You get frightened on Mudcat? Blimey...

Of course personal attacks are never a helpful way of carrying on a discussion, and people who go in for that kind of stuff are abusing free speech. (Rhetoric about politicians doesn't really count as personal, though it's normally a certain way of missing the real roots of the trouble.)

But thugs parading down your street is slightly different from some twit on the other side of the world making rude remarks.