So--- a thread to discuss the unpleasantness and try to plead for restraint has become a magnet for even MORE name-calling and LESS restraint?
Some of you feel you are entitled to say anything you please about topics & people you don't like. It's that sort of behavior that makes trying to moderate a forum a full time job for a busload of moderators.

*sigh*... give some folks an inch, and they take a mile.

I am beginning to think that **ANY** discussion of the BNP ought to be off limits. Management used to have to restrict discussion of the Nothern Ireland issue because adherents on BOTH sides could not restrain their remarks in any decent way. It has come close to that in the Israeli/Paletinian threads, we all remember other attempts to use Mudcat for personal vendettas on several other issues. The issues are important, but NO ONE has access to 'absolute truth' on ANY topic.

SURELY there are better places to rant.....I would hope.