[kirklancaster]

This should not surprise anyone, and certainly should not enrage some, because it is just another facet of the crackpot lawlessness which saw Nigel Farage and his innocent family accosted by thugs.

If - as some on here have stated - it is all right for one crowd of cretins to unlawfully threaten Farage because in their warped perception he 'deserves it', then how is it shocking when another set of cretins unlawfully threaten Clarkson's ex-employer because in their warped perception he too 'deserves it'?

Before anyone slates me by pointing out that a 'Death threat' is far worse than any mob 'harassment', I will say that the threat to Clarkson's ex-employer is just that; 'a threat', whilst the attack upon Farage and his family was an actual executed crime, but in any event the 'gravity' of the offence is technically irrelevant, as both are examples of people taking the law into their own hands because they feel justified by being aggrieved by the intended 'victims'.

Attacks and harassment of politicians out for a quiet meal with their families, death threats to employers who have acted correctly in dismissing an employee who has been guilty of gross misconduct, innocent Jews and Muslims being accosted in the street for no other reason than their ethnicity or religious persuasion, celebrities being slandered, libelled and viciously condemned when they have neither been charged nor tried or convicted; all are very disturbing manifestations of an increasing social trend towards 'vigilantism' - or 'taking the law into our own hands' - and 'The Law' should come down hard and fast upon anyone who breaks it because they think they 'know better'.