Still greetings from the road! Not having my website with all its notes and folders right at my fingertips is anguish!
Taking up where I left off a few days ago - my ponderings (is that an English noun?) about the stony cross-examination July 11, 1998. I cannot wait to see if the Chosenite Team will go so far as to submit and introduce my complete, unedited ZGrams into the federal court transcripts ***themselves*** - after they showed such angst about my getting the same story into the Human Rights Tribunal transcripts to begin with.
Recently, I shipped an excerpt of the 1985 trial, written by Zundel biographer Mike Hoffman. Today I do the same with Bob Lenski's summery introduction to the 1988 trial where Lensky predicted precisely what we are seeing now, a decade later:
Bob Lenski wrote then:
"Canada today is a nation at a crossroads. Powerful elites have decreed that a lengthening list of books, magazines and pamphlets dealing with a widening range of political, religious and historical topics must be made inaccessible to ordinary citizens. This censorship comes at a time when the nation faces unprecedented decisions concerning its political, economic and cultural future.
One decision confronting Canadians is whether or not the Holocaust should play a central role in their public life. As in the United States, Holocaust study, ceremony and worship are on a phenomenal upswing, with semi-official liturgies actively promoted by government agencies and private corporations alike. (. . .)
Canada today is a land where most expressions of Holocaust revisionism have been banned. The censors are unwilling to meet the dissidents in appropriate forums on anything like even ground. Rather than addressing the problems raised by the Leuchters and Lagaces, the Faurissons and Irvings, they have forced revisionism into a costly legal battle for survival.
Toronto publisher Ernst Zundel has been and remains the focus of this extraordinary Canadian fight, which may be a harbinger for the United States. (. . .)
One thing is certain. However the judges and lawyers may decide the Zundel case and the case of revisionism, the engineers, technicians and allied historians will feel free to withhold support and to convene a 'court' of their own."
The glove is in the ring! Just last week I learned that the Canadian censor clique has pulled the noose around Canadian Freedom of Speech a shocking bit tighter. It is my understanding the Canadian Parliament has just legislated amendments to the Human Rights act stating that now they will allow the Tribunals to hold star-chamber-like hearings hitherto only possible in Security Intelligence Review Committee Investigations but now permitted in Human Rights Tribunal hearings as well!
This means that someone with "hurt feelings" can lodge a complaint and some friend with greedy motivations or a private ax to grind can simply sashay in to denounce dissidents as a government secret and identity- protected witness, knowing that he - or she! - will not ever be identified by name, much less have to defend his or her claims in open court or even behind closed doors in cross-examination, lie to his or her shabby heart's content, and then eventually walk away a faceless snitch, once the victim has been found guilty - with up to $20,000 "restitution" in his or her pocket to boot!
The victim of the prosecution, left behind, can be assessed a crippling fine of up to $50,000 and all legal costs accrued by the accuser's intervenors etc. if he is not sufficiently cowed and deemed appropriately contrite by the triumphant Kommissars.
It's happening right now, on our continent. In Canada. Not in ***my*** backyard, Charlie?
Asked to comment on these grotesque additional developments, Ernst Zundel, in an upbeat but slightly sarcastic mood, put spice to the unsavory story:
"Well, look at it this way. Let no one say that Germans don't have a sense of humor! Not all is lost as yet. You can reduce your chances of being charged under these human behavior control mechanisms by never criticizing the Tribe. Be sure to practice groveling. If you fail, you can reduce your chances for a crippling fine by confessing your "guilt" at the beginning of the proceedings. You can even reduce your chances for a bankrupting fine at the end of the proceedings by prescribed kneefalls before the Holocaust Promotion Lobby and publicly do penance by appearing together with Marvin Kurz of the B'nai Brith, Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, or Sol Litman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at Jewish fundraisers. This tactic has proven to be successful in quite a number of cases in Canada recently.
As for myself, I think I might be spared a fate worse than that if I followed what I think was Nizkorite Rich Graves' suggestion, offering to marry Sabina Citron - if Irene Helen Zundel's handlers ever allow her to divorce me, that is! I could then wear the same kippa I already wore at the CHRT hearings! That would give Irene a whole new outlook on life and a brand new career of testifying - while I get ready for my shtetl wedding. I would insist that Jerry Springer be invited as guest of honor. That would guarantee magnificent national exposure for the Human Rights Commission Tolerance Crowd. Rabbi Freiman could officiate, and Monsieur Duvall, with a new bow tie and one of my spare kippas, could really become famous. Stop me before I self-destruct . . .!"
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"We have to condemn ***publicly*** the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, of burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are ***implanting*** it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath a generation."
(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)