Joseph Kerr

"No, I "sneer" when you support wrongdoing with excuses which may not be the case here, but has been in the past."

I invite you to point me to a single instance of my support for wrongdoing.

I think you'll find that I support a balanced view of a subject that tends to bring the knee-jerkers to the fore in double-quick time. Wrongdoing is wrongdoing, and I have never, and will never support it. You will find no example of me doing so, and I look forward to an immediate apology from you for suggesting otherwise.

I suspect I shall have a long wait, but possibly a little more sneering in the same vein as "And then told me who he really is to be emotive." A disgraceful and spiteful remark to make, but absolutely true to form.

morddwyd

I bow to your superior knowledge.

I was only born in 1969, so I don't remember the Tonypandy riots :-)

Indeed you have not shown any support for any wrongdoing, and I apologise for saying otherwise. However, at every turn, you have said, basically, that the Police do a hard job. I'm aware of that and we probably do not remunerate them or respect them enough when there are many less respectable types making much more for less worthy work.

I do not like the fact that you always say "yes, but its a hard job", but that is not the same as condoning any bad behaviour on the part of the Police, I acknowledge.

It was not my intention to be spiteful, though I can see I appeared so. But I am still not sure of the point of telling me about your friend then revealing he is your brother; I am unsure of the effect you wanted this to have on me.

I understand the instinct to be defensive of proffesions when we have fmaily members in them. It's not quite the same but a family member of mine is a manager with NSL Services Group, so I'll happily tell anyone who has been ticketed in her area that I can be 99.9% certain that they were illegally parked.

The above is all meant in the best possible taste.

Goodnight FE and all.

Regarding the riots this is nothing to do with political issues or the unfortunate shooting that has taken place it is just plain and simple criminal acts that has taken place ! we have created a social underclass in this country and this was always on the cards to happen at some point in the future .

How the government reacts to these riots is very important as it sets a marker for the future . With regards the shooting if a suspect is carrying a gun whether the police fired first is irrelevant in my opinion lets face it the police are just ordinary men and women wanting to go home at the end of there sift to see there families and if a suspect is armed the police should not come under investigation if they fire first .

I do not condone the American policing methods but it is a case of fire first ask questions later