ZGram - 2/13/2004 - "Not so free speech"

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February 13, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Today is, of course, Dresden Day - a Memorial Day sacred to people of 
spirit and conscience all over the world.  This is the day a real 
Holocaut against defenseless civilians took place in the 
refugee-overcrowded city of Dresden when Allied planes dropped fire 
from the skies, and hundreds of thousands were roasted alive in less 
than two days. 

I will send my ZGram on that atrocity tomorrow because I know there 
will a Demo in Dresden - I believe it is called the March of A 
Thousand Steps.  Last year saw more than 2,000 - this year more are 
expected from all over Europe.  Dresden Day and Rudolf Hess Day are 
the two European nationalist holidays now, memorializing true 
martyrship of genuinely innocent people.

Today I am taking up yet another poison pen editorial against Ernst 
Zundel wrapped in an unctuous call for Free Speech, this time in the 
Calgary Sun, February 9, 2004.  There were several rebuttals to this 
smear job - but don't expect to see them in the Letters to the Editor 
section.  You get them on the Internet, thanks to the Zundelsite - 
and others.

The slime piece editorial first:

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EDITORIAL

NOT-SO-FREE SPEECH 

So this is what our country has become.

A country in which one of its most popular and colourful citizens has 
to be censured and muzzled because the bureaucrats at the Canadian 
Broadcasting Corporation -- which is basically a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal party -- object to 
hockey commentator Don Cherry's off-the-wall comments.

CBC head honcho Harold Redekopp -- himself a part of the Liberal 
elite, which is one reason he got his job -- describes the Coach's 
Corner host's style as "reprehensible."

Just to make sure no Canadian viewer hears anything else ever again 
from Cherry that is deemed "inappropriate" by the bureaucrats, from 
now on Don's comments will be subject to a seven-second broadcast 
delay and anything deemed unsuitable for sensitive Canadians will be 
blocked out.

Are we living in a democracy or a dictatorship?

In a land where free speech is guaranteed, are only statements 
whitewashed by government appointees allowed to be uttered in public?

George Orwell, the author of the haunting novel, 1984, who coined the 
term "double-speak" would laugh and mock the CBC and the federal 
Liberal government for this charade.

Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, who actually has broken Canada's race 
hate laws year after year, gets all the legal aid he needs to fight 
deportation from our nation. All legal bills paid for by the Canadian 
taxpayer.

David Ahenakew, former chief of the Saskatchewan Assembly of First 
Nations and a member of the Order of Canada, defends Adolf Hitler and 
says the Nazi dictator was only trying to "clean up" the world when 
he "fried" six million Jews.

Despite public outrage over these truly heinous comments -- Ottawa 
refuses to strip him of his Order of Canada.

Yet, all Cherry did in his latest humorous comment, was to suggest 
European and French hockey players are wimps.

For this -- and you can bet Quebec French-language TV and radio 
commentators make many a joke about English-Canadians -- Redekopp 
denounces Cherry and insists similar comments will not be "tolerated."

In Liberal -- what a misuse of that word -- Canada today there can be 
no free expression.

Liberal mandarins are to launder everything.

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REBUTTALS:

Paul Fromm of the Canadian Association for Free Expression first in a 
letter to his readers, and then in a Letter to the Editor:

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	Doug Christie, Canada's leading free speech attorney, some 
years ago analyzed the pattern used by the Canadian establishment to 
destroy its critics, especially on racial or other sensitive matters. 
It's demonize, isolate, then criminalize.

	Thus, the opportunistic editorial in the Calgary Sun, also 
reprinted in  Fort McMurray Today, comes as no surprise. In "redneck" 
hockey loving Alberta, it takes little courage to endorse Don 
Cherry's opinionated but ultimately harmless commentaries. Zundel, a 
thinker, a person seeking to set the historical record straight, is 
another matter. You'll note that the Calgary Sun, suggests he's a 
criminal and, to boot, a parasite on the taxpayers -- both utter lies 
-- and, then, draws the logical conclusion:  throw him out.

