ZGram - 5/28/2003 - "Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience: Letter to Dr. Faurisson "

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now More Than Ever!

May 28, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Yesterday's and today's ZGram come back-to-back - these days, it 
seems I cannot ever catch up!  However, they belong together, so let 
me run them together.

The Zundel letter below [very slightly edited and shortened] was 
written almost a month ago - a lot has happened since then, and I 
will fill you in as time permits.  It was addressed to Dr. Robert 
Faurisson, Europe's foremost Revisionist and also a victim of 
multiple legal and vicious physical attacks by eager aficionados of 
the orthodox Holocaust story who are forever yammering that they are 
being persecuted.  If you want to see what such attacks on a 
perfectly peaceful revisionist scholar look like, go to 
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/faurisson_beaten.html

If you want to know about additional attacks in various ways on other 
revisionists, go to 
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/victims/index.html

This letter is relevant for today because right now I am in the 
process of collecting and shipping the testimonials regarding Ernst's 
responsible activism from supporters and admirers all over the world 
for yet another hearing (?) on June 5.  I am not even sure that Ernst 
or his attorney will be allowed to be present.   I can tell you right 
now that these letters will appear on the Zundelsite afterwards so 
that the world can see how Ernst Zundel is perceived in the eyes of 
his supporters and admirers globally. 

I have collected some wonderful letters! 

And I may juxtapose those restrained and dignified letters to the 
filth and threats of mutilation and even murder that are the daily 
fare our enemies see fit to send to Ernst - and others!  Let's let 
the world compare!

Here is Ernst Zundel writing to one of his most important European advisors:

[START]

Dear Robert!

I am lying uncomfortably on my prison bed, propped up on my left 
elbow, trying to write you this letter - after just meeting with an 
Immigration Canada Enforcement Officer who served me with more "fig 
leaf" forms and papers by the Canadian Government meant to camouflage 
their despicable acts with a veneer of "due process" when, in effect, 
their booting me out of Canada has the same guiding hand and 
intelligence behind it that was behind the ruthlessly efficient 
expulsion from the United States.

The Immigration Services of both countries have been the butt end of 
every comic of television because of their inefficiency and constant 
slip-ups, [such as] sending the extended student visas to the four 
alleged terrorists in their "flight school in Florida" - after they 
had been on the front pages of every American newspapers for about a 
year!  No such slip-ups in my case!  Mine was efficient to a T. 
Arrest, handcuffs, leg irons, maximum security prison, 24-hour 
lockup, no fresh air or exercise in 10 days, 2:30 a.m. wake-up call, 
shower, shave, kick-out-processing - without giving me one single 
cent of my money for my trip to another country - and on a jet we 
went!  Knoxville - Atlanta - Buffalo - Niagara Falls!  No slip-ups, 
no mistakes.  There they handed me the decision that I was barred 
from the US for 20 years!

Not once was there a single word uttered in any of the official 
documents about my high profile holocaust denial they like to bandy 
about endlessly at all other times!  If I wanted any proof It was a 
Jewish high level operation - this "the-dog-that-did-not-bark" 
scenario of Sherlock Holmes fame was the proof!  Not a word!

In Canada it is virtually the same thing!  They invented that 
incendiary bogus charge of my being a "national security threat" to 
deflect away from their angry vengeance - for being the one to send 
Fred Leuchter to Auschwitz and having had the chutzpah to produce his 
findings in open court.  I would hate to think what they might do to 
you, for these vengeful people will never forget and even less 
forgive that you were the architect of their ultimately being 
exposed.  I played the minor part of raising the money, organizing 
the trip, orchestrating the presentation of Fred Leuchter and his 
report - but they knew and know that without you, this disaster for 
them would not have occurred to their racket. 

I knew we were marked men when Fred walked towards that witness 
stand, put the hand on the Bible - and [Judge] Thomas nearly had a 
heart attack right then and there!  Ahhh - what a moment to remember, 
as I lie here in my cell.  A moment to be proud of till we die - both 
of us!

