ZGram - 11/6/2003 - "Remember the simulated Zundel trial in one of Ontario's high schools?"

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

November 6, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

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Well, lo and behold!  Remember the Zgram of some three weeks ago 
where I informed my readers that Ernst Zundel had been found innocent 
in a simulated high school court defended by a tenth grader who 
played defense attorney?  The vote was 7 to 2, and the young lady was 
euphoric. 

It didn't take long, and a panicky tenth grader wrote back and told 
me that there was a huge uproar at her school because I had published 
her letter.  The kid was terrified! 

Here is the Zgram that offended:

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

October 17, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I interrupt the Prisoner of Conscience Letter series to bring you 
this sweet story.  I already told you part of it, but for the sake of 
completion and in order to frame the heart-warming ending, I am 
running the first parts again.

As you know, there are always requests sent to the Zundelsite for 
interviews, for revisionist material, for verification of certain 
revisionist claims etc.  Ever more frequently, such requests come not 
only from college and university students but also from high school 
students.  I have become wary of such requests because often these 
kids want a quick fix so they don't have to do the research for their 
homework.  Also, not infrequently, our ever-cunning foes like to 
throw monkey wrenches into our paths, hoping they will catch us at 
some careless communication so they can run shrieking to "Hate 
Squads" and such and charge us with "contaminating" our youth with 
"anti-semitism."

Therefore, when I received the following, replete with some typos, I 
took it with a grain of salt:

"Hello, I am a student in 10th grade, and doing some research for the 
Zundel Case. In class we are having a make-believe court house.  I 
was assigned the task of a "lawyer", in the defense of Zundel and 
proving his sentence was unjust.  I did some research, but I couldn't 
excatly find what I wanted.  When I searched on the internet most of 
them were news articles.  From these articles I was getting a feel 
that I was only recieving one side of the story.  I didn't really 
find information on Zundel himself.  I was wondering if you can send 
me some information on Zundel, like a little biography.  Maybe when 
he was born, what he liked when he was little, what he was taught, 
and excatly how he came to his ideas today.  And I also need some 
information on the excat info he based his views on.  If you can send 
me some more information that would be greatly appreciated.  I kind 
of need it by tommrow, so the sooner you reply the better.  We will 
be having the make-believe court on Thursday of this week.  Sorry for 
such short notice!"

I replied to make sure I had a legitimate inquiry from a young person 
with a challenging sample of homework:

"Tell me your real name, your teacher's name, and what school you go 
to, so I can check you out. We get a lot of phony requests, and I 
don't have time to follow them all. I will be glad to help legitimate 
requests.

"There is a lot of bio information on the Zundelsite at 
http://www.zundelsite.org/ez.html

"I would also appreciate some feedback on how the make-believe 
courthouse reenactment went."

Back came a speedy answer:

"Hi again, you wanted to know some more information about me.  My 
name is **(censored at request of school)**, and I'm in grade 10. 
This class that I'm doing this project for is called Academic 
Encounters (civics and careers).  I attend **(censored at request of 
school)**, which is loacted in Burlington, Ontario.  And I don't want 
to disclose my teacher's name, b/c I don't know if she would be 
comfortable that one of her students is disclosing her name. 
(hopefully u kind of understand this) So I don't know? Please send me 
some information! The make-believe court is tommrow, and 1st period 
which means class starts at 8:15.  So sooner the information the 
better! Sorry for the short notice again!"

I only saw this this mid-morning on Thursday, so there was no time to 
send additional information.   I had given this student a link that 
might be helpful, and she was on her own.  I went on about my 
business.   I certainly didn't expect that there would be a follow-up.

But lo and behold:

"Hello, the court re-actment went really good today.  The defense 
won, which is me and one of my friends. I think it was the way we 
argued, which shot out the prosecution.  We gave solid evidence that 
the ideas that Mr. Zundel believed in was not only his own opinion, 
but rather a historical argument based on real facts.  We also used 
the law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Universal Declaration of 
Rights, section 17, which supports freedom of opinion, right to 
express your on thoughts..so on and so on.  Basically prosection said 
that everybody has a right to their own security, and that Mr. 
Zundel's views threaten the security of Jewish people.  That was 
basically what they repeatedly kept saying.  The vote went 7 to 2. 
(vote meaning, the supreme court's justices' votes)  See some of the 
other members in my class were the Justices of Supreme Court.  It was 
really interesting to learn about this case, and thank you for the 
link to the biography.  I wish you all the best for you and Mr. 
Zundel."

