ZGram - 2/9/2004 - "Zundel Hearings Resume Today"
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February 9, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
The Zundel hearings resume today. As Ernst's wife, I ask the
Canadian Government: Why does Ernst Zundel have to wear the orange
jump suit of serial rapists and axe murderers in Canada when he has
NEVER been charged, much less convicted, of any "hate crime", when he
has, in fact, NO criminal record of any kind on the entire American
continent where he has spent his life since age 19, when he has NOT
been charged of anything, either when Canada arrested him or since,
and when he is denied bail after an entire year's worth of hearings
and sentenced arbitrarily to another six months in solitary for no
reason other than a judge's whim while squinting at his handlers for
approval? No wonder that the world calls Canada "Absurdistan"!
Here is Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression and Ernst's legal representative on location, reporting
from Toronto:
Dear Free Speech Supporter:
The hearing before Mr. Justice Pierre Blais looking into the
reasonableness of the CSIS national security certificate declaring
Toronto publisher Ernst Zundel a threat to national security resumes
[today] in Federal Court at 360 University Avenue, in Toronto, at
9:30 a.m.
Other dates scheduled for February are the 12th, 18th and 19th.
In other developments, the Federal Court of Appeal extended a
one hour allocation to two and a half, Wednesday, January 28, and
asked searching questions of the Crown. Two motions were being heard:
one to strike Mr. Zundel's appeal against Mr. Justice Blais's refusal
to force the Crown to produce the names of CSIS and RCMP agents
involved in gathering material in the Zundel case for the certificate
and Mr. Zundel's motion for a stay in proceedings until the various
appeals -- one in Federal Court and one in Provincial Court -- are
heard. The three judge panel reserved on the matter.
Interestingly, on January 28, the very day of the important
appeal calling for a stay, the TORONTO STAR, which has virtually
never seen an immigrant, except Ernst Zundel, it didn't like, weighed
in demanding that he be deported immediately. The STAR has all but
ignored the Zundel hearings - ignored, of course, the crucial issues
of secret, in camera hearings, a judge with a screaming apparent
conflict of interest (he was CSIS's boss and CSIS is the source of
the wild accusations against Mr. Zundel), and the fact that the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act permits "anything" the judge
chooses to be considered as evidence -- even hearsay, [double
hearsay] and triple hearsay.
Nonetheless, the STAR ran its strident editorial the very day
of the hearing. Those with devious minds might be inclined to suggest
that certain "interests" were seeking to give their marching orders
to the three Federal Court appeals judges.
The STAR editorial is filled with errors. For instance, "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." Actually, Ernst Zundel never sought to be before the
Canadian courts. Despite numerous prosecutions at the behest of
strident anti-free speech minority groups, Mr. Zundel has never been
convicted of any crime in Canada.
Is the STAR really saying that we have no room for
"diversity" of opinion? In every other way, the foghorn of the
Liberal Party has had a love affair with "diversity."
"The Canadian Security Intelligence Service declared him a
threat to national security a decade ago, " the STAR explains. Well,
that's true and that's what the court hearings are all about -
[Ingrid's comment: "...and Canada still stands!"]. Labelling this
pacifist publisher a "threat to national security" is a travesty. It
criminalizes peaceful dissent and cheapens a serious concept --
national security.
Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
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EDITORIAL: Deport Zundel now
(Toronto Star, Jan. 28, 2004)
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.
Well past time to buy Zundel a one-way ticket.
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