September 20, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:


Courtesy of the Holohuggers, I surmise, some good folks from the Harvard School of Law have been alerted to my ZGrams and have asked to be put on my list.

So as to "set up the clip" of what has happened in Toronto and, more important, Ottawa, and what is bound to happen, as far as the ideologically-fueled legal struggle of Ernst Zündel is concerned, I see it as incumbent upon me, therefore, to sketch in broadest strokes what this is all about and who the central players are - as seen from my non-legal point of view.

In the early 1980s, the Canadian Government, in its Orwellian wisdom and in the wake of the demise of the Cold War, created two agencies - one a civilian spy agency with a $200-million-a-year budget of good taxpayers' money whose function was to spy on Cold War targets and private citizens and groups, and one as a "watch dog" committee, whose function was to oversee the spying and make sure that it would stay within the laws and democratic traditions of Canada.

Both agencies have bureaucratic names that ended up in acronyms. For simplicity's sake, the first is called CSIS, pronounced "C-Sis", and the second is called SIRC, pronounced "Sirk". (If you must really know, these acronyms stand for "Canadian Security Intelligence Service" and "Security Intelligence Review Committee").

As originally conceived, "Sirk" was supposed to watch "C-Sis" and report to the Solicitor General, who then, in turn, would ultimately report to the Parliament of Canada what he deemed they were entitled to know.

Almost from the beginning, there were some folks in Canada, the stubbornly politically incorrect syndicated columnist Doug Collins being one, who felt that this arrangement allowed for a lot of abuse and smacked of repulsive KGB-type tactics.

As it turned out as time went on, "Sirk", the watchdog committee, more and more seemed to function not as a watchdog but like a baby-sitter for "C-Sis," protecting and excusing it, rather than controlling it and putting brakes on its activities, should they be warranted.

Some people's suspicions were strengthened when it appeared that "C-Sis" and "Sirk" were definitely in bed together in the dark and covered for each other - as in the shocking "Heritage Front Affair", of which more shall be said below.

Worse yet, there were suspicious folks in Canada who thought these agencies were set up for the explicit purpose of serving forces - colloquially known as the Canadian "Shadow Government" - whose interests lay outside the elected public officials and parliamentary terrain.

The itch to find out what this was really all about became almost unbearable in Canada when rumors started swirling that the "Heritage Front", a Right-Wing organization, was in fact led by a "C-Sis" agent provocateur who had been slipped to them by "C-Sis" to egg this Right-Wing Agency into some pretty serious illegal stuff.

Not only that, the rumors strengthened more and more that "C-Sis" seemed to have planned all this beforehand and had helped CREATE, FINANCE AND MASTERMIND this grass roots organization, the "Heritage Front," for the explicit purpose of doing things illegally - in other words, discrediting the Right Wing.

Now the "Heritage Front" in Canada was, and is, not everybody's cup of tea. It is composed largely of disaffected white youth, some clean-cut and some scruffy, who strenuously object to having to take second place to what is collectively known as Minorities. These kids are angry, jobless, futureless, and easily inflamed.

While the "Heritage Front", under the partial leadership of this "C-Sis" agent provocateur, was building its membership and visibility, there were some ugly clashes with an antagonizing group called ARA, a hoodlum "Anti-Racist" Group. These two groups called each other dirty names and did some things - both sides! - that did not make their parents proud.

As it was subsequently discovered and documented, the "C-Sis" agent provocateur, who acted as the Heritage Front's" Security Chief, kept happily stoking the flames by goading, teasing and egging the ARA on by revealing where the "Heritage Front" would meet etc. Some confrontations resulted, as expected, that had some racial overtones.

Ernst Zündel was one of the first who expressed serious doubts about just who was running whom. I remember an audio tape he made on that very topic a couple of years ago.

He felt that it served the hidden agenda of certain members of the Shadow Government to have these ideological clashes occur in full view of the lapdog media, who then obliged the Shadow Government with the expected chants of "Racists!" "Neo-Nazis!" "Hate-mongering!" etc. etc.

Well, other people felt the same - some in the media and some in the parliamentary opposition felt the same. They asked that legislators look into this matter. A parliamentary committee of inquiry, composed of government and opposition representatives, was the result. This Subcommittee asked both "C-Sis" and "Sirk" to tell what they were doing.

It turned out that what they were doing was this:

Not only did the agent provocateur help set up, finance, guide and goad the white kids of the "Heritage Front" to confront members of the ARA - which in itself was bad enough! - while he was at it, he tried to compromise in the public view and in the press a legitimate Canadian political party, called the Reform Party, by using the kids of the "Heritage Front" for a "security arrangement" to Preston Manning, the leader of the Reform Party.

