Update on the Zundel Case

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Update on the Zundel Case:


Below are several noteworthy items:


___  Once again, there is very heavy censorship applied to all 
incoming and outgoing mail belonging to Political Prisoner Zundel.  I 
just found out that hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cards sent to 
Ernst by total strangers after an appeal on the Rense page to 
brighten Ernst's holidays a bit are still being held at the prison 
censor's office. 


Likewise withheld is a book from Ernst's son, meant as a Christmas 
present for his father.   I have long given up sending books since 
they all mysteriously disappearŠ Even Amazon has mysteriously been 
notified not to ship any books to Ernst Zundel!


Simple personal letters, both ways, are apparently being rerouted.  A 
friend of Ernst's who does research reported that he had received 12 
letters from Ernst all on the same day - some of them as old as 8 
weeks!  These letters have double bar codes and seem to have been 
tampered at the edges.  Somewhere I read that our friendly censors 
have   special, pointed instruments that can be inserted at the edges 
of an envelope to grab a sheet of paper, roll it up, pull it out so 
that it can be read, and then be reinserted into the envelope 
undamaged.  Clever!


The reason for the delay and withholding of Ernst's mail is stated as 
"receiving too much mail" and keeping letters in his cell "too long." 
Ernst told me that he protested - he told me he has had a "man to man 
talk" with one of the nicer prison captains,  who must feel pressure 
form "above", telling him that since he is not a-run-of-the-mill 
"prisoner," he has every right as a successful businessman - not even 
charged, much less convicted! - to keep up his important contacts 
with his correspondents. 


"I take my rights very seriously," Ernst told this prison captain - 
and those who know Ernst Zundel know that those are not words spoken 
lightly.


If the spirit moves you, please let the prison administration know 
how you feel. 


The address is:

111 Disco Road, PO Box 4950
Rexdale, ON M9W 1M3
Canada

Phone number 416-675-1806
Fax number 416-674-7515

-___  Moving on:  We are planning a number of picket demonstrations 
in various cities across America before Canadian Consulates on 
February 4 and/or February 5, the second anniversary of Ernst's 
political abduction.  These demonstrations will happen at lunch and 
will not be long.  One reason of these demos is to get good video 
footage for a Hollywood documentary and to get photos to send around 
the world to our media contacts.  A second reason is to hand 
respective consuls a press kit and an official Open Protest Letter.


It looks like the following cities will have demonstrations:

Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Atlanta
Washington, DC
Boston

(Possibly also Buffalo and/or Detroit)


If you live in the area of any of these cities and can participate, 
please keep on checking the Zundelsite (www.zundelsite.org) for 
details and instructions.  Information will also appear on various 
other websites on the Net.


___  If these demonstrations don't bring results, there are plans 
underway to do leafletting to alert certain tourist industry that 
they be wise to inform their customers that Canada is a censorious 
dictatorship where Truth Is No Defense.  Such leafletting was highly 
successful some eight years ago when Hans Schmidt, an American 
writer, was nabbed in Germany because some of his peppery writings 
displeased the Noisy Lobby.  A group of angry East Coasters got 
together and handed out leaflets to Lufthansa passengers flying into 
Germany.  It didn't take long for Schmidt to head back home.  I am 
tentatively planning for a leafletting campaign at the Niagara Falls 
border to warn tourists to proceed with caution. 


___  And speaking of Canadian censorship, Ernst's book, "Setting the 
Record Straight:  Letters from Cell Number 7"  is now also forbidden 
to Canadians who might catch some forbidden thoughts.  So, for that 
matter, are five of my books, two of which I wrote at least a decade 
before I met my first Revisionist.  These books are "The Wanderers", 
a novel that won Best First Novel by a California Writer in 1978, and 
"The Furies and the Flame", a biographical account of my having 
raised a handicapped child.  Amazing what kind of writing will freak 
out these paranoid people!


___  Finally, now that the hearings about the Security Certificate 
are finished, we are waiting for the axe to fall - that is, the 
deportation order to be delivered.  These so-called "hearings" have 
befouled the entire judiciary of Canada and will be remembered long 
after Ernst Zundel is gone.  Gone where, you may ask.  Only the 
oracle knows.  Our guess is that Judge Blais will one more time 
behave obediently and do the bidding of his handlers.  He has so far 
- so why not give it the finale?  If that happens, it won't be the 
end of the world.  Thousands in Germany are wishing for Ernst to come 
"home" so that his high profile/name recognition status will aid the 
European struggle to get out from under talmudic oppression.  Ernst 
has held out for as long as he could because he hates to give up our 
little Berghof in the Tennessee mountains.  He would much rather 
paint his landscapes and plant his potatoes, believe me!  But if it 
has to be, it has to be.  I watched a video just last night where he 
declares that he will leave Canada "only in handcuffs or in a 
coffin."  It has been leaked to us from highest US State Department 
quarters  that there have already been thumbscrews applied where 
thumbscrews are feared to ship Ernst Zundel not to Germany but 
instead to Israel!  So far, the U.S. has declined.  Will Canada?   No 
telling at this point.


One thing Ernst's enemies have a very hard time comprehending:  In 
this man they have met a fighter who refuses to live on his knees. 


Please help us by publicizing what is going on - for now it is Ernst 
Zundel;  tomorrow it could well be you!


No surrender!


Ingrid Rimland