Part VI of "The Importance of the Zundel Hearing in Toronto" shows the importance of the Freedom of Speech struggle around the Zundelsite for Canada - and for the world at large.
We Revisionists stand proud, for we have given them one heck of a run! A case that was expected to be over in a few weeks at most, has proven something else - that we have staying power. The deck was so stacked against us that the only thing that we could do was to collect and archive the Stalinist record of the modus operandi of the Western democracies censors. This, we are proud to say, we have done!
Ernst Zundel has held the censors at bay for five long, arduous, expensive years. The costs to the Canadian taxpayers are conservatively estimated to be in the area of $600,000. Zündel's expenses approach $200,000. Add to that all the Jewish intervenors - sometimes up to ten lawyers attending on a single day! - who nosed their way into this case, and you may soon approach the magical "$ix million".
After this case is concluded, it is going to be someone else's turn to be censored - and the censorship precedents set in this case, because society chose not to help, will come to haunt many. We stand tall knowing that we have done our duty - having known all along the odds against us and our rights.
Mark Weber concludes:
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An Orwellian Concept of Rights
Is Canadian society so fragile that an Ernst Zundel can seriously be regarded as a danger to its cohesion or stability? Apparently so. In spite of its Anglo-Saxon heritage of respect for civic rights, fearful Canadian leaders are quietly revoking traditional freedoms. For example, Canadian customs officials regularly (albeit haphazardly) seize "politically incorrect" books, magazines and compact disks at the border. They are confiscated under a code section that bans "hate propaganda," including items "alleging that an identifiable group is racially inferior and/or weaken other segments of society to the detriment of society as a whole," and items "alleging that an identifiable group is manipulating media, trade and finance, government or world politics to the detriment of society as a whole."
Among the items that have been seized by Canadian authorities over the years have been assorted issues of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review and various IHR leaflets, as well as such books as Shockley on Eugenics and Race, a scholarly anthology by the late Nobel prize laureate William Shockley, Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe, by Roger Pearson, The Dispossessed Majority, by Wilmot Robertson, and The Immigration Invasion, by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton.
Less understandable have been the seizures of copies of Advance to Barbarism, a 50-year-old anti-war classic by British jurist F.J.P. Veale, and From Moscow to Berlin: Zhukov's Greatest Battles, the memoir of Soviet World War II General Georgi Zhukov (originally published in the US in 1969 by Harper & Row).
In the Zundel "Human Rights"case, the bias of at least one of the Commissioners is a matter of public record. In April 1999 a Canadian Federal Court found that there existed a reasonable apprehension of bias by Reva Devins because, as part of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, in 1988 she had issued a public statement applauding Zundel's criminal conviction for publishing an edition of the booklet Did Six Million Really Die?.
In this landmark case, a coalition of powerful and influential Jewish organizations is using a Canadian government agency, the Orwellian "Human Rights Commission," to censor writings they don't like -- writings that are otherwise entirely legal.
The same Jewish groups that demand, in the name of "human rights," that Zundel be silenced, have well-documented records as staunch defenders of, and apologists for, the Zionist regime in Israel that routinely, and as a matter of state policy, oppresses people on the basis of ancestry. Israel's immigration policy, for example, which is based on ancestry criteria that parallel the strictures of Third Reich Germany's infamous 1935 "Nuremberg Laws," even prohibits non-Jews who were born in what is now Israel (including the occupied territories) from returning to their native land.
By any objective standard, these Jewish groups deserve to be in the dock at least as much as does Ernst Zundel. The hypocrisy and gross double standard of this entire case is all the more shameful because it is enforced by a Canadian government agency. Given all this, it's no wonder that Zundel fully expects the Tribunal's Commissioners to rule against him.
Ominous Implications
Why are major Jewish organizations devoting so much money and effort to this case? There seem to be three goals:
First, they are forcing Ernst Zundel, whom they hate, to spend a lot of his time and money. Reportedly he has had to devote some $140,000 (Canadian) defending himself in this case.
Second, Jewish organizations will quickly cite any adverse ruling by the Tribunal to demand that Canadian authorities expel Zundel from the country. (Zundel, who holds German citizenship, lives in Canada as a "landed immigrant," a legal status comparable to that of "permanent resident" in the United States. In the 42 years he has lived in Canada, he has been a peaceful and productive member of society, maintaining an unblemished legal record.)
Third, and probably most important, if Jewish groups succeed in censoring the (USA-based) Zundelsite, they'll be set to have authorities censor every allegedly "hateful" Internet site in Canada. Jewish groups in other countries could cite the Zundelsite precedent in Canada to demand that authorities ban or censor web sites they don't like. If they succeed in banning or censoring an Internet site, Jewish groups would be emboldened to target books, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, videotapes, and even radio and television broadcasts.
Given that this case has far-reaching implications for the rights of all Canadians, it is a shame, as Paul Fromm has pointed out, that the Canadian media has all but ignored it.
Speaking Engagements
My visit to Canada provided an opportunity to address appreciative audiences in two packed meetings. More than 100 persons heard me speak in Toronto, and about 40 were on hand in Kitchener, about 60 miles to the west, with Paul Fromm introducing me on each occasion. Putting the Holocaust "extortion"campaign in historical and social-political context, I spoke about the tremendous power of organized Jewry. (My talk in Canada can be heard on-line through "Radio Freedom"on the "Freedomsite" http://www.freedomsite.org/r-free It is also available on audio cassette tape from CAFE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, Ont. M9W 5L3, Canada.)
Zundel Concludes His Case
In the weeks after I testified, the Zundel side offered as witnesses for the defense two university professors. Dr. Tony Martin, who teaches African history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, was to testify on efforts by Jewish groups to silence him, and Dr. Heinz Joachim Klatt, who teaches psychology at Kings College, University of Western Ontario, was set to testify on "political correctness." Commissioners Pensa and Devins rejected both witnesses.
In late November, after a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the statute under which it is being prosecuted is unconstitutional, Ernst Zundel abruptly concluded his defense. In his newsletter he cited the Tribunal's bias, the rejection by Canada's Supreme Court of his motions, and the prohibitively high cost off continuing the legal battle. Final arguments in the case are scheduled for February 28, 2001, with a ruling not expected for several months.
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Comments: -- Mark Weber / weber@ihr.org
Two Thoughts for the Day:
"Now just imagine how it feels When first your toes and then your heels, And then by gradual degrees, Your shins and ankles, calves and knees Are slowly eaten, bit by bit. No wonder Jim detested it!
(Hilaire Belloc)
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensible condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
(B. N. Cardozo, 1870-1938)