I can understand why many people comment on Mudcat once, receive tirades of abuse, and never come back!

My comments were regarding a policeman abusing his position with this 16 year-old photographer. I was not referring to any other situation/time/person/ethnic group.
I have not "only just realised that its a police state"
I have not been living under a stone!
I am not "quite happy with the crap you are fed by the world at large, without question"
I do "wake up look around, listen to people, question what you are told"
I do "actually hear what your community is saying to you"
I do not "only transmit what you are told."

I did not give you any grounds in my post to come up with the crap you did. You don't know me, have no idea of my beliefs, thoughts, ideas, opinions, feelings or personal standards but you, in your wisdom, read way more into my posting above than I was saying.

Hence my ""I'm a genius at making unbased assumptions" award for 2010 (and quite a few years before that too)" statement.

Eddie