Up-front: I'm back!
I was gone for a week on personal business and in the Thanksgiving spirit,
and a comrade sent my prepared ZGrams for me. Quite a few of you got upset,
thinking I had vanished. No such luck for our enemies.
Unfortunately, in the times in which we live, I am no longer at liberty
to tell you when I'm gone or busy with a separate project because of safety
considerations. I wish I could - because special problems arise when someone
wishes to be taken off the ZGram list and it seems that the request gets
ignored. Not so. I try to keep a very clean and updated list at all times,
but sometimes I do get backlogged.
As, for instance, now. I came back to literally thousands of letters. Those
of you who need a personal answer, please just bear with me. I'll get there.
And I would like to take this opportunity to thank a special sponsor of
the Zundelsite. There is someone in Texas who, every two weeks or so, it
seems, is sending in a small contribution in a plain envelope without a
return address. All of our supporters' contributions go to the Zundel-Haus
directly, which is as it should be, but this person seems to want to show
his special appreciation of me personally and what I try to do. I have no
way of thanking him directly, but want to do so now.
Tomorrow, you will get an Original again, hot off the Zundelsite. Below
is one of the ZGrams I wrote before I left:
I just got off the phone talking to one of the Zundel Defense Team attorneys
on how to ward off the latest so-called "Human Rights Commission"
attack on shutting down the Zundelsite.
This attorney predicts that what will happen, above all, will be a gag order
on Ernst Zundel personally - something she calls "Cease-and-Desist".
Try telling Ernst Zundel to Cease and Desist! You might as well tell the
sun, the moon and the stars. It isn't gonna work!
Once he was asked already to do just that, and at that time, in 1985, he
wrote:
"Nothing can be more devastating than to silence a man from speaking his mind even to his friends. In my trial, they seek to do this to me. They seek to take away my right to tell people the truth as I know it.
They are conducting a trial in secret in advance of my trial. For a whole week, arguments were made and then the judge made a decision which was devastating to me.
What those agreements were and what the judge's decision has been I am forbidden to say. The judge has ordered a ban on publication of all proceedings which precede the jury trial itself.
So a whole week of testimony and argument and decisions is not possible to talk about. I feel doubly gagged. I feel cheated that I cannot even talk about it to you, my friends, so far away who have been so faithful and true to me.
I am writing this to you as a private and confidential communication knowing that my enemies will seize even this from the mails and turn it over to the prosecutor. If I write anything to you personally which they can use against me, they will bring it to the attention of the Judge.
Such is freedom and democracy. "
Well, that was prior to the Leuchter Report - the name of which I tried
on the Internet search engine "Excite" which brought up 774 documents,
only a handful of which are Zundelsite documents. The rest are scattered
far and wide across the Internet, including across websites of our opposition,
which suits us fine and dandy.
And now another legal struggle looms.
Please just remember that the legal path is our thoroughfare right now where
we can get the word out to the media and through the media to the people
everywhere about what's going on. The life of a Revisionist activist and
battler for ethnic self-determination and dignity is seldom dull and certainly
never boring!
Ernst writes in his last "Power" Letter:
"More often than not, we work till the wee hours of the morning - sometimes even around the clock when pressing problems need to be resolved or a campaign is in full swing. We have people who start at 9 A.M. and go home at 6 P.M.; others come in at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and work till well past midnight. Still others work from 2 A.M. until they nearly drop with fatigue! We are literally in touch with the world - around the clock!
And even while we sleep, the Zundelsite is accessed by people from all over the globe, and documents are studied and downloaded in several languages - with more in the translation stages. One university professor wrote: 'I can translate your 20-page long Holocaust file into Polish, Russian, Bosnian, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Turkish and Albanian!'
Many of these people offering their help are university-trained, and not a few are university-employed. And they, in turn. tell others! Daily we receive Internet mail that tell us that I have become not only a spokesman for the beleaguered Germans but also for truth seekers everywhere - from Russia to Israel, from Namibia to Iceland and from Tierra del Fuego to the North Pole.
One wrote:
'We, the Muslim Revivalists are with you, we are your allies in the just war against the Age of Lies.'
Another wrote:
'I have decided to go all out for it by claiming hurt whenever anyone mentions the gassing story. It deeply offends me to hear that my father gassed Jews without my being allowed to look at the murder weapon - it offends the principle of natural justice that I am not given the opportunity to reply to such allegations.'
A third, who used to live in Australia for 12 years but has now returned to Slovakia, wrote:
'I have witnessed the destruction of basic values by a group you are talking about. I am very pleased to see that men like you have the courage to touch this untouchable subject. If there is anything I can do here for you, let me know.'
Millions of people are exposed to our radio and TV programs, on the Internet, via satellite - from Mexico all the way to the North Pole and all over the US in at least 100 cities and towns on Public Access TV - from Texas to Alaska, from Hawaii to Florida.
That's what unnerves our enemies and detractors all over the place! They don't know how we do it, and they cannot figure it out!
It is really very simple, as one of my French comrades recently put it:
'There is one thing I noticed (our enemies) CANNOT, really cannot even conceive: it is 'desinteressement' (my dictionary says 'unselfishness' or 'selflessness', but I am not sure it is what I mean); they cannot imagine people give a lot of their time, or a lot of their money, just for nothing, just for an idea, just for helping revisionism, without having anything in return except the happiness of seeing its progress. . . '
Gone are the days when the Canadian media thought they had finished me by systematically demonizing and character-assassinating me! The image problems I have had to battle in Canada I do not have world-wide! The Internet has made the difference because now people can see and judge for themselves - something they never could before because the Canadian lapdog media was the bottle neck and self-appointed 'interpreter' of what Ernst Zündel was about!
Well, day by day, they're finding out!
Our enemies have long marveled, and no doubt gnashed their teeth, at our sustained effort in spite of the costly nuisance law suits, so-called 'Human Rights' Tribunal hearings, the bombs and the arson, and on and on and on. You, my friends, have made this miracle possible. You and your donations and your sacrifices alone! Without you, I would be a lone, small voice!
It is an extraordinary task - and a great privilege. You and I - we are the Voice of Freedom and Truth in History!
I thank you in advance for your help, for I know I can rely on you because you are not only my supporters but also my friends in this awesome global struggle for tomorrow."
Ernst Zündel
Thought for the Day:
"You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands."
Nikita Khrushchev