ZGram - 1/28/2004 - "How do you spell vicious?"

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January 28, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

If you thought the Marianne Ward write-up was bad, how about this 
one?  It just appeared in the Toronto Star - also known as the "Red 
Star", as I was told when I last visited in Toronto.  This kind of 
demonization is a WEAPON OF WAR - and the sooner Canadians realize 
that, the safer they themselves will be.

Here is the Star editorial, followed by my response:

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Jan. 28, 2004. 08:10 AM

EDITORIAL: Deport Zundel now


At the risk of giving Ernst Zundel and his supporters more of the 
attention they so crave, we must ask once again: Why is he still in 
Canada?

Zundel, an infamous Holocaust denier, has no claim on this country. 
He is not a citizen. He has thumbed his nose at our laws and made a 
mockery of our justice system for decades, tying the courts up with 
increasingly arcane legal gambits.

His latest attack on Canada began nearly a year ago, when he was 
deported here by American immigration authorities. Since then, he has 
tied up the courts in legal actions by trying to claim refugee status.

Now he is engaged in another endless fight, this time over whether he 
is a security risk. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service 
declared him a threat to national security a decade ago.

Zundel has a country. It is Germany, which wants to see him return so 
he can face charges in a raft of crimes related to his spread of hate 
literature. But his allies claim sending him there amounts to 
persecution.

It is time to end this legal mess.

The federal government and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler must quickly 
get their act together and expedite this case. Judges should also 
move the case to the top of their court files.

It's well past time to buy Zundel a one-way ticket.

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Here is my response as Ernst's wife:  Will it be printed?  I am not 
holding my breath.

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Editor:

The Canadian mainstream media have glutted out on nasty things spread 
far and wide about my husband, Ernst Zundel.  Perhaps it's time to 
let "the other side" speak up for a systematically demonized man. 

Society needs villains - how else to scare the public up a tree and 
keep the cash cow willing to be milked?

Consider this:  Our attorneys tell us that a "normal" bail hearing 
takes only an hour. Ernst's bail hearings have now lasted almost a 
year - and in the end, bail was denied this past Wednesday! 

The Canadian taxpayer has picked up the tab to pay the governments' 
expenses.  Ernst Zundel has paid his own way. 

Here are the essentials of what this newest Zundel prosecution is 
really all about - in case it should happen to you: 

We know today that Ernst's arrest and deportation was a coordinated 
covert operation involving three so-called "democratic" countries - 
Canada, the USA,  and Germany.  How do we know?  Partly through 
documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and partly 
through various well-connected sources of our own.

US immigration officials as well as members/staff of America's law 
enforcement agencies were used as hit squads by alien interests to 
grab a peaceful man who lived openly,  legally and lawfully in the 
United States, preventing due process by ex parte means, thus aiding 
and abetting in the deportation - in fact, a political kidnapping.

Ernst Zundel was not arrested for any criminal activity, not even for 
any politically incorrect views or beliefs.  He was arrested on a 
minor bureaucratic technicality.  Allegedly, he "missed an interview" 
and "overstayed his visa."

Both allegations have been contested in the courts.  We are still 
waiting for a hearing. 

Ernst did not miss an interview.  An interview was scheduled on June 
12, 2001.  Our then attorney could not make it and asked for a 
re-scheduling.  This is routine, routinely granted.  He never 
received a reply. 

This attorney waited and waited, then sent a follow-up letter, return 
receipt requested, on May 6, 2002.  We have the original postal 
receipt - documented evidence that INS received that letter.  Again, 
there was no reply. 

Both of these letters are missing in the Immigration files! 
Convenient, isn't it?

We never abandoned Ernst's Adjustment of Status application, nor were 
we informed that it was considered abandoned.  We had been advised 
that the interview could take as long as three years, and that no 
status check would be allowed.  We simply went about our lives and 
waited.

When Ernst was arrested, we were prevented from calling a lawyer.  A 
Warrant for Deportation lay ready in Knoxville and was signed and 
dated after the arrest. In the room where this was done, a poster 
with the Star of Israel was posted prominently on the wall. 

Through the Freedom of Information Act - some 30 pages withheld for 
"security reasons"! - we found out that some coded messages had been 
faxed on the very day of our first scheduled appointment between US 
Immigration and Canadian Immigration. Who in Canada was interested in 
causing us grief on that day?   A good place to start would be to 
check into some non-profit outfits that are fattening themselves on 
the taxpayers' trough by shrieking "Hate!" for gain. 

