"If they are responding to him"

seems to be the operative phrase.

Who else would a personal attack be responding too but the one being attacked?

As I do not post personal attacks on Catspaw or anyone else and do not respond in kind to the many that are encouraged to be made to me and that I am not protected from - any personal attack posted about me - will be unprovoked.

So even using Mick's strange logic - these personal attacks cannot be justified - by our 'moderators' just because they may share the sentiments.

In some of Mick's earlier posts he encourages posters not to use this thread for discussion - but by this later comment - he is actively encouraging the posting of abusive personal attacks to be made about certain posters in this thread.