14 yr old arrested - PC gone amuck again

This time, in Britain, a 14-year-old was arrested when she complained to the teacher she wanted in a new study group, since her assigned group did not speak English. She figured she'd do better in a discussion group where everyone could communicate. She was accused of racism and sent to jail.

TSC Daily

OK then - the message is just shut up and fail, lest we be thought of as racist. Bad move. I will tell you the charges were dropped, but the school and the teacher have a definite problem.

Aggregating blogs in Greece could get you arrested

Instapundit posts a link:

"The administrator of Blogme.gr, a Greek blog aggregation website had his house raided, his hard drive seized and was himself arrested by the Greek cybercrime division last week, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a satirical blog that was linked to by his site.

The embarrasing part - this coincides with the Internet Governance Forum being hosted in Athens this week.

Greece loses an inch here. It's getting so the blogosphere can't have opinions. Dangerous stuff in these times.

France rethinks morality of Israeli wall

“Although the wall was a moral and ethical problem for me, when I realised terror attacks were reduced by 80 percent in the areas where the wall was erected, I understood I didn’t have the right to think that way.” So says French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy.

American Thinker covers this.

OK. That pulls back from the edge a bit and gets a check in the plus column.

Teaching Kids to Not Fight Back

Well let's start here with LGFs post on how Fort Worth schools have decided to stop teaching kids how to defend themselves during a school assault. They no longer will be taught how to 'take out' an attacker.

Fort Worth just moved forward an inch. Not Flight 93 material.

One Inch at a Time

Over at Sticky Notes, as I post the latest news and thoughts about what's going on, I have become deeply concerned about those little incremental steps we see that erode our great democracy, our freedoms, our individuality... I could go on and on.

And while this is not a replacement for Sticky Notes, it's like footnotes to the news. A place to record the events that chip away, ONE INCH AT A TIME, at the very glue that holds America (and much of the world) together.

I've often called it incrementalism. If we don't stand as guardians, we might wake up one day and wonder what happened.

It's when PC goes bonkers. It's appeasement instead of backbone. It's extreme politics that's divisive. The list is longer than you think.

And, when we're lucky, I'll post when folks and governments fight back.

Leave your comments. Post your links. Stay tuned.