***Update on the Holocaust Heresy Trial ***

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

Greetings from the Zundelsite:

This is a summary of the three days of hearings in the Holocaust 
Heresy Trial - February 9, 15, and 16.  I held off reporting on it 
because I had hoped for a more professional, on-location summary from 
someone like William James who can grasp the overarching topics, 
principles, tactics, and strategies - not just the actual events. 
Again, due to e-mail sabotage, I may not have received every write-up 
from the audience sent to me.  Therefore, I am flying by the seat of 
my pants, so to speak, piecing things together from an admittedly 
limited and incomplete perspective. 

You should know up-front that Ernst is not allowed to communicate to 
anybody about the trial itself - apparently, not even to me, even 
though a higher court had ordered that his communication to his wife 
not be restricted in any way.  Secondly, his correspondence overall 
is severely throttled.  Not only is he limited to "two letters" 
(coming and going) each workday, the correspondence he receives from 
others is largely limited to postcards from strangers who just send a 
greeting, sometimes in a language that he cannot read, often not even 
with a return address.  At times, he is given empty envelopes just to 
underline - what, exactly?  Also, his postage stamp allotment has 
been brutally cut back so that even the "two letters a day" 
limitation is hampered. 

In a way, I am the beneficiary.  Ernst writes me absolutely stunning 
letters, practically every day - cutting down his allotment to others 
by 50% -  letters that are a testimony to his indomitable spirit, 
every one of which I save for future use.  Happily, my letters to him 
get through in a relatively short time - and in order to make it 
easier on the censor(s), I remember my good manners and always 
include a courtesy copy for them!  

Ernst is not allowed to utter the word "Holocaust" - he gets around 
that one by speaking of the "Reizwort" (incendiary word).  He is not 
allowed to comment about Adolf Hitler for fear it might be catching 
like the flu.  He is not allowed to receive anything that could give 
him intellectual or artistic stimulation, which includes travel 
brochures and seed catalogs.   Any input generally about what is 
going on politically outside the prison gates he can only gather by 
reading newspapers that other prison inmates gleefully share, to 
liven up their boredom, with the political celebrity that's dwelling 
among them.  Wherever he walks in the prison yard, he gathers a tail 
of followers eager to hear him hold forth - exactly like Jesus, he 
says. 

Physically, Ernst is apparently well taken care of.  He has 
repeatedly commented on the respectful kindness of his guards, and he 
is allowed to have a radio and CD player, which is a very great 
comfort to him.

This much by way of a foreword. 

Now how to summarize the three days of hearings this month?  One has 
to understand what is playing in Mannheim in order to appreciate the 
strategy.  Germany does not have, and never has had, a Constitution 
after its defeat in 1945 - a fact that is not known to most people. 
Instead, the BRD/Bundesrepublik has something called a "Basic Law", 
which seems to be a carbon copy of what rules Israel - in itself an 
interesting comment on this camouflaged colony of Israel's called 
"Germany". 

I will not reiterate the history of why a Constitution was denied so 
far to the German people, partly because I am not familiar with all 
the ins and outs.  On paper, the BRD was installed in 1945 as an 
interim government that would expire as soon as the people would be 
able to elect a government to their needs and liking.  At least that 
was the promise -  and it is even nailed into the record through 
speeches in the German parliament.  The way I read the tea leaves, 
this lacking Constitution was promised to the German people 
intermittently, allegedly as soon as they were politically "mature" 
enough to "deserve" a Constitution - in other words, as soon as they 
were all "re-educated" to atone in perpetuity for their forefather's 
infernal conduct in wartime.

Now this "Basic Law" is unctuously proclaiming on paper that Germany 
is a "democracy".  It includes a lofty provision for Freedom of 
Speech and Assembly.   However, the "Holocaust" is held to be so 
utterly "self-evident" that there has got to be an exception to prove 
a worthy rule, and therefore, a statute called Paragraph 130 was 
spawned.  It is swung by obliging judges like a club against those 
who dare "sin" against anybody who, in parlance, who "defames the 
memory of the dead" and "incites the people" with questions 
challenging the Holocaust. 

