I am writing this on Saturday, although it will be shipped on Sunday because I didn't want to break the "Zundel in Russia" series. I am also glued to the television set to watch what's happening in the United States.
Therefore, this ZGram will have to be short.
Let me just briefly summarize what happened all this week at the Human Rights Tribunal hearings in Toronto which concluded for the year that almost was on Friday at noon - the 40th day of hearings (!) - with an average of ten to twelve attorney's appearing at each hearing! A hefty chunk of taxpayers' money has now been wasted by the CHRT, and for what? All to decide a) who owns the Zundelsite, b) who controls the Zundelsite, and c) is the Internet, ahem, just like a telephone? Smart people would simply have asked Ingrid two years ago at the cost of a $2 phone call!
The big story, this week, was the appearance of Revisionism's beloved Dr. Robert Faurisson of France - a man of impeccable academic credentials and research skills, with the reputation of a literary detective, and with a razor-sharp mind to cut away the frills and get to the meat of the matter. Dr. Faurisson was on the stand for three days, with the exception of brief periods during which Mark Weber, Director of the IHR (already back in California) was qualified to testify as an expert witness on the Holocaust, but in a narrowly restricted sense - in other words, fat NYETS on such things as the Jewish masterminding of the Russian Revolution, the reasons for the punishment of Jewish partisans who undermined the Wehrmacht and killed almost one million German soldiers through cowardly ambush from behind hedges, under cover of forests etc. - all topics posted on the Zundelsite.
We were happy even with the limited expert witness qualifications of Mark Weber, and so Mark will be back in 1999 and tell the world yet more of what he knows - to be recorded into transcripts what scholars of the future ***need*** to know.
Now Dr. Faurisson - a textbook French charmer (. . . amid friends!) with sparklingly boyish personality traits and the most endearing accent the stodgy Tribunal could ever have wished for itself, took time to have his say. He gave his Faurisson usual - which is precision. Piled on precision. On top of precision. The little guy fought like a tiger! He gave our mutual foes one heck of a run for their money. Three people reported to me, independently, that Mr. Freiman, head lawyer for the CHRC in the Zundelsite case, was visibly shaking and trembling. Stress? Naw! Couldn't be. Never!
Will Dr. Faurisson be qualified as an expert witness? Your guess is as good as my guess. The Tribunal reserved its decision. In France, I have been told, Faurisson foes have coined a brand new word with which to denigrate, defame and vilify each other - accusing each other of "Faurissonism." Let no one think we aren't making progress in places where people might never expect it! I say it never hurts to be an optimist. I say that Dr. Faurisson will surely be qualified once more because he has been qualified ***by higher courts*** in half a dozen Revisionist trials already - so if the venerable Tribunal chooses ". . . to drop its pants" - a Faurissonian Original - disqualifying him, we'll all know why, won't we?
What was most notable about these last two weeks - which had their highs and lows on both sides - is that the hatred in the courtroom emanating from our opposition was described as "palpable" and "suffocating." All pretenses have fallen away. You could cut the air with a knife. There were seasoned courtroom veterans who have experienced this "Human Rights hatred climate" these past few days to their astonishment - and to a man they said that ***never*** had they experienced such obvious, blatant, cold hatred. These people HATE the truth!
This may seem paradoxical, but our people got a charge from it, and the comparison was made that cornered animals in behavioral studies behave like that - they become biting, scratching, hyper and vicious. "We've made them suffer!" is the verdict. And more is yet to come. I've seen the witness line-up. Surprises are in store.
That does it - for this year. I am ready to go into the Holiday Mode. The next Human Rights Tribunal hearing will be as late as April 19 of next year, with much of May already booked and projected to go at least into August.
Sprinkled across this unholy mess that parades as a "Human Rights" trial are a number of interesting judicial reviews - which will, no doubt, bring additional jolts and surprises. The opposition has made a motion to have them all lumped together and dismissed or put off after the hearing next summer - in hopes of getting someone as a judge who might have gold or silver in his name.
We want them judged by courts of higher authority - one by one by one!
If I seemed absent these past two weeks, that was not merely your imagination. As happened several times before, I have been traveling - and more is yet to come.
Those of you on my supporter list, please forgive my tardiness with my Christmas Cards of Thanks. I tried to keep up - but just couldn't!
There are a number of exciting breaking stories from all over the world, primarily Germany where the kettle is whistling, the pot is boiling and things are happening Big Time.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"From a cosmic perspective, it is truly instructive to watch how President Clinton, the greatest friend of the Jews ever, who elevated more Jewish politicians to lofty and powerful roles in his administration than any other President, should be sunk by a modern Queen Esther!"
(Ernst Zundel in response to breaking White House News)