I think this is remarkable!  This tenth-grader, probably around 
sixteen years old, has figured out what the Zionist-infested 
Government of Canada, as well as the beholden Canadian media, can't 
seem to figure out!

THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE CASE IS IN THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE!

Be proud of this young lady!

Not all is lost as yet when there is still that kind of independence 
of mind and generosity of heart despite one of the most vicious, 
decades-long media vilification campaigns that our Neighbor to the 
North has ever unleashed on an innocent man!  And let us hope that, 
for once, the Internet Jews we know all too well will refrain from 
insulting and sullying this kid with their smut they always have 
ready in buckets!

Ingrid Zundel


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Exactly as I feared!  I don't know the details of what transpired at 
her school, but shortly thereafter I received a stern official email 
signed by the school's principal and vice-principal, followed by a 
snail mail written on High School stationary and, hence, in the 
public domain:

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October 21, 2003

Dear Ms. Zundel:

On October 18, 2003 a letter titled "I interrupt this Prisoner of 
Conscience SeriesŠ"  written by Ingrid Rimland was published by the 
zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org site.  In this letter, the name of a 
student from this school was published.

The student request, school assignment, and subsequent follow up note 
from the student have been misrepresented and misused by this site 
and its author.  The communication from the student was used without 
the student's knowledge or permission or that of the student's 
parents. 

This letter is to inform you that the names of the student, school 
and location are to be removed from this site immediately.  In no way 
and at no time has this student, the school, or the school board 
supported the positions espoused by Mr. Zundel or anyone connected 
with his organization.

I look forward to your expeditious response to this letter.

Yours truly,

M. J. Dick-Westerby
Principal

D. Boag
Vice Principal


cc:D. Tutton, Superintendent
   L. Rudner, Canadian Jewish Congress
   A. Bromberg, Human Rights, B'nai Brith Canada
   Student and Parents

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Sad, isn't it?  One could say a lot - and perhaps some of my Zgram 
readers will feel moved to respond to these two eager beaver school 
administrators falling all over themselves to please Canada's 
ever-vigilant censors .  If so, the emails to respond are these two 
addresses: dickwesterbym at hdsb.ca, boagd at hdsb.ca . 

Please copy your letters to me because this episode, too, is part of 
the public record of our struggle against rampant and irresponsible 
censorship and will be studied and evaluated by future generations. 

Let me say this, to underline that I am speaking with authority:  In 
the 1970s and 1980s, I worked for years as an educational 
psychologist in public schools, with thousands of children and 
hundreds of school administrators.  I also had a private practice, an 
award-winning newspaper column called "Children in Focus" - widely 
read! - and vast experience as an educational consultant to parents, 
teachers, and administrators in some 5 California school districts 
and 40 public as well as private schools.  I know whereof I speak.

Without having tested her, I can vouch that this young lady who wrote 
to me is one of those rare, gifted kids who has an independent mind, 
a courteous  disposition, good research skills, a sense of justice 
and fair play, charisma and, yes, courage.  That kind of mind is 
precious.  It belongs to the future of Canada.  It is a moral crime 
to sully and to stifle it with censorship. 

Through this censorship episode, this youngster has been gravely 
injured in her judgment and moral equilibrium.   She has been injured 
not by me and certainly not by having read about Ernst Zundel - she 
has been injured by the very people who are entrusted in the sacred 
duty to guard and cherish her emotional and intellectual well-being. 

She has been made to think that what she did was wrong.  It wasn't 
wrong.  She showed more common sense, respect for facts, and 
reverence for justice than most grown people in Canada's court system 
and media. 

I am attaching to this Zgram an important document.  I formally 
request that a copy of this document is given to the school board 
members, to the parents, and to the student herself.  She is old 
enough to read it, and she will not turn into a frog. 

It is the text of an ad that was published in the Washington Times a 
few weeks ago.  It explains who Ernst Zundel is, what this Freedom of 
Speech struggle is really all about - and what it is costing Canadian 
taxpayers, not only in money but freedom.  This ad was confiscated by 
Canada Customs, believe it or not.  Why?  Beats me!  Might Canadians 
find out some facts about Ernst Zundel his detractors would just as 
soon sweep under the rug - that, maybe, he doesn't have horns?

Further, I will take the liberty of copying this correspondence to 
the town's daily newspaper.  Perhaps, in censor-happy Canada, there's 
going to be a follow-up, if miracles still happen.

