ZGram - 10/1/2003 - "EZ: Prisoner of Conscience Series starts
today!"
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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
October 1, 2003
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
I am changing my strategy. Rather than recycling articles from other
sources on the Net that you can get on your own with a little
digging, I am going to let Ernst speak to you directly from prison.
You will get to know Ernst Zundel as a complex, versatile, kind and
highly sensitive activist for Truth in History who has never been the
hateful monster the mainstream media made him out to be.
I will do more. On the Zundelsite, www.zundelsite.org I will
juxtapose Ernst's forward-looking ideas and solutions to our
problems-riddled world to the hateful voices of his enemies. People
will be able to see and compare who the real haters are - and draw
their own conclusions about what's really going on.
This ZGram is to let you know some of his thoughts on art and music
in our Western/Christian era. Let me just add that while Ernst has
been fascinated by and deeply involved in the study of Christian art
and Christian music, I would not call him, and he would not call
himself, a "traditional" run-of-the-mill "Christian". As in every
other area of intellectual exploration, Ernst has his own ideas of
what Western Christianity is and is not, what it used to be and what
it has become, how it impacts on our Aryan psyches positively and
negatively.
Stick to us. You will learn something about the nature of
demonization for political purposes - something in which our enemies
excel.
Here is the first installment, excerpted and edited /
Ernst Zundel in a letter to a friend and likewise politically
demonized victim, Malcolm Ross:
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Ernst Zundel: Prisoner Of Conscience in Cell # 5:
Dear Malcolm, Bill and All:
Let me answer your letter of 1 August 2003 and that lovely Eagle
Card. I have been asking Ingrid to keep an eye open for a "Soaring
Eagle" because the art gallery Ingrid and I were on the verge of
opening is called SOARING EAGLES GALLERY.
At first, Ingrid resisted the idea - but eventually, I think, just so
I stopped lobbying her, she gave in. Now that we have a hand-carved,
wooden Soaring Eagle sitting proudly atop our gallery sign by a major
highway, she agrees it looks magnificent. That's why I want to thank
you especially for the card, because it gives me reference material.
The Eagle is the heraldic bird of America, Germany, Austria and
Imperial Russia. Thus there is a bond among brother nations and a
good starter for some interesting conversations with American
tourists who will come to our gallery and book shop where we will
display Ingrid's books - and some others, of course. I also hope to
offer CDs, tapes and videos at Soaring Eagles of the most beautiful
hymns of Christendom sung by vocalists who have the voices of angels,
accompanied by harps and other uplifting instruments.
I had gone to numerous Southern Gospel conventions to hear different
vocalists in person - and tentatively had picked a girl's voice. She
is about 30 years old, from Wisconsin. A beautiful voice! I had
also listened to some local men sing for me. Within a week from the
time of my arrest, I had an appointment with a small company locally
that has state-of-the-art microphones and mixing consoles staffed by
sound engineers. My sudden arrest put a temporary stop to that.
Only temporary!
This is something I wanted to do all my life - and those darned
[Holocaust] trials sidetracked me! Whatever might happen to me,
wherever they ultimately ship me, I will try to produce at least some
of the things I told you about.
I had a fairly extensive sheet music collection, 100 to 200 hymn
books, and a Bible collection going back almost 400 years which I had
bought from all over the world during my travels. They were in
several languages, some were leather-bound. The 1995 arson claimed
them all!
Once I am free again, I am sure that with the help of friends I will
put the word out to help find for me the most inspiring hymns of
Christendom which flow nicely and can be sung easily, and we will
cause a revolution in the Gospel Music market! I am highly offended
by the raucous noise which passes as modern Christian music. I don't
know who is responsible for it, but it is a disgrace to the
Christians of the world! I did not find a single tape - and I bought
hundreds over the last ten years in Christian book-and-music stores -
which I did not find offensive!
"Teuflisch" is the word for it in German! [The word translates as
"devilish" or "demonic"]
I have the same beef when it comes to small, frameable Christian
theme pictures or even images of Christian postcards, wall plaques
etc. There was only a small series in our local, large Christian
book-, poster-, postcard- and music store - and, I kid you not, it
was a stark, black-and-white image of Christ, looking like Charles
Manson! It's true! It looked so grotesque, I protested to the store
owner. She was incredulous!
As my "revenge", I chose a famous copper-engraving print of the
famous German medieval engraver and artist, Albrecht Dürer. There is
a large original Dürer collection in the National Gallery in Ottawa.
The title of it is, in translation, "The Consternation of Christ",
which shows Christ with a beautifully drawn, evocative but, of
course, pained expression wearing his crown of thorns. I proceeded
to hand-color copies with my brushes and airbrush, and once I get
back, I will put them in a prime spot in my gallery! We will start
the counterrevolution right there - in music and art!
I also made some startling graphics with my airbrush in glorious full
color, based on one of my very popular 1960s graphic prints - three
ethereal crosses floating in space. Regardless of where they ship me
ultimately, I will produce a series of these paintings.
If I can get released on bail and can even spend a few months still
in freedom in Canada, I will make new masters here, have them printed
by my contacts and have them hanging in my gallery in less than two
months after my release - and have them marketed on the Internet to
boot! And that will be only for starters!
So you see - the Soaring Eagle might be caged for the moment, but my
spirit is free!
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TO MY ZGRAM READERS AND SUPPORTERS:
HELP KICK-START THIS SERIES, MEANT AS A FUND-RAISER TO HELP FREE ERNST ZUNDEL.
FOR ANY DONATION OF $10 or more, you will get a frameable copy of a
sketch produced in prison.
Checks, cash, or money order are okay. I am working on the credit
card situation since PayPal kicked me off after I raised $9,000 in
just a few days for a full-page ad in a major Washington paper.
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