ZGram - 2/27/2003 - "Publicity plays into Zundel's hands, CJC warns" :)

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

February 27, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, who has fielded 
many of my media requests so I can concentrate on logistics, the 
business end of our various endeavors and assisting assorted 
attorneys with info, sent me the following with his comment:

"This item, which underscores the importance of publicizing the Zundel
case, deserves to be better known."

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Feb. 25, 2003. 05:41 PM

Publicity plays into Zundel's hands, CJC warns

JAMES MCCARTEN
CANADIAN PRESS

Allowing public scrutiny of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel's efforts 
to remain in Canada might end up playing right into his hands, the 
Canadian Jewish Congress warned today.

There's a downside to allowing members of the public and the media to 
scrutinize the process that's available to Zundel, said Bernie 
Farber, executive director of the CJC's Ontario division.

"We have to balance the public's need to know ... with Ernst Zundel's 
absolute fetish for publicity and the oxygen that feeds that 
publicity," Farber said.

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  Why not let the public balance its OWN need to 
know - rather than depend on Bernie to butt in and offer to do the 
balancing for them?]

The Immigration and Refugee Board won't even acknowledge that Zundel, 
who left Canada in protest in 2001, is in custody at the Niagara 
Detention Centre in Thorold, Ont., after U.S. authorities deported 
him last week.

"We don't have any public information at this time," said Charles 
Hawkins, the board's regional spokesman in Toronto.

"There's nothing that we can say or comment on or even confirm that 
we're involved in this particular matter."

It is possible for interested parties to apply under Sec. 166 of the 
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act passed in June to make any 
hearings or detention reviews public, Hawkins said.

[Zundelsite comment:  We know of at least one large daily paper that 
has already asked to be part of the hearings... The Holocaust Lobby 
won't like that one bit!)

Whether an application is granted depends entirely on the board, 
which is an independent, quasi-judicial tribunal, said Simone 
MacAndrew, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

"They are the ones that schedule the reviews and hearings and 
inquiries and ... a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board is 
the one who renders that decision," MacAndrew said.

"We don't have any deciding capacity in that way."

Farber said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service prepared a 
report in 1996 that was used to oppose Zundel's bid for Canadian 
citizenship, a bid he took all the way to the Supreme Court.

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  Just like the Marxists that they are, CSIS 
planned in camera hearings at the time, which meant that neither the 
name of the accusers or the nature of the accusations would be known. 
And that is exactly what they are planning again!  Stalinism with a 
grin!] 

That CSIS report could easily be updated and reused if Ottawa decided 
to try and have Zundel declared a risk to national security in order 
to block his current bid for refugee status, Farber said.

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  Interesting.  So one becomes a "security risk" 
according to political expediency?  Ernst hasn't been a security risk 
to Canada or any other country at any time in his life, as Bernie 
perfectly well knows!  Maybe a bushel packed with Holocaust lies is 
at risk of facing public scrutiny wherever Ernst resides - but 
certainly no country!]

Today, Immigration Minister Denis Coderre, who has hinted he plans to 
use the new law to kick Zundel out, was asked by Alliance MP Lynne 
Yelich whether Zundel was indeed still in Canada.

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  Coderre hasn't "hinted"  - he has out-and-out 
threatened with a big fat fence post to "kick Zundel out"!  Is that 
appropriate language by a responsible public servant  who has made up 
his mind before he knows all the facts?  Coderre ought to be ashamed 
of such unprofessional and irresponsible comments! ]

Zundel's presence in Canada "is in the public domain," said Coderre, 
but he refused to comment specifically on the case even as Yelich 
urged him to "show leadership" and expel Zundel.

"In this part of the House we believe in due process and rule of 
law," Coderre replied. "But saying that, keep watching me."

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  Many do exactly that, Mr. Coderre.  Did YOU 
watch the two polls - CTV and CNN  -  that were pulled after more 
than 45% of voters demanded a fair hearing for Zundel, whereas less 
than 2% wanted him charged with a hate crime?  The public has no 
taste at all for witch hunts that are done as a favor to those who 
fatten themselves at the public trough!] 

Zundel, a German citizen, has been in Canada since Wednesday, after 
he was deported by a U.S. immigration court and ordered not to return 
for at least 20 years.

[ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  It seems that Zundel foes wanted a precedent. 
This precedent, setting a record in Talmudic cruelty, will qualify to 
keep the Zundel matter in the public's eye for a very, very long 
time! ] 

During several decades as a resident in Canada, Zundel earned 
notoriety for publishing Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda and arguing 
Germany had been wrongly accused of killing six million Jews during 
the Second World War.

He has been convicted in Germany for disseminating hate literature 
and faces possible jail time there if deported.

[ ZUNDELSITE COMMENT:  We have known of this Europe-wide warrant for 
arrest for years from inside sources.  What is interesting is that it 
has come into the open.  Why now?  I see a few raised eyebrows! ]

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