Fwd: ***Update on the Holocaust Heresy Trial ***

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>>Greetings from the Zundelsite:
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>>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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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!  
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>>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. 
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>>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.
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>>This much by way of a foreword. 
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>>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". 
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>>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.
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>>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. 
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>>"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. 
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>>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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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! 
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>>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. 
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>>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. 
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>>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.
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>>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:
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>>http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=27722&name=Courtroom+uproar+mars+neo-Nazi+trial+in+Germany
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>>Courtroom uproar mars neo-Nazi trial in Germany 
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>>16 February 2006
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Zuendel's lawyers accused the court of being "anti-German".
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>>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.
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>>DPA
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