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March 29, 2004
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
As I was talking to Ernst yesterday afternoon, he said with
some glee: "Hear that noise? That's the Zundel demonstration
outside!"
I want to thank all who came - and all who wrote in,
expressing their support. It looks like things are finally moving in our
direction in Canada, although the Canadian Jewish Congress bullies, as
always, are trying to muscle in with their hate mongering where they do not
belong, still pushing for a deportation. Don't miss the end of this Zgram
where you can read how they keep needling.
Pictures of today's Free Zundel Protest are now online.
http://www.zundelsite.org/zundel_persecuted/free_zundel_rally_march28-04_pic
tures.html
These photos look nice and will be a wonderful addition for
the coming attraction: the Tennessee Zundel Museum. We already know the spot
where it will be - now all we need is victory! (Only half-kidding)
One supporter wrote:
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"The demonstration in Toronto brought out between 70
and 80 people. The protest in Edmonton, Alberta brought out 30 to 40
people, and was covered by numerous media outlets. Both protests went
great.
"CBC Morning and 680 News talked about the protests
in Toronto. CityTV/CP24 showed up and did a few interviews. 680 News
actually did a very fair report, and gave out the time and location of the
demonstration. A few passerby's [sp ?] did join in the protest, and plenty
of people were honking in support as they passed."
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Paul Fromm, who led the Toronto Rally, wrote in a similar
vein:
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TORONTO & EDMONTON: ZUNDEL RALLIES A SMASHING
SUCCESS
TORONTO. March 28, 2004. They came from as far away as a
seven hour drive from Western Pennsylvania and the Eastern Townships of
Quebec to attend a rally of 65 persons outside the Metro West Detention
Centre in suburban Toronto for Canada's most famous political prisoner,
Ernst Zundel.
The free speech supporters arrived from Uxbridge, Richmond
Hill, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Keswick, Mississauga, Kitchener, and, of
course, Toronto. A large contingent came in by van from London, Ontario.
Musician Blago Simeonov set the theme of the protest with
a recording of his song "There is Some Hope" which inspired the
protesters on a crisp, sunny March afternoon.
Signs read "Free Ernst Zundel" and "No
secret hearings."
The protest was covered by CITY-TV and had been announced
repeatedly on 680-Radio and CFRB.
Under the watchful eye of about a half dozen police off to
one side, Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression, told the free speech supporters that Mr. Zundel was now in his
second year of solitary confinement "solely for the non-violent
expression of his political views."
"The government says he's a threat to national
security because he's a terrorist," Fromm said. "What's their
case? Well, they can't tell you. It's a secret," he mocked.
"Their public case is a joke -- a collection of empty
guilt-by-associations."
"Canada's turned its back on 1,000 years of hard won
rights," Mr. Fromm told the protesters. "Our heritage of
Anglo-Saxon law established that a man has the right to know the charges
against him and the right to confront his accusers and the evidence,"
he added.
"However, before every series of hearings, the Crown
and the judge Mr. Justice Pierre Blais get together in Ottawa. They
receive evidence, they hear accusations and they may hear witnesses. Who
they are or what the evidence is, Mr. Zundel and his lawyers don't know.
It's a secret -- national security, you understand," Mr. Fromm said.
"Mr. Zundel is a victim of the most corrupt regime in
Canadian history -- former Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his gang of
crooks and their powerful minority backers. We're sliding into a police
state," Mr. Fromm warned.
"In the former Soviet Union, in Red China, in
communist Cuba, people are thrown in jail solely for their political
views. Now, that's happening in Canada," he said.
"The whole system is unfair," Mr. Fromm said.
The judge is a former solicitor-general and boss of the Canadian Security
and Intelligence Service (CSIS) which has prepared the case against Ernst
Zundel. He can't be seen to be unbiased. Mr. Zundel's former lawyer, Doug
Christie, asked him to recuse himself, but he refused."
"Pierre Blais was chosen by Ottawa deliberately to
commit a judicial assassination on Ernst Zundel, much as the Israeli army
did earlier this week on Sheik Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas,"
Mr. Fromm thundered.
As the protest was being broadcast over the Internet,
longtime CAFE associate Wolfgang Mueller gave a short talk in German for
our German-speaking listeners around the world.
Melissa Guille, leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance,
said: "The only crime being committed here is keeping Ernst Zundel in
solitary confinement. He's a man who never committed a crime in Canada or
the U.S. We're here to say that we will not tolerate a government that
seeks to control our speech or our beliefs."
