[kirklancaster]

I really do not think, that given the sad reality of the world we are living in now, that anyone has done anything wrong in the chain of events leading up to this incident.

Hindsight, is truly, the most wonderful thing, and also one of the most useless - if the mistakes of the past are not learnt from.

Who can forget that the Police Authorities HAD Fred and Rose West and Peter Sutcliffe (among other Serial Killers) in their clutches several times but failed - for one reason or another - to 'join the dots', thereby allowing these killers to murder more innocents.

It is the same with MOST of the terrorists who have caused so much carnage in the UK, France, the USA, and other countries, who were not only Muslim, but Muslim Extremists who were 'Flagged Up' or even detained and questioned by those country's, or other country's Intelligence Services prior to them committing their atrocities, but who - for some reason or other - were released and had their security risk status downgraded, leaving them free to commit their terrorist atrocities.

So we HAVE to LEARN from classic and tragic precedents such as these, and when even a 10 year old child writes that he lives in a "terrorist house", it CANNOT be ignored by any responsible adult - ESPECIALLY when that child is a Muslim.

Yes - it is sad that this is the status quo, but it is a fact that the one terrorist organisation currently causing 99% of the carnage and atrocities in the world is ISIS or DAESH, who PURPORT to be MUSLIM.

It is also a fact, that MOST of the ISIS or DAESH terrorists causing 99% of the carnage and atrocities within WESTERN Countries, are domiciled within those Countries and living quite ordinary, suburban lives in quite ordinary suburban households.

It is also another fact, that children in quite ordinary surburban households sometimes paraphrase what they have overheard their parents or other adults within their households talking about, and as the word 'Terrorist' is not one which we should reasonably expect to be in the vernacular of the average 10 year old, then the teachers and others were absolutely correct in reacting as they did to these 'triggers' - 'Muslim' household and 'Terrorist'.

It should not matter if a thousand such incidents are investigated and turn out to be 'false alarms' because it is through being vigilant and treating this terrorist threat with the gravity it deserves, that we can stay 'one step ahead' of them, and if such vigilance does, just one time, result in covert Jihadists domiciled here being caught BEFORE they have had time to murder and maim innocent people, then these responsible adults will be applauded.

Much has been rightfully written about how the majority of UK domiciled Muslims are decent, peaceful, responsible citizens, so the parents and families of this 10 year old should accept with good grace that the authorities are acting in the best interests of all of us - no matter how draconian or OTT such action may first appear.

We read the headlines when Lee Rigby is slaughtered in cold blood, or the Paris atrocities occur and we react with shock, horror and sympathy - But do we REALLY understand the heartbreak and grief of the families and close friends? Though we can sympathise and empathise, REAL grief - like pain - is incummunicable, and that pain and grief and heartbreak must be magnified a thousandfold when such a tragic loss COULD have been PREVENTED by timely reaction to intelligence and proper investigation.

So if just ONE innocent person is spared injury or death by adults reacting responsibly as they did here, then YES, in my opinion, it IS better to be safe than SORRY.

As for the suggestion by someone that it is some kind of 'joke' and 'a waste of time' which 'could have been prevented by a simple question to the kid', I ask; having committed a 'faux pas', is a 10 year old then not capable of realising his mistake and LYING to cover it up?

We should NOT accept then the words of a 10 year old when he makes a certain statement, but should absolutely ACCEPT his words that he made a mistake in writing that statement?

Some 10 year olds are more than capable of deceit and guile - ask the police officers who questioned Thompson and Venables.