ZGram - 3/7/2004 - "EZ: Good News for Once!"

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ZGrams - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

March 7, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

At long last!  Things are looking up a bit! 

It seems that our massive fax campaign to Canada's Prime Minister, 
Paul Martin, has caught the attention of some strategically important 
folks - and there is more to come.  In fact, there is a red-hot story 
percolating to the top involving CSIS's part in Ernst's abduction, 
which I want to keep under wraps for the time being because we are on 
the trail for additional details. 

I thank all of you who took the trouble to send a fax on Ernst's 
behalf - it really made a difference!

The other good news is that, finally, a powerful Canadian paper, 
Canada's Globe and Mail, saw fit to bring not one, but two important 
write-ups on the appalling situation of what one reporter called "the 
world's premier thought criminal" held in the Canadian Gulag. 
World-wide, in response to that exposure of the brazen tactics of 
CSIS with their despicable "security certificate," there was cheering 
and "thumbs up" - and hopes expressed that this might be, at long 
last, the beginning of the end of Ernst's martyrdom. 

If you want to dash off a quick letter to the editor, thanking him 
for giving space to the Zundel story, here is the email address 
letters at globeandmail.ca

The Internet, too, was alert and responsive to this tectonic 
political shift.  Especially the Globe and Mail article, titled 
"Ernst Zundel:  Civil Rights champion?" appeared on many prominent 
websites, for instance, on www.rense.com and 
www.whatreallyhappened.com - at the latter website with this 
editorial comment: 

  "Public opinion is beginning to turn towards Ernst and away from his 
persecutors. Ernst has not been charged with a crime, let alone 
convicted. The bottom line is that Ernst is being persecuted for 
questioning dogma, exactly the same crime for which Galileo was 
tortured. Truth needs no laws to support it. Throughout history, it 
is only lies that required the force of the courts to mandate belief."

The second article the Globe and Mail saw fit to print is an 
editorial, below.  I read it to Ernst yesterday, apologizing for the 
scurrilous phrases - the stock-in-trade for editors who keep an eye 
on their Jewish advertisers with deep pockets - and Ernst said that, 
compared to run-of-the-mill Zundel write-ups in the past in Canada, 
"Šthis isn't even all that bad." 

I think it is, but I forgive the editor grudgingly because of the 
headline, which is exactly what we need:

[START]

Zündel doesn't warrant a security certificate

ERNST Zündel has been in a Canadian jail for more than a year. Seized 
at his Tennessee home by U.S. immigration agents and delivered here, 
he is facing deportation to Germany on claims that he is a danger to 
Canadian citizens. In the meantime, he languishes in a tiny cell at 
Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre in solitary confinement.

Tough luck, many will say. Mr. Zündel is depressingly well known to 
Canadians as a Holocaust-denier and extreme right-winger who spent 
decades here spreading his noxious opinions about Jews. We would all 
love to see the back of him. But is he dangerous? So dangerous, in 
fact, that we need to pen him up in an isolation cell for 12 months 
and counting?

The federal government is holding Mr. Zündel on a national security 
certificate, a special procedure that allows it to bypass many of the 
standard rules of due process to protect public safety. Those cases 
almost always involve suspected terrorists. If two cabinet ministers 
decide that an individual poses a risk, they can have him locked up 
indefinitely pending deportation. The suspect is not allowed to see 
the precise evidence against him, and his odds of overturning the 
order in court are slim. The government must show only that it acted 
"reasonably," a preposterously low legal hurdle.

These are extreme measures in a democratic society, and Ottawa should 
use them only if it believes a suspect is likely to do physical harm 
to people or property. Odious as he is, Mr. Zündel poses no such 
risk. He has never been charged with a violent crime and does not 
urge others to commit violence. He is a crank, not a terrorist.

It is hard to know exactly how Ottawa defends its decision to jail 
Mr. Zündel, because, under the security-certificate process, it can 
keep most of its evidence secret -- a provision that severely limits 
Mr. Zündel's right to mount a defence. But a summary compiled by the 
Canadian Security Intelligence Service argues that even if he doesn't 
actually advocate violence, he is dangerous because of the influence 
he exerts on his followers.