Across the country, 30 people rallied on an equally sunny
Sunday afternoon outside the constituency office of Deputy Prime Minister
Anne McLellan, who is the new super security minister, in charge of CSIS.
Four television channels, including Global, CBC and the A Channel, Radio
Q-107 covered the hour and a half rally.
Glenn Bahr, Alberta leader of Western Canada For Us,
demanded freedom for Ernst Zundel in comments to a crowd that spanned the
age range. A carload of supporters drove up from Calgary and a supporter
came all the way from Vancouver.
At the Toronto rally, Paul Fromm said, CAFE had received
messages of support from four continents and from freedom lovers across
Canada and the U.S. Among those read at the protest were the following.
MESSAGES OF SUPPORT:
AUSTRALIA: As advocates of free speech and the
preservation of civil liberties, the Australian Civil Liberties Union
condemns the forced incarceration of Ernst Zundel for over a year and the
demeaning circumstances of his arrest and detention. He should have the
right, as a citizen, to free speech concerning the alleged events of World
War II and to enquire if the conventional version of the Holocaust being
promulgated is correct. If it is, he should be allowed to say so. If it is
not, then hard factual evidence should be permitted to show where he is
wrong. The popularity of his viewpoint should not be the criteria for
judgement: instead, any assessment should be based on the truth and
falsity of his viewpoints. Orwell said "free speech means the right
to say what other people do not want to hear." The Australian Civil
Liberties Union calls for the release of Ernst Zundel and the preservation
of the right to free speech, which is a central criteria of a free
society. Geoff. Muirden, Research Officer, Australian Civil Liberties
Union, PO Box 1137, Carlton, Vic., 3053, Australia.
CHILE: Free Ernst Zündel!. We cannot allow the New World
Order to destroy our RIGHT to free speech. Best regards. Hans Frings
FRANCE: We, the French revisionists in Professor
Faurisson's line, join our Americano-Canadian friends in their protest and
indignation at Ernst Zündel's arrest on February 5, 2003, in the shape of
a kidnapping in the United States but with the complicity of Canadian
authorities, and at the internment conditions he is subjected to. It is
not worthy of a country with democratic pretensions to keep in solitary
confinement a man who cannot be blamed for any crime or offence. The
Canadian justice represented by Judge Blais oversteps the generally
accepted bounds of human rights. We insistently require the governmental
and judicial authorities of Canada to release Ernst Zündel to whom we
bring all our support. On behalf of the French revisionists: René and
Yvonne Schleiter
CANADA: Hello, Paul I will not be able to get down to show
my support for Ernst Zundel, but be assured that I SUPPORT HIM VERY MUCH,
as you know. We Canadians owe Mr. Zundel a great debt of gratitude for his
courageous fight for freedom of expression for all of us. Personally, I
believe our government should ask Mr.Zundel if he would give us the honour
of accepting Canadian citizenship. Then we should immediately give him the
highest class of the Order of Canada, if he will accept it. I would not
blame him if he declined to accept it, as it has been given to some very
unworthy and even unsavoury individuals. I am pleased to be a friend and
supporter of Ernst, and am honoured to think he may say that he is my
friend as well. Thank you, too, Paul, for your tireless efforts on behalf
of freedom of speech for all. Sincere good wishes. Grenville Rogers
Lively, ON P3Y 1N3 grogers@vianet.ca
USA: Please let Mr. Zundel know that many people not only
admire him for his strength, but love him for the courage of the last
thirty years of dedicated work in his attempts to right so many wrongs in
history. In memory of all those lost in wars, the mindless and lost souls
of today, and for tomorrow's children, we thank him. He towers in mind,
body and spirit over the tallest of his enemies -- God Bless all of you
and keep you in his care. Love, Linda Mihovich
CANADA: I join with the protesters in demanding: Free
Ernst Zundel now. Wolfgang Schoebe, Windsor, ON
USA: Whenever I receive news concerning Ernst's state of
mind, I learn that he is encouraged and positive. He is a man of destiny,
believing that his purpose is to contend for the truth of his people, our
people. His encouragement encourages me. And such a courageous man should
be championed and rescued from the den of thieves wherein he is wrongfully
imprisoned. You who attend these rallies on the our behalf are champions.
