Finally I am back home and trying to get the feel for my office work again, but yesterday I had to meet a printer, followed by a pleasurable dinner with some young, enthusiastic friends, and before I knew it, ". . . today became tomorrow."
Before I say anything else, I want to thank my loyal Zundelsite supporters for their wonderful letters and contributions. Summer is traditionally a slow time for substantive support, but you have been steady and faithful. I am just about caught up with my "thank you's" and acknowledgements.
For those of you who are new and would like to know how you can help, please write -and I will ship you instructions. My "steadies" get my free "Lebensraum!" monthly newsletter which is already becoming a "collector's item" - amazing. I cannot keep up with printing back issues, it seems!
Now back to business.
I absolutely hate to fall behind in my ZGram work, but sometimes I just cannot be helped. Therefore, today you get two-for-one, since I skipped yesterday - both ZGrams still written on the road.
Here's number one:
Prior to going into cross-examination during my stay in Toronto, Zundel defense attorney Doug Christie had cautioned me: "Listen to the questions! Listen to the questions!"
Afterwards, it turned out that I ***didn't*** listen to one of the crucial questions put to me by Wendy Matheson, (attorney for Zundel-foe Sabina Citron) embedded in a segment of the cross-examination. I recall it here from memory, which may not be a precise word-for-word exchange but which illustrates my point:
WM: "Tell me how you access the Internet?"
IR: What do you mean?
WM: Well, do you have an office, a computer, a modem, a hard disk etc.?
IR: Yes, I do.
WM: Well, how do you access the Net?
IR: I use Netscape.
WM: You use Netscape. How do you use Netscape?
IR: I have an icon in my Apple folder and I pull that down from the Apple menu. I double-click on that. That connects me to the Internet.
WM: Is your computer hooked up to a modem?
IR: Yes, it is.
WM: Is that modem hooked up to a telephone?
IR: Yes, it is.
Doug Christie informed me later that the true, logical and technically correct answer should have been that my modem was not hooked up to a telephone but to a telephone ***line***. If this is important in proving - or disproving, as the case may be - that the Internet is like a telephone, just as a book is like a tree - that fine distinction escapes me even now!
The lawyers think it is important.
The point is that I use the Internet like anybody else uses the Internet, by sending, as I understand it, pixel-byte messages, not spoken telephonic sound, over the metal wires also used as telephone lines, or so I have been told - and if the Canadian Torquemadas succeed in setting a precedent of blatant and barbarous global censorship where one country's laws can criminalize the actions of citizens in another country, let them not then blame Ingrid - who is probably one of the most technically unsophisticated webmasters on earth.
This, then, is one more call to those out there who ostensibly fight for freedom of speech on the Net - to come to our aid and tell the Inquisition of Canada a thing or two about the technical aspects of the Net. In my entire life, I have never seen such ninnies - they fear the Zundel-taint! Big deal! The slurs of "Nazi," "racist" "anti-semite" etc. etc. - which, chances are, will promptly be hurled at them by the Professional Internet Shriekers - won't bite them in the ass. I guarantee it! Potential Zundel witnesses won't faint if they inform themselves correctly just who the censors are - although they might, once they will come to understand how deeply they have been deceived.
Furthermore, as a primer to the true nature of this global struggle, I recommend an excellent scholarly pamphlet titled "Freedom of Expression, Dissenting Historian, and the Holocaust Revisionists" by David Botsford, published by Libertarian Alliance, 25 Chapter Chambers, Esterbrooke Street, London, SW 1P 4NN, England, e-mail: LA@capital.domon.co.uk.
This pamphlet is a summary of what the global struggle for Freedom of Speech in 1998 is really all about. It isn't about "Nazis" plotting genocide - trust me! It's about keeping you and me from learning about genocides the dimensions of which are horrendous, and the perpetrators of which know that their jig us up and that Truth will win out against lies.
This pamphlet is a ***must*** for anybody who is willing to go beyond Nizkor in understanding what Dr. Faurisson meant when he called Revisionism ". . . the last intellectual adventure at the end of the twentieth century."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"The men of future generations will yet win many a liberty of which we do not even feel the want."
(Max Stirner)