Unless you’re a Leftist, you’ll get no justice in Iceland. My latest in FrontPage:
Just over a year ago, a young Icelandic Leftist poisoned me in Reykjavik after I gave a lecture on the jihad threat. In the hospital thereafter, a Leftist doctor neglected to perform basic tests on me, such that I could have easily died from the poisoning. A year later, no one has been arrested, and Iceland’s medical ethics board has declined to discipline the doctor. The whole episode illustrates what those who are known to dissent from the Leftist agenda can expect from Leftist authorities: institutionalized indifference and injustice.
The poisoning took place at a crowded Reykjavik establishment. A young Icelander called me by name, leaned over our table, shook my hand, and said he was a big fan.
About fifteen minutes later, when I got back in my hotel room, I began to feel numbness in my face, hands, and feet. I began trembling and vomiting. My heart was racing dangerously. I spent the night in a Reykjavik hospital.
What had happened quickly became clear and was soon confirmed by a hospital test: someone had dropped drugs into my drink – most likely the young man who had leaned over our table and said he was a “big fan.” For several days thereafter I was quite ill.
Since Iceland is a small country and everyone knows everyone else, I was quickly able to discover the identity, phone number, and Facebook page of the primary suspect, the young man who claimed he was a “big fan.” I looked at his Facebook page, and as I expected, saw nothing that might indicate that he really was a “big fan” of my work, or that he held any views out of the mainstream — which is, courtesy of Iceland’s political and media elites, dominated entirely by the Left.
The most likely scenario is that this young man, or the person who prepared my drink, heard that a notorious “racist” was coming to Reykjavik, by chance saw me in the restaurant, and decided to teach me a lesson with some of the illegal drugs that were at that time (I discovered later) plentiful in Reykjavik.
This happened on May 11, 2017. However, in August 2017, the Reykjavik police completed their investigation, and police spokesman Kjartan Ólafsson admitted to me that the police had not gotten around to a formal questioning of the “big fan” until May 30. I asked Ólafsson, “Why the long delay? Why did the investigation not require more timely questioning?” He didn’t answer.
Now that over a year has passed since the poisoning, neither the “big fan” nor anyone one has been arrested for the crime, which carries a four-year prison sentence under Icelandic law. This despite the fact that the medical report confirmed the poisoning, and this wasn’t exactly an Agatha Christie mystery: there were two, or at most three, suspects.
The story gets worse from there. At an emergency room in Reykjavik, I was treated by Dr. Hjalti Mar Bjornsson, whose Facebook page reveals him to be a hard-Left ideologue: it’s filled with vicious blood libels of Israel, puerile attacks on Donald Trump, and fervent endorsements of Europe’s policies of mass Muslim migration. This doctor apparently recognized me as well (which is not surprising, since my coming had been presented in the far-Left Icelandic media as the imminent advent of Jack the Ripper), and proceeded to neglect to perform basic tests: although my heart was racing, he neither performed an ECG nor took any steps to normalize my heart rate, and neglected other basic procedures as well.
Dr. Andrew Bostom, who is a practicing physician as well as a premier researcher of jihad and Islamic antisemitism, examined the records of my emergency room stay and wrote to me:
This was a dismissive work-up of a middle-aged man who was at risk for potentially catastrophic acute illness: myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolus, status asthmaticus, etc. ad nauseam, and who was already suffering from tachycardia and tachypnea, with low sodium and detectable levels of potentially toxic amphetamines clandestinely spiked into something he drank unwittingly.
At minimum, you should have been placed on continuous electrocardiogram monitoring for rhythm, had a 12-lead ECG and cardiac enzymes drawn to rule out a heart attack, had simple pulse oximetry continuously, and routine blood pressure, and other vital signs monitoring serially with full documentation in the ER Record until all your vital signs normalized.
None of that, however, was done. I filed a complaint against Dr. Bjornsson with the Icelandic Medical Association’s Ethics Committee, but despite the obvious omissions in his treatment, he was not found guilty of any wrongdoing.
The lessons are clear: in Iceland, if you dissent publicly from the Leftist line, you’re not going to get justice or equitable treatment. If a crime is committed against you, you’ll be out of luck. If you’re in a hospital and your doctor doesn’t like your politics, you’re taking your life in your hands. Leftist privilege reigns supreme.
Iceland isn’t singular, and neither am I. The Left all over the West has shown repeatedly that it hates dissent and wants to crush and destroy dissenters. What happened to me in Iceland is going to happen again to others elsewhere, and just as in my case, those who wrong us will think they’re doing something noble, and taking a stand against the forces of what they regard as “racism” and “bigotry.”
