*** An Open Letter to Canadian Consulates in the US ***

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

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To all -

this letter was sent yesterday to 20 Canadian Consulate in the US.

FYI


Ingrid


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Ingrid Rimland Zündel, Ed.D.

Open Letter

February 10, 2005

Dear Sir:

This Open Letter is meant to bring to your attention the fact that 
this past weekend, Free Speech supporters all over the United States 
held various small but dignified demonstrations in front of Canadian 
consulates as well as consulates in several foreign countries, 
protesting the illegal incarceration of my husband, Ernst Zundel, due 
to state-sponsored judicial malevolence that would do Stalin proud! 
Only five of these demonstrations were planned - the rest arose 
spontaneously, with very little prior notice.  It is clear that many, 
many people know what happened to my husband in your country.  The 
world looks on, aghast! 


You may or may not know that my husband's "arrest" was, fact, an 
extrajudicial rendition - more plainly, a vicious, politically 
motivated kidnapping, in broad daylight, on American soil! - with 
unwary U.S. officials acting as hit squads for nefarious Canadian 
special interest groups, entities known in the vernacular, not always 
respectfully, as the Canadian Holocaust Lobby.


I am putting these questions to you as representatives of Canada: 


Should a man who has not even been charged, much less convicted, of 
any wrongdoing in your country, or in mine,  have to suffer solitary 
confinement  in an ice cold cell for two years - where the light is 
kept on 24 hours a day? 

Should an innocent man be subjected to nutritionally inferior prison 
food rations, always served cold?  


Must he suffer daily insults by uncouth guards; must he be subjected 
to hundreds of strip searches after visits from friends behind 
bullet-proof glass - at times even after a telephone call? 


Should he have to wait for an entire year before a dentist can be 
summoned to treat an infected tooth? 


Is it acceptable that original court documents be willfully destroyed 
by dousing them with water? 


Is it not highly unprofessional to ask him to prepare himself for 
trial costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars - and millions to 
Canadian taxpayers! - yet not allow him a pen with which to make some 
notes?  In his cell, my husband does not even have a chair!  It took 
a ministerial "okay" to let him have a pillow! 



Can a country fall so low that it allows  a "judge" who was a former 
boss in charge of CSIS,  the very agency that has compiled a Zündel 
smear file from sources Ernst is not allowed to know, to run a 
political show trial based on "incriminating evidence"  even his 
lawyers are forbidden to inspect?


Ernst Zundel is an internationally known, high profile activist, 
respected and admired, in spite of what your lapdog media minions 
claim. My husband has the right by international treaties, to which 
your country is a signatory, to confront his accusers in an unbiased 
court and to call witnesses who would exonerate him!


Please be so kind as to remind your government superiors that Ernst 
Zundel has no criminal record, either in Canada or the United States. 
He did not live in Tennessee illegally.  He was in Adjustment of 
Status procedures due to marriage to a U.S. citizen.  The very 
agency, INS, that lent a hand arresting him had given him a work 
permit, had scheduled a health check and arranged for a social 
security number.  Ernst was allowed to leave the country and return. 
When he was arrested, he was known to the FBI as a publisher with 
controversial views about events of World War II, specifically what 
passes for the "Holocaust".  He had been investigated by local as 
well as state and national enforcement agencies who stated in their 
various reports that he checked out to be non-violent, and it was 
recommended by the FBI two years before the handcuffs closed around 
his wrists that the investigation into his whereabouts be 
administratively closed. 


In this country, nationals facing deportation, for whatever reason, 
are supposed to be placed in removal proceedings.  My husband never 
got a judge to hear his case.  There was no warrant for his arrest, 
and he was not allowed to use the telephone to call his own attorney 
- nor was I, a U.S. citizen. 


I am urging you to watch the 15-minute demo DVD I am including with 
this letter. It will be made into  a full-fledged,  large-screen 
feature documentary.  With the help of thousands of Zundel supporters 
and Zundel sympathizers in 43 countries, this sample demo alone will 
be sent to 5,000 churches and thousands of social service clubs as 
well as tax exempt organizations concerned with the protection of one 
of the most basic human rights - people's right to freedom of speech 
and assembly. 