[THREE] free speech supporters have sent letters trying to set the 
lying account right.

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION  

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LETTER # 1

Dear Sir: Re: Not-so-free speech (Feb. 9/04) Your editorial claims 
that Ernst Zundel '"actually has broken Canada's race hate laws year 
after year, gets all the legal aid he needs to fight deportation from 
our nation. All legal bills paid for by the Canadian taxpayer."

I have acted as Ernst Zundel's lawyer for some 17 years. Mr. Zundel 
has never received legal aid once in all of those years. He has never 
received one cent of taxpayer's money to pay for his defence. All 
monies are raised from private individuals who believe in his cause 
and/or in free speech. Many are elderly people who leave him money in 
their wills because they believe he is one of the few who dares to 
question the "weapons of mass destruction" of World War II 
(industrial gas chambers) and ask whether they really existed.

Secondly, Mr. Zundel has never been charged with breaking Canada's 
hate laws although Zionist organizations in Canada have repeatedly 
attempted to have him charged. Several Attorneys General in Ontario 
from different political parties (including the NDP) have been asked 
to charge him but all have refused after investigations by police.

You owe Ernst Zundel an apology.

Yours truly,
Barbara Kulaszka

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LETTER #2

February 10, 2004

The Editor,
CALGARY SUN.

Dear Sir:

	Your editorial "Not-so-free speech" (CALGARY SUN, February 9, 
2004) was dead-on accurate about Don Cherry. Canada is sinking into a 
stifling fog of political correctness.

However, you're wrong about Ernst Zundel. First, he has never been 
convicted under Canada's "hate law", Section 319 of the Criminal 
Code. Yes, his take on history may be eccentric, but he doesn't 
deserve to be held in solitary confinement and deemed a threat to 
national security.

Also, the Canadian taxpayers are not footing his legal bills. I 
should know. Our organization has raised over $25,000 for his defence 
fund.

The persecution of Don Cherry is part and parcel of the same trend 
that seeks to silence Zundel. Whatever happened to a robust 
willingness to let the other guy have an opinion and to disagree with 
him, without insisting that he be silenced?

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
P.O. Box 332,
Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3
905-897-7221

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LETTER # 3:

Sir:

Your Editorial writer "Not-so-free-speech" (Feb. 9) owes Ernst Zundel 
a debt of gratitude for his long, lonely and successful struggle to 
overturn Canada's archaic "false news" law, otherwise, he could be in 
the dock for his utterly ridiculous and false claim that "All 
Zundel's legal bills are paid for by Canadian tax payers". 
Unfortunately, although Canada's legal aid system often comes to the 
defense of rapists and killers, that is not the case for a person 
brave enough to investigate a seemingly untouchable event
in history and make public his findings. Your Editor may not agree 
but that is a basic right in a free and democratic country.

Let's get this straight. Ernst Zundel broke no laws in his 40 years 
of residency in Canada but he is now into his second year of 
detention without charge, much of it in solitary confinement in the 
horrible West Toronto Detention Centre. He pays for his own defense 
with the help of a few courageous individuals who would prefer to 
live in a free country and are willing to stand up and help defend 
that right.

He and his embattled defense team fight against the ludicrous CSIS 
claim that he is a security threat to Canada. What are the grounds 
for this accusation? They will not say. That has all been decided in 
secret hearings with evidence that he and his lawyers are not privy 
to. So how can he mount a defense? What kind of justice is this?

That Canada has reached this awful point in its young history (and 
believe me it will get worse) can be greatly blamed on individuals 
like your Editorial writer, the media, and Canada's politicians who, 
when they calculated the dangers to themselves years ago, chose to 
join the powerful elite who wanted Zundel silenced at all costs - 
instead of standing up for the rights of all Canadians and the 
principle of free speech.

Lynda Mortl, London

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