Not only does the Left fill those whom it brainwashes with hate, but it does so while portraying its enemies as the hatemongers, such that violent Leftists feel righteous even as they victimize and brutalize conservatives.
This is how degenerate and evil the international Left, in power in Iceland and elsewhere, has become. My experience in Iceland was just the beginning.
mortimer says
Leftards are using Muslims are their strategic enemies to destroy Christian civilization.
Elisha says
They can try but will not succeed. Jesus Christ keeps His promises:
“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, AND IF THEY DRINK ANY DEADLY POISON, IT WILL NOT HURT THEM; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” – Mark 16:17-18
The apostle Paul and Robert Spencer are testament to these words.
God bless.
mortimer says
Leftards are using Muslims AS their strategic enemies to destroy Christian civilization. Muslims are aware that the Leftards are actually lying to them.
TruthWFree says
If they are successful in destroying Christian civilization, the Muslims will then turn on them and prevail over the leftards.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, are you *really* claiming that Muslims are the victims of Leftists?
robert says
Europe is DOOMED!!!! What a shame… Its absolutely unbelievable how the left has gained such a huge powerbase all over the world. It will take some time to defeat this ideology. This is actually a world war that we are presently fighting. The left is deeply entrenched… but liberal ideology will be defeated.
Richard says
The loving and tolerant, liberal west believes, as Nancy Pelosi so eloquently stated, “…there is a spark of divinity among every person on earth, and we all have to recognize that as we respect the dignity and worth of every person.”
While this includes jihadists and MS13 members, this does not, of course, apply to non-liberal westerners.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
How far to go from sneaky poison to a big hole in the ground to bury people alive, or shot dead first? Shades of “Bloodlands.” What horrors does the future hold?
Rob Crawford says
Does Iceland have socialized medicine? If so, they may not have the equipment to do that monitoring and testing.
gravenimage says
The doctor was openly hostile to his patient Robert Spencer. This was grossly unprofessional at best–and is quite apart from the available level of care.
Arthur says
The “Left” all over the West are all Collectivist Cults. They all, everyone of them, represent lawlessness. They are all destroyers of Civilization everywhere they exist. Because this is their history throughout time for several millennia. All of them advocate Totalitarianism by a centralized Oligarchy. They are, everyone of them professional liars and deceivers, murderers and rapists. They are in truth all seed of the Serpent whose goal is the total annihilation of all mankind. They’ll speak sweet nothings into your ear and at the same time slit your throat. So your experience with such people is surprising. We however must remember to denounce such people as being the evil abominations they are and represent to all humanity. Surreal as their existence is to us or their alliance with the theo-political belief systems whose goal is the same as theirs.
Stephen says
Iceland has now been removed from our itinerary of places to visit. No sense in spending dollars in a country that is that culturally twisted. Thanks for sharing and saving us the grief.
Tom S. says
I’m doing more than boycotting: Tonight, I will write to the ambassador in Washington DC: icemb.wash@utn.stjr.is . I will inform him that I am not only going to take Iceland off my travel bucket list, but I will relay this story to anyone I know making travel plans.
Steve says
Gee, how many Migrants did Iceland take in? LOL
mccode says
It’s astounding to me that the Scandinavian countries, the historical homelands of fierce Norsemen and Vikings, have devolved to become countries of roll-over-and-die cultural acquiescence and suicide.
WTF is wrong with the populations there?
mariam rove says
As disgusting as this is, I am totally not surprised by it. The left has a lot in common with Muslim ideology to begin with. The left kills freedom fighters in a far more sottle way. No bombings or bullets. M
Barbara says
Time to complain to the U.S. Embassy. I don’t think the Trump administration would like this deliberate mistreatment of an American citizen.
aguysomewhere says
Poisoning is a total cowards move. And I bet you the fucker who did this is walking around bragging to his friends like if he did some good deed. Gutter mentality.
Geoffrey Britain says
He who calls the tune, pays the piper… they’re playing with fire and “don’t even know that fire is hot”.
Kasch mir says
Dear Mr. Spencer,
You are a true hero. The Free World (or what remains of it) needs you. May God protect you
gravenimage says
+1
Linda says
Iceland has plummeted in my estimation. The perpetrator should have been jailed. The doctor is a disgrace to his profession.
shoehorn says
We are in more danger than even Robert, who is warning us of the danger, imagines.
Hogdude says
We have been at war with Islam ever since Muhammed started to spread his poison centuries ago. When something or someone tries to kill you, you have the right to defend your life by taking his. Period.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Leftist Privilege: Poisoned in Iceland A Year Ago, No One Arrested
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Just appalling–thanks for the grim reminder.