Ingrid Rimland Zündel, Ed.D.






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This is Ad # 3.  That is the one Canada Customs confiscated for 
investigation as "hate speech."

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  An Open Letter to the Congressional Judiciary Committee, headed by
  Congressman James Sensenbrenner, to investigate the political
  kidnapping of Ernst Zundel

  This is the third in a series of ads planned to inform America's
  leaders and the public at large about the arrest and "deportation" of
  my husband, Ernst Zündel. Additional ads are planned in Russia,
  Germany and Japan.

  My first ad, titled "An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin" (6-12-03)
  was meant to illustrate that Stalinist tactics have come to
  America.  My second ad, titled "An Open Letter to the Senate and
  Congress of the United States", (9-7-03) was a graphic description of
  how a brutal, politically motivated kidnapping was carried out.  This
  ad takes my campaign for basic human rights yet one step further - to
  free my husband, and to warn America.

  I have been cautioned not to mention America's most powerful taboo.
  Instead, I quote from a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times,
  (9-10-03) written by one Nelson Marans, that was published in
  response to my second ad - it mentions the taboo for me:

  "While paid advertisements may be the financial lifeblood for many
  newspapers, I would have hoped that The Washington Times would have
  displayed more selectivity when confronted by an advertisement from a
  Holocaust denier [page A7, Sunday]. Convicted of that crime in
  Germany and guilty of spreading his message of hate throughout the
  world, Ernst Zundel is not misunderstood and a victim, but instead an
  advocate of religious and racial hatred. He supports the
  extermination of not only Jews, but blacks and any other members of
  so-called inferior races."  (Nelson Marans, Silver Spring)

  When a charge that serious is being made about an ad I placed, I am
  entitled to a full reply.  Moreover, I will pay for it so I can state
  it fully.  What I have to say, below, is part of the public record
  and can be verified by anyone.

  My husband has NEVER supported "... the extermination of not only
  Jews, but blacks and any other members of so-called inferior races" -
  That is called libel and is actionable!  With this ad, in a still
  semi-free America where an accused has the right, we all assume, to
  set the record straight, I take this opportunity to do precisely
  that.

  It is true that Ernst Zundel, a German nationalist, has been a
  political activist all of his adult life, speaking up for his
  people's maligned World War II generation.  Insisting on a balanced
  view of history based on documented evidence is not "spreading
  hatred" - most people would call it Free Speech.

  Ernst  was only six years old at the end of World War II.  He came to
  Canada while still a teenager and lived there for more than 40 years.
  He chose Canada because it did not require conscription since, raised
  as a Christian, he abhorred war and any kind of violence, and he has
  never changed his mind.  As he has put it, then and since, "I won't
  take up a gun at governments' behest to kill another human being who
  has done me no harm."

  With an innate artistic talent and excellent training in graphic
  arts, acquired in the ruins of bombed-out, postwar Germany, Ernst
  very quickly became wealthy - and seriously concerned about an
  increasingly hysterial crescendo of post-World War II propaganda
  against the country of his birth.

  At first, his activism was a part-time hobby.  In 1967, he decided to
  get into mainstream political action, largely in token protest
  against ethnic vilification of the country that he loved.  He was an
  immigrant, the youngest candidate ever in the history of Canada to
  run for political office as head of the Liberal Party - which, had he
  won, would have automatically entitled him to become  Prime Minister.
  In an address to a live audience of 25,000, he pleaded for an end to
  anti-German hate propaganda and for Germany's reunification.

  Shortly thereafter, to his amazement, his then pending application
  for Canadian citizenship was turned down, even though his record of
  conduct was spotless, and citizenship was routinely granted to
  successful immigrants.

  A promising mainstream political career thus cut short, he turned to
  non-violent street activism, mostly picketing of movie houses and
  print media.  By then, he had a following of mostly European
  immigrants from many different countries.  His name became a
  household word, not only in Canada but increasingly abroad.

  Never once did he or his supporters resort to any form of violence,
  either in speech or in action.  The record speaks for itself.

  In the early 1980s, the Canadian government arbitarily and
  dictatorially denied Ernst his postal privileges.  It ruined his
  lucrative graphic arts studio but broadened his political appeal and
  brought him scores of free speech supporters from all over the world.

  After a prolonged and very costly legal struggle, he won his postal
  privileges back.  A Government-sponsored Postal Tribunal ruled
  tersely that the Canadian government should keep its nose out of "...
  a conflict between two peoples, the Germans and the Jews."

