January 13, 1998

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here is a brief follow-up on yesterday's taping on the Zundelsite censorship attempts by various factions, including the ADL. In talking to the producers at length before and after the show, it became very clear that the pitch the ADL is making for censorship is that - horror of all horrors! - some kids might actually be introduced to an alternative view on history unless big outfits like the AOL are going to start filtering out sites such as the controversial Zundelsite.

Well, like it or not, that is exactly what is happening already. Kids are very interested in the Zundelsite and our information outreach. I have had a virtual flurry of requests from kids as young as 14 years of age who ask for assistance on essays and projects on "Holocaust Denial".

So far, I have always assumed that these requests were sent by adults to trap us and to "prove" that we are "contaminating" kids with dangerous ideas, and therefore I always reply with the standard response:

"Why not ask your teacher or counselor to invite Mr. Zundel to your campus so everyone can benefit?"

So far, I haven't had any takers, but yesterday, as I ran my experience with the producers by Mr. Zundel, he said that there were many similar inquiries already coming to the Zundel-Haus directly.

Ernst reports that, increasingly, Canadian students from universities, and even high schools, are contacting him for personal interviews about Free Speech, the Internet censorship attacks, and the Zundel view on the Holocaust.

Below is a brief summary of interviews already done or in the making. All requests for interviews have come to Ernst at the suggesions of students' teachers or professors. All of them had prepared questions they have formulated after perusing material on the Zundelsite.

These students usually request that the interviews be video- or audiotaped, so that they can play the tapes in their classes.

One black high school student, a girl, came accompanied by a white male student and interviewed Ernst for over an hour, at the suggestion of their Scottish teacher. There is a possibility, said the teacher in a note they brought along, of Mr. Zundel addressing the entire student body at that school during the next semester. This girl's parents are U.S. Blacks who emigrated to Canada.

Another black Canadian student from Uganda is to interview Ernst next week in another taped interview - again because of what this young woman saw and read while surfing the Zundelsite and others on the Net.

A third student at the University of Toronto Law School, who interviewed Ernst five years ago while she was still in High School, is trying to book time with him for an interview about the international law implications of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal censorship efforts pertaining to the Zundelsite. She is studying to become an attorney.

A Canadian University of Toronto student from Peru, who is interested in history but aims to become a certified foreign language translater-interpreter, has been using foreign language texts on the Zundelsite to help him make his studies more interesting. He requested supplementary material and and was surprised that he could just pick up the phone and immediately talk to Ernst personally.

Yet another student wants to do a telephone interview with Ernst this week because she is from out of town and ran out of time to do a face-to-face interview.

Several others are still pending.

Thus it seems that inroads are being made into reaching young minds. Right now I am working on a television interview to be tailor-edited for high school students on one of the Learning Channels.

When I talked to Ernst this morning, he suggested we start thinking of a kit we could offer to high schools and universities. The Internet is now the place where these young people can come in contact with the "forbidden fruit" of Revisionism.

Things are looking up - whether the ADL likes it or not. Mohammed had it right when he said that the ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Revisionists can furnish both. In spades.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

(A. Whitney Griswold)

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