First forced marriages of nine year olds, now this

This is unbelievable in the land that brought us the Magna Carta. I'm afraid British Culture has become so decadent it is possibly beyond recovery. That is terribly sad.

Kathy Shaidle pointed me to this appalling story this morning. Political Correctness has run amok and while it is destroying all of Britain's freedoms and the principles underlying her institutions, it is providing the welfare state and blindfolds to allow a scary form of radical Islam to incubate:

A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written.

The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the 'do as you likey' attitude that I am against.’

Council staff believed the email was offensive because ‘likey’ rhymes with the derogatory term ‘pikey’.

The 45-year-old IT boss was held in a police cell for four hours until it was established he had nothing to do with the email, which had been sent by one of his then workers, Paul Osmond.

But police had taken his DNA and later confirmed they would be holding it indefinitely.

The businessman, who has asked not to be named, was also fingerprinted in the police investigation estimated to have cost taxpayers up to £12,000.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241994/Businessman-arrested-wife-son--anti-gipsy--email-didn-t-write.html#ixzz0cJeoa7S7