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February 22, 2003
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
Our server was down briefly yesterday - NOT because
of sabotage, but because of huge, huge traffic. It took a few hours and some
extra money to get it up again. That is the reason why yesterday's ZGram was
only sent to you this morning.
So far, the highest voting count "pro-Zundel" was
35% that I know of. At that point, apparently, the CTV station decided to
pull the poll and drop it as fast as they could. One small victory!
Since then, I learned of another poll, this time at www.canada.com
About half an hour ago, it looked pretty much like the CTV poll when it
started - but this one is a bit more detailed, with four categories, to wit:
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is asking for refugee status
in Canada. What should happen?
13.64% --- We should welcome him and give him a fair
hearing.
1.95% ---We should welcome him, but prosecute him for hate
crimes.
19.81% ---We should refuse to let him in.
64.61% ---We should re-route him on the first plane back to
his native Germany.
To me, this means that Canada, in general, is sick and tired
of having to foot the bill for the Holocaust Lobby. Less than 2% feel the
need to prosecute Ernst for "hate crimes" - which, by the way, he
was never criminally charged with, much less convicted for in Canada. The
Human Rights Tribunal that ruled that the Zundelsite contained
"hate", is an administrative body - and is the very entity that
also ruled that "Truth is not a defense."
And, as a sidebar, remember how the Mayor of Toronto,
Barbara Hall, when challenged by defense attorney, Doug Christie, to point
out to the Tribunal just where she found some "hate", sat there
silent with a beet-red face ...until the Tribunal Chairman took mercy and
called a coffee break.
And, never forget, the Zundelsite is MY baby, not
Ernst's Zundel's baby, and always has been. Just because the Human Rights
Tribunal, that disgrace to Canadian justice and fairness, refused to let me
tell them so on the very first of the hearing in 1997, has ruled it is a
"hate site", does not make it true at all. This is the very outfit
that admitted in its ruling five years later that HAD THEY PERMITTED ME
TO SPEAK, WHICH THEY DID NOT, the entire obscene hearings would never
have gotten off the ground!
If they now want to challenge the First Amendment in
America, let them just go ahead and try.
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Many people have asked me why Ernst asked for asylum in
Canada when that was the very country he vowed never to foot in again.
Remember that he did not do so voluntarily. As far as I am concerned, he was
kidnapped under false pretenses - allegedly he missed an immigration hearing
and overstayed his visa - by American law enforcement officials doing
(having to do?) the bidding of the almighty Holocaust Lobby and its
aficionados in our government. I don't know. Maybe Canada is a signatory to
whatever treaty says you don't deport a person to the very country where he
will go to jail for years because he challenges the Holocaust? I am only
allowed to speak to Ernst 10 minutes every day, and we have more important
things to discuss.
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My strategy of forcing the mainstream media onto the
Zundelsite seems to be paying off. So far, we have had 75 articles in major
Canadian papers - and, by and large, we have not been misquoted. Mark Weber
of the Institute for Historical Review, who handles my media queries for me,
always tries to paint the larger picture and international ramifications
that the Zundelsite matter and this arrest have brought to the fore one more
time. This is NOT about Ernst Zundel and Ingrid Rimland per se. This
is another attempt to force censorship laws onto the Internet. For the most
part, the tone of most write-ups and electronic broadcasts has been
poisonous, but already the uncomfortable "tar baby" aspects of
this case creep in: What to do with Ernst Zundel who is getting ready to
expose, once more, the sham of those outfits feeding at the Canadian
taxpayers' trough.
An interesting article, making my point, appeared in the
Ottawa Citizen, dated yesterday:
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'Just watch me' kick Zundel out: Coderre Coderre vows to
keep Holocaust denier from exploiting refugee system
Norma Greenaway The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, February 21, 2003
CREDIT: Louie Palu, The Canadian Press
GRAPHIC: Ernst Zundel peers from a van window after being
delivered to Canadian officials in Fort Erie by U.S. immigration officers.
A tough-talking Immigration Minister Denis Coderre indicated
yesterday he's prepared to act to thwart Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel's
attempt to claim refugee status in Canada.
