Courtesy of the Holohuggers, I surmise, some good folks
from the Harvard School of Law have been alerted to my ZGrams and have asked
to be put on my list.
So as to "set up the clip" of what has happened in Toronto and,
more important, Ottawa, and what is bound to happen, as far as the ideologically-fueled
legal struggle of Ernst Zündel is concerned, I see it as incumbent
upon me, therefore, to sketch in broadest strokes what this is all about
and who the central players are - as seen from my non-legal point of view.
In the early 1980s, the Canadian Government, in its Orwellian wisdom and
in the wake of the demise of the Cold War, created two agencies - one a
civilian spy agency with a $200-million-a-year budget of good taxpayers'
money whose function was to spy on Cold War targets and private citizens
and groups, and one as a "watch dog" committee, whose function
was to oversee the spying and make sure that it would stay within the laws
and democratic traditions of Canada.
Both agencies have bureaucratic names that ended up in acronyms. For simplicity's
sake, the first is called CSIS, pronounced "C-Sis", and the second
is called SIRC, pronounced "Sirk". (If you must really know, these
acronyms stand for "Canadian Security Intelligence Service" and
"Security Intelligence Review Committee").
As originally conceived, "Sirk" was supposed to watch "C-Sis"
and report to the Solicitor General, who then, in turn, would ultimately
report to the Parliament of Canada what he deemed they were entitled to
know.
Almost from the beginning, there were some folks in Canada, the stubbornly
politically incorrect syndicated columnist Doug Collins being one, who felt
that this arrangement allowed for a lot of abuse and smacked of repulsive
KGB-type tactics.
As it turned out as time went on, "Sirk", the watchdog committee,
more and more seemed to function not as a watchdog but like a baby-sitter
for "C-Sis," protecting and excusing it, rather than controlling
it and putting brakes on its activities, should they be warranted.
Some people's suspicions were strengthened when it appeared that "C-Sis"
and "Sirk" were definitely in bed together in the dark and covered
for each other - as in the shocking "Heritage Front Affair", of
which more shall be said below.
Worse yet, there were suspicious folks in Canada who thought these agencies
were set up for the explicit purpose of serving forces - colloquially known
as the Canadian "Shadow Government" - whose interests lay outside
the elected public officials and parliamentary terrain.
The itch to find out what this was really all about became almost unbearable
in Canada when rumors started swirling that the "Heritage Front",
a Right-Wing organization, was in fact led by a "C-Sis" agent
provocateur who had been slipped to them by "C-Sis" to egg this
Right-Wing Agency into some pretty serious illegal stuff.
Not only that, the rumors strengthened more and more that "C-Sis"
seemed to have planned all this beforehand and had helped CREATE, FINANCE
AND MASTERMIND this grass roots organization, the "Heritage Front,"
for the explicit purpose of doing things illegally - in other words, discrediting
the Right Wing.
Now the "Heritage Front" in Canada was, and is, not everybody's
cup of tea. It is composed largely of disaffected white youth, some clean-cut
and some scruffy, who strenuously object to having to take second place
to what is collectively known as Minorities. These kids are angry, jobless,
futureless, and easily inflamed.
While the "Heritage Front", under the partial leadership of this
"C-Sis" agent provocateur, was building its membership and visibility,
there were some ugly clashes with an antagonizing group called ARA, a hoodlum
"Anti-Racist" Group. These two groups called each other dirty
names and did some things - both sides! - that did not make their parents
proud.
As it was subsequently discovered and documented, the "C-Sis"
agent provocateur, who acted as the Heritage Front's" Security Chief,
kept happily stoking the flames by goading, teasing and egging the ARA on
by revealing where the "Heritage Front" would meet etc. Some confrontations
resulted, as expected, that had some racial overtones.
Ernst Zündel was one of the first who expressed serious doubts about
just who was running whom. I remember an audio tape he made on that very
topic a couple of years ago.
He felt that it served the hidden agenda of certain members of the Shadow
Government to have these ideological clashes occur in full view of the lapdog
media, who then obliged the Shadow Government with the expected chants of
"Racists!" "Neo-Nazis!" "Hate-mongering!"
etc. etc.
Well, other people felt the same - some in the media and some in the parliamentary
opposition felt the same. They asked that legislators look into this matter.
A parliamentary committee of inquiry, composed of government and opposition
representatives, was the result. This Subcommittee asked both "C-Sis"
and "Sirk" to tell what they were doing.
It turned out that what they were doing was this:
Not only did the agent provocateur help set up, finance, guide and goad
the white kids of the "Heritage Front" to confront members of
the ARA - which in itself was bad enough! - while he was at it, he tried
to compromise in the public view and in the press a legitimate Canadian
political party, called the Reform Party, by using the kids of the "Heritage
Front" for a "security arrangement" to Preston Manning, the
leader of the Reform Party.
