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"Police arresting 1,000 paedophile suspects a month across UK" reports the Guardian. "Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring," says the nation's most hand-wringing liberal chip-wrapper, "with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years." The major source for this story appears to be the National Crime Agency, a.k.a. the "British FBI." Most of this is the usual flatfoot flatus obediently snipped and pasted from press-releases by the Guardian's editorial meat-bots without so much as a moment's critical thought. There are a couple of interesting things in here, however. One is the fact that the po-po seem to suddenly be very concerned about "the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal." This, one imagines, is testing the waters for a legislative crack-down on message boards that permit such seditious opinions. The other curious fact is the claim at the end of the Guardian article that "Police ... estimated that up to 840,000 adults in the UK had a sexual interest in children." This really woke me up. Where on earth did this figure come from? The Guardian's own link to the NCA webpage actually states: "We estimated in the National Strategic Assessment 2024 that 710,000 to 840,000 adults in the UK pose varying degrees of sexual risks to children." Which seems equally absurd, but is at least a completely different totally ridulous thing to be estimating. 840,000 is about 1.3% of the British population that the NCA purports to think poses "varying degrees of sexual risks to children," but it is far from clear where this number comes from, how it was arrived at, and how it can be independently tested or verified. Nor is it clear what "risks" are considereed, or even what counts as a "varying degree" (presumably "no risk at all" is one of the variety of possible degrees of risk). All we can know for certain is that some journalist or subeditor at the Guardian saw that phrase and decided that "posing varying degrees of sexual risk to children" must be synonymous with "having a sexual interest in children." For those who doubt it: this is how far away we are from being able to make ourselves understood in the present culture. Perhaps especially in the UK: where just yesterday this horrific story attested to what a nation of savages we have become. [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |