ZGram - 4/15/2004 - Countdown to D-Day # 13
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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
April 15, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
After I announced a hunger strike in front of Congressman Jenkins's
office - and subsequently succeeded in getting a meeting and securing
his cooperation - many of my readers urged me to drop my hunger
strike plans, since I had achieved what I set out to achieve.
Don't say it wasn't tempting to say, "The strike is off!" However,
we cannot stop now.
Time is now of the essence, and obviously the Canadian legal
hooligans are pressing for a conclusion of the Zundel security
certificate hearings so Ernst can be shipped to one of Germany's
notorious prisons for nothing more than the thought crime of doubting
the Holocaust Dogma.
Will it happen? We will see. We have won an expedited date for an
important interim appeal hearing, May 10, BEFORE the conclusion of
the currently scheduled security certificate hearings, which will
give us a chance, so we hope, to have this case moved speedily to the
Supreme Court of Canada.
Should we be granted that legal victory, it also means more prison
time for Ernst in the Canadian Guantanamo Gulag while we are waiting
to get that all-important Supreme Court date which will decide if
Canada still chooses to be free or sink into totalitarian
dictatorship where they will have to worship on their knees before
the Cult of Death.
My heart aches, knowing what Ernst must endure.
I'll do my part to bring some relief to my husband. As many of my
readers pointed out, I can use the hunger strike weapon only once,
and I might as well use it now.
Therefore, I will spend the next two days updating my website for
easy print-outs, buying and programming a laptop, getting stronger
contact lenses which have to be ordered by special prescription - and
then, on Saturday, I will fly to Washington, D.C. to scout out the
lay of the land.
I have been told that there are strict rules on doing a protest
demonstration, which is of course not surprising. I need to find out
what I can do and can't do - and an anticipated hunger strike,
especially, requires a certain support system, since I expect to get
very weak and may not be able to strategize as clearly as I might
need to do as our plans progress.
My plans are to start my hunger strike at the Canadian Embassy, and
since I fully expect resistance and possibly forcible removal, I have
to have alternate fall-back plans. Beforehand, I need to secure as
much media support as I can gather. I also need to find a hotel and
make arrangements for on-location friends and supporters to assist me
with chores, delivering messages, taking care of transportation needs
etc. I need to put on paper some easy-to-read texts for handouts why
I am doing this, and what, exactly, I want to achieve.
That is Stage I of our NO SURRENDER front.
I expect this Washington, D.C. groundwork to take only a few days.
Then I will fly home for a week or so to make final preparations for
the actual hunger strike, which will entail a fair amount of writing
press releases, coordinating media work, doing summaries etc. Since
my hunger strike will now take place in Washington, D.C. and not in
Tennessee as first planned, I expect that I will need a week for
those logistic preparations, because it means, since I will not be
close to home, I have to get a relative to take over for me here in
Tennessee. I will have to do last minute chores, pay bills, make
sure that everything is running smoothly in my absence and that our
world-wide supporters understand that I will be absent for a while
and can't be in contact with them, especially by regular mail. Since
many of our supporters are old, this will be stressful for them.
Stage II.
Those plans will take me just about to May 1 to start the actual
hunger strike, which is a Saturday - not a good day for media, but it
will have to do. I will fly back to Washington at the very end of
this month.
Those are the plans as of now. I still need a volunteer medical
doctor to monitor me, since I have a serious vision problem, and I
have been told that a prolonged hunger strike affects vision first.
This is a real risk and a worry for me, but much is at stake, as we
all know. I am determined to proceed.
I have lived my life so far trying hard never to shirk responsibility
and personal commitment when I see evil done. I now see evil done
the likes of which the world has not yet come to fully grasp if
freedom gets eroded inch by inch. If now the time has come to put my
life where my principles are, then so be it! Like Ernst, I will not
spend the rest of my life on my knees.
I ask that you support me in every way you can. Bluntly and without
apologies, in our world, that also means financial support in
addition to moral support and media support, for being for weeks on
end, as I expect, in high-priced Washington, D.C., will not be cheap.
And there are other expenses, as you can well imagine. Our various
legal bills alone now run to $30,000 - $40,000 a month, and no end
yet in sight.
I thank you in advance for doing your part in making history, and I
salute you in the spirit that is the hallmark of our kind. We are
proud, free, determined people who will not knuckle under in the
service to a lie. NO SURRENDER!
Ingrid Rimland Zundel
Reminder:
Help free Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience. His prison sketches
- now on-line and highly popular - help pay for his defense. Take a
look - and tell a friend.
http://www.zundelsite.org/gallery/donations/index.html
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