ZGram - 6/12/2003 - "A politically correct hands-off approach"

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ZGram - where Truth is Destiny

June 12, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Just like Ernst predicted, America is now getting introduced to what 
the Canadian Zundel Struggle was really all about - day by day, it is 
getting to be more the American Zundel Struggle.   This last week, we 
have had a couple of breaks, of which you will hear more when the 
time is right, which may be very soon. 

Friends and Zundel supporters are alerting media and representatives 
of this blatant abuse of due process, and every day that passes, 
there are indications of a deeper understanding and awareness that 
this arrest has all the earmarks of an international scandal that 
does not do a democratic country proud.  And we have barely begun!

We are working along several fronts, and several legal torpedoes have 
already been launched and are running.  As Ernst used to say so many 
times before:  "My enemies will rue the day..."  And haven't they 
always, in the past?  Where would Revisionism be, had it not been for 
Ernst Zundel? 

The sparrows are now chirping it from the rooftops that Germany won't 
touch another big Holocaust trial in our lifetime - and just two days 
ago I learned of an attempt to use the Holocaust for yet another scam 
-  in, of all places, Brazil - and the law suit was laughed out of 
the courthouse!  I know that Ernst is sick of law suits and does not 
want to fight Holocaust Zundel Trial III in the United States, but if 
it has to be, it has to be - we'll give it one more round.  As for 
myself, I'd welcome it.  In the worst way, Americans need to find out 
how they have been used and deceived.  America is ready, I believe, 
for Holocaust Trial Number Three!

Meanwhile, I urge you to do what a Zundel supporter did - write to 
your Congressman and Senator.  Tell him or her you know - and it is 
time they know. 

Here someone wrote to Congressman Ron Paul, one of the handful of 
courageous men in the US Congress.  Disappointingly, back came a 
canned response - to which I am adding my own two cents' worth 
because I really like Ron Paul and am going to tell him this minute:

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Dear Representative Paul -

I am the wife of Ernst Zundel - an American citizen and ethnic 
novelist in my own right.  In a recent e-mail communiqué with one of 
your admirers who had alerted you to the illegal arrest of my 
husband, you wrote:

"While the little I know of Mr. Zundel suggests he is an apologist 
for Hitler and thus an advocate of a philosophy diametrically opposed 
to mine, I believe that no one should be prosecuted for holding 
repugnant political views.

"However, as this issue concerns the Canadian Government's 
enforcement of its immigration laws, it is inappropriate for an 
American official to interfere in any way with this case. I cannot 
consistently oppose infringements on America's sovereignty by foreign 
governments and institutions if I use my position to infringe on the 
sovereignty of other nations."

Congressman Paul, let me preface what I am saying below by telling 
you that I am one of your admirers.  You are admired for your stand 
across demographic divides and philosophical differences.  You are a 
man of extraordinary courage to stand up to the abuses of the Zionist 
Lobby - and you do so with verve and conviction.  That is more than 
can be said of  almost every one of your genuflecting colleagues who 
dive for the fig leaf the moment the Zionist Lobby says "Boo!" .

Having said that, I'd like to point out a few fact of which you do 
not seem to be aware.  My husband, a lifelong pacifist, was not 
"deported" - he was,  in fact, extradited to Canada under the guise 
of an INS "deportation" - without any due process at all!  I call it 
a political kidnapping whereby American agencies were used - and 
misused - as the "hit squads" for a nasty political lobby in another 
country.  Does that not bother you?  Must such an audacious act of 
violence, initiated by another country but carried out by agents of 
this country, go unchallenged?

It is very disturbing to me, and unfair to my husband, that you 
repeat the smears my husband's enemies are sprinkling through the 
media - to wit, that my husband is not worthy of support because he 
is a "Hitler Apologist".  He may or may not be, but that is neither 
here nor there, for Hitler has been dead for almost sixty years - and 
Hitler's resurrection is not in the picture for America, whereas a 
brutal dictatorship by Hitler Haters may be. 

Here are some of the facts, as summarized by one of our attorneys:

"Zundel did not miss a court proceeding and he did not miss a court 
hearing.  Requests for rescheduling of an adjustment interview based 
on marriage to a US citizen are routinely and automatically granted, 
and that is what Zundel's lawyer at the time requested.  The fact 
that this request was disregarded/lost/destroyed is the tip of the 
iceberg - but then, in order to contrive an arrest, INS had to ignore 
a second correspondence wondering why the rescheduling had not 
occurred, and then ignore the fact that all their mistakes were 
pointed out to them after Zundel was arrested in Tennessee.

"Zundel was not 'detained' at the US-Canada border;  he was delivered 
there after having been in INS custody for almost two weeks, into the 
hands of Canadian authorities.  The transfer was in itself a 
violation of US law, since at the time there was an appeal pending... 
and that appeal is still pending."

To this day, not one agency has even contacted me to give me an 
explanation, much less a reason for acting like Stalinist goons.  If 
somebody smashes my window, I can go to the police and complain - and 
can expect that someone will investigate.  If somebody smashes my 
life, you say there should be no recourse because my husband holds 
politically incorrect views? 

Representative Paul - my husband has been kidnapped in broad daylight 
on American soil.  Let that sink in!  He has been sentenced without 
having had a trial to what is shaping up as indefinite detention.  He 
has been banned from coming back to me for 20 years.  I have already 
spent more than $50,000 just to get a US judge to even hear the case 
- and have no guarantee that I should be so lucky.  

I'd like for you to look me in the eyes and tell me that I'm still 
living in America.

Ingrid Rimland Zündel, Ed.D.