The following story concerns a particularly virulent case of the Screaming Nazi Heeber-Jeebers, an outbreak that infected the whole of the Danish political class back in 2003. It forced Henrik Gade Jensen, an assistant to a government minister, to resign his position after completely bogus charges of “Nazi” connections had been leveled at him in the media.

Now, ten years later, he has been totally vindicated in a Danish television documentary. It may have come too late for him to salvage his career — nobody who is branded a “Nazi” ever really recovers fully, no matter how spurious the allegations — but he has at least seen his name cleared in public.

We “right-wing extremists” are all too familiar with these media smear tactics. All it takes is one whisper of the “N-word” in a major organ of the left-wing press, and the career of the accused is essentially over. Any provision of evidence for the accusation is totally optional — dedicated leftists generally find the facts to be an impediment when they go Nazi-hunting.

Our Danish correspondent TB undertook the enormous task of translating the documentary, and has written an introduction that places the incident in its full context.

Henrik Gade Jensen: How to destroy a decent man in a modern multicultural society

by TB

It’s been only six weeks since the ‘postman’ tried to kill Lars Hedegaard on his doorstep. Apparently that’s no reason for the media to stop their witch hunt, and a few days ago they succeeded in assassinating Lars Hedegaard’s character. Hedegaard was lured into a TV studio under false pretences by this invitation from the journalist Martin Krasjnik:

“I don’t believe we have met each other, but I have followed you painstakingly since the Muhammed crisis. I am a great admirer of your persistence and your courage to speak your mind! It gives me unbelievable pleasure that you survived the cowardly, dreadful attack on your life and I am constantly amazed by the widespread failure to support you clearly and explicitly. It would be absolutely terrific and interesting to have you on the program for a long interview.” [Source: Front Page Magazine]

Once in the studio, Lars was viciously attacked, bombarded with accusations of all kinds, and had his book about Islam (The House of War: Islam’s Colonization of the West) compared to the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Lars was verbally assassinated during that half hour. No mercy. The interviewer Krasjnik even used lies and the ‘guilt by association’ trick to make all his false allegations fit his murderous set-up. It was utterly disgusting. But not a surprise.

During that half hour the journalist also tried to single out Lars as an ‘isolated loonie’ by using comments from other important Islam-critics taken out of contest. One of the critics used by Krasjnik to back up his smear campaign was Bruce Bawer. Bawer addresses Krasjnik’s lies perfectly in the above-linked article, exposing his tactics.

In any case, this tactic is not new. And in hindsight one could argue that Lars should have known better than to fall for Krasjnik’s Gollum-like smarmy small talk as quoted in the invitation above. Several people before him has been ‘assassinated’ in this manner by the left-wing extremists and the media collaborators. He should have seen that one coming (easy for me to say isn’t it?). But, as I indicated before, these tactics are not new. And I think that it is now very important that people understand this, and stop exposing themselves.

The enemies of freedom will use ‘whatever it takes’. No matter the cost. What is important to them is not the case, whether they are right or wrong. What is important to them is to destroy the people with whom they do not agree. If my mother had ever tried to warn me against this kind of behavior, I would have told her to take a break — people simply do not do things like this. They cannot possibly be that evil. But they can. They are.

The video below is not about Lars Hedegaard, but has a lot of similarities to Hedegaard’s case. It takes about forty minutes to watch. It is about one of the finest debaters we have in Denmark, the philosopher Henrik Gade Jensen. Gade served as a press advisor to the former Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs in Denmark.

Gade lasted one year during the Anders Fogh Rasmussen government before his career was ruined. As is now the case with Lars Hedegaard, Gade was completely destroyed — in public — by false accusations and ‘guilt by association’ tricks designed by left-wing extremists. It has been ten years since it happened, and Gade still suffers from it.

At that time Henrik Gade Jensen was also a very engaged writer in almost every newspaper in the country. He has always been a genius with words. He knows how to use them in a proper and sober manner.

The problem for him was and continues to be that he is on the ‘wrong’ side of the fence. He had the ‘wrong’ opinions. By criticizing immigration policy as well as the EU, Gade Jensen was heading for disaster, and finally hit the iceberg in November of 2003, earning himself a Gulag experience.

What is rare in the video about Gade Jensen is not the appalling treatment of the man. That part is/was expectable, and is fairly common these days. Look how Fjordman was treated. Or Tommy Robinson or Geert Wilders or…. the list never ends. What is rare, however, is that the video itself was ever produced (at least in Denmark). And by a state-run and tax-funded half-communist TV station like DR, yet.

The video shows how this man of integrity is destroyed by false ‘Nazi’ allegations from a left wing extremist backed up by the mainstream media. And not only do we get a picture of the way these extremists work, they are actually confronted by the journalist and forced to admit their mistakes and lack of ability.

The video provides some kind of satisfaction for Gade Jensen, and I hope that dissidents outside Denmark in similar situations are encouraged by watching it.

Many thanks to TB for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript: