ZGram - 10/10/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 10

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

October 10, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

It seems I can never quite catch up!  For the past few weeks, I have 
often bunched up my ZGrams - two ZGrams every second day!  I don't 
like being behind so often because I am almost completing my 9th year 
of having done ZGrams - and almost all of the time, punctually.  But 
things are sometimes overwhelming - for instance, yesterday I spent 
more than half of the day just coordinating things between various 
lawyers and trying to keep all the deadlines for meetings, hearings 
etc. straight!  So bear with me, please.  I am doing the very best I 
can.

This morning I finally got to open a few of the many unopened letters 
left on my desk, and I found one I think is appropriate in the wake 
of yesterday's ZGram, only sent out a few minutes ago.  Toward the 
end of this letter, Ernst kind of obliquely apologizes for me, 
knowing that my fuse is getting short.  Never mind, I have weathered 
worse in my life - and I don't quite agree with Ernst's dire 
assessment that things are as bleak as they look.  Not if I can help 
it - and not as long as my friends and readers stick by me!

Here is today's Prisoner of Conscience Letter, written to a 
California friend, well-known to many, called Harvey:

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Dear Harvey, and lovely lady!

Ingrid had told me about the Community News issue discussing my case 
from various angles by various writers/contributors from the far 
corners of the planet.  I am sure that you, once again, were the 
driving force, because I have gotten to know this about you:  If 
something needs to be done, call Harvey!  Otherwise projects get 
talked to death and only get off the ground when the impact will be 
less than if it was done in a timely fashion.  Still, thanks go to 
Mark Weber, Walter Mueller and his brother, Stan Hess, Fredrick 
Töben, Alvin Norberg and some of the people I, of course, don't know!

Harvey, do me a favor - thank everybody involved in this effort, all 
the little people, pensioners, those who are on marginal incomes who 
for decades have loyally carried the burden of Revisionism without 
ever seeking the limelight and thus rarely getting accolades.  From 
my jail cell in Toronto I want to reach out to them, via you, Harvey, 
to shake their hands in spirit, to look them in the eyes and to bow 
my head in gratitude for the help extended to Ingrid and myself in 
this gravest crisis in our lives.

The facts simply are frightening!

To think that the fate, which has befallen us, happened to us in 
America - the land of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin 
Franklin, of Thomas Paine and the land of the First Amendment, of 
habeas corpus and all the other fine protections enshrined in the 
Bill of Rights and the checks and balances anchored in the 
Constitution - is what makes this all such a surreal, nightmarish 
experience!  Despite the two world wars, where through diabolic 
machinations and sinister, behind-the-scenes manipulations, Germany 
and America saw themselves pitted against one another on the bloody 
battle fields of Europe, there remained in me an admiration for 
things American which I held since I was a little boy - and still do, 
after all this! 

Had I not been a Christian pacifist, and had America not had the 
military draft at the time, I would have emigrated to America in a 
heartbeat way back in 1958.  Alas, Canada became my second choice.  I 
did not have to take up arms against my own brothers. 

The rest is history.  You know it well, because you have helped me in 
my unceasing efforts to bring truth to the world, to replace 
propaganda lies with truth in history.  You and that valiant band of 
truth tellers and truth purveyors made my life's work possible.  I 
had long ago exhausted my savings!

I had lost my commercial art business due to a Jewish-instigated 
boycott and because I had to spend months on end in court every day, 
unable to do my customers' work.  Now things are still considerably 
worse!  Before, I could sell my paintings to keep afloat - the arson 
of 1995 destroyed and severely damaged most of the ones left over.  I 
am now incarcerated and cannot tour the country and the world like a 
latter-day Martin Luther, an itinerant preacher, which got me in 
Europe the nickname "Der Bettelmönch" - the begging monk from Canada. 
Ingrid and I are overwhelmed with legal bills which are coming in at 
an alarming rate in America and in Canada - especially now that Doug 
Christie has to resign due to the devastating illness of his wife. 
(...)  Doug and Keltie have two school-age children - 
gorgeous-looking, highly intelligent children, 10-13 years of age.  A 
difficult age!  Keltie home-schooled them, and undoubtedly cannot 
carry on as chemotherapy begins to take its toll. 