I will never forget the momentary hush in the courtroom, and then the 
hissing as if we had poked a stick into a pile of coiled serpents. 
"Jury out!" shouted Thomas, his head the color of a ripe tomato. 
Then arguments, recess - and the decision not to let Fred show his 
Leuchter Report to the Jury!  Had these jurors been people of 
character and of human caliber and quality, they should have rendered 
a non-guilty [verdict] unanimously for that underhanded slight of 
hand right there!  But alas, the poor quality of people that live on 
planet earth in this era made them do what they did.  I just wanted 
to recall that [moment] for you and me, for the benefit of the 
censors and for history, and state one more time in the words of my 
least favorite Englishman, Winston Churchill:  "Never have so many 
owed so much to such few Revisionists as at that moment in history!"

Now to my own case - as the countdown is clicking.  You have 
undoubtedly heard about the Government of Canada dropping its 
pretense of giving me the benefit they extend to any Somali, Sri 
Lankin, Tamil Tiger or Congolese - a fair series of hearings where I 
can make my case, and later at a Refugee Hearing allow me to show why 
I should not be sent to Germany for further prosecution. 

Here is why I believe that pretense was abandoned by the highest 
level of the Canadian Government:

After my totally unexpected return here,  I had difficulty finding 
competent legal representation.  [Attorney Doug Christie], with whom 
I had kept in touch by friendly letters, cards, color photos and 
phone calls, was busy in court with a war crimes extradition case in 
Vancouver.  I called to find out if there was going to be a change in 
Doug's schedule, in the meantime hiring two Toronto lawyers - who 
were frightened off and dropped me within weeks, leaving me stranded, 
fending for myself in one of the most complex cases involving, in a 
way, America - where Ingrid and my source of finances are - and 
Germany, which had already issued a new arrest warrant and had 
policemen standing by to pick me up in Toronto.  I did not even have 
to pay the plane tickets for my two bodyguards and myself - which was 
very considerate of them!

I fought for time and more time to see if the situation would clarify 
itself somewhat, searching my brain for an answer.  Those were trying 
weeks!  There are few Christies in legal circles!  And when no other 
attorney could be found, Paul Fromm and I limped along, trying to buy 
us some time to organize the shattered remnants of my former team. 
Suddenly there was a break in Doug's trial schedule in Vancouver.  He 
flew to Toronto to file an important Judicial Review in Federal Court 
for me - which is still on track as far as I am aware - using the 
transcript of the March 31/April 1, 03 Detention hearing where Paul 
and I one more time put my history and case, as much as possible, on 
public record via the Internet!  I am sure it was not good law - but 
it was a good and emotionally presented public information campaign. 
It was not known generally that the Government was going to hold 
these hearings behind closed doors. 

Three of these, where I was alone, had already taken place.  The 
Toronto Star and the CBC wanted open hearings.  Their lawyers wrote 
to me in jail, sent me their documents.  I wrote handwritten letters 
of my agreement and consent to the Refugee Board Chairman, the Star 
and the CBC, advocating and supporting open and televised hearings. 
It was this series of surprise letters to my [media] enemies, who 
have always smeared me, which once again allowed me to come into the 
living- and bedrooms of Canadians via TV news and to the breakfast 
tables and the subway readers/riders on their way to work.  One more 
time my jiu jitsu had worked - there was anger in Ottawa, anger in 
the Jewish community because there would be massive media fall-out 
even as they were trying to boot me out! 

Doug arrived April 15th at Thorold Prison at 11 a.m to make an 
affidavit with me for that Judicial Review.  I asked him if he might 
have time to represent me on the 2nd of May Continued Detention 
Hearing.  He said he would see if he could juggle some court dates. 
He would tell Ingrid as soon as possible.  [The next day] he filed 
the papers for the judicial Review in Toronto because only large 
metropolitan areas have federal courts.  He called Ingrid on the 21st 
of April that he could indeed represent me. 

That was the break I had been waiting for - for two months!

I had prepared for the eventuality as best as one can while being on 
24 hour high security lockdown in jail.  My problem now was that I 
had to use the monitored telephone brought by the guard to my cell 
and passed through the little "feeding" opening in the cell door.  I 
was like a field commander who knew the enemy was listening in as he 
gave his orders.  The [enemy] would know about our plans for 10 days 
ahead of time, but we had to prepare and disclose documents to them 
in less than 5 days.  I decided to roll the dice and called [my legal 
team] - and at the end of the conversation said:  "Now that they know 
our plans, lets see the merde hit the fan!"

