ZGram - 4/12/2004 - Countdown to D-Day # 12

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

April 12, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Just as I announced, the proclamation of my pending hunger strike did 
get me a speedy meeting with my Congressman, Mr. William Jenkins, for 
Monday, April 12.  Ernst was extremely pleased when I told him and 
thought it was a major victory.  In my own mind, this intermittent 
victory is not at all that significant, because after all, I should 
have been granted that meeting all along and still don't know why it 
was stalled, and by whom. 

I left the day before, on Easter Sunday, because directions give me 
trouble, and I wanted to be close so as not to be late for the 
appointed hour. Driving along a highway framed by the most beautiful 
blooming trees in the awakening forests, I felt my emotions to be 
strangely paralyzed because I did not know what would be awaiting me, 
since I did not think the short telephone contact with my 
congressional representative had been exactly inviting.  I was sure 
that an ADL smearsheet had preceded me and that Mr. Jenkins had some 
negative preconceptions about what Ernst and Ingrid were really all 
about.

Something else weighed like a boulder on my mind.  I had received a 
lot of negative input from attorneys and advisors about my pending 
hunger strike plans, as well as from friends and supporters.  Most 
felt that I was making myself unnecessarily vulnerable because I 
would be taking myself off the "battle field" for weeks and might be 
strength-impaired for years.  I also discussed with several key 
advisors our enemies' anticipated reaction and counterattack by 
putting myself front and center in the Zundel struggle, rather than 
being a relatively benign cyber presence behind a keyboard, with all 
the attention focused on Ernst. 

More specifically, I discussed this possibility at length with one of 
them, a man with considerable experience in counterintelligence, and 
he thought it likely that a Freudian type, Soviet style psychiatrist 
might materialize out of the bowels of Washington to certify yours 
truly mentally disturbed and have me hauled off to some loony bin for 
further "psychiatric testing" - in other words, medically backed 
political character assassination.  It was something I had not 
considered before, although I know from years of observation that the 
enemy has an entire battery of exactly these types of creatures ready 
to be activated and deployed as needed, usually to bail out their own 
graffiti schmierfinks.  I remember one such youngster caught in San 
Diego, who had the shrink's certificate ready in his left pocket, 
with his spray can in his right.  As the past weeks in Canada have 
demonstrated plenty, what could be easier than to unleash a few of 
their own disturbed youngsters to topple grave stones and spray-paint 
garage doors and then shriek at the top of their lungs that stronger 
laws against "hate mongers" are needed to guard against "the 
ever-present danger of anti-semitism!"  - while simultaneous asking 
for counseling programs for the very perpetrators.  That's how some 
folks make a fine living!

These were my thoughts as I reached Kingsport and checked into an 
almost-empty Hampton Inn - another sign that something is dangerously 
wrong with America when hotels of that size no longer have the 
customers to justify their operations.  As a matter of fact, to my 
knowledge that day there was only one other overnight check-in, as 
judged by our silent continental breakfast gathering of two. 

Then, in pouring rain, I searched for and found my congressman's 
office, half an hour early, and waited for him to appear.

I don't want to say what we discussed other than to comment on the 
man.  I liked him.  He was calm, courteous, and without a trace of 
inner reservation that I could detect.  This was surprising to me. 
We had a fruitful meeting, with his press agent and a female 
assistant sitting in, and I believe that the fat stack of 
testimonials as well as other materials I had left at the previous 
meeting with his press agent, in addition to the faxes from my 
friends that preceded me, must have convinced Mr. Jenkins that Mrs. 
Zundel had a legitimate grievance.  I felt utterly calm inside as we 
talked, and when I left, I had the impression that I had gained if 
not a "convert to Revisionism" at least a man who did not feel the 
world came to an end if someone like Ernst Zundel made his own views 
known in Tennessee in one of his own districts. 

How much of what we are all about he understood, I am not sure, but I 
felt when I left that I had met one more American of the kind I had 
encountered hundreds and hundreds of times while I still made a 
living as a speaker on the road and would give luncheon programs to 
Rotarians.

After I came home, at Mr. Jenkins's suggestion I took up contact with 
additional legislators in my area and firmed up a few more of my 
media leads, and if things progress as planned, I will be in 
Washington on Monday for additional contacts with various 
bureaucracies and columnists - that is, unless something dramatic 
happens, which could well be, during the April Zundel hearings in 
Toronto scheduled for April 13-14.  (See Paul Fromm's write-up in my 
next Zgram.)

I will check further into the matter of the possible employment of 
shrinks to sabotage the Zundel Truth Campaign.  Meanwhile, my readers 
are invited to do a little havoc with Canadian preconceptions by 
nominating Ernst Zundel, the world's premier thought criminal, as one 
of the greatest Canadians  in an announced  CBC poll.  After all, 
Ernst Zundel has already won a similar honor in a previous poll where 
he was voted # 44 of the "one hundred most influential Canadians of 
the past century."  I cannot give you that specific reference right 
now except to say it was written up by a Dr. Granatstein or 
Granatastein in one of his university studies.  This happened around 
1996.  If you are so inclined, you could look it up on the Net. 

At any rate, the new CBC poll can be found at 
http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/nominate/index.html, and your 
participation is invited.

No surrender!


Ingrid

P.S.  I just discovered this note from a Zundel supporter regarding a 
contact for Anne McLellan:

"Dear Ingrid, I called the phone number (780-495-3122) provided in 
the Zgram. I spoke with a rather snotty woman who wouldn't speak 
about Ernst or the case, rather she insisted that I had called Anne 
McLellan's "Constituency" office and that I should call her 
"Ministerial" office. I asked the woman for those numbers too. She 
said that the phone number was 613-991-2924 and that the fax number 
was 613-952-2240.   I of course will fax to both numbers and call 
them again tomorrow."

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