ZGram - 10/4/2003 - "Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 4"
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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
October 4, 2003
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Well, it seems that "Letter to Yvonne" - yesterday's ZGram - is a big
Internet hit! There will be many more like it.
Not many people know that Ernst really has a first class mind and
unusual powers of discernment and analysis, despite his inadequate
formal education in post-World War II Germany. But as long as his
enemies succeed in keeping him in prison, more and more people will.
After all, he is well on the way to becoming the world's Number One
Dissident Icon, as judged by the mail I receive. The other day, one
of our neighbors, who dropped by to say hello, told me that he had
casually mentioned in one of the newsgroups that he was acquainted
with Ernst, and that Ernst had given him a little painting on a wood
block left over from the expansion of our office - and a fellow
Internetter had offered him $1,000 for it, sight unseen!
Nice story. I enjoyed passing it on to Ernst to put some sunshine in his day!
Today's ZGram contains basic information about Ernst's situation
which you have probably heard, by now, close to a dozen times.
However, since I am starting a new information campaign about the
Zundel struggle by letting Ernst speak directly in his own voice so
that the world will understand exactly what his arrest is really all
about, please bear with me. This is for readers new on my list. It
was written to a supporter in Germany - who is, by the way, already a
"second generation" supporter. His father supported the Zundel
struggle for decades, and now that he is old and on a very limited
income, his son has jumped into the breach. We see that more and
more, and it is nice to know that such a continuum exists that
bridges the generations and carries the struggle forward on younger,
stronger shoulders.
The letter is dated July 4, 2003 - true irony! By now, we are
already three months farther down the road, with a new, very bright,
courageous attorney team and added discoveries of wrong-doings and
legal initiatives to read those wrongdoings into the court records.
However, the basic facts still apply.
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Dear Mr. (name deleted because this supporter resides in Germany
where political dissidents land in the slammer just like in Canada
...)
I'll write this letter in English to help out our censors here in the
Canadian prison who have to read all our incoming and outgoing mail.
We have to give the letter unsealed to the guards - exceptions are my
lawyers, some government agencies, ministries etc.
My wife sent me your letter of May 29, 2003 to my prison cell. I
will try to use it as evidence in Federal Court to try to offset some
of the absolutely poisonous atmosphere created against me by the
Canadian Government and its spy agency. I appreciate your going to
the trouble to write that letter for me on my behalf.
For the moment, I am concentrating on the preparation for my defence
[] and will concentrate on whether I can get released on bail, which
I was in all my trials in the past. This is a feature of Anglo-Saxon
law, which has unfortunately "verkümmert" [transl. ... been "crippled
by starvation"] in Germany's legal tradition.
My German lawyer in 1990 told me that in Germany only one out of 100
accused people ever gets set free, pending a trial. Here in Canada,
England, Australia and America it is just the opposite. Only the
very worst of criminals ever are refused bail! That's why, in the
past, from 1983 to 1992, I was released by over a dozen of the judges
on a $10,000 property bond and $1,000 in cash. Never once during
these eleven years did I break any of my bail conditions - yet this
time around, I have been refused bail by the Immigration Department
on five different occasions already!
The day after tomorrow, I will begin my sixth month in a
maximum-security incarceration in a Canadian prison. I have not seen
any of my wife's newsletters. I am in total isolation. I am really
cut off from what is going on in the world outside, even in my own
family.
The law, under which I am held in here is a very complex, only
recently updated law, passed by the Canadian Parliament after the
[9/11] terrorist attacks and their aftermath. The law allows a
Canadian judge of the Federal Court to listen to secret witnesses and
secret evidence, and look at documents, listen to videos, audios -
anything at all! My attorney or I will not be told the names of
these witnesses, and we cannot test the documents to see if they are
forged, edited etc. Therefore, we cannot make intelligent submissions
about these documents [in my defence].
The judge's decision is final. It cannot be appealed or reviewed by
a higher court, not even the Supreme Court of Canada.
Should the judge rule against me, his decision then becomes
automatically a deportation order to Germany. There, a new arrest
warrant was issued against me on 17 February 2003, the day of my
deportation from the United States. This warrant is Europe-wide and
15 pages long. All my alleged "crimes" are Internet-related. All
deal with the Auschwitz Holocaust problem and my defence of the
German regime from 1933-1945.
A minimum of 5 years' imprisonment awaits me in Germany. It could be
7, 9, 12 years with added-on charges, as was done in the case of
Günther Deckert, Udo Walendy and others.
Thus, I have to fight here, as hard as I can, because I know the
legal system better here than in Germany, and there is more
flexibility, with all its faults, in the Anglo-Saxon legal,
tradition-based Canadian system than in the Allied-Occupation imposed
German system.
Parallel to fighting for my release on bail and then against the
National Security Certificate, I have also a constitutional appeal
against these National Security laws slowly making its way through
the legal system all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. If the
Canadian judge does not release me on bail, and if some of my other
legal initiatives undertaken by my wife and my own American lawyers
do not bring any changes in my situation, I will be in a Canadian
prison for years!
Those are the facts I face. It is an uphill battle - the worst I
have yet faced in my life!
Ernst Zündel
P.S. Please excuse the pencil. We are not allowed to use pens in a
Canadian prison.
P.P.S. The Zundelsite.org currently gets between I million to 1.2
million visitors a month who look at an average of 2.5 documents.
That is why the Bonner-Berliner-Bonzen [transl. ... political
bullies] see red when Zundel's name comes up!
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Thought for the Day:
"DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT ERNST ZUNDEL IS STILL ALIVE IN A
TORONTO PRISON? WHAT A WASTE OF THE CANADIAN TAXPAYER'S MONEY! LET'S
HOPE HE DROPS DEAD SOON.
WISHING ALL YOU NAZI ASSHOLES A BAD DAY, John"
(Hate letter to the Zundelsite, dated October 1, 2003 and carefully archived)
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TO MY ZGRAM READERS AND SUPPORTERS:
PLEASE HELP KICK-START THIS SERIES, MEANT AS A FUND-RAISER TO HELP
FREE ERNST ZUNDEL.
FOR ANY DONATION OF $10 or more, you will receive a frameable copy of
a sketch produced in prison by Ernst.
Checks, cash, or money order are okay. I am working on the credit
card situation since PayPal kicked me off after I raised a fair
amount in just a few days for a full-page ad in a major Washington
paper.
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