October 13, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This is a bit of a repeat from a previous ZGram about the ARA - the "Anti-Racist-Action group that has given Ernst Zundel so much grief. I am running it today again for good cause.

It seems that a continent-wide organizational conference is going to be held in just a few days, and perhaps some of our friends in the Columbus, Ohio area might want to participate in this conference and send us some update information about what these people are up to and what tactics and methods they use.

For more information on this conference, call 614 - 424 - 9074 or write ARA, PO Box 82097, Columbus, Ohio 43202, USA. The dates are October 18-20 - in other words, Friday through Sunday this week.

For a sneak preview of what mob action looks like, go visit the ARA Website at http://www.web.apc.org/~ara/ And then imagine this same mob coming gunning for YOUR children or YOUR parents.

We already know that they are terrorists who frequently break the law with little to no worry of being vigorously prosecuted in the courts. They have proven that plenty in Toronto, and there is a good chance you will soon have such enterprising people in your neighborhood, for it is a well-known Communist tactic to use the mob as spearhead to strike terror in the hearts of peaceful neighborhoods.

There already exist 18 ARA chapters in the United States and 4 in Canada. The ARA followers have described themselves in one of their terrorist flyers as

". . . We are Jewish people; we are people of colour; we are anti-racists; we are queers; we are women and men who won't give up - we are survivors. Today, we carry the spirit of resistance to fascism and anti-Semitism."

This ". . . spirit of resistance to fascism and anti-Semitism" translates itself into two or three messages daily that I find on my 800 number telephone line. These messages are often of the vilest filth imaginable and sometimes contain death threats.

The ARA has a long history of violent confrontation with police, accusing them in chants and slogans such as "the Cops and the Klan go hand in hand. . . "and openly bragging about crashing legal meetings of organizations they don't like.

The ARA has a policy of invading and trashing the homes of their political opponents. The ARA has put up inflammatory posters which we have every reason to believe led to the ultimate fire bombing of the Zundel-Haus. You can see the ARA slogans spray-painted illegally on private and public property all over downtown Toronto, saying "Z¸ndel watch your back!" "Drive Z¸ndel out!" No Nazis in the neighborhood!" etc. In that city, they have accumulated the following record, as per media articles and Zundel-Haus press releases:

On November 13, 1992 about 125 members of Anti-Racist Action threw eggs and insults at the windows of a restaurant which hosted the Heritage Front for a meeting. The Toronto Sun carried a photo of two Anti-Racist Action members attacking a lone "Heritage Front supporter" after the meeting. (Toronto Sun, November 14, 1992) The same Toronto Sun article goes on to say "ARA members chanted 'run Nazi scum' and 'garbage' at Front members. Some swung picket signs and others chased rally goers down the street, hurling obscenities".
On January 25, 1993 members of Anti-Racist Action ". . . threw rocks, eggs and insults," according to CTV News that same evening. The Heritage Front leaders were ordered to appear before the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the ARA showed up to confront and threaten them.
The police had to intervene and form a protective ring around members of the Heritage Front to escort them safely into the Courthouse.
After the Heritage Front was inside, hearing the Human Rights Commission's complaint, the ARA turned their anger on the police During the riot that ensued between police and members of Anti-Racist Action, two police officers were injured. Members of Anti-Racist Action pelted the police with barrage after barrage of eggs, rocks, paint and human excrement bombs. Police horses were hit numerous times in the eyes with rocks and other projectiles (The Police Department later equipped the horses with special protective eye visors to protect them and their ankles because demonstrators had apparently tried to cut their tendons) CTV news that same evening showed clips of Anti-Racist Action members attacking the Police horses using sticks and eggs. One ARA member even threw his bicycle right at one horse.
On June 11, 1993 a rampaging mob of about 200 Anti-Racist Action members stormed the home of the Heritage Front's hotline announcer Gary Schipper, a political opponent of ARA. They destroyed every window in the house.
During this protest, members of Anti-Racist Action wore hoods, and some wore paper faces of Mr. Schipper. On the march to Mr. Schipper's house some of the ARA organizers were pasting up stickers which listed the home address of Mr. Schipper as well as a clear photograph of him, obviously meant to invite some imbalanced people to do additional harm.
During the violent attack that followed, ARA members threw paint bombs, firecrackers, human excrement and bottles of urine. Several of the crowd jumped onto the porch of Mr. Schipper's house, smashed the windows and threw paint balloons through the broken glass window.
During this riot, the ARA caused over $75,000 damage to the house itself and ruined Mr. Schipper's bed, clothes and his office equipment, which was in the direct path of incoming "Human Excrement Bombs".
On Sat., December 9, 1995 members of Anti-Racist Action attacked a private meeting of a group called "Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform (C-FAR)" - a group that protests out-of-control Third World immigration to Canada.
During this attack, the group of masked Anti-Racist Action members spat at meeting participants, threw milk on a table full of books and assaulted an elderly lady by slapping her in the face.
When the owner came to ask the motley crew of vigilantes to leave, he was spat at and verbally abused. After finally being kicked out of this meeting by police, the ARA continued to pound on the large picture window outside the restaurant and harass ordinary customers of the restaurant.
On February 5, 1996, eighteen heavily armed members of Anti-Racist Action attacked 3 people in the Toronto subway whom they assumed to be "Nazis". Upon seeing the three people sitting in Kennedy Subway Station, the Anti-Racist Action members started verbally and physically harassing them. (Jonathan Kingstone article, Toronto Sun, Feb. 5, 1996)
While yelling and screaming, one Anti-Racist Action member hit one of the victims with a steel pipe. Three people were stabbed and one had his jugular cut, just barely escaping death.

