November 22, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I have been having horrendous problems with my e-mail. I cannot download anything at all from my "irimland@cts.com" account and have difficulty shipping from my ezundel@cts.com account.

If you sent me anything for the past three days, chances are that it is lost. If it was important, please wait until I am up and running again, before you re-send your material.

For that reason, I am going to make today's ZGram short by using a press release statement by Pauline Hanson, the well-known nationalist politician from Australia whom our opposition in that part of the world ". . . loves to hate."

Ms. Hanson seems to have been in a similar position in which Ernst Zundel finds himself - a predatory Human Rights organization called "Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission" deftly helped itself to a year-and-a-half's worth of taxpayers money on something that Ms. Hanson, speaking of her innocence on racial charges, insists ". . . could have been proven in 5 minutes, but it took 18 months."

Here is what Ms. Hanson has to say:

"Finally, after almost eighteen months, Commissioner Wilson has dismissed a series of racial discrimination complaints made through the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. My innocence was clear and could have been proven in five minutes but the HREOC, in an effort to justify its existence, dragged the process out for eighteen months.

I continually stated to the commission that the transcript of the interview in question made it clear there was no case for me to answer and surprise, surprise, in the end, after eighteen months, the commissioner was dragged kicking and screaming into the hearing and forced to find me innocent because of the simple stand alone evidence of the interview itself.

It is more than unfortunate the commissioner felt a need to be apologetic for having to find me innocent. In particular, his remark that there was no option but to dismiss the complaints should be viewed with concern by all who suffer the politically motivated attacks that have become part of my every day.

The HREOC is an unnecessary organisation which drained the public purse of Au$19.3 million last year alone. The HREOC was born out of supposed UN human rights declarations and is just another example of the many United Nations policies forced unknowingly on the Australian people. This declaration may appear well intended but in truth, has no place in a society like Australia - it poses the threat of political and racial persecution rather than removing it.

The efforts of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to continue its pursuit of the obviously innocent, such as in my case, is nothing more than an exercise in self preservation. This organisation, although powerless in real terms, uses bully boy tactics and the media to convey its threats. HREOC has no justifiable place in Australian society - it should be disbanded immediately.

Statement issued by Pauline Hanson MP, member for Oxley."

Ms Hanson said it all. These so-called "Human Rights" commissions are odious outfits exercising the hypocrisies of special interest groups - outfits that are an affront to genuine human rights concerns. A healthy society needs to get rid of these institutions - and pronto!

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Perhaps the most controversial of these (special interest) groups is B'nai Brith's Anti-Defamation League. Its original highly commendable purpose was to protect the civil rights of American Jews. Over the past generations, however, the ADL has regressed into a conspiratorial and, with a $45 million budget, extremely well-funded hate group."

(Richard Curtiss in an article in "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, p. 43-45)

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