ZGram - 2/7/2004 - "Ernst Zundel being punished for waving"

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February 7, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I have been working frantically on two fund-raising tools - a book 
and a web page - of which more in a couple of weeks, if not sooner. 
I am excited about these new projects because I know they will bring 
us a lot of additional support.  Both projects have magnificent 
emotional content - nobody who will spent five minutes contemplating 
them will be able to turn away without a twinge of conscience - 
political enemies, of course, excepted since these creatures seem to 
HAVE NO CONSCIENCE and hate on their brains where a conscience should 
be.

Below is a Zundel item I haven't yet run.  It was dated January 25 
and posted by Paul Fromm who is really developing a knack for 
capturing the essence of what's happening in the mistreatment of 
Ernst Zundel, meant to humiliate him and break his spirit and resolve.

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ERNST PUNISHED FOR WAVING

Dear Free Speech Supporter:

	Not only is Ernst Zundel, Canada's most famous political 
prisoner, being held in solitary confinement, having been charged 
with no crime, but he is regularly bullied and harassed by the 
operatives of the thuggish prison system.

	Zundel is a 64 year old pacifist being put through the ringer 
of the minority-corrupted Canadian justice system for nothing more 
than the non-violent expression of his political views and his 
dissent from the Hollywood version of World War II.

	About 7:00 p.m., Thursday evening after court, I received a 
call at home from Mr. Zundel. He'd heard that I'd wanted to talk with 
him. You see, rules prevent us talking across the bar which separates 
the prisoner and lawyers from the audience in the Court. While the 
call is local, the stingy prison makes the prisoner call collect. 
Thus, he can never leave a message on an answering machine. Someone 
must always be there to accept the call and charges. This just adds 
to the prisoner's misery and frustration.

	When we'd finished our brief business, I advised Mr. Zundel 
that a number of his supporters had been inquiring about his health. 
He explained that he was feeling pretty well. Yes, his blood pressure 
had risen slightly, but it always does before court.  It is being 
controlled reasonably well by medication, which he reluctantly takes. 
The prison system  denies the herbs he's used for 30 years.

	"Please tell my supporters that I'm not being stand-offish, 
if I don't wave or acknowledge them or their greetings," he told me. 
"It's forbidden. I'm to face the front, even during breaks, and not 
talk, smile or wave to anyone in the court."

	He said he had acknowledged a greeting from an old supporter 
and turned around and waved. For that, he was punished by the RCMP 
goon squad -- men half his age. He was made to stand out in the hall, 
without a chair, for about 20 minutes during the lunch break. As he'd 
predicted, even during  the short breaks on Friday, he was removed 
from the courtroom to cut down any potential contact with supporters.

	Ernst Zundel is being treated like a bad schoolboy: Face the 
front, no talking or waving. If he trangresses, he's punished -- made 
to stand out in the hall.

	Truly, it's Absurdistan. Meanwhile, the streets are crawling 
with illegals and foreign criminals, many who've been deported many 
times. The system can't, actually won't, handle them, but it won't 
let Ernst Zundel wave to free speech supporters.

Welcome to the New World Order and "human rights", Canadian style. 
And for this, an older generation went to war in Europe!

							Paul Fromm
							Director
					CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE 
EXPRESSION