At the beginning of this year, when Germany first tried to block 1500 websites on our server, Webcom, in order to prevent the world from reading what was posted on the Zundelsite, I was put on a restricted mailing list of what is called "fight-censorship" - courtesy of one of its young, computer-literate members. This is a group, I have been told, that is almost entirely liberal or libertarian and whose members, in the traditional liberal mode, fight hard for freedom of speech. In response to the January power grab by Germany to restrict what we were putting on the Zundelsite, this group put up the Zundel-mirrors at many universities, the outcome of which was that Germany backed down. "Old-timers" of the ZGrams know this story. For almost a year, I read the fight-censorship posts with great interest, but I was very careful never to post in this group. I wanted to get to know these people and learn what they were really all about - if they really meant what they professed; in other words, if they were absolutists. In the process, I formed a few fragile friendships with members on that list through private e-mail, and they got to know and like me pretty well. I knew that many of them genuinely believed that this was all about pornography and only incidentally about the "evil Nazis" and did not understand the nature of this struggle. I kept very quiet, because I wanted to keep my options open in case Ernst Zundel needed heavy-duty help from this group. That day came recently in the wake of the Canadian Human Rights Commission assault - Ernst's long-time opposition accusing him, yet one more time, of ". . . disturbing the racial and social harmony of Canada". Ernst is in need of intervenors- people with real computer expertise and a commitment to free speech who can explain to the Human Rights Commission panel just how the Internet works and why this group. CHRC, professing human rights but meaning censorship, should stay away from us. I wrote and posted my very first letter, explaining briefly who we were and what the Zundelsite was really all about - this for the newcomers! - and asked if there was anybody able, pledged to the principles the name implied - and willing. I must tell you the first response was ugly. In fact, with two exceptions, it was as vile and crude and violent as though they had just spotted Lucifer's visage. I am still wiping off what landed in my face. Not that the last word has yet been spoken! Am I the kind who easily gives up? My German Oma taught me. Toward that end I will now post a three-part ZGram. This essay, written in the early 1980s, was the impetus that led to Ernst's first Thought Crimes Trial, and you can see how Thought Crime charges or "hate monger" charges are no strangers to Ernst Zundel - and that the same crowd quarreling today with what he has to say has done so many times.
As you read Ernst Zundel's simple essay, consider where the conflict had its roots - and ponder just where it is going. Phrases in brackets were added later for clarification. Here are his words, at the brink of what we now call the Gulf War, December 1990:
"At the end of the Seventies I wrote a 4-page newsletter and sent copies of it Air Mail in sealed envelopes to a select mailing list of the Moslem elite from Morocco to Indonesia. Somehow, the enemy got a copy of the letter and had it introduced as evidence against me by Sabina Citron's lawyers at the Ottawa Postal Tribunal hearings in 1982. I noticed that the address label had been peeled off, so I guess we will never know which "Moslem" was untrue to his faith or from whom the letter was stolen by some dishonest postal employee. Some of you may recall that the Minister in Charge of Canada Post revoked my mailing "privileges" - not "rights", as the U.N. Charter states - in 1981, thus imposing a sentence upon me before pronouncing me either "guilty" or "innocent". This would be like taking someone's driver's licence away before any offense had been proved. I could not send or receive any mail in Canada for an entire year and only then, belatedly, was I permitted to face my accusers and defend myself against their calumnies. It took me over a year of costly legal battles in order to win back my "privileges" of sending and receiving mail. Perversely, the government's Postal Review Board which revoked the ban on my mail (rendered) a ten-page judgment which explained why they had lifted the ban (delivered to the Minister in Charge of Canada Post at the time), but did not allow me to see one word of it - except for portions (I gleaned from articles) in the Canadian Jews News! I have spent the last nine years attempting to obtain this ruling from the Canadian Government (via access to information and the Privacy Commissioner), but so far I have not been able to see it. There is, however, now the possibility that one day in the future I