*** My very last ZGram ***

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

It seems that quite a few readers on my list did not receive my 
notice that I have discontinued my ZGrams.  Therefore, I am sending 
it again.

I will still send occasional bulletins as needed, but I am so 
overwhelmed with projects of greater urgency, I had to "bite the 
bullet", as the saying goes

Here is the December 31, 2004 ZGram:

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>Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!
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>December 31, 2004
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>Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
>
>It is the last day of the year, early morning, and I am writing my 
>very last Zgram.  A cyber tradition that I created  ten years ago 
>tomorrow, that I maintained with gritted teeth through happy days 
>and sad, has finally come to an end. 
>
>What has happened?  Nothing, really - except that I have known for 
>quite some time that my Zgrams have outlived their usefulness, and I 
>am calling it quits because I want to redirect my energy and 
>creativity into channels that are more appropriate and useful. 
>
>For the past ten years, my Zgrams have taken up one-third of my 
>time, conservatively estimated.  That includes the tens of thousands 
>of emails I had to read, and many that I had to answer.  This was a 
>seven days a week job lasting a decade.  That is a big, big chunk of 
>time.  I believe I can use my time better, as outlined below.  I 
>made that decision already several years ago, but I was persuaded, 
>time and again, to keep going.  I think an anniversary like this one 
>is as good a time as any to redirect and to diversify my efforts. 
>
>Please note and believe me:  Nobody made me do this!  Nobody could 
>have!  No one did!  In fact, quite a few people, including my own 
>Prisoner of Conscience, tried to dissuade me from making this move 
>even this time.  However, I have now concluded - no more Zgrams in 
>the future.  That's it!
>
>You see, the Internet environment has changed. 
>
>When I started out, there were very few websites from which I could 
>glean Zgram content.  Most mainstream newspapers were not yet 
>on-line - news items that were useful to us were few and far 
>between.  I had to write a lot of essays, editorials, and op-eds on 
>my own.  It was a time-consuming task that took a lot of mental 
>energy - and there was never sufficient financial support.  It was a 
>draining, grinding enterprise I largely did on a volunteer basis. 
>But ten years ago, it made sense to do it that way.  The Internet 
>was in its infancy.  My daily cyber missives provided a lively 
>global thread to diverse friends and comrades by means of an 
>authentic voice.  To my knowledge, there was not at that time an 
>information service offered anywhere in cyberspace where daily 
>updates of opinions and events were shipped to thousands and 
>thousands in a personalized, purposely chatty, non-threatening 
>format.  I decided on that format quite coldly. Except for my dear 
>friend, known as Mackenzie Paine who died in an accident several 
>years ago, there was no one else to do what the two of us did, day 
>after day after day.  
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>Many of our friends have chided us, and our foes have sneered at us, 
>for our chatty ways and means and wanted us to be more "scholarly" 
>and "formal."  We always resisted, because we saw our contribution 
>to the internet to be a cyber intifada - this long before the term 
>was widely known.  When there is war - and we are in a very serious 
>global war against the forces of repression - and you pick up a rock 
>because it is the only weapon that you have against a giant monster, 
>intent on enslaving the world, there is no time to worry if that 
>rock is footnoted or not.  That's silly! 
>
>That we were effective, whereas more structured, stodgy Revisionist 
>websites were not, was due to the fact that even though some of our 
>friends did not appreciate the common-sense, strategic underpinning 
>of our service on behalf of Truth in History, our enemies knew from 
>the start.  They understood it all too well. 
>
>I now speak for myself, for Mackenzie is dead.  I still wonder about 
>that so-called "accident."   Something similar happened to me that 
>briefly blinded me. 
>
>No revisionist website has been as fiercely attacked as the 
>Zundelsite has been.  There were three massive censorship attempts - 
>all happening in 1996.  There was the War of the Blue Ribbons in 
>January, with access denied to 1300 websites, initiated by the Simon 
>Wiesenthal Center and their ilk who sent out 2000 letters to 
>Presidents of universities to stop me.  Next came the German 
>government attempt to "index" (and thus criminalize) certain 
>articles, and finally the massive "denial of service" attack 
>originating out of Nanaimo, B.C., Canada, home of the opposition 
>Nizkor website underwritten by B'nai Brith, which crippled 3000 
>websites during the busiest pre-Christmas weekend of that year. 
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>Not one of these attacks succeeded!
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>After that, it was mostly various censorship attempts battled out in 
>the courtrooms of Canada, aided and abetted by a parasitic, 
>so-called Human Rights monstrosity and various governmental flunkies 
>that tried to knock my website off the air.  I had a formula that 
>worked. For as long as there's even a shred of Freedom of Speech 
>left in America, the Zundelsite will be a cyber presence as an 
>electronic monument!
>
>I watched attempts by various entities to imitate what I was doing 
>with my Zgrams - C-grams, G-grams, K-grams;  even, briefly, White 
>House grams.  None lasted, because it is a grind to send a fresh and 
>lively missive, day by day and week by week, for months, for years, 
>for an entire decade!  It takes enormous dedication and singleness 
>of purpose.  That I stuck to my Zgrams under fire is something I am 
