ZGram - 6/22/2003 - "Ingrid's Full Page ad: Another Revisionist Milestone!"

Sun Jun 22 16:21:16 EDT 2003

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

June 22, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Shortly after I started my pledge drive to get the money together to 
purchase a full page ad in a major national paper, PayPal nastily 
pulled the plug on me to please the Yammering Tribe.  That 
short-circuited my original plans - a full page ad in the Canadian 
Globe and Mail or even the Washington Post - but I had managed to get 
enough pledges together that I felt I could do something that would 
create a real splash. 

I chose Washington, DC - and the Washington Times.  That is  how far 
the pledge drive stretched.    It bought me a full-page ad with the 
following text and two graphics: 

http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/iceberg.html
and
http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/iceberg.html

Let me tell you, it was high drama all day Friday - and tomorrow I 
will tell you why I did what I did, and what it could potentially 
mean.

For now, here is the text for the ad:

[START]

Dear President Putin:

You probably are not aware of my husband, Ernst Zündel - but hundreds 
of thousands of people all over the world know his name.  Ernst 
Zündel is the man who, under vicious siege by a powerful political 
lobby, sent an investigative team from Canada to Auschwitz in 1988 to 
test forensically if "gassings" really happened - and found that they 
did not.  Science does not lie, and scientific findings can be 
verified.  His evidence must stand or fall in the free market of 
ideas.  My husband has pleaded for a safe,  impartial global forum 
ever since to make his findings known.

The Canadian Holocaust Lobby has never forgiven Ernst Zündel. 
Recently, he was arrested on US soil - allegedly because he missed an 
interview with Immigration and Naturalization Services officials.  No 
judge.  No hearing.  No recourse.  Instead, leg irons and handcuffs - 
and brutal incarceration in four maximum detention prisons, first in 
America and now in Canada.  False news was spread in mainstream media 
that he had "overstayed his visa".  Not so.  He was married to a U.S. 
citizen, and we have irrefutable documentation that he was legally 
entitled to be here.  His "punishment", just for a starter? Banned 
from the U.S.A. for 20 years!

My husband's brutal treatment by government officials in what many 
vainly hope are still two of the West's most law-abiding democratic 
countries is reminiscent of the darkest days of the Stalinist years. 
I know whereof I speak.  At the age of five,  I lost my father in a 
very similar arrest in 1941 - never to see him again!

I am a Russian-born, German-descendant, award-winning novelist, best 
known for an early novel, "The Wanderers", a fictitious account of 
the life of my Russian-born Mennonite grandmother.  More recently, I 
wrote a trilogy, spanning seven generations and 200 years and all the 
major political upheavals of the last two gruesome, bloody centuries. 
My people, living peacefully in the Ukraine since 1789, were 
ethnically cleansed in the Stalinist purges, and only a handful of us 
could save ourselves, escaping with the retreating German Army in 
1943 to Germany and, then, in 1948, to South America.

I grew up in the jungles, functionally illiterate and knowing little 
of the political realities of dictatorships that transformed and 
decimated countries like Russia and Germany.  As an adult, I 
emigrated to Canada and then to the United States, always thinking of 
the country of my birth, Russia, as a place out of the depths of hell 
- until I learned about an intellectual movement called Revisionism.

My now imprisoned husband is globally known as a Revisionist pioneer. 
Ernst Zündel  has a profound geopolitical understanding of  the 
moneyed interests that would set brother against brother, causing 
rivers of blood and tears for the gains of a handful of oligarchs who 
fattened themselves on our pain.  Today I know that Russia was as 
horribly victimized as Germany was.  Russia suffered as much as 
Germany did - and as America will suffer, unless America wakes up and 
comes to understand  today's events in light of what was done so 
cruelly to law-abiding people yesterday.  The people of America MUST 
urgently try to understand today's events and dramas in historical 
perspective.  Today's Russia is far ahead of the United States in 
that respect - in fact, I am the one who sponsored the first ever 
Revisionist seminars in Russia in a Teachers College, a feat I have 
not been able to accomplish here in our so-called "free speech" 
country.  Russia welcomes conscientious scholarship and does not fear 
controversial historical findings.

Referring to my husband's brutal arrest, one of my Russian 
Revisionist correspondents called Ernst and myself "America's 
Refuseniks" and pledged his intellectual solidarity.  It is an apt 
description of who we are and what we do.  We refuse to believe in 
historical lies.  We refuse to be dictated to and told who are our 
friends and who should be our enemies.  We refuse to surrender our 
Freedom of Speech.  We refuse to swallow manufactured history such as 
the "Holocaust by gassing" - a lie that has become an intellectual 
stranglehold on every Western country.  If our findings are deemed 
"wrong", then let's have a civilized debate in a respectable national 
forum where both sides can offer arguments and evidence - and let the 
people judge! 

Recently, I read an essay by Russian General Anatoly Wolkow, titled 
"People, Listen To The Signals!"  Here is a former enemy of Germany 
who stretches out a hand of friendship to soften  the political 
mistakes of the past and bring long-needed healing to  both Germany 
and Russia.  I believe there are millions of Russians who would 
identify with what he says.  I know there are millions of Germans all 
over the world who would like nothing better than to bury the 
hostilities of World War II and once again be known as Russia's 
partners, friends and scientific benefactors. America would benefit 
from such a reconciliation.  America is not in need of yet another 
war.

We need to find ways to each other!

I plead with you to send a message to those millions, Germans and 
Russians alike, as well as millions in America and Canada, that we 
are kin, not enemies.  A Russian leader of courage and vision could 
tell the Western world that the Russia of today has finally become 
autonomous, living by democratic principles, abhorring censorship. 
There is a way to shame short-sighted Western  bureaucrats for their 
repressive laws - and wake up people globally to the realities of 
vested interest power plays that move us ever closer to a frightening 
abyss.

A simple gesture, even if only symbolic, would telegraph around the 
world that Russia, emerging out of decades of repression, has thrown 
away her dictatorial  shackles - declare Ernst Zündel, Prisoner of 
Conscience,  in broad daylight kidnapped "legally" by his nefarious 
enemies on U.S. soil, to be the West's most notable "Refusenik" - and 
offer him asylum and a passport.

Sincerely,

Ingrid Zundel, Ed.D.

[END]

That's it for today.  Those of you  who pledged that you would help, 
please don't let me down - I have stuck out my neck for a big chunk 
of money.  Those of you who didn't pledge, perhaps you'll reconsider. 
My address is:

Thank you so very much - any and all, who have helped and sent me 
your money already, and those of you  who will, or else your nose 
will grow. 

Tomorrow I will tell you more, as promised. 

Your cyber warrior

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:  Fast-track Revisionism 101 can be found at 
http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/8_cartoons.html

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