The following press release went out September 7, 1999:
Attn: Assignment Editor
RE: Will Government attorneys succeed in keeping devastating UN Ruling regarding Freedom of the Press out of the public record - and, hence, out of the public eye?
A motion will be presented by the Zundel legal team asking a judge to add a United Nation Human Rights Committee ruling affirming freedom of the press for dissidents to documents submitted in the Zundel lawsuit against the governmentment for unlawfully banning him from the Parliament precincts in the infamous ". . . truth is no defense" controversy.
In a parallel (Gauthier versus Canada) case, a UN ruling by the Human Rights Committee in early spring of 1999 stated that such action contravened rights guaranteed to citizens of democratic countries in Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, to which Canada is a signatory.
Representatives for the ever more censorious Canadian government are expected to fight tooth and nail to prevent the media and public from having access to such written records. The press are invited to attend.
Date: September 8, 1999
Time: 10.00 a.m
Place: Osgoode Hall, Ontario Court of Appeal
For further information and media interviews, call the Zundel-Haus at 416-922-9850
This hearing was held yesterday. The outcome was surprising - Ernst Zundel won. The United Nations document is allowed to be added to the factum and will add strength to the Zundel legal team's argument that Ernst Zundel was deprived of his constitutionally and internationally protected rights to speak his mind as other people speak their minds in countries fond of calling themselves democratic.
A bit more of the background surrounding this freedom of speech case that is taking on ever more distinct dimensions in our favor:
Somewhere on the Zundelsite there is a specific disclaimer wherein I explain that when I use the phrase the "Jewish Lobby" (or, alternately, the "Holocaust Lobby") I mean those with a vested interest in keeping the crumbling Holocaust Hoax propped up - and that includes Jews and Gentiles, Blacks, Whites and Orientals - everyone who has a vested interest!
As I make clear in this document, I use the term "Lobby" as a summarizing construct for simplicity's sake so as to have verbal shortcut - exceptions duly noted. Just as we speak of the "flower children" to describe the youth of the sixties, or the "jet set" to describe the culture of the rich, so likewise Revisionists speak of the "Lobby".
Little did I know that some of those I called the "Canadian Holocaust Lobby" were indeed bona fide government-registered lobbyists acting within the parameters of privileges ***and constraints*** of agents for specific clients.
This gives Ernst Zundel's opposition an ever more sinister hue. These people aren't the universally concerned humanitarians on guard against "hate mongering" as they would like the misled, bamboozled public to believe. They have a narrow, self-serving political focus - even as they slurp the benefits of charitable, tax-exempt organizations day by day.
In light of what I know today that yesterday I did not know, I had to interrupt my "Germany's Hitler" series to bring you a series of new legal and otherwise important developments of considerable gravity on the Canadian censorship front. They are:
* An update on an important motion of the relevance of the above-mentioned addendum to a Zundel Faktum. (Gauthier, you will recall, won a United Nations Article 19 ruling against the government of Canada for being banned for more than a decade from the Press Gallery) -
* A summary titled "Legal work can be lobbying under new Act", of particular interest to us since it quotes busybody, left-lib attorney Warren Kinsella, acting as a registered lobbyist for 19 interesting clients -
* Some thoughts on the premiere of the long anticipated "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter" documentary - which many of us expect to be the classical smear-and-vilify character assassination attempt to sideswipe a restive populace nibbling at Revisionism via the Internet. We naturally expect that this film will put a decidedly Jewish spin on the ground-breaking Leuchter Report - but are willing to let ourselves be surprised.
(Fred Leuchter, you will recall, is the execution equipment expert who was hired by Ernst Zundel to examine the "gas chambers" at Auschwitz and Majdanek in 1988).
First now to what was argued yesterday - and what it will forecast.
The facts of the case are as follows, summarized as briefly as is possible without losing the thrust of this case:
The appellant, Ernst Zundel, is a German Canadian publisher and human rights activist who has defended the German ethnic group against false atrocity allegations made during and after World War II by publishing material refuting these false claims, notably the booklet "Did Six Million Really Die?" (...smack on the Zundelsite! Use the site-specific search engine!)
Zundel scheduled a press conference for June 5, 1998 in the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery's Charles Lynch Press Conference room to discuss a case then and still before the Human Rights Tribunal where he was accused of exposing Jews to hatred and contempt on the Internet website known as the Zundelsite by questioning the standard, Jewish-approved version of the Holocaust.
The title of this press conference was "The New Inquisition in Toronto! Government tried to grab control of the Internet." Zundel intended to discuss the Tribunal's ruling that truth is not a defence under the legislation - and the fact that the Canadian Human Rights Commission was attempting to obtain jurisdiction over the Internet by the back door with the Zunddelsite controversy in this precedent-setting case.
