ZGram - 2/20/2003 - "Zundel Media galore in Canada"

irimland@zundelsite.org irimland@zundelsite.org
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:55:25 -0800


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

February 20, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

There is nothing new to report on the Ernst Zundel situation except 
that he is still in Canada, still in Maximum Security, and that we 
are still finalizing the selection of a lead attorney. 

Three reports from Canada regarding the revived media feeding frenzy 
now that Ernst  Zundel  is once again in their custody.  How they 
could do that - throw a man who has asked for asylum in Maximum 
Security - is still a mystery to me.  And they still expect to be 
loved?

A Zundelsite scout reports that the Toronto Globe and Mail's homepage 
http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030220.wxzund0220/BNStory/National

banners the Zundel story front and centre -- squeezing out Iraq and 
Canada's blockbuster-spending budget delivered Tuesday -- with a pic 
of Ernst Zundel.

The photo itself is absolutely amazing -- the very opposite of bland 
(if I may put it that way). This is truly (to quote EZ) "the story 
that won't go away"... What began in 1978, with Concerned Parents of 
German Descent, is alive and kicking a quarter of a century later, in 
2003.

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The CTV 11 p.m. newscast is the most watched in Canada.

The introduction to the February 19 broadcast checklisted the main 
stories at the outset (as usual). Zundel's deportation to Canada was 
included in the 4th slot, after a major Iraq-related story and two 
other "biggies".

These are the impressions that linger a half hour later:

At about 11:10, just before news anchor Lloyd Robertson announced the 
first commercial pause, CTV aired a 15-second promo of the Zundel 
segment that, viewers were informed, would be up first after the TV 
ads were aired. In the promo, Zundel was called a "hate-monger."  The 
music accompanying the promo
was as dramatic as any high adventure film score.

The segment that aired at about 11:12 lasted two minutes and 15 
seconds. It showed old "classic" news footage of Zundel in hard-hat 
and visored army cap, radiating a sense of virile confidence. Footage 
of Zundel at sites in the Niagara Peninsula was taken at night and 
bathed in a deep amber glow. Zundel was seen to be lifting up his 
hands in what-can-I-say? resignation.

There were glimpses of a web page at the Zundelsite and a clip of an 
interview with Mark Weber (spelt "Webber" at the bottom of the 
screen). Weber was most articulate and expressed outrage, although in 
a civil fashion, that Zundel who is married to an American citizen 
should be deported from a country where many
millions of undocumented aliens reside. Weber has a pleasant voice 
and manner; signage below the image of him as he spoke ID-ed him as a 
"Zundel supporter."

Other clips featured Prof. Ed Morgan for the Canadian Jewish Congress 
and the Immigration Minister, Denis Coderre. The former was 
disingenuous in the way  he criticized Zundel's reluctance to be 
returned to "democratic" Germany. The minister spoke in veiled terms 
about those who would exploit our immigration system, etc.

There is no doubt that CTV considers the Zundel deportation an 
important and interesting story "with (stove-pipe) legs,"  worthwhile 
to both chase down and highlight.

The companion-piece to this report was a 40-second segment informing 
the viewers the Saskatchewan native elder David Ahenakew's 
reinstatement as a senator (he resigned following a speech in 
December, wherein he expressed unabashed sympathy for Hitler's 
anti-Jewish policies) was denied after some other native elders had 
voted on it.

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The next letter came from the Canadian Midwest:

I just got back from a shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta.  They have 
a three panel 'projected' TV sort of thing hanging on the wall next 
to the food court there, which features news headlines, weather, 
stock news, etc.

Anyway, they only put a few news headlines on each hour.  Today I 
walking by and in giant letters the screen read 'Zundel to apply for 
refugee status' (or something similar).  It has been in all the news 
up here.   Thought you might find this interesting....

Best wishes and hang in there!

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The final letter comes from a young man who we met some three, four 
years ago during a lovely dinner with congenial friends in San Diego. 
He was then 14 or 15 years old, and I will never forget his rapt face 
as Ernst recounted some of his activism adventure.  Now he is a young 
man.  Here is his take on the story, written a few days ago:

America's News Media:

      Not long ago America's news media would defend a man who was 
incarcerated for attempting to make free speech a reality. So what 
has happened? Ernst Zundel, a defender of freedom and the truth, sits 
in a cell at the Batavia Federal Detention Facility in upstate New 
York, and you, America's major news media, have done nothing.

Illegally arrested on February 5 for allegedly missing an INS hearing 
scheduled for June of 2001, Mr. Zundel is now scheduled to be 
deported to Canada at any time. He had been living peacefully in his 
Tennessee home for three years, married to a US citizen, always 
law-abiding, and ever an honest man; before his unconstitutional 
arrest a couple weeks ago.

Millions of illegal immigrants from third-world countries are allowed 
to live unmolested in America's cities drawing welfare and lowering 
our standard of living; and yet an honest, productive man with no 
criminal record is so brutally treated. This is supposed to be 
America, "land of the free;" and no man, no matter what his views, 
should be treated as Mr. Zundel has.

If you, America's major news media, still believe in the basic 
principles on which our country was founded and made great, then you 
will stand up and demand justice for this defender of freedom. If you 
do nothing then you too are a part of the problem!

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