From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 3 15:34:38 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 3 15:38:50 2003 Subject: ZGram - December 1, 2003 - "Principal gets much-needed lesson on Freedom of Speech from former diplomat" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031203153438.012336a8@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 1, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Remember the Canadian high school principal who fell all over himself pleasing the Holocaust Lobby because one of his high school students had played the defense attorney in a mock trial and found Ernst Zundel "not guilty"? Some of my readers sent him their feelings about his groveling - and here is one more letter on the same topic, succinctly stated. I hope that he takes it to heart - more yet, I request that he passes this letter on to his board, and certainly to the student and her parents: [START] Dear Mr Dick-Westerby If what I read recently of your response to a mock trial held in your high school is true, I think you erred egregiously, not only in your cruel demeanment and embarrassment of one of your more gifted students, who "defended" Ernst Zuendel, but also in prejudging the merits of the case on which the exercise was modelled. At the same time you violated the victimized student's constitutional right to free expression which surely is of greatest importance in cases such as the Lobby-driven persecution of Mr Zuendel where un-Canadian precepts have been introduced into the justice system and demand to be challenged. I am by no means a human rights activist but I have become increasingly concerned over the demoralization of Canadian society, and especially over the failure of academics to defend themselves and their wards against the depredations of unpatriotic subversive elements in government, the media and education system who have already deprived traditional Canadians of much of their cultural heritage and identity. It is ironic that your misguided violation of one of our most precious freedoms should have taken place so close to Remembrance Day. When I was a teenager, not much older than your apparently no-less-intrepid student, I enlisted in RCAF Aircrew, as did virtually all of my contemporaries who could meet the standards. All freely volunteered to risk their lives to ensure that basic human rights in Canada would never be abridged nor the country subjected to totalitarian measures to suppress our freedoms, of which I consider freedom of "unpopular" opinion most important. Many of my friends and a close relative gave their lives in that (perceived) noble cause. When by your actions, Mr Dick-Westerby, you show contempt for both their sacrifice and their ideals, and the ideals of all righteous Canadians, you betray both your office and your nation. I'm sorry if that seems a harsh judgment but I am convinced that, upon reflection, you will agree that it is not inappropriate. As for my credentials to offer comment, after service in the RCAF and RN Fleet Air Arm, I obtained an Honours Degree from Queen's and an MA from Toronto, entered the Canadian Foreign Service placing 2nd in a national competition, represented Canada in Germany, Sweden, South Africa, Sri Lanka, USA and Middle East and in various capacities worked for Canadian interests in over fifty countries, travelling and studying in about 80, all told. As a public service, I have restored and preserved many heritage buildings in Ottawa and am a published author of numerous papers on public policy, historical/political issues and international trade, among other accomplishments. May I suggest that by way of redemption you now tender your sincere apologies to the enterprising student and her parents, and as a gesture of good faith, pass on to them a copy of this letter so that they will be reassured that their talented daughter did no wrong and deserves commendation, not condemnation. A public apology also should be made, to remove any stigma your impetuous intervention might have left. I look forward to your early confirmation that you have complied. Thank you.. Yours sincerely Ian V. Macdonald 455 Wilbrod Street Ottawa K1N 6M7 Tel 613 241 5389 From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 3 15:34:48 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 3 17:09:09 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/2/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 45 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031203153448.012336a8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 2, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: When people think of Kristallnacht - The Night of the Broken Glass - they think of Germans, both soldiers and civilians, having gone mad with revenge and having gone on a rampage across Germany smashing Jewish businesses and synagogues and physically abusing Jews. There exists at least one book by German researcher Ingrid Weckert that makes the claim that the attacks of Kristallnacht were masterminded by non-German elements for the purpose of damaging the Third Reich's image and discrediting the Hitler regime. Allegedly, provocateurs in German uniforms streamed across the borders into Germany, did their havoc for a few hours, and then mysteriously disappeared. We certainly know today that many atrocities in Russia were committed by commissars in German uniforms to give the Germans a black eye. I haven't read the book and feel that the glimpse in the Ernst Zundel letter below is not nearly complete or compelling, but I am sure that for many Zgram readers this will offer a new perspective, especially in light of 9/11 where very few politically astute people still believe that it was the Arabs who did it. Ernst wrote this letter to Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review and obviously refers to previously discussed topics. Here is a brief excerpt: [START] Just like Hitler had broken out of the boycott efforts and was wearing down resentments and negative stereotypes by good administration and sound if revolutionary economic and social policies and then topped it all off with the 1936 Olympics, which successfully buried the stereotypes generated in the First World War with their evil Hun propaganda, the Palestinians were succeeding in freeing themselves themselves from the image of the eternal "cut-throat Arab". Yassir Arafat and his people were winning the hearts and minds of decent people - even Israelis, people like Israel Shamir - with the peace movement. Europe was beginning to take their side, as did ever more Americans. The shift was tangible. Palestinians were gaining recognition by their courage and sacrifices, and it was only a matter of months, maybe years, until a viable Palestinian state would have been born. The Israelis and Jews knew it! Then came 9/11. For the Palestinian and the Arab-Muslim cause generally, the direct, long-term impact of 9/11 was just like the effects of Kristallnacht on Hitler's ideas and on his government, especially the German people's reputations in the minds of the conned masses around the world - devastating! From that moment on, when those planes hit those towers, NO media person, churchman or diplomat, least of all Western politicians, could dare to take the Palestinian side. Not really even now - their cause was dead, as Hitler's was after Kristallnacht. Those who planned and brilliantly executed 9/11 knew that, before any plane ever was gassed up in Boston. There were two or three ex-Israeli prime ministers in America during that week - "by chance", of course - and the media knew how to reach them within minutes. You remember Netanyahu's statement that day that these attacks were "very good for Israel?"? 9/11 was designed to deliver that effect. Look at Kristallnacht and its aftermath! Civilized and decent people around the world, especially the Aryan world, rightly recoiled at these barbaric acts, unheard-of in German history. Poland had its pogroms, as did Czarist Russia, Rumania - but not Germany! And now this? That Kristallnacht happened on the 9th of November '38 is significant because it points like a laser beam to one group of people - and one only! - who knew how the "Nazi"-state worked. Who, apart from Germany's refugee or emigr? population in Prague, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - and also Jewish community activists and sleeper agents inside Germany - would know that the National Socialist Party offices and the SA offices would be staffed on that night only by those in the lowest ranks of the totem pole? Who had lived, or was in fact still living, among them during that time in 1938? Whoever pulled off Kristallnacht knew the Germans and their habits very intimately. Those who planned Kristallnacht knew all the "facts on the ground". They knew every "Nazi" worth his name was going to be in Munich that day, celebrating the "Marsch zur Feldherrnhalle" - and consequently would be hard to be reached by his or her subordinates. Remember, telephones only existed in maybe 1 per 100 households, and cell phones were unknown for another 60 years. They knew there would be only inexperienced third-, fourth echelon people on duty. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to get SA uniforms, the right badges etc. All you had to have was connections to or be a tailor or a dry cleaner. To get those uniforms was nothing. Language was no problem either, not even dialects. 600,000 Jews were born in Germany, most still lived there, so manpower was no problem. The French, Belgium, Dutch borders were only one, two hours away from the towns where the pogroms seem to have started. If something went wrong, to get away was easy. From what I have read, the local officials, almost to a man, testified to the fact that they were ordered by higher ranking officers than themselves to go smash or torch these places, shops, synagogues etc. Only someone intimately knowledgeable with the German "obedience unto death" - blindly following orders by someone higher in rank, especially if you were of the lowest rank, would know that these orders would be followed. There is not an army or a police force in the world where your basic recruit would not execute the orders of a much higher ranking officer. Not in the real world - least of all in a hierarchical, uniform-dominated state like the National Socialist state. What always bothered me about Kristallnacht was why the Hitler Government would impose that obscene fine on Germany's Jewish community. How on earth could a man with Hitler's political instincts not sense that this would be adding insult to injury? Totally unbelievable and uncharacteristic of him, fining the victims! There is something so grotesquely wrong with that whole concept that only an agent provocateur or someone totally blind to global political and media reality could have promulgated that insane order. Do we know who first proposed it? I would love to know the author of this idea. I would not be surprised if Goering had something to do with that, or maybe Himmler. I can't believe Goebbels or Hitler would not at once have felt it in their bones that it was wrong, dead wrong, and would have disastrous consequences for Germany. If you have anything on that issue, I would be grateful to receive and study it. Imagine a state never solving who pulled off Kristallnacht - or 9/11! ? 9/11 was a repeat, only on a perversely much more in-your-face scale because this time, they did not do it to a deadly enemy but to their foremost ally. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 3 17:02:35 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 3 17:09:15 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/3/2003 - "Witnessing..." Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031203170235.012336a8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 3, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Some months ago I ran a letter from a young French fellow who had befriended Ernst since Ernst was arrested. Our server is down, so I can't check which Zgram it was, but I remember that it had a particular innocent charm when this young Frenchman told of his childhood impression of "the World War II" in very slightly broken French. Here is a follow-up: [START] Dear Mr. Z?ndel: It's only the third time I write you a letter whereas you are in jail for months, suspected to have committed no crime. Many thanks for your letter and for your words. I can't understand how it is possible to write such letters. I repeat I regard you as a hero, not only because of your courage, but because of the altruistic letters you succeed to write in such conditions. My mother was very surprised to receive the drawing you sent: a beautiful sun drawn with three pencils. Not only it's beautiful, but it's moving to imagine you drawing it where you are. Many thanks from my mother. She and I want to take part to your trial and will send a little money to Mrs. Zundel. Don't worry: we have no doubt you'll use each cent in the best way, for anyone knowing revisionism still remembers the Leuchter Reports. A last word about your drawing: for sure it's no reproach, but when I see it, I feel a bit sad that fighting against the Big Bad Lying has kept you away from your job, your other vocation. Instead of answering all your questions in one long letter, I prefer to answer in several ones. Thus I'll probably write sooner my next one, and my mother won't say I'm too slow to answer you. In this letter, I'm trying to give a first answer to one of your questions: You wrote that, according to what you know, 80% of the French Foreign Legion's soldiers in Dien Bien-Phu were Germans, and you asked me to search if it was true. A few days ago, in a lunch among some hundred people, we were six around the table: me, my mother, a more than 80-year-old woman, and three men, two of them having been soldiers in the Legion. The older of the two was 55 years old and had been an officer, the younger one having been, according to my remembering, a corporal. Hearing they had been legionnaires, I asked them your question. The younger man answered: "Not 80%, but quite 60%." However, he was, of course, not old enough to have seen it. He said that Dien-Bien-Phu occurred a few years after the World War II, and looked a bit surprised when I answered it was in 1954. The other former legionnaire said that always 55% of the Foreign Legion's soldiers are chosen among French citizens, and that during the Indochinese war, 40% of its foreign soldiers were German. Soon after that, the man explained that, after the World War II, many German war criminals tried to escape justice in joining the Legion, especially former Waffen-SS soldiers. And he spoke about concentration camps, about Jews, about gas chambers, gas chambers and gas chambers again. The other former Legionnaire agreed that viewpoint. I didn't know what I had to do: I felt guilty in letting them claiming that the Germans were more criminal than the Allies, but hardly dared to say what I thought. I tried to make us speaking about something else, but always they came back to the gas chambers. Then I answered more accurately. First, they didn't even understand what I meant, and when they understood, laughed about me. The three men all believed in the Holocaust, and especially the two former legionnaires. Me and my mother have opinions Mr. Gayssot regards as crimethinks, as Orwell said, and so did the old woman. I told what I thought, and the older of the former legionnaires laughed. He said that he had seen a gas chamber by his own eyes, and added to the other legionnaire, "but he's going to say I wasn't there to see when it worked." I answered as quickly as I could to these mocking birds, and finally I could explain some conclusions of the revisionists and give a few arguments. The former officer had seen by his own eyes, don't laugh, the Struthof-Natzweiler's camp gas chamber. I answered that there had been no gas chamber there. But he claimed once more that he had seen it by his own eyes. I tried to answer the many questions of the three men, without of course I could say what I had to say, each of them having his own questions about my answer or about questions of another one of them. Finally I could explain that the camp of Struthof-Natzweiler, as we write in France, has a gas chamber which is rarely visited nowadays. To the gas chamber eye witness, I said that nowadays the school children visit not the gas chamber but the crematoriums where they are told that "the gas chamber is there." And I said, "and yes, it's true, the gas chamber is there, 1.5 km away. It measures 2m25 by 3m by 2m75 and is not gastight so each time the gasser would have been gassed." You can't imagine how suddenly the eyewitness looked a sad man, staring down, as if he didn't understand what had happened. I answered to a few other questions, spoke about typhus, about what was the finale solution, about the Allies crimes, the denazification camps and so on. Once again, the Struthof-Natzweiler's gas chamber eyewitness wanted to speak about gas chambers, but I knew he was already defeated, and as I had soon said a few words about the Leuchter Reports, I answered pitilessly: "A man who was paid to maintain the American gas chambers visited the German gas chambers, and said that they had never been gas chambers. But you probably know more than he does about it." I should have used some other words, but his first words, when he had understood I was a revisionist were very hard, too, and furthermore, I wanted him to find no means of escaping to the truth. I wanted him to know, as Socrates would have said, that he knew nothing. About gas chambers, I mean. After that, our former officer said nothing, looking sad and surprised, as if he was blinking: "A few minutes ago, I had a firm believing in the gas chambers. I thought I had seen one. Where did I put my believing? I can't find it any more." Near him, the old woman, an Alsatian, succeeded in saying, despite her small voice: "Faurisson should have the right of speaking." The third man, after two or three questions, only listened. I think he had sincerely believed in the gas chambers, and after my answers regarded me not as a crazy guy but as someone saying credible things. The old Alsatian woman explained, as I spoke about Berben's book, that her brother was a prisoner of war in Germany during the World War II, and that he had been shooted there, in 1942, in a place near Dortmund. The name could be Bochum, but I'm not sure, for her voice was very weak. The Germans, she said, kept papers about everything, and in 1947 she was told her brother had been killed. But the other former legionnaire, the younger one, tried to keep his gas chamber believing by any means; however, he wanted to know what I could answer, whereas never letting me explain exactly what I meant, preventing me from saying what was the revisionist viewpoint about Dachau, about the Six Million, and didn't understand what I said about the delousing gas chambers. However, he was finally defeated, too, but tried to escape in saying that in the concentration camps, he meant in the German ones, something might have happened, he was sure of it. I didn't let him hiding in the bottom of his snail shell, and understanding he tried to avoid a full surrender, I said, speaking a bit too loud, unable to keep quiet in facing such an insincerity: "What would you think about me, sir, if I said, 'I'm sure you committed an awful crime, I have no evidence of it and don't know what kind of crime, but I'm sure you committed an awful crime' and wouldn't let you be able to hold your own?" After that, it wasn't possible any more to speak about it, for fear of being heard. I can't say I converted the three Holocaust believers, but I explained to them a few things about revisionism, and having been able to answer all their questions, however difficult it is to answer several people in the same time, I made them see that the revisionists have arguments. If it is, even partly, a success, it's due to Professor Faurisson, to whom are due the best of my arguments. I quote his arguments as often as I am able to do. If it is, even partly, a success, it's due to you, too, Herr Z?ndel, who made so much in your quest for truth and are still persecuted because of it. I regard you, Pr. Faurisson, and some other ones as heroes. Would you be free to speak, the face of the world would change. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 7 21:16:38 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 7 21:32:51 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/4/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 46 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031207211638.01329f90@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 4, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I apologize that I am sending you four Zundel excerpts in a row - but I was laid low with one of the worst cases of flu I have ever experienced, at a time when I had two guests and two volunteers in my house. I could barely keep myself on my feet - and I am only now returning to the living. My excerpts are going to be short, under the circumstances - which might be just as well. The letter below, addressed to me and dated March 11, 2003, was never sent when it was written. I only received it now, with a little scribbled remark: "Notes I had made way back then?" I don't know why it was never sent; maybe Ernst ran out of postage stamps, since he is only allocated a certain amount he can spend per week. At any rate, here it is. I think it's interesting: [START] I won't bore you with what was said inside the hearings, since in about a week, the transcripts will undoubtedly be on the Internet, and they will report in far more detail than I ever could, wasting all my precious pencils on a topic that thoroughly bores and disgusts me. What was interesting to me, and I am sure will be to you, are the personalities around these hearings. Imagine what historians and film makers will do with these transcripts one day! Imagine what we would give if we had a verbatim record of what was said by historical personalities at crossroads trials and similar hearings! Take Galileo, for instance, when the Italian/Roman authorities gave him a rough time and tried to browbeat and marginalize him for his scientifically absolutely correct, but politically totally unacceptable observations and discoveries. Imagine if we had these transcripts, and we could follow, thought by thought, explanation by explanation, as this great thinker tried to explain to the narrow-minded, orthodoxy-imprisoned, "the-earth-is-flat" contemporaries who they were wrong, all of them - that the sun did not revolve around the earth! Imagine how this great mind must have felt when he encountered this totally childish, pedestrian, cowardly and religious-dogma-besotten world around him! Imagine if we could get a glimpse of him, desperately trying to save his absolutely correct view backed by observations, and how slowly the realization sank in, and began to be reflected in his public utterances, as he began to retrench in order to save his research papers, his celestial maps and notebooks, and his freedom - possibly even his life! There were people in his day who did come forth, who spoke up in his favor and risked the public odium - and two hundred years later, the very successor to the popes of Gallileo's time exonerated him with a half-hearted apology. We are lucky that since the advent of the Internet, the idiocies of our age can and are exposed almost instantly - at an accelerating pace, almost too fast to follow even for scholars,who need time for the old orthodoxy to be eroded and actually die with its biological carriers. That's the stage we are in now! The final death throes of all the liberal, socialist, one-world clap trap that the likes of Marx, Trotski, Adorno and Marcuse, along with Freud, Goldhagen, Hilberg and Lipstadt, aided by Spielberg, Wiesenthal, Foxman and Hier have barfed into the world are here. Their order is dying, along with them. While I was preparing for the hearing, Denis Urstein, one of the lying witnesses against me, died of a heart attack. The papers did not say if it was because he had heard that I was back in Canada - but they did say that he testified in the Zundel trial. So thanks to my Galileo treatment, this miserable wretch from the ghettos of Eastern Europe had his five seconds of "prime time." With him, another carrier of the old lie bit the dust and was claimed by the devil. Who do you think will remember him in history? I knew as my hearings approached that nothing what I might say or could do from the limited confines of my jail cell would change the outcome of the hearings. I have had decades of experience with the men and women of low character and limited vision who inhabit our bureaucracies. One of Germany's greatest sons described them so aptly in the Kubicek book. They are the Mark Twain-like characters, pictured often in Normal Rockwell's paintings of the '30s and '40s - guys dressed in white, starched shirts, stretch rubber armbands holding up their sleeves, garters to hold up their socks around their spindly legs, elbow protectors to prevent their sleeves from wearing out prematurely, a visor, usually green, standard issue, to protect their eyes from the glare of incandescent lamps over their desks, and a yellow pencil stuck above their ears. "Griffelspitzer", he called them - millions upon millions filling the offices of Germany's towns and cities, toiling away, day-in and day-out. Those are the people I have met - the Claude Pensas of the world who, without batting an eyelash or any pangs of conscience, would work for the highest bidder and betray any and all principles along the way - that is, if they ever had any to begin with! I encountered them once again in the form of government officials - all of them, of course, lawyers. It seems that the system knows that any time they have ground out another sausage from the great sausage makers our universities have become, they can always trust a lawyer. So all these people - the adjudicators, the hearing officers, the department of immigration flunkies - to a man or woman were those same stamped out critters. You will be able to read their bootlicking arguments on the Internet. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 7 21:16:51 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 7 21:32:57 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/5/2003 - "Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 47 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031207211651.012539e8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 5, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Apparently this is a continuation of the letter addressed to me, dated March 11, 2003: [START] The government and its spy agency wanted to stay away from the Holocaust topic like the plague, as you will see from the transcripts. Not one probing question on what my research findings or ideas were on the Holocaust, the core issue of 20 years of trials, tribunal hearings, police investigations. It was of only very, very peripheral interest [to them]. It was all along a "footnote to history", as Jean Marie Le Pen had said - and it became it here! It is important to note - very important for people who examine and re-examine history as we and the world-wide Revisionist movement do: THERE HAS BEEN A POLICY SHIFT! It was even announced by Foxman and others after 9/11 - away from their cash cow, Holocaust, to the new growth industry, "white supremacism" in Canada and "terrorism" in America, coupled together. That is the new Enemy being built up by the ruling oligarchies in these two countries, not yet as flagrantly in Europe because of war memories and war fatigue. Those who experienced the shooting wars of WWI and WWII on their own soil and in their own lives, like the Europeans, Russians and Chinese are against joining the "oil war" sold as one aspect of the war on terrorism, when in effect is is a war of terror on those hapless Arab regimes, their peoples and their dictators who were, up until very recently, wined and dined, financially and militarily supported by the very regimes and power elites of the West. The Saudis, especially, must be startled by the about-face of the American power elite. One should recall the total reversal of Bush [senior's] policy ersus Iraq just before the first new crusade launched by George Bush for the "New World Order." The [change] came when power shifted from old East Coast Republican money - the old Goy Power Elite - to the new crowd, like MEGA, for whom the neo-cons roll the drums. There has been indeed a regime change, and Bush is the shingle at the door. You and I, and others soon, will experience what the new masters have assigned to us. I am the first one chosen on whom they will experiment - in other words, Ingrid, they are cashing in on my Holocaust/public notoriety, on my brand name recognition, milking it for their new policy for all they can. That vile CSIS smear sheet with its 50 character assassination remarks is only the beginning. Consider it a transition. Its public presentation, like floating a trial balloon, is there to see what the judiciary, judges, tribunal heads etc. are willing to take as far as Torquemada-like persecution by prosecution and unfounded allegations, coached in flexible, twistable smear words, will do. They want to see if members of the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and the public at large have been sufficiently brainwashed and mind-conditioned by their incessant propaganda so that they can cast a wider net for victims for their upcoming show trials, which are in essence not different than Stalin's 1936 show trials in Moscow of dissidents, or a whole succession of such trials in every Communist regime, from Mao's Red China to Tito's Yugoslavia, Hungary's Kadar regime, or East Germany's Hilde Benjamin. For all those Americans who cling to the wonderful traditions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his visions of pristine beauty: All that wonderful experiment and its often amazingly good results died an abrupt death on September 11 and its inevitable aftermath called the Patriot Act. