A recent Zundel Letter

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Another Zundel Letter to a young Texas friend:

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December 4, 2006

My fourth Christmas behind bars is here. This week I will attend the 
second Christmas party organized by our prison chaplain. He is a 
local/regional man, a real Martin Luther type in looks and in his 
down-to-earth approach to things. That party last year was attended 
by the usual types - double murderers, drug dealers, common wife 
beaters, child abusers, pickpockets, check and credit card fraud 
artists, gamblers, and one lone historical revisionist.

The prison staff, the social workers, the prison shrink, some 
security staff were all genuinely nice and humane - a far cut above 
what I experienced in the U.S.A. and Canada. The worst were the 
Tennesseans, I am sad to report. They were big brutes of men, 
ill-bred, obese, nasty, ignorant, cold-hearted. In their 
button-popping, stretched-to-the-limits uniforms, they looked like 
the bottom of the barrel from some central casting office for a cheap 
1960s anti-Nazi, "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS" type of film. You know 
how Hollywood portrays the Germans.

This was in contrast to some of the giant, blond haired, blue eyed 
Batavians in the area of Attica I met while temporarily imprisoned in 
New York state en route to Canada. That whole region south of Lake 
Ontario was settled and pioneered by Germans, Hessians and 
Pennsylvania Deutsch [not Dutch]. These men were open-faced, 
uncomplicated, kind and human - well, what can I say?  They were 
Germanic.

Now on to world news. Unfortunately I have very few sources of 
information - I am reduced to depending on the mainstream media and 
the necessity to read between the lines. Because of the judge's 
ruling, I generally do not receive, nor can I send, much in the way 
of thoughts or ideas. This includes art, science, health care and 
related medical topics - these are redacted from letters without 
mercy. Imagine that - in the 21st Century no less!

Last week I received a letter sent to me by a supporter - in Munich 
on August 2, 2005! The same day I also received another letter mailed 
on July 6, 2006 and several others from July. So don't be 
disheartened if you do not hear from me for months - it means someone 
is holding up the mail. Ingrid sometimes gets no mail from me for six 
to eight weeks, worries like crazy, only to be handed nine letters in 
one day. My oldest son was handed three letters on the same day, 
months ago. It makes me ill to think that these same people prattle 
on all the time about the superiority of their system and their 
humanity when compared to former regimes.

Can you believe the embarrassment Bush and his clique must be 
suffering from in relationship to their trouncing in the polls? I was 
on a high for a week. Ingrid described my letters as euphoric. There 
are of course reasons to be overjoyed. I have said to Ingrid and 
others for a long time that what befell America on 9-11 would come 
back to haunt the true perpetrators - and, no, I don't mean the 
alleged nineteen Arabs the media keep shoving in our faces.  Bush Sr. 
and his circle of "old money Republicans" are doing their best to 
save the Bush dynasty's reputation. I doubt it will work this time, 
Bush no longer commands much respect anywhere in the world.

I was overjoyed to see the GOP lose so badly, because many of them 
have defiled American values for decades.  Finally they have been 
subjected to a modicum of exposure. Many of them did their best to 
ignore my case and Ingrid's appeals, while at the same time being 
highlighted in the press as alleged champions of American traditions, 
i.e. free speech etc. Swift Karma was done!  CNN news with Larry King 
announced this morning at about 11 AM local time that Bill Frist of 
Tennessee, who was once touted as a future Presidential contender, 
decided that it would be better not to run for President than to 
reveal all of his financial dealings over the last several years.

Despite all of the machinations, despite all the lies and innuendo, 
Ingrid and I are not disgraced, because most people can see through 
the lies.  They realize that the media and government have no 
credibility.  It doesn't take people long to then conclude that these 
same individuals and entities might also be lying about many other 
things.

This nightmare will be over one day - the guilty will be exposed, 
charged and convicted. The night that the Republicans were driven out 
of office signaled the beginnings of a change - now [others] have the 
power to issue subpoenas. We'll soon see if they have any intention 
of using this power. If not, no matter - they'll be exposed in short 
order as well.

I am afraid there is a great deal of bad karma [coming] - too many 
Americans have been mistreated by the powerful and well-connected. 
How that will play out remains to be seen. We now have the means to 
reach virtually every man, woman and child on this planet via the 
Internet - the truth can't be suppressed forever, and judging by the 
speed of world events, I'd say it can't be suppressed much longer. 
Americans appear to be quickly tiring of the lies and deceit.

Perhaps we'll all have ringside seats to watch the ushering in of a 
new era?  It won't all happen immediately.  It will take more than a 
few years - but it seems inevitable at this point.

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