While I am sitting here on pins and needles about the outcome of today's first judicial review, I thought I should send you a little stop-gap ZGram. Rejoice with me about some of the letters that float into my hard drive!
First, two letters to the Editor of the Globe_and_Mail, the first criticizing Moshe Ronen of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the second written to Anthony Keller by a fellow Jew, Ezra Miel, whom I happen to know and whom I know to be utterly genuine.
Here is the Moshe Blast:
Letters | _Globe_and_Mail_ (letters@globeandmail.ca) | March 3, 1999
Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Re For Crimes Not Committed (Focus -- Feb. 20) and War-Crime Process Imperfect, Vital (letter -- Feb. 27):
Kudos to Kirk Makin for his courageous report on the case of Johann Dueck. He must have known what kind of malicious vituperation would inevitably follow such an article.
And, sure enough, Moshe Ronen, of the Canadian Jewish Congress, reacted in predictably knee-jerk fashion, imputing to Mr. Makin an "insensitivity that borders on the obscene," continuing to say that his commentary "goes beyond the borders of decency."
Mr. Makin's comments were certainly not obscene. They were an appeal to justice and compassion. The description of the government's case against Mr. Dueck as a "witch hunt" was right on the mark. Or should one speak of it as the government's case at all? Nothing could be plainer than that the government, in this case, was acting on behalf of interests not its own and not of the people of Canada.
What is obscene, in my view, is the insufferable arrogance and insensitivity displayed by Mr. Ronen. When Mr. Ronen speaks of the "pursuit of justice against Nazi war criminals in Canada," one understands it is not justice that concerns him. It is clear that what he is interested in is revenge. And not even revenge against one who has committed the crimes of which he was accused.
It plainly matters not at all to Mr. Ronen that Mr. Dueck appears to be innocent. For him to speak of this case as one that "Canada as a nation must pursue in the interests of fundamental justice" is ludicrous.
What he apparently means to say is that Jewish people have suffered and, by God, somebody is going to have to pay for it. Had he simply said that, it would have offended far less than did his hypocritical pretence of a search for justice.
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Next, another Letter to the Globe-and-Mail's Anthony Keller by Ezra Miel:
Dear Mr. Keller:
Below see some of the things that strangely you will not put in your paper. Being a Jew is following the Torah and G_d's laws, the 10 Commandments. Dare to be honest?
Ezra
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THE ALLIES' CONDUCT AFTER WORLD WAR II
Edited by Ezra Miel
Ezra Miel was born and raised in Israel to parents who survived the so-called 'Holocaust', and who were brave and honest enough to tell their son the truth and the other side of the Second World War. Ezra served with the Israeli Defence Forces for almost 4 years, and lost relatives and friends in the Israeli Army.
I (Ezra) would like to add, on a more personal note, that in my humble opinion, silencing, hiding, twisting, manipulating and destroying the truth is the most anti-Jewish act one can commit. It is in direct violation of the Jewish faith and tradition, which is based on the TORAH (the first 5 books of the Bible), and the 10 COMMANDMENTS!
It is against everything that true Judaism (not Zionism) is all about. It is against the spirit of the TALMUD (study, learning) which is all about debate and different opinions.
It is against the spirit of the teachings in the Yeshivas and Cheders which are also based in large part on debates and exchange of opinions, many times completely opposing each other.
The argument that in memory and respect of the dead we should not allow anyone to debate the 'Holocaust', and try to silence anyone who tries, is once again an anti-Jewish act which goes (see above) right to the core of the Jewish Faith. The most honourable, respectful and best way to remember the dead is by finding and bringing to light the full and complete truthful story of the Holocaust.
To do otherwise would be a direct assault on the Torah, the 10 Commandments and the Jewish faith!
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The third letter comes from a fellow Revisionist who is reading a book I just finished:
Dear Ingrid,
I'm reading _Hitler's_Priestess_ by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. A half-hidden motif in that somewhat mediocre work is the left-handed compliment paid to Zundel's genius for outreach work.
Not only is Zundel invading every medium under the sun, but also making inroads in all the interest areas that are in process of now becoming mainstream: New Age mysticism, the Green Revolution, survivalism, and so on.
One day all these will come together in a grand harmonic convergence whose resonance will be heard in a mighty sonic boom that will reverberate from pole to pole."
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Fourt, from Letters to the Editor | _Alberta_Report_ (ar@incentre.net) | March 8, 1999 , comes this:
Whatever happened to free speech | Julian Kinisky
Never in my life have I dared to suspect that in this country we would have to suffer the utter insolence of such a body as the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Its members humiliate each of us when we consider the sacrifices of our veterans, who suffered and died to defend what this contemptible collection of free speech killers is now trying to destroy.
Only a British Columbia university would put together such jackasses as those who presume to have developed the idiocy of "sociolinguistic analysis" or "interactional phase." Do these people really believe that intelligent individuals will buy such nonsense simply because it comes from a university?
Perhaps Doug Collins does state his opinions strongly but I will go to my grave fighting, at whatever cost, for his absolute right to express them and for the _North_Shore_News_ to publish them. The members of the Human Rights Commission of British Columbia, which spawned this tribunal, are like every blackguard, scoundrel and miscreant who works for the destruction of democracy in Canada.
If Mr. Collins is such a cause for attention by this disgraceful tribunal, maybe we should start putting more stock in his opinions. The truth always arouses the passions of those who disagree with it.
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And, finally, a Letter to the Zundelsite - the kind that makes your heart be glad that finally some people hear the song:
Is it not time someone created and updated a list of ***anti-German*** hate and racist actions: murders, assaults, jailings, arson attacks, kidnappings, deportations, laws, illegal detainment, visa rejections, book bans, smashed windows, letter bombs, censorship of speech, investigations, arrests, criminal charges, censored websites, protests, falsified documents, court actions, book burnings, phone taps, cancelled book contracts, threats, harassment, sackings, defamations (proven in court), disrupted meetings, vandalism (proven to be done by others to inspire anti-German hatred), cancelled meetings, hate propaganda in movies, television (particularly 'documentaries'), radio, books, books-on-tape, newspapers and other publications?
And might not Christians, Arabs and others wish to do the same for their own countries or people?
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Thought for the Day:
"Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many another gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills."
(Cicero, 106 B.C.`s - 43 B.C.)
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