One of the first Zundel stories I ever heard was that of a school of thought called "demonic possession" that has it that when too much hostile, even diabolical energy collects in any one spot, it has to discharge - just like lightning.
Ernst told me that during the time of the first Great Holocaust Trial in 1985, the hostility directed against him in Toronto's streets, the media, and courtrooms was such that it was palpable - and how he witnessed how it suddenly discharged through an otherwise well-behaved and gentle dog. Without any provocation, this dog viciously attacked and seriously mauled a female companion standing next to him. Years later, Ernst described to me this moment as one of utter ferocity. He said that, just as suddenly, the dog fell quiet as a lamb.
This story came to mind as I read the following excerpt from today's Truth-in-Media release. I think you will find it haunting.
A War on Beasts, Not Just Civilians
BELGRADE, May 31 - Remember a story from our trip to Serbia, in late April, headlined "Man's Best Friend Proves Its Worth as Dog of War?" (Day 30, Update 1, Item 2, Apr. 22). The article described how the dogs in Serbia have now volunteered for extra duty of warning their owners about impending NATO bombs - ahead of the air raid sirens. This is especially valuable on blackout nights, when NATO's bombing of power stations cuts of electricity, thus disabling the sirens.
Well, we've just received a story about the Belgrade Zoo, which shows that wild animals have joined the Serb dogs in their defense of humanity. Unfortunately, it also indicates that the NATO beasts, as they are being called by civilized Serbs these days, are killing and traumatizing the animal world, too, not only the Belgrade residents.
The source who sent us the story, a well known Belgrade radio personality, scribbled a note: "Since 'they' (Americans, the West) evidently aren't fans of humanity, but say that they adore the animals, let them read this:"
"The noise starts around half an hour before the bombs fall as the animals in Belgrade zoo pick up the sound of approaching planes and missiles, director Vuk Bojovic said. "It's one of the strangest and most disturbing concerts you can hear anywhere.'' he said in an interview.
"It builds up in intensity as the planes approach - only they can hear them, we can't - and when the bombs start falling it's like a choir of the insane. Peacocks screaming, wolves howling, dogs barking, chimpanzees rattling their cages.''
And then there are the NATO victims about which reporters do not pester their spokesmen. "I had 1,000 eggs of rare and endangered species incubating, some of them ready to hatch in a couple of days. They were all ruined (when the electricity was cut). That's 1,000 lives lost.''
Meat in the zoo's freezer defrosted and went off, making it suitable only to scavengers like hyenas and vultures. Belgrade people donated meat out of their home freezers when the power went down, "but most of it wasn't even fit for animals.''
The lack of water, also a result of NATO's strikes against power plants, meant that some animals, particularly the hippos, were literally swimming in their excrement, Bojovic said.
"We had to give dirty drinking water to a lot of pretty delicate animals. We won't know the effects of that for two or three months,'' Bojovic said. While the zoo overlooks the confluence of two major rivers, the Danube and the Sava, both are heavily polluted by chemical and industrial waste.
The nightly air strikes, with their accompaniment of heavy anti-aircraft fire lighting up the sky, has had other, possibly longer-lasting effects on many of the animals, the director said. Many of them aborted their young in the latter stages of pregnancy. Many birds abandoned their nests, leaving eggs to grow cold. "If they ever lay again, I just wonder what they will do with them,'' he said. Even a snake aborted some 40 fetuses, apparently reacting to the heavy vibration shaking the ground as missiles hit targets nearby.
The worst night the zoo can remember was when NATO hit an army headquarters only 600 meters (yards) away, with a huge detonation. "The next day we found that some of the animals had killed their young,'' the director said. "A female tiger killed two of her four three-day-old cubs, and the other two were so badly injured we couldn't save them.''
"She had been a terrific mother until then, raising several litters without any problems. I can't say whether it was the detonation or the awful smell that accompanied the bombing. I personally think it was the detonation,'' he added.
On the same night, an eagle owl killed all of its five young, and ate the smallest of them. "It wasn't because she was hungry. I can only think it was fear.''
The most disturbing case was of the huge Bengal tiger, 'Prince," who began to chew his own paws. "He was practically raised in my office. He trusted humans.''
Looking up into the sky, Bojovic said the constant stream of NATO war-planes, with their trails of polluting gases, threatened to disturb the migration of several species of birds that pass over the area every year. Some were heading north just as NATO's bombardment began. "They have always used these corridors. I wonder whether they will ever do so again. I think fauna right across Europe and beyond will feel the affects of this war for a long time to come.''
The grimmest spin-off of the war, now in its third month, is the sight of armed guards patrolling the zoo. "Their job is to shoot the animals if the zoo gets bombed and some of them try and break out.'' ----------------
Bob Djurdjevic
TRUTH IN MEDIA
Phoenix, Arizona
e-mail: bobdj@djurdjevic.com
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Thought for the Day - overheard between Ernst Zundel and a newcomer to Revisionism:
EZ: "When the Allied soldiers came upon Eyrie - a place where Hitler tried to raise eagles in captivity because they were in danger or being extinct in Germany - the Allies blinded all the eagles."
Friend, horrified: "But why?"
EZ, quietly: "Why? They were Hitler's eagles."
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