As the late, great GK Chesterton said, the modern world does not need to be satirized, for it is satirizing itself. Witness the UK Metropolitan Police, who are asking a pedophile whom authorities “accidentally” released please to turn himself back in, if he would be so nice.
Someone appears to have realized suddenly that the release was a major mistake, because the police are now putting forth the highly unbelievable defense that they freed Kebatu on accident. You know, they let a dangerous sexual criminal go in one of those normal little lapses of memory and reason. Oops! These tiny mistakes are so irritating.
So now police are searching for Kebatu again, and, according to the BBC, requesting that he turn himself in. But a former UK prison officer told Metro that the damage control of firing one officer involved with the release is unfair, because numerous people had to make the same mistake.
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So we are supposed to believe that all of these people just accidentally blanked and released Kebatu? But apparently this has happened numerous times. Sky News added a deeply concerning statistic: “According to government statistics published in July, 262 prisoners were released in error in the 12 months to March 2025 — a 128% increase from 115 the previous year.” The question is, how many of those prisoners ended up committing more crimes?
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This is what a self-destructing nation looks like. One hopes that America will avoid the same fate.
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