  Next, his German passport was revoked and stayed revoked for many
  years.  Documents obtained by his attorneys through the  Freedom of
  Information Act revealed to his astonishment how much his ever more
  vociferous opponents feared the Zundel Truth-in-History campaign, and
  how seriously he was being taken by the powers in and behind several
  governments.  He says today:  "Scales fell from my eyes!"

  In November of 1983, a well-known, wealthy Holocaust survivor
  brought criminal charges against Ernst for "spreading false news"
  under the Canadian Criminal Code's ancient Section 177, a law that
  dated from 12th Century England.  More than 800 years ago, this law
  had  protected England's aristocracy from wandering minstrels
  chanting ditties against the powers-that-be.  Only twice before had
  it been used in Canada.

  Videos exist of the subsequent seven-week trial that show how Ernst,
  his legal team and friends were being threatened, pushed, beaten and
  spat on as they fought their way into the court house, while a
  frenzied mob, waving sticks and brandishing canes, hissed and
  screamed obscenities at the top of their lungs.  One reporter from
  the Toronto Sun wrote that Ernst was "...winning the battle of images
  by mere contrast of behaviour."

  Next, a bomb exploded in Ernst's garage.  Jewish circles contacted
  the media and claimed responsibility.  Police chose not to follow up.

  Ernst Zundel lost that first trial, but upon appeal the judge was
  found to be biased.  A new trial was ordered.  This trial commenced
  in 1988.  It lasted almost four months.  Ernst paid for his defense,
  as he had done before, and has done ever since.  The tax payers of
  Canada paid for the prosecution - by the millions!

  Right at the start of this new trial, the judge took judicial notice
  - which means, in layman's terms, that the historical event known as
  the Holocaust, as claimed, was a historical "given" - and could not
  be put to the test.  This ruling made a conviction a foregone
  conclusion.

  "Before this judge, in this court, the battle is hopeless," Doug
  Christie, defense attorney, told Ernst.  "I can't win it for you."

  "This one," replied Ernst, "is not for myself.  This one will be my
  gift to history."

  This trial made history.  It gathered court witnesses and experts
  from all over the world - for no other reason than to document and,
  thus, cement their testimony in court transcripts.  One crucial
  outcome was the Leuchter Report, a global bestseller, obtained after
  a forensic investigative team flew to Auschwitz in then still
  Communist Poland.  The Leuchter Report was a milestone.

  Since judicial notice precluded  victory, Ernst lost this trial as
  well, but after many appeals and a great deal of legal struggle and
  yet more millions spent on both sides, the Supreme Court of Canada
  exonerated him.  After 9 years of costly litigation, the highest
  court in Canada said this:

  "Section 2(b) of the Charter protects the rights of a minority to
  express its view, however unpopular it may be. ...The content of the
  communication is irrelevant.  The purpose of the guarantee is to
  permit free expression to the end of promoting truth, political or
  social participation, and self-fulfillment.  That purpose extends to
  the protection of minority beliefs which the majority regards as
  wrong or false."

  The highest court of Canada had spoken.  In a sane world this would
  have been the end.  Ernst certainly believed it.  Now he could turn
  to his first love and do what he had always longed to do - open an
  art gallery somewhere up in the mountains.

  Within four days, he was re-charged - this time under Canada's
  infamous Hate Laws.  The government, however, refused to carry
  through.  There were several more attempts, always with a new twist,
  to charge him with a hate crime.  The charges never stuck, for Ernst
  is not a hateful man - and he has the record to prove it.

  Thus having been cleared of all charges, Ernst decided to re-apply
  for Canadian citizenship.  The Globe and Mail reported that his
  application was "flawless".

  Again he was turned down.  Again, no explanation.

  In the fall of 1994, the Zundel-Haus, as it was known, became the
  target of 24-hour telephone terror, violent demonstrations, and
  postering of flyers across Toronto by the thousands with explicit
  instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails.  These flyers cited
  the Zündel-Haus address and showed Ernst's face in the crosshairs of
  a rifle.  Police looked the other way and never charged anyone for
  incitement to murder.  Privately, a policeman warned Ernst that the
  word had gone out that $800 would get him "bumped off".

