Letter From Ernst Zundel Written Just Before The Verdict

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Wed Feb 21 09:38:39 EST 2007


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  This letter was posted on the popular Rense page at www.rense.com - 
and the foreword was written by Jeff Rense.

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   Letter From Ernst Zundel Written Just Before The Verdict

  The following heavily-censored letter was written only ten days 
before the despicable 'verdict' in the kangaroo court  'rendering' of 
Ernst Zundel in Mannheim.  What shame lies upon Germany and its once 
proud and industrious people and their remarkable history.  Germany 
is now, as it has been since 1945, fully on its knees, the whipping 
boy of world zionism, doing the bidding of its masters.  The Human 
Rights and basic legal outrages of the Zundel trial are the stuff of 
the darkest days of Bolshevik Russia. Mr. Zundel has already had four 
YEARS of his life stolen and now faces 5 years in German prison. Here 
is his letter...

  February 5, 2007

  My Dear Jeff

  Greetings to you from Mannheim Prison...my fifth prison in the last 
four years. This must be some kind of record for a man not yet 
convicted of  anything.  But that, too, will change soon - for we are 
in the last days of what  passes for a 'judicial' proceeding here.

  Jeff, NO American could believe - without actually having 
experienced  it - what is going on here.  The unfamiliar or the 
non-initiated could simply  not believe that in an otherwise modern 
nation, proceedings like these could actually  take place.

  These events surpass even Kafka's worst nightmarish scripts.

  Still, I am not allowed to discuss the details of the case, and 
still, my incoming and outgoing mail is tightly censored. And several 
times already,  letters written by Ingrid to me have been used 
against me (us?) in the proceedings,  as have my own letters, of all 
things, dealing with Biblical topics...and,  get  this: KARMA and 
REINCARNATION.

  It is amazing to me to see how far things can go in the nations 
where  there is no tradition of Freedom of Speech like we have in 
America...and HAD  in Canada until the Marxists and their cronies - 
or should I say 'useful  idiots' - took over.

  Jeff, it is stunning to see how subjugation and repression will 
manifest and grow like a cancerous tissue if no one steps in to stop 
such a  creeping, terminal affliction.

  I consider myself one of the luckiest Germans for having had the 
foresight to leave this place so early in my life, and to have 
enjoyed my most vital  years in Canada and America, [countries that] 
were then, when I arrived, fantastic places  throbbing with energy, 
full of assertive self-confidence and moral strength.  There  was a 
refreshing vigor, a can-do and will-do attitude and mood prevalent 
that was  utterly invigorating. I am so glad my children and 
grandchildren can live there in freedom.

  It is an eerie feeling to be living in a in every other respect 
modern state but with such deeply-ingrained limitations and culture 
myths or taboos that  very, very few dare stray outside the 
politically-correct intellectual playpens.

  For me, the free-roaming who has spent a lifetime expanding  my 
horizon and investigating all manner of things and ideas, 
[understanding this] is an incredible  blessing.  I find, instead, 
the willingness of these current Germans to live - and think - in 
carefully proscribed,  blinkered mental prisons to be 
incomprehensible.

  It is interesting to watch German 'talk shows' about virtually any 
topic.  They resemble stiff, repressed, super-cautious, carefully 
mentally-scripted  rituals.  To view them and to have to listen to 
them, for us who are used to the  give-and-take of free, roaming 
discussions, is almost unbearable at times.

  When I try to explain to them that in America one could write about 
and discuss virtually any topic without the ever-present threat of 
being  arrested, tried, convicted, fined and even imprisoned for just 
thinking or writing  about things other than the orthodox, generally 
accepted viewpoints, THIS seems  unbelievable to most. They respond 
as if one is feeding them some kind of American propaganda.  Thus, I 
often feel like a fish out of water.

  As you well know, I am no stranger to attempts by powerful, 
well-organized lobbies to enforce their own norms and versions of 
history and events on people - so I am not naive when it comes to 
questions of censorship.  However, it is something totally different 
from state-imposed, criminally- sanctioned dictates by the state to 
tell you not to touch on specific topics.

  After centuries of experience with repressive monarchs, communists 
and other regimes and their censors - and the crippling effects they 
have on society - one should think that the benefits of an unfettered 
exchange of ideas would seem like an obvious and ideal solution. 
Unfortunately,  what seem obvious and logical to us who are 
'infected' with the First Amendment intoxicant, seems positively 
frightening to every trigger-happy  bureaucrat,  village policeman, 
and 'do-gooder' around the corner.

