Yesterday, Sunday. the Zundelsite and our mission made first page headlines in our local paper, the North County Times serving the upscale bedroom communities north of San Diego.
Titled "Website at center of Holocaust controversy" and subtitled, quoting me, "I have a perfect right as a German to defend my country and demand the truth in history", this suburban paper gave our struggle amazingly fair and balanced coverage.
In response to that article, I had eight calls from readers - three hostile, and five supporting what I said. One of the hostile callers, a woman, threatened that "my God, not your God" would punish me with paralysis for the rest of my life. She said more, but I'll spare you the details.
The best part of that article was a delicious quote from none other than Jamie McCarthy, former Nizkorite:
"I certainly don't think it's appropriate to censor these people. It's not only ineffective, it's just plain wrong to begin with. . . These legal actions to try to get (Zundel) shut down do the exact opposite. The whole thing has been a disaster from the beginning."
Well, thank you, Jamie, for finally admitting it. We've said that this would happen all along.
With that in mind, we are going to relive a bit of history today, partly for the benefit of the bunch of lookeeloos from the Inquisition camp and their assorted minions who on a daily basis comb through the Zundelsite and my ZGram mailings, looking for spots to attack.
I now have some 2,000 documents placed on the Zundelsite, fully half of which are ZGrams, copyrighted from Day One. On January 1, 1996, I wrote my very first ZGram. It said the following:
Good morning to all, and a happy and truthful New Year! Let's join hands and hearts for a True World Order, and NOT a New World Order!
Over the holidays, we learned something here at the Zundelsite, and that is that most of you appreciate the daily tidbits we have been shipping cyber-fashion. Most of you are curious about just who we are and ". . .where we're coming from."
One letter, particularly, put it well - and with credits to the friend who wrote it, I am reproducing parts of it here below. We shall take to heart what he said:
". . . I think you need to consider some of the rudiments of human nature. Not all have the means or the drive or the guts to be front-line patriots like you . . . However, many who feel uneasy about "shirking" their duty would like to either be useful or feel involved.
"That will be truer if and when the 3rd Zundel trial gets going. Human nature being what it is, many will, I daresay, appreciate being on the "inside," as it were.
"That was the certainly the sense you got from the Power newsletters in '88, for instance. I still recall opening the Power newsletter that spelled out the essence of the Leuchter Report. Suddenly Beethoven's Four Chords of Fate thundered aloud in my little office. I was a witness to history being made. . ."
That's what we will try to do-invite you to be ". . . witness to history being made" and involve you to help us if you are so inclined. That's what it's all about. It isn't about hating other races or giving the Hitler salute. It is about truth, plain and simple. It is about an honest world we will be proud to leave to our children.
This writer above goes on to say:
". . . Give your friends a seat at front row centre and let them witness history being made. They will then look for ways to show their appreciation. Inform your troops, say, by means of short commentaries on the status of the legal and intellectual battle as it unfolds, or small yet telltale anecdotes at the level of human interest of who said what or did what; they'd appreciate it.
What they'll appreciate even more, though, is the sense of intimacy and involvement in the battle for truth in history and helping, however small their contribution, toward the shaping of a new history."
So I will start by telling who I am. Check me out - I am your next door neighbor. I can't sing; I can't swim; I am a mediocre cook; I have never in my life been political; I am not young; I am not old; I hate it thoroughly when people call me "Nazi." That isn't at all what I am, and who I am, and why I am the way I am. Some people call me stubborn - I call it strength of conviction.
I am the person who dreamed up the Zundelsite. I have no weapons whatsoever except a belief in the TRUTH, the whole truth and nothing BUT the truth, but I intend to use words like stilettos."
So there you have it - copyrighted at the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. - signed and sealed from Day One. I told the world who owned the Zundelsite - and ***long before*** any threats from Canada's Human Rights Kommissars against Ernst Zundel!
Any cub reporter or apprentice investigator could have found that out. It would have taken all of a $2 phone call.
Instead, these Tribunal hearings have now consumed almost two years and has probably already - I'm guessing! - cost the taxpayers of Canada close to $1 million. I intend to find out exactly how much. And now the Torquemadas are well on the way to importing their vengeance right into the good old USA?
They would do well to listen to Jamie McCarthy. After all, he is one of their own.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"You could hide Germany in Texas, and it took the whole world to set them on their ass."
(Quote sent to the Zundelsite)