This morning's brief ZGram is delivered here with gritted teeth and in a mighty battle mood, for two reasons:
1) Ernst lost in one of the two court decisions we were expecting this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against hearing his case about citizenship -
and
2) Except for a handful of "Lebensraum" sets that seem to have slid through, my trilogy "Lebensraum" has been confiscated by Canada Customs on suspicion of being unfit for Canadians to read. This confiscation was done NOT on the contents of my novel - there was no time to read it! - but on the fact, one might assume, that Ingrid runs the Zundelsite.
First, to the matter of citizenship. Old-timers know the story. For newcomers, here's what it means, in the briefest of words:
Ernst emigrated to Canada at age nineteen from Germany in 1958. Almost immediately, he became an activist on behalf of his maligned German people, first in Canada and Germany, and in good time world-wide.
As a result, a political dossier was compiled, the complete, uncensored contents of which he has yet to see - and what was in that dossier, way back in the 1960s seems to have been used to deny him citizenship so as to block his candidacy for Prime Minister in a campaign in 1967-68.
Here was a proud young man, and he did not reapply for many, many years - while watching pimps, prostitutes and crooks and even convicted criminals being trucked into Canada in bushels - by the tens of thousands under special ministerial permits.
He reapplied only in 1993, for reasons too complex to explain here.
At that point it was leaked by Immigration officials to the Toronto sun newspaper that citizenship would be denied to him again - although his application, as stated by an immigration official, was "flawless."
In other words, Ernst had, by then, lived in Canada over 35 years as a dissident and activist - but with not the tiniest speck of dirt to his name. All of his writings, publishings, and broadcasting was ***legal*** - albeit a thorn in the Chosenite's side.
When Ernst started coming out swinging in his defense and for his rights, the reason was revealed: If he could be convicted in Canada - not for what he had done in the past, but ***what he might do in the future***, he could be deported to Germany where challenging the Holocaust is fiercely fought with hate laws and where he had a "thought crime" conviction for such things as the Leuchter Report and asking and publishing "Did Six Million Really Die?"
It would take too long to go into the litany of how the government and lobbyists tried - to get him to be nailed with "hate crimes". It proved to be impossible to find something on which he could be legally deported, since there was nothing wrong with what he had done or written and spoken in Canada.
At that point, his enemies had a creative idea: Why not simply declare him a "security risk", have him put through the wringer of a Star Chamber proceeding, public excluded, where secret testimony could be heard from secret witnesses behind closed doors, whose identities and testimonies would never be revealed - and ship him off to Germany in handcuffs?
A gargantuan legal battle ensued, costing Ernst over $60,000, with challenges and counter-challenges, winding all the way up to the Supreme Court with the plea to have his case be heard and judged.
This morning, the Supreme Court issued a terse judgment: Leave to appeal denied.
So that is that.
The Star Chamber proceedings are bound to reconvene. Ernst tells me that there are still avenues where he can strike back through the courts, and strike hard, embarrassing the politicians and their lobbyist masters. We'll see. Right now he is huddling with his advisors and reporters, his telephone glued to the ear.
The second item is a personal one - and I haven't yet sorted it out. I will tell you what I know so far.
It seems that a large shipment of sets of my novel "Lebensraum" - to individuals and to distributers - is being held at Canada Customs to be "evaluated" - and, one might safely assume, to be banned as unfit reading so as to "protect" our neighbors to the North from undue thoughts and words.
I made a bet with Ernst this morning that this is the first historical novel ever written by an American and banned in Canada. Ernst says no - the list is a mile long since Canada is brutally, brutally censored.
I say: Yes, for non-fiction. But not for fiction, surely! Does anybody know?
I found out just an hour ago that another Revisionist book (non-fiction) has been banned - for being pornographic! This is a philosophical work by an Indian university professor on the German economist Duehring and his evaluation of Jewish influence. And there is not the smallest whiff of sex, much less pornography - in any of those writings. State-of-the-Art Revisionism, folks!
And the author doesn't even have blue eyes! Here is a little fellow with pitch black hair and coffee skin. But he did some of his research in the basement of the Zundel-Haus, which may have been his downfall.
If you think that's bizarre, take this and ponder it:
An issue of Time Magazine of April 18, 1998 has also ended up with the censorious Kommissars - because it was shipped to 206 Carlton Street, Toronto, Canada, the proud and unrepentant Headquarters of Independent Thought.
No doubt there's more to come!
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"I knew who goyim were. They didn't vote for Roosevelt, they mixed meat with milk, and they prayed to a man instead of to God. There were many, many more goyims than Jews, but not in our neighborhood."
(Earl Shorris in "Jews Without Mercy")