Free Hunter Yelton -- Meet the littlest casualty in the war on men

From James Taranto of Opinion Journal.com

[I]n Barack Obama's America, even a small boy can become a sexual suspect.
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Clearly buffoons are in charge of the school and the district, but what does that have to do with Obama? The answer is that these buffoons are following orders from Washington.

In April 2011 Russlynn Ali, then assistant education secretary for civil rights, issued a directive in which she threatened to withhold federal money from any educational institution that failed to take a hard enough line against sexual misconduct to ensure "that all students feel safe in their school." The directive's preamble declared: "The sexual harassment of students, including sexual violence, interferes with students' right to receive an education free from discrimination and, in the case of sexual violence, is a crime."

The Ali directive has received attention mostly for its application in higher education, including our Saturday exposé of Auburn University's comically unprofessional and shockingly unjust Discipline Committee. But the mandate to prevent and punish "sexual harassment" applies to all educational institutions that receive federal funding, including elementary and secondary schools.
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The Ali directive does stipulate that "the specific steps in a school's investigation will vary depending upon . . . the age of the student or students involved (particularly in elementary and secondary schools)." But that's the only allowance it makes for the difference between small children and physically mature adolescents and adults. It includes no acknowledgment even of the existence of innocent children's play, much less any exhortation not to get carried away like they did in Cañon City.
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As amusing as the story of Hunter Yelton is, however, it is an example of a dire and widespread problem. "Sexual harassment" rules are ostensibly sex-neutral, but in practice they are used primarily to police male behavior. Feminists like Hanna Rosin note with triumph that girls and women do better in school than their male counterparts. One reason is that normal female behavior is seldom stigmatized or punished in the name of "civil rights.

This is the Regime in action, punishing normal behavior and trying to re-program the sexes.