"Just watch me," declared Mr. Coderre when he was
asked what measures are available to him to bar someone from getting access
to the country's refugee system, a process that can last years.
Though privacy requirements prevent Mr. Coderre from
discussing the Zundel case by name, the minister acknowledged the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act gives him the power to order the
removal of someone from Canada before the refugee process begins if, for
example, that person is a convicted criminal.
"Yes, I have the possibility," Mr. Coderre told
reporters. "But I won't go further. I'm not talking about the
case."
Mr. Zundel, who was forcibly returned to Canada from the
United States on Wednesday, is a German citizen who lived most of his life
in Canada. In 1968, he briefly sought the leadership of the federal Liberal
Party in the contest won by Pierre Trudeau. The Nazi sympathizer moved to
Tennessee in 2001 after angrily denouncing Canada's attempts to silence his
anti-Semitic views.
Mr. Zundel was forced out of the U.S. for allegedly
overstaying his visitor's visa, and is being held in an immigration
detention centre at Thorold, Ont. He is seeking refugee status because
Canada no longer considers him a permanent resident.
Mr. Zundel was convicted in the early 1990s of breaking
Germany's anti-hate laws and fined $9,000. There also is an outstanding
warrant for his arrest on suspicion of incitement of hate, stemming from his
Web site, German Embassy official Harry Adelt said yesterday. The Canadian
Human Rights Commission also ruled last year that Mr. Zundel's Web site
spread hatred.
For its part, Germany appears to be adopting a hands-off
approach. Mr. Adelt said the government has no plans "at this
moment" to seek Mr. Zundel's extradition, a process he described as
complicated and time consuming. "But if the Canadians want to deport
him, they can do it," he said.
Government insiders said Mr. Coderre is seriously
considering using the administrative process within his department to order
Mr. Zundel deported rather than allowing him to make a refugee claim to the
independent immigration and refugee board.
Lawyer James Chalk, national director of the Association of
Immigration Counsels of Canada, says Mr. Coderre would be foolish not to use
the provision and nip the controversy over Mr. Zundel as soon as possible.
"If I were the minister I would be shooting every angle
to get him out of my hair," he said.
Using existing ministerial power to declare Mr. Zundel
inadmissible to Canada because of his criminal record could result in his
being shipped out within two weeks, Mr. Chalk suggested.
The Canadian Alliance and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler led
demands inside and outside the Commons for Mr. Coderre to evict Mr. Zundel
as quickly as possible.
"The minister has the option under the immigration act
to summarily dismiss any refugee claim and to clear the way for deportation
and that's what he should be doing," said Alliance MP Diane Ablonczy,
the party's immigration critic.
Mr. Cotler, a Montreal MP and leading human rights activist,
says it's ludicrous to think Mr. Zundel would qualify as a refugee who has a
well founded fear of persecution if deported to his native Germany. He
argued Germany is a democratic country where he would get a fair trial, and
that Mr. Zundel should not even be allowed to apply for refugee status.
NDP Leader Jack Layton called the Zundel case a "tragic
outfall" of a system that he maintained must be honoured to protect the
rights of legitimate refugees. He insisted Mr. Zundel's refugee claim will
be rejected in the end but that the government has to follow the "laws
that are laid down."
(Source: http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=0469158e-fe63-46c4-aa33-b6e07bfbae23
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And, yes - Ernst has retained Rocco Galati, described
by yesterday's Globe and Mail as "...a Toronto lawyer known for strong
words and a mercurial courtroom demeanor - and for representing refugee
claimants whom Ottawa declares deportable threats to national security...as
Canada figures out what to do with him."
How about letting him go back to planting his peach trees in
the hills of Tennessee where he belongs?
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Finally, if you really strive to even begin to understand
the finer points of this newest attempt to silence and deport Ernst Zundel,
search for the article "The case is troubling, but the principle is
clear" by Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada.
I don't have time to find the URL for you on my ever more sluggish computer.
For further information, go to the Zundelsite,
www.zundelsite.org - and don't forget to help support this newest round with
your donations.
Ingrid
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