"By his comportment as a leader and an ideologue, the service 
believes Zündel intends serious violence to be a consequence of his 
influence."

That, says Mr. Zündel, is guilt by association. He is right. It is 
precisely the sort of argument that was used to lock up leftists in 
the days of the Red Scare. You are a Communist and Communists 
advocate violent revolution; therefore you are conspiring to commit 
violence against the state. Guilty as charged.

If Mr. Zündel can be jailed and deported for his "comportment" as an 
"ideologue," then every Greenpeacer and anti-abortion activist must 
fear imprisonment. Their rhetoric is pretty wild, too. Perhaps the 
anti-poverty campaigner with a nose-ring handing out pamphlets at the 
mall also "intends serious violence to be a consequence of his 
influence." Now that CSIS has the power to read minds, who knows 
where it may stop?

The real danger to Canadians comes not from obnoxious nuts like Ernst 
Zündel, but from a government that casually discards their most 
precious Rights.

[END]

David Irving offers his thoughts on this editorial on his website, 
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/index.html

[START]

IT is characteristic that, even when a powerful newspaper like The 
Globe & Mail in Toronto perceives an injustice being done, if it is 
being done in the name of the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech the 
cowardly newspaper feels obliged to vilify the victim too -- just to 
be on the safe side, since you never know. . .

     What else explains the snivelling and gratuitous use by the 
editor and his journalist of such phrases as "spreading his noxious 
opinions," "odious as he is," and "obnoxious nuts"?

    Ordinary people, particularly those who have had the privilege to 
meet and speak with Mr Ernst Zündel when he was a free man, would 
prefer to state that it is this journalistic cowardice which is 
noxious, odious, and obnoxious.

[END]

Finally, to round up a sunny Sunday morning with at least some hope 
for freedom for Ernst on the horizon, I run a few comments from the 
many, many I received who have responded to my plea to send their 
strong objections to the Canadian powers that be:

_____  Editor: Kudos for having the hubris to break the ice on
telling the true story of a man who is being
persecuted for his beliefs, and is presently
being held in a Canadian Dungeon!  As an American citizen, I am 
extremely ashamed of
my government for performing such a dastardly
deed to one great man who has the testosterone to
stand up to real tyrants, and to not bend the
knee to lickspittles in defense of himself.  My prayers are with 
Ernst Zundel, and I pray for
his return to his wife in Tennessee as fast as
lightening can strike an object in it's path.
                     

_____ "This smells good, doesn't it? I am delighted, Ingrid, things 
seem to be brightening at long last!
All the best to you and to the hero of free speech!"


_____ "Ernst has turned out for his age to be a much harder nut to 
crack than our enemies at first supposed... I worked in law 
enforcement for twenty years and studied Psychology from age 12 or 
so. What you are seeing is a tightening of the "sensory perception" 
to which he has already endured so very much and better than most 
twenty year olds could. This is nothing new, I spent 20+ months on 
the DMZ in Vietnam and it was used then to break the "flakes" who 
could not take what we were required to doŠThis honorable gentleman 
has shown some very powerful people that he can take what they can 
dish out.....something which I seriously doubt that they could take 
themselves.  It appears to be getting to show up or shutup time."

_____ "As the representatives of Russian society, let us express our 
deep concern about Mr. Zundel's case unheard of in a civilized world. 
Zundel's only crime was to question the official version of some 
minor events of World War and ask who was behind 9/11 (there are no 
sane persons today believing Mr. Bush's anecdotes).

If we tolerate that your government deports someone who has been a 
legal resident for over 40 years and hasn't committed any crime, on 
purely ideological reasons - this means Canada has nothing to do with 
democracy at all - being a sort of totalitarian fascist state, and 
your "non-interference" speaks only of your government's treacherous 
attitude towards your own nation.

We'd like you to understand, there are people in Russia, Ukraine, 
Belorussia, Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria and other places of 
Eastern Europe who will hold Canadian and US authorities wholly 
liable for that shameful abominable treatment of political prisoner 
of [conscience} and American Refusenik Mr. ZundelŠ"

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Reminder: 

Help free Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience.  His prison sketches 
- now on-line and highly popular - help pay for his defence.  Take a 
look - and tell a friend.

http://www.zundelsite.org/gallery/donations/index.html