Niall McCrae – Off-Guardian Sept 2, 2025
She’s all over American ‘alt-right’ media: the 12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other, apparently to stop a migrant from harassing her younger sister. Outrage on social media escalated when police arrested the girl instead of the alleged predator. Elon Musk contributed to the viral heroine on X.
But did this really happen as presented, or is this another ‘psy-op’; to manipulate public opinion in pursuit of problem-reaction-solution?
It may be proven that a 12-year-old girl was pestered, and that her older sister, Mayah Sommers, intervened in an unlawful manner. Yet there are signs of stage management in this case, which arose in the context of heightened concerns about large numbers of male migrants housed in hotels across the UK. Scotland is getting its share of the influx, and noisy protests have erupted in Aberdeen and Falkirk.
The video was produced by the person confronted by the 12-year-old. He is not a recent migrant from one of the hundreds of dinghies crossing the English Channel. Fatos Ali Dumana, aged 21, told the Daily Mail that he came to Britain legally from Bulgaria four years ago, and that he is married and has a young baby. He was merely going to a local shop, he claimed, and never touched or approached the 12-year-old girl. The police are not investigating him for any offence.
If true, this would suggest that the girl described as ‘Queen of Scots’ by uncritical right-wing pundits was acting on malicious stereotyping of migrants rather than an actual threat. A child caught up in an atmosphere of fear and anger, in a council estate inhabited by white working-class folk uneasy about their new Muslim neighbours (Lochee is a rough area of a city that has seen better days). The incident is then exploited by the authorities to convey a message against ‘far-right’ agitation.
But as we saw with Covid-19, the powers-that-be do not simply wait for a spontaneous event to intervene for a desired outcome. The story seems to me too convenient, too timely, and too emphatic. The image of the girl with weapons, symbolising Boadicea and Braveheart, is as perfectly presented as Donald Trump’s rising from a dubious attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last year.
Was the Dundee incident staged as a trap to lure critics of mass immigration and the hotels accommodating illegal incomers? Commentators from GB News to social media accounts with large followings could be made to look stupid for broadcasting false assumption. A ‘far-right’ backlash is thereby neutered. There is similarity here with the aftermath of the murder of three girls in Southport a year ago, when it was readily assumed that the killer was a Muslim immigrant.
Police urged the public not to share misinformation about the incident. This may be a reasonable warning, but basic psychology shows that if people are told to look away from something, they will look at it. Police power is being underlined here, but it is also possible that the authorities wanted the story to get maximum attention.
The government is determined to smear and incriminate opposition to immigration and multiculturalist ideology. The Prevent scheme has been refocused from Islamist terror to preventing vaguely-defined right-wing extremism, Parents may be punished through their children being identified at school for expressing ideas at odds with the promoted values of diversity, equality and inclusion.
However, there may be much more to the possible stagecraft of the Dundee dagger girl. The immediate message elevates fear and anger, and this does not fully dissipate when the story of migrant molestation is found to be untrue. The arrest of the girl warns the British public – particularly white protestors – that targeting anyone of minority ethnic status will be treated as a serious crime.
Consequently, widespread public anxiety about a ‘migrant invasion’ has no direct means of resistance, beyond shouting at counter-protestors outsider hotels. Hope is raised by political manoeuvres on the prospect of deportation, as grandstanded by Nigel Farage this week. In a civic democracy we depend on the state to resolve a major problem.
And so we come to the hidden message of Dundee. The only way to tackle illegal immigration is to introduce a digital identity system, which would readily show whether someone has a right to be here or not.
Problem: illegal, undocumented migrants who pose a risk to women and children.
Reaction: anger and protest, with chants of ‘save our kids’ and ‘send them back’
Solution: digital identity for all
The promise of deporting illegal migrants may never be fulfilled, because that was never the priority.
Niall McCrae is a social commentator and an officer of the Workers of England trade union. He was previously a senior lecturer in mental health at King’s College London. His books include The Moon and Madness (2012), Echoes from the Corridors (with Peter Nolan, 2016), Moralitis: a Cultural Virus (with Robert Oulds, 2020) and Green in Tooth and Claw: the Misanthropic Mission of Climate Alarm (2024). He writes regularly for The Light newspaper as well as his own Substack.