>proud of - it is now part of cyber history and will be remembered by 
>those who are truly committed to freedom of speech. 
>
>Then why quit now?  Because the information I dispensed as novelty 
>in years gone by is now at everybody's fingertips.  My service is no 
>longer needed.  Search engines work splendidly;  websites have 
>become  sophisticated;  friends have found friends and comrades have 
>discovered comrades by the score that band together by interest; 
>what I am doing is no longer novel.  It is old hat. Magnificent news 
>services send you the news and  editorial content tailored to any 
>interest level and political persuasion imaginable.  Anybody with a 
>keyboard and a mouse can find his websites of choice and get on list 
>serves in three seconds.  I do not want to stick to horse and buggy 
>when people nowadays ride rockets to the stars.  I have done what I 
>could do, when it was meaningful and timely, and now I want to move 
>on and do something else. 
>
>So please believe me when I tell you that I am not relinquishing my 
>Zgrams under censorship fire. Absolutely on the contrary:  I want to 
>reclaim that block of time, so far devoted to my Zgrams, to do 
>something more targeted.  I have not  wearied of the struggle. 
>Don't even think for a moment that something inside me has changed, 
>and that I have either fatigued or been made to abandon my work. 
>Not so!  I am refocusing.  Not in the least am I abandoning my prime 
>- right now my only! - cause to free Ernst Zundel from the clutches 
>of the Lying Lobby that kidnapped him almost two years ago.  I'll 
>get him back to Tennessee.  Trust me!
>
>What is more meaningful for me at this stage in our struggle?  There 
>are various projects  I have had to set aside for years, but that I 
>nursed inside myself, always hoping for more time, for adequate 
>financial sponsorship, for the right moment not taken up by so much 
>trivia generated by that flood of mail that came in response to my 
>Zgrams.
>
>-----  I want to work on passionate Revisionist documentaries that 
>are aimed at the heart, at emotions.  I want to help create and 
>market "our Hollywood."  We don't need the historical cud chewed for 
>us with idiocies like Schindler's List.  How about "Rebel of the 
>Spirit"?
>
>----- We desperately need our mainstream lines of marketable 
>revisionist products.  A start has already been made with "Letters 
>from Cell # 7" and various artistic and/or political sketches out of 
>Ernst's lonely cell.  Watch out for a genuine, gagged Nutcracker 
>Zundel - in prison garb and all, replete with soldier's cap that 
>says THINK!  Now there is your collectible!
>
>----- I want to sort and order by priority all that raw electronic 
>footage Ernst has accumulated in decades of his often lonely search 
>for Truth in History.  We have hundreds of splendid video masters 
>and several thousands of audios, just waiting to be mined!  As my 
>very own Christmas present, I have already purchased the editing 
>equipment and put it right under my tree!
>
>----- I want to cultivate and make our struggle known to ethnically 
>receptive enclaves of decent kith and kin strewn over the planet who 
>shy away from us, not knowing who we really are and what we really 
>stand for.  I worked in grant writing, fund-raising, public speaking 
>and public relations for years;  I have an idea or two. 
>
>----- I need to update and sharpen the Zundelsite and make it more 
>timely and topical, something that I could not do for years because 
>of lack of time. As a priority, I want to showcase magnificent 
>translations, mostly in German,  I have collected but never had the 
>time or opportunity to make available. 
>
>----- I want to reach out to the younger crowd -students, young 
>parents who home-school their kids.  They need curricula.  A trial 
>run is already planned in two months at a major Midwest university. 
>We'll use that event as a springboard -
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>And, finally, it is time for spring-cleaning as well. We are people 
>of taste and discernment;  we do not need to imitate our foes. Wait 
>and watch how I will systematically turf out the smutty language and 
>shoddy, self-destructive ways of interaction in our ranks.  We need 
>to hold the friendly fire and not shoot off at the mouth all the 
>time. 
>
>I know I speak in generalities, but they will be translated into 
>consumer goods that feed our Aryan soul.  We are a people unlike 
>other people - and by that I don't mean only Germans.  We need to 
>work on an identity that is, in essence, European. I feel a very 
>deep, abiding personal commitment to that Cause.  I have worked out 
>within myself a very focused vision, which is the reason I am 
>broadening my reach and changing the thrust of my message.  I 
>estimate that by retiring my Zgrams, I will have freed, as I already 
>said, about one-third of my time and doubled my energy output.  I 
>know I won't do this alone;  I have reliable old friends as well as 
>an ever-growing circle of new, enthusiastic supporters - and, best 
>of all, I know I have the support and enthusiasm of my own 
>comrade-in-captivity who shares my vision and my dream.  We have 
>discussed practical aspects for years and have already laid the 
>groundwork. 
>
>I will still keep my media and political contact list.  It will be 
>used as needed.   
>
>If you would like to be on that list, you will have to tell me 
>personally and give me some time to put you on that list, because I 
>will have to manually subscribe you.  My regular email, 
>irimland at zundelsite.org may not be all that reliable - it seems to 
>be an email still at the mercy of our friendly censors.  If it 
>doesn't work for you, try irimland at bellsouth.net or 
>irimland at mail.bellsouth.net
>
>And now I wish you a very focused, productive New Year that will do 
>our Revisionist Pioneer in Captivity proud.
>
>Signing off with my last Zgram greeting - NO SURRENDER!
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>Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.
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