The humble golliwog, much maligned, has led to a grandmother being charged with racially aggravated harassment after neighbours objected to seeing it in her window.
65 year old Jena Mason stands accused of placing the doll in her window to deliberately offend neighbour Rosemarie O'Donnell, who is Jamaican.
Police arrested and interviewed the grandmother, and she was subsequently charged with racially aggravated harassment under section 28 of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act.
Most will agree that's a wonderful use of police resources and time.
The offence could result in a fine of up to £5,000 and 2 years of imprisonment.
Poltical correctness gone insane, an innocent doll turned into a figure of hatred - simply because of its colour.
Lots of things offend me, any chance the police will be interested.
I feel harassed and intimidated every time I see the dome of a mosque over one of Britains towns, or when I go into a shop and the foreign staff all speak in a language which I don't understand.
I'm sure everyone has been there, and know the way that they sometimes look at you to go with it, making it seem pretty certain you are the subject of the conversation.
I feel harassed that I could be accused of racism for displaying a black doll, yet nobody would show any concern whatsoever at a white doll.
I feel distinctly harassed that my countrymen and I have to live in constant fear of a criminal record because some minority takes offence at an innocent action, whereas we are expected to tolerate anything and everything minority does.
Are the police interested in any of those, or countless other things I could list, are they going to act?
Of course not, I may feel harassed by many things happening in Britain, but nobody cares about that because I don't tick those sacred minority boxes.
It has all got decidedly silly when a society begins to put every single action under the microscope lest it offend someone, where everything is racist if only someone claims it is.
In order to respect and obey the law people need to know what the law is. Race laws render that impossible by making the law a matter of interpretation and something as subjective as offense.
The law as stands creates a climate of uncertainty and fear, and serves only to oppress the majority, it is, quite simply, thoroughly unjust and discriminatory.
The humble golliwog, much maligned, has led to a grandmother being charged with racially aggravated harassment after neighbours objected to seeing it in her window.
