Free Ernst Zundel Rally - November 23, 2003

Rally organized by CAFE

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TORONTO, NOVEMBER 23, 2003. The largest free speech demonstration yet called forcefully for the immediate release of political prisoner Ernst Zundel after more than nine months of detention in Canadian prisons. Protesting outside the Metro West Detention Centre in Rexdale in the northwest end of Toronto, over 65 supporters of free speech rallied from points around Ontario; including. London, Hamilton, Sudbury, Mississauga and Toronto.

"Ernst Zundel is a political prisoner," Canadian Association for Free Expression Director told the free speech supporters as a crisp warm late November wind snapped at the sea of Red Ensigns, the flag of the true Canada that upheld the rights of Anglo-Saxon Common Law. "Canada's corrupt Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) -- the same ones who couldn't prevent the Sikh terrorism against Air India, despite the fact they had an agent inside -- has declared Mr. Zundel a terrorist, a 'threat to national security.'"

Paul Fromm Speaks to the rally, surrounded by media and supporters

"This charge is bogus. It's a fraud and a lie," Fromm told the free speech supporters. "Ernst Zundel is a lifelong pacifist. He's been assaulted. He's had his home firebombed; he's been sent bombs through the mail. Yet, he's always told his followers and supporters to be peaceful, to be non-violent."

"We're now into the tenth day of a bail hearing for Mr. Zundel. He's complied fully with ll previous bails, including ones that gagged him for nine years. Mr. Zundel believes in fighting through the courts. Ernst Zundel is being kept in solitary confinement solely because his views displease extremely politically powerful minorities in this country." Fromm told the rally.

"On Thursday, I visited Mr. Zundel with Lady Michele Renouf from Britain. I was given a package to take away by the prison authorities. It contained a book and some chocolates. I asked why Mr. Zundel couldn't receive chocolates. Mr. Geswaldo. one of the security chiefs, said that it could contain contraband. What, a file or a knife in the Cadbury chocolate bar?" asked Fromm.

"And then, I remembered as a teenager reading books about escape from Nazi PoW camps. Men like Cmdr. Douglas Bader, as PoWs, received Red Cross boxes of cigarettes, chocolates, and toiletries," Fromm explained. "Mr. Zundel isn't allowed to receive any such items. Let me get this straight: My father volunteered and joined the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II and my mother served five years in the Canadian Army as a nurse to fight for 'freedom.' Now, Ernst Zundel isn't allowed to receive even the chocolates our servicemen were allowed to get in supposedly evil Nazi Germany."

The rally, sponsored by the Canadian Association for Free Expression, was supported by the Canadian Heritage Alliance, the Northern Alliance and the Nationalist Party. The flags of Imperial Russia, Imperial Poland and Imperial Serbia were also prominent, as Zundel supporters from those lands flew the banners of their homelands, remembering the communist regimes they fled for a country that is swiftly slipping into the grim repression of the lands they left.

Mississauga resident Wolfgang Mueller of the Canadian Association for Free Expression addressed the rally in English and German.

Wolfgang Mueller of the Canadian Association for Free Expression

Paul Fromm read greetings of free speech supporters from around North America. Some of these comments follow this report.

Mr. Karl Ruppert, President of the German World Federation, praised Paul Fromm and CAFE "for telling the truth about M. Zundel and defending the rights of the German people."

Melissa Guille of London, Ontario, leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance, told the rally: "Free speech is the issue."

Melissa Guille of the Canadian Heritage Alliance

Mr. Zundel is non-violent. He has never been convicted of a crime. He has supporters prepared to put up bail. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he obtained and obeyed 11 different bails. He is no threat to flight.

Mr. Zundel should be released on bail. His continued detention is proof that the Canadian state seeks to break him and get him to agree to deportation to Germany, which wants to jail him for five years for insulting the memory of the dead which, in the arcane language of the German courts, means disbelieving in the standard Hollywood account of WW II.

We demand freedom for Ernst Zundel.

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