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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