ZGram - 2/16/2003 - "It's been a very long day!"

[irimland@zundelsite.org]

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

February 16, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This is going to be a very short ZGram - it's been again one of those 
days.  No, to all of you who tried to call or reach me otherwise: 
Ernst hasn't yet been deported.  He is still being held in jail, just 
like some common criminal, even though, I am now told, this wasn't a 
criminal arrest after all.  You could have fooled me there!

It was a civil arrest, so they say, and believe it or  not, in a 
civil arrest there are no rights or protections an arrestee can count 
on.  None.  None whatsoever.

Bizarre, isn't it?  If one gets "civilly" arrested, it's shackles and 
maximum security jail and lock-downs with searches with dogs and no 
Miranda readings?  You can't talk to your lawyer, and a man with a 
gun can just follow you around in your own house because you missed a 
hearing?

I talked to Ernst just minutes ago.  Where the buzz in the media 
comes from, let's just say that I have no idea.

And, no, I pledge no knowledge whatsoever about what might be shaping 
up in Germany - what with the angry demos in the streets and that 
high profile Der Spiegel Holocaust trial that seems to be rearing its 
head and making  people raise their eyebrows. Should Ernst arrive in 
shackles in the Vaterland, the youngsters there like him a lot;  to 
them he is a hero.

Some media mavens seem to think Ernst will, instead, be deported to 
Canada quickly.  I told them that I did not grant elaborate 
interviews to hostile media any more.  I referred all queries to Mark 
Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, but as you know, it is 
a long weekend, so I guess nobody will be home.

The other item needing mention is the kind that will make you stop 
and sit up.  It came from a total stranger.  He told me something 
interesting that hadn't occurred to me yet.  I had always assumed 
that, with Ernst's arrest, two triggers might have caused it -  maybe 
two politicians with a modus operandi itch known as "...you scratch 
my back, and I'll scratch your back" - or else, old-fashioned 
Talmudic revenge.

There is a third angle, believe it or not, that left me all but 
speechless.  Consider this brief, informative tidbit that happened to 
reach my computer:

"I am an attorney and former law professor who worked with the INS 
for many years; there is little in the treatment of your husband that 
is different from standard INS treatment, except that it seems to 
[have] been a little "kinder and gentler".  I once witnessed a ten 
year unaccompanied minor applying for refugee status arrested by 
fifteen INS officers -- number of officers at an arrest seems to 
fluctuate with which INS agents want overtime.   I suspect local 
authorities are embarrassed by this, but they need the money that 
comes from having INS in jails."

A dear friend sent me this:

If you see Ernst again, tell him I am so sorry.

We knew they had no justice, and no pity.  We knew.
And yet -- it is our failing --
we still expect it from them.

Again and again,
if any epitaph be written for our race,
it be that we could not believe
they had no justice
and no pity

And tell him also, if you can
that what he has done
cannot be undone.

They may roar, torture, imprison, and slander
but they know too that what Ernst has done
cannot be undone
regardless.

Tell him that
and may it keep him warm
in whatever cold, dark, concrete cell
they choose to wreak their vengeance

May it keep him warm
as it does us.

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