I waited all day yesterday and finally managed to talk to Ernst for maybe half a minute - kind of between jamb and door, so to speak, since he was taking our splendid legal team out for dinner for a job, yet one more time, extremely well done.
So I cannot tell you all that much, since the details of Judicial Review # 1 are not yet in - but the judge has again "reserved judgment" and will render it in writing in a few days. (The pressure on that judge from the Censorship Lobby must be enormous, I would guess!)
But the feeling was, to quote an animated Mr. Zundel, that the team performed ". . . not only adequately but passionately, without leaving a single legal detail not covered. Our attorneys were in top form!"
Then Ernst added a little postscript - again worthy of the Zundel-Haus archives:
"Today and tomorrow are very important because these two days will decide if the ***regular courts*** can be inveigled or enlisted to fulfill the agenda of the Censorship Lobby!"
So that's where it's at.
Of course we told the media. Whether or not they were there, I don't know. But for the record, here are two press releases that went out, and if the media people weren't there, it's their own fault, and they have one more time missed their own boat and misread history. What fools or useless critters of the lapdog media are!
Press Release March 8, 1999
The first of five judicial reviews regarding a California-based website, the "Zundelsite", will be heard in the Federal Court of Canada this week. The flimsy, threadbare argument, put forth by the prosecution, reads like simplicity itself: Since Internet messages are transported at least sometimes across copper wires used also by telephone companies for the transmission of phone calls, and since tape-recorded telephone messages deemed "hateful" are under the jurisdiction of the Human Rights Commission, ***the Internet is like a tape recorder***" '' (See Note)
The defense will put it bluntly: Just because water pipes carry water to a toilet and a sink, does it make sense to argue that a toilet is a sink?
The outcome of this, and subsequent, Zundel judicial reviews will be of enormous significance to Canada - largely defining the framework and jurisdiction over the Internet for the already heavily criticized Human Rights Commissions and their beholden Tribunals.
Will Canadians allow these predatory government outfits to control the content of the Internet? Sol Littman seems to think so. The Canadian Director of the Canadian Simon Wiesenthal Center has put it succinctly:
"This is the first time that the issue of hate on the Internet is being dealt with in a Canadian legal process, and ***the Commission's findings will greatly influence what may and may not be placed on the Internet in Canada."*** (Response, Winter / Spring 1999 Issue)
Author Kevin McDonald has stated in "The Monstrous Trick" on page 17: "Canada's so-called public arena has become a breeding ground for state-mandated commissions and committees and tribunals whose purpose in life is to hear the complaints of state-funded or subsidized groups of people who feel themselves disadvantaged or discriminated against by other people or institutions, or whose condition has been insufficiently ameliorated by one or another of the state's laws, programs or activities."
States the author: "Hate laws have no place in a liberal society. They are weapons in the hands not of the people but of the Thought Police who would rule the people."
Send a reporter to cover this story! Freedom of Speech on the Internet is at stake!
For further information, call the Zundel-Haus at 416-922-9850
Time: 10.00 A.M.
Place: 330 University Avenue, 8th Floor, Courtroom 2
* Note: I used to say ". . . a telephone," but the comparison is actually even more absurd than that!
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Next, we have Press Release # 2, apparently shipped early this morning:
Press Release March 10, 1999
The Federal Court will have to decide if the Canadian Human Rights Commission has jurisdiction over the Internet.
Douglas Christie, Ernst Zundel's attorney, is arguing the Judicial Review concerning this question today and tomorrow (the 10th and 11th).
He will be opposed by the usual gaggle of Jewish censorship promoters - B'nai Brith, the CJC, the Holocaust Remembrance Association, the Simon Wiesenthal Center etc.
The Zundel case will determine what Canadians can receive via the Internet in the decades to come.
Will the media continue to suppress this highly controversial story - an issue relevant to all thinking bipeds?
Time: 10 A.M.
Place: 330 University Avenue, 8th Floor, Courtroom # 2.
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Thought for the Day:
"Let's coin a new word for our media elite: chatterati."
(Letter to the Editor, Instauration, Feb. 1999)