Let's hear it for vigilantism. Why just Sir Freddie - I know other bankers too, they are high up in their organisation, so they must be pretty evil; let's put a few bricks of justice through their windows too. And then we'll take a copy of the sex offenders' register and petrol-bomb the cars of a few registrants, while they are safely parked of course and with nobody inside. By the time our appetite will really be whetted so we'll take on a few xxxxxxxxxxs .

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