Now we are at the conclusion of these "Power"-ZGram series. I hope that now you know Ernst Zundel a little better than you did last week and - if you are a newcomer to the Zundel-Watch - have learned to appreciate what he stands for.
Read on:
Just as I had done in June of last year, Doug Christie called a press conference outside the Parliament Building but was delayed in getting there on time. He was appearing live on Ottawa's most widely listened-to radio talk show on CFRA, explaining the ins and outs of the ban.
He did not need to have hurried. Not a single reporter was there! Not a single photographer! Not a single camera team! Not even a reporter in his off time was courageous enough or felt privately curious enough to avail himself or herself of an opportunity to report about a case of such historic significance! No one dared to show up to learn of the reasons or hear an explanation by Doug Christie, one of the most eminent Canadian Civil Rights lawyers, frequently referred to as the Clarence Darrow of Canada, telling them that soon there would be hate laws in Canada the likes of which they, as hitherto free journalists, could not in their worst nightmares imagine!
I was there. With my trusty video camera and using my telephoto lens, I was taking in this sad scene - standing on "civilian" ground, video-filming from a place where I was not (yet!) subject to instant arrest and incarceration, to record my attorney's reaction for posterity!
We were watched by police in no-less-than-eight RCMP police cruisers and undoubtedly more plain-clothes police as we made our way away from that surreal scene in that surreal place called the Parliament of Canada - a place whose inhabitants are apparently so despised by the people they allegedly represent that they live in more paranoid if splendid isolation than Louis XIV shortly before his fall, isolated from reality and the thinking and feeling of living, breathing human beings, talking to themselves, passing resolutions to ban people! Why? Because they are too intellectually lazy, too complacent, or too arrogant to grasp the power of independent, sovereign thought? Too cowardly to confront the meaning of the facts of real and true history?
Do they really prefer to live for a few more years parroting and believing a propaganda lie while willfully denying those who have found the truth the right to tell the citizens of Canada?
After this, how can anyone say with a straight face that there is even a pretense of a "free press" in this brow-beaten, downtrodden, cud-chewing country? What a pitiful and sorry bunch of wimps!
I am proud to be myself and to have resolved to see this through. I have friends and supporters like you and a lawyer who, without fear or favor, told the truth to those who needed to hear it - fully conscious of what it could mean for his career.
Whatever the judges will decide - we will continue our struggle for self-liberation and truth in history. For what are bans and judgments? Mere pronouncements of mortal and fallible men!
I am gearing up for the next round. We will collect the money and pay the legal bills. As we have done before, we will cover the costs for the flights, the hotels, the gasoline, the car repairs, the meals and the enormous printing and copy costs for all these dramatic court cases - for in the courtrooms of today, real history is made!
History will record that we stood firm against the hypocrites and petty tyrants of our day, as our fathers did before us - so that our sons and daughters, and our grandsons and granddaughters, will look up one day and say: "This was my father carrying that sign!" "This was my grandmother writing that check!" - so that they, in turn, will be inspired to throw down the gauntlet, to march up and stay in the breach and hurl a defiant but resolute ". . . bis hier und nicht weiter!" as we have done in the face of the forces of darkness and the enemies of freedom and civilization for decades!
To here, and no further!!
I am eternally grateful to an inscrutable fate and destiny that I can play this role in this place at this time in human history - with your help! Without you and your support, I would long ago have been forced to give up! Quite simply, you made the difference! You are the ones who remember what I have often told you: There is a world to be conquered together - or to be lost alone.
I salute you, and I thank you!
Ernst Zündel
Thought for the Day:
"Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite, and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames."
(Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
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