December 11, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

As I am typing this, the Zundel legal team is heading for court, this time to "Hilberg" our opposition, as Ernst put it in one of his newsletters.

It's cross-examination time, and on his feet, there's no one matching Christie, Canada's Battling Barrister. I will, of course, keep sending you developments as they occur - for now, let's just say that ***hits on the Zundelsite have more than doubled again*** just within the last 24 hours.

I am still having unbelievable problems getting my e-mail out. Some of you receive it and others do not. It seems to be a technical problem. I had a technician here all last weekend, and he could not find it. It seems to be at the server's. If you don't get my ZGrams, please check on the Zundelsite homepage. I try to keep it current, even though more often than I like it to happen, I am a day or two late posting ZGrams I already shipped.

Meanwhile, there is a highly important development here in the United States to report. A Revisionist student website, put up by a Washington State University student, is under attack by the University administration. This website, as far as I know, has been up for more than a year and has not bothered anyone - until, apparently, a student decided to challenge a professor in the History Department regarding those ever-more-murky Holocaust claims.

The student paper ran a front page article. As you can well imagine, all hell broke loose thereafter.

I have been so busy keeping up with Toronto and my own work, I have not had the time to follow this story closely, but from what I read last night, I hold this development to be highly important. Revisionism could penetrate the college campuses Big Time!

Each and every one of you, get busy on this story! Call your paper. Call your Congressman. Call the WSU administration. Spread the word as far and wide as you can! This is your opportunity to be more than an armchair warrior!

This isn't about Ernst Zundel and Ingrid Rimland, two first generation immigrants with memories of WWII that are a bit inconvenient to others. These are your kids and grandkids who have their rights to free access to and dispersing of information infringed upon. If these kids play this card with courtesy, calm, care and responsibility, this could be very big for Revisionism.

Other college students could pick it up. I predict already that there will be questioning of those talmudic tactics we know so well on many, many campuses.

Let's help these youngsters all we can!

Below, I am bringing two items pertaining to their struggle. I have broken up the paragraphs and edited for spelling, but otherwise, they are complete.

One is a simple plea from one the students for active assistance; the other is the main website page explaining what is going on.

Put up links to this document! Report the links to the WSU administration! Write that you support these students' rights to question anything they like. Write letters of support to the kids!

I will certainly get busy today, postpone my own work on my newsletter, and try to ship them some media "Nachschub" to their embattled trenches, as we like to say in German.

Here goes - two letters from "Justin" and "Lawrence":

"Hello all,

I usually don't concern myself with issues of Revisionism, but I consider the following to be of the utmost importance.

I have a friend who attends a local University here in Washington state. Many of you might be familiar with his website, the SRRS. There seems to be an active campaign to not only shut down his website, but to prevent any WSU students from using websites to promote ideas found to be incorrect.

Even if you don't agree with Holocaust revisionism, I believe that the issue of free-speech alone is enough to voice protest over the University's actions. The guardians of political correctness are furious over the fact that this one student is taking the opportunity to inform other students of a viewpoint which they consider to be threatening to their way of thinking.

As of this moment, they are taking steps to keep people like my friend from using the University's server in the future. I consider it to be highly important that each and every one of us contact the school administration and voice our concern.

Please pass this on to anyone you know. If you could just take five minutes of your time to write a sincere letter, it could help shape the policies of the future, and keep the flame of free speech alive.

I don't think it is too much to ask. The situation is very serious, as there was recently an incident in which a fake hate crime occurred. This hate crime was supposed to encourage the University opinion to oppose the ideas which my friend espouses.

Please help!

Justin"

The second write-up, written by the student, Lawrence Pauling, can be found at http://www.wsu.edu/~lpauling/threat.html titled "University Administration Takes Aim at the Student Revisionists' Resource Site"

"Washington State University has been put in a precarious position by a combination of inside pressure from certain administrators and professors, particularly in the history department, as well as groups and individuals outside the university pleading to have the SRRS shut down.

My efforts to attain a proper response to specific questions regarding the holocaust story have been stifled with confused rhetoric about my supposed anti-Semitic motives. Clouding the issue with such paranoid ranting serves not only to obscure the real issue, but also to invent a reason to have the SRRS shut down.

With more articles in the Daily Evergreen, the student publication of WSU, than I can mention in this brief summary, the Traditional Enemy of the Truth has successfully pushed a university proposal that would mandate guidelines for the content of student Web pages onto the table. It is set to be voted on Thursday, December 11th of this year.

The proposal would subject student web pages to the same guidelines as official university publications, even though they clearly are not. The basis for the proposal is a concern that university resources should not be used to support any discriminatory messages or "hate speech."

Immediately, one is forced to question the motives of those who profess that the word "hate" should be used as an adjective.

This new regulation would prevent students from profiting or in any other way making personal gains from using the university server or other resources. Consistency of principle would tell us that this also means that students who post their resume on-line will no longer be able to do so, if the measure passes.

Clearly, this proposal is a blatant attempt to abridge the free speech of students on-line, and it cuts off the otherwise seemingly free flow of ideas that students may be subjected to.

We must stop the efforts of those who would enforce the Orwellian idea of groupthink. To lie down with dogs and fail to resist this onslaught of terror, we must stand up for our rights as they are guaranteed by the Constitution.

I would not want as my ally anyone who desires to obscure the truth. Those interested in doing so are the only ones who push for such ridiculous measures.

It is an effort to prevent any spark of an idea that hasn't been deemed politically correct from entering the minds of students here and abroad which may result in far reaching political movements or the development of new perspectives. In doing so they will successfully quell the source of those uncomfortable questions aimed at people like Steve Kale and the rest of the history department here at WSU.

Our university, and likely the entire system of higher education, will be reduced to nothing more than breeding grounds for politically correct yahoos who wouldn't know an original thought from a candy bar.

Wake up America! This is happening in your backyard!

While we sit idly by, our institutions are being systematically taken over by people who are interested in the wrong questions not being asked. You see, they have something to lose in all of this, such as, the credibility of a false version of history and all of the political and social benefits it provides them.

I encourage every right-thinking individual to contact the university administration and voice their concern over this tyrannical legislation. The WSU site is found at http://www.wsu.edu

E-mail the University President, Sam Smith, as well as the history department, and the Office of Student Affairs (which will probably oversee the enforcement of this new legislation) and anyone else here you can think of! Make your voice heard on this campus!

Even though they will not be able to label the SRRS discriminatory (the SRRS does not and never has been home to discriminatory messages), we all know that it is the prime target of their campaign, and they will take every measure necessary to see it removed."

Thought for the Day:

"The liberals are dying a very vocal death."

(A reader to the Zundelsite)

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