ZGram - March 10, 2003 - "Gibson Family Under Fire for Holocaust Denial":

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March 10, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I missed two calls from Ernst yesterday because I had to run errands 
- therefore I cannot give you any new update on where the struggle 
is.  I could use lots of input from my libertarian readers, German 
sources, Freedom-of-Speechers etc. on the difference between German 
law and American/Canadian law regarding Freedom of Speech in the 
respective countries.  Also, I could use information on how prisoners 
are treated in German jails, and on by what criteria initial jail 
terms are prolonged, once a prisoner is in detention and cannot 
really fight back. 

For yesterday's ZGram, I have this update on Mel Gibson, one of my 
favorite actors ever since "The Patriot":

Gibson Family Under Fire for Anti-Semitism:

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LOS ANGELES / ABC - Mel Gibson and his parents are under fire today 
from a leading Jewish group for reportedly anti-semitic impulses in 
the former's new film and the latter's denial that Al Qaeda executed 
the Sept. 11 attacks.

The actor's father, Hutton Gibson, told The New York Times he flatly 
rejected that the terrorist group led by Usama bin Laden had any role 
in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Sept. 11.

"Anybody can put out a passenger list," the elder Gibson told The Times.

"So what happened? They were crashed by remote control."

He and the actor's mother, Joye Gibson, also told The Times that the 
Holocaust was a fabrication manufactured to hide an arrangement 
between Adolf Hitler and "financiers" to move Jews out of Germany to 
the Middle East to fight Arabs.

"Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium 
what it takes to get rid of a dead body," Hutton Gibson told The 
Times. "It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now six million?"

Said Joye Gibson: "That weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe."

Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, shot back.

"To bigots and antisemites, no amount of evidence of scientific proof 
is ever enough. In their world, only hate matters."

The comments from the Gibson family come just after the actor built a 
church in near Malibu that caters to a revisionist version of 
Catholocism. According to The Times, the church has a congregation of 
70, including the star of such films as "Braveheart" and "Conspiracy 
Theory."

Mel Gibson, a devout Catholic, is directing and co-wrote an upcoming 
movie "The Passion," rooted in a theological movement known as 
Catholic traditionalism that seeks to return the faith to its 
pre-1962 period, before the Pope issued what is known as Vatican II, 
a series of proclamations that did away with the notion that Jews 
were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.

"If the new film seeks to undo that," Hier told The Times, "it would 
not be uncovering truth. Rather, it would unleash more of the 
scurrilous charges...directed against the Jewish people, which took 
the Catholic Church 20 centuries to finally repudiate."

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