"... His name is Ernst Zundel, and he is the world's premier thought-criminal."

Quoted from Star Chamber Redux: Counterpunch 2/04

In a cold cell in Toronto, Canada, a 64 year-old painter and pacifist sits on a fat stack of trial transcripts and marks his 365th day of solitary confinement on February 19, 2004. He sits on the transcripts because his jailers will not permit him to have a chair. He has no criminal record and has not been charged with a crime, and yet he wears the same orange jumpsuit as the murderers and rapists housed elsewhere in the prison. He is not permitted to confront or cross-examine his accusers in court. The "evidence" against him includes hearsay, double-hearsay, and triple-hearsay.

The object of the exercise is to deport this man to Germany, where he faces a five-year prison sentence for the crime of "defaming the dead." This man hasn't lived in Germany since he was 19 years old, and hasn't set foot in Germany for years. He emigrated to Canada in 1958, and in the year 2000 he moved to the United States to live quietly with his American wife in the rolling hills of Tennessee. There, he painted landscapes and still life in his studio and collected rare recordings of hymns and gospel music until he was hauled off one bright morning in broad daylight at about 11:00 a.m. in front of God and everybody and whisked to Canada by American law enforcement officials.

His name is Ernst Zundel, and he is the world's premier thought-criminal.

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