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 7 21:15:24 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 7 22:17:01 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/7/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 49 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031207211524.0124e7c0@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 7, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Herewith an excerpt from a Zundel letter to a new supporter, explaining a bit of the work that I do: [START] Yesterday, 8-21-03, Ingrid was under electronic attack and sabotage on the Internet. Apparently some people were flooding the major media with some kind of material she had nothing to do with and does not know the content of - not yet! This could be very dangerous for her. Once before, someone sent a huge pornographic file and stored it via a hacker on the Zundelsite. She had to get the FBI electronic crimes unit involved at the time. They never found who did it! Another time, obviously hackers with intelligence service expertise blocked America's third largest Internet Service Provider, where she was on, with 29 million electronic messages, overwhelming the server's capacity and shutting it completely down for several days. The ISP had thousands of customers, all of whom were inconvenienced, who lost maybe millions of dollars of business - all because "these people" could not take that the Zundelsite exposed their lies and deceptions. The FBI traced that attack to a Community College in Victoria, B.C., Canada, but no criminal action was taken. (?) It is obvious from the amount of time the prosecutor spent so far on the topic of the website, that this is one of the reasons I was brought back here by a spy service operation where the US and Canadian spy services obviously cooperated behind the scenes. Normally people are deported to their countries of origin, not former residence - especially since my Canadian status had lapsed. Thus, why send me back here? The answer came recently via a friend in a European country who, in turn, has friends in the upper echelons of the U.S. government who said how they had connived to ship this "German national" out of the country "?to another country where they had a bone to pick with him." They also mentioned what it was which upset the U.S.powers-that-be - which, of course, I suspected all along, but we like to have confirmation. The website has bothered them from Day One. It was one of the first revisionist websites on the Internet. Immediately after it appeared, it caused a huge international uproar because the German authorities blocked it via electronic warfare methods, even though it was located in California. The Germans just blocked access to the server and all its thousands of customers on it, like Deutsche Bank, the Australian Tourist Board, and thousands of others. You talk about controversy! The struggle raged, unequal as it was, for weeks. Students in America, Australia, Germany and some other places, without ever consulting Ingrid, mirrored the Zundelsite on their websites, to give it "electronic refuge" or a "safe harbour" - which sent the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's rabbis into overdrive, because suddenly revisionist websites appeared on 18 university internet websites in the US and elsewhere! You can imagine that this put the zundelsite.org on the map worldwide and was worth millions of dollars in advertising dollars Ingrid did not have to pay for - not one cent! The problem for the Germans was exacerbated and became really embarrassing for them when the owners, one of them the son of German-Jewish Holocaust survivors, protested the Germans "jackboot censorship methods"! That was the final straw for them. The Germans called off the Dogs of War for a while, and the Zundelsite survived. Then the Canadian government charged me in Canada with inciting hatred against the Jews there because of material which was on the Internet. I fought that with two lawyers and hundreds of thousands of dollars for five years. When the Tribunal ruled that "Truth is not a defence" and the Federal Appeal Court upheld that ruling, I realized that, regardless of what experts I brought or how much money I spent, I was going to lose. [End] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 7 21:16:54 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 7 22:17:08 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/6/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 48 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031207211654.01250eb8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 6, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Ernst continues with the theme of a policy shift by the Jewish Lobby - away from the Holocaust, toward finding a new way of control: [START] It is more than odd that no one in an official capacity or document ever uttered my high Holocaust Denial profile. The method and brutal swiftness of my arrest, removal not by customary bus but by jet plane, my 20-year-ban all point to a hidden, guiding mind and hand. No incompetent, vast bureaucracy ever acted in such a well-coordinated, focused fashion as in my case. Let that sink in! The motions and the FOIA applications will produce very little in value, mark my word. Those forces who were behind my arrest and deportation have covered their tracks expertly. We are dealing with professionals here. The treatment we received in [the American] jail with the Dobermans and German Shepherds, the starvation rations, the lack of courtesy and civility and our lawless treatment by anonymous INS bureaucrats, withholding and (as your attorney has proven) conspiring to lay a false evidentiary trail by making documents simply disappear, by accusing us of deliberately ignoring US laws, [accusing us of] not taking steps we did not know were needed then and NOW, that allegedly "missed hearing" are all too classical in cases of organized mind and effort to thwart my being able to stay in America with you to start a new life in relative freedom. Remember, Ingrid, this is the same INS bureaucracy that issued and sent extended student visas to four already publicly identified 9/11 terrorist pilots to their flight school in Florida - a year after they were on the front pages of most American newspapers. That was the action of the standard INS bureaucracy. My treatment was the cold, efficiently planned "Sonderbehandlung" by people hiding behind the state, reserved for people they perceive to be inimical to their plans. They have my 45-year record of spirited words about an idea they hate like the devil hates the holy water. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Dec 8 10:37:01 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Dec 8 10:41:34 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/8/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 50 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031208103701.00dce7a8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 8, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is an edited excerpt from a letter written to Willis and Elizabeth Carto of the American Free Press. I understand that part of this letter was already published - however, I assume, unedited. Here I am doing what I do best and what an editor is allowed to do - "? cut and re-arrange" where there are stylistic frazzles. If I substitute words for clarity, they will be in square brackets. The letter is dated October 24, 2003: [START] Dear Willis and Elizabeth - Report from Cell #5 in the new Gulag Archipelago of the Neighbor to the North, also known as Absurdistan. I have always been enthralled by the story of early America, even when I was a school kid and teenager in Germany so many years ago. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, the Minutemen were more familiar to me than were the exploits of Prince Eugen, the defeater of the Turkish troops at the gates of Vienna. These early Americans were better known to me than Bismarck! That's why I lit out of Germany, heading towards distant America as a mere boy, propelled by the stories of the revolutionary war of Georgen Washington's amazing generalship. One of my first visits, as soon as I had established an economic foothold in the New World, was a visit to Valley Forge, where I stayed in an old town called King of Prussia. I was young then, very young. It was summer, early in the morning. I walked barefoot over the meadows of that hallowed place like the peasants did in my Black Forest home for eons of time, to soak up the vibes as if I was going to absorb American history through the soles of my bare feet. Valley Forge is a well-maintained American National Heritage site, and the grass had been mowed the day before. It lay there, smelling sweet and fragrantly, in the morning air. I closed my eyes, threw back my head and sucked in this heavenly aroma, feeling at that moment connected across space and time to the revolutionary soldiers who had trodden that land two hundred years before me. The sun rose. The mystic ground fog lifted, melted away by the warm summer sun. Slowly and reverently, I approached the tiny wooden block houses with their small doors and even smaller windows, no bigger in size than most tool sheds are these days. It was here, in these crudely built huts, in these fields, where I had come like on a religious pilgrimage, to pay my respects to the memory of George Washington, Baron von Steuben, sent by Prussia's King Fredrick the Great to help the struggling colonists gain their freedom, and the staff officers who planned America's successful War of Liberation in these small, wooden, dank earth-floor structures. I knew from my study of history the dire straits the Revolutionary Army was in, and I made the mental comparison to German forces at Staligrad in 1943 - where they, like Washington's men, were cold and hungry, where many no longer had shoes or boots, and where there were not enough houses, barns or even little sheds. The soldiers had to camp out in the drafty tents in the deep of winter, chopping down the trees around them to keep warm. For me, the story had a familiar ring, for the German forces at Stalingrad had within living memory undergone the same deprivation and similar lack of comprehension by their bureaucracy. Many were frostbitten, and seemingly forgotten or abandoned by their governments. George Washington in Valley Forge was wrestling with the same uncomprehending government and Congress, begging for new uniforms, more socks, more boots, warm coats, more guns, ammunition and food. He warned, cajoled and beseeched those who controlled the purse strings that the war might well be lost if help was not soon forthcoming. I stood there, all alone, trying to picture George Washington on his knees, praying for relief for his soldiers, on the very spot where he supposedly had [a] clairvoyant vision of the travails and problems which were to befall America in the future - and a slight shiver crept over me, eerie and unnerving. There was not yet a tourist in sight. The story of Valley Forge, known to very few modern day Americans, kept flooding into my memory, washing over me like the incoming tide. In my mind's eye, I saw a resplendant, bewigged rider on a magnificent white stallion, escorted by a rag-tag group of men in torn uniforms, being led straight to the little cabin where George Washington was studying maps on a crude table. The stranger, red-faced, plump, huffing and puffing, dismounted, giving short orders to his aides in a firm, clear German, when the door opened and the famous American met the equally famous Prussian - none other than Fredrick the Great's gift to the American Revolution, his own Quarter Master General, Baron von Steuben. The future President of the United States, and unchallenged Father of the new country-to-be, greeteed his guest in fluent German, a language he had learned from his body guards drawn from the New York/New Amsterdam and Pennsylvania Deutsch (not Dutch) soldiers of his revolutionary Army, [for] Washington felt not too sure of the loyalty of some of the English-speaking colonists. There were many still secretly loyal to the old order of things - that's why his body guards, even after he entered the White House, were largely drawn from this loyal-to-the-Revolution German immigrant, pioneer element. Soon, the presence of the Prussian German General was known everywhere, and when he saw the poor clothing, lack of shoes and even less food of his charges, the word went out to the German settlers from the Palatinate, Swabia, Baden etc. who had become farmers in this new land and prospered, to bring food, shoes and blankets, and for the women, to darn and mend the torn uniforms of Washington's hard-pressed soldiers. It should not be forgotten that these American settlers faced the greatest military establishment known since Roman times, the mighty Imperial Army of the British Empire. Led by an inspired man of vision, George Washington's army, whipped into shape by the stern but caring Prussian Baron von Steuben, did what King Fredrick the Great had done before him. He employed the same magic, common sense formula: Wars are won by inspired, courageous leaders who are backed up by well-trained, well-organized, well-provisioned troops - because, as Napoleon would later make famous a Prussian saying, "A good army marches on its stomach." In no time at all, the [revolutionary camp] was transformed into a beehive of activities, of farmers and their wives and families, lending a hand, pitching in. Pigs were butchered, sausages made. Steaming cauldrons over open fires saw shirts, socks, underwear boiled. In [no time at all], a bunch of mountain men, farmers and frontiersmen were turned into a disciplined, highly motivated Prussian-style fighting force - an army which was soon to teach their colonial masters a few lessons about what free men, willingly united in a common goal, were able to achieve. All these stories whirled around in my young mind as I walked and reminisced that day about America's early history and the German people's contribution to it. Remember that it was in those heady years, in the 1960s, when one could see Wernher von Braun and his team of German experts make ready their huge rockets to help America go to the moon and on to explore the distant stars. What a marvellous time to have experienced in person! There was nothing that seemed impossible to achieve, no goal set that could not be realized. And now? A scant 3-40 years later, that heady dream seems but a distant memory as we cower in our double- and triple-locked and bolted apartments and homes, fearful of intruders - masked men in black uniforms and visored helmets, smashing our doors down without warning or warrants, carting the helpless, nameless victims off to heavily fortified barbed wire enclosed facilities, prisons that are surrounded by moats, guarded by vicious dogs, that have the ominous search light guard towers with machine-gun toting guards for patriots who dare to uphold George Washington's vision and who want only to uphold the constitution and to serve and protect the American Dream. I was awkwardly crouched up on my bunk in my cell, reading about Ashcroft's sales promotion tour through the United States to whip up enthusiasm for passing the Constitution-busting Patriot Act II measures. I put down the few sheets of paper my wife had sent to me into prison which had made it past the prison censors and reflected on what these new, draconian and intrusive surveillance and control mechanisms would mean for Americans, especially American patriots. Clearly these unconstitutional, Soviet-style measures are not aimed at a handful of foreigners who are propelled by alien ideologies and an even more alien, medieval religion which came upon the world out of the deserts of Arabia centuries ago like a howling sandstorm. These proposed new measures are obviously preemptive measures, clearly aimed at the still standing American patriotic remnants, struggling against the encroaching forces of tyranny. They are meant to take out the modern-day Paul Reveres, the modern day American sentries who sit in front of their computers, weary and bleary-eyed, until the early hours of the morning, hammering away on their keyboards. They shout in silence, with only the echo of their taps on the keyboard, alerting their friends and neighbors to the new, deadly and dangerous threat to the homeland, the Republic which survived for over two centuries because their forefathers had heard and headed the alarm cry of their ancestor, Paul Revere! Could it be that the nightmarish vision, which appeared so vividly to George Washington as he kneeled in prayer in that little cabin in Valley Forge, has already arrived for his modern-day descendants? [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Dec 8 10:20:34 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 9 14:06:57 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/8/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 50 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031208102034.011181b0@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 8, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is an edited excerpt from a letter written to Willis and Elizabeth Carto of the American Free Press. I understand that part of this letter was already published - however, I assume, unedited. Here I am doing what I do best and what an editor is allowed to do - "? cut and re-arrange" where there are stylistic frazzles. If I substitute words for clarity, they will be in square brackets. The letter is dated October 24, 2003: [START] Dear Willis and Elizabeth - Report from Cell #5 in the new Gulag Archipelago of the Neighbor to the North, also known as Absurdistan. I have always been enthralled by the story of early America, even when I was a school kid and teenager in Germany so many years ago. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, the Minutemen were more familiar to me than were the exploits of Prince Eugen, the defeater of the Turkish troops at the gates of Vienna. These early Americans were better known to me than Bismarck! That's why I lit out of Germany, heading towards distant America as a mere boy, propelled by the stories of the revolutionary war of Georgen Washington's amazing generalship. One of my first visits, as soon as I had established an economic foothold in the New World, was a visit to Valley Forge, where I stayed in an old town called King of Prussia. I was young then, very young. It was summer, early in the morning. I walked barefoot over the meadows of that hallowed place like the peasants did in my Black Forest home for eons of time, to soak up the vibes as if I was going to absorb American history through the soles of my bare feet. Valley Forge is a well-maintained American National Heritage site, and the grass had been mowed the day before. It lay there, smelling sweet and fragrantly, in the morning air. I closed my eyes, threw back my head and sucked in this heavenly aroma, feeling at that moment connected across space and time to the revolutionary soldiers who had trodden that land two hundred years before me. The sun rose. The mystic ground fog lifted, melted away by the warm summer sun. Slowly and reverently, I approached the tiny wooden block houses with their small doors and even smaller windows, no bigger in size than most tool sheds are these days. It was here, in these crudely built huts, in these fields, where I had come like on a religious pilgrimage, to pay my respects to the memory of George Washington, Baron von Steuben, sent by Prussia's King Fredrick the Great to help the struggling colonists gain their freedom, and the staff officers who planned America's successful War of Liberation in these small, wooden, dank earth-floor structures. I knew from my study of history the dire straits the Revolutionary Army was in, and I made the mental comparison to German forces at Staligrad in 1943 - where they, like Washington's men, were cold and hungry, where many no longer had shoes or boots, and where there were not enough houses, barns or even little sheds. The soldiers had to camp out in the drafty tents in the deep of winter, chopping down the trees around them to keep warm. For me, the story had a familiar ring, for the German forces at Stalingrad had within living memory undergone the same deprivation and similar lack of comprehension by their bureaucracy. Many were frostbitten, and seemingly forgotten or abandoned by their governments. George Washington in Valley Forge was wrestling with the same uncomprehending government and Congress, begging for new uniforms, more socks, more boots, warm coats, more guns, ammunition and food. He warned, cajoled and beseeched those who controlled the purse strings that the war might well be lost if help was not soon forthcoming. I stood there, all alone, trying to picture George Washington on his knees, praying for relief for his soldiers, on the very spot where he supposedly had [a] clairvoyant vision of the travails and problems which were to befall America in the future - and a slight shiver crept over me, eerie and unnerving. There was not yet a tourist in sight. The story of Valley Forge, known to very few modern day Americans, kept flooding into my memory, washing over me like the incoming tide. In my mind's eye, I saw a resplendant, bewigged rider on a magnificent white stallion, escorted by a rag-tag group of men in torn uniforms, being led straight to the little cabin where George Washington was studying maps on a crude table. The stranger, red-faced, plump, huffing and puffing, dismounted, giving short orders to his aides in a firm, clear German, when the door opened and the famous American met the equally famous Prussian - none other than Fredrick the Great's gift to the American Revolution, his own Quarter Master General, Baron von Steuben. The future President of the United States, and unchallenged Father of the new country-to-be, greeteed his guest in fluent German, a language he had learned from his body guards drawn from the New York/New Amsterdam and Pennsylvania Deutsch (not Dutch) soldiers of his revolutionary Army, [for] Washington felt not too sure of the loyalty of some of the English-speaking colonists. There were many still secretly loyal to the old order of things - that's why his body guards, even after he entered the White House, were largely drawn from this loyal-to-the-Revolution German immigrant, pioneer element. Soon, the presence of the Prussian German General was known everywhere, and when he saw the poor clothing, lack of shoes and even less food of his charges, the word went out to the German settlers from the Palatinate, Swabia, Baden etc. who had become farmers in this new land and prospered, to bring food, shoes and blankets, and for the women, to darn and mend the torn uniforms of Washington's hard-pressed soldiers. It should not be forgotten that these American settlers faced the greatest military establishment known since Roman times, the mighty Imperial Army of the British Empire. Led by an inspired man of vision, George Washington's army, whipped into shape by the stern but caring Prussian Baron von Steuben, did what King Fredrick the Great had done before him. He employed the same magic, common sense formula: Wars are won by inspired, courageous leaders who are backed up by well-trained, well-organized, well-provisioned troops - because, as Napoleon would later make famous a Prussian saying, "A good army marches on its stomach." In no time at all, the [revolutionary camp] was transformed into a beehive of activities, of farmers and their wives and families, lending a hand, pitching in. Pigs were butchered, sausages made. Steaming cauldrons over open fires saw shirts, socks, underwear boiled. In [no time at all], a bunch of mountain men, farmers and frontiersmen were turned into a disciplined, highly motivated Prussian-style fighting force - an army which was soon to teach their colonial masters a few lessons about what free men, willingly united in a common goal, were able to achieve. All these stories whirled around in my young mind as I walked and reminisced that day about America's early history and the German people's contribution to it. Remember that it was in those heady years, in the 1960s, when one could see Wernher von Braun and his team of German experts make ready their huge rockets to help America go to the moon and on to explore the distant stars. What a marvellous time to have experienced in person! There was nothing that seemed impossible to achieve, no goal set that could not be realized. And now? A scant 3-40 years later, that heady dream seems but a distant memory as we cower in our double- and triple-locked and bolted apartments and homes, fearful of intruders - masked men in black uniforms and visored helmets, smashing our doors down without warning or warrants, carting the helpless, nameless victims off to heavily fortified barbed wire enclosed facilities, prisons that are surrounded by moats, guarded by vicious dogs, that have the ominous search light guard towers with machine-gun toting guards for patriots who dare to uphold George Washington's vision and who want only to uphold the constitution and to serve and protect the American Dream. I was awkwardly crouched up on my bunk in my cell, reading about Ashcroft's sales promotion tour through the United States to whip up enthusiasm for passing the Constitution-busting Patriot Act II measures. I put down the few sheets of paper my wife had sent to me into prison which had made it past the prison censors and reflected on what these new, draconian and intrusive surveillance and control mechanisms would mean for Americans, especially American patriots. Clearly these unconstitutional, Soviet-style measures are not aimed at a handful of foreigners who are propelled by alien ideologies and an even more alien, medieval religion which came upon the world out of the deserts of Arabia centuries ago like a howling sandstorm. These proposed new measures are obviously preemptive measures, clearly aimed at the still standing American patriotic remnants, struggling against the encroaching forces of tyranny. They are meant to take out the modern-day Paul Reveres, the modern day American sentries who sit in front of their computers, weary and bleary-eyed, until the early hours of the morning, hammering away on their keyboards. They shout in silence, with only the echo of their taps on the keyboard, alerting their friends and neighbors to the new, deadly and dangerous threat to the homeland, the Republic which survived for over two centuries because their forefathers had heard and headed the alarm cry of their ancestor, Paul Revere! Could it be that the nightmarish vision, which appeared so vividly to George Washington as he kneeled in prayer in that little cabin in Valley Forge, has already arrived for his modern-day descendants? [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Dec 9 13:56:35 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 9 16:19:53 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/9/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 51 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031209135635.0132cde0@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 9, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This letter was addressed to me, dated November 13, 2003: [START] Time flies. I have been in prison already over 9 months and banned from the U.S. on the 17th of November for 9 months already. So it is only 19 years and 3 months before I can ask to get a visa to visit you in Tennessee! Looked at it from that angle, the situation is really like a page out of one of those nightmare novels of Franz Kafka, the Jewish-Czech weirdo who made a name for himself by parading his mental illness around as if it was a mark of genius - a trick many have used. Yesterday, I met with [one of my attorneys]. It is important that you be sent from them a copy of my affidavit on this chicanery we have discovered. It's even more shocking proof of corruption and wrong-doing at the highest levels than we have discovered in the U.S. via our Freedom of Information Act there. Forty years ago, a Canadian of Norwegian descent, whose father was wealthy and well-connected with the Industrial/Military Complex in Canada in WWI and WWII, told me that the Canadian elite was far more corrupt than the U.S. elite - only they were far more skilled at keeping a lid on their corruption because their control over Canadian society was far more [extensive]. He recounted to me of how his father would frequently travel to Ottawa during WWI by train, carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars in attach? cases in cash to be given to the top ministers in order to obtain war contracts for their firms, such as munitions, uniforms, vehicles etc. I have always kept that in the back of my mind when dealing with Canadian politicians, all their highfalutin' waterfall of words notwithstanding. Many of them became enormously wealthy and influential on what used to be paltry sums of the salaries of an M.P., which in itself should have been a red flag for investigators. But then, as I have since found out with SIRC, the oversight bodies are the first ones to be captured or intimidated. The now percolating-to-the-top corruption from the White House (Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara) on down the chain of command in the USS Liberty attack is proof positive of how the political and military as well as the judicial systems have been captured by outside forces detrimental to the country. George Bush's (the father's) attempt to deal half-way fairly with the Israelis in and after Gulf War I is an illustration, if one more were needed, of the pressures on the top politicians in the White House. Bush the Younger obviously must have thought that by surrounding himself with all these neo-con advisors, he could avoid his father's fate. He miscalculated and finds himself, and America, in a far worse [situation] than his father ever did. When I read how strapped America is for resources, it is reminiscent of Germany's desperate manpower shortage at the end of WWII. Actually, America is in far worse shape because the population is so diverse and not accustomed to making many sacrifices. Also, the people in the reserves are far less fit than our WWII men were. All the [reserves] know is that they were supposed to serve one weekend a month at some local barracks or armory. Suddenly, they end up in a hell-hole like Iraq where the natives don't like them and take pot shots at them! Basically what we see is the Roman Empire's experience repeated, and because American people have really not been taught any meaningful history, they have absolutely no frame of reference. Thus, they are repeating Rome's mistakes. The study of history is helpful. There is the story of an American with a Scottish name in Newsweek who was given 48 hours to get his affairs ready before being shipped off to Iraq. He had a computer company with 55 employees. He lost his business, and 55 people, plus their families, lost their income. Undoubtedly, some will lose their cars, homes, careers. Everybody's lives will be disrupted. For what? I know how tough it is to build up a business. It takes years. And I bet there are hundreds, maybe thousands of similar human tragedies that the eggheads and neo-cons never think about because they could not care less. The people who have to do the fighting, and the dying, in those hell-holes of Iraq, soon Syria and Iran as well as Afghanistan, are to them just "collateral damage", expendable "hardware" like broken down jeeps and trucks. Military planners use them like so many throw-away, short shelf-life gadgets and gizmos. There is one other danger that I foresee for America, especially in this war. Again, anyone studying Roman history will be keenly alert to this. Many of the soldiers are Hispanics from the barrios of Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles etc. One unit is the Puerto Rico National Guard. Others are clearly the young Blacks from the ghettos