As stated above, the ARA is very keen on postering. Posters put up at intervals have shown various people's pictures, license plates and home addresses the ARA claims are "Hatemongers in the City".

In Toronto, foremost among their targets is Ernst Zundel. For more than three years, posters of him have appeared by the thousands all over Toronto, showing his face in the cross hairs of a rifle. When he asked for police action after ARA members were seen and recognized by people on his team putting up such posters, the police refused to even take down a complaint - much less act on it and arrest those who advocated this arson and suggested assassination. One poster, entitled "Bored?" advocated the firebombing of Ernst Zundel's house on Carlton Street - which, in fact, happened only months after the showing up of this poster! (You can see it, by the way, by going to http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english/05.nizkor/sm_pic.html

The fire depicted there was a $400,000 fire that would have killed Ernst in his bedroom, had he not been on a trip. It almost killed four young renters living in the building to the left who had to jump naked out of a window.

This poster is a classic in mob audacity. It shows Ernst' picture, a map of the area around Mr. Zundel's house, an arrow to his house, and directions on how to make a firebomb. As if that were not enough, it shows the picture of a man throwing a molotov cocktail with the inscription "Your Picture Here."

Imagine yourself in such a poster!

Nationwide, chapters of this unsavory group are planning their "3rd Annual Anti-Racist Action Network (ARA-NET) Conference and Party October 18-20 in Columbus, Ohio to ". . . meet ARA folks and other activists from all over the United States and Canada, and build contacts to expand and tighten the network." While they are at it, they could expand into your neighborhood.

Ernst would like some people to attend these ARA keynotes and workshops and, if at all possible, video- or audiotape what they are up to - not their "breast-feeding" or "basket-weaving" workshops but the political and theory workshops as well as the martial arts/street action workshops. Use palm-size video cam or small cassette recorders. Send him reports, literature, photographs etc. in addition to audio and video tapes, if possible. He will need that information for the future - it could be a matter of life or death.

Here are some tips: Don't go as a group. Go in pairs or individually. Don't go there in a double-breasted suit or FBI trench coat; go in youth or worker's garb. Don't shave for two or three days; put an earring in your ear, wear tattered Goodwill jeans, dye your hair etc. If taping is possible, sit close to the podium; otherwise the sound quality will be poor.

For your information, last year's meeting had speakers from the George Jackson Brigade which committed violent acts and even bombings in the late 1970s, as well as people from the "Klanwatch" and the "Center for Democratic Renewal" - which seems to point to a Morris Dees connection. Very telling indeed!

You see why people like Ernst Zundel are putting themselves in the trenches? In a sane and healthy world they wouldn't have to do that. They would live intact lives and craft a wholesome world working to create a better, safer continent for their children. That dream is gone. In Canada, the New World Order has just about arrived. It will be globally ensconced tomorrow, unless good people become determined rookies of the spirit who know there simply is no choice but to involve themselves and act. Do me a favor - go. So often you have asked what YOU could do. Here is your opportunity. Don't just consume my ZGrams or peruse another website in the safety of an air-conditioned den or office.

For a reminder of what mob action looks like, go visit the ARA Website at http://www.web.apc.org/~ara/conf.htm And then imagine this same mob arriving at your front yard, gunning for YOUR children or YOUR parents.

Once more: For information on this conference, call 614 - 424 - 9074 or write ARA, PO Box 82097, Columbus, Ohio 43202, USA. The dates are October 18-20 - in other words, Friday through Sunday this week.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"The mobs of the great cities - sores on the body politic."

(Thomas Jefferson)

Comments? E-Mail: irimland@cts.com

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