Trevor Morris: 

 >Nicely put, John.  I have been around this particular block quite a few
 >times with Bilgey, 

  Apparently it's a bad neighborhood since you always end up getting
mugged.
 
 >but it always ends up with him demanding the full exposition of modern
 >particle physics - gluons, w, Z etc - as if it all
 >sprang perfectly and fully formed from the model-free SR but could not
 >possibly be consistent with any model from which SR was derived.
 
  On the contrary, all of modern physics was developed by imposing
the first potulate on the theories as a prerequisite.

 >I'd laugh if it wasn't so bloody tragic.

  The only tragedy here was the poor education you received in logical
thinking.