ZGram - 6/21/2003 - "Zundel Update"

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

June 21, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I'll give you a quick rundown of where we are and what has happened 
since Ernst was "legally" kidnapped in broad daylight on American 
soil on February 5, 2003:

_____  During this past month, I have had three offers of what I 
consider substantial money.  I turned these offers down - all three 
of them, with gusto.  Why?  Because I  did not know where the money 
came from.  The moment I asked questions, these would-be donors 
de-materialized. 

I do not want and can't afford to be assisted by what looks to me 
like murky money.  Can you imagine what the ADL would do to us if 
they could establish a link to you-know-who? 

For some decades now, the Zundel Information Outreach has been 
financed primarily by "little people", scores of them, honest and 
straightforward folks, most of them on marginal income. These people 
support us as they eke out a living in an increasingly hostile 
environment because of  what they consider their values reflected in 
our work.  These values are sacred to us.  We don't need murky money. 

_____ This past month also, one of our legal team members was 
approached by an odd  visitor  with a threadbare excuse about his 
unannounced visit.  I wasn't there, but I imagine a gleam in his eye 
as he laid out on the table what he must have thought would be a very 
tempting offer:  He would help us get Ernst Zundel released and back 
to Tennessee. 

How?  Go the ACLU route.  Get a Jewish lawyer with connections.

There is a waiver, the sly stranger let it be known, that Ashcroft 
could sign.  There are people who know how to get him to sign it. 

Do the Zundels have money, he wanted to know.  We could cut us a 
deal.   No guarantee, of course.   There's only one small problem. 
Zundel woud have to throw THEM a "sop".

What is a "sop"? I asked, when I was later told about this offer.  I 
didn't ask, "who's THEM"? 

A "sop" could be, I learned, that Zundel would agree he would no 
longer harp about the Holocaust.  

At that, I said:  "Now let me get this straight.  Is he telling me 
that I should pay that kind of money and ask Ernst to surrender his 
Freedom of Speech?  Something that Ernst has spent practically all of 
his life fighting for?  Forget it!"

There is a word for this kind of a "deal" - it's called extortion 
when a person who is loved has been kidnapped, and family members are 
vulnerable, fearful and hurting.  Of course we are not dealing with a 
kidnapped child - we are dealing with a blatant attempt to imprison 
the truth by holding the truth teller hostage.  But the danger to the 
kidnapped person's safety is the same.  I know that all too well. 

_____ Out of Germany comes word from what I consider one of the 
highest governmental echelons that the last thing on earth they need 
is Zundel to come back and cool his heels in a prison while, outside, 
the Right coalesces around a real live political martyr whom they 
admire and respect. 

There are already people eager and willing to self-accuse themselves 
- sounds like poor grammar, doesn't it? - to flood the government 
with Holocaust Denial prosecution dares.  Additionally, there are 
Zundel Sympathizers in several countries lining up, ready to fly in 
and help him "serve his time" by offering the government to "sit off" 
part of his pending sentence, by mutual agreedment a foregone 
conclusion. 

In other words, the government of Germany, already hanging on with 
white knuckles against an increasingly restive population fed up to 
the hilt with the Holocaust Diet still being forced down their 
reluctant throats, is not exactly eager, or so at least it seems, to 
get the Zundel Problem as an additional public relations nightmare. 

_____  In Canada, there is the CSIS nightmare looming for Canada's 
increasingly jittery Zundel foes.  If Ernst is forced to stay in 
Canada and fight, there will be revelations about the shady CSIS 
stuff  - such as allowing to have parcel bombs transported on 
passenger planes to take out inconvenient dissidents like Zundel. 
There is some information known to RCMP sources that has yet to be 
revealed - such as, let's guess, who caused the "attempted murder 
charge against Ernst Zundel" in 1995 to be dropped into the memory 
hole.  RCMP is not exactly friendly to CSIS.  Some people speculate 
there will be some surprises in the court rooms. 

_____ So-called "human rights" organizations like Amnesty 
International have taken a real public relations hit in that they 
found themselves between a rock and a very hard place:  How to stop 
Zundel supporters  from the most godforsaken places from badgering 
their brass with inconvenient question marks?  How to keep handlers 
at bay?  Reporters tell us things in private that do not show up in 
their write-ups.  No self-respecting scribe likes to be told to kick 
a man in maximum detention once more right in the shin who can't 
defend himself.  There is a Zundel-sympathetic journalistic undertow 
gathering momentum that is going to cause a few splashes.

_____ I have collected hundreds of letters, half of them notarized, 
from people from all walks of life who are willing to come out of the 
closet and say:  "This Zundel fellow is not the evil ogre you Zundel 
Haters would like to have us believe.  From personal experience, we 
know him to be a kind, good, gentle man - a real gentleman.  And it 
so happens, we agree with what he says - that there is something very 
foul about your so-called Holocaust."

You'd be amazed who is willing, these days, to endorse Ernst openly - 
and proudly.  These letters will be used in various ways - not the 
least of which will be a concerted campaign in the still laid-back 
German-language media.  Our mailing list and our connections are 
growing, and we haven't yet begun!

_____  Also, let's not forget, there is fall-out that is going to 
benefit our struggle that has nothing to do with our efforts to get 
Ernst freed from prison.  Wherever you look, the global climate is 
changing, with people getting ever more resentful about the ring that 
has been threaded through their nostrils.  A Zundel aficionado from 
South Africa faxed me an article documenting - I am paraphrasing here 
- that former Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in a rather prominent forum 
that America has put its own soldiers in harms way in order to 
accommodate the needs of Israel.  Having delivered himself of that 
politically incorrect plum, the good ex-Chancellor deftly fell back 
on his own heels and added unctuously that such a sacrifice, you see, 
was to America's credit - because it "increased moral standing". 

Would it be okay for my son, or yours, to go beat up a neighbor on 
the right, getting a bloody nose in the process, because it would 
please your neighbor on the left who sells him the idea that it would 
surely increase his moral standing?   Where might our offspring park 
that "moral standing" - with blood still dripping on our kitchen 
floor?  Is there a thinking person left who does not tell 
himself/herself, "...it looks we have been had!"?  And who likes "to 
be had"? 

What is being said in Germany by none other than former Chancellor 
Kohl is being repeated a thousand-fold in America's streets, malls 
and patriot meetings.  You know the old adage:  The enemy of my enemy 
is my friend.  These days, there are people sympathetic to Ernst 
Zundel who wouldn't have dreamed taking a second look, had it not 
been for the mischief of America's neo-con cabal.

_____ On our legal front, all papers have been filed.  They are as 
airtight as can be.   The Vengeful Yammerers have now imported the 
Canadian Zundel Struggle to America.  We are resolved, again, to make 
proverbial lemonade from lemons. 

Of course, there is a simple "out" to all of the above:  The Zundel 
foes could just pull in their tails and let my guy come back.  I 
think he would be quite content to watch the New World Order 
self-destruct while standing on the sidelines. 

_____ One final point:  Let's quickly go on record stating that the 
rumors of a Mel Gibson movie about the Trials and Tribulations of 
Ernst Zundel are not true.  :)

Stay tuned.

Ingrid