"In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police!' Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge."Political correctness run horribly amok. Before you tell yourself it couldn't happen here, look at what happened to Miss California at the Miss USA pageant. She was ambushed by a gay rights activist judge, Perez Hilton, and held up to public ridicule for daring to say, in response to his question at the pageant, that she believed in the traditional definition of marriage (after asserting that she accepted the fact that others had a different point of view).
Hat tip to Mark Steyn for the article from the Australian. Listen to Dennis Prager's show yesterday and/or today for his thought on this incident and its larger social implications.
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