Sept 13, 2004
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
After approximately 7-10 absolutely peaceful Zundel protest
rallies in various places in Canada, two before Canadian ConsulateS in the
US and, I have been told, one each in Japan, Sweden and Norway, without any
incident of violence, I was informed this morning that there had been a
serious clash between attacking ARA (Anti Racist Action) members and Zundel
supporters.
Last night around 7 P.M., Ernst called and asked if I had
heard that there had been "arrests of some of our people." I said
I had not. I told him that I did not even know there would be another
protest rally in front of his prison until about 2 hours before the rally
was to take place.
I
assumed that Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression, who was leading these rallies, had not sent out the notice to
the general public to prevent the ARA from being there, since they had tried
a confrontation at the last rally already but had not succeeded.
I was busy doing my September newsletter all day and had not
checked my email. After Ernst's call, I did - but there was nothing there
that would have shed a light on what had happened.
This morning, I found the following, which I am sending you
in one post in the sequence in which I received it, preceded by the press
release announcing the rally:
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[START]
Saturday, September 11, 2004
For Immediate Release
Free Ernst Zundel Protests Planned for Toronto and
Montreal, Sunday, September 12
Sunday, September 12 is "Free Ernst Zundel Day."
Supporters of free speech and due process in the U.S. and across Europe
are contacting Canadian diplomatic missions to protest the treatment of
Canada's most famous political prisoner.
"Here in Canada, there will be protests in Toronto
calling on the government to free this lifelong pacifist, who is now in
his 19th month of solitary confinement at the Metro West Detention Centre
is Rexdale, Ontario," says Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian
Association for Free Expression which is sponsoring the protests.
In Toronto, the protest will be held at 1:00 p.m. outside
the prison, where for five months the 65 year old Zundel was denied such
basic necessities as a pillow. The Metro West Detention Centre is at 111
Disco Road.
In Montreal, free speech supporters will be gathering at
2:00 p.m. outside the office of Justice Minister Irwin Cotler at 4770
avenue Kent, Mount Royal, (near Plamondon Metro Station). "Cotler has
a shameful conflict of interest in this matter," says Mr. Fromm.
"He was the former leader of the Canadian Jewish Congress which has
lobbied for Mr. Zundel's deportation and which has a longstanding
hostility toward the German publisher."
Ernst Zundel has been labelled "a terrorist" and
risk to Canada's national security. "The government's position is
absurd," says Mr. Fromm. "Zundel lived peacefully and openly in
Canada for 42 years. He was a public figure, an open book and we now know
that, in 1995 CSIS was surreptitiously opening his mail. He was an open
book. Yet, not once was he every charged with, much less convicted of any
act of violence," Mr. Fromm recalls.
"The government is disgracing the term 'national
security,'" Mr. Fromm charges. "Mr. Zundel is a pacifist. He is
a dissident whose rejection of the Hollywood version of World War II and
German-bashing have offended certain powerful groups. It's a weak country
that throws dissidents in prison."
"We oppose the secret hearings and unlimited
detention permitted under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA),"
Fromm adds.
"Mr. Zundel has been kept in solitary confinement,
denied basic humane treatment that the Nazis accorded our POWs in World
War II. Our soldiers could receive Red Cross parcels of tea, chocolate and
cigarettes. Ernst Zundel isn't even permitted to receive the alternative
health herbs he has used to treat several medical conditions for 30 years.
That's why our posters call the Metro West Detention Centre 'Abu Ghraib
North'," Fromm adds.
"Political prisoners are treated far worse than
convicted criminals," Mr. Fromm charges. "Marcia Dooley, the
woman convicted of the murder of little Randall Dooley, and Mary Taylor,
the woman convicted of the murder of a Toronto policeman, were both
permitted to attend a luxury spa recently. Yet, dissident Ernst Zundel
sits in solitary confinement and he's never been tried or convicted of
anything."
"There will be fireworks on Tuesday when Mr. Zundel's
national security certificate hearing resumes before former CSIS boss Mr.
Justice Pierre Blais. We will be arguing a motion that Judge Blais should
recuse himself as he was the former boss of the spy organization whose
evidence he is being called on to assess," says Fromm. "Also,
John Farrell, a CSIS operative who co-ordinated the mail snooping and
opening [of letters] targetting Ernst Zundel and others in 1995 will be
answering a defence subpoena to testify as to the animosity between
Canada's spooks and the German-born publisher."
The Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), [Box
332, Rexdale, ON,. M9W 5L3.] CAFE was founded in 1981 and is Canada's
leading advocate for free speech. It has intervened in a number of court
cases and human rights tribunals and is especially concerned about
government censorship of the Internet. CAFE publishes the monthly Free
Speech Monitor. ($15).
--30--
For more information: Contact Paul Fromm, Director,
Canadian Association for Free Expression: 905-897-7221; cell:
416-523-6075.
[END]
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NEXT, I received the following, reported by Paul Fromm and
sent today, September 13, 2004:
[left] over weight person in black shirt was later
arrested by police for attacking free speech protestors. Person's name is: Andre
Lehrer, and he was charged with: Mischief Interfere With
Property, Common Nuisance
[right] person on Megaphone with face covered is Yehuda
Nestel, he was charged with: Disguise With Intent, Obstruct Peace
Officer, Common Nuisance
[START]
Free Speech Supporters Prevail Despite ARA Thuggery in
Toronto and Montreal
The forces of violent anarchism did their best to stop
supporters of Canada's most famous political prisoner, Ernst Zundel, from
protesting his continued detention in solitary confinement. Protests in
both Toronto and Montreal were attacked by ARA thugs with masked faces and
weapons.
The Montreal protest outside Justice Minister Irwin
Cotler's office attracted about 10 free speech supporters. Others were
unable to get through a raucous crowd of masked ARA thugs. One observer
reported that about 75 ARA thugs " were armed with golf clubs and
face masks."
About 20 carloads of police kept the menacing ARA
separated from the free speech supporters. One ARA goon was arrested for
smashing at the windshield of the free speech protest. A more complete
report from the organizer follows my report.
Meanwhile in Toronto, supporters of the Canadian
Association for Free Expression rallied outside of the Metro West
Detention where political prisoner Ernst Zundel is now in his 19th month
of solitary confinement. We knew that the ARA were coming and, so, we
changed the time of the protest.
On Friday, I stopped by 23 Division in Rexdale and had a
chat with Staff Sgt. May who would be the officer in charge of the
Division today. He appreciated our co-operation and I made it clear that
we would be law-abiding and were there simply to make a political
statement of support for free speech and in opposition to secret trials
and unlimited detention of political dissidents like Ernst Zundel.
When I arrived at about 12:30, I quickly re-learned the
lesson that you take almost everything [that] cops, who are increasingly a
political and politicized police force, say. They're simply not to be
believed or trusted. We learned that a carload of supporters from London
had been arrested. The four lads were sitting on the grass handcuffed.
Their crime? Apparently, there had been a bow and arrow and a bulletproof
vest in the trunk of the car. The police search was almost certainly
illegal. All four have been charged with possession of weapons dangerous
and weapons at a public meeting. Note, the weapons were not taken out at a
meeting and were not brandished or carried by the four. People with a
sense of logic may wonder how four men can possess one weapon. Much later
tonight, we greeted three of the four as they were released for 23
Division.
Many of the police were belligerent. We were not allowed
to park in the lots of Metro West Detention Centre. This had been allowed
before. Of course, we had only their word -- not the provincial
authorities who run the prison -- for this new rule. Some of us tried to
park in the spacious area around an adjacent factory. Not allowed, a pushy
cop insisted, all the while threatening to have us towed. He claimed the
factory had sent a notice under the Trespass to Property Act.
How could they? I asked. Nothing has happened yet.
Nonetheless, the cop insisted they had. I countered that
we'd have to be given a notice from the owners first -- highly unlikely,
as we'd be taking up a few spaces for about an hour in their deserted
parking lot.
The police were obviously seeking to be complete p****
about it. Then, John, an ally who's been in politics with me since the
late 1960s in the Edmund Burke Society came running up, saying the cops
had threatened to arrest us all if we wished to parade on the public
sidewalk. Several others confirmed that that's what they'd been told too.
Such orders were clearly crap.
One of the London Four later told me that the cops who had
ransacked their car had said: "This time, we're not taking any crap.
There's zero tolerance." He was apparently referring to the July 25
where there'd been quite a confrontation between the ARA and free speech
supporters.
However, that came about because of dreadful policing. The
police knew the anarchists were coming. Instead of letting them confront
and attack us, they should have kept them across the street. We were
hardly to blame for the poor policing or the ARA violence.