Shortly before this scheduled press conference, according to a legal document submitted to the Ontario Court of Appeal,
"On or about June 4, 1998, the respondent Members of Parliament, the Canadian Jewish Congress and Moshe Ronen conspired amongst themselves to injure the appellant by banning him from the precincts of Parliament, thereby preventing him from holding a press conference in the Canadian Parlimanetary Press Gallery's press conference rooms."
Skipping over the details of this charge, as outlined in this motion that was argued yesterday, 8 September '99 we next come to the following telling paragraphs, already mentioned several times before:
"Later in the day on June 4, 1998, (the Government House leader) Don Boudria rose in the House of Commons and said:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order pursuant to an issue raised earlier this afternoon and well put by all House leaders. ***Pursuant to discussions held subsequently*** (emphasis in the legal document) I now offer the following motion to the House and ask for unanimous consent that it be passed immediately without debate. I move:
'That this House order that Ernst Zundel be denied admittance to the precincts of the House of Commons during and for the remainder of the present session.'
The motion passed with the unanimous consent and agreement of the respondent party leaders, house leaders and members."
Ernst Zundel's argument next week will be that this is a bona fide conspiracy, depriving him of his rights to speak on premises now called the Charles Lynch Room of the Press Gallery which has been available to Canadians for a century ***who wanted to discuss matters of national importance.***
Truth having been ruled out as being relevant - in litigation where truth was the ***sole*** issue - ***is*** an issue relevant and important to Canadians. Furtheremore, Ernst Zundel claims that he was entitled to write and impart this information freely to members of the press for dissemination purposes, a right he is entitled to, based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly section 2(b), ***and*** Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
This denial of his guaranteed constitutional right is, in his opinion, actionable in and of itself, since Canada is a signatory to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Now as I briefly mentioned in several previous ZGrams, in early spring of 1999 there developed a strikingly similar parallel case - that of a small dissident French-Canadian writer and publisher by name of Gauthier who had apparently been likewise denied the use of the press room in the Gallery. Gauthier appealed to numerous Canadian bodies and even the courts. He experienced brush-offs everywhere and finally complained to the UN,
The UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland investigated the case this past spring - and saw fit to zap the Canadian oligarchy on the snout.
It was this UN Human Rights body's ruling, not known to Zundel lawyers when the original legal papers were drawn up for the Zundel appeal, that the Zundel attorneys wanted to have added as additional, relevant material to the case.
The defendants in this case - the Parliament of Canada and its lawyers - did not like this idea one bit and tried to say Nyet - and here is where the hare sits in the pepper, as my favorite German proverb has it.
* The powers that be wanted to keep that devastating UN ruling in the Gauthier case ignored completely - even hidden and shoved down the proverbial memory hole as if it had not taken place. Apparently they feared that it would give Mr. Zundel unheard-of ammunition in his struggle for equal treatment before the law and also in the media. Knowing his combative and tenacious style, they feared he would cement their self-serving and transparent refusal into the public and court records of this enormously important Human Rights case for Canada - where it would sit forevermore a fat embarrassment for them.
* Therefore they sheepishly proposed that the UN decision in the Gauthier case be argued at most ***verbally*** only - but that it not be part of any written records in the proceedings. Zundel refused to be rebuffed - and won.
But get this: Even though he won, he was still assessed costs in this case.
Boy, how they dislike his style - and how they fear that man!
Now, normally, most people would just say: "Well, just another itsy bitsy stalling tactic by litigants - this time the Government of Canada." But nothing is ever just normal and small when the government's lackeys start to tango with Zundel.
What this will mean is beautifully summarized in a recent Zundel legal document as follows:
"While decisions of the (UN) Human Rights Committee are not binding on Canadian courts, they nevertheless form a body of international law with which Parliament is presumed to comply. It is submitted that parliamentary privilege must accord with international law and the treaties to which Canada has become a signatory. In its exercise of Parliamentary privilege, it is therefore subject to the provisions of Article 19. In this case, it is submitted it clearly breached those provisions.
Parliament directly intervened in the affairs of the Press Gallery, which had validly contracted with the appellant for use of the press gallery rooms for a press conference, against the practice of "strict non-interference" which was placed before the Human Rights Committee. It did so for the sole reason of preventing the appellant from speaking at the press conference. It banned him not only from the press gallery but from the entire precincts of the House of Commons. The appellant cannot watch proceedings in the House of Commons from the public gallery; he cannot visit his member of Parliament; he cannot enter any building whatsoever. This was not an exercise of Parliamentary privilege and it is submitted the defendants should be liable in the courts for their actions."
Ernst Zundel, who has no criminal record in Canada, was banned, according to press reports, because of his viewpoint on history - because he does not adopt the Jewish-Allied version of his German people's history. The drama continues next Wednesday, September 15.
We will let you know what additional developments will materialize on the ever-widening Canadian Censorship Front.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day - for those with an affinity for precise legal wording:
Go study the Gauthier Decision and find out for yourself what the Canadian Government did not want you to read, hear and see:
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf
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