"Legally", as Germany exists today, a defense based on facts and 
evidence that would show up the Holocaust as the concocted 
monstrosity it is, is utterly impossible - and immediately brutally 
clubbed down by judges who are willing to please.  Attorneys who try 
to defend those who run afoul of Paragraph 130 by conducting 
themselves according to globally accepted standards of justice merely 
endanger themselves of contravening Paragraph 130.  To paraphrase 
Orwell, all German people have free speech, but some have more free 
speech than others - just as nobody's dead must be defamed, but most 
can be defamed, as long as some are shielded. 

The argument the Zundel Team is making is within these legally 
existing and restricting parameters.  Since Paragraph 130 exists, a 
direct defense is, therefore, not in the cards.  The strategy is not, 
as I understand it, to show that the Holocaust didn't happen and 
couldn't have happened as claimed, because science, especially 
forensic science, doesn't support any of the conventional claims - 
the Zundel defense strategy is to show up Germany as lawless and 
controlled by an agenda that merely serves Israel.  Not Germany!

Thus, the Zundel legal team treats the judicial setup as an enemy 
fortress and the judge and prosecution as "willing executioners" in 
the service of an alien power.  Ernst's freedom under this strategy 
has become secondary - almost, it seems to me at times with that 
horrid sinking feeling in my stomach, irrelevant in the grand design 
of things. The aim is not so much to free Ernst Zundel from prison by 
showing that what he said was justified, and that he acted on the 
dictates of his conscience - the aim is to find allies within the 
judicial system who will remember they are Germans and not useful 
idiots to Israel, and who will refuse to convict according to 
Paragraph 130.  If Paragraph 130 can be made to land on the garbage 
heap of history where that abomination belongs, then patriotic people 
need no longer fear to speak the truth as they know it.

Vastly simplified, the Zundel Heresy Trial has now become the vehicle 
to try to shake off Israeli (and Allied) control of Germany, and 
hopefully of Europe.  Ernst has become the symbol and political icon 
of that struggle because he is the best-known Prisoner of Conscience 
in the Western world and his name carries weight and prestige with 
important dissidents who have put the mosaic together and refuse to 
live by the Lie. 

Recently, there have been cracks in the judiciary itself in that 
judges have begun to speak out against this absurd situation of 
claiming "freedom of speech" when, in fact, they are required to 
shred every attempt of freedom of speech the moment Jewish interests 
come calling.  Some have described this new phenomenon as a 
"paralysis" in the judiciary - in that Paragraph 130 complaints are 
dismissed outright or, if charges are brought, the system is dragging 
its feet to convict. 

In response, the Enemy of Free Speech, via what I call the "Poodle 
Media" - a phrase I'd like you to adopt - is shooting out of every 
barrel.  Mainstream media folk have attacked with a blizzard of 
defamatory Zundel articles world-wide, but even there are cracks in 
that the more alert reporters are beginning to resent having to spew 
the words that someone puts into their mouths, and they have found 
ways of sliding in the real issues by letting people read between the 
lines.  In Europe, mainstream media, generally, is not as viperous as 
the Canadian scribblers, for instance.  The German articles that I 
have seen slyly let shine through what really plays in Mannheim! 

There are six attorneys making up the defense - three of our own, and 
three assigned by the government, ostensibly as "public defenders", 
whose duty is, as you and I surmise, to spy on strategy and move the 
trial to a speedy conclusion and conviction.  Now it so happens that 
one of these three "public defenders" is Dr. Bock, a most 
distinguished, white-haired gentleman whom we consider as being on 
our wavelength due to his long and vigorous defense of other 
defendants who transgressed against Paragraph 130.  That leaves two 
dismayed fellows who "don't enjoy the trust of Mr. Zundel," as it was 
pointed out by one of the Zundel attorneys in one of the hearings. 
They sit behind the main team, out of earshot, fuming!

