ZGram - 10/27/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 27

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October 27, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This morning, when I checked www.rense.com as I do every day, I saw 
that John Kaminski, a dissident Internet writer, had already placed 
one of Ernst's letters.  Since not all of you read Rense, I bring it 
to you for good measure - slightly edited, of course, since my 
sweetheart has some maddening habits of punctuation and putting into 
quotations what he deems important, not realizing that to frame 
something in quotations (unless it is actual speech) negates the very 
emphasis he is trying to make.  I have explained this concept many 
times, but habit is habit with Ernst.  It's no small feat, believe 
me, to break a Zundel habit!

Here is that letter, prefaced by John Kaminski's comments:

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Falsely imprisoned in the Zionist gulag, Revisionist hero says
it's up to us to take America back from the brink

By John Kaminski
skylax at comcast.net

and Ernst Zündel,
prisoner of conscience

Ernst Zündel still languishes in a Canadian jail, in solitary 
confinement, denied of many of the basic privileges most prisoners, 
even actual criminals, take for granted.

A true hero of the Holocaust Revisionist movement for his outspoken 
opposition to the official Zionist version of World War II, Zundel 
was kidnapped by U.S. INS agents in February on the pretext of 
missing a scheduled appointment (Zündel claims he knew nothing about 
it), spirited off to Canada (where he resided for 42 years), and 
faces deportation to Germany and a long prison term, because in 
Germany it is against the law to contradict the Jewish version of 
what precisely happened during World War II.

In his Canadian prison ordeal, Zündel is not allowed to hear the 
evidence against him, who the witnesses are, or even what the 
accusations are. This procedure, permitted by Canadian anti-terrorist 
legislation, cancels the basic right under Anglo-Saxon common law of 
the defendant to know the charges against him, to face his accusers 
and to challenge their evidence in order to make a full and complete 
defense.

Canadian authorities allege that Zündel, while not personally
violent, is a terrorist and supports serious acts of violence in 
Canada or abroad.

Zündel, an award-winning artist and videographer, was Canada's 
best-known revisionist. For publishing a slim booklet entitled "Did 
Six Million Really Die?" he was twice put on trial and convicted on a 
charge of spreading "false news."

  It is important to understand that those who reject the Holocaust 
story do not dispute that large numbers of Jews were deported to 
concentration camps and ghettos, and that many Jews were killed 
during the Second World War. Every serious revisionist acknowledges 
that Europe's Jews suffered a catastrophe during the Hitler years. 
They were ruthlessly uprooted, taken from their homes, and herded 
into horribly overcrowded ghettos and miserable concentration camps, 
where many of them perished. Their property and their rights were 
taken away.

While conceding all of this, the men and women who have testified on 
Zündel's behalf have articulated their reasons for rejecting the idea 
that there was a German program to exterminate Europe's Jews, and for 
disbelieving the stories about mass killings in gas chambers.

Recently, in response to a copy of my book I sent him, Zündel sent me 
this letter.

•••

12 October 03, Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend

Ernst Zündel, Toronto West Detention Center
111 Disco Road, Box 4950
Rexdale, ON M9W 1M3 CANADA

Dear Mr. Kaminski,

For some reason, I feel drawn to use the familiar "John", although I 
abhor the all-too-easy chumminess and often inappropriate use of a 
person's first name!  Ingrid, my wife, who is an ardent reader of 
your writings, feels the same way about this habit of familiarity, 
which was typical for Americans, but has now made tremendous inroads 
in Canada and even Germany, where young people now address people 
like myself, or my wife, in the term formerly reserved for parents, 
siblings, relatives, or very close friends - the word DU and in 
French tu.

For almost a month, I have had your angry book, a collection of 
essays titled "America's Autopsy Report," by my bunk made of a 
concrete slab in my isolation cell in solitary confinement in this 
prison - the new Canadian Gulag.  I  have read, re-read - and after I 
was finally granted the privilege of a yellow marker after eight 
months solitary confinement - I [have] marked some of the things I 
wanted to raise with you.  The problem is, I can only send eight 
pages of these pencil-written notes.  No ball point pens or any other 
pens are allowed in Canadian prisons. So please forgive the 
difficulty in reading this.

I feel inadequate to communicate my thoughts to you, given the 
handicaps described and the fact that in Canada, unlike the USA, an 
inmate's outgoing mail is also read by prison censors! In America 
this used to be a federal crime, punished by up to 8-10 years 
imprisonment. I am not sure if this has also been affected by the 
Constitution/Bill of Rights-busting provisions of the Patriot Act. 
Thus, as you read these next few pages, reflect under what physical 
and mental constraints I am writing you! Always remember this context 
in every word, phrase and thought.

I don't know how much, or how little, and from what sources you may 
have gathered or gleaned whatever you do know about me. I hope I am 
not boring you with stuff you already know.  Your writings reveal a 
keen appreciation of many of the topics you and I are and obviously 
have been interested in for decades. It seems that I must be somewhat 
older than you are, for your political awakening seems to have taken 
form in the early 1970s; with me it was in the late 1950s and early 
1960s.

I had the "benefit" of [having been] born at the outbreak of WWII and 
having vivid recollections of the Allied wartime bombings, [as well 
as] what Americans and the Allies imposed on Germany - after they did 
to the Germans what has unfortunately been "their" pattern or modus 
operandi in every war ever since. That saves me a lot of "pencil 
stubs," for I can see from your passionate writings at least an 
intellectual understanding of what war and subsequent unconditional 
surrender meant to Germany and her allies, both for civilians and 
also the defeated and disarmed military forces and support personnel.

You are undoubtedly familiar with James Barques' books about 
Eisenhower's death camps, so I won't bore you with that war crime!  I 
said to my wife that John Kaminski is a "work in progress," as we 
artists say, while we labour on a particularly multi-faceted painting 
with lots of detail and nuances.

For instance: I was going to write you about that often grotesquely 
mangled and misquoted "Big Lie" authorship, usually laid at Hitler's 
and/or Joseph Goebbels' feet, and I was more than pleased to read 
your rock-bottom honesty in setting the record straight after a 
Canadian correspondent drew your attention to the real facts.  That 
one act did more to elevate you in my eyes than many of the other 
very courageous acts you undertook in your writings. You say stuff, 
John Kaminski, that most of the intellectuals of this world hardly 
dare to think - never mind write!   It's downright HEROIC!

Your comments on page 180 of your book - "America's Autopsy Report" - 
further cemented this perception of you in my mind that here is a man 
who is not afraid of "calling a spade a spade," [who] can admit 
errors. A rare quality.

Once this gets past the various censors, not only inside this place 
but those other government snoops who lie in wait for any Zündel mail 
(read Andrew Mitrovica's book "Covert Entry" about how the 
authorities intercept my mail, and how they have analyzed and 
dissected it for the last 20 years), you will get to appreciate that 
the "Patriot Act" has only officially admitted and now sanctions what 
has been going on in Canada, Germany and you can bet the USA for over 
50 years! More like since 1914!

You are on to most of the rackets and con-jobs already!

I was pleased that you understand or suspect the role played by the 
effects of drugs and electronic conditioning (p. 99) and that with 
all your anger, frustration, even fury at what is happening to 
America, you put your finger on where some of the root causes lie ... 
"It's the support systems that enslave us and keep us dependent on 
our corporate keepers. WE NEED TO EAT FOOD WE GROW IN OUR BACKYARDS, 
NOT BUY FROM SUPERMARKET CHAINS."

This innocuous phrase encompasses a revolutionary act in today's 
context. It's the first sentence in a new, not-yet-written 
"Declaration of Individual Independence," a supreme and basic act of 
self-liberation.  Not only does it make a person more self-reliant 
and gives a family more nourishing food, which will within months, at 
most years, lead to far-healthier thinking, logic, but also [results 
in] a natural suspicion (not induced paranoia) that comes with good, 
wholesome food, outdoor activity - like digging over a garden and 
field, fresh air, appreciation of man's interconnnection to the 
earth, soil, elements, the cycle of nature and life! It means a new 
healthy survival instinct will be a byproduct of this 
back-to-the-basics, reconnect-with-nature process.

It has been my observation, John Kaminski, that the easiest people to 
confuse and con with a torrent of nice-sounding phrases are [the 
ones] uprooted from the land, citified populations, the world over! 
The toughest customers to convince are usually peasants; they are 
some of the most CONSERVATIVE and realistic common-sense guided 
people. I am not saying "all"! I have met my share of shallow or 
stupid farmers — but a far larger number of farmers will spot a con 
man or a Ponzi scheme quicker than city slickers will.

     Since I am not God nor a prophet, and with my soon-to-be-dull 
pencil stub can only touch on the bare essentials, I cannot and would 
not presume to give you advice, John Kaminski.  Let me just submit a 
few thoughts, so that you can dwell on them, mull them over, and then 
come to your own conclusions if what I submit to you is worthy of 
consideration.