of Detroit, Harlem, and other cities. These boys think, like many Canadians thought in WWII, that they will join the Armed Forces for an easy life - "three hots and a flop" - and walk away after 20 years with a lifetime pension. Suddenly, they find themselves shipped to the far corners of the world and pressed into service fighting in an urban war, a guerrilla war, where the Rules of Engagement seem to be that, in order to keep casualties down, to shoot at anything suspicious - [civilian] men, women, children, since there is no longer an Iraqi army to fight or soldiers in uniform to shoot at. To these scared-out-of-their-wits young, urban ghetto dwellers, this is like drive-by shootings and gang warfare at home. The rule there is to stay out of the crossfire, shoot first, and ask questions later. The effect on these soldiers will be like the effects the Israeli soldiers are reporting from their occupation duty in Gaza, Jenin, on the West Bank. A whole army, an entire generation is brutalized. Once brutalized, their psyches traumatized, they [will] turn on their wives, children, co-workers. In short, they become a threat to their own societies. Increasingly, brutal crimes of violence will result. That's the stage we are now at in America. Rome learned that lesson too late. The Roman Republic quickly gave way to an empire. The once aristocratic, all-white, chosen from the nobility Roman legions were filled by ever lower IQ elements from the far corners of the empire and the slums of Rome. Soon there were rebellions. Generals became prominent in politics. Their "legions" became private enforcer armies - and Rome changed [irrevocably]. One of the wild cards and imponderables are the effects of drugs and drug money on the developments in America. I see a threat to the integrity, meaning the territorial cohesion and unity of America, arising out of these current overseas military empire adventures, because these hundreds of thousands of often colored troops are going to come home, as their tours of duty are over in those distant theaters of war. They will have gotten used to the idea that they can rape, rob, loot, burn, bust and kill civilians of all ages. That will be the legacy of these ill-advised foreign excursions. History records it for every empire. Always. I predict, to my sorrow, a similar scenario for America. The Senate and Congress are already bought and sold to the richest, most powerful lobbies. As we speak, treason reigns. Senators and Congressmen sign petitions and letters of support to a foreign government by overwhelming majorities, to the detriment of their own country, [thereby] paralyzing the Executive Branch by a threat, ever present since the 1970s, of an implied legislative insurrection. When Bush the Father was unwilling to sign the $10 billion loan guarantee for Israel in 1991-92, Congress was going to override his threatened veto - and he caved in. Now, with the neo-cons everywhere, things are far worse than they were ten years ago in and for America. What are mere street gangs today will very quickly devolve into private armies, armed with the latest weaponry. Drug lords, based along ethnic affiliation [will result]. That is only one small step from the nucleus of an ideology or race-based guerrilla army. That's the danger I foresee for this generation. Since the National Guard, state and city police forces are totally integrated, there will be internal division, paralysis - and disaster on a Roman scale looms ahead in 4-6-10 years, if it is not checked. Now! [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Dec 11 17:47:50 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Dec 11 17:46:57 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/11/2003 - "FEDS GET ANOTHER SECRET HEARING TO DELAY ZUNDEL'S BAIL"- Day 1 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031211174750.01251598@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 11, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Here is the first installment of the three-day bail hearing (December 10-12) to get Ernst released from the clutches of his political enemies. [START] TORONTO. December 10, 2003. FEDS GET ANOTHER SECRET HEARING TO DELAY ZUNDEL'S BAIL Mr. Justice Pierre Blais has granted a request from federal cabinet ministers for yet another secret hearing in the detention or bail hearing of jailed German-born publisher Ernst Zundel. Returning from the afternoon break, Blais announced: "The Registrar informs me that the Ministers have requested a private session for new evidence. Therefore, I will not reserve" judgement this afternoon. The 38 free speech supporters who packed the small seventh floor courtroom in support of Mr. Zundel were stunned. The afternoon session had been taken up with Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh's arguments against granting Mr. Zundel bail after nearly 10 months in solitary confinement. Perhaps, chastened by Doug Christie's strong submissions in the morning session that he recuse himself for an apprehension of bias having been Solicitor-General in charge of CSIS, Blais repeatedly interrupted MacIntosh and challenged and dismissed many of his arguments. It seemed that Mr. Justice Blais was on the verge of releasing the dissident pacifist on bail. Shortly before the mid-afternoon break, several observers saw Lorne Rudner of the Canadian Jewish Congress leave the room, apparently to make a phone call. He returned about 15 minutes later. After the break, the atmosphere had changed and grown distinctly frosty toward the jailed publisher. The earliest Mr. Blais can hold the secret hearings is next week. If he chooses to release any information, he may solicit further submissions from counsel before he decides, thus making Mr. Zundel's release before Christmas all but impossible. If Blais's pre-break questioning had seemed to favour Mr. Zundel, his demeanour after the break again raised the spectre of holding Canada's most famous political prisoner hostage for the shutting down or curtailing of the Zundelsite. Repeating that he was still "exploring options" about granting bail, but "I'm not there yet," Mr. Justice Blais pointed out that people are often restricted from doing things they have a legal right to do -- such as drinking or frequenting certain places -- as conditions of release. He seemed to hint that Mr. Zundel might be restricted from publishing his views on the Internet or somehow have to remove items ordered removed by the January, 2002 order of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Mr. Zundel has repeatedly pointed out that Ingrid Rimland, not he, owns, edits and controls the Zundelsite. "Never before in the history of national security certificates have Internet communications been considered a factor," Douglas H. Christie, Mr. Zundel's lead counsel countered. "The only justification for incarceration is being a threat to national security," Mr. Christie continued. "The Zundelsite is not a threat to national security and should not be held as a bail condition. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has adequate means to enforce its order." "It's very dangerous to hold a man's freedom hostage to a website," Mr. Christie warned. "It's dangerous to detain people on national security grounds for communicating ideas that are legal in other countries. To do so is to put us on the road to national thought control," the Victoria-based civil libertarian insisted. "There must be objective, real suspicion, not paranoid worries or political feelings, of a substantive threat to national security," to keep a man in jail, Mr. Christie argued. "We must give some value to the liberty of the individual, if we are not to become a police state." "The Crown must prove that Mr. Zundel is a real danger to national security, not just a nuisance or political dissident," Mr. Christie insisted. Referring to Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh, Mr. Christie observed: "The greatest vehemence of my colleague is reserved for 'hate'. My colleague throws this term around. However, Mr. Zundel has never been charged or convicted of promoting hate." Earlier Crown Attorney MacIntosh had insisted: "If Mr. Zundel were released, he'd continue to associate with Mr. McAleer and other purveyors of hate. All these associations give us to believe that Mr. Zundel is a threat to national security." Knowledgeable observers of Canada's populist movement report that Mr. McAleer has been politically inactive for about eight years. Mr. MacIntosh repeatedly called Mr. Zundel "untruthful" and accused him of lying. In the morning, Mr. Christie spoke forcefully to his motion that Mr. Justice Blais recuse himself. As Solicitor-General in 1989, Pierre Blais issued a directive that no human source should be used to surveil legitimate political parties. However, apparently disobeying him, the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency (CSIS) had agent Grant Bristow spy on Reform Party leader Preston Manning. "It was your directive not to do something (spy on Preston Manning) that they did. The Solicitor-General-CSIS relationship is one of officially sanctioned secrecy which we cannot penetrate," Mr. Christie said. CSIS agent Grant Bristow's role in the Heritage Front "was not just to spy but to incite," Mr. Christie explained. "Mr. Zundel's contention will be that his [Bristow's] role was to incite violence. CSIS was used for political purposes. A directive was initiated by Your Lordship that such spying not be done, but CSIS did. Now CSIS appears before you and it would be hard not to agree with them." "Our defence comes head to head with the credibility of CSIS," Mr. Christie argued. "We're saying that, as Solicitor-General, you must have known what was going on. CSIS wasn't acting in a rogue capacity and wasn't operating without ministerial consent." "We have reason to believe that a bomb Mr. Zundel was sent [in 1995] was delivered with the foreknowledge of CSIS. When events take place like this, the integrity of the Parliamentary system is involved," Mr. Christie charged. Mr. Justice Blais reserved on his decision, saying that he would try to announce his conclusions next week. In his arguments against granting bail for Mr. Zundel. Donald MacIntosh said: "I rely on a large and liberal interpretation to the term 'a danger to the security of Canada.' Canada's international relations are an important part of Canada's security. Certain activities could give rise to deleterious effects on our international relations. Canada has an international obligation to take steps to see that hate propaganda is not disseminated," he said. Intervening at that point, Mr. Justice Blais said: "Playing devil's advocate, it's no secret that these international conventions are not part of the legal framework of Canada" and are, therefore, not binding. The hearing continues Thursday. Paul Fromm [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Dec 12 05:50:13 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Dec 12 16:35:20 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/11/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 52 Message-ID: Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 11, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The originally scheduled Z?ndel Bail Hearing for December 10-12 was terminated midstream today, and no hearing will take place tomorrow. Apparently, whatever needed to be said regarding bail has been said. Judge Blais reserved judgment but promised he would rule "before January." I read that as meaning that, at the very least, Ernst will be forced to spend Christmas in prison, not knowing what his fate will be. "We'll keep fighting," he told me when I asked what his intuition was telling him regarding a potentially positive outcome, once the Judge makes known his ruling. "Judge Blais is fully alert as to what's playing here?" It sounds to me Ernst does not think that Judge Blais will, or can, marshal the political independence to rule as a sane, fair, and impartial judicial system would compel a judge to rule. I haven't yet received Paul Fromm's official write-up and have seen nothing in the Canadian papers, even though the media were there these first two days. If you have anything, please email it to me for our archives. Given that the judge, out of the blue, seemed extremely favorably inclined toward bail the first day, December 10, I told Ernst jokingly: "Perhaps he was reading my Zgrams??" meaning Ernst's Prisoner of Conscience Letters, which seem to be a big hit with Ernst's friends and supporters. Ernst replied with real glee in his voice: "He certainly is keenly interested in your website." While we are waiting for Paul Fromm's always interesting and lively write-ups, here is another Prisoner of Conscience sample for our Zundel Watchers out there. This one is of a recent date, 11-26-2003, and written for a young man who seems to have become a recent supporter - at least I do not recognize the name: [START] Thank you for your kind words about my work and efforts. You have understood better than most why I am in this predicament. Obviously, I have touched a raw nerve, and an example is being made of me. I know that I offended against no Immigration rules - that's just the official excuse, to make it seem plausible to the shallow thinkers, of which there are many these days in high and low places in every country. By now it is clear to me that I became the victim of a well-thought-out, competently planned and organized kidnapping for reasons of revenge, involving at least three states - America, Canada, and Germany, with the input of a fourth, Israel, represented by Diaspora Fifth Columnists in the Intelligence agencies. I am not the first, and will not be the last, victim of such criminal, extralegal proceedings. I will put up a determined fight, as long as my financial and political support can be marshalled. I always look at things in the historical context, which helps one to carry the burden more easily, I find. Role models have an important part to play in people's lives, even grown-ups'. Erwin Rommel fought astonishingly with relatively little support and constantly threatened supplies. The best he ever got was 15-18% of the supplies promised or shipped. Treason was the reason. Much of my struggle has been Rommel-like. You could say that my court cases were fought straight out of the Erwin Rommel School of Legal Warfare. In [his case, in] the end, quantity overwhelmed quality. Mass overcame individual sacrifice, dedication, even genius. I have been keenly aware that there are in all these equations points of intercept - once these points are crossed, like after Stalingrad, victory becomes ever more questionable. I do not have many options. My enemies have planned this one out very well. No Gentile arranged this scenario - trust me! Friends and contacts in places which know the details have made this clear. Thus I fight. Things are fluid. Our enemies are in a difficult period in their quest for total domination. It will elude them, because they are a hybrid [entity] and, as such, inherently unstable. They spook easily - just like a mule spooks far more easily than a donkey or a horse. History is full of examples. I count on sanity triumphing over insanity. My own fate is, of course, of interest to me and those who have helped me and care for me. To history, I might well end up as so much "collateral damage" in the now unfolding global disaster of World War III. [Our enemies'] system is creaking at the joints. They have lied so cleverly and cunningly, and wormed their way so deeply into our society in America, Canada and Western Europe, that by now they are falling victim to their own excesses, and begin to make decisions [based] on their own propaganda. It's like the proverbial snake devouring its own tail. That's how I see it from total isolation in Solitary on 24-hour lock-up, with 10 minutes of fresh air if I am lucky, and a 10-minute shower a day. I believe in an unobstructed universe - the sky is NOT the limit! Ernst Z?ndel [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 14 02:47:58 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 14 02:51:52 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/12/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 53 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031214024758.01119288@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 12, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This one is a bit of a hodge-podge letter, addressed to me. It's also shorter than most Zundel letters: [START] Enclosed is a picture that tells six million words about what our enemies want for Christmas?errh, I mean Hanukkah. [Picture of chains drawn together to a Star of David] I thought I should send that along to you in case you are short of ideas for a Christmas card or a cartoon, like the taxpayer being shaken [down] upside down over the Holocaust Museum. That cartoonist of yours could do wonders with that idea! I also enclose some small things for special friends as souvenirs, very difficult to do, time consuming with those cheap color pencils and no sharpener. If at least I could sharpen them myself to have a nice point on those color pencils, but this way they are dull within fifteen minutes, and then it takes days before someone willing comes along to sharpen them. I don't even blame the guards, because the [lead] breaks off frequently just when there is a nice sharp point on it. That can happen two to three times - by then the pencil, already cut in half with a saw, is reduced in length by one-half. When I think of all my brushes, colors, pencils, pens, felt markers ? and here I sit, lamenting my Communist Chinese slave labor made pencils! How the mighty have fallen! I re-read this morning in some stuff you sent about the ACLU's submissions of what the deportees considered torture - 24-hour bright lights, leg irons, chains from hand cuffs to big leather belts to chained legs. By that definition of the ACLU, I would have been tortured every time I went to a hearing in Thorold. Amazing! Anyway, one thing is for certain: Anytime anyone from now on opens his mouth to me about how the Germans treated their prisoners, I will be all over them like an octopus! Trust me! I am still uneasy about all that money being spent on this non-productive Talmudic game. Make sure, Ingrid, that we keep good track of all these expenses. Throw out nothing! We will send these people a reparations bill one day that will knock their socks off. I don't care if I have to adopt Project 500! [A private joke between us about what the future will hold] I am writing every day a few nice letters to people with little drawings, responding to their woes. I am more like an imprisoned priest every day! What an amazing turn in my life! You sounded a little down? Don't be disheartened. We will see this through. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 14 02:49:11 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 14 02:52:00 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/13/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 54 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031214024911.01119288@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 13, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Your Sunday Zundel Letter: [START] A friend got me a Tesla book - we have a copy in our library, out there by our sink in the big room. It has a deep blue cover, entitled "Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla" by John I. O'Neall. It's of course very technical. I have started it, picked up some interesting points. Tesla was convinced that he was going to live to be at least 140 years old He died, to his surprise, in 1943 - much earlier than he thought, sixty years too early. He never allowed anyone to get close to him - no woman ever! Tesla had a photographic memory and made very few notes; therefore, the greatest parts of his experiments went with him to his grave, far more than he ever committed to paper. In the one photograph in the book, he looks like a space alien, actually quite eerily so - to me at least. He also spoke a bit like Edgar Cayce when he was channeling, in a weird sentence construction. When he talked about having "built" something, he used that strange word, "builded", exactly like Cayce does in his readings. Is that "builded" proper English? Please check for me! This makes me think that Tesla tapped into what Cayce tapped into - some kind of universal intelligence accessible to people of a certain type. That certainly means there is a very important field of study open that has not been "Leuchter"ized, to my knowledge, certainly not publicly. I would imagine that think tanks and intelligence agencies would have done all these inquiries decades ago. Tesla certainly was able to remote-control ships and planes. He invented these remote controls in 1899-1904. Already in WWI a plane was built - I suppose by the Americans and British - that took off from an airfield by remote control, was steered to a battle field hundreds of kilometers away by radio waves and then was commanded to release its bomb load and return home, more hundreds of kilometers, and land at the designated airport. That plane must have been sent from England because France and Belgium at that time were still under German occupation, and since it took a radio tower of considerable height, it means the Allies had that technology perfected to that degree already in 1917-18. So what's so unusual about 9/11? It's also obvious that Tesla had a revolutionary flying craft designed in his head, but seemingly never built it. At least there is no record of it that I know of. Again, it had no wings, no flaps. It must have been guided from within by thrust or magnetism. He also [discovered] that one can get electricity from the earth, which he found to be electrically charged. Lightning bolts hitting the earth are involved. He proved that the earth can be used as an electricity conductor, making power lines unnecessary. He did transmit electric currents without wires - enough to light 200-500 watt incandescent light bulbs 26 miles away, taking the power out of the ground. No 26-mile cable was needed. Ingrid, that means the world can have an electrical power grid very much like the Internet, accessible to all - as long as they can rediscover the ideas which Tesla took to his grave. It is clear that the bankers, J.P. Morgan and others, pretended to finance his work by underwriting his experiments, but at the critical moment denied him funds to put that power grid into a feasible reality. The reason? Money! With Tesla's invention, every sheepherder in the Chaco, Patagonia or Antarctica could drive a stake into the ground and "milk" it [for power] The power companies would lose control of their money spigots called "meters". Untold billions in profits were going to be lost to the bankers. [Therefore], they did not release the funds for Tesla to carry on, and although he was an inventive genius, in all other ways he was very disdainful of the world and how it functioned. All in all, it seems I will have a few weeks of very interesting bed-time reading. Your one-man think tank is not short of stimulating thoughts. Maybe that's what I am supposed to be doing, re-examining many of the verities and conventional wisdoms and helping the world find a way out of its dead-end street we seem to have blindly driven into collectively! [My friend] also sent me a small pocket book on Wilhelm Reich. I have just ever so briefly leafed through it. It deals with essays he wrote from 1929-1934 and is oozing with pure Communist rhetoric. I am amazed by the blatant Marxism. I always realized Reich must have been a leftist, but never an out-and-out Communist, as is revealed here. All my life I have been wondering if he was a German besotted by Communist ideas, or if he was a German-raised, German-speaking Jewish Communist, like most of the others who, significantly, did not choose to flee from Germany to the Bolshevik Promised Land, the Soviet Union after Hitler took power, but high-tailed it out of Germany to the arch-capitalist bastion, the United States. What does that tell you? Einstein, Oppenheimer, Kempner, and hundreds of thousands of others - which is something very few Americans ever think about these days. That's where they got the disciples of the "Frankfurter Schule" which ruined their educational system - and society by extension. In a perverse way, Hitler lost World War II tactically, momentarily in 1945, but strategically, in the long range effect, his "Let the Jews go to the US" has weakened it and is now killing it with the coup d'etat of the "heirs of Trotsky" - as Raimondo, Loeb, Sobran, Kwiatkowski, Kaminsky and many others are lamenting. German government policy - emigration rather than extermination of these people - has produced a two-headed monster: the neo-cons in the USA and all their disastrous other offshoots since 1933 in America, and Zionism in Israel where the other emigrants went under the Havarra Agreement. I have not seen any intellectuals point that out anywhere. I wonder when people like Kevin Macdonald will draw the proper conclusions and put two and two together. Putin seems to be doing it. He allowed the Americans to do all this expensive, high tech oil exploration for the last ten years - terribly costly, needing equipment [Russia] did not have, and money Russia did not have the capacity to raise or generate. Was it by design that he allowed them to exercise their wishful thinking that they might get away with all that oil/liquid gold loot? And now his $100 a month cops and prosecutors raid the oligarchs' offices, seize their computers, oil field maps, statistical and possible production figures - all for the benefit of Mother Russia. Could chess player Putin and his friends really have outsmarted them? Perverse fate - is it not? All the best, Ernst [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 14 03:04:33 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 14 06:02:45 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/14/2003 - "JEWISH SUPREMACISM A POWERFUL EXPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL ZIONISM" Message-ID: Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 14, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The year "The Thorn Birds" was published, I attended for the first time that publishing extravaganza called The American Bookseller's Convention. I learned a great deal at the event - i.e., how mainstream titles are chosen and controlled. That year, "The Thorn Birds" wiped out any other worthy title - as I recall, it was given a $3-million promo budget! Can you imagine the publicity that one could buy with that kind of promotional muscle? The topic of that book? How a Catholic priest, supposed to be celibate, was overcome by his temptation and broke his churchly vow. I read that book and found it mildly interesting, but certainly not worth the extravagant promotional push. The lesson I remember best from that convention is that prominent book cover colors, for instance, are chosen by controlling industries so that book retailers know in advance for any one year which books to push by having them on special displays, because those books will get the lavish inches in the papers. I also remember that only 14 mainstream book publishers (Random House, Harper Row etc.) were considered to be the first tier controlling more than 90% of the market; below that were some 40,000 little guys struggling for their modest publishing spot in the sun. As a side bar: In those years, I did quite a few book reviews myself for various mainstream papers, including the Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee etc. (I never cornered the New York Times Book Review insert, however...) Once, the book editor of the Fresno Bee sent me a Sidney Sheldon book to review. This must have been in the late 1980s. I thought the Sheldon title was the pits - and said so. I got a distressed call to change my opinion and redo the review. I said Nyet - and that was the last time I got another title to review for that paper. So you see how it goes? Easier does a camel pass through a needle's ear than an unapproved title pass by the censors. I have not yet read David Duke's new title, reviewed below, but in today's book-controlled market, it must be seen as a near-miracle that this new publishing venture has already sold 500,000 copies! I know of no other book that has risen so fast on its own. Enjoy this review. It is powerful testimony for the political hunger out there - for a strong voice that's not afraid to call a spade a spade. [START] JEWISH SUPREMACISM A POWERFUL EXPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL ZIONISM BY: Edgar Johnston, PhD. In 1905, a new book was cataloged in the British Library. Its title was the Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion, and it claimed to be the secret minutes of Jewish elitists who planned to dominate the world. Most authorities now view the Protocols of Zion as an elaborate forgery concocted by agents of the Russian Czar. Over the last century since its release, thousands of books have been written on what is called the Jewish Question. The vast majority ofthem defend the Jewish people from the forces of Anti-Semitism, yet still the best selling book on the Jews since 1905 has been the Protocols which has been published in most of the world's languages. According to prominent Jewish leaders in Russia, the popularity of the Protocols has been eclipsed by a new book entitled Jewish Supremacism. Unlike the Protocols, this book is no forgery, for its author is proud of his work. He is the controversial American politician David Duke, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Jewish leaders are extremely fearful of this book. I can illustrate the cause of their concern by giving an example of David Duke's technique in exposing what he calls Jewish supremacism. If any prominent political person in the W estern World publicly announced that Jews are frequently disloyal to nations where they live and that they view gentiles as racially inferior, he would face excoriation as an anti-Semite. Probably, he would be driven from office. Duke has no need to make such claims, for he simply quotes very prominent and powerful Jews who make his point for him. In the first few pages of Jewish Supremacism, Duke quotes Dr. Richard Steinlight, a former head of National Affairs for the largest Jewish organization in the United States. Here is the quotation taken from a 2001 magazine article written by Dr. Steinlight: "I'll confess it at least, like thousands of other typical kids of my generation I was reared as a Jewish nationalist, even a quasi-separatist. Every summer for two months often formative years... I attended Jewish summer camp. There, each morning I saluted a foreign flag, dressed in a uniform reflecting its colors, sang a foreign national anthem, learned a foreign language... and was taught the superiority of my people to the 'gentiles' who oppressed us. We were taught to view non-Jews as... people less sensitive, intelligent and moral than ourselves." This method of quoting major Jewish figures and