Thus, Doug warned me months ago that he may have to step back from 
the case to stay closer to home.  The conditions demand that he do so 
now.  We had a meeting in jail on the 23-24 of September with the old 
and the new legal team.  Doug graciously checked them out for me, and 
they are working side by side to assure a smooth transition in a very 
complex case. 

The problem is money!  It means that now we have to raise the funds 
in Canada alone for four lawyers till around Christmas.  Doug will 
complete the bail and detention hearings on 12-15 December '03 with 
written submissions about the issue of the constitutionality of these 
laws enacted hastily after 9/11 in that period of hysteria created by 
the attacks on New York.  The new lawyers demanded a retainer of 
$20,000 up front, which we of course did not have, since we are 
already tens of thousands of dollars in the hole in America with 
lawyers there.  Ingrid bravely negotiated an installment plan payment 
schedule, but at $200 an hour for each of two new lawyers, the first 
installment has already evaporated, and we are now desperately 
scrambling to scrounge for money to pay the next installments, for we 
dare not lose these lawyers over money.  Two well-known Toronto 
lawyers dumped me within weeks of taking the case, when the first 
newspaper articles appeared and they saw themselves associated with 
the "Zündel-Name".  I don't know what they expected would happen - 
but they dropped me as a client like a hot potato. 

Thus Ingrid and I are in the same position as the German governments 
of the Kaiser and Hitler were in World War I and II.  We have to 
divide our attention and resources between two fronts, the Southern 
and the Northern front.  Different laws, different charges, different 
lawyers.  Were I free to travel, speak, mobilize, explain our 
situation to my supporters in person, or even were I free to paint 
with real colors, I might be able to raise the necessary funds, but 
being in prison with only children's coloring pencils makes it all 
infinitely more difficult - actually in the long run, practically 
impossible. 

Had it not been for the tremendous generosity of people like you, 
(names deleted) and many little people, I would already be in a 
German prison, convicted to a minimum of five years - most likely 
like Günther Deckert to 5, 7, 9, 10, eventually maybe 15-20 years if 
I live that long.  The Germans treat each Internet story or item of a 
"revisionist" nature - regardless if it was posted in Canada, the US, 
Arabia or elsewhere - as a "new crime" in addition to the first five 
years minimum.  A "repeat offender" gets no mercy!

We should not be deceived by the cases of Horst Mahler and Fritjof 
Meyer - two high profile former Leftists who enjoy temporary 
immunity.  I am a different case.  I am responsible for Leuchter's 
Report, and I am known as a defender of Hitler - two cardinal sins! 
Only be remaining in Canada or the USA do I have a chance - to live, 
literally!  Ingrid clings to these [Mahler and Meyer] cases, 
understandably, like a drowning person clutches at a straw.  I feel 
for her.  She is a good woman, a person without guile.  I hope that 
you, Andy and others keep a protective eye on her and understand that 
she is under tremendous stress due to this disaster. 

(Ingrid's comment here:  I passionately disagree!  Ernst has never 
been on the Internet - he has totally depended on what I pulled down 
and printed out for him, and he does not have a comprehensive grasp 
of the enormous changes in attitudes that have swept the world since 
9/11.  I am convinced he sees the world still through pre-9/11 
glasses...) 

The European scene needs time to evolve.  It takes years before 
political changes percolate down to the courts - which means that the 
American vassal regime [in Germany] will enforce its Draconian, 
anti-Revisionist laws to  the degree they have until now, and still 
do every week in lesser-known cases than Mahler and Meyer, as 
illustrated by the grotesque case against the German "Balladier" 
Frank Rennicke defended by Horst Mahler, who lost his case and whose 
life's savings were confiscated despite the fact that they were in 
his wife's name and were a nest-egg to protect his family of five 
children in hard times. 

Now is the time to pull together and be cautious of false rumours, 
backbiting, misunderstandings, of things spoken or written while 
fatigued or under pressure of deadlines, money woes, fears and 
harassment. 

Thank you for being there, Harvey!  I know you were going to retire 
this year or next.  We need you to stay for a while!

All the best,

Ernst Zündel

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