ZGram - 2/17/2003 - "Sit down, because you'll need to...!"
irimland@zundelsite.org
irimland@zundelsite.org
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:30:53 -0800
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
February 17, 2003
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Some of you are on my "other" lists - so if you get this message
double, or even triple, please bear with me. It's been 12 days since
Ernst was arrested, and they haven't been pleasant days, as you can
imagine. Somehow, we held our own.
But today I could feel myself getting weak in the knees, for there
was, all of a sudden, a very strange, eerie silence. I know it is a
holiday, but the silence, after all the phone calls in the past few
days, was beginning to get to me.
I thought that today was my day to visit the Detention Center, but
having gotten the runaround before, I thought I'd better call.
The operator said that Mr Zundel was no longer there. He didn't know
where. He didn't know why. He said to call INS.
I called INS, and I called whoever I could think I should call, and
other people started searching, running into brickwall after
brickwall. After three assassination attempts on his life in the
past, I was beginning to worry.
It is now 6:20 pm. I just got off the phone with Ernst. But listen
to this - you will not believe it:
INS agents took him by plane from Knoxville to Canada with a judge's
order that he was BARRED FROM ENTERING THE US FOR THE NEXT TWENTY
YEARS!
For having missed a hearing???
At any rate, that is the story now.
Ernst was in Canada for about an hour. Lots of shouting,
gesticulating and wringing of hands, and then they shipped him BACK!
Which means they themselves violated the judge's ruling within an hour's time!
Can you believe this turn of events? What on earth do they think
they are doing? Or is this a setup for something?
He is in Batavia Federal Detention Facility now, apparently a
smallish town near Buffalo. It is a much more humane place than
where he spent the past 12 days. He has been told that Canada has
now agreed to take him back after the paperwork is done. He thinks
it might be several days until they move him once again across the
border where he spent two-thirds of his life.
At any rate, we have gained a little maneuvering time. I'll be in
touch - but I am so relieved!
Ingrid