ZGram - 8/12/2004 - "How media distorts the facts"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

August 12, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here is a lesson in Journalism 101.  First, I will show you an 
article as it was written, then then I will supply the facts that 
should have been mentioned - but weren't.  By the way, in various 
versions this article was carried by the AP wire, which means that it 
was distributed world-wide:

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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_3104582,00.html

Holocaust denier gets court reprieve

Sevier resident, being held in Canada, should be able to fight deportation

By JAMIE SATTERFIELD, satterfield at knews.com
August 12, 2004

A Holocaust denier booted from his Sevier County home - and the country -
should get a shot at arguing against his deportation, a federal appellate court
has ruled.

Whether Ernst Zundel, 65, will actually be allowed to appear in U.S. District
Court in Knoxville remains unclear, however. Zundel is in solitary 
confinement in
a detention center in Toronto, Canada, where he is accused of being a threat to
that country's national security.

Zundel is a German-born graphic artist and publisher whose 1980 pamphlet
"Did Six Million Really Die?" rocketed him to infamy as a Holocaust 
denier and -
as some allege - a neo-Nazi.

He lived in Canada for decades, but had long been denied citizenship. In
2000, Zundel entered the United States on a temporary visa. He then married
Ingrid A. Rimland, a native of the Soviet Union who had become a U.S. citizen.

The couple moved to Wears Valley and opened an art gallery. In 
February 2003, the
INS arrested Zundel on a charge that he had overstayed his visa and failed to
follow through on his attempts to attain permanent residence status here.

Zundel and his wife cried foul, claiming the Holocaust revisionist was being
persecuted for his views. Sevierville attorney Boyd Venable III filed 
a petition
in federal court here to try to stop his deportation, but Senior Federal Judge
James Jarvis refused to hear it, writing that there was "no legal 
basis" for his
intervention.

Zundel was eventually deported to Canada, where officials are trying to send
him back to Germany. He faces hate crime charges there in connection with his
writings, which include the book "The Hitler We Loved and Why," and 
his Web site,
www.zundelsite.org.

In an opinion released late last week, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled Zundel is entitled to a hearing challenging his deportation.

"These claims require consideration by the district court," the opinion
stated.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that Zundel has already been deported,
rendering his petition for relief as moot. The Justice Department also contends
that the federal court here lacks any jurisdiction.

But the appellate court countered that those issues should be aired in
Knoxville's federal courtroom.

"Whether, as the government argues, (federal law) strips the federal courts
of jurisdiction to hear the remaining claims is a matter for the district court
to take up," the opinion states. "So is the question whether Zundel waived his
right to contest removal because it remains unclear whether Zundel 
most recently
entered the country under the visa waiver pilot program."

There are many things about Zundel's swift trip back to Canada that the
appellate court states it found "unclear."

"The precise nature of the events that resulted in Ernst Zundel's
deportation to Canada casts more shadows than light on this appeal," 
the opinion
states.

The court also finds fuzzy the reason for Zundel's continued imprisonment in
Canada, where he is not charged with any crime but has been labeled a security
threat.

"Canadian officials apparently took Zundel into custody and continue to
detain him for reasons not revealed by this sparse record," the opinion states.

Zundel's wife still lives in Sevier County and maintains his Web site, where
she posts updates on his case.

In an official response to the 6th Circuit ruling, Ingrid Zundel wrote,
"There are dimensions to this important ruling I can't discuss at 
this point. It
means, however, that now we can begin discovery - a process where we can ask
questions and demand documents on court directives that are going to expose the
depth of deceit and political interference of this deportation that 
was, in fact,
a well-coordinated political kidnapping."

Zundel's imprisonment in Canada has sparked several protests by groups such
as the Canadian Association for Free Expression. Those events have drawn
counter-protests from antiracism groups.


Jamie Satterfield may be reached at 865-342-6308.

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Next, here are my corrections, just shipped to "Letters to the Editor":

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Editor -

Jamie Satterfield's article about my husband in yesterday's paper, 
titled "Holocaust denier gets court reprieve", was unprofessional, 
mean-spirited, and grossly inaccurate.   Satterfield uses 
inflammatory words and phrases, on purpose distorting what actually 
happened.

To open a news article by stating "A Holocaust denier [was] booted 
from his Sevier County home" implies that an unsavory criminal was 
taken out by law enforcement.  In fact, my husband, 65, is an 
award-winning artist of German descent with no criminal record on 
this continent, where he has lived for more than 40 years.  He has 
run his own graphic arts business as a successful entrepreneur since 
he was in his early twenties.  For decades, he gave employment to 
many, including unemployed minorities.

Satterfield states that the pamphlet "Did Six Million Really Die?" 
was authored by Ernst Zundel.  It was, in fact, a booklet authored by 
a British student that had been reprinted in 18 different countries 
and translated into 12 languages, without causing any bellyache to 
anyone, before my husband secured the rights to republish it, causing 
global headlines about some very questionable claims about the 
Holocaust.

Satterfield also implies that Ernst Zundel entered this country on a 
temporary visa "... and then married..a U.S. citizen."  He has that 
backwards - we were married for more than a year before my husband 
sold his home and business in Canada and acquired a gallery in Wears 
Valley, settling down for his retirement years.

Satterfield next states that the world-famous website, the 
Zundelsite, belongs to my husband - which is not true, as voluminous 
court transcripts reveal.  That website is my property, as documented 
by my sworn affidavit and other evidence.

Finally, Satterfield claims that protest rallies against Ernst 
Zundel's brutal treatment in Canada have "drawn counter-protests from 
antiracism (sic) groups."  About a dozen protests have been held 
world-wide, including two in the U.S. before Canadian embassies, to 
shame that country for its abominable imprisonment of a lifelong 
pacifist - without any counter-protesters.  Only at the last of seven 
or eight protests in Canada itself did a dozen unwashed street folks 
suddenly appear, spilling from a rented bus, some of whom had never 
heard of Zundel, and all of whom had no idea what they were even 
protesting.

Who paid them?  Your guess is as good as my guess.

Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.


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