See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil (The liberal Economist: Rotherham rapes)

OVER the past few years it has sometimes seemed as though no news bulletin goes by without an awful account of child sex abuse. Celebrities and children’s entertainers, including Rolf Harris and the late Jimmy Savile, have been revealed as molesters; so have some teachers and clerics. The latest horror was laid bare on August 26th, in a report into the sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham, a poor northern English town. The report is also painful for what it suggests about race relations in Britain.

The investigation by Alexis Jay, a former chief inspector of social work, uncovers a catalogue of offences, mostly by Pakistani men against white girls. Children as young as 11 were plied with drink and drugs, raped, beaten and trafficked to be abused by men in other cities. One was doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight. Another told the investigation that gang rape was a usual part of growing up in her district. The report estimates that some 1,400 children—some from fragile family backgrounds, some in the care of the state—were abused between 1997 and 2013.

All of which is grim enough. But the local council knew at least ten years ago of widespread abuse and yet appears to have downplayed the problem. Nor did the police pay much attention to it. On one occasion, officers attended a derelict house and found an intoxicated girl with several adult men. They arrested the girl for being drunk and disorderly but detained none of the men. Some fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves.

This reminds me of the early-generation airbags in cars.

The airbags were of a very simple design. If a car’s sensors met the criteria to trigger a detonation, they blasted and they blasted with FULL FORCE, and were not about to let anything, like a child’s head get in the way (they decapitated hundreds of children...try getting over that as a parent who gets into a minor fender-bender). The children lucky enough to keep their heads on their shoulders still got blasted from the explosions, as well as the adults.

So airbags were killing (and maiming) the people they were meant to protect, in easily-survivable accidents. Did you see much on the news...not much, just some advice about putting junior in the back seat (so he could fry if you forgot about him when going to work, but that’s another story) and staying as far back from the steering wheel as possible (LOL...I wonder why).

The PROBLEM was that public support for airbags could get COMPROMISED if the word got out about what they were doing. So the government, the media, and the auto manufacturers simply teamed up to keep things as quiet as possible, while working to improve them. They eventually did, after at least a decade...now their blasts consider who’s in the car and the conditions of the accidents (i.e., stronger blasts for stronger accidents).

So here you have a similar BIG PROBLEM in England. The government and the media want to REPOPULATE the country as quickly as possible, so that Britain never sees its glory days again. The problem is that the vast majority of Brits don’t want to do that...but will ignore it, if the new arrivals keep to themselves and out of sight.

But the new arrivals aren’t the nicest people - so you have to KEEP THINGS QUIET while the project continues, at least until a critical mass is reached. Otherwise, legitimate opposition, such as UKIP would have developed MUCH EARLIER, possibly in time to end the project in time. So the abuse was intentionally ignored.

I suspect, now, that they have reached the level required with their minority population to not have to worry about maintaining the flow of new arrivals, and that in a generation or two, Britain will be successfully repopulated.

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