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America is concerned about the state of the UK and the £65 million black hole for the migrant bill, the Uk is in danger of total collapse, the UK is americas only friend in the world
and Trump is concerned about left wing agitators
the point is this
the migrants should not be here and must be retuned home
Well written, BUT, “all over American ‘alt-right’ media”? No, besides the FACT that it didn’t happen (over here), with no evidence or links provided, this seems paranoid and overthought. The writer makes some valid points, (problem, reaction, solution oh my) BUT again, no evidence. This seems as hokey as Butler did. Might be true, so what?
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Niether will your comment if it is it will appear for 2 minutes then the article will dissappear.especially if it involves the resident know alls ouvre.
Btw, there are pictures extant of the bulgarian posing in a ski mask throwing a gang sign and calling himself “the pimp King” or some such….
kier starmers labour party
the party of shirtlifters and nonces
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2025/01/13/labours-can-of-nonces/
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This attitude that they have to go some where
yes back home.
LOL…
whatever one makes of this pabulum it gives a peek behind the liberal lefty footing of very off guardian..which is itself a security service operation..(lol like all of them)…
for example..
‘not a recent migrant from one of the hundreds of dinghies crossing the English Channel. Fatos Ali Dumana, aged 21, told the Daily Mail that he came to Britain legally from Bulgaria four years ago, and that he is married and has a young baby. ‘
‘Scotland is getting its share of the influx,’
‘uncritical right-wing pundits ‘
‘ council estate inhabited by white working-class folk uneasy about their new Muslim neighbours’..
you may say I’m cherry picking, but then wouldn’t that be how the this narrative is framed..and then zoomed out to digital ID…
because of course objection is tantamount to falling into kweer starkers plans for a bill gates theme park with digital shock collars..even though you are already tagged..
and even though they have already gutted the cuntry.. for example the chineses and arabs that own the failing sewage pumping pirate rock water infrastructure, borrowing 60 billion to pay shareholder dividends and passing the cost onto the bill payers..or the energy companies making profits of half a trillion under lol covid scarcity…
yup that’s stakeholder capitalism at work…and not a digital Id in sight… so how that factors into being forced to live with rather unpleasant cultural aliens and fucking fund it..
I’m fucked if I know…
all police + judges + most lawyers are perverts
since their moral is perverted ! worth to be killed !
I bless this child ! she still has natural instincts,
not perverted by adult decadence .
“…found to be untrue”–because the foreigner said it was? That is not a finding
By the way ..whatever the origins of this individual..and frankly who the fuck cares where he came from or how he got here, whether he’s notionally legal or illegal..or whether he marches up and down the Kings
Road with a pineapple stuck up his arse whistling Rule Brittania ..
this man is a fraud and more importantly a welfare tourist..because if immigration was so great for the lol, ‘economy’ it wouldn’t have cost us a trillion quid to pay for ali and his babas..would it?…
which I may add..must have gone somewhere..kapeesh ?..
women are too fussy now
all this rumpus about a few migrants doing bum stroking and tit grabbing
many a time i have passed a girl in the street and longed to stroke her bum
so what
The only thing missing is her .44
in indonesia they made a false AI created video
against the finance minister faking false claims
against teachers . SO we can expect more AI BS .
pressure mounts across the country for a Starmer resignation
exposed as a hater of his own people in putting migrants first
his incompetence corruption racism and the rent boy business
he has no support
and people want him out asap
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“12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other” … Uh, that is not a “dagger” and it certainly isn’t an “axe” in the other hand – it’s a hatchet…suitable for lobotomizing regime stooges, or chopping out their tongues after nailing them to tree stumps, or smashing a ravine in the middle of their repugant faces…while axes are more suited for lopping off limbs one-stroke wholesale or chopping off their f*cking heads.
I have no dog in this fight BUT —
If the little gal is acting out her part, good for her. Let her raise herself some cash and maybe help buy a better lot in life if she can.
As I see it it’s duelling memes, scenes, and other sorts of propa-tainment right now. (That’s PROPAGANDA + ENTERTAINMENT for those not yet in the biz.)
For what it’s worth, the whole George Floyd thing is thought to be propatainment from start to finish. Who can say nay?
So this young girl who is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, she is under the age of sixteen but has been named.
“Is it cos she beez wite N shit?”
That 12 year old girl is a hero!
Whereas this news item might vex the many, it makes me bristle with nostalgia. I’m an alumnus of Dundee University (formerly known as Queen’s College, St. Andrew’s.) I feel privileged to have been educated in Scotland.
Dundee’s got its gritty edge though.
I found that if you carried a packet of oatcakes, a pound of haggis and some tuinal, you could pretty much bargain your way out of any Pictish hostilities.