I've blogged before on Canada's descent towards a politically correct police state (not that Britons have any grounds to be smug ourselves on that account). American blogger Half Sigma points to a worrying new case that fits the trend well. Two young children in Winnipeg have been removed from their parents on grounds that those parents appear to be Neo-Nazis or white supremacists.
Fears of a slippery slope are obvious, but I'm as interested in the principled issue of whether it can ever be right to break up families even when parents have views as repugnant as these? What do others think on this? As the blog post notes, it was considered a weighty and serious point in the 1980s for Sting to sing that the "the Russians love their children too". So doesn't this apply to Nazis as well as Communists?
