I haven't yet had word about how the Toronto Zundel Protest
Demonstration went, but I helped suggest a few paragraphs to be read at the
event, which I culled out of several hundreds of letters I have, by now,
received - all saying, in effect: Have you lost your mind completely,
Absurdistan, to charge Ernst Zundel with being "a danger to the
security of Canada" and, worse, a "terrorist"?
Lisbon, 31 May 2003
Imprisonment of Ernst Zündel, a peaceful man and a
free spirit
Dear Sir/Madam
The persecution of Ernst Zündel by the Canadian
government is truly astonishing and its political implications will not go
away. What is being done today to a peaceful, honest man whose views
include a passionate belief in freedom and justice, and who is guilty of
absolutely no crime or misdemeanour whatsoever, but the expression of his
own thoughts, is already taking the shape of an international scandal.
If Zündel is not left free to choose his own lawful
movements and the place of his residence, believe me, it will be known and
remembered. If he is sent to Germany against his will for no reason at all
but the whims of the rulers of a once great nation where people used to
live under the law, it may happen that the new status of Canada as a
Northern Guantabananamo, a sinister backwater whose duties include the
persecution and abuse of innocent men that not even the governement
presently in power in the United States would dare to label a security
menace, will, step by step, overgrow the Northern Absurdistan image.
What is coming your way is not an Absurdistan but a
totalitarian dictatorship. The unprincipled and stupid little men in
office, who cannot measure the consequences of their abuse of the law,
will one day be astonished to see -- like Messieurs Fabius and Gayssot, in
France already do -- that their main claim to fame will be precisely the
actions they most would like to forget and make others forget.
The struggle for freedom is all-encompassing and
indivisible and directly connected to the quest for truth, and in this
sense it is the mirror image of the 20th century political
totalitarianisms, with their empires of flickering lies, their wars of
global terror and their terrorist rulers.
This is why the little people in office should start
thinking hard about what they are doing to their country and to
themselves, even if they do not care about Ernst Zündel's civil rights.
And this is why they should be restituting Ernst Zündel's precious
freedom to him with no more delay.
Antonio S. Marques
Lisbon, Portugal
