In the light of the events of the past few days, d'you reckon the government will be urging moderate members of organisations representing the nation's motorists to address the actions of the extremists within their midst? Just a thought.

Guardian Diary

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[mww]

Nah, it's all part of a government conspiracy to demonise motorists.

[aineliva]

Actually that's not a bad idea.....

[Ted]

A flippant comment in poor taste. Typical of the Guardian, you have to say.

[Osama]

Must read Vikram Dodd

[mww]

The MCB (Motorist Council of Britain) has released a statement saying that the motor community has kept the radical letter-bombing minority at arms length. While there are problem motorists, they are not reflective of the motoring community as a whole, who are law-abiding citizens.

It is necessary for the criminals to be brought to justice, but if any arrests are made they had better be based on good evidence otherwise they will have a divisive effect on the motoring community. This country is effectively a police state for motorists, so although the MCB condemns violence we have to say that this Government's transport policies are a contributory factor in the radicalisation of a minority of car drivers.

[joe90]

Here's me thinking I lived in a democracy as well, where people are responsible for their own crimes and not those of others.

I thought collective responsibility and collective punishment was a feature of regimes such as Hitlers and Stalins, and not a liberal democracy such as Britians.

If you have a driving licence you must be guilty of a letter bombing campaign.

If you are Muslim, you must be guilty of bombing atrcocities on one day in the English capital.

Printing racist rubbish in Adolf Murdoch's newspapers can have a radical totalitarian effect on soft pliant minds - yesterday it was the Jews, today it's the turn of the Muslims to take the blame. Only the victims change, not the propaganda.