After Ernst was arrested, we immediately applied for habeas corpus. 
We were turned down by a judge within hours in a one-sentence ruling. 
Not even our attorney was allowed to speak up.

We appealed to the Sixth Circuit Appeal Court.  Within days, we were 
turned down again, this time in a one-paragraph ruling. 

Through FOIA we found out that there was ex parte communication prior 
to this ruling between a clerk who has a Jewish-sounding name and an 
Immigration official who was exceedingly nasty to me when I tried to 
find out where my husband had been taken, and why.  I understand it 
is illegal, perhaps even criminal, for court officials to solicit 
information on a pending court case behind the judges' and the 
accused's backs. 

Ernst Zundel was flown to the Canadian border, accompanied by two INS 
officials. "Normal" deportations happen via bus. 

On that very day, June 17, 2003, Germany swore out an arrest warrant. 
Why on that day?  Who notified them?  And on what grounds?  An 
impartial judge could surely find out by requesting the missing 
Freedom of Information Act pages.  

Through various documents and private sources, some at the highest 
levels of Germany's government, we learned that the original covert 
plan had been to get Ernst shipped  to Germany where "insulting the 
memory of the dead" - of aliens, not of Germans! -  is on the books 
as a "criminal offense", and where a 5 year conviction is a foregone 
conclusion for so-called "Holocaust Denial".  Whoever masterminded 
this kidnapping evidently didn't know that the US always deports back 
to the country of entry, not to the country of nationality.  Through 
possibly another bureaucratic snafu Ernst ended up in Canada - and 
Canadian taxpayers are now stuck with the bill. 

Ernst had no choice but to apply for political asylum, based on the 
certainty that prison awaited him in Germany for his politically 
incorrect views, even though in 1992 the highest court in Canada had 
ruled that he, too, had a right to speak his mind on views as he saw 
fit, "Ševen if the majority regards them as wrong or false." 

Canada had a solution.  Two  ministers discovered that they had a 
suspicion on their brains that he might be a "terrorist" - it must 
have been his dimples, already deemed suspicious in 1985, the year of 
the First Great Holocaust Trial.  A security certificate was duly 
sworn out.   Such a certificate turns out to be the only way a 
deportation to Germany can be arranged at all, since Ernst would 
otherwise be legally entitled to remain in Canada, where he has lived 
for 42 years, and where he never has transgressed against the law. 

Canadian taxpayers might want to know that prosecuting a national 
security certificate costs, on the average, a cool one million 
dollars.  Ernst Zundel, of course, is expected to pay his own bills. 

For almost a year now, Ernst has been held in solitary confinement in 
inhuman conditions, cold and hungry most of the time - without having 
been charged for a crime.  For almost that long, we have struggled to 
get Judge Blais to grant him bail so Ernst can organize a proper 
defense.  He can't defend himself from jail where even a ball point 
pen is forbidden, and where he does not even have a chair!  He sits 
on a fat stack of transcripts from some two decades worth of prior 
trials that have cost the Canadian taxpayers plenty. 

One final word:  Ernst did not "flee" to the United States, as has 
been reported ad nauseam.  After he left to live with me in 
Tennessee, he kept his business going at great costs to himself for 
an entire year to see the Human Rights Tribunal hearings through - 
the very "hick tribunal", as he described it aptly, that ruled that 
"Truth is no Defence". In Canada, truth is now called "hate" by those 
who hate the truth - a law underwritten by you.   

No wonder that the world calls Canada "Absurdistan"!

It is no secret that there is no grassroots support for dissident 
like Ernst where a beholden media and unctuous politicians have long 
ago sold out to the powers that be.  I'd like to pose this question: 
Who might cost less and leave Canada intact as a democracy - CSIS or 
Mr. Zundel?

A man was kidnapped in broad daylight under cover of the "law" on 
American soil and dumped in a Canadian prison.  Is there no legal 
mechanism left where he can spread his facts out on the table and let 
a reasonable judge look at the facts impartially, give an opinion 
worthy of a man of pride and principle, and, hopefully, restore Ernst 
Zundel's rights?


Sincerely,

Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.

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