ZGram - 11/24/2003 - "The latest Zundel rally" Part I

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

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

  November 25, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I was gone for several days, meeting with an important legislator in 
another state - but was gratified to come back and read about the 
latest effort to free Ernst. 

I'll make it a two-part to catch up with myself -

*	the first part is the write-up by Director Paul Fromm of the 
Canadian Association for Free Expression, as well as an official 
press release

*	the second part consists of the "Holy Curse" - I didn't even 
know such spiritual 'weapon' existed! - some endorsements of Ernst by 
supporters that were read at the event, and finally a tepid but at 
least non-snear write-up by the mainstream media.


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LARGEST DEMO YET INSISTS "FREE ZUNDEL NOW!"

TORONTO, NOVEMBER 23, 2003. The largest free speech demonstration yet 
called forcefully for the immediate release of political prisoner 
Ernst Zundel after more than nine months of detention in Canadian 
prisons. Protesting outside the Metro West Detention Centre in 
Rexdale in the northwest end of Toronto, over 65 supporters of free 
speech rallied from points around Ontario, including London, 
Hamilton, Sudbury, Mississauga and Toronto.

"Ernst Zundel is a political prisoner," Canadian Association for Free 
Expression Director told the free speech supporters, as a crisp warm 
late November wind snapped at the sea of Red Ensigns, the flag of the 
true Canada that upheld the rights of Anglo-Saxon Common Law.

"Canada's corrupt Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) 
-- the same ones who couldn't prevent the Sikh terrorism against Air 
India, despite the fact they had an agent inside -- has declared Mr. 
Zundel a terrorist,  a 'threat to national security.'"

"This charge is bogus. It's a fraud and a lie," Fromm told the free 
speech supporters. "Ernst Zundel is a lifelong pacifist. He's been 
assaulted. He's had his home firebombed; he's been sent bombs through 
the mail. Yet, he's always told his followers and supporters to be 
peaceful, to be non-violent."

"We're now into the tenth day of a bail hearing for Mr. Zundel. He's 
complied fully with eleven  previous bails, including ones that 
gagged him for nine years. Mr. Zundel believes in fighting through 
the courts. Ernst Zundel is being kept in solitary confinement solely 
because his views displease extremely politically powerful minorities 
in this country." Fromm told the rally.

"On Thursday, I visited Mr. Zundel with Lady Michele Renouf from 
Britain. I was given a package to take away by the prison 
authorities. It contained a book and some chocolates. I asked why Mr. 
Zundel couldn't receive chocolates. Mr. Geswaldo, one of the security 
chiefs, said that it could contain contraband. What, a file or a 
knife in the Cadbury chocolate bar?" asked Fromm.

"And then, I remembered as a teenager  reading books about escape 
from Nazi PoW camps. Men like Cmdr. Douglas Bader, as PoWs, received 
Red Cross boxes of cigarettes, chocolates, and toiletries," Fromm 
explained. "Mr. Zundel isn't allowed to receive any such items. Let 
me get this straight: My father volunteered and joined the Royal 
Canadian Navy in World War II and my mother served five years in the 
Canadian Army as a nurse to fight for 'freedom.' Now, Ernst Zundel 
isn't allowed to receive even the chocolates our servicemen were 
allowed to get in supposedly evil Nazi Germany."

The rally, sponsored by the Canadian Association for Free Expression, 
was supported by the Canadian Heritage Alliance, the Northern 
Alliance and the Nationalist Party. The flags of Imperial Russia, 
Imperial Poland and Imperial Serbia were also prominent, as Zundel 
supporters from those lands flew the banners of their homelands, 
remembering the Communist regimes they fled for a country that is 
swiftly slipping into the grim repression of the lands they left.

Mississauga resident Wolfgang Mueller of the Canadian Association for 
Free Expression addressed the rally in English and German. [His 
remarks in both languages are included in Zgram # 2.]

Paul Fromm read greetings of free speech supporters from around North 
America. Some of these comments [are also part of Zgram # 2].

Mr. Karl Ruppert, President of the German World Federation, praised 
Paul Fromm and CAFE "for telling the truth about Mr. Zundel and 
defending the rights of the German people."

Melissa Guille of London, Ontario, leader of the Canadian Heritage 
Alliance, told the rally: "Free speech is the issue."

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CAFE PRESS STATEMENT
Canadian Association for Free Expression
Box 332,
Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3
Canada
Ph: 905-897-7221; FAX: 905-277-3914

November 23, 2003

Free Ernst Zundel

We are protesting here today to call attention to the plight of 
political prisoner Ernst Zundel. This German-born publisher has been 
a landed immigrant in Canada since 1958. He has never been convicted 
of any crime in Canada, let alone any crime of violence.

Yet, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service alleges that he 
is a threat to national security and is a violent terrorist. CSIS has 
a long history of hostility toward M. Zundel. According to the book 
"Covert Entry" by journalist John Mitrovica, in 1995 CSIS knew 
several West coast anarchists had sent Mr. Zundel a lethal pipebomb. 
While warning their mail-snooping operatives to leave packages 
addressed to Mr. Zundel from Vancouver addresses alone, CSIS 
permitted postal workers, airline employees and Mr. Zundel to handle 
this lethal package.

Amazingly, the judge presiding over Mr. Zundel's hearing is Mr. 
Justice Pierre Blais who was Solicitor-General in 1989, the year, 
apparently, CSIS-paid spy, Grant Bristow, was tasked to infiltrate 
and misdirect the Heritage Front, and CSIS was sicked on the Reform 
Party which had just decided to contest in Ontario, and, therefore, 
posed a threat to the ruling Brian Mulroney Tories. Both of these 
were shocking abuses of the term "national security." A non-violent 
White rights group and a national political party in no way came 
under the definition of national security.

Now, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais - a man with long contacts with CSIS, 
their one-time boss - sits in judgement of CSIS's preposterous case 
against Ernst Zundel. Can he receive a fair trial? Can his 
impartiality be assumed? No. That's why, on November 6, Doug 
Christie, one of Ernst Zundel's lawyers called on Mr. Justice Blais 
to recuse himself. Whether he will and let justice "appear" to be 
done, we'll not know until court resumes on December 10.

Ernst Zundel was kidnapped in the U.S. by a government gone mad in 
its anti-terrorist mania, using a legitimate fear of foreign 
terrorists to suppress domestic dissent. Ernst Zundel was kidnapped 
February 5, 2003 and deported two weeks later. His adopted country 
has treated this life-long pacifist little better. He has been in 
solitary confinement since February 19 -- denied for a long while 
even a pillow!

Mr. Zundel is non-violent. He has never been convicted of a crime. He 
has supporters prepared to put up bail. During the 1980s and early 
1990s, he obtained and obeyed 11 different bails. He is no threat to 
flight.

Mr. Zundel should be released on bail. His continued detention is 
proof that the Canadian state seeks to break him and get him to agree 
to deportation to Germany, which wants to jail him for five years for 
insulting the memory of the dead which - in the arcane language of 
the German courts - means disbelieving in the standard Hollywood 
account of WW II.

We demand freedom for Ernst Zundel.

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