sources is used hundreds of times in his book to advance his thesis that there is a powerful Jewish supremacist element in Judaism and Zionism that threatens not only the freedom of the Palestinian people but all nations, including the United States. -He also uses direct quotes from the Talmud and other prominent Jewish sources such as the Jewish Encyclopedia to expose a long-standing cadre of hateful, anti-gentile Jewish supremacists. Shocking quotes are displayed from major Jewish magazines that boast of a Jewish supremacy over the media and politics ofthe United States. He finds disturbing and hateful words from Jewish leaders, such as Arie1 Sharon, that openly support genocide and he reveals quotations from Israeli leaders who equate Zionism and Nazism. Of course, he also cites many prominent gentiles of historical and contemporary times, but the Jewish quotations and sources have the greatest power. Frankly, they are quite convincing, that Jewish leaders have sought to get the book banned in many nations. Interestingly, Jewish Supremacism was published first in Russia, the same nation that gave birth to the Protocols of Zion. In 2000, it quickly became a bestseller throughout the entirety of the former Eastern bloc. It even sells briskly in the corridors of the Russian Duma (Parliament) and has prompted Levinsky, Goldman and other leading Jews to seek its ban under old Soviet laws forbidding anti-Semitism. In the fall of 2000, Levinsky and others filed a formal complaint to the Russian Prosecutor General and asked for the book to be classified as anti-Semitic and thus illegal. After a year of close examination, (they painstakingly verified all 669 of the documentations), the Russian government shocked the Jewish community by officially declaring that the book is not anti-Semitic. Jewish members of the Duma then introduced new legislation aimed at outlawing Jewish Supremacism, but it failed by a few votes. Since then, the book has been sold on thousands of street comers across the breadth of the Russian Federation and has now topped an incredible 500,000 in print. Translated into most of the Eastern European languages, the book has won Duke many academic awards for its scholarship, including an honorary doctorate awarded by Presidents University, the second largest university in the nation of Ukraine. Subsequently, the university itself published a best-selling Ukrainian edition. In May of 2003, Free Speech Press published the English version of Jewish Supremacism, which has generated a storm of interest and controversy. Jewish leaders are horrified that it is well on its way to becoming the best read book in the world on Zionism. Although Zionist organizations have tried to use Duke's media characterization as a 'white supremacist' to discredit his book, so far their exploitation of Duke's early life involvement in a KKK group has only backfired by making the book and its author more newsworthy. Attacks by the ADL and other pro-Zionist groups have led to sensationalistic news coverage, causing even greater interest and confounding those who desperately wanted Duke's book to die a quiet death. David Duke decries the label of white supremacist and says that while he certainly desires the preservation of his own heritage, he seeks no supremacy over others. He maintains that those who scream most hatefully against him are themselves guilty of the most extreme and powerful supremacism on earth: Jewish supremacism. When Duke lectured in some Persian Gulfnations last year, Zionist leaders attempted to undercut his support by allegations of racism. Those organized efforts had little affect on the overflow, mixed-race audiences that cheered almost his every word. As a former university professor and a writer who has lectured occasionally on behalf of the people of Palestine, I approached David Duke's book out of a curiosity elicited by the intense Zionist efforts to suppress it. Actually, I had readily accepted the negative portrayals of him I had read in the Jewish press, but I wanted to see what all the commotion was about. Why were they so anxious to ban this book and slander its author? To my great surprise I discovered a most amazing book! David Duke stated that he had set out with the ambitious goal of writing the most powerful expose of Zionism ever put into print. With extreme skepticism of his ability to accomplish such a lofty goal, I began to read. Three days later, as I turned the last page, I knew that he accomplished more than he had dreamed. Rather than just assembling his facts in a dry textbook fashion, David Duke presents his thesis in the first person. It is the personal narrative of a thoughtful and enlightened young man who is sympathetic to Zionism, but is awakened to its supremacist core that not only threatens the Palestinians but his own beloved European-Americans as well. I could not find even a trace of hatred, intemperance or true anti-Semitism in this book. However, by extensive quoting of important Jewish leaders and Zionist source materials, Duke exposes a deep well of Jewish supremacist hatred against gentiles. He points out that one is unfairly labeled an anti-Semite simply for exposing the hateful pronouncements of Jewish supremacists. The book is clearly not anti-Semitic. Duke goes at length to point out that not all Jews are supremacists, and that the supremacists not only endanger the gentile world but threaten innocent Jews by exposing them to an inevitably hostile gentile reaction. The book is in fact dedicated to the late Dr. Israel Shahak, a Holocaust survivor and Israeli peace activist whose life was dedicated to saving both Jews and gentiles from the dangers of Jewish supremacism. David Duke cleverly turns the term 'anti-Semitic' on its head by quoting columnist Joseph Sobran's remark that the anti-Semite is no longer someone who dislikes Jews, he is now simply a person that the Jews don't like. Jewish Supremacism begins with David Duke's first great epiphany on the Jewish question, his learning that the Russian Revolution wasn't Russian but overwhelmingly Jewish. Using powerful documentary evidence, he shows that the Bolshevik Revolution was actually financed and led by Jews who had their own agenda against the Czar. He quotes from familiar and impeccable sources such as Winston Churchill, the dispatches of the American ambassador to Russia, the chief of British intelligence and from copious Jewish sources. For instance, he quoted a report from the National Archives ofthe United States showing that ofthe 384 members ofthe first Bolshevik government, there were more than 300 Jews and only 13 ethnic Russians. "How could such an enormous fact of history be hidden", Duke asks? His rhetorical question is answered throughout the rest of this book by giving the clear evidence of the tremendous power exercised by Jewish supremacists in government, media and the academic establishment. Not only has the pre-eminent Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution and its Gulags been quietly suppressed, but also even the very existence of Jewish supremacism has been kept from public awareness. One can freely discuss the evils of white supremacism, but if one dares to expose Jewish supremacism, one will assuredly be labeled an anti-Semite, the ultimate term of approbation in modem society. In very effective arguments, Duke points out that one is not called anti-Christian for exposing the excesses ofthe Inquisition or anti-Muslim for opposing the intolerance of some extremist Moslem sects. But dare to simply quote the hateful statements of ..-.. important leaders of Judaism and Zionism, and in many countries one could well wind up in prison for "hate speech". One ofthe fascinating themes David Duke repeatedly turns to is the easily documented Jewish supremacist strategy of fostering extreme chauvinism among their own people while at the same time working to break down the group loyalty of the gentiles they live among. Jewish leaders have long made clear that Jewish communities often have agendas that conflict with their gentile hosts. Duke describes the struggle over those agendas as similar to the contest of two football teams. One team cultivates an extreme group loyalty through a chronic recital of gentile persecution and an accompanying "chosen people" supremacist vision. The other is instilled with guilt and is told that teamwork is immoral. The main Jewish holidays are dominated by recounting of gentile persecutions and the Holocaust has now achieved almost a religious significance in Jewish life. Duke quotes many Jewish leaders proclaiming Jewish superiority and the need for them to preserve their racial genotype. Even today, Israel will grant instant citizenship to an atheist Jew from New York, but forbids Palestinians who were born in Israel to return. Israel also forbids marriages between Jews and gentiles. While Jewish supremacists have these supremacist policies for their own people, they relentlessly work to break down the immigration laws of other nations. While they preach multiculturalism and diversity for almost every other country in which they dwell, they themselves support and expect Americans to support a Zionist state, dedicated exclusively to the Jewish people, religion and culture. In chapters on Jewish influence over the American mass media and government, Duke offers extensive documentation that exceeds almost anyone's suspicions. Major Jewish sources are quoted that boast of their takeover and control of Hollywood, the news media and sensitive parts of the government of the United States. For instance, Duke quotes amajor Israeli newspaper bragging about the fact that Jews loyal to Israel make up seven out ofthe eleven members of the secretive and sensitive National Security Council (NSC). The article goes on to assert that "America no longer has a government of goyim." (gentiles). Duke also quotes many U.S. Presidents and high government officials who have dared to speak out about the Jewish supremacy over the establishment. After thoroughly documenting Jewish supremacy in government and media, he shows how their media power is used to stifle public knowledge and understanding of this critical issue. Any legitimate criticism of Jewish Supremacism is labeled as anti-Semitism and the Jewish supremacists are themselves the ones who define that term. In particularly interesting passages, Duke recounts how that when he looked up the term anti-Semitism in some popular encyclopedias, he found that the articles and the recommended reading lists were authored entirely by Jewish zealots! In every conflict with gentiles, Jews are always portrayed as completely innocent while gentiles are portrayed as totally evil. Duke suggests that the chronic portrayal of gentiles as inherently evil toward Jews is for gentiles the equivalent of 'blood libel' for Jews. David Duke makes a compelling case that the nation oflsrael is the doctrine of Jewish supremacism put into action. In startling documentary evidence from Israel, he shows that some of the early Zionist founders of Israel readily cooperated with the German NS state, praised Nazi policies and boasted that their own ideology was similar. He also 4 quotes major Jewish figures in Israel who have had the courage to condemn Israel's Nuremberg-sty1e racia11aws, such as former Israeli Supreme Court member Haim Cohen. "The bitter irony of fate, which has led the same biological and racist laws propagated by the Nazis and which inspired the infamous Nuremberg laws to serve as a basis of Judaism within the state of Israel". With these kinds of powerful quotes, it is no wonder that Zionists around the world are extremely fearful of this book Americans will find the last chapter on Israel of particular interest. Duke unveils the long Israeli record of terrorism. He documents the horrendous terror waged against the Palestinians; he also exposes Israel's long record of terrorism and treachery against its greatest benefactor: The United States! From major Jewish sources, he recounts the Israeli terrorist attacks against America in the Lavon Affair in which Israeli agents set off bombs in American installations in Egypt in a treacherous attempt to provoke America (unjustly) into war against that nation. Duke presents copious evidence exposing the deliberate, murderous Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in which 34 Americans were killed and 172 were grievously wounded. The terrible damage inflicted on the United States by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard is also recounted. Jewish supremacy in the American media and government has suppressed any outcry against Israel's treachery. The Jewish supremacists have even been able to prevent a formal Congressional investigation into the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. Duke makes the powerful point that millions of dollars of American aid continues to flow to Israel even after its treacherous attacks. He writes that doing so is the moral equivalent of sending military aid to Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Duke also shows how the Zionist domination of American foreign policy led directly to America's 911 catastrophe and a whole new series of foreign policy moves that are leading America to disaster. This timely book shows the Jewish supremacist power behind the Iraq War, the manipulation of the President and the American people with false information, and the horrendous damage the war has done to our economy and even our security. Duke shows how the war is costing us hundreds of billions of dollars, continues to spill the blood of our military men and certainly increases world hatred and terrorism against America. In one of the most shocking chapters of his work, Duke reveals the damning evidence of Israeli treachery in the 911 attacks. He shows that a massive Israeli spy ring was uncovered and apprehended in the months before and after the attacks and that some of the Mossad agents had actually monitored the hijackers, including the leader Mohammed Atta (five Israeli agents lived on his same street). Warning messages of the impending attacks were sent to Israeli firms with offices both in Israel and the World Trade Center. A group of Mossad agents was arrested on 9-11 after they were found to have been filming and cheering the attacks while they occurred. After being held for a few months, the Zionist Michael Chertoff of the U.S. Department of Justice released all the members of the Israeli spy ring and allowed them to return to Israel, out of the reach of Congressional 911 investigators. It is impossible to give the reader more than a glance into the depth and power ofthis incredible book. Practically every paragraph is a revelation. There is so much more that I could write about; detailing how the Holocaust has cynically been used as a Zionist tool in heightening Jewish solidarity and deflating criticism of Zionism and Israel, how Jewish supremacists have used immigration as a weapon of conquest, not only in Palestine but in the Western World as well. I was fascinated by Duke's expose of Sigmund Freud as a secret Jewish supremacist who thought of himself as a Hannibal destroying the foundations of the Christian church and the European family as Hannibal had sacked Rome. I could go on and on, but I will leave these discoveries to you when you read this amazing book. After I completed the book, I wanted to find out if it had the same affect on others as it had on me. I gave it to two long-time friends at the university where I taught for 11 years. One has conservative leanings; the other decidedly liberal, and I would describe both of them as sympathetic to Israel. Both were so fascinated that they could hardy put it down and one became so engrossed that he missed his regular two 0' clock class. They both agreed that Duke's book is one of the best argued that they have ever read and used the identical term of "amazing" to describe it. My conservative friend commented that many quotations were so shocking that he began to check out the references and found them all to be accurate. "Hell!" he said, "If only half the documents Duke cites are authentic, there is enough evidence here to start a revolution." Throughout history, books that have challenged the power structure or the prevailing world-view have frequently led to the persecution of their authors. That is true of Duke as well. In the past two years since the Russian release of his book, he has been the target of intense government investigation and scrutiny. As he was finishing his English edition, he toured the Mideast and appeared on the AI-J azeera satellite network. Newsweek magazine in November of 2002 revealed that the U.S. State Department tried to prevent his appearance. Within 30 days of the government's illegal attempt to violate this U.S. citizen's free speech rights, the U.S. Department of Justice decided to prosecute Duke on tax and financial matters. The official who authorized the prosecution was none other than Michael Chertoff, the same ardent Zionist who had earlier set free the Israeli spy ring that cheered the 911 attacks. These Mossad agents were allowed to return to Israel, outside the reach of congressional 911 investigators. After reading his book, you will certainly understand why Duke has been persecuted by the Zionists in the U.S. government and why they seek to ban this book. His imprisonment is testimony to the power of his book! Perhaps the best way I can describe the reaction to David Duke's book is to use George Bush's infamous Iraq War terminology "shock and awe". No reader of Jewish Supremacism can digest this book without being shocked by the powerful and convincing quotations and documents he assembles, and awed by his masterful writing skills in putting it all together in a fascinating, logical and well-organized literary masterpiece that will forever change your view of the world. David Duke achieved his goal of writing the most powerful expose of Zionism ever written. But, I think he has done far more than that; I think he has created the very instrument that will topple Jewish supremacism. This is more than a book; it is a path to liberation! The more rapidly this book is spread around the world, the faster that the Palestinians, and all the rest of us, will be set free! Jewish Supremacism is on its way to becoming the most important book of the 21st Century. When you read it you will know why. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Dec 16 03:23:45 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 16 08:02:19 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/16/2003 - "DECISIONS DELAYED IN ZUNDEL CASE" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 16, 2004 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: After a brief delay, here is the write-up of the last day of the Zundel Bail Hearing, December 11, 2003. I know you waited for this one. I learned a few additional facts myself I did not know before. I would say that the outcome of whether or not Ernst gets bail hinges on the degree of political independence of Judge Blais. Can he afford to let Ernst out on bail - possibly at the expense of his own career? He must be under immense pressure from Ernst's political enemies. I anticipate a wrenching Christmas for Ernst, myself, our family, and Ernst's world-wide friends and supporters. We are all staring at Talmudic vengeance and learning a few lessons that may have been long overdue. Here is Paul Fromm's write-up: [START] DECISIONS DELAYED IN ZUNDEL CASE TORONTO, December 11, 2003. Ernst Zundel headed back to prison after these two days in Federal Court, with Mr. Justice Pierre Blais having reserved on motions that he be recused for bias and compel the Solicitor-General to provide a list of agents who interviewed Ernst Zundel or others in the Zundel case. Judge Blais also delayed ruling on arguments that the German-born publisher be freed on bail. Final decision on this matter that has already consumed a staggering 12 days in Federal court and two before the Superior Court of Ontario on a habeas corpus motion must await yet another in camera secret hearing requested by the Minister of Immigration and the Solicitor-General. This meeting will be held later this week. The Crown remains violently opposed to any release under any conditions for Mr. Zundel. Mr. Douglas H. Christie opened the day with an eloquent rebuttal of Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh's arguments against granting Mr. Zundel bail. "Now breaches of Canadian human rights law are seen to be the equivalent of terrorism," he said of Crown complaints that the Zundelsite continues to feature articles impugned in a January, 2002 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision. "Now they are using Section 13.1 [of the Canadian Human Rights Act], a law not meant to be punitive, to incarcerate a person." The Crown's argument is that Ernst Zundel is "an embarassment to Canada and, therefore, is a threat to national security. Mr. Zundel is an embarassment to whom?" Mr. Christie demanded. "To German diplomats?" "If embarassment to foreign diplomats is a problem, why not apply it to Chinese dissidents in Canada," he asked. "The name for this is a police state when you determine what political opinions will be allowed. Dissent is the essence of a free and democratic society," the Battling Barrister reminded the court. "The Minister says that the integrity of Canada's external relations is harmed by Ernst Zundel's distribution of 'hate literature' to Germany and Austria. Yet, there's no proof that he's ever done this. Before you use the that definition -- 'hate' -- apply the law," Mr. Christie admonished , noting that Mr. Zundel has never been prosecuted, much less convicted, under Sec. 319.2 -- Canada's "hate law." "The export of Mr. Zundel's material is not drugs or guns, it's ideas. This entire trial is a war on ideas," Christie charged. "If the Zundelsite distributed hate literature, it would be easy for the Government to lay charges. However, then, they'd have to prove them." Referring to Mr. MacIntosh's arguments, Mr. Christie said: "My friend seems to say, if Canada sees it's in its national interest to incarcerate people, it's okay. What do we do with other 'embarassments' -- anti-free trade protesters, environmentalists? They don't go to jail for six to eight months," Mr. Christie emphasized. "The courts have upheld the right of those people to demonstrate." "There's no threat to the security of Canada in anything Ernst Zundel has published," Mr. Christie continued. Addressing both the judge's and Mr. MacIntosh's unhappiness with the continued operation of the Zundelsite, Mr. Christie charged: "If he can't communicate, he can't raise money. How can a 64-year-old unemployed artist raise money? One of the concerns anyone in his position would have is how he is to fund a battle that may last over a year." "My friend asked for a 'fair, large and liberal interpretation of a threat to the national security of Canada.' If it's too large," the defence lawyer argued, "we have a police state!" "My friend's submission said Ernst Zundel has no intention to comply with any order of this Court. If a Federal Court could establish a breach of the Human Rights Tribinal order, then it would estblish that he'd committed an act. Yet, we're to detain him in custody because of an apprehended breach," Mr. Christie challenged. "They jump on that possibility. It's paranoid and politically motivated. It has nothing to do with national security. It's to silence a nuisance," Mr. Christie charged. "This whole thing is about guilt by association." Mr. Christie referred to the Crown contention that, if released, Canada's most famous political prisoner would put a message on Mr. McAleer's long defunct website. "Mr. McAleer is not a criminal," Mr. Christie pointed out. "The Crown says Ernst Zundel is a fascist and a neo-Nazi. Yet, he's not a threat to national security. We allow communists in Canada. Let's look at his needs, not his beliefs. He's not violent." "Ernst Zundel has the right to use legal means to advance what some may see as his reprehensible views," Mr. Christie reminded the Court. Referring to one of the founders of the Heritage Front, the Victoria civil rights lawyer explained: "Wolfgang Droege didn't get any advice on terrorism from Ernst Zundel. He got advice on pacifism. Does that make him associated with terrorism? If an older man seeks to advise a younger man to obey the law, can that be a threat to national security? To anyone who sought his advice, he advised non-violence." Quoting Mr. Justice Thomas who presided over one of Mr. Zundel's "false news" trials, Mr. Christie reminded the Court: "'Mr. Zundel always showed respect to the Court' Mr. Zundel believes his one chance to advance his views is the protection of the Canadian and U.S. courts." In a dramatic move, Mr. Christie presented to the Court a statement issued by Mr. Zundel that morning in response to a request from the judge the previous day for dialogue on possible bail conditions. An angry Donald MacIntosh interrupted, accusing Doug Christie of "trying to improve Mr. Zundel's evidence." He was cut short by a furious Mr. Justice Blais. "Are you saying I cannot inquire into possible conditions?" He then ordered Ernst Zundel to retake the witness stand. Continuing his dressing down of Mr. MacIntosh, the judge said: "You benefit from legislation to put double and triple hearsay into evidence. I opened the door. I know of no other legislation where you can detain someone on such evidence. It's all extraordinary." On the stand Mr. Zundel indicated that, in addition to the posting of a surety, he would agree to surrender his expired German passport, and report to the police. As for the Zundelsite, he would seek to post a document explicitly renouncing violence aa well as including links to Jewish sites with different views on World War II than those expressed on the Zundelsite. Mr. Zundel was cross-examined by CSIS lawyer Rodych, who suggested that he might use a driver's licence to sneak into the U.S. "But landed immigrants now need a visa," Mr. Zundel shot back. "I'd face 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if I did," he added. Besides, he explained, he no longer has a valid Canadian driver's licence. Then, in a harsh statement that typified the belligerence of the Crown throughout this case, Mr. Rodych said: "I will plainly state the the Minister will not entertain any conditions. He is a terrorist and has engaged in acts of violence." Continuing to tease the audience with hints about bail, Mr. Justice Blais said: "We're not there yet, but we should examine these conditions Mr. Zundel has presented. All options remain open. After a short break, Peter Lindsay who has now taken over charge of Mr. Zundel's defence, spoke to his motion requiring the Minister of Immigration and the Solicitor-General to provide the names of Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) officers knowledgeable of this case, "those who've interviewed Mr. Zundel or others about him." Mr. Lindsay's strategy is to subpoena one or more of these officers. Mr. Lindsay explained that the CSIS certificate "sets out the 'belief' of CSIS that Mr. Zundel is a threat to the security of Canada. We cannot see the mindset of CSIS in considering evidence and forming its beliefs. The unfairness of CSIS to Mr. Zundel will be an issue at the hearing on the certificate,' he said. Live testimony is needed to probe CSIS's biases and methodology, Mr. Lindsay argued. "In my submissions CSIS based its beliefs on pathetic evidence. Let's get someone in the box whom I can examine." "For instance," he explained, "CSIS says it believes Mr. Zundel contributes to the growth of racism and, therefore, should remain inadmissible. Does the service really believe that racism is a threat to national security?" The tall bearded attorney challenged the Court: "Let me hear from one witness who can be cross-examined. Or, is a determination to be made on a bunch of papers. We need a witness to give real evidence. This should be helpful to Your Lordship. This is not a request without precedent. In the Jaballah case a similar order was made." Jaballah is an Arab being held as a threat to national security, Court adjourned until January 22, 2004. -- Paul Fromm From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 17 01:46:19 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 17 01:56:28 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/15/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 55 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031217014619.01350ba0@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 15, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Today you get a shortie. This one came in snippets to me, as a series of afterthoughts on conversations Ernst and I have had on the strange lack of cohesion among most comrades in our struggle. If there is one read thread that runs through far too many minds, it goes like this: "It is too late. America has had it. The enemy is everywhere. It's Doomsday City now - what is the point of even trying? Why don't I retreat into my corner and simply just strum my guitar?" Here Ernst comments on someone of whom he is quite fond but who can't seem to pull himself out of his deep depression. Let's call the fellow "John" - gifted linguistically, exceedingly well-read, with a large circle of intellectual friends etc. - but in the throes of a despair where no light ray seems to bring him relief: [START] As I said, I think John is a work in progress. He has all kinds of brilliant contacts and connections. What he seems to lack is "love of our own kind" once more, because libertarianism prevents [such gifted people] from experiencing "Volksgemeinschaft." [The term means the community of one's own kind that radiates a feeling of belonging.] That seems to cripple most of these worthwhile people because it's a "soul- and feeling-concept" that's hard to describe unless you have once felt it. It's like describing to an American the taste of German coffee without the experience of actually having tasted it. [What is] a cup of Folgers next to those beautiful, delicate German flavors? So with this feeling - "Volksgemeinschaft". It's something they would have to accept as an article of faith. I know how he feels. I have stood at those same crossroads many a time in my long career and struggle. I want to impress upon John to overcome his despair and to not "throw in the towel" because of lack of response [from his friends]. What people expect in a time of crisis and realignment of intellectual forces and events is signs of stability and continuity. That's why I have always considered myself an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary. Most revolutions, real ones - rather than those anarchistic types created by a handful of psychopaths - are conservative in nature and usually look backward, wanting to restore some condition or state which once enjoyed - before war, catastrophe, invasion, installation of tyranny etc. History is absolutely full of them. The American Revolution, Adolf Hitler's Revolution, the collapsing of the Wall in 1989 - all [were meant to restore] things once enjoyed and then lost or denied. In America the colonists wanted no British interference in their affairs, no British taxes on their tea, no British soldiers billeted in their homes etc. In Hitler's [time], people wanted a Germany without the drastic, humiliating changes of Versailles; they wanted their territories back, their honor and pride as well as the peace, order and prosperity they had once enjoyed. In America and Canada, we now long for the olden days of no smut, no multi-cult, no crime, no inflation, no drugs. That is our constituency. We can offend them, drive them into more despair - or we can lead them out of the doldrums by accentuating the positive. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 17 07:31:52 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 17 10:34:57 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/17/2003 - "Why was Ernst Zundel kidnapped?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 17, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: So many people ask, often in utter disbelief: Why on earth would Ernst's enemies make such a monumental error, kidnapping him on the flimsiest pretext and locking him up as though he were the worst of criminals, when they KNOW they have no evidence against him whatsoever? Indeed. There are many answers to that question, at this point all of them just theory, but bit by bit becoming solid evidence. I have my own theory, not shared by everyone. I think it was part chutzpah, part stupidity, part bluff. Haven't our enemies "boomeranged" themselves before because they acted hastily and on mere impulse? My theory is that they thought that they could get away with it. For one, the INS was merging into a huge bureaucracy, Homeland Security, and there was a lot of confusion. Furthermore, whoever had his dirty fingers in this pie counted on a speedy deportation - and not to Canada; to Germany! Thirdly, these people acted on false data. They thought that Ernst had left Canada for the US in March 2000 for the last time - not so! And, finally, they left some nifty traces they didn't think we would find out. We are still connecting the dots. Here is a brief but poignant reader summary of just how stupidly, with utter disregard for law or even common sense, this kidnapping was carried out - and now our enemies are stuck with it because what they did, and how it was done, makes ever more people perk up about what's really going on. This summary is very useful for our files: [START] This is so hard to accept as reality! How can a national government be so insecure as to indulge itself in the actual persecution of a pacifist for the crime of - what? What is the crime? Racism? I thought the Jews weren't a race. Who will benefit if Ernst Zundel is deported to Germany? That is, is this really a German operation, or a Canadian operation, or an American operation? Which country is making this persecution happen? Does Germany really want Ernst Zundel showing up there at this fragile time of explosive Holocaust awareness? Or is the alleged crime the blowing of an immigration meeting in a foreign country? Because a non-Canadian allegedly misses a meeting regarding his attempt at citizenship in America he is jerked back to Canada so that he can be deported to Germany, where he can be punished for defaming the dead? In America, of course, "defamation of the dead" carries no civil or criminal penalty. There is no such crime or charge here. Perhaps Canada is different. But now the charge by the Crown is "terrorism." Since there is no evidence that he has actually terrorized anyone, the question must be asked, "Who is terrified of Ernst Zundel?" Black's Law Dictionary defines "terror" as "Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appearance of danger." Black's says that "A person is guilty of a felony if he threatens to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another... or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience." How does this apply to Ernst Zundel? It applies because the use of terror was not by Zundel but rather against him. The persecution of Zundel is meant to terrorize the general population of Canada into silence and submission to Jewish rule. "This could happen to you." A crime of violence has been committed against Ernst Zundel by the American police. He was falsely and maliciously and violently arrested by the use and/or threatened use of firearms. [Here I want to put in a caveat: At least some of the five government officials who came to arrest/kidnap Ernst were visibly armed. At least one of them was wearing a bullet-proof vest as if he expected a shootout. However, there was no display of arms, or implication that those arms would be used. There was no need for that because Ernst offered no resistance, and I was too stunned to even think of resistance - I only asked to be allowed to call our attorney, a request that was brusquely and, I believe, illegally denied.] Other violent means were used by the American police to kidnap Zundel and take him to multiple places of imprisonment, across state lines, where he was falsely imprisoned. "False imprisonment" is defined by Black's as "The unlawful arrest or detention of a person without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or a warrant illegally executed... consists in the unlawful detention in the person of another, for any length of time, whereby he is deprived of his personal liberty." But here is how Black's Law Dictionary views what happened to Ernst Zundel: "Kidnapping. At common law, the forcible abduction or stealing and carrying away of a person from own country to another. The unlawful seizure and removal of a person from own country or state against his will. In American law, the intent to send the victim out of the country does not constitute a necessary part of the offense; the unlawful taking and carrying away of a human being by force and against his will being the essential elements. At common law kidnapping was a misdemeanor, but under modern statutes such a crime is a felony. "A person is guilty of kidnapping if he unlawfully removes another from his place of residence or business, or a substantial distance from the vicinity where he is found, or if he unlawfully confines another for a substantial period in a place of isolation, with any of the following purposes: (a) to hold for ransom or reward, or as a shield or hostage; or (b) to facilitate commission of any felony or flight thereafter; or (c) to inflict bodily injury on or to terrorize the victim or another; or (d) to interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function." Legal experts and normal people can easily see how Ernst Zundel might proceed against his [?] perpetrators once he is exonerated of any malicious charge in the Canadian system. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Dec 18 22:46:27 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Dec 18 22:46:55 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/18/2003 -"Why was Ernst Zundel kidnapped?" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031218224627.012660d0@getmail.lemire.com> December 18, 2003 Word has just come that Judge Blais, a one-time CSIS boss, refuses to recuse himself, insisting that during his tenure, he had no knowledge of the Zundel Case. Why, then, is Ernst described as so "dangerous" for Canada, meriting the label "terrorist"? So many people ask, often in utter disbelief: Why on earth would Ernst's enemies make such a monumental error, kidnapping him on the flimsiest pretext and locking him up as though he were the worst of criminals, when they KNOW they have no evidence against him whatsoever? Indeed. There are many answers to that question, at this point all of them just theory, but bit by bit becoming solid evidence. I have my own theory, not shared by everyone. I think it was part chutzpah, part stupidity, part bluff. Haven't our enemies "boomeranged" themselves before because they acted hastily and on mere impulse? My theory is that they thought that they could get away with it. For one, the INS was merging into a huge bureaucracy, Homeland Security, and there was a lot of confusion. Furthermore, whoever had his dirty fingers in this pie counted on a speedy deportation - and not to Canada; to Germany! Thirdly, these people acted on false data. They thought that Ernst had left Canada for the US in March 2000 for the last time - not so! And, finally, they left some nifty traces they didn't think we would find out. We are still connecting the dots. Here is a brief but poignant reader summary of just how stupidly, with utter disregard for law or even common sense, this kidnapping was carried out - and now our enemies are stuck with it because what they did, and how it was done, makes ever more people perk up about what's really going on. This summary is very useful for our files: [START] This is so hard to accept as reality! How can a national government be so insecure as to indulge itself in the actual persecution of a pacifist for ! the crime of - what? What is the crime? Racism? I thought the Jews weren't a race. Who will benefit if Ernst Zundel is deported to Germany? That is, is this really a German operation, or a Canadian operation, or an American operation? Which country is making this persecution happen? Does Germany really want Ernst Zundel showing up there at this fragile time of explosive Holocaust awareness? Or is the alleged crime the blowing of an immigration meeting in a foreign country? Because a non-Canadian allegedly misses a meeting regarding his attempt at citizenship in America he is jerked back to Canada so that he can be deported to Germany, where he can be punished for defaming the dead? In America, of course, "defamation of the dead" carries no civil or criminal penalty. There is no such crime or charge here. Perhaps Canada is different. But now the charge by the Crown is "terrorism." Since there is no evidence that he has actually terrorized anyone, the question must be asked, "Who is terrified of Ernst Zundel?" Black's Law Dictionary defines "terror" as "Alarm; fright; dread; the state of mind induced by the apprehension of hurt from some hostile or threatening event or manifestation; fear caused by the appearance of danger." Black's says that "A person is guilty of a felony if he threatens to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another... or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience." How does this apply to Ernst Zundel? It applies because the use of terror was not by Zundel but rather against him. The persecution of Zundel is meant to terrorize the general population of Canada into silence and submission to Jewish rule. "This could happen to you." A crime of violence has been committed against Ernst Zundel by the American police. He was falsely and maliciously and violently arrested by th! e use and/or threatened use of firearms. [Here I want to put in a caveat: At least some of the five government officials who came to arrest/kidnap Ernst were visibly armed. At least one of them was wearing a bullet-proof vest as if he expected a shootout. However, there was no display of arms, or implication that those arms would be used. There was no need for that because Ernst offered no resistance, and I was too stunned to even think of resistance - I only asked to be allowed to call our attorney, a request that was brusquely and, I believe, illegally denied.] Other violent means were used by the American police to kidnap Zundel and take him to multiple places of imprisonment, across state lines, where he was falsely imprisoned. "False imprisonment" is defined by Black's as "The unlawful arrest or detention of a person without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or a warrant illegally executed... consists in the unlawful detentionin the person of another, for any length of time, whereby he is deprived of his personal liberty." But here is how Black's Law Dictionary views what happened to Ernst Zundel: "Kidnapping. At common law, the forcible abduction or stealing and carrying away of a person from own country to another. The unlawful seizure and removal of a person from own country or state against his will. In American law, the intent to send the victim out of the country does not constitute a necessary part of the offense; the unlawful taking and carrying away of a human being by force and against his will being the essential elements. At common law kidnapping was a misdemeanor, but under modern statutes such a crime is a felony. "A person is guilty of kidnapping if he unlawfully removes another from his place of residence or business, or a substantial distance from the vicinity where he is found, or if he unlawfully confines another for a substant! ial period in a place of isolation, with any of the following purposes: (a) to hold for ransom or reward, or as a shield or hostage; or (b) to facilitate commission of any felony or flight thereafter; or (c) to inflict bodily injury on or to terrorize the victim or another; or (d) to interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function." Legal experts and normal people can easily see how Ernst Zundel might proceed against his [...] perpetrators once he is exonerated of any malicious charge in the Canadian system. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Dec 18 16:29:34 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Dec 19 21:52:48 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/18/2003 - "Herr Alfred" Message-ID: Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 18, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is one of Ernst's more recent, pensive little letters, dated December 14, chatting with me. He talks, subdued, about "Herr Alfred" - a fixture at the Toronto Zundel-Haus. Herr Alfred was a Baltic German, a former Wehrmacht soldier. I don't think he was of very high rank. I never heard anyone refer to Herr Alfred by last name - it was as if he had no last name, no personality, no life experiences he really had to share. He was just there, taken for granted, known by all - yet really known by no one. At the Zundel-Haus, all of us were on a first-name basis - he was the only one who was addressed by everybody as "Herr" Alfred. He called Ernst "Ernst" - and never called me anything. I thought he didn't know my name. I always thought that odd. I met Herr Alfred right after the Zundel-Haus arson, sometime in July of 1995. During the next seven or so years, when I visited the Zundel-Haus at intervals, Herr Alfred would either putter about his copy machine where he made voluminous copies, or he would sit, a bit hunched, in the dining room, in front of him a can of sardines and a very dry German piece of bread, and munch away in silence. He would just sit there and say nothing. He must have been already well into his eighties. Sometimes, when I joined him for a coffee break, I felt a silence of such intensity that I felt I had to break it by making small talk. It was always a one-sided effort. Herr Alfred would just look at me mildly with his old, watery eyes and say nothing. I believe the only item out of his long, long life that he ever volunteered to me was maybe a sentence or two. He had been wounded in the head, he told me, sighing. Some kind of splinter. Right up here. With old, gnarled fingers, he pointed to his temple. That World War II splinter still lodged somewhere in his brain, Ernst told me afterwards. Once, while I was still working in San Diego and Ernst up in Toronto, he called me to tell me that something momentous had happened - Herr Alfred had come into the office, hmming and hawwing, clearing his throat several times, practically wringing his hands until finally a compliment of sorts materialized: That monthly Power Letter really had some punch! Had Ingrid done THAT? My oh my! So he DID know my name! I had to laugh. "I didn't even think that he knew who I am, what I do." "Oh, he knows you alright," said Ernst. "I've watched him many times, reading your ZGrams. When he is through, he copies a whole stack." That's just about the sum and summary of my interaction with Herr Alfred for seven long, eventful years. Here's how Ernst Zundel remembers Herr Alfred: [START] I am very short of stamps because, once again two weeks ago, I was overlooked at Canteen Service time, usually a Sunday, when they come to deliver our "mail order" - stamps, envelopes etc. In this prison, [this service] is subcontracted out to a private company, which does not seem to be all that efficient. What else is new, as our society deteriorates and eventually will break down? There was an American writer (anthropologist? Charlton Coon?) who wrote on the reasons why societies break down. His theory was that there is a disproportion in the birth of problem solvers to problem creators. There comes a point of no return. When the problem creators vastly outnumber problem solvers, then societies decline and ultimately collapse. In Western civilization that point was reached in the 1960s - and it has been downhill ever since, camouflaged for a few decades by advances and refinements in technology, especially with the advent of computers, printers, photocopiers, fax machines etc. I observed that in my business. I could see the decline in competence and efficiency among new recruits, subcontractors and suppliers. When European immigrants stopped coming and did not rejuvenate the talent pool and the previous wave of immigrants retired and has now just about died off, things began to break down - visibly! I was lucky that I had volunteers and helpers, many of the older generation - like Herr Alfred, Sepp, Otti etc. The improvisations these people came up with were remarkable. Herr Alfred was only the son of a blacksmith/farmer, yet he trained himself to be a crackerjack tool and die maker. He was so good at his trade that he worked in the munitions industry, even though as a former "enemy soldier" he was denied security clearance. He made so many inventions and actually made most of my booklet-making simple tools and gadgets which worked and worked and worked! He saved our operation hundreds of thousands of dollars over the decades - in keeping the house dry by fixing any potential leaks on the roof, which he inspected every fall, even at age 85, on his knees, inch by inch, patching a little hole here and there. That man was like [one of our current volunteers], a blessing for the Cause. I am thinking back sometimes, lying on my uncomfortable bunk bed, about all these people whose lives I touched and who helped me in ways large and small. I think about their odd habits and character traits and marvel at the miracle of staving off the circling vultures for so long with so few [helpers] and so very little money. I feel like a spectator watching my own life. [END] After we moved to Tennessee, I went back three times to Canada to pack up and clear out the Zundel-Haus. Herr Alfred was there, as silent as ever. As the rooms got emptier and emptier, Herr Alfred ever more resembled a ghost that stumbled through the edifice, disoriented and sad beyond all words. As I threw away an old shoe, Herr Alfred bent down and retrieved it. I said to him: "Herr Alfred, it has holes. How about this nice new pair of boots? I am sure that Ernst wants you to have them. Here, why not try them on?" He just snorted with contempt and went to look for an old box for both the boots AND the one shoe. When I think of that large, empty Zundel-Haus I left for the last time, I always see Old Herr Alfred, silent and sad. A short time afterwards, while I was doing the data base entries of donations to the Zundel Cause, I held in my hand an almost illegible letter. It had no signature, no return address; just some scribbles by an old and shaky hand. Where to send 1,000.- Canadian dollars? I showed that letter to Ernst and asked if he could recognize the handwriting. "Oh, sure. That's Herr Alfred," said Ernst. "He is probably dying. He has saved up that money for years to give to me one day." In less than a week, Herr Alfred was dead. As I was telling this story to one of our new mountain volunteers, I got all choked up and could not continue. As I am writing this, I still feel shivers travel down my spine. For four long decades at the Zundel-Haus, as Old Herr Alfred puttered about, pitching in, doing duty, nobody ever said a nasty word to him - or about him. Can the same be said about Bronfman? How much did the Holocaust Lobby extort by besmirching the honor of Germany's World War II soldiers? You may be sure, in this uneven struggle, that if there is still justice in this world - and we all know there may or may not be - Herr Alfred's grand total of $1,000.-, saved up via pennies and nickels, thrown into the Struggle with his very last strength, will be tidily tipping the scales. NO SURRENDER! From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Dec 19 21:51:45 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Dec 19 21:52:59 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/19/2003 - "THE SILENCING OF DISSENT - - How do they get away with it?" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031219215145.0126e838@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! November 19, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: When I announced the format change of my Zgrams from "general interest" to "Prisoner of Conscience Letter" specific, I made a bit of a mistake, not cutting myself enough slack. Every once in a while, an essay comes along that simply shouts to be disseminated. You are getting such an essay today, introduced by Russian-born journalist Israel Shamir: [START] Paul Eisen, a director of Deir Yassin Remembered, is one of the staunchest friends of Palestine in England. The article below provides you with a wonderful definition of antisemitism: "If you do not agree with the right of Jews to go to Palestine, settle there en masse against the wishes of the indigenous population, expel this population from 75% of their land and then, for the next fifty years and more, continue this assault on the remaining land and population, then you are an anti-Semite." Eisen deals with the deepest levels of Jewish influence on the West. He enters the twilight zone of the Western mind and discovers there an interesting phenomenon: "Whether there is anything special about Jews is not really relevant. What is relevant is that a large part of the Western world, even the most secular part, seems to believe that there is, or, if they don't believe it, are not confident enough in their disbelief to say so." Probably I should add that this article calls for careful reading as it is full of irony and understatements; a naive and non-English reader can misunderstand it greatly. His main message, its bottom line, goes far beyond the question of Palestine: Shouldn't we break free from this infatuation with Jews? Shamir [END] Here is the Eisen essay itself - and a work of art it is! Intellectual power at its finest: [START] THE SILENCING OF DISSENT - - How do they get away with it? Paul Eisen As the onslaught on the Palestinian people continues and the hundred-year conquest of Palestine enters what may be its final stages, efforts by the Israeli, Zionist and Jewish establishments to silence any remaining criticism of Israel and Zionism intensify. At the centre of these efforts is the claim that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism. Critics of Israel are warned that whilst like any other democratic state, Israel is open to criticism of its policies, any criticism of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is, by definition, anti-Semitic. First, it is not true that we are free to criticize Israeli policies since so many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic. But what of the core argument that, since all other peoples are entitled to statehood, to deny to Jews that which is granted to everyone else is discriminatory and, therefore, anti-Semitic? There are of course some who really do want to "push the Jews into the sea", and there are certainly those who say that Jews are not a nation, but a religious group. There are others who undoubtedly would deny the right of Jews to establish a state anywhere. These people can fight their own battles. For my part, if Jews say they are a nation, that's fine and if Jews want to wear blue-and-white, wave flags and set up a state on some piece of uninhabited and unclaimed land, although I won't be joining them, that's also fine. The problem is when this state is established on someone else's land and maintained at someone else's expense. So what is this state of Israel, this Jewish state, whose existence we are forbidden to question? Founded on the expulsion and exile of another people, and defining itself as for Jews alone, Israel officially and unofficially, overtly and covertly, discriminates against non-Jews. Is denying Jews such a state denying them that which is granted to all others? One may agree or disagree with any of this. One may argue for or against Jewish nationhood, the need for a Jewish state, the right of Jews to have a state in Palestine, and even, post-Holocaust, the justification for Jews to establish that state at the expense of another people. One can agree or disagree with any of this, but is such agreement or disagreement necessarily anti-Semitic? ANTI-ZIONISM EQUAL ANTI-SEMITISM? The anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism argument amounts to this: If you do not agree with the right of Jews to go to Palestine, settle there en masse against the wishes of the indigenous population, expel this population from 75% of their land and then, for the next fifty years and more, continue this assault on the remaining land and population, then you are an anti-Semite. Similarly, if you do not support the existence of an ethnically based state which defines itself as being for Jews only and discriminates officially both inside and outside its borders against non-Jews, then, again, you are an anti-Semite. This would be laughable if it came from any other group of people, yet coming from Jews, even though not always agreed with, it is still seen as legitimate. So how do they get away with it? No-one else does, so what's special about Jews? Whether there is anything special about Jews is not really relevant. What is relevant is that a large part of the Western world, even the most secular part, seems to believe that there is, or, if they don't believe it, are not confident enough in their disbelief to say so. The Western world seems at times almost obsessed with Jews and Jewish life. Stories of struggle from the Hebrew Bible, such as the Exodus from Egypt, have become paradigms for other people's struggles and aspirations. The emigration of Jews from Eastern Europe into their Golden Land in America has become as American a legend as the Wild West. Jewish folklore and myth, stereotypes of Jewish humour, food and family life-all are deeply woven into the fabric of Western, particularly American, life. Yet these preoccupations are complicated and often ambivalent. Despite our present secularity, Christianity still occupies a central place in Western culture and experience, and Jews occupy a central place in the Christian narrative, so it is no surprise that Jews and Jewish concerns receive a lot of attention. But Christian attitudes towards Jews are themselves complex and contradictory: Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew, and yet, traditionally, His teachings supersede those of Judaism. Jesus lived amongst Jews, His message was shaped by Jews yet He was rejected by Jews and, it has been widely believed, died at the behest of Jews. So, for many Christians, Jews are both the people of God and the people who rejected God, and are objects of both great veneration and great loathing. This ambivalence is reflected in the secular world too where Jews are widely admired for their history and traditions and for their creativity and success yet are also held in some suspicion and dislike for their exclusivity and supposed feelings of 'specialness'. Jews seem either loved or hated and, now since the Holocaust, publicly at least, they seem loved or at least if not loved, then certainly, indulged. IS JEWISH SUFFERING UNIQUE? The establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948, coming just three years after the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945, marks, for Jews, the transition from enslavement to empowerment. This empowerment of Jews took place not only with the establishment of Israel, but also continuously, from the mass emigration of Jews to the West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the present day. Today in the West Jews enjoy unparalleled political, economic and social power and influence. Jews are represented way beyond their numbers in the upper echelons of all areas of public and professional life-politics, academia, the arts, the media and business. But even more than the political and economic power which Jews possess, is the social power. Jews have a moral prestige derived from their history and traditions as a chosen and as a suffering people. In these more secular times, however, especially since the Holocaust, it is as a suffering people that Jews occupy their special place in Western culture. That Jews have suffered is undeniable. But acknowledgement of this suffering is rarely enough. Jews and others have demanded that not only should Jewish suffering be acknowledged but that it also be accorded special status. Jewish suffering is rarely measured against the sufferings of other groups. Blacks, women, children, gays, workers, peasants, minorities of all kinds, all have suffered, but none as much as Jews. Protestants at the hands of Catholics, Catholics at the hands of Protestants, pagans and heretics, all have suffered religious persecution, but none as relentlessly as Jews. Indians, Armenians, Gypsies and Aborigines, all have been targeted for elimination, but none as murderously and as premeditatedly as Jews. Jewish suffering is held to be mysterious and beyond explanation. Context is rarely examined. The place and role of Jews in society - their historical relationships with Church and state, landlords and peasantry - is hardly ever subject to scrutiny, and, whilst non-Jewish attitudes to Jews are the subject of intense interest, Jewish attitudes to non-Jews are rarely mentioned. Attempts to confront these issues are met with suspicion, and sometimes hostility, because of a fear that explanation may lead to rationalization, which may lead to exculpation, and then even to justification. The stakes in this already fraught game have been raised so much higher by the Holocaust. Is the Holocaust "The ultimate mystery, never to be comprehended or transmitted" as Elie Wiesel would have us believe? Are attempts to question the Holocaust narrative just a cover for denial or even justification? Was Jewish suffering in the Holocaust greater and of more significance than that of anyone else? Were the three million Polish Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis more important than the three million Polish non-Jews who also died? Twenty million black Africans, a million Ibos, a million Kampucheans, Armenians, Aborigines, all have perished in genocides, but none as meaningfully as the six million Jews slaughtered in the only genocide to be theologically named and now perceived by Jews and the rest of the Western world to be an event of near religious significance. Jews have not been just passive recipients of all this special treatment and consideration. The special status accorded to Israel's behaviour in Palestine, and Jewish support for it, is not something that the Jewish establishment has accepted reluctantly. On the contrary, Jews and Jewish organisations have demanded it. And at the heart of this demand for special consideration is the demand that the whole world, recognising the uniqueness of Jewish suffering, should join with Jews in their fears about anti-Semitism and of its resurgence. Anti-Semitism in its historic, virulent and eliminationist form did exist and could certainly exist again, but it does not currently exist in the West in any significantly observable form. Jews have never been so secure or empowered, yet many Jews feel and act as if they are a hair's breadth away from Auschwitz. And not only this, but they require that everybody else feel the same. So soon after the Holocaust this is perhaps understandable, but less so when it is used to silence dissent and criticism of Israel and Zionism. Jews, individually and collectively use their political, economic, social, and moral power in support of Israel and Zionism. In their defense of Israel and Zionism, Jews brandish their suffering at the world, accusing it of reverting to its old anti-Semitic ways. THE SILENCING OF DISSENT. Is a Jewish state acceptable in this day and age? Are the Jews a people who qualify for national self-determination, or are Jews a religious group only? Post-Holocaust, does the Jewish need for a state of their own perhaps even justify the displacement of the Palestinians? Are Jews who wield power to serve what they perceive as their own ethnic interests and to support Israel, to be held politically accountable? What is anti-Semitism? Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? All this and a great deal more could and should be debated. What need not be debated is this: that every complexity and ambiguity of Jewish identity and history, every example of Jewish suffering, every instance of anti-Jewish prejudice, however inconsequential, is used to justify the crimes of Israel and Zionism. Every possible interpretation or misinterpretation of language, and every kind of intellectual sophistry is used by Zionists to muddy the waters and label the critic of Israel and Zionism an anti-Semite. Words and phrases become loaded with hidden meanings, so that even the most honest critic of Israel has to twist and turn and jump through hoops to ensure that he or she is not perceived as anti-Semitic. And the penalties for transgression are terrible. For those who do not manage to pick their way through this minefield, the charge of anti-Semite awaits, with all its possibilities of political, religious and social exclusion. No longer a descriptive term for someone who hates Jews simply for being Jews, 'anti-Semite' is now a curse to hurl against anyone who dares to criticise Jews and, increasingly against anyone who dares, too trenchantly, to criticize Israel and Zionism. And for those Jews of conscience who dare speak out, for them there is reserved the special penalty of exclusion from Jewish life and exile. Marc Ellis's 'ecumenical deal' which translates also into a political deal, says it all. It goes like this: To the Christian and to the entire non-Jewish world, Jews say this: 'You will apologise for Jewish suffering again and again and again. And, when you have finished apologising, you will then apologise some more. When you have apologised sufficiently we will forgive you, provided you let us do what we want in Palestine.' As hard as it may be, for the sake of us all - Jew and non-Jew alike, do we not now have to break free? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Eisen is a director of Deir Yassin Remembered and is on the Executive Committee of Sabeel UK. dyr@eisen.demon.co.uk This article is based on "Speaking the Truth to Jews" which will appear in a forthcoming book, "Speaking the Truth about Israel and Zionism", edited by Michael Prior and published by Melisende in March 2004. PAUL EISEN From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 21 13:41:45 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 21 13:42:20 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/20/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 56 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031221134145.0126ef70@getmail.lemire.com> ZGRAM - WHERE TRUTH IS DESTINY: NOW MORE THAN EVER! December 20, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: An excerpt from a fairly recent Zundel letter, dated 10-11-2003, to a new supporter: [START] My Syrian neighbor spent over 32 days on his hunger strike. At least, he achieved heat in his cell and in mine, whereas before it was horribly cold. It is nice and warm now. How long will it last? We will see. He also achieved after 29 months - imagine that! - finally a bail hearing at the end of this month. You can see that I was lucky. My bail hearing will be completed on the 12th of December 2003. The judge says he hopes to have a decision before the old year is out, which means I will have been in custody without a guilty verdict [or even a criminal charge] by a Canadian or a US court for almost 11 months. And even then, the judge has said openly in court that CSIS could have me re-arrested anytime they decide under a NEW certificate, which would start the whole process all over. I fully expect that kind of treatment, since it's Jews who call the shots, and Canadian politicians are such gutless wonders, they will fall all over themselves, as increasingly courts do, to fulfill every whim and wish of these Jewish lobbyists. That's why I am not chafing at the bit to get out, because I know the intense Talmudic/Old Testament hatred which motivates and drives these people. I have been at the receiving end of it for 25 years. Continually! I know that both Paul Fromm and even Doug Christie have been upset with the way I have answered some questions. Maybe they are smarter than I, or can think faster on their feet. Especially Doug is extremely sharp mentally. I am no dummy, but I hate all this legal proceedings stuff. I suppose I really am a more meditative type. I like to contemplate before I respond, but in the witness box they want snap answers, yes or no - and I hate that. In real life, there are lots of shades of grey between black and white. I am sorry I am a disappointment to them. But my answering these questions the way I do, with as much frankness and to the best of my recollection that I can, is for the historical record. Paul and Doug are decades younger than I am. This hearing is for me, maybe my last chance for many years to come, to nail down the historical record, for should I be deported to Germany at the end of this ordeal, and then be tried there - which I will be, definitely! - in Germany, incredibly, there are NO transcripts in criminal proceedings. They did away with that in 1977. Imagine fighting a court case without any record, or fighting an appeal with no transcript! That's why I intend to give full answers and a full defense. I want history to remember me by what I actually said and did, not by what my enemies will claim I said and did. If I disappoint some people around me, it's too bad - I have frequently disappointed even myself. If there is justice and decency left, I should be out of here at least on bail. I told the judge last week that, after all my legal avenues are exhausted in court, if I am to be deported, I would willingly and quietly go, even paying my own way - and that is my intention. Why would I want to stay in a country that has so abandoned its proud Anglo-Saxon judicial heritage of a thousand years to placate a bunch of ghetto-escapee Jews? Canada has become a Marxist state in all but name - intolerant, callous, vengeful, and cruelly unfair. I am holding up the mirror to this society. If I had no children or grandchildren here, I don't think I would have stayed to fight. I fight not only for my reputation - and to set the record straight. I also hope that by my sacrifice, I can stop the illegality and the slide into insanity, and thus leave to my offspring and descendants a Canada that I emigrated to almost 50 years ago, which was made up of hard-working, honest, and helpful people and a political elite with far higher standards of honesty and morality than the freaks, perverts and intellectual midgets who batten today on the backs of Canadian taxpayers. As always, Ernst Z?ndel [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Dec 23 09:30:49 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 23 09:30:33 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/21/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 57 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031223093049.01365078@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 21, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Today's and tomorrow's Zgrams belong together. In today's, written about a week before the last bail hearings December 10-11, Ernst talks about Judge Blais's less-than-transparent role as a former boss of CSIS - the very agency whose accusations, obtained and poured into cement in secret hearings, are keeping Ernst in solitary confinement. What Ernst predicts today, has come to pass and is exposed for all to see in tomorrow's Zgram - Judge Blais did NOT see fit to recuse himself and take himself off the Zundel case as a less-than-objective participant. So then, what else is new? Another stain on Canada! All this IS for the record! (Emphasis added!) [START] 5-6 December 2003 I am preparing for my next three days of court hearings, which deal with the motion by us asking the judge to recuse himself, because in 1989 - a critical period, when he was in charge of the intelligence agency as the Solicitor General - he would have had to sign documents, warrants, wire tap authorizations, mail opening and copying warrants involving me at the time. Now he is sitting in judgment over me with the material produced by those same warrants. My feeling is that unless the media picks this story up soon, he will just plow ahead, as he did after we raised the issue and Doug Christie made a verbal motion asking him to suspend the proceedings. The prosecutor supported Christie's request to suspend the proceedings, til the judge once again ruled on his own impartiality. Since the legislation specifically disallows any appeal of any of his final decisions, not even to the Supreme Court, this is an open invitation to ride roughshod over the rights of an accused - any accused, not just me in this case. It is the scheme passed by a majority of the Members of Parliament after 9-11, just like in the United Sates with the Patriot Act. Hysteria, fear and hatred swept all caution aside! This is particularly appalling to me, because about 90% of the Members of Parliament are lawyers by training, as are a fair number of the Senators. So, that's the first order of things. Given the virtual nonexistence of a critical press, we should expect that this judge will not recuse himself - and, in fact, now "outed" and, of course, embarrassed and therefore angry - will rush these proceedings to a speedy conclusion! Under the shadow of these hard feelings, I believe we have made things more difficult for ourselves, but then principles and legal tradition are an important check and balance built into the White man's political and social system for millennia in one form or another. [In the past], the struggle to take back special rights from Kings and Nobility cost all kinds of blood and untold persecution and suffering, and always there had to be a steady buildup towards a "flashpoint" - one case of injustice so egregious had to come along "to break the camel's back" had to supply that spark! The question is timing. Since I have been so marginalized and demonized for so long, will I be able to marshal enough of the thinking legal traditionalists to engage themselves? Add to that factor that many of them are Jewish. Most of our Gentiles are so self-absorbed and career- oriented that they are about as useless as tits on a boar? and unwilling to do anything meaningful in a case like this. In my past cases I noticed that I had to pay a steep price in legal fees in order to drag on the Zundel cases long enough to get the fence sitters bestirred enough to slide off the fence and to step into the ring. It was like that with the media every time - weeks and weeks of trial would have to go by before the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune would finally send a reporter, and would begin to cover the story. In those days I acted as my own public relations man? constantly bombarding the media with letters, faxes, phone calls, even theatre type tickets, which I sent to reporters and columnists - with "Admit one to the Great Holocaust Trial" written on them. Nothing like this happens now that I am aware of - too bad! That is not everybody's cup of tea, of course, most Gentiles are too "cultivated" to do something like that, or to carry large wooden crosses, or actual coffins through the streets of Toronto to the courthouse, [as I did]. It's in-your-face stunts like these that made me so hated by these people, not to mention the fact that we also put the [Holocaust] on the map over and over again. Jewish leadership understood me far better than the Gentiles and appreciated far more keenly what kind of an opponent they had in me. The Germans never knew. They still don't - what a sad and beaten-down bunch! Once these behind-the-scenes movers and shakers realized in 2000 that I had at least temporarily eluded their encirclement and clutches, they devised a plan totally befitting their cunning, contriving natures, to get me back to Canada. It would have been easy for them to have me eliminated by some hired thug - after all, it cost them $300, no doubt paid to some local druggy, to have my house burned to the ground with its $400,000 loss, including priceless archival holdings collected over 30 years, and a 5000 volume library. Had I not been away on a speaking tour at the time, my death from asphyxiation would have cost them less than 1/3 of the cost for a "hit", according to the Toronto Police Department who told me that was the going rate in this crime-ridden city at the time. But one of the hallmarks of my enemies' "crime fingerprint" is and has always been to supply multiple short term and long term benefits to them. Every detective and intelligence officer and Mounty always quickly understood that. Different nationalities and different races have different crime fingerprints. In the past, when I have raised the ?politically incorrect" aspect of that enquiry into "race" with different policemen from different jurisdiction, even from different countries, they agreed to a man that crimes scenes have "racial-ethnic-nationalist fingerprints." Knowledge of race speeds up solving crimes. Haitians, Columbians and Russians, i.e. Jewish Mafia, described so well in Robert Friedman's book Red Mafiya, {sp?} had distinctive ways of slitting a persons throat. Any good, well-trained detective could instantly identify them as made [by] a certain "ethnicity" within the drug trade. All of that has been evident to me from the moment the handcuffs closed on my wrists on 5 Feb 2003. [My enemies' ethnic] "fingerprints" are even more starkly revealed with each new document we unearth and each lead my investigators and lawyers have followed up on. It's a matter of time before all will be evident! For someone who has spent a lifetime studying them [as I did], these people are fairly predictable. They have a "fingerprint" for their crimes, and their political modus operandi employs a very limited number of time tested variables since Roman times - actually since pre-Roman times. Cicero experienced the very same behavior, as did John Demjanjuk, Frank Walus, and I in Toronto. They use what worked in the past; they have therefore become predictable - and also vulnerable. My enemies counted on a relatively quick "special treatment" in and out of court in both the United States and here in Canada for me, after Shylock had exacted his proverbial "pound of flesh" and demonized me some more in the eyes of the public. They also have to [demonstrate to] their community, supporters and many donors to their "Holocaust Shrines" and "Tolerance Centers" that they still have the connections - in the police, intelligence services, government and the media - to do their enemies in. [In other words,] that they are worth the money! Their "fingerprint' is always to inflict discomfort, pain, suffering, psychological torture, embarrassment and financial damage on their victim, usually, also to ruin his name and destroy his social standing, alienate the wives and girlfriends, children, siblings, etc. But the total giveaway is always their demand for prostration - self-humiliation and APOLOGIES! Look at the poor German nation, how they have been made to grovel! For sixty years, no amount of money and political concessions, no amount of mea culpa, has satisfied these people! And that is their Achilles Heel! They totally lack the "Fingerspitzengef?hl"- the fine touch of knowing when Shylock has exacted the maximum amount of flesh they can expect to carve out of any victim. You can see it best in their treatment of Germany since WWII and their behavior in the former Soviet Union - even after the recent fall of their oligarchs. Instead of leaving the scene of their greatest crime of mass murder and genocide in history, they had to get one more squeeze, a few more drops of blood, out of the already terminally ill corpse of their erstwhile victim - until Putin stepped in and arrested them! No amount of concessions they bludgeoned out of the Palestinians was ever quite enough - they always had to turn the screw one more time. Now they milk the very Intifada caused by their nasty policies and behavior. They are pushing and pushing, brutalizing all in their path, erecting more and more illegal settlements, war zones, [causing] death and destruction, seeking comfort and safety behind the biggest ghetto wall ever built in history. Illusory safety to be sure! After I had phased out my Toronto operation, which had been a thorn in their side for so many years, they figured that now was a good time to pounce - before I could get settled and more established in the United States, where the Constitutional set-up made all of my work, thoughts, writings and activities totally legal and even protected. They HAD to act - I knew it! - and when a famous American professor with analytical expertise and a lifetime of training in a very important field in strategic thinking came to visit our mountain retreat, I shared with him what I knew was about to happen. It was a little more than a week before the handcuffs snapped shut around my wrists. America is getting the "treatment" now via the neo-cons that the Germans have gotten over the last sixty years. Relentless hounding! They cajole, whine, stomp their collective feet in temper tantrums in the media and Congress, the Senate and, of course, the White House, extracting every dollar to the last dime out of the slowly expiring corpse of America. They are oblivious to the fact that they are [mortally humiliating] their oh-so-patient and beneficial host! It is their "fingerprint" - ethno-specific! - which is all over American Middle Eastern policy ever since the Truman Administration! When Nixon, who was wise to them, and even gentle Carter were going to become an impediment, they were checkmated and removed to serve as an example to others. When Ronald Reagan announced that he was going to Bitburg, Germany, to put an end to the humiliating treatments the Germans had suffered, Elie Wiesel suddenly appeared in the White House, finger-wagging the American President, in a most humiliating Chutzpah operation. The thought that this was overkill never occurred to those ghetto-dwellers and Shtetl-escapees for one moment. Pain and embarrassment had to be inflicted on a Goyim President. Let the media deal with the fallout - what was needed was a quick fix and an adrenaline rush, a Mohammed Ali "I-am-the-Greatest" self affirmation! The insecure sons of the ghetto had to convince themselves - by putting someone else down, even if it was a friend - just to reassure themselves, that they were still Top Dog, more powerful than the President of the United States! They will not consider a victory, however complete over their enemies, a meaningful victory until they have made their victims grovel. I know of no other ethnic faction with that quirk. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Dec 23 09:30:57 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 23 09:30:52 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/22/2003 - "Judge Blais refuses to recuse himself in the Zundel Case" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031223093057.01273340@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 22, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: As I stated already, yesterday's and today's Zgrams belong together. In yesterday's Zgram, written about a week before the last bail hearings December 10-11, Ernst talked about Judge Blais's less-than-transparent role as a former boss of CSIS - the very agency whose accusations, obtained and poured into cement in secret hearings, are keeping Ernst in solitary confinement. What Ernst predicted yesterday, has come to pass and is exposed for all the world to see, to Canada's shame - Judge Blais did NOT see fit to recuse himself and take himself off the Zundel case as a less-than-objective participant. As I also said, which bears repeating, this IS for the record! Paul Fromm introduces the rather long, wordy ruling: [START] Dear Free Speech Supporter: On December 17, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais denied Ernst Zundel's lawyer Douglas H. Christie's motion to recuse himself for creating a reasonable apprehension of bias. Blais had been Solicitor-General in 1989. On his watch, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) agent Grant Bristow was tasked to infiltrate and mis-direct the just formed White rights group called the Heritage Front. Also, CSIS -- allegedly contrary to Blais' directive -- used human sources to target then Reform Party leader Preston Manning. Blais, thus, had a strong supervisory role over Canada's dirty trick security service. There is, at the very least, the concern that he might be easily influenced by the members of the team he used to command. After all, CSIS's evidence, public and secret, is the very core of this case. It is their contention that pacifist publisher Ernst Zundel is, in fact, a terrorist committed to serious acts of violence in Canada and Germany that is key to declaring him as threat to national security. What follows are Mr. Justice Blais' reasons. Several of Blais' comments crave a response. He argues: "The ministerial Directive of October, 1989 ... was basically a reminder to CSIS to respect the law and the 'most sensitive institutions of our society.' The SIRC report on the Heritage Front Affair, as well as both the majority and minority reports of the Subcommittee of the House all indicate that CSIS failed to follow the Direction on the handling of sources given in 1989. I cannot fathom how that fact can be invoked to support a reasonable apprehension of bias." (32) On this point, interestingly, CSIS has never been disciplined for infiltrating Grant Bristow through the Heritage Front so that he could get close to Preston Manning and politically embarrass him. What we have is that the Minister (Blais) says all the right things. CSIS ignores him. No one is disciplined. An observer might wonder whether the directive was given with a nudge-nudge-wink-wink I-have-to-say-this,-but-you-don't-have-to-obey understanding. If so, Blais would be very vulnerable to a CSIS that knows his hands are dirty. This is speculation; it's not proof, but's it's reasonable. And Mr. Zundel's fate hangs in the balance. Mr. Justice Blais adds: "I no longer know what are the policies operating within CSIS, no more than any other Canadian citizen. Moreover, this link has been severed for a very long time. " (36) The former Solicitor-General is being a little disingenuous. It's said that once in, you never really leave the spy/intelligence game. Furthermore, as a sworn member of the Privy Council Mr. Justice Blais had access to deep and secret information. It strains reasonable belief to accept that he knows no more about CSIS today than the average Pierre Peasant in Chicoutimi. Finally, Mr. Justice Blais dons the mantle or the dignity and incorruptibility of the judiciary: "The judiciary is presumed to be impartial and this presumption cannot be lightly set aside." (38) And it's not being lightly set aside. As Solicitor-General, Pierre Blais was the boss of and had close and intimiate dealings with CSIS, the partly secret accusers whose allegations are at the core of this case. A reasonable person might see Mr. Justice Blais either as being prone to favour his old pals from "the game" or as being susceptible to pressure, as CSIS knows where the skeletons, maybe even HIS skeletons, are buried. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION JUSTICE BLAIS "...IN THE MATTER OF ERNST ZUNDEL REASONS FOR ORDER AND ORDER" 12/17/03 1. The respondent Ernst Zundel has filed a motion for an order of recusal. Mr. Zundel submit that I should recuse myself because as Solicitor General in 1989, I was the Minister responsible for CSIS before Parliament. Mr. Zundel also alleges that certain of my comments n a book introduced in evidence show my favourable bias to CSIS. 2. Mr. Zundel argues that I should have recused myself from the start because having been responsible for CSIS I would not be able to be impartial in dealing with a matter where CSIS provides a great deal of evidence. Moreover, some of the evidence is confidential and neither Mr Zundel nor his layers have access to it. Therefore, according to Mr. Zundel, there is reasonable apprehensive of bias, because of both my former connection to CSIS and the nature of the evidence presented against Mr. Zundel. 3. The Ministers have responded by arguing on both a technical and substantive basis. On the technical side, the Ministers submit that the motion was not properly constituted, having been introduced without written representation and supported by an affidavit which contains not only facts but allegations and arguments. 4. As to the substantive issues, the Ministers argue that the doctrine res judicata applies, since this is the second motion brought for recusal, and none of the facts on which it is based occurred after the first motion. Moreover, the Ministers also suggest that there are no serious grounds for a reasonable apprehension of bias, a very serious allegation which requires that the person alleging reasonable apprehension of bias meet a very high threshold. The Solicitor General, although responsible for CSIS before Parliament, has under the Act very little direct, daily involvement with CSIS affairs, which come under the Director, it is thus unlikely that as Solicitor General I would have been directly involved in any activity concerning Mr. Zundel. The Ministers further argue that the passage of time, following the Supreme Court decision in Wewaykum Indian Band v. Canada [2003 ] S.C.J. No. 50 ["Wewaykum"], certainly applies in this case. Finally, the Ministers contend that there was no requirement to disclose since I was not in a relationship with CSIS that would raise a reasonable apprehension of bias. 5. There are four main groups for dismissing this motion for recusal: the doctrine of waiver, the irrelevance of the evidence, the passage of time and the presumption of impartiality. 1) Waiver 6. The fact that I was Solicitor General in 1989 was a matter of public record from the start. A quick perusal of the Federal Court website would indicate the inclusion of that fact in my biography. I did not believe, and I still do not, that having been Solicitor General 13 years ago, at a time when right-wing extremist groups were not a pressing policy concern for Canada, would have any bearing on a hearing for which I was appointed in 2003. 7. If the matter is of concern to Mr. Zundel, then it should have been raised at the start of these hearing, not now, not after six months have gone by. 8. In Re Human Rights Tribunal and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., [1986] 1 F.C. 103, leave to appeal dismissed, (1986), 72 N.R. 77, MacGuigan J.A. stated at pp. 112-113 of that case: The only reasonable course of conduct for a part reasonably apprehensive of bias would be to allege a violation of natural justice at the earliest practicable opportunity. Here, AECL called witnesses, cross-examined the witnesses called by the Commission, made many submissions to the Tribunal, and took proceedings before both the Trial Division and this Court, all without challenge to the independent of the Commission. In short, it participated fully in the hearing and must therefore be taken implicidly to have waived its right to object. 9. In Zundel v. Canada (Canadian Human rights Commission) (re Canadian Jewish Congress ) [2000] F.C.J. No. 1838, the Federal Court of Appeal presents the doctrine of waiver in a case of reasonable apprehension of bias as follows, at paragraph 4: At common law, even an implied waiver of objection to an adjudicator at the initial stages is sufficient to invalidate a later objection. Re Thompson and Local 1026 of International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers et al. (1962), 35 D.L.R. (2d) 333 [Man. C.A.]; Rex v. Byles and others; Ex parte Hollidge (1912), 108 L.T. 270 (Eng. K.B.D.); Regina v. Nailsworth Licensing Justices. Ex parte Bird, [1953] 1 W.L.R. 1046 (Eng. Q.B.D.); Bateman v. McKay et al., [1976] 4 W.W.R. 129 (Sask. Q.B.). The principle is stated as follows in Hasbury's. Laws of England (4th ed.). volume 1, paragraph 71, page 87: The right to impugn proceedings tainted by the participation of an adjudicator disqualified by interest or likelihood of bias may be lost by express or implied waiver of the right to object. There is no waiver or acquiescence unless the party entitled to object to an adjudicator's participation was made fully aware of the nature of the disqualification and had an adequate opportunity of objecting. Once these conditions are present, a party will be deemed to have acquiesced in the participation of a disqualified adjudicator unless he has objected at the earliest practicable opportunity. 