A charity in Aberdeen sat grown men down and walked them through the legal age at which they may have sex with a girl in Scotland. That sentence should end the argument. It does not, because the people running the country keep importing men who need the lecture.
Video from a Mamacita Foundation pop-in session spread across X on September 18. An organizer asked the room for the age of consent in Scotland and in England. Hands went up.
Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. The speaker eventually landed on the right number. Sixteen in both places. Then came the line that should have emptied the hall and the country.
Don’t be deceived. We have young persons growing bigger than their age. In fact 14 years, 12 years, they are taller than myself. So don’t be deceived by the size. Ask questions. Ask for their age before you go into any form of relationship, sexual intimacy with anybody.
A man in the room called the lesson “very essential,” because “we’ve had young men fall for these things.” Fall for what? Girls who look older than they are. That is the framing. Not “do not touch children.” Not “rape is wicked.” The problem, as they tell it, is that a twelve-year-old might trick you by being tall.
Mark Simpson, the MSP for the North East Region, put it in a letter the charity did not want published first.
That is not civic education. It is an admission that your organisation believes some of the men it works with do not understand that children are off limits. Grown men should not need a publicly funded workshop to be told not to have sex with children. If they do, that is a policing and criminal matter.
Mamacita answered the way every funded integration shop answers. The meeting was a “broader cultural integration and community awareness discussion.” Consent “affects everyone, regardless of nationality or background.”
Volunteers now fear for their safety because people on the internet noticed what was said in the room. The children who might be “deceived” into looking sixteen never get a paragraph.
The Booklet Came First
This was not a rogue workshop. In August the Home Office started handing arrivals a nine-page guide titled Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK. Twitchy and the Scottish Daily Express printed the relevant pages.
Age of consent is sixteen. Even if she looks older. Even if it is allowed in another country. Even if she says yes.
Sex without consent is rape. Men and women are equal. A woman does not need a husband’s permission to work, study, travel, or refuse. Break the rules and you can lose your housing, your support, and your claim.
Lee Anderson called the project what it is. Importing savages, then printing a pamphlet so they will not treat British girls the way their home cultures treat girls. Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Stephen Kerr said the quiet part louder. Men who have to be told that rape is wrong should never have been allowed in.
The charity and the Home Office both treat this as a translation problem. It is not. It is a civilizational problem. You do not need a flowchart to know a child is not a wife. You need a conscience formed by a law higher than the nearest strongman. American Thinker noted the guesses in the room were not random. In parts of Africa and the Middle East the number on the books is twelve, thirteen, even nine if a girl is married. The men did not invent those numbers in Aberdeen. They brought them.
Scotland Already Knows the Cost
Falkirk does not need a seminar. Afghan asylum seeker Sadeq Nikzad was jailed after raping a fifteen-year-old local girl. Hotels used as dispersal sites have been the backdrop for protests precisely because mothers can do arithmetic the SNP will not.
Almost three-quarters of asylum claimants in the UK are men of fighting age. Grooming gangs did not stop at the English border. Fiona Goddard, abused from age thirteen in Bradford, has said she was trafficked into Scotland and raped there, and that First Minister John Swinney’s refusal to treat the pattern as real is “insane.”
Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
That is not a diversity module. That is the standard a Christian people used to apply without a grant application. A nation that has to rent a hall to explain it has already surrendered the first duty of government, which is to protect its own daughters.
The farce writes itself. Officials wave in unvetted men from cultures that marry children, then fund a charity to say “ask for ID.” If the men already know, the class is theater. If they do not know, they should be on a plane, not in a pop-in session eating donated food while someone diagrams sixteen. There is no third option that keeps Scottish girls safe and the volunteers feeling affirmed.
America should watch this the way you watch a house fire next door. The same NGOs, the same “New Scot” language, the same reflex to call the parent a fascist for noticing. Trump’s border halt bought time. It did not repeal the instinct in our own agencies to treat child protection as a sensitivity training item. If a man needs a taxpayer workshop to learn that a twelve-year-old is not fair game, he is not a neighbor in waiting. He is a warning.
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