  I was just sent the decision by the Northern District Federal Court 
of San Jose, CA, of November 7, 2001 - the famous Yahoo vs the French 
Court decision in which private French lobbies had demanded that 
Yahoo cease and desist from allowing websites on their provider which 
espouse  viewpoints these lobbyists didn't like, and products they 
did not want to be  offered to the public.

  I have never seen the reasoning by the court in this case, No. 
C-00-21275JF, November 7, 2001.

  Jeff, it is one of the FINEST articulations I have seen of just what 
the First Amendment protects.

  Usually, we get the 'horse and buggy', motherhood and apple pie 
explanations, sounding out of touch with the modern electronic age of 
instant global communications.

  This San Jose Court has updated and clarified, as well as made 
relevant, the vital role this over 200 year old legislation means to 
today's  Americans, or all those who live in the geographic area 
where U.S. laws hold sway.

  The document was sent to me by Joseph T. McGinnis, Ingrid's and my 
[former]  attorney in the current litigation in the U.S. against my 
being denied habeas corpus rights, etc, currently before U.S. courts. 
The  question of official U.S. views and laws pertaining to the 
internet had been, of  course, raised in the proceedings here in 
Germany by the defence.  I knew the outline, or Gestalt, of the U.S. 
view - but needed hard evidence to  prove that what I claimed was 
right.

  Well, this California court ruling supplied that proof, and my 
German  lawyer used it 'in whole' as an official exhibit, filing it 
with the court  on the last day while pleadings had already begun.

  The document was declared 'irrelevant' (by the judge) but I was more 
than pleased to strike one more blow for Freedom.  My job was to 
alert the court to other standards of liberty existing where I lived 
and worked at the time of arrest (read: kidnapping -ed), 
incarceration and removal from America without ever having been 
brought before an American judge.

  By the time you get this letter, the verdict may already be in here, 
but Jeff my case is only one case of many going on in this country. 
Apparently, there have already been 120,000 similar cases since 1992, 
virtually all ending in convictions with heavy fines and/or stiff 
jail terms.

  The prosecutor already pleaded for five years in prison, and denying 
me the two years I served in Guantanamo North in Canada, which would, 
in effect, mean SEVEN years imprisonment for merely expressing ideas, 
non-violently, for which the Canadian Supreme Court - where I had 
lived most of my adult life - had found me Not Guilty.  The Court 
ruled, in fact, that a minority member in multi-ethnic Canada must 
have a right to his own viewpoint - even if the majority found it not 
to their liking - or, even if those views were wrong. August 27, 1992.

  In a way, Jeff, this case is comparable to a Chinese emigrant living 
in Canada or America or Australia bowing to the ONE CHILD per family 
law in place in Communist China.  Mao's government adopted that law, 
as you know, and every Chinese couple is allowed only one child per 
family.  Should the woman become pregnant a second time 
'accidentally,' the couple gets hit with a heavy fine.  Should there 
be any further 'accidents,' the wife (or husband) will go to jail and 
[the wife will] have a state-ordered abortion performed.  In China, 
this issue is a serious crime which is severely punished.

  Now comes the twist:

  Chinese families were traditionally large, as in other Asian 
countries, because children were considered 'old age insurance' for 
the parents.

  There are tens of thousands of Chinese - if not millions - who have 
fled China for other lands in order to practice the Chinese tradition 
of large families.  There are approximately 35 million Chinese 
overseas and most of those families have more than one child.

  China does not ask the Canadians or Americans to imprison their 
overseas Chinese for having broken this Communist Chinese law.  I 
have not heard of one Chinese deported from Canada or the U.S. for 
having offended that repressive Red Chinese law.

   I certainly have never heard of the Communists having made requests 
to the Canadian or U.S. governments insisting they stop their 
overseas Chinese - local residents - from exercising their 
reproductive freedom.  I am also not aware that Chinese returning 
home to China for a visit with their grandchildren or to visit 
relatives in China were arrested for breaking this stringent law 
while living outside of China proper.

  But, Jeff, such is the mindset of the blinkered, indoctrinated 
Europeans who consider themselves enlightened and sophisticated - and 
that includes virtually anyone I have spoken to - that they cannot or 
will not see the similarity of the situation.  The situation is, of 
course, ludicrous!

  This is a CENSORED letter from a very sad, schizoid place.  Be glad 
you are there...and not here.

  Keep the flame of Freedom burning.  In spite of Iraq, Abu Ghraib and 
Guantanamo - America is still a good place to be - the last free 
place.  Keep it so.  It is precious.

  Ernst


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