I walked over to try to talk to the officer in charge. It
turned out to be an Inspector Pinfold. A greying man, he seemed
reasonable. Now, there were new rules. We could park our cars on the Disco
Road, opposite the prison, even though it's a no parking zone. We could
parade on the public sidewalk, but not go on the prison grass. We were to
go no further than a certain light standard. Already the mounted squad has
arrived. The ARA would be kept beyond the light standard. Even this
meeting was not without its unpleasantness. I'd asked who was in charge
and had Inspector Pinfold pointed out to me. As I proceeded across a few
feet of the prison lawn, I was confronted by a cop I'll call Wooden Hulk.
"You're trespassing," he said.
"But it's public property. We pay for it," said
I, "I wish to talk to the officer in charge."
I was directed back to the sidewalk. Pinfold would see me
in a minute. Meanwhile, Wooden Hulk wanted my ID. I handed him my CAFE
business card.
"Don't you have a licence," he demanded.
"Not on me," I responded.
"What's your birthdate?" he demanded.
You wish to send me a present. Ah, shucks, I thought to
myself.
I refused to give him this information. He was quite angry
and sniffed," And you said you wanted to co-operate."
At about 1:30, the ARA showed up in their tatty yellow
school bus. Real patriots, they flew the old hammer and sickle flag of
communist Russia, the flag of communist East Germany and a native Indian
flag that features a brave's head, complete with feather, on a red
background. A few Indians carried signs seeking justice for Dudley George.
[He's been dead almost a decade. Could their addled brains
have brought them to the wrong protest?]
Now, Inspector Pinfold invoked a new rule. "You can't
have those flagpoles or sticks for your signs. My officers are at
risk."
This was more bullshit and he knew it. Both on July 25 and
today, his officers faced the ARA and repeatedly turned their backs on us.
They knew perfectly well we were peaceful and law-abiding and not about to
attack the police. Nevertheless, we took our flags -- the Red Ensign, the
Stars and Bars, and the Flag of Michigan, carried by our U.S. supporters
-- off their poles. We carefully removed the sticks from our placards.
The police kept the ARA down the street and across the
road from us. A number of officers and the mounted unit hemmed them in. We
could hear their obscenities and shouts faintly in he distance. However,
we noted that they were allowed to keep their flagpoles and the sticks on
their placards. We'd been effectively disarmed, but they had their
flagpoles and sticks, which could have been used as weapons.
Several of us asked the police about this glaring
discrepancy. After all, the ARA has a long history of violence and
battling the police. We noted that the horses had plastic visors over
their eyes. In numerous confrontations, the ARA have used poles to try to
blind the horses.
I pointed out the unfairness and the inequality of the
situation to Inspector Pinfold.
[Left] Chief Inspector Pinfold - police officer in
charge
"That's my business," he snapped. Cops hate
accountability to the wage serfs who pay their salaries.
We chanted, "Free Ernst Zundel" and "No
Secret Trials." I gave a short talk, stressing the cruelty of 19
months in solitary confinement for a man who is a lifelong pacifist. I
thanked the free speech supporters from 16 to 76 who had hung in there
with us and behaved as decent men and women. We then dispersed and headed
to Jack Astor's a popular restaurant about six miles away. Several
reporters, one who said she was with the CBC but who travelled with the
ARA, were in our protest ranks.
At any rate, the ARA found out. Their bus pulled up into
the restaurant parking lot. About 20 masked thugs piled out and burst into
the bar screaming at Marc Lemire. One threatened the restaurant security:
"These are Nazis. We'll tell B'nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish
Congress and they'll put you out of business." After much shouting
and jabbing, the ARA were driven out, but not before a few had been
seriously beaten for their lunacy. One disabled member of our group was
knocked to the floor. As he sought to get up with his cane, he was
arrested by the police. As of this evening, he was still in 22 Division
charged, incredibly, with possession of weapons dangerous -- his own cane!
[(2) Marc Lemire's report is attached below]
By now at least a dozen cruisers had zoomed to Jack
Astor's. I was told that I must leave the property and get out of the
parking lot or I'd be arrested under the Trespass to Property Act.
"The management says you're not welcome," a
snotty Officer 4701 barked at me.
"I doubt that," I answered. "They don't
even know me. I haven't even had a chance to order a drink."
Many of our people were also summarily ordered off the
property. Again, it's hard to know whether Jack Astor's was really trying
to get rid of paying customers -- we'd eaten there at least six times
before -- of whether this was another police lie.
This is typical ARA and, we might add, Jewish lobby
tactics. They attack and create violence and, then, the threat of such
violence induces the business establishment to cancel our meeting or, in
this case, our dinner.
