagree that it's okay to put it here then they're welcome to move it. I'll be disappointed, but unfortunately I can't control the direction of a thread once I start it. It's an organic entity. Hell, someone could post a thread about "what's your favorite color" in PPOT and some other shmuck could come along and say "well it's not red, 'cause that's the color of lousy communists like the Democrats" or whatever, and drag it off into PARF, despite the OP's intention to have an innocent thread.

Anyone know if any of the news outlets are reporting any more about the alleged rumors that police/military units are refusing to confront the protesters?