March 4, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here is a telling follow-up on electronic terrorism involving none other than Nizkor. Be sure to read it carefully - and act on it if you are so inclined.

You will remember the massive e-mail attack aimed at our California-based server, Web Communications, in mid-December. For 40 hours straight, an automatic mailer fired three words - "Denial of Service" - at the rate of 200 e-mail messages per second at Webcom - an attack which amounted to a staggering 28.8 million letters.

This electronic bombardment shut down the Webcom system and crippled 3,000 websites during the busiest weekend of the Christmas season. The damage to customers of Webcom must have been in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.

This was the second time that Webcom has been so attacked. The first attack came out of Germany via Deutsche Telekom a year ago in response to an announced and then hotly denied "debate" with the notorious Holocaust Promotion website, Nizkor - a website opposing Revisionist websites on grounds that Nizkor's function is to serve the memory of those who died in the "Holocaust" whom we are wantonly defaming.

Now keep in mind as you read the information below that Nizkor issues tax deductible receipt via a certain charitable outfit to people who support their work. The outfit that collects donations for Nizkor in Canada is called The Zikaron Tolerance and Remembrance Society. In the United States, donations in support of Nizkor are being made payable to San Antonio Area Foundation - Nizkor Fund. Both Canadian and American donors may deduct their contributions from their income taxes.

You will also recall that while trying to contact Nizkor's head honcho, Ken McVay, for a broadcast interview, Ernst was directed to a mail drop to several phone message machines. Personal e-mail sent to Ken McVay was answered by none other than B'nai Brith's chief spokesperson on Vancouver Island, Harry Abrams. His telephone was answered by a Rabbi Goldberg. Furthermore, McVay is publicly lionized and promoted on the lecture circuit by B'nai Brith et al - the folks who like to visit law enforcement quarters to regale them "sensitivity training" on how to spot and counteract "racists and terrorists."

We understand that Ken McVay and entourage are giving it their all by serving to protect the Holocaust Lobbyists from having to answer some justified questions, such as: "Did Six Million Really Die?" For that, they get official kudos from sundry dignitaries and lots of free publicity from a beholden media. Their website URL is frequently listed in articles. Ken McVay even got the Order of British Columbia from the Queen of England for his work.

What seems to have been overlooked until now is the incriminating fact that the allegedly oh so noble folks at Nizkor, who like to seize the moral high ground in every argument, store detailed information and instructions on how to engage in electronic computer terrorism on their websites. This is tantamount to displaying bomb making instructions on militia sites, which Nizkor's friends routinely rail about.

This information on the Nizkor website directs people where to find and download programs needed to execute devastating e-mail bombings. This is distinctly not an accidental listing because Nizkor submitted it to be placed on its own website search engine so that potential electronic terrorists would easily be able to find it.

There comes a point when the public must be allowed to ask: "Where does B'nai Brith's influence and control over Nizkor begin or end? Does it include an agenda of electronic terrorism against Holocaust Revisionist websites or electronic Holocaust Revisionism?

Here is why I ask, in my capacity as the US-based webmaster and editor of the material posted on the Zundelsite, including "Did Six Million Really Die?" Immediately after the massive electronic act of terrorism in December, I filed a formal complaint with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nanaimo, B.C., asking that this matter be investigated as a criminal offense. I sent this letter, which had been carefully prepared with the help of an attorney, to a specific police officer, addressing him by name. I even sent this letter registered. I asked for an acknowledgment and action.

Now it is almost three months later. So far, I have not yet received an answer. RCMP has since been contacted again - still no response.

I will now share the information since obtained with the RCMP as well, as well as with my readership. The information is as follows:

At http://search.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?miscellany/up-yours-faq, there are explicit instructions on how to mail bomb an opponent. Below, I quote some excerpts from a program called "Up Yours".

It tells you where to get it and urges you to download it, as per the following, replete with misspellings:

Q: What is Up Yours?

A: Up Yours is a program developed by AcidAngel of Global kOS to mail bomb specific users on the Internet. The present version is 100% completely anonymous and uses random headers and subject lines and even uses random servers. it implements a HELO spoofing technique that is next to impossible to trace.

Q: What is a Mailbomb?

A: A mailbomb does not blow up anyones address, Just think if you got 10,000 e-mail messages and had to download them.. Usually this would take down the server and have the sysop reprimand the user for angering people on the Internet. Some servers have been downed for weeks that I know of because of certain users.... (that means no e-mail for anyone on that server)

Q: What is the advantage of using Up Yours?

A: You are anonymous, 100%, and it cannot be traced back to you.

Q: Okay, I'm new to the business, but whats a mailbomner(?) good for???

A: If you have a user that you really want to get revenge against and have his ISP (Internet Service Provider) get very mad at him/her or you simply want to cripple the user from recieving e-mail for an extended period of time.

Q: What does up yours now do? how do you run it? Will it jam up someone elses computer? is it any good?

A: It won't jam up anyone elses computer, it will however trash their mail server and cripple them getting any mail for a long time... It is the best war-mailer for Windows 95...

Q: Do I need it? If yes, then why?

A: Of course, if everyone else has a gun why would you want a butterknife?

Q: how much damage will it do?

A: much, very much."

(end of excerpt)

So here you have a "charitable" organization that takes donations and hands out tax deductible receipts, pretending to champion a worthy cause and high ideals of truth and justice - and yet has not just the audacity but the terrorist mentality to advertise and to promote not only how to hurt a dissident with whom they disagree but how to hurt a server and thousands of this server's totally neutral, apolitical customers.

That's terrorism. There are six Nizkor mirror sites. Their websites are promoted in schools as a "legitimate" Holocaust resource by public agencies and officials.

Are these public officials mere dupes, inflicting on their lower ranks their brand of political correctness while being fooled by Nizkor's electronic warfare experts - or worse?

Is someone trying to entice and introduce school children to computer terrorism - or worse?

The FBI was, and presumably still is, investigating the massive disruption of Webcom's business. It has already been established that the computers at a college in Nanaimo, B.C., the city listed as a PO Box mail drop by Nizkor. played a key function in this crime of electronic terrorism. It would be very strange indeed if this were a coincidence.

I think both parents and the public, as well as public officials, have a right to a straight answer - not only from Nizkor about what that electronic terrorism information, replete with instructions, is doing on their website but also from educators and government officials who use, promote and champion that website. Do they condone or even deliberately encourage the learning of computer crime via Nizkor's websites and its mirror sites to silence political opponents?

I would strongly encourage my readers to contact Staff Sgt. Ken Smith at 303 Prideaux Street, Nanaimo, B.C. Canada V9R 2N3. His phone number is 250-754-2345 and his fax is 250-753-0946. It seems that in the new Canada even the police needs to be counter-lobbied, since they seem to have been either cowed or mentally captured by too much "sensitivity training" while closing eyes and ears to real, 20th century electronic terrorism masquerading as protection of the "Holocaust".

I want to say in closing that the president of Webcom, Chris Schefler, who is Jewish, has behaved towards us in an absolutely impeccable professional manner. We have never received anything but the finest of service from him. Webcom has stuck to their "freedom of speech" stance even during this second, more vicious, crippling and financially damaging attack, and even though the owner of this server disagrees with us and has been greatly inconvenienced. The irresponsibility that Nizkor has displayed with its listing of instructions on how to mail-bomb an opponent does not help decent Jews with standards. Or, for that matter, inter-ethnic harmony. Nor does it aid the "memory of the victims of the Holocaust" one bit.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"I feel building up in this country enormous resentment, mostly political, waiting to be captured."

(David Riesman)

Comments? E-Mail: irimland@cts.com

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