As I reported recently, dogged investigative journalistic enquiries into the background of Southport child-murderer Axel Rudakubana and his family have turned up… nothing. It’s as if the Rwandan ‘refugee’ family barely existed before their son went on a murderous rampage at a dance party filled with little girls. Which, in this bureaucratic, not to say social media, day and age is quite the miracle.
Indeed, we could be forgiven for nursing the suspicion that the only way such a thorough lack of records could, well, not exist is if someone in power had scrubbed them all. As if revelations of how the family came to be in Britain in the first place might embarrass some very powerful people.
But I’m sure that’s all just a baseless conspiracy theory.
One of the few things we do know about Rudakubana is that police and politicians knew within hours that he had a trove of jihadi and mass murder materials – which both duly lied through their teeth about. We also know that he was referred to the UK government’s counter-terrorism group, Prevent, not once, but three times, in just two years.
And nothing was done. Because, yet again, of the British establishment’s suicidal determination to pander to radical Islam.
A ‘Prevent learning review’ after the attack revealed a damning catalogue of basic failures. It found that counterterrorism police missed several chances to stop the killer, and that Prevent ‘prematurely’ dismissed the threat posed by Rudakubana on each of the three occasions he was flagged to the programme.
It wasn’t the first time Prevent failed to live up to its name, at least when it comes to certain apparently protected groups in Britain.
It isn’t just in the Southport case that Prevent has been found wanting. The learning review into the murder of the MP, Sir David Amess, was published just last month. It found that Amess’s killer, Ali Harbi Ali, was also flagged to the counterterrorism scheme, but that his case was dismissed too swiftly. It also revealed that record-keeping errors led to a breakdown in communications between Prevent officers and the police, and that signs of Ali’s possible radicalisation were missed. In essence, a repeat of the same broad failings identified in the Southport case.
This, from the same country that regularly arrests white non-Muslim Britons for posting memes. Prevent has managed to investigate twice as many people for ‘extreme right-wing’ views than radical Muslims. This in a country where even the government admits that it knows of some 30,000 jihadis. Even more telling, it’s not ‘extreme right-wing’ white Britons who are filling the UK’s jails, convicted for violent crimes.
Welcome to woke Britain, where they’ll jail you for putting bacon on a mosque door, but let you slide if you’re a non-white psychopath.
Rudakubana was first referred to Prevent in 2019, when he was just 13-years-old, after a teacher became concerned he was using the internet to research mass school shootings. He was referred again in February 2021, when he was 14; and finally in April 2021. The review concluded that too much focus was placed on the absence of a distinct ideology, and that officials had not shown the level of professional curiosity expected. The findings revealed that officers misspelt Rudakubana’s name on his second and third referrals. This may have led to the premature closure of his case, because investigators were not able to see his previous referrals on the system.
Even when they’re caught letting homicidal black maniacs run free, the establishment will do anything to avoid being called ‘racist’.
The review claimed that right-wing extremists “frequently exploit” the grooming gangs scandal to promote anti-Muslim sentiment.
Well, I wonder why anyone would be ‘anti-Muslim’ in Britain. It’s almost like thousands of underage white British girls hadn’t been routinely raped by Pakistani Muslims. As if London, where white British are now a minority, seethes with knife murders and acid attacks, and Jews walk in fear.
Just so long as no one’s called ‘racist’.
