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Nov 27, 2003
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, too!
It is ironic, isn't it? As this country is losing its
freedoms by the bushel, we are supposed and expected to pretend it isn't
happening at all. Last week, I spent a few days in a hotel room waiting for
an important interview, and for the first time in almost a year I had a
chance to see what's on TV - trivia as usual, i.e. how to carve a turkey.
And all across this country, if my sources are right, politically demonized
people are picked up stealthily by government goons acting as hit squads for
an alien agenda - without warrants, without charges, without due process,
and whisked away to God-knows-where! Guantanamo, perhaps?
In Canada, the next court date will be December 10, still
with Judge Blais - who, we now know and he knew all along, was CSIS's boss
when CSIS helped create and finance the so-called "white supremacist
danger" in Canada for which Ernst is now in prison, with CSIS his
accuser. Without going into the very complicated story, let me just
summarize by quoting from an email from a friend and long-time CSIS watcher:
"CSIS "infliltrated" the "right
wing" but in fact "created" the group and used it to destroy
the Reform Party. No wonder the Liberals have no opposition. Nice to have
your own little secret police to destroy any real opposition. I don't care
what your politics are, if you support using a secret police to destroy
non-violence political opposition, democracy is over. Next will be peace
groups, Muslim groups, environmental groups. The great gift of the Liberals
is to make themselves look like they are for the "little guy" but
they are supported financially almost TOTALLY by corporate donations. So
dream on if you think they are for you."
A rather lengthy document has now been filed with the
Federal Court that summarizes Judge Blais's record as Canada's former
Solicitor General and, in fact, CSIS's boss. It lists the reasons why he
should remove himself or be removed from sitting in judgment of Ernst
Zündel.
For anybody interested in reading this historical document
in its entirety, write to me and I will forward, since it has not yet been
placed on the Zundelsite.
For most of you, I think the excerpt below will suffice to
get a whiff of the stench that permeates the Canadian judicial system, with
the Canadian taxpayers footing the bill:
[STENCH]
46. Zundel will be raising defences which call into
question the legality of the surveillance of CSIS over him during the
1980's and 1990's to at least 1993 when he applied for citizenship.
47. These defences raise directly the legality of actions
taken by Mr. Justice Blais during 1989. They also raise the issues of the
knowledge and motivation of CSIS during these same two decades. They raise
the issue of the role of Grant Bristow, a known CSIS agent, in fomenting
violence in the right wing, a man who is almost certainly a secret witness
against Zundel in these hearings.
48. Zundel will raise the defence that CSIS is motivated
by the desire to ensure that the legality of its actions against Zundel
will be justified in a proceeding which labels him a
"terrorist."
49. Zundel will argue that the knowledge of CSIS of a bomb
being sent to his house in 1995 will be covered up and whitewashed by a
finding that Zundel himself is a "terrorist" and a threat to
Canada's security.
50. The directive which Mr. Justice Blais issued on human
sources in 1989 will be a direct issue in the proceedings given the fact
that controversy still surrounds whether the directive was ignored or
circumvented or whether in fact Mr. Justice Blais actually gave approval
to Bristow's placing as a human source against both the Reform Party and
the "extreme right wing."
51. The CSIS Act requires accountability of the Solicitor
General. These court proceedings are one of the ways that Solicitors
General may be held accountable for what they ordered and directed to be
done with respect to the "right wing" in Canada. Mr. Justice
Blais was Solicitor General at a crucial time in the events that are now
being put in evidence against Zundel, namely, the formation of the
Heritage Front and the targeting of CSIS agent Grant Bristow against the
"right wing."
52. Mr. Justice Blais cannot sit in judgment on his own
actions, taken while he was Solicitor General. There is no evidence of his
actual bias against Zundel, but these very serious matters raise a
reasonable apprehension of bias in the mind of any reasonable person.
53. CSIS does not have the blanket right to spy on people
in Canada because they do not like their political opinions. CSIS has
provided no evidence whatsoever that Zundel has ever been involved in any
type of violence or counseling of violence in the decades he was in
Canada. Zundel is a law-abiding Canadian who contributed greatly to Canada
by having the criminal "false news" law struck down by the
Supreme Court of Canada in 1992.
54. Mr. Justice Blais cannot in good conscience sit in
this case since he himself was most probably a party to decisions being
made regarding Zundel during 1989 or was directly responsible for those
decisions as the minister responsible for CSIS. He should have informed
counsel at the beginning of these proceedings that he had held the
position of Solicitor General.
55. In these circumstances, Zundel has a reasonable
apprehension of bias on the part of Mr. Justice Blais given his position
as Solicitor General.
56. Further, the comments by Mr. Justice Blais that the
book Covert Entry is a "novel", prior to hearing any evidence on
Zundel's part concerning the background to this book which will be heard
during the hearing proper on the certificate, raises an apprehension of
bias on the part of Mr. Justice Blais given his background as the
Solicitor General of Canada in charge of CSIS. The book charges CSIS with
serious matters concerning Zundel, namely, that it had foreknowledge of
the bomb which was sent to him in 1995. That Mr. Justice Blais would
immediately brand the book a "novel" and begin to aggressively
intervene in the questioning of Zundel on the book, raises a reasonable
apprehension that Mr. Justice Blais, as a former Solicitor General in
charge of CSIS, would not be impartial in considering and judging Zundel's
allegations against CSIS.
57. It is submitted that in principle, a former Solicitor
General should never sit on a case calling into question the actions of
CSIS regardless of whether it involves periods of his direct ministerial
direction. A reasonable apprehension of collegial bias exists. The
ministerial responsibility is mutually supportive of CSIS and the
minister, and both have secret knowledge about the other.
58. All the more so where, as in this case, CSIS alleges
with secret supporting evidence brought before their former boss some
events against Zundel which he alleges were highly illegal or immoral on
the part of CSIS and the judge was directly involved as minister in charge
of CSIS during the period when dubious acts of spying and targeting was
authorized and where only CSIS can provide plausible denial of complicity
of the minister (now a judge) in some of its own misdeeds. ()
Mr. Justice Blais was not simply in an administrative,
bureaucratic position. He was the Solicitor General who was the ultimate
person responsible and accountable for the actions of CSIS to Parliament
and the Canadian people. He was "the boss" and the person who
decided the major thrusts of CSIS operations. He held this position when
the Heritage Front was formed and targeted by CSIS. All of these matters
are part of the evidence against Zundel in the hearing. He therefore has a
direct conflict of interest with Zundel's defences and legal position in
these proceedings.
62. This case deals with the problems of a secret police
force in a democratic society. It is obviously extremely tempting for
governments to use the secret service, CSIS, to destroy intellectuals such
as Ernst Zundel who question the official version of history that exists
today. Historical beliefs form the basis of political policy of nations
and their questioning is deeply threatening to those in power. In a
democratic society, Zundel has a right to question and challenge those
belief structures. In a fascist and totalitarian society, he will be
jailed and destroyed as a "national security risk." There is
nothing new under the sun. This case is a test of whether democracy will
survive in Canada.
63. Zundel is entitled to a fair and impartial hearing
from a judge who has not been the head of the secret service in Canada.
Only an impartial judiciary can protect the individual from the apparatus
of the state.
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Write to Canada's Immigration Minister and complain
over the unfair treatment Ernst Zündel has received.
Immigration Minister Denis Coderre
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Telephone: (613) 995-6108
Fax: (613) 995-9755
Email: Coderre.D@parl.gc.ca |
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