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March 8, 2003
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
A long-time ZGram reader wrote:
"Zundelmania is overwhelming the Canadian media ...The
media pretend to deplore what they see as Zundel's personality cult, and yet
do all they can to boost it. Zundelwise it is utterly surreal up here in our
aptly-named Dominion of Absurdistan."
Kevin Strom of Dissident Voices summarized once more what
Zundelmainia is really all about:
(Zundel) understandably fears a loss of his freedom should
he be sent to Germany, where he would be severely punished merely for
writing and speaking what he believes to be the truth. He understandably
fears that he may spend the rest of his life in prison. He understandably
fears that he may never see his wife and family again. So he has applied for
political asylum in Canada, where he> lived for 42 years prior to moving
to Tennessee. No claim of refugee status ever had firmer justification.
But Canada's powerful Jewish lobby has geared up a heavy
campaign to make sure that Ernst Zundel never gets a fair hearing, with
smears in the media and pressure on lapdog politicians like Immigration
Minister Denis Coderre. Coderre was asked by the press how he could possibly
stop Mr. Zundel from at least beginning the application process to obtain
refugee status, a process which can last for years. Unable to come up with a
printable answer, Coderre uttered an ominous "Just watch me."
To prosecute Zundel, they have retained a prominent attorney
previously involved in Canada's deportation of alleged "Nazi war
criminals," Donald MacIntosh. This is extremely unusual for either a
free-speech case or a matter of a missed hearing, which was the original
pretext for arresting Mr. Zundel in Tennessee.
The media campaign is vicious -- so vicious that it seems to
be disgusting a large number of Canadians who do believe in freedom of
speech. The St. Catherine's Standard recently ran an editorial which openly
advocated the imprisonment of Zundel for what he has written, saying how
good it will be when "we'll no longer have to deal with his crazy
diatribes." [St. Catherine's Standard, March 5, 2003
(http://canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=3bd2d938-af05-4bba-aa91-5a0fd993f0cd)
The popular Web site canada.com ran a poll on Mr. Zundel
recently, and when the results began to turn in his favor, the poll was
unceremoniously pulled off their site, never to be mentioned again. You can
see a screen shot of the poll shortly before it was pulled by logging on to
my personal Web site, http://kevin-strom.com .
Although he is still denied his freedom while in Canada,
Zundel did win one concession in a recent hearing: the Crown prosecutors
agreed that all future hearings in the case would be public. This has set
the Jewish establishment, in the person of Bernie Farber of the Canadian
Jewish Congress, screaming that giving the case publicity would "play
into Zundel's hands." [St. Catherine's Standard March 1, 2003
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=24
331&catname=Local+News
This is one time that Bernie Farber is right. Giving the
case publicity will expose the fact of the outrageous persecution of this
peaceful writer and thinker. Giving the case publicity will show that it is
Jewish supremacists that are behind the imprisonment of Ernst Zundel and
many other innocents whose only crime was to doubt what Jewish supremacists
told them.
Giving this case publicity will expose phony or compromised
"human rights" groups like Amnesty International which,
shamefully, not only refuse to help Mr. Zundel, but actually support the
so-called Hate Speech laws that criminalize speech that Jewish groups
disapprove of (while Jews in Israel practice "hate" and ethnic
cleansing on an almost unimaginable scale with hardly a chance of
extradition or imprisonment).
Alex Neve, the Secretary-General of Amnesty International
Canada, has come out strongly in favor of prosecuting and punishing Ernst
Zundel, a true prisoner of conscience if there ever was one. Neve stated
"The Canadian Human Rights Commission has already ruled that he has
spread hate through the Internet, and he has been convicted by German
courts. Strong hate-crimes laws, vigorously enforced, are a crucial
human-rights tool." [Toronto Globe and Mail, February 22, 2003
Yes, publicity is what this case needs -- and donations for
Mr. Zundel's legal defense. Visit http://www.zundelsite.org
or http://lebensraum.org or http://ihr.org
for updates on this case.
There is also a petition drive for Mr. Zundel at http://www.petitionpetition.com
. Just type "Zundel" into the search box to find the "Free
Ernst Zundel" petition.
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Then there are several Letters to the Editor from Zundel
friends:
To The Editor Canoe News
Sir, As one who has followed the happenings surrounding
Ernst Zundel for the past 12 years or so, I put it to you that this man is
gravely misunderstood by the Canadian public. The blame for this
misunderstanding results from a long history of biased and sensational news
reporting by Canadian and world media. I ask you also, who largely controls
the media in North America? In whose interests is it to continually smear
and attack a courageous man like Ernst Zundel who has persisted in his
attacks on the holocaust lobby?
What do you really know about his recent deportation from
the United States? Are you aware of the efforts by Zundel and his attorney
to have had his original residency hearing rescheduled, to which their
letters were never replied? Have you ever approached Zundel or his wife, Dr.
Ingrid Rimland, for an unbiased interview; an interview from which you could
derive your own conclusions without taint from a biased media?
