Tim May wrote:

(I'm joking about "conflict vegetables." But ever since all the various PC television shows and movies started nattering about "conflict diamonds," I have realized this is just another PC scam. If I buy diamonds from Zaire I don't give a hoot in hell that they were bought from "capitalist roaders" or whomever the U.N. has declared to be politically incorrect. Seeing a James Bond movie centered around "conflict diamonds" made me ill.)

In the spirit of 'one man's terrorist is another mans freedom fighter', I have taken to calling these 'liberation diamonds'. Peter