A young, attractive lady, Sylvia Stolz, is the lead Zundel attorney - 
a genuine Magnolia beauty hiding a spine of steel.  From all I heard, 
Dr. Meinerzhagen, the judge in this trial, is no match at all against 
Attorney Stolz. She refuses to address him by title.  He looks and 
acts apoplectic. When he talks, she talks, too - parallel.  When he 
pulls the cord to prevent her from speaking, she turns around and 
addresses the audience directly. She is described as superbly 
unruffled and sweetly in control.  She bests him with every move.

To the glee of the courtroom spectators, Dr. Meinerzhagen has lost 
his cool.  When an elderly woman laughed loudly at some of the 
point-counterpoint sparring, he ordered her up front and lectured an 
old lady as though she were a kindergartner.  When one of Zundel 
supporters called him a name that wasn't his name - comparing him to 
a notorious judge in those unmentionable times - he had the man 
arrested on the spot and thrown in jail for 4 days.  When, after the 
hearing was over, a spontaneous Singing Quartet in the audience 
launched the first verse of "Deutschland über alles" - certain verses 
forbidden by Germany's vigilant censors, even though it is a song 
with a long, distinguished history that was not dreamed up by the 
Wicked Regime - Meinerzhagen fined the would-be Barbershoppers 200 
Euros apiece - a fine that was immediately collected in the audience 
by disbarred Attorney Mahler passing the hat.  It was like in the 
olden days in Toronto - the only prop missing were the yellow helmets 
worn by the old-time dissidents. 

For the second time, Dr. Meinerzhagen has thrown in the towel and cut 
the hearing short, but not before telling Ms. Stolz that he is going 
to initiate an investigation into her irreverent conduct.  This brave 
young woman could well end up in jail herself, which would only 
underline the camouflaged dictatorship that really rules the 
Fatherland.  Remember Roosevelt's suggestion:  "Speak softly and 
carry a stickŠ"?  That's what's been going on in Germany for 60-plus 
years, and now the genie is out of the bottle. 

So that's where we are today.  Five hearing days have passed - and 
the only thing accomplished was that the charges were read against 
Ernst - listlessly, I have been told.  Ernst listens to all this 
commotion, quite calm and unperturbed, as is his style in general. 
He knows that he can't win under the current system.  The system is 
stacked against Truth, and he has known that all along.  It would be 
sweet justice if he could take the trophy of the defeated Paragraph 
130 back home to Tennessee where I would pin it up for all the world 
to see in the museum on the mountains that Ernst and I  had planned.

Ernst wants you to know that this Holocaust Heresy Trial is only the 
beginning of what is going to transpire on the soil of the Old 
Continent.  As he has put it in one of his letters to me:  "They'll 
rue the day yet when they deported me to Europe!"
P.S.  Below is a typical Poodle article from the Deutsche Presse Agentur:


http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=27722&name=Courtroom+uproar+mars+neo-Nazi+trial+in+Germany


Courtroom uproar mars neo-Nazi trial in Germany 

16 February 2006

MANNHEIM, GERMANY - A German neo-Nazi's trial degenerated into uproar 
Wednesday as the judge jailed a member of the public for contempt and 
warned a far-right defence lawyer she could be thrown out of court.

Supporters filled the court as Ernst Zuendel, 66, appeared for a 
second day on charges of incitement to racial hatred for denying the 
Holocaust, which Zuendel's books and website claim never happened.

Presiding judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen on Wednesday imposed 200-euro 
(240-dollar) fines for contempt on three men who sang a nationalistic 
version of the German national anthem in court last week.

When a member of the public slurred the judge by shouting a remark 
that  compared him to a senior Nazi-era judge, the man was sentenced 
to four days in detention for contempt.

Sparring with Zuendel's defence lawyer, the judge told her, "You are 
sabotaging this trial," and switched off her microphone. When she 
kept talking, he threatened to throw her out of court.

Zuendel's lawyers accused the court of being "anti-German".

Zuendel, who has been in detention since his expulsion from Canada 
last March, was silent Wednesday. He had lived in North America since 
1958, but as a German national, he can be charged for offences 
committed abroad.

DPA


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