Stop the witch hunts

This really has gone too far. Racism has become the new witchcraft. You don't actually have to be a paid-up member of the BNP or National Front to be smeared with the tag "Racist!" There is also no real defence - how does one prove that one is not something?

Patrick Mercer, by all accounts a supporter of black soldiers, has been sacked by David Cameron for alleged racist remarks he made about ethnic troops. The fact that what he said may have been true is deemed to be irrelevant.

Hertfordshire police spent time and money investigating racism on a television show. Three stupid girls were alleged to have bullied another woman. One of the so-called aggressors has been left suicidal by the accusations. The "victim" herself claimed that she did not think she was racially bullied.

Now the Crown Prosecution Service has decided that what occurred was "clearly offensive" but "not criminal".

I do not live in Hertfordshire but if I did I would want to know how much money was wasted on this stupid "investigation". Irrespective of my colour, I would want to know how many burglaries went uninvestigated? How many mugging victims were offered "counselling" rather than the police spending time tracking down the perpetrators? How many cars were stolen or broken into?

The police must stop taking part in the government's plan for social engineering and get back to doing what they are paid for: stopping crime, and investigating and apprehending criminals.

Dislike of someone different from you (however irrational) is NOT a crime. It is an OPINION.

This says what politics should be about...