John, I do this based on a 40-year career as an artist, reporter, 
writer and broadcaster, both for radio and television.  You can grant 
me that I have been around the block, as it were, and have been 
interviewed by the most famous [media hosts] - from the legendary Joe 
Pine, Long John Nebel in the 1960s to Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes in 
the 1990s.  I have broadcast and even interviewed more than 2,000 
people on radio and over 500 TV shows, which is one of the chief 
reasons I am called a National Security Threat in this country.  All 
the grilling in court, for months on end already, has been mainly 
about people I have known and interviewed, because some of those 
interview subjects were "decided underdogs".  Many of them were, or 
at least declared themselves to be, political or alternative 
thinkers, activists and innovators, be it in religion, politics or 
the health and nutrition field.  That's why your book, "A.A. Report," 
and your other Internet essays strike such a chord - because for me 
it's a case of deja vú, of "been there, done that."

Having researched, questioned, and allowed to give voice to some of 
[my guests'] ideas, I have come to the conclusion that all the anger 
and frustration, all the eloquent manifestos, all the tirades on late 
night talk shows, on patriotic short wave and now Internet radio are 
only a safety valve for ourselves, to vent some of the pent-up 
frustration, like you did in "America's Autopsy Report."  If I may be 
so vulgar and say it, it is "emotional and verbal masturbation," not 
leading to conception and the subsequent birth of a promising new 
life. It dissipates into the ether, and -  I am living, incarcerated 
proof! - draws the attention of the agencies of the new police state 
and sets one up for "Sonderbehandlung," as it was called in WWII. 
Now in American and Canada, it is called "special treatment," [such 
as] I and my fellow victims in Canada get who face daily secret 
evidence, secret witness in-camera hearings, where only government 
lawyers and prosecutors, together with the presiding specially 
designated federal judge, get to hear and see this secret evidence. 
The accused and his attorney never are told what his or her accusers 
said!

This then is the fate of me, a man of ideas, a dissident publisher 
and broadcaster, who from the 1960s onward has spent an entire career 
stressing evolution and not revolution, stressing the non-violent 
change of society via ideas!

I have had years and years of court appearances and merciless 
interrogations by all manner of police, immigration, RCMP, FBI - you 
name it, I've had it,  all long before the Patriot Act and its 
Canadian version were ever foisted on a gullible citizenry!  I have 
been bombed, my home and business burned to the ground. I was knocked 
to the ground outside court by Jewish mobs in full view of the media 
and police, and I battled for my right to speak and write in Canada, 
Germany, and now the USA as well.  So you could say  that as far as 
the "democratic countries" or the "Western democracies" are 
concerned, I did help write the book on freedom of speech, freedom of 
thought, and of freedom of assembly.  You could say like it says in 
the song, "I did it my way."

I once kept track of the readership, listenership, and viewership of 
the claimed audiences of all the papers, radio and TV shows I 
appeared on in one year. It was way in excess of 500 million people - 
for one year! That was before I had my own radio and TV, and 
satellite and public access shows.  My wife tells me that the visitor 
count to the Zundelsite shot up to 1.2 million in the months after my 
arrest in the U.S. and my deportation to Canada. An average of 2.4 
pages were looked at by each visitor - so that's a respectable number 
in anybody's book!

And yet, I believe that the humble mother who decides to go to the 
inconvenience and often nerve-straining trouble to homeschool her 
brood of children accomplishes more in the long run, as does the 
father who toils in his garden to bring healthful produce to the 
kitchen table, than all the words that I have uttered!  The potential 
outcome and benefit to society of a healthy mind, dwelling in a 
healthy body, brought about by healthy, wholesome, organically and 
lovingly grown and harvested "fuel" - high-octane nourishment - will 
be like a secret weapon of sanity unleashed against a confused herd 
of mindless cattle heading for the slaughterhouse.

Thus John, I would beg you, be careful in your blanket condemnation 
of ALL Americans, or of "America being a nation of liars, bullies, 
conmen, crooks, mindless robots, jackbooted enforcers, crooked 
judges, beholden prosecutors and grovelling whores and sellouts in 
the Congress and Senate."  If anybody has earned the right, or at 
least could be expected to espouse such unflattering epithets, then 
I, the marginalized, vilified, handcuffed, leg-ironed, deported 
German immigrant, could claim for myself the right to lash back, to 
ease my own pain, and assuage my own psyche.  I try desperately, in 
the solitude of my unenviable existence, not to allow this short 
circuit of my soul. I do not want my enemies to warp my being by 
their unconscionable actions against me.