10. In that case, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that since the grounds for objection existed form the outset, being a part of the Act, they should have been raised at the start of the hearings. In the case at bar, my mandate as Solicitor General in 1989 was a matter of public record and appeared as public information on the Federal Court website ands also other public books of reference like Canadian Who's Who, Canadian Parliamentary Guide, International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who. The fact that the applicant in this motion only recently found out it is of no concern to this Court. Mr. Zundel has presented evidence, called witnesses and presented an earlier motion for recusal based on other grounds. It appears to me that Mr. Zundel waived his right to challenge my designation on the basis of my former duties as solicitor General. 11. Mr. Zundel contends that I should have made the parties aware of my term as Solicitor General in 1989. Mr. Zundel seems to imply that my situation would be one of automatic disqualification, where, because of a conflict of interest, I should disqualify myself. 12. The most recent authority on this issue sacroiliac the decision of the House of Lords in R. v. Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiery Magistrate, Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (no. 2), [1999] 2 W.L.R. 272, where the House of Lords has=d to decide whether one of the Lords sitting on the Appellate Committee had been automatically disqualified. The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords had had to rule on whether General Pinochet, accused in Spain of crimes against humanity, was extraditable from Great Brittain or whether he was protected by diplomatic immunity. The Committee ruled in favour of extradition in a split 3-2 decision. One of these who supported the ruling was Lord Hoffman. The lawyers for General Pinochet discovered after the ruling that Lord Hoffman was Director and Chairperson of Amnesty International Charity Limited ["AICL"], a registered charity incorporated in 1986 to fund the charitable aspects (according to U.K. law) of the work of Amnesty Internation Limited. 13. In the hearing before the Appellate Committee, Amnesty International ["AI"] was an intervener. Moreover evidence showed that AICL had funded research by AI on the situation of human rights abuses in Chile and non-prosecution of parties thought to be responsible for these abuses. The House of Lords ruled that Lord Hoffman had to be disqualified. This was not a matter of bias or apprehension of bias. Rather, because he waw directly involved in AI's work, lord Hoffman was automatically disqualified. In the words of Lord Goff of Chieveley, concurring in the judgment: 51. It is important to observe that this conclusion is, in my opinion, in no way dependent on Lord Hoffmann personally holding any view, or having any objective, regarding the question whether Senator Pinochet should be extradited, nor is it dependent on any bias or apparent bias on his part. Any suggestion of bias on his part was, of course, disclaimed by those representing Senator Pinochet. It arises simply from Lord Hoffman's involvement in AICL; the close relationship between I, AIL and AICL, which here means that for present purposes they can be regarded as being, in practical terms one organization: and the participation of AI in the present proceedings in which as a result it either is or must be treated as a party. 14. In such a case, it is clear that the involvement was s close that the principle became one of nomo judex in sup propria causa. In the case at bar, the situation is completely different. There is no conflict of interest given the time that has passed and the complete absence of involvement with CSIS in the last 13 years. A judge would have the duty to disclose a present conflict of interest but not a reasonable apprehension of bias based on past connections. The reasonable apprehension of bias necessarily arises (when it does) in the mind of one of the parties before the judge. The judge may raise it to avoid the issue being brought up later, but in the instant case, there was no reason for the judge to bring it up, for the same reasons as there was no reason for Justice Binnie to do so in Wewaykum supra, namely, no recollection whatsoever of the matter during his term. 2) Irrelevance 15. A good part of the CSIS actions in the context of the white supremacist movement occurred largely outside the time of my mandate as Solicitor General. In support of his affidavit, Mr. Zundel presents a number of documents dealing with CSIS activities. These do not concern the period of time when I was Solicitor General, in his affidavit, Mr. Zundel takes issue with the fact that as Solicitor General in 1989 I issued a direction to CSIS regarding the use of human sources. Mr. Zundel then states that the Security Intelligence Review Committee ["SIRC"] in its Report on the Heritage Front Affair, presented to the Solicitor General on December 9, 2994, considered the directions I had issued and regarded them as "seriously deficient". As a matter of fact, the Report of SIRC was written in 1994 and states "... current directions from the Solicitor General and the Director should be expanded and improved...". This, after a change of government , and three Solicitor General later. I cannot be held responsible for the directions from the Solicitor General which were current in 1994. 16. It is probably worthwhile to reproduce the exact passage from the SIRC Report on the Heritage Front Affair where the words "seriously deficient" appear. It should be noted that this whole issue has nothing to do with Mr. Zundel. 13.11 Ministerial Direction - CSIS and Policies Concerning All human source activities are governed by the limits of the CSIS Act and direction issued by the Solicitor General under section 6(2) of the CSIS Act. It is also governed by CSIS internal direction in the CSIS Operational Manual, in their directions to sources, CSIS officers are bound by the limits of sections 2 and 12 of the CSIS Act. Under the CSIS Act, the Minister can provide written direction to the Service. On October 30, 1989, the then Solicitor General [Pierre Blais] released comprehensive guidelines for the use of Human Sources. In the direction, the Minister notes that "a special responsibility rests with the Service to do everything reasonable to ensure that its confidential sources operate within the law, and do not behave so as to bring discredited on the Service or the Government". The Minister further stated that confidential sources shall be instructed not to engage in illegal activities in carrying out their work on behalf of the Service and that they should be instructed not to act as 'agents provocateurs' or in any way incite or encourage illegal activity. However, the level of policy guidance available to CSIS officer is, we believe deficient. We believe Direction and Policy in this area should be re-examined. It should be at a minimum provide full assistance to CSIS staff by providing thoughtful answers to a number of important questions. Among them: * what kind of a proactive role sacroiliac acceptable for a source in an organization targeted by CSIS? * is it appropriate to have a source direct or be a leader within an organization or movement? * should sources be engaged in counter measures which would serve to destroy, rather than maintain terrorist groups or movements? * do the benefits of maintaining a source outweigh the benefits to be gained by taking measures (i.e. with Police Forces) to destroy the group? Our investigation of the Heritage Front Affair made us aware of the fact that there was insufficient policy direction available. For example, we observed no clear direction concerning what was taking place in relation to the harassment campaign, there was no "global picture" of what was going on. We consider that the Service should regularly draw up a "balance sheet" on the benefits of a particular source operation. In other words, the management and staff associated with a high-level sources should regularly stand back from day-to-day transactions to assess the operation in its totality. To a certain extent this takes place during the application process for the renewal of target authorizations. But in the current case, a major activity of the source, the "IT" campaign, was not brought before Senior Management and so was not discussed: we think that this was an important oversight. Our conclusion is that current directions from the Solicitor General and the Director should be expanded and improved to deal with some of the issues we have described, [emphasis added]. 17. Every year, SIRC reports to the Solicitor General on the activities of CSIS, around the end of September. The SIRC'S mandate is to review the legality of CSIS' actions and to carry out this mission, it has access to all of the information available to CSIS. 18. No mention of the white supremacist movement is made in any of the reports until the 1994-1995 annual report, which follows the special report on the Heritage Front Affair presented on December 9, 2994. This latter report makes clear that from its inception, CSIS watched closely the activities of what it considered potentially dangerous right-wing extremists. This activity, however, was never mentioned by SIRC, although other potentially controversial areas are exhaustively explored, such as the surveillance of the native movement or of the labour unions. 19. Report by SIRC to the Solicitor General on December 9, 1994 on the Heritage Front Affair: The targeting of the white supremacist movement, since the establishing of CSIS, has been reviewed continuously since 1985. The individual targets have changed and the scope of the investigations has narrowed and then recently expanded again. Over the years, a considerable number of people in positions of authority, both in government and the judiciary, have known of and approved the Service's operations in this area. The list of those who have scrutinized the targeting of individuals with the white supremacist movement since the creation of CSIS includes: seven solicitors General; four inspectors General: twelve members of the Security Intelligence Review Committee; and four Directors of CSIS. In addition, judges of the Federal Court have granted warrant powers to the Service to investigate in this area. 20. According to the Report, those who were targeted by CSIS were those who were suspected of violent activities, such as Wolfang Droege or Tom Long. Ernst Zundel might have been a target of surveillance by CSIS As early as 1989, but this information, as far as I can recall, was not disclosed to the Solicitor General at that time. Other issues were more pressing in 1989, and this is clear from the SIRC Report for 1988-1989, the only year I received one as Solicitor General of Canada. 21. In the Heritage Front Affair Report, I find the following passage on the targeting of the right-wing extremist for surveillance rather telling: The Service also sought to develop human sources close to the extreme-right in order to ascertain the white supremacist strategy. CSIS sought to differentiate its investigation from criminal investigations. In March 1991, TARC [Targeting Approval and Review Committee] added a significant condition: "The range of investigative techniques to be deployed under the authorization will be subject to consultation with the Minister." >From this point on, the Service was required to send an aide-memoire to the Solicitor General - prior to implementing the TARC Certificate. [emphasis added] 22. Most of the CSIS activities concerning the handling of the Source within the white supremacist movement, reported in the Heritage Front Affair Report, occurred after I had ceased being Solicitor General. Moreover, evidence shows that the infiltration of the Reform Party by Heritage Front was known to CSIS, but not to the Solicitor General of the day (the Honourable Doug Lewis). 23. The Subcommittee of the House of National Security produced a report on the Heritage Front Affair, and the Bloc Qu?b?cois and Reform Party members of the Subcommittee produced a joint dissenting report. In both these reports, the only mention that is made of my actions as Solicitor General is the issuance of a direction that sought precisely to ensure the greatest respect for rights and freedoms (it was modified in August 1993 by the Minister then in office). 24. From the dissenting report at para. 20: In the view of the opposition members of the Subcommittee, the leadership of the extreme right and its most prominent emerging organization, the Heritage Front, were appropriately targeted in the initial stages of the refocused investigation [targeting Wolfang Droege when he returned to Canada in 1989]. At para. 27: However, there came a time, as indicated in the preceding section of this Report, when it was concluded in a 1990-1991 submission to TARC that extreme right organizations and their related activities were petty criminal in nature and did not constitute a threat to the security of Canada. It is not clear to the opposition members of the Subcommittee why the Service did not simply refer these matters to law enforcement agencies, rather than redirecting the investigation and the Source for more than an initial period to the leadership of the extreme right wing. The key question sacroiliac what was the justification for the continued targeting ad the presence of the Source after 1990. [emphasis added] 25. Need I remind Mr. Zundel that I no longer had anything to do with CSIS by that time. I was Solicitor General from January 30, 1989 to February 22, 1990. The Honourable Pierre Cadieux was appointed on February 23, 1990. >From 1991 to 1993, the Solicitor General of Canada was the Honourable Doug Lewis. With the change of government in 1993, a new Solicitor General was appo9nted, the Honourable Herb Gray. In 1993, I returned to private practice. In 1998, I was appointed to the Federal Court. 26. In Wewaykum. Supra, the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with an allegation of reasonable apprehension of bias brought by the Campbell River Band and the Cape Mudge Band against Justice Binnie, who had written the unanimous judgment of the Court dismissing the Bands' appeals in a land claim case where each Band claimed the reserve occupied by the other. Fifteen years earlier as Associate Deputy Minister of Justice from 1982 to 1986, Mr. Binnie, as he then was, had had occasion to deal with the claims by giving policy advice on the matter, which came under his jurisdiction. "As Associate Deputy Minister of Justice, Binnie J. was responsible for all litigation involving the government of Canada, except cases originating from the province of Quebec and tax litigation. He also had special responsibilities for aboriginal matters." ["Wewaykum" para. 5]. The Bands sought an order to have the judgment set aside. 27. The motion was dismissed by the eight sitting judges of the Court (Justice Binnie having recused himself from the matter). The case is relevant here for its in-depth discussion of what constitutes a reasonable apprehension of bias for a former Crown Minister who hears a case which once came under his ministerial authority. 28. The court restates the well-known test for reasonable apprehension of bias (at para. 60): In Canadian law, one standard had now emerged as the criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de Grandpre J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy Board, supra, at p. 394, is the reasonable apprehension of bias: ... the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically - and having thought the matter through - concluded. Would he think that it is more likely than not that the [decision-maker], whether consciously or unconsciously, would not decide fairly. 29. The Court notes (at para. 77) that "this is an inquiry that remains highly fact-specific". There are no hard and fast rules that apply and the circumstances of the case must be examined carefully. 30. In the case at bar, we find two factors that were present in the Wewaykum: the extent of the involvement with the parties in the proceedings, and the passage of time. In the case of Justice Binnie, several memoranda were produced to show that he had been made aware of the situation of the claims. His response was that, frankly, he could not remember dealing with those issues. His responsibilities covered literally thousands of files. Once he had left the public service, his mind had turned to other matters. His consideration of the case before the Supreme Court was therefore fresh and unbiased. 31. The same holds true in my case. Hundreds of issues, only a fraction of which are related to CSIS, are brought to the attention of the Solicitor General on a weekly basis. I cannot remember them all, and I certainly do not remember Mr. Zundel's case. The SIRC reports show that the extreme right movement was not a matter of pressing concern at the time I was solicitor General. Things changed during the early 90s, but I was no longer at the helm. 32. The most direct link that has been argued in the Ministerial Direction of October 1989. It was basically a reminder to CSIS to respect the law and the "most sensitive institutions of our society". The SIRC report of the Heritage Front Affair as well as both the majority and minority reports of the Subcommittee of the House of all indicate that CSIS failed to follow the Direction on the handling of sources given in 1989. I cannot fathom how that fact can be involved to support a reasonable apprehension of bias. 33. Mr. Zundel presents the evidence from Paul Kennedy, Senior Assistant Deputy Solicitor General of Canada for National Security, who appeared before the Subcommittee on National Security of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights of the House of Commons, on June 3, 2003, to introduce the ministerial directions from the Solicitor General for the year. Mr. Kennedy details the involvement of the Solicitor General in the affairs of CSIS, although he does state that day-to-day activities come under the Director of CSIS. I do not find this evidence very useful of our purposes. Obviously, the Solicitor General needs to be kept abreast of what is happening in his department; that is the meaning of responsible minister. It does not make it likely that I would remember details of investigations 13 years later, nor does it make bias more probable. And I would add that in the reports to Parliament by SIRC and the House Subcommittee of the years 1989 to 1995, there are many instances where the deficiencies which are flagged relate precisely to the lack of information given to the various Solicitors General of the time. 3. Passage of time. 34. One of the main points which Chief Justice McLachlin emphasizes in Wewaykum, supra, related to the importance of being fact-specific, is the passage of time in the case of Justice Binnie (at para. 85): To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factors is the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making, or that occurred within a short time prior to that decision-making. 35. The Court quotes the English Court of Appeal [Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451 at 480] at para. 86: ... every application must be decided on the facts and circumstances of the individual case. The greater the passage of time between the event relied on as showing a danger of bias and the case in which the objection is raise. The weaker (other things being equal) the objection will be. 36. I would think the same consideration would apply here. I have had no contact with CSIS in an official capacity in 13 years. Over the course of these 13 years, a number of Solicitors General have followed, the party in power has changed, in short, I no longer know what are the policies operating within CSIS, no more than any other Canadian citizen. Morever, this link has been severed for a very long time. 37. Mr. Zundel argues that this argument cannot stand, since the allegations against him go back in some instances to 1981. In the Wewaykum case, the history of the claims also went back in time to even before Justice Binnie was responsible for all federal litigation. That is not the point. What needs to be applied is the test for reasonable apprehension of bias - whether a position held 13 years earlier can affect one's judgment now, given that there is no evidence there was every any involvement in the Zundel case, and that CSIS acted largely on its own in those years. (And given that the only evidence presented to link CSIS, the white supremacist movement and my tenure as Solicitor General is that the Ministerial Direction was not followed!). 4. Impartiality. 38. Lastly, I believe that it is important to deal with the presumption of impartiality. As Chief Justice McLachlin states in Wewaykum, supra, the judiciary is presumed to be impartial, and this presumption cannot lightly be set aside. There has to be a very good reason to rebut this presumption. 39. Mr. Zundel state in his. affidavit that he began to suspect that I had closer links to CSIS than impartiality would require when I questioned the veracity of a document he had filed to show the truth of his allegation that CSIS was responsible for, or at least aware of, a bomb that had been sent to his house through the mail. With respect, and the transcript would confirm this interpretation, I was trying to determine whether or not he agreed with the evidence that he himself had file. On the one hand, the book at issue, Covert Entry by Andrew Mitrovica, spoke of the bomb; on the other hand, it also stated that a list had been delivered to Mr. Zundel, which he denied receiving. My comment was no more than suggesting that if the book was a work of fiction, then the seeming contradiction could be resolved. The Act allows me to accept a great deal of evidence that would otherwise be ruled inadmissable. For this reason, I must exercise extra caution in weighing it. Mr. Zundel expects no less when it comes to the evidence of the Crown; the same rules apply to all. That being said, I do not believe that questioning evidence in any way reflects partiality to one party rather than the other. 40. I was Solicitor General of Canada for a year. I was a lawyer for many more years, in the same way that a judge may, after some time, hear cases where his former colleagues are counsel, I do not think that having been the Minister responsible of CSIS before Parliament disqualified me forever from hearing a case where CSIS plays a part. If this were so, very few judges anywhere in Canada would be able to carry out their duties. 41. I f I ha been personally involved in deciding matters related to Mr. Zundel, I would have of course recused myself. I have no such recollection and there is no evidence to that effect. I am not an interested party in this matter, and I have no reason to favour the Crown over the respondent, no more here than in any other matter. 42. Another judge of this Court, Justice Dube, faced a similar issue in Fogal v. Canada [1999] F.C.J. No. 129, where he was asked to recuse himself since the suite was against the government of Canada and he had ben a Cabinet Minster and a Member of Parliament of for party still in power. 43. Justice Dube refused to recuse himself because there was no basis for the allegation of reasonable apprehension of bias. I think it worthwhile to reproduce his very eloquent words (at paragraph 10): Judges do not descend from heaven. They come from various fields of activities. Some of us are former academics, other were in the public service other practiced law in small towns or large firms. And some of us were in politics. The variety of our individual careers is a rich source of knowledge and experience for the courts. Once we took our oath at office, we divorced ourselves from our past and dedicated ourselves to our new vocation. Our duty is to render justice without fear or favours. 44. Thirteen years have passed since I was Solicitor General. My link today to CSIS is the same as for any other judge of the Federal Court. The arguments that Mr. Zundel presents in favour of my recusal are linked to actions by CSIS that occurred after my mandate as Solicitor General. I never thought of recusing myself because, frankly, I do not recall being privy to any special information about Mr. Zundel during the time I was Solicitor General. I have no special loyalty to CSIS. My first and only loyalty is embodied in the oath of office. I swore upon becoming judge of the Federal Court. 45. The test of the reasonable apprehension of bias is whether a well-informed person would consider that there is a possibility of bias. I do not believe, given the facts and on the strength of the relevant case law, that a well-informed person would think that I would be biased. 46. It is unfortunate that so much energy had to be expended on this mater, while Mr. Zundel still awaits a decision on his continued detention. THIS COURT ORDERS THAT: For the reasons given above, the motion is dismissed. Pierre Blais/JFC [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Dec 23 09:31:06 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Dec 23 10:02:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/23/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 58 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031223093106.01280d80@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 23, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: An excerpt from a Zundel letter to a friend in Southern Texas: [START] A famous German WWII general once told me years ago that one of the reasons the Soviets gained the upper hand in the East was that they had noticed that the German plan and methodology of attack after 1941 followed pretty much the Clausewitzian dictum. This enabled the Red Army brass to prepare beforehand for the coming attack. They "received" the Germans, instead of attempting to repulse them. They did that at Stalingrad, and later at Kursk, as well as at a thousand other smaller battles. The Germans were always stopped, neutralized and eventually driven back, and ultimately lost WWII. All armies suffer from the same handicap - predictability. The Germans had some surprise-attack success, as in the Battle of the Bulge, and at Kasserine Pass, but numbers and material began to outweigh individual brilliance and even the heroism of the German troops and officers. That's the way it is and has been with court cases, which are really a form of warfare by other means. The exact same dynamic is at work inside a [politicized] courtroom as out on the battlefields - except, of course, that the cards are clearly stacked against a defendant, especially if he fights for his freedom from inside a prison cell, a solitary confinement cell - no photocopier, no computer, no printer, pens, post-it-notes, no files or folders, no access to the Internet or email! With those things being denied to a defendant today, the prosecution has it all - [along with] dozens of prosecutors and assistants. It is hardly a fight on an even playing field! I hope people will bear this in mind. An [politically incorrect] imprisoned individual is fighting against an entire government apparatus, behind which stand the world's wealthiest people. Maybe people do not realize that I am pushing 65, although I do not feel old. I recognize the biological clock is ticking. I am in fact older than Field Marshall Keitel, Rudolf Hess and many other defendants at Nuremberg during their similar kangaroo court proceedings with ex-post facto, perjured testimony, false affidavits and judicial notice, and no appeal of any kind. Only history is the final appeals court, in a distant time and possibly a fairer, less poisonous age. My lawyers, friends and even my wife have at times been surprised by my almost suicidally honest answers to my Torquemadas' questions. There is a simple and logical answer for this. I am conscious of my place in history, and also conscious and alert to the fact that this may well be the last time that I will be tried in a traditional Anglo-Saxon courtroom - which means that at least part of the evidence against me, and my attitude towards it, will be recorded verbatim by a court reporter and will survive these proceedings in the form of court transcripts. I am thus able to write at least a partial history, using this public part of the hearings, to set the record straight. You can see that this strange aberration of proceedings is a platform for me - with restrictions, since I cannot get my natural remedies in prison, on which I relied to help enhance my impaired memory, hearing and energy levels. My blood pressure is now chemically regulated with the known side effects of beta-blocker medication. These are medical and psychological handicaps I labor under. My enemies are and have been aware of these conditions for 15 years, because they opened my mail, listened in on my phone calls, knew the hospitals and doctors I visited and the contents of my medical records and prescriptions! They saw all my government Health Plan bills - in other words, the eerie, intrusive Brave New World, illustrated by Kafka, Orwell, Huxley and others, has long ago become my nightmarish reality. Philosophers have often pondered the question: "Does a tree falling in the forest make a noise, if nobody is around to hear it?" Nobody has ever bothered to be around when a thousand trees have fallen in my life to test the theory. Not a single investigative reporter has ever dared - as it says in the Bible, "for fear of the Jews" - to come near me long enough to know the real human being called Ernst Zundel. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Dec 25 10:03:41 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Dec 25 10:05:47 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/24/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 59 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031225100341.0127a450@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! Christmas Eve - 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Ernst told me in one of his recent letters, referring to what I consider a War-Time Christmas, with my very own POW in the clutches of a satanic enemy inflicting as much humiliation as he can on a thoroughly decent, fair man: "Pamper yourself. You deserve it." I shall endulge. I will put politics aside. Ernst writing from solitary confinement: [START] Have a nice Christmas, Ingrid, and a happy and healthy New Year. We owe it to our friends and our many supporters. Gr??e verpflichtet! [Transl.: "Greatness obligates!" A joke between us?] Think of all the millions of Germans in wartime and especially after the war. We will overcome this! You'll see! This is, of course, more than a Christmas card. This is a Declaration of Resolve that as this season passes with its family obligations, its introspection and blending back to Christmases past, we will - like nature "nach der Sonnenwende" [after solstice] - look forward to a new awakening, a new spring, new life, and new initiatives inside and outside of prisons, court rooms and detention centers. They have my body caged up here for the moment, but my spirit soars free. That's why I prophetically wanted our gallery to be called "the Soaring Eagles Gallery" - plural, you will note! The new day, which is dawning, will see us do many new things, undertake many new tasks and reach out to many new allies. The world of our enemies is coming unhinged. They will not get away with what they had planned. Their nefarious schemes are being revealed for all they were from the beginning - half-truths, untruths, conspiracies, deceptions, lies - evil schemes, by which they thought they could enrich themselves, climbing over piles of corpses and advanced over bulldozed olive graves and poisoned wells. The marvel of the Internet is confronting them daily with new, devastating exposures of their many crimes - their murders, death squads and political assassinations. The truth will out, and it is coming out so fast from all the revelations that it will make their heads spin! Now is the time to hold firm to our ideals and not be intimidated! Their guilty minds are trembling. What we see happening in Putin's Russia to the Russian people's tormentors will increasingly happen elsewhere. I am astonished by the virulence of the criticism. There is a spirit, unleashed by the crime of 9/11, that cannot be contained. It has hardly been dammed up. It is accelerating - I can sense it. Regime change is in the air. