I refer to your front front page about the racist attack in a busy Oxford street on Rattandeep Singh Ahluwalia (Oxford Mail, May 31).

I have been mugged twice in Oxford, the first time at a cost of more than £400 it never made the front page. It's not that the police don't care. It's simply if and when they take the thugs to court, they get off lightly because of the do-gooders now involved in our system of justice.

The victim states at least 40 people witnessed the incident and no-one came to assist. The Oxford Mail editorial states that police advise against 'having a go', and they are correct.

The Mail also states that surely there were one or two beefy individuals who could have helped (John Prescott was not to be seen).

What's the point of possibly being a badly injured or dead hero? The 'Charles Bronson' does not work in real life. Individuals willing to have a go are taking the law into their own hands. The thugs would now be the victims, seeking compensation in the courts.

I'm sure there is a clever barrister who could twist the actual incident in another direction.

With most of our laws coming from Strasbourg, people will have to accept things will get worse here. This is no longer England's green and pleasant land.

Sitting round a table in Paris 1917, some people seem to have had a vision of what the future might hold. Lenin said: "It will take a hundred years to destroy the West." A comrade said: "What, the United States of America?" Lenin replied: "No, England."

FREDERICK CARTER Nightingale Avenue, Greater Leys, Oxford