Zealots and over-kill

From the London Daily Mail...

[Fourteen-year-old Codie Stott] had not been in school the day before due to a hospital appointment and had missed the start of a project, so the teacher allocated her a group to sit with. 

"She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils," said Codie yesterday. 

"Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said 'Discuss'." 

According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher. 

"I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'." 

Codie said she went outside to calm down where another teacher found her and, after speaking to her class teacher, put her in isolation for the rest of the day. 

A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest. 

"They told me to take my laces out of my shoes and remove my jewellery, and I had my fingerprints and photograph taken," said Codie. "It was awful." 

After questioning on suspicion of committing a section five racial public order offence, her mother Nicola says she was placed in a bare cell for three-and-a-half hours then released without charge. 

Just an isolated case of temporary stupidity, right? Nope...

Salford was at the centre of a storm last April after a ten-year-old boy was hauled before a court for allegedly calling an 11-year-old mixed race pupil a 'Paki' and 'Bin Laden' in a playground argument at a primary school in Irlam. 

When the case came before District Judge Jonathan Finestein he said the decision to prosecute showed "how stupid the whole system is getting". 

But was himself fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders for "feeding a pernicious agenda" that aided the BNP. 

The prosecution was eventually dropped.

Maybe that's why Liberals seem to be so hesitant to criticize radical Moslems, they both practice their own form of over-kill when it comes to forcing their views on others. Perhaps we need to keep that in mind when allowing Liberals to set the tone for addressing our response to acts of terrorism. I honestly believe that Liberals have deluded themselves into believing that once the problem of terrorism has weakened Conservative, they, the Liberals, can saunter in, give the terrorists a big smile, and instantly turn them against violence. Meanwhile, the world over, they march toward totalitarianism, using whatever means they can get away with, including jailing children.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 13, 2006 8:00 AM