Gotcha Benny Sela

December 10, 2006 - 10:55 AM by Allison

The country breathed a sigh of relief last night with the news that after a manhunt of an unprecedented size, the infamous escaped serial rapist, Benny Sela, was arrested.

But many people, like Nominally Challenged, thought the police were patting themselves on the back a little too hard:

One of the things I found distasteful about the whole affair was the way in which it sort of absolved everyone else. All of a sudden, the country is full of angels looking for that ultimate evil: Benny Sela – unkempt, unshaven and looking menacingly at us from billboards around the country. So long as he was a fugitive, no-one was safe. Now that he has been recaptured, everything is dandy.

I heard about the recapture by word-of-mouth. I saw the police congratulating themselves for finding someone who should never have gotten lost in the first place, late last night on tv.

So the police who caught him did a good job. You can’t argue against that. Certainly, they did a much better job than the police who lost him two weeks ago to the day.

However, his recapture is nothing more than the rectification of a huge blunder. It is nothing short of simply what should have been done. There should be no parties involved, and there should be no self-congratulation. World order has not been restored.

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