may be allowed to look at these ten pages. That's right! I am not allowed to receive a copy of the ruling, but I may go to some government office in order to read the decision there. These are the weird and Byzantine results of Canada's so-called Freedom of Information legislation in the 1990s! Although this ruling was made by an open judicial tribunal in the public interest and it specifically pertained to me, only "certain others" have been permitted to receive copies. Even Franz Kafka's "Trial" did not leave him with a secret verdict. Incredible but true! And wonders did not cease! This same 4-page newsletter comprising the front and back of 2 sheets of paper was to figure prominently in my first ThoughtCrimes trial. Although I had been charged initially by Sabina Citron and her "Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association" under the arcane and shameful "false news" section of the Criminal Code of Canada, the Crown or government prosecutor took over the case in order to save the Zionists the costs of a private prosecution in 1983. Once again, I found myself defending my writings; this time in a Toronto courtroom. In its attempt to "prove" that "The West, War and Islam" was (criminal) "false news" in the 1985 trial, the government brought in all sorts of expert witnesses, including (high ranking Police Officers who were) Freemasons and bankers. I was frankly astonished when there appeared on the witness stand the Vice President of the Royal Bank of Canada, the fourth largest bank in the world. (1990 profits exceeding 900 million!) He and the government sought to prove to the jury that bankers are "nice people" who would certainly not engage in an international conspiracy against the people of the world! The banker was sleek, smug and smiling. The prosecutor was sarcastic in his ridicule of any "banker conspiracy". With pious hypocrisy, the banker stated that his bank did not lend money to South Africa for "moral reason", but that they did lend money to Communist countries for "business reasons". To the shock of government, bankers and Zionists, the jury did not believe him! Thus, "The West, War and Islam" was free of "false news" content and was therefore "true news" - which was unlikely to disturb the "racial and social harmony" of Canada. Because my Zionist opponents were so happy with my "guilty" verdict in regard to "Did Six Million Really Die?" which I did NOT write, (but only published!) only one of the Jewish writers, Barbara Amiel, pointed out the dire ramifications of the jury's decision for Zionism, the bankers and secret societies. Legal counsel informs me that this case set a precedent, especially since the government did not appeal the verdict they had rendered upon "The West, War & Islam". Apparently, the prosecution was also convinced, as was the jury, that I was telling the truth. Why had I written this brief essay on the likelihood of a war in the far-off deserts of the Middle East? I explained to the court and the jury, accompanied by the guffaws and smirks of the Zionist spectators, that I feared US and Israeli intentions of attacking Libya, Iran or Syria in order to start a major war in the Middle East at that time. Ridicule and sarcasm were the only rebuttals the prosecutor had to offer. The trial transcripts of this period are interesting reading! Today we are much closer to a war in the Middle East, therefore I feel compelled to share with you and my friends around the world relevant portions of that essay which I wrote over a decade ago. Now that the world media are demonizing Saddam Hussein as "another Hitler" and Iraq as "worse than Nazi Germany", these thoughts are timely."
(End of Part One of "The War, West and Islam", re-published December 1990) Now it is "Thought Crimes for Ernst Zundel on the Internet" again - and the same parties who were responsible for starting to deprive him of his rights back in the 1980s are still at it - hammer and sickle. It is none other than Sabina Citron who is heading the pack at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and it is the Jewish reporters, columnists, and other media pundits who are heating the campaign with all their might within the Canadian media. Tomorrow comes Part Two. Meanwhile, here is your Thought for the Day I will impart on the fight-censorship group as soon as I have figured out a gentle (pun intended) strategy: "The Jewish intellectual, whatever else he may do, seldom stretches out under a tree and just thinks. And then, the intellect can't be just a tool for him; it has to be a weapon, too. He doesn't use it simply to discover what the world is like, or to create something beautiful, or to communicate his ideas. He must use it to beat down his competitors . . . for him, controversy is inseparable from intellectual activity." (James Jaffe, a Jew, in his book "The American Jews")