ZGram - 4/18/2004 - Open Letter to Minister Anne McLellan

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

Ingrid Rimland Zündel

Ms. Anne McLellan
Minister of Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness
Ottawa

                                                     RE:  Ernst 
Zündel / Hunger strike announced!



Open Letter

April 16, 2004

Dear Minister McLellan:

I am Ernst Zündel's wife.  Our Canadian lead attorney, Peter Lindsay, 
just faxed me an article by investigative reporter, Bill Dunphy, of 
the Hamilton Spectator (4-15-4).  Dunphy summarizes the latest, 
grotesque, Soviet style star chamber "hearing" against my husband, 
contrived by CSIS and presided over by a former CSIS boss.  It can't 
be a secret to you that CSIS, the already discredited and widely 
despised Canadian spy agency, is once again participating shamelessly 
in a judicial lynching - regrettably now on your watch.  

Dunphy, certainly no friend of Ernst's, observes the politically 
correct modus operandi Canadian reporters must now oblige to please 
the noisy Holocaust Lobby by doing a mandatory  character 
assassination number on Ernst Zundel.  However, embedded in his 
write-up are sentences and phrases that ought to make you ponder what 
they will mean to Canada's image:

  "[Canadian] Justice seems not blind, but spiteful." 

"Š a look at the sorry evidence produced against this man suggests he 
is being railroadedŠ"

"Š[CSIS is] abusing the terrifying powers of our anti-terrorism laws, 
counting on the man's odious beliefs to shield them from criticism."

"As luck, or something worse, would have it, Zundel's case was handed 
to Justice Pierre Blais, a former solicitor general (in 1989) and 
thus former boss of CSIS, the very agency whose secret evidence forms 
the crux of the case against him."

'Š [Defense attorney] Lindsay marched CSIS official Dave Stewart 
through a painstaking listing of literally thousands of individuals 
and groups in the white racist (sic) movement, asking him if CSIS had 
any evidence Zundel had advocated or helped them commit violence, 
crimes or any actions that would threaten the country's security.  To 
each and every question Stewart answered:  "Not in the unclassified 
material."

And, finally, to the disgrace of Canada:

"Zundel will lose solely on the secret evidence he will never see."

Minister McLellan, is this still the Canada the world held once in 
high esteem as one of the loveliest countries on earth?

I am writing to you to alert you to a hunger strike I will commence 
on May 1, 2004 in front of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. I 
will be protesting CSIS's documented involvement in my husband's 
abduction on U.S. soil on February 5, 2003 as well as Ernst's 
subsequent inhuman treatment for more than a year in a maximum 
security prison in Ontario - without bail being granted, and without 
any charges having been laid!  I will also protest against the 
disgraceful kangaroo court security certificate hearings - a truly 
reprehensible reality for Canada!  I will ask tourists coming to 
Washington to think twice before they visit Canada where "truth is no 
defence." 

What do I want to accomplish with my hunger strike?   The Canadian 
Ambassador's  forceful intervention as Canada's representative to 
right an egregious wrong!  What is happening in Canada with the CSIS 
running amok is not to Canada's credit!  Minister McLellan, the world 
looks on, aghast!

My husband's treatment at the hands of abusive Canadian officials has 
been repeatedly reported globally and has become an international 
scandal.  In the not too distant future, I intend to visit Canada 
and, especially, your influential office in the company of a United 
States Congressman and representatives of the German-Canadian as well 
as German-American business community.  We will be asking you to make 
your underlings live up to the principles of justice that Canada so 
loudly proclaims.  We will ask you to put an  end to the brutal 
charade that CSIS officials think they can inflict on a man they 
-know to be utterly innocent. 

Minister McLellan - please act on behalf of Canada, not on behalf of 
an unpleasant lobby.  Even the Globe and Mail, Canada's most 
venerable paper, headlined a recent editorial, "Zundel doesn't 
warrant a security certificate'! (3-6-4)

You can avoid a huge diplomatic embarrassment by taking concrete 
steps to stop this judicial mockery now! 

Sincerely,



Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.

Cc to Ambassador Michael Kergin - Fax  202-682-7678
Cc to Acting Director/Immigration Tim Haugh / Fax 202-225-5714