Do you believe that the people in Canada and the United
States deserve the right to free speech? Is it permissible in a free and
open society to allow persons like Zundel and other historical revisionists
to present views questioning aspects of the holocaust? Is there danger in
open debate? Are not the public of both countries capable of judging
argument and debate on its own merit? Should other viewpoints be allowed in
a free and democratic society? What constitutes "hate speech"?
Zundel has never been convicted of any crime in Canada and
never been convicted of promoting hate speech. Yet he has lived in Canada
for over 42 years. I ask you to investigate his history: when he came to
Canada; his employment record; his run for the leadership of the Liberal
Party of Canada; the establishment of his businesses; his early introduction
to revisionism; and, finally, his desire to speak out about revisionism as
he sees it -- and ask yourself whether or not a man should be free to hold
such views? Is man, any man, free to hold viewpoints which are not
politically correct?
Unless Mr. Zundel can be prosecuted for committing a crime,
be it a "hate" crime, or any other, I believe he should be allowed
to resume living in Canada without harrassment from those who disagree with
him and a pressured government staffed by bureaucrates who do not know the
background and who are fed hatred, in turn, towards Mr. Zundel
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Dear Editor,
having attended a number of sessions of the Human Rights
Tribunal in 1997/98 before which Mr. Zundel had to appear (and which cost
him a fortune) I am able to look through this charade foisted on the
Canadian taxpayer in order to silence a courageous individual.
To claim that Ernst Zundel is a "security risk" to
this country is outrageous. Who violated whose security? Certainly not
Zundel. But murder was on the agenda of his opponents who sent him two mail
bombs and set fire to his house.
That he is spreading hatred was not at all established in
his trial. Hatred, however, is in the hearts of those who can not cope with
the revelations which his research into history has uncovered. His weapon is
the written and spoken word, nothing else. If that constitutes a security
risk then we are a very insecure society. Nobody will believe it.
Unfortunately, the "free press" is mainly
responsible for the distorted public image of Ernst Zundel by not telling
the truth. It's not surprising. They have willingly submitted to the dictate
of the Human Rights Commissars who decreed that "truth can not be used
as a defense". They are complicit in the gradual disappearance of free
speech from our country.
The question should not be if Mr. Zundel needs to be
deported sooner or later, but how soon he will be released and compensated
for his suffering. He has lived in this country for nearly 40 years, paid
his taxes and was never convicted of any crime. How do people in a free
country justify such treatment? His stay in the United States was perfectly
legal and the immigration hearing which he missed was not his fault
whatsoever.
I consider Mr. Zundel a spokesman for myself and my
compatriots who are victims of World War II - bombed out and ethnically
cleansed from their homelands, but considered guilty to this day. Canadians
know nothing about these facts since the press has kept them ignorant.
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A sad situation re: Mr. Zundel. The demonic media appraisals
are so at odds with the Ernst I know that their wild and sinister depictions
are almost comical. Unfortunately, the situation he finds himself in is not.
Our family's prayers for him and Ingrid.
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Ernst Zundel does not deserve to be treated like a criminal
merely because he openly and honestly questions what many people claim to
have been an historical occurence. If the holocaust actually did occur as it
it claimed, then why can it not be discussed OPENLY and HONESTLY? Why are
certain people so afraid of honest inquiry?
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And, finally, a small excerpt from Ernst himself, written to
a neighbor in our area who has befriended us:
"I wanted desperately to start a new life - free of
persecution, free of lawyers, free of courts, free of the media. Karin, I
just wanted to live a clean, simple, healthy, godfearing life in that
beautiful Wears Valley.
Drawings and paintings were in the planning stage, which
would have made you, the original inhabitants of the valley, happy and proud
that the Zundels came and were part of your area. We loved that place
without reservation.
Now my days consist of begging guards to please sharpen my
pencils, to please allow me to make a phone call or two, to allow me a
shower, or to get me an extra roll of toilet paper since I used the original
roll for Kleenex since my cell was cold and drafty and I caught a cold.
Big favors and kind gestures are when one guard gives me a
cup of soymilk another prisoner did not drink. Another kindness is when the
guard does not put on my leg irons on the way to the Detention Review
Hearing because I am one of the oldest prisoners and not as agile as some.
I am locked in 24 hours a day, as I was in Blount County
Jail. I have no criminal record in America. None in Canada where I won every
court case in the end. My crime is that I exposed criminal racketeers - in
fact, billionaires of blackmailing the German people for over US$ 100
billion in war reparations these people were not entitled to. That's my
crime, Karin.
All the best,
Ernst Zundel
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A new poll by CNEWS to the question "Should Germany's
charges against Ernst Zundel be suspended, to allow for a swifter
deportation? shows this evening that 51% want Zundel to leave if Germany
drops the charges, 22% want him to stay and face another "hate"
trial, 15% opt for refugee status, 3% don't know and 9% don't care.
(Source: http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
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