These past few days and weeks, there have been ominous censorship rumblings
- not only out of Canada. Ever since December 3, I couldn't get my ZGrams
out smoothly, and I have had a flood of letters from people who wondered
what happened to me.
I am still here - and I want you to know that you WILL get a ZGram EVERY
DAY (sometimes a bit late, as happened today . . .) as long as this is possible.
I haven't missed one yet! Always check them also on our website where they
are regularly archived.
If you don't get my daily ZGram, it could mean 1) there is a technical problem,
2) there is a censorship problem, 3) it's both - one being a function of
the other. Should that happen, go to the other prime Revisionist websites
to find out. Get your links from the Zundelsite and other major websites
while you can.
So what is going on? Some foreshadowing can be glimpsed from the following,
an excerpt from the HAMILTON Spectator, Nov 23, 1996:
"Although the human rights body has succeeded in the past in shutting down hate messages recorded on telephone answering machines, it is the first time it has gone after similar messages on the Internet.
The decision is certain to spark a debate over freedom of expression in cyberspace and the right of any government agency to control messages on the Internet . . .
"Should people be able to say offensive and racist things? Yes, that's what free speech is all about," said Mr. Jones, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton.
"The purpose of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is specifically to protect offensive speech, speech that people are trying to silence.
"Most controversial and offensive content on the Internet that people describe as hate propaganda doesn't fall within that legal definition."
And therein lies the rub. What courts were unwilling to say about Ernst
Zundel's information outreach - that his campaign for historical truth should
be re-christened and, thus, criminalized as "hate mongering" -
a KGB-like organization, run by some Hidden Hand it seems, will now attempt
to force. Mislabeled the "Canadian Human Rights Commission", this
outfit will now try to ram their own agenda right down free people's throats,
possibly even before Christmas, despite previously unsuccessful, shameless
special interest lobbying and massive amounts of taxpayers' money wasted
by assorted legal and judicial outfits already.
The outcome? We shall see. Maxwell Yalden, chief human rights commissioner,
has already declared Ernst Zundel guilty, as quoted in the article cited
above:
". . . I don't think Zundel is engaged in free and open debate. I think he's engaged in inciting people against Jews, and it's on that basis that we're proceeding."
So. There it is. The Forces of Freedom are once again bracing themselves
for a MAJOR assault by the Forces of Censorship and Repression. A three-member
panel has already been appointed, headed by one Mrs. McTavish, and a "pre-Tribunal
meeting" has been announced - whatever that may mean.
As far as I know, we still have old but active Zundel-Mirrors from the January
cyber-war involving the first "website cloning" ever in the history
of the Net. Other freedom fighters are in the process of storing and mirroring
all or at least part of our material. There are 26 megabytes of information
on the Zundelsite. The eight articles attacked by Germany are listed in
our German News section. (Some of these articles are in English) The ones
that Canada considers "dangerous" for grown-up, thinking human
beings, which are the subject of the CHRC complaints, will be highlighted
shortly so there is no mistake. If you have something to say about us in
the various newsgroups, please do not spam. That only makes it worse for
us. Be courteous. Show class. We need allies, not people who are annoyed
at us.
From Austria comes very serious news as well. An Austrian engineer named
Wolfgang Frohlich has been arrested for the Thoughtcrime of Revisionism
he posted via articles and editorials on his web page, and is facing up
to 10 years in prison if convicted. Just this morning I skimmed over the
information (part of the Burgerforum Web page) and it looks perfectly legitimate
and responsible to me.
I have only a passing knowledge of the name; I don't know who Wolfgang Frohlich
is and what his role in Europe is. But further information on this case,
including names and addresses, along with a sample Letter of Protest, can
be found in English on Michael Hoffman's web page at http://www.hoffman-info.com
( e-mail: hoffman@hoffman-info.com ) and in German at the Austrian Burgerforum
web page at http://www.c2.net/~bs-org. (Yesterday, that web page did not
work either . . . )
Please take this seriously. Don't just be a passive consumer of news - hiding
behind a pseudonym. Get involved. Believe me this is merely the beginning
of massive censorship and even raids on private property. It has happened
in Europe - by the thousands!
Finally I want to say that many of you have enthusiastically linked directly
to my ZGrams, posted them in various news groups and copied them for friends.
A few have asked to have them reproduced in their own publications and private
letters. Still others have sent them to radio stations and other media in
a mini-Revisionist information outreach campaign. Even though the ZGrams
carry a copyright in my name, I do not mind at all. They are to be used
and not to be hidden away. I do mind, however, if this is being done without
my knowledge and permission or for financial gain because there are some
publications that give the unwarranted appearance of association and collusion
with me. I also want to make it clear that I am not responsible for other
content in publications that happen to carry my ZGrams. I am responsible
only for what appears with my byline. The "Divide and Conquer"
practice is being applied wherever possible in our ranks as well, and I
am trying to avoid being put in the middle of conflicts (even legal conflicts)
of which I have no part and do not wish to have a part.
Finally, there is one heck of an article entitled "Real Torah Judaism"
by Ze'ef Chafets in the Jerusalem Report, January 25, 1996. READ IT! It
is a real eye-opener. I assume that publication is on-line.
Christmas is coming close, and through my mind runs that story of the little
girl who shopped until she dropped - who, late at night, said part of the
Lord's Prayer as follows:
". . . and forgive us our Christmases, as we forgive those who Christmas against us . . . "
Let that be your Thought for the Day!
Ingrid