While my helpers geared up for battle on the outside to give the 
government forces the first professional cross-examination, which 
could well have collapsed their house of cards, I lay idle in my 
cell, waiting for the key piece of evidence, a book about the Spy 
Service in Canada I [had] raised in the transcript where the author 
details that the spies let the parcel bomb through to me, with only 
one intent possible:  For me to open the parcel and to be killed! 
The book never came!  And now this same spy service supplied the only 
accusation that I - whom they had intended to assassinate in that 
method, endangering hundreds of Canadians - I was a danger to Canada! 
Not they!  I think I really said it well in that transcript!

I had an ominous, foreboding feeling in the days before the scheduled 
hearing.  I told Ingrid about it repeatedly.  I could not force 
myself to sketch or to do much writing - I was in what I call "soul 
turmoil" without having any apparent reason for it. 

Then, on 1 March '03 at 6 p.m., a guard came to my cell:  I had a 
visitor from Canada Immigration! 

I was taken to see the man, who had on the table before him several 
official-looking faxes with big Government of Canada crests and 
seals.  He told me the Government was aborting the hearings in favor 
of booting me out of Canada on a Security Certificate signed by two 
ministers, the Solicitor General and the Minister of Immigration. 
The Certificate was signed by Canada's Deputy Attorney General - 
Morris Rosenberg!

This was foreseen by me.  I had discussed it with Doug on the 15th of 
April.  He just gave me one of his haughty looks and said:  "Well, 
they have not done it in two months..."  Who was right?  Ernst the 
peasant!

After the May 2 canceled/aborted Detention Hearing, I went back to 
jail and Doug went to the Federal Court to find out the next steps 
and court dates in the railroading procedures of Ernst Zundel.  He 
spoke to Department of Justice lawyers in Ottawa, then to the 
French-Canadian Judge Blais who was given the Certificate Thursday 
afternoon, shortly before I was given the faxed copy. 

Blais held his first meeting and review of the Spy Services' secret, 
in-camera evidence neither Doug nor I are allowed to see and examine. 
He will not hear any submissions from Doug or me, and his decision is 
final and cannot be appealed to a higher court.  If he rules against 
me, then the Certificate turns automatically into a 
Deportation/Removal Order to Germany - unless there is still some 
glitch somewhere!  Which I doubt!

This afternoon at 3 p.m., a lady Immigration Enforcement Officer came 
to see me, delivered more forms about Pre-Removal Risk Assessment 
which is supposed to examine if I am subject to persecution or 
torture in my country of origin and for membership in a particular 
social group or political opinion - which I am as a Revisionist and a 
German Nationalist.  I will fill out the forms, buttress it with the 
appropriate news clips, texts of friends, maybe a letter from Fred 
Leuchter, Hans Schmidt and Fredrick Töben - and do what I had 
intended to do with the Refugee Hearings:  point to the dismal record 
of the German State when it comes to Freedom of Speech.  And that 
would wrap it up.

My final material must be in the hands of that Board looking at my 
case by June 5, '03.  Their decision will undoubtedly not take long. 
Germany is considered to be a "democratic" country, with a "fine 
legal system" - and I will get a "fair trial" - and that's that. 
Another minimum of 5 years in prison there - more like 7 or 8, I 
would expect in the end.

There could be one fly in the ointment:  If Doug's plan of the 
Constitutional Challenge is allowed by the Supreme Court.  He gave 
them written notice of today.  Then this could delay things somewhat. 

I will undoubtedly be held in custody until that hearing because what 
judge in his right mind would or could let a "national security 
threat" walk the streets freely?  They no longer make judges like 
that.

[END]

That's what I will be doing tonight:  copy and mail those 
testimonials and supporting evidence.  Now I would like you to 
compare the treatment given to Ernst Zundel to the treatment of the 
next "Canadian Immigration Case"!

Tomorrow:  "Coderre's Pride and Joy"