ZGram - 5/8/2003 - "Zundelsite down: Yesterday's ZGram - Second Try!"

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

May 8, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

May 8, 1945 was the day when World War II was over and Germany
surrendered to the Allies, bombed into the stone age and utterly
defeated.  Ernst Zundel was a six-year-old first-grader.

Half a century later, In the very early hours of May 8, 1995, the
Toronto-based Zundel-Haus suffered a $400,000 arson attack that
would have killed Ernst Zundel, had he been home and in his
fourth-story bedroom that day.

Even though the arsonist's act was caught on security video, and
street talk gave Ernst Zundel a description and even a name of the
hoodlum who was alleged to have been paid $200.- to set the fire,
Toronto Police made no effort to solve this violent crime.

Several years later, Irv Rubin, the then head of the violent Jewish
Defense League, was overheard bragging at a "Survival Expo" that he
and/or his men were responsible for the arson - until his lawyer,
present there as well, told him to keep his mouth shut.  Nothing
happened to Irv Rubin either, even though he was briefly chased by
Toronto Police a few days after the arson when he appeared with
several other JDL Defense League members to take photographs of the
burned-out Zundel-Haus shell.

Today, eight years later, with Ernst Zundel having been arrested in
Tennessee on a bogus immigration violation charge, held in maximum
detention in Canada on charges of being a "security risk" to the
country where he lived peacefully for more than 40 years, I am
pleading with my readers to send me testimonials of my husband,
documenting from your own experience that he is a peaceful man who
has never been involved in, incited, or condoned any violence, even
though he suffered egregious violence many times over, including
several murder attempts.

Your letter need not be long.  Very briefly give your
profession/vocation and/or title and describe how you became aware
of Ernst's activist work.  I'd like you to speak honestly and openly
to what you know about this man from personal experience and what
you know about his political views and deportment from having met
him, or from his writings you have read and videos and audios you
may have watched.

I am asking you to describe the man as he came across to you.  Give
your views on how Ernst Zundel, of all people, should be charged by
the Canadian government as a "terrorist"  - even though he has a
record as a lifetime pacifist.

Is Ernst a man, in your opinion, "who could incite others to
violence" or who could be or become "a danger to the security of
Canada"?

If you know, or have had personal experience with the German hate
laws and the consequences of being charged with "inciting hate" or
"defaming the memory of the dead", please tell that in your letter.
I am particularly thinking of people like Hans Schmidt, Fred
Leuchter, Fredrick Töben, Germar Rudolf and Udo Walendy who suffered
imprisonment or had to go into exile for their beliefs and writings.

It is very important to detail what you know about Germany not being
a "free speech" "democratic" country - and that imprisonment for
years, if not for a lifetime will be a foregone conclusion in
Ernst's case, should he be deported to Germany, since charges can be
piled on charges, once a political dissident is in captivity and
can't defend himself.

You need to sign your letter with your full name and give your
address.  It would immensely help if you were willing to go to your
nearest public notary and have your letter/signature notarized.
Almost any bank that has you as a customer will provide that service
free of charge.  Freelancing notaries charge about $10.- for their
signature and seal.

***I must have your letter in a week.***

Please don't delay.  It is extremely important that I get as many
responsibly written letters as possible.

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Addendum:

I have not yet seen the document that summarizes the specifics of
the "terrorist" charge against my husband, but below is a Globe and
Mail article that will give you a feel for what is ahead.


[START]

Documents show Zundel considered security threat

By BRUCE CHEADLE
Canadian Press
  Wednesday, May. 7, 2003

Ottawa — Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has been involved in terrorism and
promotes politically motivated violence that endangers the lives of
Canadians, according to documents released Wednesday summarizing the case
for deportation.

He's also a flight risk who must be held in detention until he can be
deported, the federal government says in documents from the Federal Court
of Canada.

The court has begun reviewing a national security certificate that calls
Mr. Zundel, 64, a national security threat. Should the court agree the
certificate is reasonable, Mr. Zundel would be deported to face charges of
suspicion of inciting hatred in his native Germany.

The evidence provided by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service —
at least the portion made public Wednesday by Justice Pierre Blais —
recapped previously known links between Mr. Zundel and white supremacist
groups around the world.

And while the document concludes with a reference to "his involvement in
terrorism," it states that Mr. Zundel himself has "virtually no history of
direct personal engagement in acts of serious violence."

Rather, CSIS alleges Mr. Zundel provided financial support to William
Pierce, an American white supremacist whose novel The Turner Diaries was
credited with spurring Timothy McVeigh to bomb a U.S. government building
in Oklahoma City.

The court was also told Mr. Zundel has connections to white supremacist
groups ranging from South Africa's Afrikaner Resistance Movement to
Britain's British National Party and the White Aryan Resistance of Germany.

CSIS also said Mr. Zundel has "close ties" with anti-Semitic revisionist
Ahmed Rami of Sweden and through him to radical Islam. CSIS said that as
recently as last month, Mr. Zundel's Web site had links to Radio-Islam,
which it said "calls for total war against Zionism."

"He is considered one of the most notorious distributors of hate material
in the world," said the summary of the CSIS brief.

It concluded by warning the court that rejecting the security certificate
"would be inimical to the security of Canada and the safety of its persons."

Mr. Zundel's lawyer, Doug Christie, said the evidence provided "doesn't
seem to me to be anything very persuasive."

But Christie conceded in a telephone interview that under the new
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act passed last summer, the allegations
alone are enough to condemn Mr. Zundel.

Mr. Christie said section 33 of the legislation states that anything that
may happen is deemed to be a fact for the purposes of the court review, and
that's why he plans to challenge the entire act on constitutional grounds.

"If George Orwell could have pointed to hand-written legislation by Big
Brother, that [section 33] would be it . . .," said the lawyer, who has a
history of handling controversial cases in courtrooms across Canada dealing
with white supremacy.

"When I looked at all these allegations — [Zundel] associates with people
who may do this, or he may do that — well, that's a speculative
possibility. He may do almost anything. But section 33 means that what may
happen, does happen, is happening, is a fact — period.

"I think that goes too far."

Mr. Zundel is scheduled to appear in Federal Court in Toronto on Friday,
where the first order of business will be his bid for release from detention.

The submission to the court by Immigration Minister Denis Coderre and
Solicitor-General Wayne Easter was adamant that should not happen.

It said Mr. Zundel, who emigrated to Canada in 1958 and was recently
removed from the United States for overstaying a visitor's visa there, is a
flight risk evidenced by his history of contempt for authority, such as
Canada's Human Rights Tribunal.

The government added that Mr. Zundel's release would "place him in a
position to continue his role as patriarch of the [white supremacist]
movement in Canada, accentuated by the notoriety garnered by his release."

[END]

(Source:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030507.wzund0507/BNStory/N
ational/ )


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