Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The message I want to convey today is very simple: That if you plant oats, you will definitely get oats and not wheat. Or, paraphrased: The words you call into the forest are bound to boomerang as echo.

Sabina Citron, who is suing Ernst Zundel for things he posted on the Zundelsite, has called into the forest. The echo will contain this: The political, financial and institutional anatomy embodying the "Holocaust". The blueprint of the Holohoax. The game plan of the Holohuggers - and why it is so easy, so profitable and so safe to snuggle up to it.

On May 28, 1996, Ernst Zundel wrote in a press release:

". . . The Holocaust promoters seem to have shifted strategy in their relentless efforts to keep a challenge to dubious "Holocaust" assertions away from the Internet.

The latest move is a privately laid civil law suit for personal libel against Ernst Zündel, the world's foremost proponent of impartial public investigation into scientifically and forensically challenged "Holocaust" claims.

Sabina Citron of Toronto, Canada, an immensely wealthy auto parts factory owner and one-time president of the "Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association", has hired one of Toronto's top legal firms to sue Zündel in Civil Court for material published on the Zundelsite.

Citron is an old nemesis and fierce political opponent of Zündel's who has for years waged a protracted struggle to silence his message. This is her 6th attempt to silence Zündel. She has lost, or failed in, all previous ones.

This latest move will be of special interest to civil litigation lawyers, law professors, law students, etc. who are involved in watching what is happening as Freedom of Speech - especially concerning the Holocaust and related issues - is being curtailed by special interests on the Internet and elsewhere.

There are few precedents yet relating to Internet censorship as they pertain to "libel". . . .

In previous legal challenges initiated by Sabina Citron and her Holocaust Remembrance Association to Zündel's writings that appeared in conventional print and were dispursed by conventional means, a judge imposed a draconian gag order on Zündel lasting off and on for almost 9 years while litigation was going on. As a result, Zündel could not refute media slander and libel and even outright lies about him.

This litigation was ultimately won by Ernst Zundel in the Canadian Supreme Court on August 27, 1992.

Should a similar move succeed this time, it would be an effective way of silencing a politically inconvenient voice on the Internet by finding ways of making it appear as though this was a private matter between two antagonistic parties and not a discussion of differing views on a controversial historical topic with diametrically opposed German and Jewish viewpoints.

The world-wide Internet community is well acquainted with the Zundelsite efforts to get to the bottom of many of the fraudulent Holocaust claims - as was amply demonstrated in the Simon Wiesenthal Center efforts at the beginning of this year to curtail, censor and ultimately shut down websites like the Zundelsite.

Deutsche Telekom even got involved by blocking all access to the 1,500 clients on Zundel's server, Webcom, in the hope that Webcom would kick Zündel off, as others had done before - a move that was soundly defeated through technical counter-moves by world-wide, computer-wise Freedom-of-Speech proponents.

This unfolding "libel" strategy will be immensely interesting for the legal professions as well as communicators and broadcasters world-wide - and media law people specifically. . . "

These are the points enumerated in the communications from Citron's lawyers, brought to you here in somewhat shortened form:

"TAKE NOTICE that Sabina Citron complains in the following articles, published on the "Zundelsite" Internet Website and seen by her on May 15, 1996, are defamatory of her. In each case, Mrs. Citron states that the articles contain false and defamatory statements about her and that the articles were published maliciously.

Without limiting the natural and ordinary meanings and innuendos of the article, Mrs. Citron complains that the article was maliciously intended, meant and understood to mean that:

 

• Mrs. Citron is responsible for the promotion of erroneous facts related to the Holocaust;
• Mrs. Citron is responsible for the promotion of the "unconscionable consequences of the Holocaust" including the conduct described below;
• Mrs. Citron engages in extortion
• Mrs. Citron is implicated in crimes, rackets, shady deals, extortion or war crimes against Germans and others; and
• Mrs. Citron has engaged in frivolous and vindictive conduct
• Mrs. Citron is a member of or has co-operated with terrorist organizations;
• Mrs. Citron improperly participated in a terror telephone campaign to harass Mr. Zundel;
• Mrs. Citron has obtained improper access to the courtroom and to the crown attorney during Mr. Zundel's 1985 trial;
• Mrs. Citron improperly participated in a campaign to have Mr. Zundel deported to Germany;
• Mrs. Citron has been ostracized by the Jewish community
• Mrs. Citron is perpetuating a lie in attempting to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive;
• Mrs. Citron improperly urged people to engage in the harassment of politicians;
• Mrs. Citron advocates a draconian, dictatorial form of government
• Mrs. Citron is a member of a vindictive and militant organization;
• Mrs. Citron is a vigilante
• Mrs. Citron engages in terrorism and brow beats and persecutes true patriots
• Mrs. Citron engages in a parasitic extortion racket;
• Mrs. Citron is an enemy of freedom in Canada and the world;
• Mrs. Citron enforces false historical facts;
• Mrs. Citron engaged in an illegal conspiracy with a Justice of the Peace either to fail to create records of a court proceeding or to destroy court records;
• Mrs. Citron has reason to fear revelation of the discussion she had with the Justice of the Peace at the time she swore an information against Mr. Zundel.
• the charges that Mrs. Citron brought against Mr. Zundel were ridiculous;
• Mrs. Citron is engaged in promoting a horrific blood libel;
• Mrs. Citron's activities, in keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust, are perverse;
• Mrs. Citron has conspired with others to influence Canadian and German authorities to act improperly;
• Mrs. Citron is engaged in censorship, repression and abuse of the process of the courts;
• Mrs. Citron has engaged in conduct analogous to mass murder;
• Mrs. Citron has lied about the Holocaust;
• Mrs. Citron has abused the processes of the court by "shopping institutions and judges";
• Mrs. Citron would lie, cheat or falsify information in connection with her efforts to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive;
• Mrs. Citron has engaged in an illegal conspiracy against Mr. Zundel with the German government.
• Mrs. Citron's charges against Mr. Zundel were madcap, spurious or frivolous and thus an abuse of the process of the court.
• Mrs. Citron's actions had improperly cost the taxpayers of Canada approximately $6 million.
• Mrs. Citron engaged in an illegal conspiracy with a Justice of the Peace either to fail to create records of a court proceeding or the recording of or to destroy court records;
• Mrs. Citron behaved inappropriately in the course of judicial proceedings;
• Mrs. Citron engaged in an illegal conspiracy with government officials against Mr. Zundel.
• Mrs. Citron has abused the processes of the court, and
• Mrs. Citron engaged in an illegal conspiracy with a Justice of the Peace either to fail to create records of a court proceeding or to destroy court records.
• Mrs. Citron engaged in an illegal conspiracy with the Government of Ontario to use government money improperly to persecute Mr. Zundel."

Of course, the crucial question next will be: Will there still BE a Zundelsite once mano-a-mano gets underway? Ernst certainly expects an interlocutory decree attempting to close shop.

We'll see. You may be SURE there's going to be a struggle to make the feathers fly.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?"

(W. C. Fields)