Zundel Letter from Mannheim Prison

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

To our friends around the world:

There was another Holocaust Heresy Trial session yesterday, but I 
don't have comprehensive  information yet.  I will forward it as soon 
as it arrives.

Meanwhile, another Zundel Letter, sent to a young friend in Texas:

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May 25, 2006,

Dear Curtis,

I received another letter of yours, the one dated May 10, 2006, so it 
seems that the mail flow is starting again. Whatever the reasons, 
this censorship situation with my mail has certainly given me new 
insights into how the German system functions and the attitude these 
people have towards basic human rights and human decency. One cannot 
divorce all this from the actual historical facts, which are no 
secret to my persecutors, domestically or internationally!

This current "world disorder," for that is what it is, is morphing 
into something like a bunch of writhing, intertwined snakes.  It 
seems there are too many agendas of every kind - religious, social, 
political, economic, military - a veritable geopolitical, 
geostrategic free-for-all!  A nightmare! Really!

The Americans and the lobbies that direct this wobbling giant are so 
interconnected and intertwined that it will take an Alexander The 
Great cutting the Gordian Knot to bring some semblance of order back 
into the affairs of the world.

The New Rome is writhing - not so much rising. George Washington's 
farewell address was and is being ignored at the peril of not only 
America, but the rest of the world as well. The Neo-Cons have enough 
strength left to pulverize the infrastructure of anyone challenging 
their mad, helter-skelter dash for the last remaining oil reserves of 
the world. Many European experts and commentators are far more 
outspoken about the real underlying reasons for all this disquiet 
than they once were. Some Germans are referring to our current 
political situation as the "Dance on the Volcano."

Washington's labyrinthine political struggles are being referred to 
over here as "The Big Swamp." Der Spiegel, Germany's largest magazine 
reported that Bush gave the okay after 9-11 to monitor and record 
billions of phone calls, faxes and emails - not just overseas calls, 
but domestic calls as well. The NSA, AT&T, Bell South and others were 
only too eager to violate the Constitutional Rights of millions of 
Americans by supplying their customers data to the ever growing and 
ever more invasive Federal Government. Thus it seems dictatorship has 
arrived by stealth and was voted in - just as I have said for years 
it would be in the West. It took no genius to see it coming, only a 
bit of political and historical knowledge, something in short supply 
these days. If I, the peasant, could see it coming - you can bet 
millions of far better educated and more highly placed [persons] 
could see this also, but they did not have the honesty, or the 
courage, to call a spade a spade.

Of course that is why they are free, and I am in prison!

I have previously mentioned to you a very informative book by Michael 
Ruppert entitled Crossing the Rubicon. I think it's one of the most 
exhaustive studies [over 900 footnotes] of 9-11 available today. That 
book is an absolute must for understanding the political situation 
today.  Without having the basic understanding available within its 
pages would be like embarking on a long road trip without a map. Only 
a fool would do that!

There are of course details which give a local twist and flavor to 
this understanding.  Some of these details can give one an edge. The 
New York Times has an international edition, which is printed in 
English and inserted as a supplement in major European papers. The 
Times recently had one of those whining articles about the declining 
capability of U.S. Intelligence, especially within the CIA, which 
reminded me of the melt-down experienced by the Stasi and KGB in the 
late 1980s when they were overwhelmed by the amount of intelligence 
they had. Technology had come to the point where acquiring the 
intelligence was relatively easy, but they had so much of it; they 
couldn't process it in a meaningful way. They simply experienced info 
gridlock. Because of the advances in technology, they trained fewer 
and fewer agents and translators, relying instead on technology, 
which could not analyze the data effectively. We've seen this today, 
with the avalanche of lies and false reports supplied by Chalabi and 
the Mossad; the "stove piping" of special interests, directly to 
Cheney, Rumsfeld and even Powell. Naturally enough, this allowed the 
Bush White House to accomplish what it had set out to do from the 
beginning - to lie America and the West into a disastrous was in Iraq 
and eventually Iran and some of the "-stan" countries up north. These 
Central Asian countries are governed by warlords, tribal chiefs, and 
warring clans - these people have held sway for centuries. Into this 
God-forsaken neighborhood the foolish American Manifest Destiny 
hillbilly administration has descended in their C5 Galaxys, and 
C130s, until these planes are being worn out from metal fatigue and 
too many flight hours. The active United States military leadership 
knows all too well about the worn-out state of their air transport 
command; it's almost like the ghost of Goering's braggadoccio, when 
he claimed that he could supply Stalingrad from the air.

