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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