Can you imagine the political howl: "Oh, my God! Preston Manning is
using skinheads from the 'Heritage Front' as bodyguards?!" It seriously
hurt the Reform Party who lost becoming the official Canadian Opposition
Party by a very narrow margin.
In summary, it was a seamy story, and Parliament asked for a Report. Let's
call this document the "Sirk-Report." You find it on the Zündelsite.
Now how does Ernst Zündel fit into all this?
Very simple: He is, to use Doug Collins' apt descriptions, Canada's Villain
# 1, for he insists on asking, and has for thirty years: "Did Six Million
Really Die?" This is a no-no question among the Thoroughly Politically
Correct, as everybody knows.
Ernst Zündel is an enormous thorn in the side of what many think is
now the extra-parliamentary government, the so-called "Shadow Government",
of Canada. He is a most convenient villain. His name was mentioned some
two dozen times in the "Heritage Front Affair Report" as having
been the ideological Godfather for the kids of the "Heritage Front".
That is giving Ernst Zündel much too much credit. He never was a member
of the "Heritage Front". He had nothing to do with the forming
or running of this organization. He had no position of leadership. In fact,
he thought, and said so on many occasions, that the "Heritage Front"
agenda was not the answer to Canada's problems.
It is true, however, that quite a few of the "Heritage Front"
kids looked up to him for moral guidance and ideological support because
he is so visible and so well known to be the man who, all his life, has
locked horns with those dark forces lurking in the shadows. He is known
as a stubborn fellow. He just digs in his Swabian heels.
That is how come the Zündel name became interwoven into the report
to Parliament that's called the "Heritage Front Affair Report."
Specifically, the "C-Sis" agent provocateur (and Heritage Front
Co-Founder, courtesy of "C-Sis") had claimed in this report that
Zündel had asked him to compile a list of Jewish members of the community
because he planned to harm them. (Ernst Zündel did, in fact, ask for
a list in a planned legal action because he wanted to serve subpoenas to
some leading members of the Jewish community to stop the harassment of him
by Jewish groups in Canada.)
Now here's the added angle, extremely interesting from a legal point of
view: This very report, written by "C-Sis" with the help of their
agent provocateur, was to be used as the hatchet to get Ernst Zündel
deported to Germany by doing the marginalizing groundwork, then criminalizing
him, and finally declaring him a "security risk to Canada" - and
why? Because he insisted on asking, as he had done for close to thirty years:
"Did Six Million Really?"
You cannot ask that kind of question in Canada without some very serious
repercussions.
"Sirk Hearings" were set up in Ottawa that would haul Zündel
before the powers that be and would do him in - once and for all. "C-Sis"
had already, in a letter to the Minister of Immigration, declared Zündel
a "security risk to Canada" and now hoped to have that designation
rubber-stamped by putting on a show in a farcical Kangaroo Court.
All this was happening in March and April of this year. And it is not coincidence,
of course, that there are very few Canadians who can be found to stand next
to Ernst Zündel in broad daylight.
For years, he has been thoroughly harassed, and Zündel-bashing by the
organized Jewish community, parliamentarians and media people has become
a real spectator sport in Canada . For years, the lapdog media has been
engaged in non-stop smears, while he was under strict judge-imposed gag
orders and could not defend himself by publicly going after his character
assassins.
Therefore, some people might have objected to "C-Sis" and "Sirk"
per se and all the murky shadows behind them, but there was virtual unanimity
at the beginning of this year that Zündel needed to be shipped to Germany
in handcuffs for asking politically incorrect questions - to wit: "Did
Six Million Really Die?"
Enter a judge who cast an old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon glance at all of this
and said: "No, you can't do this, fellows! At least not yet you can't!
That isn't democratic. It's called apprehension of bias. The only way you
can get rid of Zündel might be 'creative legislative action.'"
To the extreme distress of many, many lurking in the shadows, the "Sirk
Hearings" were stopped cold in its tracks in the very hot, muggy month
of June of this year.
The shadows have appealed. A new round is expected soon.
That's where we are right now. If you are legally inclined and want to look
at details, go to http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english/ and click on the
"Zündel Persecution" link.
As you can tell, this was not written by a student of the legal system,
but it is meant to be the teaser for those bright lawyers of tomorrow not
yet beholden to a dogma that stifles every question on the Holocaust. This
is the backdrop for young people studying what is involved in freedom of
expression who want to really understand and take a stand on what is going
on.
A lot of the pertinent documents have been already posted on the Zündelsite.
No doubt there's more to come.
Please visit. We are not afraid.
Ernst Zündel is on record saying that if he should be proven wrong
about the so-called "Holocaust", he will spend his last days and
hours on earth as well as his last dime apologizing to the Jewish community
and then retire peacefully. He is known as a man of his word.
As long as he is not yet proven wrong, and as long as even limited freedom
of speech reigns in Canada - if not in lapdog media circles, at least still
on the Internet - the Zündelsite will ask: "Did Six Million Really
Die?"
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be written."