September 22, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Round-up time again for a ZGram update around the world. Invariably, these Nationalist updates are a bit dated because there is so much to be reported in vignette form that these news snippets always take the back seat.

Nonetheless, the items below are all from this month - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The ugly first:

Canada

_______ George Burdi, aka George Eric Hawthorne, head of Resistance Records, who just finished a prison term, during which a swat team raided his business premises for tax related matters, as the press reported at the time, has been indicted on two new felony counts under Canada's "Hate Propaganda" section of the criminal code.

The charges are "Promoting Racial Hatred" and "Conspiracy to Promote Racial Hatred."

Many people think that broadening the charges against cultural dissenters to include the "conspiracy" dimension means that Canada has entered a new phase of repression.

France:

_______ Dr. Faurisson's trial, a fall-out from the Garaudy Affair last spring that galvanized all of France and introduced Revisionism to that country permanently, is now scheduled for September 25.

Only three hours have been allotted for these proceedings. How can Dr. Faurisson defend himself in three hours?

Australia:

_______ David Irving, best-selling British author who is known for his revisionist views on the Holocaust and, hence, banned from many countries as a speaker, spent four years trying to get permission to visit Australia, a move strongly opposed by Australian Jewish groups.

The newly elected Federal Government last November rejected his application because he did not meet the "good character requirements of the Migration Act."

Irving decided to sue. The law firm, Galbally and O'Bryan, was due to act for Irving in libel proceedings against Australia's Prime Minister, Mr Howard. Earlier this year, Irving had instructed his solicitors to issue a writ against Mr Howard after he told ABC radio the historian had been convicted in Britain, Canada and Germany.

Now the firm has written to his solicitors, declining his case, citing its connections with the Jewish community as a reason.

"At a meeting with the partners it was resolved that due to our close links within the Jewish community it would not be possible for us to act in this case," Galbally and O'Bryan said in the letter.

"Today, those solicitors have suddenly chickened out, pleading that they have close links with the Jewish community," Irving said in a statement. "Why this should cause a problem, if justice is to be served, is beyond me."

Irving denies he has convictions in Canada but says that in Britain he was found in contempt of court in civil proceedings, not a criminal offence.

His conviction in Germany was for "defaming the memory of the dead", an offence unique to German law.

Switzerland:

_______ According to Reuters (Eastern, Sep 16, 1997) the Swiss are furious about a BBC documentary smearing them for their role in World War II. A group of angry citizens has filed a criminal complaint, charging that the film incites hatred against Swiss.

The documentary depicted the Swiss people as having hoarded "Nazi Gold" and having aided the Hitler regime in less-than-neutral ways.

Wish the Germans would file a criminal complaint against Goldhagen's book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners."

Norway:

_______ Yesterday's "Sixty Minutes" painted a remarkably benign picture of the Norwegian society under a "high taxes - high social services" government. It was an entertaining piece - and strange, in view of the fact that Norway's "protest vote" just a few days ago propelled the far-right Progress Party into second place - a voter protest described as making "sweeping gains across the country."

Carl Hagen, the Progress Party's leader, described as "smooth and clear talking", has achieved what "amounts to an earthquake in normally subdued Norway, which is not used to such shifts in the political landscape," as one media report states.

Depicted as a "charismatic former businessman", Hagen gathered ". . . the protest votes of Norwegians who feel their massive oil wealth is being poured into the wrong pockets."

Sounds familiar?

Italy:

_______ The Vatican has released a guidebook on how the faithful can overcome "all forms of anti-Semitism." It is 300 pages thick and says that teachers should pay particular attention to Judaism and promote ``tolerance, understanding and dialogue.''

A Reuters release explains:

"Relations took a revolutionary step forward in 1994 when Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

Pope John Paul is the first Pope to have visited a synagogue or a concentration camp and has condemned anti-Semitism several times since his election in 1978."

It is widely known that the current Pope understands Yiddish and had close connections to Polish/Jewish neighbors in his youth.

Lithuania:

_______ Headlined "Lithuania ends moves to track ex-Nazis", Agence France-Presse reported on September 12, 1997 that

"(t)he Lithuanian parliament has deferred discussion of legal amendments aimed at facilitating the prosecution of pro-Nazi war criminals, invoking the need to resist pressure from Jewish groups, the BNS Baltic news agency reported."

One amendment to the penal code, submitted by the government, would have allowed charges to be brought against a suspect even in cases where that person's physical condition would impair their ability to understand the process or answer questions. Another amendment was designed to facilitate trial in absentia of suspects no longer in Lithuania.

On Friday, the deputies postponed for a week their discussion of the two amendments 'so as not to bow to pressure from international Jewish organisations,' said Egidijus Bickauskas, leader of the pro-government Centrist Union party."

In other words, the Lithuanians said Nyet to Jewish Lobby pressure, at least temporarily. Not too surprisingly, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is mentioned.

USA

_______ The New York Holocaust Museum is still under siege because 16 rabbis have filed a suit in federal court and don't want its doors to be opened to the public.

It upsets them that the museum records that homosexuals and others were victims of the Holocaust. The rabbis contend that this amounts to "the elevation of homosexuals to the martyr status of the six million Jews".

There are now a reported 59 Jewish Holocaust museums found in the United States.

_______ In North Caroline the Sons of the Confederates, a patriotic group stemming from the Civil War days, have achieved a small victory. The Division of Motor Vehicles must issue licenses emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag, a state court has ruled.

Many consider the Confederate flag a symbol of racial injustice. Its supporters emphasize the historical significance to Southerners.

_______ From various Reuters releases I piece together this story:

A black woman, Angela Jackson, 27, thought she could cash in a little on the burgeoning "hate crimes" industry and shipped some packages - defaced with racist epithets, and for good measure smeared with feces - to prominent black leaders as well as to herself.

The scheme attracted nationwide publicity earlier this year because she demanded $150,000. The FBI investigated and found that she had set up phony accounts with UPS, one of America's largest shipping company, using a variety of names, including "Hillel Jewish Student Union".

It should also be mentioned that this fraudulent action wrongly implicated Don Black, owner of the Stormfront website, who is now waiting for an apology.

And, finally:

_______ I fervently hope to get some strong reports from the Nuremberg Symposium scheduled this week at the University of South Carolina. Let us remember that none other than President J.F. Kennedy said in "Profiles of Courage" (Harper and Row, 1964):

"The Nuremberg Trials ... had been popular throughout the world and particularly in the United States. Equally popular was the sentence already announced by the high tribunal: death.

But what kind of trial was this? (...)

The Constitution was not a collection of loosely given political promises subject to broad interpretation. It was not a list of pleasing platitudes to be set lightly aside when expediency
required it.

It was the foundation of the American system of law and justice and [Robert Taft] was repelled by the picture of his country discarding those Constitutional precepts in order to punish a vanquished enemy."

Let that be your Thought for the Day!

Ingrid

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