Well guess what? The only way to get into these godforsaken countries 
in central Asia is by air, over territory that is anything but 
neutral, never mind allied and friendly. That's what amazes me most 
about this situation America has gotten itself into.  It has allowed 
itself to be sucked into this quagmire despite the fact that the best 
minds in government knew the British had failed in Afghanistan, as 
had the modern military of the Soviet Union. Both had bled themselves 
white and so shall Uncle Sam.  It can't be mitigated, because that's 
just the way it is in Central Asia and Afghanistan.  Chaos!

The American military is being overstretched, ove-used and, like 
their aircraft, worn out in a protracted exercise in futility. How 
much of this has happened by design of the Kremlin remains to be 
seen. One thing is certain:  the Russian Army and Air Force have a 
distinct advantage over their American counterparts - shorter supply 
lines. Furthermore, these supply lines are by rail and road rather 
than via air. Thus the Russians can supply their forces much more 
effectively and cheaply than can the United States. It appears that 
Capitalism is exhausting itself, chasing after the energy rainbow 
thousands of miles from home, wasting tens of billions on its failed 
venture when that money would have been better spent investing in 
alternative energy sources, new engines, new modes of transportation, 
etc. They exhausted themselves on Empire Building and making "the 
neighborhood safe" for their trusted little ally in the Mideast -  an 
ally without oil reserves, without any significant economic 
potential, without any assets - only liabilities!

Meanwhile the rest of the world isn't standing still.  Russia, Iran 
and Saudi Arabia are raking in huge profits. Now they'll utilize 
those enormous profits to build up, to modernize, capitalize, to pay 
off their international debt, decades ahead of rescheduling, and by 
so doing, saving billions upon billions in interest payments. Of 
course the end result could be economic independence, thus throwing 
the American hegemon off their backs once and for all.

Russia has in fact quadrupled the price of its natural gas to its 
customers over the last two years. Oil prices are at their highest 
ever.  Since production costs are only nominally higher than they 
were two years ago, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Saudi Arabia etc. get far 
more profit per barrel than they ever have before. With their coffers 
bulging, flush with petro-dollars, they can afford to get "testy," 
and throw their weight around - Iran and Russia are typical examples, 
China, India and Western Europe are the real victims of this 
simmering crisis and will continue to suffer for some time to come.

The Poles want an "energy NATO." They want to be able to rain 
paratroopers and other mobile forces down on the oil and gas fields 
and pipelines of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Iraq as 
well as Libya, Morocco, Algeria, etc.  The German Interior Minister 
wants the German Constitution amended to allow the Bundeswehr to be 
used to "protect," Germany's energy supply and suppliers. Of course 
this all means:  "Don't mess with our energy supply - or else!"

Now, is that not an amazing development? The need for oil was what 
really dictated Germany's WWII drive into the Ploesti oil fields in 
Romania, and the wild thrust to Baku, the heartland of the Soviet 
Union's oil production at the time. Energy and resource independence 
was always at the heart of Germany's WWII expansion drive, from the 
oil fields on Lake Balaton in Hungary to the iron ore of Norway and 
Sweden to the grain basket in the Ukraine and the vast timber 
reserves in the U.S.S.R.

Many people look with suspicion at the developing Russia-Chinese 
relationship, but Russia's population is crashing more severely than 
even Germany's. According to some articles I have read of late, 
thirty thousand Russian villages have been abandoned, as the 
traditional peasant populations are leaving for the ever-expanding 
cities. The immediate result can be seen in the declining population 
due to lack of living space.  Two and three room apartments don't end 
themselves to rearing large families.

Into this emptying Russian demographic will move the 
land-hungry-Asiatic hordes, not altogether unlike what is happening 
with the Mexican population today.  Russia is undergoing a conquest 
by "loin and womb."  It will inevitably cede ever larger tracts of 
land to the Chinese, as their population continues to grow. This, of 
course, will change the entire makeup of Russia, just as certainly as 
America's composition will forever change as a result of its 
absorbing twenty million more Mexicans.

New realities are developing all around us. New powers like China and 
India are going to challenge the Old Order.  To these people, quaint 
concepts like "guilt trips" and "guilt complexes" will mean nothing; 
they are blunt instruments  Taboos, which mean nothing to them, will 
receive nothing but ridicule - and rightly so.

A new world is dawning - the old order is dying right before our very eyes.

All the best from prison.

Ernst Zundel - Prisoner of Conscience.