John, I would urge you, one of the most evocative, skilled writers I 
have read in this crucial time: Do not offend and thus neutralize a 
vast segment, untold millions undoubtedly, by your anger, your hurt, 
and your disappointment at the failings and shortcomings -  and I 
admit, the criminal behavior - of some, and the silent acquiescence 
of millions of others in America!

You can, of course, say to me:  "I am an American.  These are 
Americans, my people, acting in my name..." etc.  You can, and 
obviously do feel an almost holy wrath of Biblical proportions 
against these unsavoury elements within the American body politic 
[and] American society.  I, the German immigrant, torn from my 
American citizen wife's side so cruelly, recognize all the signs of 
decay and decline, even of degeneration, all around us. I am not 
blind, and my heart bleeds for the unfulfilled promise and the 
unrealized dream America could have been - and, I say defiantly, 
STILL CAN BE - if we, all of us who are alert, WILL IT TO BE, and 
make it come about by our individual actions, our rededication to the 
core values:  good, solid, honest, eternal values of honesty, hard 
work, self-reliance, foresight, frugality, discernment, and common 
sense.

John, you said it yourself - millions of Americans took to the 
streets to protest a war — before it happened!  These millions of 
Americans [are] of all races, nationalities and ages.  I saw lots of 
young people at those demonstrations, John - they saw through the 
lies, the concocted intelligence reports; they had more sense and 
more guts and more idealism and, yes John, they were motivated by a 
new kind of mature patriotism that was not silenced by any amount of 
[the] government's invoking the flag and phony claims of "national 
security" repeated like mantras by the kept corporate media. 
Millions saw through it.

     That, John, is your and our constituency.

     Imagine how these many millions of dedicated, hard-working, 
overtaxed, and constantly lied to and emotionally blackmailed decent 
people must feel when someone calls all of American in fact "evil" - 
that includes them, John.  It's a gross oversimplification, and 
insult to the untold millions who are as yet voiceless because an 
oligarchy of evil batters [battens?] on them.  They are hapless 
victimes, chafing at the bit, waiting to be liberated from their 
myriad oppressors.

John, [that is] the way I see it as an outsider, now cooped up in a 
6x9 solitary confinement jail cell - where the lights are on day and 
night, guards come to write down all my actions, movements, every 20 
minutes, 24 hours a day, where I get 10 minutes of fresh air by 
myself in a concreted-over, totally enclosed prison yard, where no 
one speaks to me for days, sometimes weeks, where all visits and 
phone calls have to be pre-approved.  The way I see it is not to let 
our anger and frustration get the better of us.  [Instead we must] 
carefully separate the perpetrators from the victims, then coalesce 
the energies of the victims, one step at a time, against their 
tormentors and victimizers - by showing them and explaining to them 
who their enemies are, where they hide, what methods the oppressors 
use to enslave them from credit cards to installment payments, to 
"easy home mortgages," etc.  Then [we must] educate them how 
Aspartame and other chemicals in their food and drinks are used to 
control them, to dumb them down, to make them more easily manipulated 
- and once you have alerted them to the problems, give them some 
simple solutions — like you did when you said we should grow our own 
food. You can't do that in cities - explain to them that they can 
rent garden plots.  It was done in two World Wars.

John, we are at war - the war for the heart and soul of America and 
the whole Western world is now raging.  I say the enemies of mankind 
declared it.  Now it is up to us, each one of us, one step and one 
neighbor and, in your case, one reader at a time, to take America 
back from the brink.  Legalizing pot is not the answer, John - that's 
largely how the 1960s revolution was channeled into nothingness. 
"Turn on and tune out" was what they did - victims of those same 
corrupt servants of the military-industrial complex and media 
complex.  Each one of us has the power in [our] heads, [our] hearts 
and [our] individual families to issue to [ourselves our] their very 
own Declaration of Food and Lifestyle Independence.  Good food will 
lead to sound thinking, solid health, mental and spiritual 
independence — and America and the West will be saved.

     All the best.

     E. Zündel

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     John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a 
collection of his Internet essays. For more information, see 
<http://www.johnkaminski.com/>http://www.johnkaminski.com/

     For more information about Ernst Zündel, see 
http://www.zundelsite.org/ez.html

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