Scum! Vandals! Dregs of the Earth!

[Suff]

WM, my father was RAF for 40 years, he joined when he was 15. My mother was RAF for 4 years but had to leave when pregnant with my brother (my how rules change). My maternal Grandfather was Army, his youngest son Army and I was also in exactly the same job as my uncle in the Army. My Paternal Grandfather had a 200 year history in the Navy and was Navy during the war (left a protected job to do so). His second son was Navy too.

When I say that I feel the way you do about this, I really mean it. I was RAF orientated from birth and services till I was 25. Mrs S lost a Grandfather and an Uncle (RAF), to two different wars. She's not just mad about this, she is both personally offended at the insult to her personal family loss and also totally enraged by it.

Personally, for me, on reflection, I would prefer public birching for this kind of offense, broadcast so that everyone can see their shame. It worked perfectly in Manx land and since it has been removed public order issues like this have risen dramatically.

Maybe I'm just a barbarian, but barbarians do have their uses from time to time...

[AliasAggers]

Personally, for me, on reflection, I would prefer public birching for this kind of offense, broadcast so that everyone can see their shame.
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I quite agree, Suff.

[TheOstrich]

It looks like a number of memorials were defaced with white paint that night.

One of them was the tribute to WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead by a Libyan outside their embassy back in the 1980's. She was from a village a few miles away from here, and was schooled in Gillingham.

Suffice it to say that the desecration has not gone down well on the town's Facebook page …..

[Workingman]

It will be interesting to see which group the perpetrators belong to. I have my thoughts on that....

As for birching. I like the idea but it will never happen. Saying nasty things on 'Twitbook' can get you a jail term. Hitting someone with twigs is so far off the scale it is liable to get the bircher a life sentence without remission such is the huggytarian society we have become.

[Suff]

Hmmm, yes, and smashing into a car and threatening the life of someone with a 12" knife can get you.... Quality time with Mum. Hardly surprising that well over 100 people were knifed to death in London last year.

We live in a screwed up society. Perhaps we need a LOT more hardship before we will discover, again, what is important in life.