ZGram - 2/15/2003 - "Sixth Circuit Court turned us down!"

irimland@zundelsite.org irimland@zundelsite.org
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:01:21 -0800


ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny - Now more than ever!

February 15, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

When this incredible nightmare started, I had just started on a diet 
- I need not have worried;  I am down almost eight pounds.  My 
neighbors are bringing me food, as though we have had a family 
funeral.  If this keeps up - and if and when I get my hero back = 
I'll be a stunning beauty.  (Not that I ever was, but there's always 
a first time...!)

There was another court decision yesterday.   We had less than a day 
to prepare an appeal for "extraordinary relief", as it is called in 
legalese - but there simply was no time to tighten up the petition. 
We were turned down.

We are regrouping for more.  I just wanted to let you know that I am 
still around - and that this is a fight to the bone.

Here is a copy of the latest:

[START]

Ernst Zundel, Ingrid A. Zundel vs James Berrong in his capacity as 
Sheriff and Chief Executive Officer of the Blount County Jail, Blount 
County, Tennessee, Immigration and Naturalization Services, an agency 
of the United States Government, by and through Gary Slaybaugh, its 
representative.

The plaintiffs filed an action in the district court challenging the 
imminent removal of Ernst Zundel from the United States and seeking 
an injunction against such removal.  The district court dismissed the 
action by order of February 13, 2003.  Asserting that Zundel is 
subject to immediate removal, the plaintiffs have filed in this court 
an emergency request for stay of removal and/or injunctive relief.

This court may exercise its discretion to stay an order of removal. 
Bajjani v. INS, (unreadable on my fax) 670.688 (6th Cir.2001). 
However, requests for such relief are evaluated by the balance of 
several factors:  1) whether the applicant has demonstrated a 
likelihood of success on the merits; 2) whether the applicant will be 
irreparably injured absent a stay: 3) whether issuance of the stay 
will substantially injure the other interested parties;  and 4) where 
the public interest lies.  Id. The motion presently before the court 
fails to demonstrate any basis for the requested relief.

Therefore, the emergency motion of stay removal and/or for injunctive 
relief is DENIED.

[END]

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Through the grapevine, I have been told that Ernst will be deported 
on Sunday - media reports say either to Germany or Canada.  May be 
old information that slow media are only catching up on now.  My next 
visit is scheduled on Monday.  I may not even get a chance to see him 
one last time.

There may be a ZGram later in the day if I can manage it.  For now, 
take just a look at the man for whose freedom we are all fighting.

 From a close friend:

"Well, Ernst, I'm sorry I dawdled so long before visiting. Now it 
looks as if I may be dropping in on you abroad--though I hope not. I 
do what I can right now, approaching "civil liberties" advocates on 
your behalf, working with a revisionist publicist or two to get a 
stronger message out to our own people.

"Your present circumstances, awful as they are, are of course a badge 
of honor awarded to the best of our leaders in this most crucial of 
struggles, since on it depends everything we hold dear. You are 
in heroic company, through our kind's age-old struggle for truth, 
freedom, and right, without which mere existence matters little for 
our kindred peoples.

"At such times each of us does well to look to the special exemplars 
of our traditions, so today I looked anew at the lives and teachings 
of the Irish freedom fighters of the 19th and 20th centuries, who 
endured every sort of brutality in jails and prisons in Ireland, 
England, and Australia, and the saying of Padraic Pearse, executed 
for his leadership in the 1916 Easter rising, reoccurred to me: it is 
not those who inflict the most suffering, but those who endure it, 
who will triumph. There's one for your kind and gentle jailers to 
contemplate.

"I hope you don't suffer too much, and I'm sure you will triumph.

"With friendship and all admiration - "

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 From a long-friend who hates Hitler's guts and with whom I have 
fought many a verbal battle for some 20 years telling him that 
demonizing Hitler is one of the stronges psychop weapons where the 
enemy can count on us playing the poodle who is jumping through the 
hoops:

"I have never been more disgusted with my government.  Due process??

"What a crock of &*@#!!!!"

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 From a Professor in France - NOT Dr. Faurisson:

"Dear Sir, 

"I have  just learnt that M.ZUNDEL has been arrested.

"I have known M.Zundel these last 20 years and as a Jew I felt 
compelled to check what he said and published. I became conscious of 
the fact that he was a most distinguished mind, that he told the 
truth and that I could understand why my all powerful peers did not 
like him!

"I feel that a country in which he resides can be proud of having him.

"On top of everything as he is married to an American lady there is 
no problem if one wants to avoid tricks just to harm him.

"Please give him back his liberty  in the country of liberty, and 
keep away from the totalitarianism of my worst peers who think they 
have all the rights because of their financial and political power."

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Again, those of you who have my phone, please don't tie it up unless 
it is absolutely necessary!  I need to keep it open for most 
important calls. 

I'll be around.

Ingrid