Can you imagine the political howl: "Oh, my God! Preston Manning is using skinheads from the 'Heritage Front' as bodyguards?!" It seriously hurt the Reform Party who lost becoming the official Canadian Opposition Party by a very narrow margin.

In summary, it was a seamy story, and Parliament asked for a Report. Let's call this document the "Sirk-Report." You find it on the Zündelsite.

Now how does Ernst Zündel fit into all this?

Very simple: He is, to use Doug Collins' apt descriptions, Canada's Villain # 1, for he insists on asking, and has for thirty years: "Did Six Million Really Die?" This is a no-no question among the Thoroughly Politically Correct, as everybody knows.

Ernst Zündel is an enormous thorn in the side of what many think is now the extra-parliamentary government, the so-called "Shadow Government", of Canada. He is a most convenient villain. His name was mentioned some two dozen times in the "Heritage Front Affair Report" as having been the ideological Godfather for the kids of the "Heritage Front".

That is giving Ernst Zündel much too much credit. He never was a member of the "Heritage Front". He had nothing to do with the forming or running of this organization. He had no position of leadership. In fact, he thought, and said so on many occasions, that the "Heritage Front" agenda was not the answer to Canada's problems.

It is true, however, that quite a few of the "Heritage Front" kids looked up to him for moral guidance and ideological support because he is so visible and so well known to be the man who, all his life, has locked horns with those dark forces lurking in the shadows. He is known as a stubborn fellow. He just digs in his Swabian heels.

That is how come the Zündel name became interwoven into the report to Parliament that's called the "Heritage Front Affair Report."

Specifically, the "C-Sis" agent provocateur (and Heritage Front Co-Founder, courtesy of "C-Sis") had claimed in this report that Zündel had asked him to compile a list of Jewish members of the community because he planned to harm them. (Ernst Zündel did, in fact, ask for a list in a planned legal action because he wanted to serve subpoenas to some leading members of the Jewish community to stop the harassment of him by Jewish groups in Canada.)

Now here's the added angle, extremely interesting from a legal point of view: This very report, written by "C-Sis" with the help of their agent provocateur, was to be used as the hatchet to get Ernst Zündel deported to Germany by doing the marginalizing groundwork, then criminalizing him, and finally declaring him a "security risk to Canada" - and why? Because he insisted on asking, as he had done for close to thirty years: "Did Six Million Really?"

You cannot ask that kind of question in Canada without some very serious repercussions.

"Sirk Hearings" were set up in Ottawa that would haul Zündel before the powers that be and would do him in - once and for all. "C-Sis" had already, in a letter to the Minister of Immigration, declared Zündel a "security risk to Canada" and now hoped to have that designation rubber-stamped by putting on a show in a farcical Kangaroo Court.

All this was happening in March and April of this year. And it is not coincidence, of course, that there are very few Canadians who can be found to stand next to Ernst Zündel in broad daylight.

For years, he has been thoroughly harassed, and Zündel-bashing by the organized Jewish community, parliamentarians and media people has become a real spectator sport in Canada . For years, the lapdog media has been engaged in non-stop smears, while he was under strict judge-imposed gag orders and could not defend himself by publicly going after his character assassins.

Therefore, some people might have objected to "C-Sis" and "Sirk" per se and all the murky shadows behind them, but there was virtual unanimity at the beginning of this year that Zündel needed to be shipped to Germany in handcuffs for asking politically incorrect questions - to wit: "Did Six Million Really Die?"

Enter a judge who cast an old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon glance at all of this and said: "No, you can't do this, fellows! At least not yet you can't! That isn't democratic. It's called apprehension of bias. The only way you can get rid of Zündel might be 'creative legislative action.'"

To the extreme distress of many, many lurking in the shadows, the "Sirk Hearings" were stopped cold in its tracks in the very hot, muggy month of June of this year.

The shadows have appealed. A new round is expected soon.

That's where we are right now. If you are legally inclined and want to look at details, go to http://www.webcom.com/ezundel/english/ and click on the "Zündel Persecution" link.

As you can tell, this was not written by a student of the legal system, but it is meant to be the teaser for those bright lawyers of tomorrow not yet beholden to a dogma that stifles every question on the Holocaust. This is the backdrop for young people studying what is involved in freedom of expression who want to really understand and take a stand on what is going on.

A lot of the pertinent documents have been already posted on the Zündelsite. No doubt there's more to come.

Please visit. We are not afraid.

Ernst Zündel is on record saying that if he should be proven wrong about the so-called "Holocaust", he will spend his last days and hours on earth as well as his last dime apologizing to the Jewish community and then retire peacefully. He is known as a man of his word.

As long as he is not yet proven wrong, and as long as even limited freedom of speech reigns in Canada - if not in lapdog media circles, at least still on the Internet - the Zündelsite will ask: "Did Six Million Really Die?"

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written."

(Amos Bronson Alcott)



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