  In the early morning of the 50th anniversary of Germany's defeat and
  surrender, May 8, the Zundel-Haus went up in flames.  Had Ernst been
  home, he would have been killed.  Invaluable documents, letters and
  books were destroyed.  Even though the arsonist was caught on video
  and his name and whereabouts were known and turned over to the
  police, there was no follow-up.

  This act of violence was followed 10 days later first by an
  AIDS-laced razor blade in the mail and then by a parcel bomb which,
  had it exploded, would have killed everyone in a radius of 300 feet.

  Ernst rebuilt the Zundel-Haus - bigger, better and stronger - with
  the help of his freedom-of-speech friends from all over the world.

  Since criminal charges didn't stick, Ernst's opponents turned to
  Human Rights legislation, focusing on cyberspace.  It would go too
  far, and be too tedious, to describe the subsequent 5-year cyberspace
  censorship battle in various Canadian courtrooms, the outcome of
  which was a Human Rights Tribunal Stalinist verdict:  "Truth is no
  defense"!

  This ruling shocked Ernst to the core.  He now knew that there was no
  way he could win his case in the courts of Canada.  Moreover, he had
  made his mark.  Historical  revisionism had made spectacular inroads.
  Revisionist papers, books, seminars, symposia were sprinkled across
  hundreds of websites in cyberspace and seriously studied in colleges
  and universities, even in the embassies of countries that mattered.
  The information was out in the open - it would be up to the people to
  draw their own conclusions.  Ernst decided his part of the struggle
  was done.

  By that time, Ernst Zundel and I were married and had settled in the
  hills of Tennessee, in looks reminiscent of his homeland in the Black
  Forest.  Here he would do what he had always longed to do - create in
  his own gallery and use his artistic talent to add beauty to the
  world.

  Then came the arrest, out of nowhere!  Why?  Why now?

  Ernst's censorship battles had lasted three decades.  He was known
  globally for his politically incorrect views, but with no criminal
  record on this continent where he had spent all his adult life.  He
  was married to a U.S. citizen, seeking adjustment of status pursuant
  to a properly filed application, whose presence in that capacity had
  been authorized by the Attorney General.  Suddenly, with no
  provocation, he was brutally arrested and deported.  Dictatorships
  act that way.  Democracies have procedural safeguards - including
  habeas corpus.

  To make one's case before a judge is a basic American right,
  enshrined in our Constitution.  More specifically, Federal Rule of
  Appellate Procedure 23 states that anybody in the custody of US law
  enforcement must not be removed to another location, much less booted
  out of the country, until a judge has heard the case.  The public
  expects a court to rule on the facts as presented by both sides.

  We asked that we be judged on all the facts and on the merits of our
  arguments.  We asked to have a district judge in Knoxville hear the
  case.

  Within minutes, this court turned us down in a one-sentence ruling,
  without any hearing.

  The very next day, we appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court.  Four days
  later, our appeal was denied by a three-member panel of judges.  The
  order was signed by a Clerk.

  And here comes the ghastly part that ought to make America's
  judiciary shudder:

  Through the Freedom of Information Act, we learned that this Clerk,
  along with at least one other employee, resorted to ex parte
  communication.  In laymen's terms, employees of an appellate court
  went outside the record to speed the deportation of a dissident  -
  one might say that they aided and abetted a political kidnapping!
  More yet, two separate motions were filed in the Sixth Circuit Court
  requesting Rule 23 relief - and both times the same Clerk turned us
  down!

  At this point, we don't even know if the three judges cited in the
  ruling of the deportation order knew about our motion for stay of
  deportation.  They may or may not have known.  However, we are surely
  entitled to find out.  Who was behind this kidnapping - which was,
  for all intents and purposes, an extradition in the guise of
  "deportation"?

  Conscientious men with training in the law will recognize the danger
  of a precedent.  Twice, the  Sixth District Court has given the jack
  boot to habeas corpus, a procedural safeguard enshrined in the
  Constitution of America.  Baseless arrests of inconvenient dissidents
  will be the outcome in the future - unless this abuse is stopped in
  its tracks!

  Ernst Zundel has a flawless record of a kind and decent man who
  refuses to live on his knees.  He never preached or practiced
  violence - he is the victim of politically motivated violence.  As
  his wife, I hereby formally petition the Congressional Judiciary
  Committee, headed by Congressman James Sensenbrenner, to investigate
  the misconduct of the Sixth District Court.  American justice is
  supposed to be blind and impartial.  It is imperative that this abuse
  of basic human right be properly investigated and the misconduct be
  traced and punished at its source.

  Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.



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