Thank you for contending for truth for us for Ernst Zundel. Diane King,
Cushing, Texas
[Country omitted] Free Ernst Zundel! Nothing like
violating someone's human rights! Hopefully you will use comon sense and
free him. J.Rizzo
USA: Dear Paul: You asked me to send a short message to
the rally for Ernst Zundel. Greetings form Marshfield, WI. You are not
only fighting that justice gets done for one man, Ernst Zundel. You are
fighting for justice, the underpinning of every civilization. A Government
willing to give you everything you need will soon need everything you
have! Wish I could be with you. Christine B. Miller -- Marshfield, WI.
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Finally, here are the very ones, spokesmen for the CJC, who
lobbied for the abominable security certificate as the means to get an
allegedly representative government to agree to Ernst Zundel's judicial
lynching, nosing their way into that very government:
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In the Senate, March 10, 2004
QUESTION PERIOD
Citizenship and Immigration
Refugee Claim by Mr. Ernst Zundel-National Security
Certificate
Hon. David Tkachuk: (e-mail) Honourable senators, it has
now been over a year since Holocaust denier and hate-monger Ernst Zundel
was deported to Canada from the United States. When Mr. Zundel was
initially returned here last February, Denis Coderre, the former Minister
of Citizenship and Immigration, led Canadians to believe that he would be
quickly removed. More than a year later, we have a new immigration
minister, yet Mr. Zundel is still here, making a bit of a mockery of our
refugee system at considerable expense to the taxpayer.
How much longer does the Leader of the Government in the
Senate believe that Mr. Zundel will be here? What exactly has been the
expense of his stay so far to taxpayers?
Hon. Jack Austin (Leader of the Government): [ jaustin@pco-bcp.gc.ca
] Honourable senators, I do not have an answer for either of Senator
Tkachuk's questions.
Senator Tkachuk: I am not sure what that response means.
Usually, the Leader of the Government offers to obtain the answer to the
question, which I hope he will do.
I will ask a supplementary question.
Senator Di Nino: He will probably say no to that one, too.
Senator Tkachuk: Three months after Mr. Zundel was
returned to Canada, the federal government issued a national security
certificate against him, which was intended to speed up the removal
process. Shortly after the Martin government took over last December, the
discretionary power to remove an individual under such a certificate
shifted from the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Solicitor
General to the new Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness,
Anne McLellan.
Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell us
the rationale behind changing who has the power to issue national security
certificates? Will the move to place national security certificates solely
under the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness have any
bearing on this particular case?
Senator Austin: Honourable senators, I certainly will look
into the matter and hope to provide an answer. If I did not say that in
answer to the previous question of Senator Tkachuk, I will make it
explicit now.
With respect to the supplementary question, let me point
out that the public safety minister is also the Solicitor General for
Canada. Therefore, no authority has been moved. The office of the
Solicitor General is now within the public safety responsibility of
Minister McLellan.
Senator Tkachuk: I may have gotten this wrong, but the
minister thinks that there is no such thing any more as the Solicitor
General, simply the Minister of Public Safety. Under what act has this all
been changed?
Senator Austin: My information is that it has been done
under the administration act.
(Source sent to me below - I don't have time to check it
out since my computer is crawling)
http://www.cjc.ca/docs/PARL/156_sen_Mar10.doc?CJC=4f43954f3251927d0957db97219565e2
)
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To all my Zundelsite and Zgram readers:
It looks like another fax campaign is in order to Anne
McLellan - but hold off a bit. In order to make a Zundel Fax Blitzkrieg
effective, as apparently the last one was, we have to coordinate it - to get
important voices from many different countries. I anticipate that I will ask
you around April 13, the date of the next hearing, when a few surprises
might be in store. But please stay in touch, stay informed, and tell the
world that you stand behind "the world's premier thought
criminal," as Counterpunch as dubbed Ernst Zundel.
Finally, I thank all of you who donated in return for a
Prisoner of Conscience sketch. I have sent another 35 of them to be
computer-enhanced, and they will be on-line soon as well.
Ingrid Zundel
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Reminder:
Help free Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience. His
prison sketches - now on-line and highly popular - help pay for his defence.
Take a look - and tell a friend.
http://www.zundelsite.org/gallery/donations/index.html
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Write to Canada's Prime Minister and complain
over the unfair treatment Ernst Zündel has received.
Prime Minister Paul Martin
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Telephone: (613) 992-4284
Fax: (613) 992-4291
Email: Martin.P@parl.gc.ca |
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