I guess you're right Joe =we do tend to let people know if we think articulating their ideas is likely to cause trouble. also we don't allow people access to guns.

the difference is I suppose that our country has been bombed by fascists, Irish republicans, Islamic extremists - well you've had that last one yourself. not nice, is it?

we even had one bastard who set off a nail bomb in a gay pub -presumably he thought they were sub human perverts.

having said that I sympathise with you.

Ake is an old guy who lives near a loch in Scotland. to stop him jumping in, he shares his thought with us.
Keith believes someone who says - or implies they have stood on top of the Divis flats in Belfast and shot English soldiers. people who have actually done that tend to keep quiet. Keith sees redeeming qualities in the Daily Mail.
Jim is an old guy rightly proud of his association with the greatest folksingers in the cannon of British folk music. However - he is so far out whack that he cannot bring himself to admit that Bob Dylan and Donovan inspired 10 times more people to enter folk club than Ewan ever did.

Either way they are elderly gentlemen (admittedly crotchety) come to Mudcat for fellowship - and them being called names by Steve and other self righteous souls is an unedifying sight.

I apologise for my fellow countrymen.