I'd like to ask you to convey to your superiors the following:

What happened this past weekend was a trial run.  We had only three 
weeks to prepare.  However, we have learned a lot, and we intend to 
apply the lessons that we learned. We are now planning demonstrations 
at the U.S.-Canadian border, warning tourists that they are entering 
a dangerous, unlawful country where Truth is no Defense.  We will 
also hand out protest flyers at tourist ferries, at airline counters, 
and in front of travel agencies. 


As soon as possible, we are aiming for a large protest demonstration 
at the Washington. D.C. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  We will have 
well-researched, verifiable document press kits ready for media, 
proving that what is claimed as having happened in places such as 
Auschwitz is fraudulent.  We expect to have representatives from many 
countries backing us with their independent research.  The aim of 
this planned demonstration is to demand an international forum to 
settle, once and for all, the non-stop post-World War II Holocaust 
propaganda tsunami. 


We have filed a lawsuit already in the Knoxville District Court that 
could well turn into a Zundel Holocaust Trial Number Three - this 
time on American soil.  We know that researchers all over this globe 
stand ready as expert witnesses to assist us with their forensic, 
historical, and documentary evidence compiled in decades of careful 
research.  Let's let the people see and decide if they want to 
continue funding a lie that has poisoned this planet for more than 
half a century and functions as both sword and shield for Israel. 


A book my husband authored, depicting prison life, is now in its 
second printing - having sold more than 6,000 copies in less than 5 
weeks by word of mouth alone.  I am including a copy for your kind 
perusal.  After you  have read it, may I ask you why you think this 
book is banned in Canada?  It has already been translated into 
German, and there will soon be a foreign edition.  There are more 
than 60 million Germans and German-descendents in America alone. 
There are more than 200 million German-speaking people in the world. 
We will try to reach as many as we can through German-language media 
and ask for their support. 


My husband is not well.  He is of retirement age.  He was living 
peacefully in Tennessee when this disaster struck.  It was not 
necessary.  It needs to be undone.  Through FOIA, we obtained the 
correspondence proving there was collusion between Canada, the 
U.S.A., and Germany - and maybe even Israel!  Ernst Zundel would not 
be in a Canadian jail if unwary United States government officials 
had not allowed themselves to act as hatchet men to please an 
unpleasant, bullying lobby.  If Ernst is not released and permitted 
to return to the U.S. where he belongs, there will be more protests, 
more media coverage, more negative press exposing a country in the 
claws of a handful of mendacious lobbyists who have the ears of 
corrupted officials in the Canadian corridors of power.


This obscene detention and unwarranted treatment of an innocent, 
incessantly demonized man is not to Canada's credit!


I want my husband back. That Ernst Zundel needs to be paraded in leg 
irons before the Canadian people who are made to pick up the tab for 
this deceitful charade is just plain political bull - if you permit a 
lady of decorum a less-than-ladylike but heartfelt expression.  Ernst 
Zundel is a kind and gentle man who champions an unpopular cause.  He 
does not belong in Abu Ghraib North. 


In my youth, I lived in Canada for seven years, having immigrated as 
a dirt-poor, barefoot immigrant out of a Third World country.  It was 
Canada that gave me a chance for the beginnings of a solid, formal 
education that permits me now, in my sixth language, to tell you 
clearly "where it's at, where we are coming from."   Some forty years 
ago, I thought that Canada was one of the most  pristine, unspoiled, 
lovely places in the entire world.  Sadly, it is a country now that 
lost its moral spine, its legal moorings.  Utterly!


As representatives of Canada whose image you are commissioned to 
protect, I urge you to add your voice to the ever-increasing chorus 
of law-abiding, decent, civilized people demanding my husband's 
release.


Sincerely,



Ingrid Rimland Zündel, Ed.D.