ZGram - 8/6/2004 - "The Zundel Case: Report from the Canadian Front"

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August 6, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

While we have won an impressive victory in the U.S. on one important 
front of our two-front war against the Holocaust Enforcers, in Canada 
the race is against time.  Judge Blais has dropped all pretense of 
fairness - not that he ever bothered much to pretend any fairness to 
begin with - and is trying to rush Ernst's case to conclusion.  I 
don't know of any case at this time that so shows up the judicial 
corruption across borders as the Zundel case.

When I talked to Ernst yesterday, he stressed over and over that it 
is imperative to make it very clear that this case is not merely a 
"deportation" or even a legitimate political "extradition."   In 
fact, it it is a RENDITION where countries do each other favors by 
sacrificing politically inconvenient individuals such as Arar and 
Zundel.  In addition to the  arrest and detention in the US and then 
in Canada, in Ernst's case there is the added service Canada provides 
to the neo-con agenda in the U.S.:  TO DO THE LABELING.

Why?  Very simple.  Those neo-cons in Washington are woefully short 
of believable "terrorists" and  need to have their victims be 
officially declared as "terrorists" so as to place false flares and 
cover up their own nefarious deeds.  Judge Blais, bared teeth and 
all, is striving mightily to be obliging.   

Paul Fromm below with the newest:

[START]

Dear Free Speech Supporter:

	Things are moving fast in the "certificate review" hearing of German
dissident publisher Ernst Zundel who has spent nearly 18 months in solitary
confinement in Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre.

	Contrary to the announced schedule, there will be no hearings Monday or
Tuesday of this week. Court will resume on Wednesday at 9:20 at 361
University Chi-Kun Shi, Mr. Zundel's co-counsel told me this afternoon. A
planned witness will not be called. Mr. Lindsay has made a new motion
calling on Mr. Justice Pierre Blais to recuse (remove) himself from the
case for the appearance of bias suggested by many of his rulings. However,
the Crown insists it needs more time to prepare its case. So, arguments
will not be heard until September.

	On Wednesday, August  11 arguments will be heard on the continued
detention -- it now is taking on the appearance of unlimited jailing
without charge or trial -- of Canada's most famous political prisoner,
Ernst Zundel. In January, former CSIS boss Judge Blais decided that the
64-year old German pacifist would have to remain in prison as it  was
likely that he was a "terrorist" and, therefore, a threat to Canada's
national security. An adult lifetime in Canada in a media fishbowl,
frequently under police surveillance, with CSIS, at least in 1995 opening
his mail, Mr. Zundel had never been charged much less convicted of any
violent act. Still, the judge's preposterous conclusion was based on secret
evidence, neither Mr. Zundel nor his counsel have seen and, therefore,
cannot challenge or refute.

	In accordance with a ruling by Mr. Justice Blais, July 27, 
Defence counsel
Peter Lindsay has served former CSIS hireling John Farrell's teachers'
college, his school and his employer, the Metro Separate School Board. This
service constitutes proper service, as Mr. Farrell with the help of his
principal, evaded service and ran away from Peter Lindsay in May, when he
tried to serve him a subpoena. The new subpoena is returnable August 11.
So, there may be fireworks on that score.

	"It now looks as if the proceedings will stretch into October," Chi-Kun
Shi said.

	In a disturbing development, Supreme Court Justice Bastarache took
literally minutes to turn down a motion from Peter Lindsay calling for a
stay of proceedings, until the Supreme Court can decide whether to grant
leave to appeal several key procedural and constitutional questions.

	Chi-Kun Shi noted that July 27 was the deadline for submissions. The
Defence's brief alone was an inch thick and the Crown had made submissions
and  the Defence had offered a further five pages of rebuttal. "How could
all this be read on the very day it  was due?" she wondered.

	Thus, it remains a race against time, with Judge Blais trying 
to rush the
hearings to a close before the Supreme Court decides whether to grant leave
to appeal.

	Is the Supreme Court trying to avoid making a decision on the 
substance of
the Zundel case by waiting to announce its decision on the application for
leave to appeal until the case is moot and Mr. Zundel is out of the country
in a German jail?

 
		Paul Fromm
 
		Director
 
		CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION


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