Ernst Zundel on America's Founding Fathers' vision

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To all -

A Zundel supporter sent me a copy of a letter that Ernst had written 
from prison, commenting on the magnificent vision of America's 
Founding Fathers - a theme he has often discussed with friend and foe 
alike in the past.

Coinciding with this letter out of Mannheim prison came an email from 
a supporter containing an "explanation" from an American-based German 
Consulate, if you can call it that, why Ernst, as a "threat" to the 
powers that be, needs to be deprived of his freedom:

Ernst Zundel first:

But now to George Washington and the American tradition.  David, I 
don't know that I ever told you - to me, Thomas Jefferson's thoughts 
and outlook on the world were very much in line with my own thinking. 
I admired some other figures in history for their drive, their 
fearlessness - and courage to face off against the forces of evil - 
but Thomas Jefferson was, in my view, one of the most inspired minds 
who did more than any other man in the history of Western 
civilization to formulate the concepts of individual freedom and of 
human liberty than anyone else!  I say that after over half a century 
of studying these topics.

The reason why I think so highly of Jefferson is that not only had he 
these lofty goals and this enormous vision of a government by the 
people, of the people, for the people.  David, that was at a time 
when England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia etc. were run by 
despotic kings, kaisers, czars, emperors, fancying themselves to be 
ruling their countries by a kind of "divine right" bequeathed to them 
by God Himself.  Imagine the gall!

David, remember these utterly merciless despots had allowed a 500 
years ruthless suppression of free thought, persecuting and 
fiendishly torturing untold millions of dissidents, political and 
religious reformers and witches.  I am embarrassed to be a European 
when I hear of the criminal nature of these European aristocratic 
rulers and their regimes.  Good riddance!

David, compare that to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence 
- and all it meant.  It was not just political or state independence 
from those monstrously exploitative, repressive European "old order" 
regimes like England, Britain, France, Spain etc.  The American 
Revolution, and what the Founders envisioned, was the FIRST true 
self-liberation with relatively little bloodshed, compared to 
Europe's murderous dynastic wars, crusades, and empire-grabbing 
global wars.  You have to remember - they had no other template of 
state craft, no model, to go by!  Jefferson created it.

Jefferson and Franklin, and to a lesser extent, George Washington, 
the military genius, started with an almost blank piece of paper when 
they sat down to give this new Union or these confederated former 
colonies the structure of a modern state - a Republic!  And you a 
right - the absolute centerpiece and heart of this new state was that 
"All politics is local!"  I loved the formulation of the strict order 
of the checks and balances.  That is in the way it was meant to be - 
the greatest leap forward made in the thinking and organizing of 
human society.

Going backwards, the America of George W. Bush, Franklin D. 
Roosevelt, Wilson, even Lincoln were very poor imitations of the 
vision of Washington and Jefferson.  America has, in fact, been so 
transformed by the "termites from within" that the rulers of the last 
century paid only a hypocritical, cynical lip service to the original 
concepts of the "American order" of 1776.  Inferior men ruined the 
American dream and thoroughly destroyed, by infiltration and stealth, 
by corruption and misinterpretation of words, what America should 
have been, could have been, and was meant to be.

That's not just the tragedy for America, but for the world at large, 
especially for the Western world, because Europe was shaking off its 
tyrants, and naturally was orienting itself on America, which had 
shed its imperial occupiers without the grotesque bloodbath and 
massacres of the French Revolution.  You will recall that Thomas 
Jefferson was Ambassador to France until 1789, the beginning of the 
French Revolution.  He left France with 51 crates of books, maps, 
even wall paper he used in Monticello and later bequeathed to 
Congress.  In fact, it was Jefferson's own private library that built 
the nucleus of the Library of Congress

Benjamin Franklin was not only Ambassador to England but Roving 
Ambassador to Europe because the young Republic did not have the 
money to establish embassies in all European kingdoms, and as Roving 
Ambassador he apparently visited Russia.  King Frederick the Great, 
in fact, signed one of the first bipartisan treaties with America. 
Russia thus was crucial in legitimizing a "Government of Rebels", 
America, as many monarchies in Europe called it.

It is also thought that the contact of Benjamin Franklin with Baron 
von Steuben was arranged at the court of Frederick the Great in 
Potsdam.  Steuben was an expert in supplying the Army with food, 
ammunition, and equipment like blankets, tents, and medical supplies. 
History records that he arrived in Valley Forge in that terrible 
winter of 1776 when Washington's troops faced defeat by disease and 
hunger.  He was appointed Quarter Master General - in short, supply 
and troop trainer.  It did not take long before the largely German 
settlers and frontiermen, first and second generation German 
immigrants from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, flocked to Valley 
Forge, feeding the troops from their own farms, darning socks, 
mending shirts, repairing boots, nursing the sick.  Von Steuben could 
not speak English, so he rode with German-Americans who translated 
his commands for the English speakers amongst Washington's troops, 
nearly half of which were German immigrants themselves, first or 
second-generation.

Washington's 200 men body guard was German.  Washington knew enough 
German to command and converse with them.  The American Revolution 
was partially successful because these strong, resilient, capable 
German-American settlers had no felt loyalty to the British, only to 
America, the land where many, if not most, were born.  The 
Declaration of Independence was first published in a German-American 
paper in Philadelphia.

Revisionism pure!

And, after Napoleon devastated Central Europe, and a combined force 
of Prussians under Feldmarshall Blücher and the British defeated him 
at Waterloo, the victorious Germans turned their eyes to America when 
they tried to reorganize their statelets, kingdoms etc.  A 
constitutional-national assembly in Frankfurt was called into 
session, which after years of haggling and wrangling passed an almost 
carbon copy of Jefferson's American Constitution in 1848.  34 German 
states accepted it as Germany's new Constitution.

They made one mistake.  They had no Second Amendment, no Minute Men - 
and the King of Prussia called out the troops.  The dream of a 
Jeffersonian United States of Germany died, bleeding to death in a 
hail of bullets.

Ernst

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Juxtapose the above with the creepy attitude of a so-called Consular 
General in the German Consulate in Houston, Texas.  In response to a 
Zundel supporter's query as to why Ernst Zundel was sentenced to five 
years in prison for his freedom of speech, this German official 
delivered himself of the following:

Mr. Zundel denies the mass murder committed by Hitler and his 
henchmen. The denial of this mass murder will prepare the next mass 
murder.

Thus, irresponsible people like Mr. Zundel cannot claim the freedom of speech.

Yours sincerely,

Rainer Muenzel

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Please feel free to exercise YOUR freedom of speech and call, write, 
or send this soulless lout an email.

Rainer Muenzel
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