Last August I wrote about the 12-year-old Scottish girl who made international headlines for wielding a hatchet and a kitchen knife to fend off a Bulgarian immigrant who she said had attacked her and her younger sister.
But no one believed her. Instead, she was slandered. Corporate media and internet mobs dismissed the girl as a racist little guttersnipe who, along with her working class friends, were threatening migrants. The police in Dundee arrested her for “carrying a bladed weapon,” despite her claim that it was in self defense.
They didn’t detain or even investigate the migrant man.
At the time, I wrote: “The entire sordid history of Britain’s civic collapse — stretching back decades to the Rotherham rape gangs scandal and forward to today — is in some ways contained in the striking image of this wisp of a girl with knife and hatchet in hand, facing down a predatory migrant. She is clearly desperate, abandoned by the adults who were supposed to protect her, sold out by the political leaders who were supposed to maintain the cohesion and safety of her city, reduced at last to brandishing crude weapons to defend herself from foreign men brought to her native land against her will.
“It’s a scene that encapsulates the total loss of legitimacy of the British government and a portent of what comes next: civil war.”
Now it turns out the girl was right. The Bulgarian man has been found guilty of sexually harassing and assaulting the girl. So has the man’s sister, who physically attacked one of the adolescent girls.
“Sophie of Dundee,” as she became known, has been vindicated. But the underlying rot in British institutions and leadership that made her plight inevitable is still in place, and until that leadership is overthrown, the country will march on toward civil war.