More idiocy...

A recent article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3472655/Father-s-fury-school-calls-social-services-son-8-told-teachers-wanted-fight-terrorists-watching-news-report-Syrian-refugee-crisis.html#ixzz41ptno3sW

So, the UK now has laws whereby institutions such as schools now have a legal duty to report anything which might possibly be contrued as 'radicalisation' in order to avoid anyone becoming a terrorist.

On the surface, a good thing.

But UK society is so scared of not doing their duty, that - as is so often the case now - they go overboard...

A school puts on a charitable event to help Syrian refugees, and in the process explains the role of terrorism in creating this situation.

The result? One pupil thinks that terrorism needs to be dealt with (hence the government policy), but by expressing this view - that he wants to fight terrorism - he is reported for potential radicalisation!

It wasn't so long ago when the newspapers were reporting on the 'war on terror' and of course the government's emphasis on fighting terrorism over the last decade. Instead of thinking that here's a person who could be a good agent to fight terrorism, they accuse him of potentially becoming a terrorist...

Now, if expressing the view that you want to fight terrorism is a step towards radicalisation, then the whole UK and US governments are also in that very same boat.

I think we need someone in politics who is competent in logical reasoning.

(Not me.)