December 17, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

We are still having horrendous problems with shipping my ZGrams. Last night, more than half of them bounced. I had a technician here last weekend, and he tells me that it isn't my computer or anything I do.

The site seems to be working all right, and I am trying to be punctual in posting my ZGrams there for my readers to check and download. As I have said before, I write and ship my ZGrams ALWAYS.

Yesterday's CHRC hearings went well. When I asked Ernst how it had gone, he said: "You would have been proud of us!"

Computers and projection equipment were rented, and the stone-faced members of the CHRC Tribunal were given the grand tour of the Zundelsite. Ernst said it was ". . . very impressive as all those truth-telling, lie-rebutting documents appeared on the large screen, to the strenuous objections of the commission lawyers!"

There was a little human interest side skirmish. Paul Fromm, the highly popular Canadian teacher fired at the behest of B'nai Brith because he attended some meetings they didn't approve of, reports that, as a Zundelsite intervenor, he encountered bona fide "hatred and contempt" right in the courtroom. (Paul is, so far, the ***only*** intervenor approved on Ernst's side, although four Jewish organizations have been approved to bolster the opposition. Marc Lemire was disqualified, even though he is supposed to have masterminded the communication between me and Ernst.)

It turned out that the folks who like to build "museums of tolerance" found it intolerable to sit next to Paul.

Writes Paul:

"Today, for instance, following my insistence from yesterday, tribunal clerk Diane Desormeaux had to find me a chair and table.

There isn't much space because of all the intervenors' lawyers and the commission lawyers. Yesterday afternoon she suggested that I sit at the edge of the Zundel table.

I said no.

Apparently, she approached Marvin Kurz, the weaselly counsel for B'nai Brith.

He refused to sit at the same table with me.

So, they had to haul in a separate table all for me. I even have two chairs, while the rest of the hotshot lawyers are squashed together."

Can you imagine the hoopla it would have caused if Paul had refused to sit next to one of the Jews?

Today is supposed to be the Big Day when the opposition will squire in Irene Zundel for cross-examination, after Barbara Hall will explain why the "Human Soap" story is still kicking around after it has been discredited so many times, even by our opposition. We hope that the media will be there. Yesterday, they were conspicuously absent, as they always are when there is an urgent need for damage control.

Meanwhile, something very interesting is happening in the world of ever-more-desperate censorship efforts. Cyber Patrol, a software company that has developed programs to block certain websites, has teamed up with the Anti-Defamation League to offer a way to block sites reviewed by the ADL and deemed "hate sites."

According to an Associated Press report (12-16-97),

"The Anti-Defamation League and a software company will develop filters to screen out hate sites on the World Wide Web, the ADL said Tuesday.

The ADL will compile a list of hate sites for The Learning Company, a Cambridge, Mass., software firm that makes Cyber Patrol, a filtering program for the Web. Once a parent installs it on a computer, it blocks a child's access to any sites on the League's list."

Writes one of the fight-censorship fellows:

"Here's the weirdest thing about the story --- if you access a site on their "hate list" you don't get a block, but rather you get redirected to the ADL website.

Blocking access isn't enough -- you will now be told what to read and what to think about prejudice, bigotry, and race relations.

I don't have anything for or against the ADL -- just that history dictates that this power will be used and abused to stifle thought and free expression."

A second pondered this scenario:

"Kid hears that 'Jews control the media'. Sits down at her computer to research sites claiming this. Is transparently redirected to the ADL site. Conclusion? Anti-Semites must be whooping with joy."

And still another one:

"I couldn't have imagined something this perverse. It seems that no matter how cynical I get, it's impossible to keep up.

"You are committing thoughtcrime. You will be taken to a site where you can be instructed in goodthink."

Of course this was my opportunity to post to this fight-censorship group so as to shed a little light:

"Actually, goodthink has been going on for quite some time, which is why Revisionists exist.

Goodthink tells you that when you spot a Revisionist, you must look under your bed for a Nazi. When you come across Ernst Zundel, you must kick him. When you come across the word "Holocaust", you must genuflect."

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"Anyone who saw the Israeli film 'The Road to Rabin Square', SBS TV, 4 December 1997, now knows that the cornerstone of Israel's existence as a state rests on the premise that there was a Holocaust during which millions of Jews were gassed at Auschwitz . . . No wonder that we are considered so dangerous because, as Rabbi Cooper pointed out, we question the homicidal gassings at Auschwitz. To do that is to question Israel's legitimacy as a state entity."

(From the January 1998 issue of "Adelaide Institute Online', page 1)

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