Concerning complaints from anti-car protestors of alleged police repression of the Critical Mass bike ride, do the protestors ever consider that, statistically, you are far more likely to be convicted, even arrested or jailed, for a motor vehicle offence than for car theft?

Moreover, Brighton has one of the highest rates of conviction for parking offences in the country.

This contradicts the conspiratorial ideology of the protestors, who reckon, for instance, that raves and hippy festivals get stopped despite causing less nuisance than motorists because of "car culture" which, as a phenomenon of capitalism, therefore receives preferential treatment from the capitalist State, represented by the police and courts.

-Andrew Ward, Brighton