Fwd: *** BULLETIN: Court finds Zundel can be deported ***

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Fri Feb 25 07:31:42 EST 2005


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>Court finds Zundel can be deported
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>By KIRK MAKIN
>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050225.wxzundel0225/BNStory/Front/
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>Friday, February 25, 2005 Updated at 3:05 AM EST
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>From Friday's Globe and Mail
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>Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel can be deported immediately as a 
>danger to Canadian security, a Federal Court of Canada judge has 
>ruled.
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>In a searing 64-page ruling yesterday, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais 
>labelled Mr. Zundel a racist hypocrite who has nurtured a pacifist 
>image to conceal his support of right-wing extremism and his global 
>propagation of anti-Semitic material. "Mr. Zundel seems to thrive in 
>this troubled sea, surrounded by ambiguity and hypocrisy," the judge 
>said.
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>"Mr. Zundel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national 
>security, but also a threat to the international community of 
>nations."
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>No appeal is possible under the controversial national security 
>certificate procedure, meaning Mr. Zundel could be on a plane to his 
>native Germany at any time.
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>Judge Blais said Mr. Zundel's Toronto home was "a revolving door" 
>for every member of a global white supremacist movement.
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>He said Mr. Zundel deftly exploited Canada as a "safe haven," and 
>used his skills as a communicator and Internet pioneer to give new 
>life to the white supremacy movement.
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>Mr. Zundel, 65, has been living in solitary confinement in a Toronto 
>jail since his arrest on May 1, 2003. In keeping with the security 
>certificate process, much of the evidence at his hearing was heard 
>in secret.
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>Defence counsel Peter Lindsay said that he plans two last-ditch 
>attempts to obtain a stay of the deportation order -- both based on 
>the fact that the Supreme Court of Canada has not yet decided 
>whether to hear a pair of security-certificate-related cases.
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>"Mr. Zundel expected this result," Mr. Lindsay said last night after 
>visiting his client in jail. "He didn't think he was going to get a 
>fair shake."
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>"He could be gone tomorrow," said Bernie Farber, executive director 
>of the Canadian Jewish Congress. "All I know is, it's going to be 
>quick. Canadians can breathe easier now."
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>Judge Blais needed only to decide whether the security certificate 
>was "reasonable." He went much further, stating that the secret 
>information erased any doubt of Mr. Zundel's status as a global 
>power who has hobnobbed with a who's who of the racist right.
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>He described Mr. Zundel as a man who, inspired by Hitler and 
>latter-day Nazi sympathizers, set out to support the neo-Nazi 
>movement in dozens of countries. "He also tried, by all means 
>possible, to develop and maintain a global network of groups that 
>have an interest in the same right-wing, extremist, neo-Nazi 
>mindset," Judge Blais said.
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>Mr. Zundel left his Toronto residence, known as the "Carlton Street 
>bunker," several years ago, and moved to Tennessee to live with his 
>new wife. However, he was seized and returned to Canada by U.S. 
>authorities for violating an immigration requirement.
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>Mr. Lindsay said last night that while representing the marginalized 
>and unpopular is a lawyer's highest calling, it was a horribly 
>disillusioning ordeal.
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>"I will never, ever do another security certificate case," he said. 
>"A lawyer can play no meaningful role in the face of secret 
>evidence. The lawyer's only role is as a fig leaf, to make the 
>process look acceptable."
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>Mr. Lindsay said his attempts to secure a stay involve two Supreme 
>Court leave applications:
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>A Federal Court of Appeal decision that Judge Blais was not biased 
>and could hear the Zundel case.
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>An appeal of a constitutional challenge by suspected terrorist Adil 
>Charkaoui to the constitutionality of the security certificate 
>procedure.
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>Judge Blais said that what he heard in secret linked Mr. Zundel to 
>leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations movement and many 
>others who often resort to violence.
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>He said that if Mr. Zundel truly repudiated violence, he would have 
>shunned these people.
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>Judge Blais said that Mr. Zundel is an egotist who could not hide 
>his pleasure at the enormous influence he exerted as a "guru of the 
>right."
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>"I remember how proud he was when he mentioned in cross-examination 
>that his Zundelsite received hits from 400,000 people a month, and 
>that after his arrest, the number grew to 1.2-million people 
>accessing his website each month," Judge Blais said.



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