The reaction of the patrons of Jack Astor's was
interesting. "Who are those freaks?" one football viewer asked,
looking at the ARA. When the masked crazies started assaulting our people,
one Chinese fellow got into the act and threw a few punches at the crazies
himself.
Clearly, the ARA and their shadowy Establishment
puppetmasters and financiers are getting worried by the growing support
for Ernst Zundel and our persistent marches of support for this wrongly
imprisoned man.
-- Paul Fromm, Director
[END]
Third, here are two accounts from other people witnessing
this incident:
[START]
1. ACCOUNT BY MONTREAL PROTEST LEADER
There seemed to be a leak into the whereabouts of our
protest, so about 40-60 reds, Jews, and other anti-free speach scum were
around the area, with their balaclavas, cameras (they've taken so many
pictures of me, I have no idea why they need any more), and various
weapons. I had my car attacked while trying to meet up with another WN [?]
at the subway. Luckily, I was not hurt, and the damage is only to the
windshield. They ran down the street after my car, ignoring Police
presence, and smashing it with various metal objects. One of the dirty
dreadlocked [slur deleted] protesters was charged with aggravated assault
for the damage to my car, as he smashed it in front of Police, and was
caught.
The other free speach supporters either saw the scum, and
didn't stop in the area, or got away. I'm sure they will consider this a
great victory, as our protest was not able to happen, but I think
differently. Nobody will shut us up, and we will make sure next time, we
don't make the same mistakes. This is only the beginning, and we are sure
to win against these scum. Nobody was hurt or arrested, so that's a bonus
as well, considering that each party of free-speach supporters were
morbidly outnumbered.
[END]
2. ACCOUNT BY MARC LEMIRE OF TORONTO PROTEST
Today's Zundel rally was really something.
There was probably about 30 police already there when we
showed up. They were not allowing anyone to park anywhere near the Metro
West. Very hostile to us. After meeting with the man in charge, they
allowed us to park on the street. They blocked the entire street off. On
one end was our protest, at the other the ARA was there. In the middle
police cars and a paddy wagon. The police kept both sides far away from
each other (50-100+ feet)
We had the rally and did our speeches.
After the rally, we left and went to a local restaurant.
This is where things got crazy. About 20 or so ARA people showed up at the
restaurant, and ran into the bar area, where I was sitting with about 8
people talking, enjoying a beer and watching the NFL football.
Three or four of them tried to circle me while screaming
"Marc Lemire is a nazi" and "fascists out" The leader
of the ARA kept poking me and pushing me trying to get me to react (it is
clear [their] pay masters wanted a violent confrontation). ARA weirdo
Marcell Rodden was beside me in the bar, wearing plastic gloves (like
those used by housewives to clean the toilet) a bandana over his face and
a pair of painters glasses.
Marcell Rodden is the guy taking a picture, wearing a hat
that says "Commie"
The other ARA types in the bar were yelling at the top of
their lungs that "Jack Asters serves Nazis". Also interesting to
note, the leader of the ARA (fat shady character) threatened the
restaurant owners that the "B'nai Brith will shut this place down for
serving Nazis" -- Guess we know who their money men are.
Bar security tossed them out after a tense 4 or 5 minutes.
I then moved to the patio area behind a glass partician
where the ARA was milling about at the front door to Jack Astor's. (Front
door and the patio are beside each other) I did not see what initially
happened, but one of the ARA leaders was getting arrested by police. He
was resisting arrest and the cops had him on the ground. (There were only
about 2 or 3 cops there at the time) The one in the background with the
bandana over his face was the one being arrested. The chubby one in the
foreground got arrested after trying to assault me.
Then, all hell broke loose. The leader of the ARA (fat
shady looking fellow, shown in above picture) and a few of his followers
ran (approx 5) into the patio area to attack me. He lunged at me -
screaming we are all cowards.
He was pushed to the ground by someone, not sure what
happened - but his nose and eye was bleeding. The 2 police officers on
scene radioed for backup, and within about 3 minutes, there were close to
40 cops there. The entire parking lot was closed off by them. Jack Asters
security grabbed the leader of the ARA who tried to assault me, and held
him until the police arrived, where he was arrested.
About 2 or 3 tables were overturned and plenty of broken
glass around.
At the end of the day:
Seems two of our people were arrested. One of them was an
older man who needed a cane to walk. (- and was the target of these ARA
tough guys)
From what we heard - 4 or more of the ARA terrorists who
attacked us were also arrested.
Then we were all escorted out of the bar by police and
forcefully told to leave - on the threat of arrest if we didn't move fast
enough.
[END]
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