Bizarro Heresy Zundel Trial: Judge orders five (!) policemen to prevent eight-year-old from shaking Ernst's hand !

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

Bizarro Heresy Zundel Trial:  Judge orders five (!) policemen to 
prevent eight-year-old from shaking Ernst's hand !

Part of the following is from our December Power Letter, delayed due 
to unforeseen "mishaps" of our volunteer letter stuffers.  More about 
that in our January Report.

Here goes:

[START]

November saw three additional Zundel hearings, on the 10th, on the 
17th., and on the 29th.  There is nothing meaningful to be reported - 
it was simply "more of the same."  Repeatedly, the judge evoked the 
mantra of the "obviousness" of the traditional Holocaust tale, 
directly and indirectly, and refused to allow either expert witnesses 
or documentary evidence to the contrary.  He is now complaining that 
the Internet calls it a "Ketzerprozeß" - a Heresy Trial - what else 
is one to call it?

Just to give you a flavor of what was going on on the 10th - a female 
witness appeared out of the woodworks who testified she had received 
a letter out of Canada some years ago - she wasn't sure just when. 
She did not recall the name "Zundel."  She thought it came from 
Ottawa - Ernst Zundel lived in Toronto.  She did not recall any 
specifics about the contents of this letter - only that it appeared 
to her to have come from the "extreme right" of which she 
disapproved.  She was afraid that if the government found out that 
she was on a forbidden list, there might be a raid on her home. 
Therefore she took that letter to the authorities to emphasize her 
innocence in even having received it.  She testified there was a 
second letter, which she returned unopened.

That's it.  That is the "quality" of evidence for which the 
Bundesrepublic has wasted millions Deutschmark and Euros.

To that, Ernst added his human touch of Zundelism in a letter dated 
20 Nov 2006:

"Even if the media cannot know what our submissions are like in 
detail, something does get through, because at the end, after the 
court has announced and read their Beschlüsse/Orders, the lawyers get 
a chance to respond with a Gegendarstellung/our point of view- a kind 
of response which is written and read out loud.  Thus the media, and 
our old friends who attend faithfully, get at least some idea of what 
was not allowed them to be privy to with the [original motions to be 
read only by the prosecutor and judges].

"Ingrid, I am looking forward to see how the highest court in Germany 
is going to rule about this Kafkaesque, contorted situation.  That's 
about the best way I can explain to you how all this takes place.  I 
just sit there and let this surreality wash all over me - and wonder 
if this is really to be my life from now on?  Just so these mixed-up 
people can hang on to their lollypop of guilt?  Somehow, Ingrid, the 
longer I am exposed to what's going on, and what dark demons these 
people collectively want to wallow in to "feel good" - [all I can say 
is this] - it's pathological!

"I am not allowed to stay in the room [during recess], but am taken 
down to the holding cell in the basement, and am not allowed to speak 
to people or wave to them. 

"There was a couple there today with a boy about [eight] years old. 
The parents apparently must have spoken about the trial at home 
because it was the boy's ardent wish to shake my hand.  The court 
policeman, a very nice, helpful fellow, said that he and the other 
police present were there to prevent me from having any contact with 
the public.  The boy stood there, very serious and very intently, 
deeply looking at me from about 5 meter's distance.  Very still, 
unmoving, alert eyes, expressive face.  So [Defense Attorney] Jürgen 
Rieger asked Dr. Meinerzhagen aloud if he would permit me to shake 
the boy's hand.  The answer was a very indignant NEIN.  I felt 
embarrassed for the boy.  What kind of an impression did he take home 
with him, and how will the parents have explained that to that 
youngster?  Ingrid, it was an uncanny, eerie feeling, a scene that 
will be very powerful in the movie about this trial.  I penetrated 
deeply into that boy's psyche - you know about that ability - and I 
can tell you, it was a meeting out of which will come something in 
the future.  I simply know it.  What a strange life I live! 

"In the bus on the way back home the inmate next to me knew me 
because two days ago there was a TV news program about Germar being 
on trial in Mannheim now - and, interestingly, somehow my name and 
images from my court cases in Canada always are shown to frame these 
stories.  It's eerie, because the prisoners come running from all 
kinds of floors and cells out in the hall, and also during our 
one-hour walks in the yard, respectfully tug at my sleeve, tell me 
what scenes they saw on TV, describing the bobbing helmets, the 
screaming mobs etc.  And then - many are foreigners - they want to 
know what this is all about.  Since I listen to and watch mainly 
English, French, and Spanish stations, I usually miss these German 
broadcasts.  That, too, is odd.  It's like having my own media 
monitors in the form of foreigners, of all things."

Can't you just see it in my screen play I have begun to write for a 
feature movie?  I know that some of you were a bit angry at me that I 
walked out of the original Hollywood deal and produced my documentary 
myself.  Believe me, I had very good reasons.  Things were going on 
that were not ethical, and had I relinquished to them the money that 
I raised, without having any control over either the budget or the 
slant of the film, we would have lost it all. (Š) As you can see from 
the above, clips of my documentary are now even playing on German 
television, because the scenes that Ernst describes, the bobbing 
helmets, the screaming mobs - those are clips from our footage!  And 
no telling what will come of our Arab contacts, now that I have three 
sub-documentaries produced in addition to the original, 4 1/2 hour 
version.  Additionally, I have published a little booklet called 
"Five Stony Tears for Audre" that gives a human glimpse of life and 
death of Audre Pinque, known on the Internet as MacKenzie Paine, who 
was a Revisionist activist for the beleaguered Palestinians before 
she died in 2002.  It is a slim, saddle-stitched booklet, only 32 
pages long, that I intend to be a bridge between Revisionists and 
those who have a false image of us - who we are, what we believe in, 
and that we aren't those grotesque, low-brow, wild-eyed "white 
supremacist racists" our enemies would like the world to believe. 

[END]

There is a postscript to that story of the eight-year-old who was 
"protected" by the judge from catching something politically 
incorrect from Ernst Zundel.  His parents and some Zundelists in the 
courtroom contacted me and told me that Judge Meinerzhagen actually 
ordered five (!!!) policemen to surround the boy to prevent a dash 
and a handshake!  One of the young policeman is said to have 
answered:  "Dies ist mir doch zuviel!" which, loosely translated, 
means "This really takes the cake!"

Bizarro Germany! 

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