I am sending you today two back-to-back ZGrams about the
latest developments in Ernst Zundel's case. I asked Ernst to give me a brief
description of what happened, and he said: "Deportation by fiat."
In other words, the government of Canada side-stepped due
process and pulled the emergency brakes, once the powers-that-be realized
that the seamy story of CSIS's knowledge of a parcel bomb sent to Ernst in
the spring of 1995 could well mean that the agency itself could be exposed
to the public at the very least as an accessory to attempted murder, since
people who knew and warned their own agent did not see fit to intercept this
parcel bomb - or at least warn hundreds of people in harms way at the
Zundel-Haus, at various Post Offices and traveling on Canada Air.
Events are still developing and news is still breaking.
Today, there is supposed to have been a "Star Chamber"-like
hearing in Toronto where neither Ernst nor his attorney were allowed to be
present. The Canadian lapdog media are treating this whole affair as though
deportation to Germany is now a foregone conclusion, only needing to be
rubber-stamped by a beholden and compliant judge.
Below is a mainstream media write-up, to be followed by a
report by Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression.
Zundel a security threat: Feds
By COREY LAROCQUE Review Staff Writer
Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 02:00
Local News -
NIAGARA FALLS – Ernst Zundel’s controversial stay in
Niagara might soon be over after federal Immigration Minister Denis
Coderre trumped his claim for refugee status, declaring Zundel a threat to
national security.
Zundel, notorious for his controversial views on the
Holocaust, complained the process smacked of a "banana republic-style
dictatorship."
Catherine Simmie, a member of the Immigration Division,
adjourned a hearing in Niagara Falls after about 20 minutes Friday
morning. The hearing was to determine whether Zundel, 64, would remain in
jail or could be released while his status in Canada is sorted out.
But immigration officer Bill Reid told the hearing he had
served Zundel with a national security certificate and an arrest warrant
Thursday. Zundel's lawyer received the documents Friday.
A lawyer for the immigration department argued immigration
laws require an adjournment when those documents are issued and the
federal court of Canada takes jurisdiction over the proceedings.
Zundel's lawyer Doug Christie agreed.
"It seems mandatory there has to be an
adjournment," Christie said. He added the federal court is required
to hold its own detention review within 48 hours of the certificate being
issued.
"That 48-hour period begins to run from the moment
that warrant was executed and served."
Immigration officials in Niagara Falls were not sure
whether that review would take place here or in Ottawa. Zundel has been
staying at the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold since the United States
deported him Feb. 19 because his visa expired.
Canadian Immigration officials want Zundel deported to his
native Germany because his belief the Holocaust didn't happen and other
anti-Semitic writings make him a threat to national security. They say his
presence he[re] could incite a white supremacist movement. Zundel wants
refugee status here because he faces hate crime charges in Germany.
"Now that the security certificate is filed, all the
other immigration proceedings are suspended," said Immigration
spokeswoman Simone MacAndrew in Ottawa.
A Federal Court judge is expected to begin a detention
review to decided if Zundel should remain in jail while the judge decides
whether the security certificate is appropriate. Much of that takes place
behind closed doors.
When a judge does determine a security certificate is
reasonable, it automatically becomes a removal order, she said.
About 40 Zundel supporters, who had come from as far away
as Toronto and London, filled the hearing room on McLeod Road yesterday.
They clapped as Zundel entered, carrying a cardboard box of documents.
Some were members of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression, which staged a demonstration outside of the immigration
office. They stood in the parking lot with a banner reading,
"Jailers, Obey the Law. Free Zundel Now."
"What we're talking about is a lot of people who are
interested in free speech. This man shouldn't be in jail," said
organizer Paul Fromm. He went into the hearing hoping Zundel would be
released. There were people in Toronto willing to host him Friday night if
he had been released.
Now, Zundel's supporters are hopeful the federal court
will hold its detention hearing as soon as possible.
"We hope that hearing could be held tomorrow,"
Fromm said.
After the hearing was adjourned Zundel turned to his
supporters and complained the government had "usurped due
process."
"It is in the best style of banana republic-style
dictatorships," he said. "They could not face an open court
hearing. They're going to ship me off to the Fatherland."
He spoke for about five minutes before two Niagara
Regional Police officers returned him to his cell.
There were angry exchanges in the hearing room between
Zundel's backers and Canadian Jewish Congress representative Len Rudner.
"Ernst Zundel is an anti-Semite. This is a step in
the right direction," Rudner told reporters.
A woman yelled at Rudner because Jewish organizations had
added her to a list of "hate mongers" because she had written
letters to support Zundel.
"Well, you're a fascist. I'm not a
white-supremacist," she shouted.
Rudner fired back: "If you think I'm a fascist, it
shows how little you know about history."
