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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