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Dec 25 10:03:44 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Dec 25 10:06:03 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/25/2003 - "Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 60 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031225100344.012739b8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! Christmas Day 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Yesterday I said I would indulge a bit and let you get a glimpse of the romantic, chivalrous side of Ernst Zundel - against a backdrop of a brutal financial struggle that makes us throw every last penny of support from our amazingly loyal supporter base into the legal fight to get Ernst back to Tennessee. So what did YOU get from Santa Claus that matches what I got? Nothing, I bet you, that would surpass MY gifts. My presents were two dreams, straight out of that hellhole of a Canadian prison where it takes a judge's order to get an aching prisoner a pillow - and where Ernst sleeps to this day, for all that I know, still on a pile of transcripts slipped under his thin mattress to elevate his head a bit! Last night, just as I was to light our modest Christmas Tree and have my oldest son toast his beloved stepdad and pledge that we will never give up struggling for his freedom, Ernst called to reminisce a bit. I told him that we had already spent six Christmasses together with enough memories to soothe us in our separation- and his reply was something like a haughty "?with another two hundred such Christmasses more still waiting in the wings!" This from a very recent letter: [START] As for you and me - I am of course sad I cannot be there to take the load off you while you have to do so many things before Christmas. Relax a bit after! Pamper yourself! You deserve it! Last night I had an odd but very vivid dream. You and I had made true our promise to each other and went on a cruise - to Singapore, of all places. Why there, I have not the faintest idea! The monstrously large cruise ship in gleaming white docked in the harbor, and we were in berth or cabin 89 - odd that I remember that! We were all dressed up, you in a very nice, swooshy, floral-patterned dress and high heels, and I in a white linen suit, slim, believe it or not! We strolled along the decks looking up at the moonlit sky. The air was balmy, Hawaii-like, the way I remember it from my previous trip to Singapore. It was as real as can be in a dream! I'll obviously have to continue that dream tonight, or pick another destination! Is this not odd? I have no books or magazines to kick-start such a dream! Where in the recesses of my mind and imagination did I drag up all those millions of pixels to assemble a magnificent cruise ship - band, bar, dance floor - I mean, mygod, it was one elaborate production, let me tell you! Another dream I had, after the boys [Ernst sons who had come visiting] had been surprised seeing the gallery, was that we had a "wedding repeat", coupled with a gala opening there. String orchestra playing, evening gowns! You looked like the Queen of England in her coronation gown, crown glittering under the chandeliers, soft music playing, a fire in the fireplace, people in evening attire out on the balcony where paper lanterns with real candles inside were swaying in the soft Tennessee summer breeze. Is this prison escapism? It must be. Anyway, since I am the guy with the vivid imagination, I thought to let you in on my dreams. [END] HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ON YOUR WAVELENGTH. AS FOR THE OTHERS, WHY BOTHER EVEN GIVING THEM A SECOND THOUGHT? WE HAVE NOTHING BUT NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THEM! NO SURRENDER! Ingrid From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Dec 27 11:18:35 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Dec 27 11:17:32 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/26/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 61 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031227111835.012863e0@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 26, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Assorted odds-and-ends thoughts out of the Canadian Gulag: [START] 5-6-7 December 2003 RE: Jewish Oligarchs in Russia: Putin obviously knows that he has a window of opportunity while America is hopelessly overextended and paralyzed for lack of troops, at least until the next election. I have read that it will take America at least two years to have a fully trained, staffed and equipped division of draftees combat-ready. With today's military, I think this is a very liberal, best-face scenario. There is no doubt that in the weapons technology field, the US has a big lead at the moment, but other nations with an Imperial history know that it is one thing to smash an enemy - and another to hold, keep subdued and [in time] turn an enemy into a friend. That whole area, Syria, even Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt - what a cesspool! I am not fond of that area at all. We should pay them the market price for their oil, because if and when you cost-factor all of the horrific expenses of the war, both real and peripheral, a barrel of oil must cost us $200 instead of $25. Insane situation! There is another thing that enters into the Middle East mess I have not seen previously discussed. The pay-off for Bush & friends with cheap Iraqi oil will mean the coming onto the market of Iraq's portion of oil production. This has to come out of the other OPEC nations' share of the market. That, of course, means that Arab Sheiks stand to lose billions of dollars, and the greedy Sheiks won't like that one bit. These same Sheiks can then make life difficult simply by blowing up sections of pipeline, terminals, etc., delaying Iraqi oil production. In the meantime, Russia pumps almost 10 million barrels a day. Multiply that times $29 a barrel and you get $290 million dollars in revenue daily. That's a huge amount of money! Russia's oil is also more expensive to produce. About a year ago, it was at $22 a barrel minimum to guarantee them a healthy recovery on equipment wearing out, labor etc. I would bet anything that those crafty Russians allowed the greedy American capitalists, along with their Oligarchs, to exercise a good bit of wishful thinking, encouraging them to invest in the exploratory drilling all over the central Asian Republics, employing their equipment, their money, and Russian labor to find all kinds of new oil fields. They have allowed this policy over the last 12 - 15 years. Now the dirty work has been done, and the US and the oil cartels have dotted eight former Soviet Republics with oil rigs and supply depots - mainly air bases-big enough to allow huge C5 Galaxys to fly in supplies. All of these non-viable, carved out of the map countries are too far away from America, too landlocked, too isolated for America to see any return on their investments there. If my theory is correct, the Russians, by doing to the Americans what they did to the Germans - "receiving" them instead of repelling them! - have managed to suck billions out of them for an illusion of future wealth. America is involved in all kinds of schemes like that, cannibalizing its own economy, [at the expense of] what we in German call "Volksgut", the real wealth produced by many generations! This is undoubtedly how the neocons sold the military-industrial-oil complex to Haliburton around Cheney and Rumsfeld. All they wanted was to take out Saddam, destroy Iraq for two generations, then do the same to Syria, Lebanon, Iran and maybe even Saudi Arabia. If the going gets good, the Israelis will be the unassailable military superpower in the Middle East, threatened only by a bunch of goat and sheep herders. That is still the plan. We are in a race against time. Russia could be the big spoiler, if they can keep on pumping enough oil long enough to get their moribund economy back on its feet and become a countervailing force again. Russia will only be able to do that under an authoritative regime, in effect, a National Socialist type set-up. Because the gene pool in Russia has been so devastated, there are not enough middle level-self starter type people yet; they require at least one or two more generations before their gene pool can sufficiently recover. Putin is inviting all Russians to come home from the former Soviet Republics, the Baltic’s etc. to achieve these needs. He also needs a dramatic rise in the standard of living. He is already employing National Socialist type infrastructure improvements, road and rail building, 250 bridges - plus the final stretch of the AMUR Highway, which will finally complete the Trans-Siberian Highway from Moscow to Vladivostok. This will open up vast new regions for timber, mining, etc. All of this frantic activity is going on now, while America is frittering away substance on pleasing the Jews. You talk about a nation being cursed for its follies in WWI & WWII! Retribution is coming late, but it is coming! The population base's racial makeup guarantees a disaster in the making in the very foreseeable future. With some luck, you and I will see amazing changes - hard times to be sure, but then the Western world has gone soft in body and mind for too long as it is. They need to be whipped into shape by fate! In the past, when I was free. I always preached that all achievement is ultimately the victory of organization over disorganization. That is what worries me about these neocons; they have central organization via the Jewish Lobbies' brains. The America First Isolationist groups could not keep America out of the war because they had no central organization, whereas the Jewish-Masonic side was secretly organized to serve the Jewish agenda. I just read a good and very disturbing book about this by the American Professor Charles H. Dyer, "Storm Clouds on the Horizon". Unless some organized effort can be launched to unseat the neocons systematically, this golden opportunity will soon pass. [If] Sharon lives for a few more years, and in his megalomania and desperation strikes out at a few more neighbors, sucking America into more and more disasters and adventures, [this] will inevitably lead to war fatigue at home and antipathy against the neocons and their masters. I often try to make a comparison between Mussolini's ill-advised attack into North Africa and Albania and today's situation. Hitler had not planned on a Balkan Campaign, but when his ally, Mussolini, got his ass kicked by a few Greeks and British soldiers, German troops had to spend six precious weeks there, rather than utilize those troops in Russia at such a critical time. Imagine what Rommel might have been able to do in Russia were he not tied down in North Africa, or if the Germans had taken Malta, rather than allow the Italian traitors under Badoglio fool around bypassing it, leaving it as a stationary aircraft carrier against the Rommel supply lines! If America is not very, very careful, this same disastrous course could befall US war planners, where the psychopath Sharon starts a conflagration and then lets the American Goyim bleed - like now in Iraq, and perhaps Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Iran later. It wouldn't be long before there would be massive unrest at home, just like in ancient Rome - without enough troops to quell the rioters (because all state troopers, police, etc. in the ghettos would not fire on their own). The next 4-6 years are frighteningly close to Roman Empire scenarios - and I sit in here, commiserating with you, with a make shift pencil stub holder to squeeze every last bit of writing lead out of my German art pencils. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Dec 27 11:18:40 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Dec 27 11:17:54 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/27/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 61 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031227111840.0128f0e8@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny : Now more than ever ! December 27, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is a Zundel letter written to a close friend in Europe, dated 12-12-2003: [START] Our censor did not come before I went to court, and the letters of the 8th and 9.12.03 are still waiting to be picked up today. This allows me to give you a short overview of what happened in the courts in the last 48 hours regarding my bail and whether the judge would [recuse] himself from the case. In the old legal tradition of Canada, that is what would have happened, according to my lawyers. But those traditions have fallen by the wayside to the new Marxist/Socialist/Liberal breed of politicians and also judges - actually the whole of Canadian society, just like it has in the U.S.A. and in Germany after W.W.II. There the internal regime-change at all levels of German society took place at gun- and bayonet point after 1945, imposed by Germany's military conquerors who did to Germany what they recently did to Iraq. Little did these military conquerors realize that while they were out there in the battlefields of Asia, North Africa and Europe, a Trojan Horse at home was pouring out invaders of a different kind who swiftly moved into the universities, government bureaucracy, media and society generally. By the time the career officers had served their [?] tours of duty, the home front was firmly in the grip of the silent invaders, who were working like termites on a bloodless regime-change-by-stealth in the victorious nations. [This regime change] was as devastating in its ultimate results as it was in Germany after the second world war - and since! Canada, America, England and Australia, as well as formerly White Africa, have had their former order of things as totally and devastatingly changed as [happened to Germany] in 1945 and after. In the victor countries, [this change] was imperceptible and slow in the beginning, but accelerated to a dizzying pace as the generation of the first brainwashed hordes of the 1968 generation graduated from Marxist-captured universities. The Rudi Dutschkes, Joschka Fischers - [as well as] their teachers Adorno, Marcuse, Einstein, Oppenheimer and thousands of other culture-destroyers - thoroughly invaded and ultimately conquered the entire Western world by infiltration in the absolute best tradition of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky/Bronstein. By the 1980's this process was nearly complete. The whole of the Western world practically dumped all of its time-honored traditions. Its institutions were mere shells for the conquerors - like "blinds" erected by duck-hunters from where they intend to massacre unsuspecting flocks of geese and ducks from behind camouflaged lairs. That's what our universities and elite schools [as well as] the military and the judiciary had become for a new generation. What came out of these "hatcheries" [?] was a generation inculcated and indoctrinated in an amalgam of doctrinaire Marxism/Leninism coupled to welfare state/big corporate Capitalism, suspiciously close to looking and acting like Marxist-state Socialism, camouflaged by the glib and confusing labels of the Freemasonic "brotherhood of man" with its slogans of Libert?, Egalit?, Fraternit?. "Mondialism", "One World", "New World Order" thinking [became] the norm of the day. All dissenters, from traditionalists to nationalists, racialists or mere revisionists of history [found themselves] as ruthlessly persecuted and vilified as traditionalists during and after the French- and the Bolshevik-Jewish-Revolution. [This] persecution has grown more brazen, more intense over the last 20 years - and is now culminating in a Stalinist/Neo-conservative/Strau?ian/Trotzkyist reign of lawlessness and terror. I am one of the first victims of this new wave of terror against the counter-revolutionaries/dissidents, a calculated and expected by-product of 9/11. My arrest, kidnapping, deportation and subsequent treatment in Canada is so typically "their" handiwork, I may as well be in Moscow 1937 in the Lubyanka, Nuremberg 1946-47 or Gaza 2002-2003. We are now all becoming Palestinians in the way we are treated. The judge was supposed to make several decisions on my bail, and whether he should step down and hand the case over to a different judge. He made no such decisions. He [merely] allowed me to sit next to my attorney, Mr. Christie, during the hearings. The rest was virulent character assassination of myself by a succession of lawyers from the government's Immigration Ministry and the Ministry of Justice. They are the new Robespierres and Torquemadas of our age. One has to have attended such hearings to understand what the Vishinsky show-trials must have been like in 1937-38 in Stalin's heyday, the trials of the German elite after 1945 in Germany's Occupation Forces courts from Nuremberg down to the de-nazification courts of lowly party members, or the trials conducted by Hilde Benjamin in Central Germany (the DDR) in the 1950's. In my case, all these [hearings] ooze formal correctness and a slimy cordiality, but to the astute observer the rigged proceedings are evident throughout. The spirit which dominates all is alien. Only the outer trappings of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence and legal traditions have been retained like a fa?ade. A building, although infested by armies of voracious termites, will stand for a while in all its new coats of paint, [while the] inhabitants are carrying on, seemingly oblivious to the problem. So it is with these anti-terror laws - which allow any kind of material to be introduced never allowed in criminal cases - hearsay, double, triple, quadruple hearsay! - along with any rumours, lies, falsified documents [and] secret witnesses, none of which the accused or his lawyers can ever verify by criminal law standards of cross examination of witnesses of the prosecution, or expert witnesses brought by the defence in rebuttal. All of these safeguards are gone. Worse standards than in Nuremberg prevail. It is the triumph of Talmud thinking [?] which permeates the proceedings, clearly making at least the judge in this case very uncomfortable. Sometimes this leads to outbursts of clear frustration on his part. One wonders what hundreds of members of Parliament could have been thinking when they approved this type of Old Testament, Marxist type laws. I sit in my cell and wait for a sign of sanity! [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Dec 28 09:53:25 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Dec 28 09:54:37 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/28/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 63 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20031228095325.0127e068@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 28, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: In this Prisoner of Conscience Letter, Ernst pays tribute to one of the most courageous and innovative owners of alternative websites, Jeff Rense of www.rense.com [START] Dear Mr. Rense - A new-found friend will pass this note on to you, because I do not have your snail mail address in my jail cell. I had asked Ingrid for it several times but either it slipped her mind, or it was lifted from the envelope. My mail has to run the gauntlet of several rings of censors, official and unofficial. The local prison censors are not the problem - they have clearly laid-out rules and are empowered by Canadian Law to read and censor all incoming and outgoing mail, which is against Federal Law in the U.S.A. Incoming censorship - opening of letters - is understandable in this age of drug smuggling in powder form on the back of stickers on letters and greeting cards - outgoing censorship is something entirely different. In America, even a convicted criminal is accorded one small vestige of humanity and privacy - in Canada, where the concept of individual freedom has, at best, been tenuous throughout the centuries, this last vestige of privacy is cheerfully curtailed and violated by sanction of Parliament. All, naturally, because of 'Security Concerns! To speak with Churchill, my least favorite Englishman: "Never have so many given up so much of their fundamental freedoms for so little increase in security as this present generation has since the events of 9-11-01." We truly are beginning to resemble a herd of lemmings heading for the not-too-distant cliff. This is why you perform such an incredibly vital service, not just to America, but to the greater world at large - well beyond the geographic confines of America. Thank God for the technology of the Internet, and praise be to the Almighty in this hour of mankind's greatest need for clarity, wisdom, insight coupled to courage - for your courage and those who work with you, those who help you with their talents, their technical skills, and the many writers and researchers [who assist you]. Where would the cause of truth and freedom be without people like you? My wife tells me that you reach millions upon millions of people the world over with your radio program and website. Most likely, these listeners and viewers have not the faintest idea about the sacrifices you are called on to make - every hour of every day, weeks and months, to keep your information outreach going. I know from my much smaller efforts over the years about the many anxieties, the financial worries, the technical and staff problems, logistical hurdles to overcome etc. The task is Herculean. That's why I quietly tremble in my cell every time I am told that hackers and saboteurs have shut down your website or program by sneak attacks, for I can empathize with you, and those who help you. [I know] what it means to find the sources, and the powers behind those sources of your problems, and neutralize them. I used to say to my wife, Ingrid Rimland, when I was still a "free" man living my beleaguered and besieged existence in Canada: "This Jeff Rense is a modern Paul Revere. Instead of a horse, he rides the airwaves, the electronic Super Highway - the Autobahn of the Internet." This modern day Paul Revere alerts his fellow citizens to the enemies within the gates and without. He alerts people all over the world not just about the latest political news, and governmental outrages. He is the whistle-blower par excellence, in America and worldwide - not just on one issue or one time, like Ambassador Wilson on the "yellow cake" uranium forgery. Mr. Wilson got an award for being a whistle blower - good for him! Even better for his poor victimized wife! I am glad they were honored. But - lying on my uncomfortable jail bunk on the cold concrete slab bed - I thought to myself: "What about Jeff Rense? He has blown the whistle on so many scandals and acts of treason that it [makes insignificant] the actions of most others, including myself." People have to understand, and need to appreciate, that it takes courage to go public with a government or bureaucracy gone wrong, but it takes infinitely more courage to spread the news of the wrong-doing far and wide, to risk everything - one's reputation, one's business, one's very life these days. Had there been a dozen more Jeff Renses in America, who blew the whistle on the non-existent "Weapons of Mass Destruction", hundreds of American men and women would not have needlessly been sacrificed on "the altar of a lie." Thousands of American mothers and fathers would not have to grieve the loss [or maiming] of their sons and daughters on some dusty battlefield in far-off places like Iraq or Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Iraqis - men, women and so many innocent children - would not have had to die, or live the rest of their lives sightless, limbless and in permanent despair and utter hopelessness. More whistle blowers with the courage and the patriotism of Jeff Rense could have saved America not only hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted taxpayers' dollars, borrowed at huge interest, but this hideous toll of human life as well. Had there been another dozen Jeff Renses in the country, broadcasting the manipulations of the behind-the-scenes war mongers in the corridors of power, America would most likely never have gone to war, and would not have lost so much credibility - and, above all, respect in the world - for once respect is lost, it can hardly ever be recovered. You and your supporters know that the only thing capable of bringing America - and the world by extension - back from the brink, is a new kind of PATRIOTISM, not yet defined or articulated. This New Patriotism sometimes has to defy the Stars and Stripes waved by the enemy within - a new kind of Orwellian enemy, cloaking his deadly treason in patriotic symbols and the slogans of yesteryear. The New Patriotism of the 21st Century calls for a people, not only wise and alert to the threat faced from Congress and the Senate via powerful lobbies, domestic and foreign, but many other dangers as well. The New Patriotism also recognizes that we have to sign, each and every one of us, an internal, mental, even spiritual Declaration of Independence, which demands that we take total control of our own minds, bodies and souls. You, Jeff Rense, were one of the first ones to see that and act promptly on it by bringing to your millions of listeners and readers the common-sense rules and approaches to health and individual well-being and responsibility of such [Patriots] as Dr. Lorraine Day, for Americans have a patriotic duty to be healthier or get well quickly. America and the world need healthy, virile, clear-thinking, quality decision-making New Patriots. And it needs them now - tomorrow may be too late. In this Second American Revolution we [have] had thrust upon us, the "New Minutemen" don't carry Kentucky Long Rifles or Bowie knives. The New Patriot carries a laptop computer, and spreads the word via websites, CDs and DVDs, and - do not laugh - more often [than not] munches on a carrot, a celery stick or an apple, rather than glutting out on a Big Mac and a heart attack-causing order of fries. The New American Patriot avoids hospitals like the plague and looks upon the men and women in white smocks and stethoscopes around their necks with a wary eye. The New American Patriot yanks his children out of the hell-holes called public schools and devotes himself to the Patriotic Duty to raise, school, train and inculcate his children in healthy habits and healthy thoughts - eating healthy food, along with a glass of freshly-squeezed juice, not some chemically poisoned junk food and aspartame-laced chemical punch which upsets the children's mental equilibrium and physical well-being. Very few people, as of yet, have learned to appreciate that enormous responsibility each and every American mother and father bears for America's future via their children. The New Patriotism demands re-thinking, re-evaluating everything. One of those things might be the fetish of a "College Education." Perhaps home-schooling parents should not be afraid to direct their kids into practical businesses like those of plumbers, carpenters, mechanics etc. - all endeavors useful to society and tailor-made for becoming independent small business operators safe from the pension plan thieves such as Enron and Worldcom. Independence, not dependence on the golden shackles of a corporate paycheck, should become our goals - until America has been saved. Your website and radio program are the schoolmasters to the Nation. I declare you, Jeff Rense, as No.1 Whistle Blower and nominate you from my jail cell for a new category of a Nobel Prize! I salute you! Ernst Z?ndel [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Dec 29 22:14:06 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Dec 29 22:27:09 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/29/2003 - "Axis of Logic: Fear Factor Orange" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20031229221405.012d165c@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 29, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: One of my favorite websites is called Axis of Logic at www.AxisofLogic.com It is a mix of carefully selected articles and editorials, and it consistently presents a global overview. Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I would like to not only visit but linger, but I have bookmarked it and visit as often as leisure (what leisure?) allows. Here is a nicely argued editorial - something I could relate to, after I tried to wind my way through absolutely ridiculous security at our nearest airport to see a relative off: [START] U.S. News/Comment Exclusive! Fear Factor Orange: Mind and Behavior Control in America, Manuel Valenzuela, Christmas, 2003 By Manuel Valenzuela* Dec 23, 2003, 07:46 [The lives and sacrifices of 3000 men and women should not be taken for granted. The deadly attacks of 9/11 should not be diminished. This article does neither. Threats do exist and concerns do arise, yet what we are experiencing today is much, much more than the government protecting us. It is manipulation, the greatest form of propaganda that is abusing our emotions and fears for political and powermongering gains.] It is that time of the year again when the nation erupts in an assortment of colors marking the holiday season. Green, red and white, Christmas colors are upon us. Colors of cheer and joy, of Christmas past and present. A new color, however, seems to have made its most unwelcome way into the cocktail of delight and merriment, once again attaching itself to the nation s pulse at a time of supposed warmth and happiness. The most un-Christmas-like color has infiltrated itself into our collective holiday cheer, creating with its presence a most frightful time of year. Like a most unwelcome neighbor or relative, orange has crept inside our homes and communities, making its annual appearance just in time to spoil our most cherished and comforting holiday. Like a bad flu, Fear Factor Orange has returned, after its prerequisite six month absence, just in time to instill fear into our Christmas cheer. Thanks to Tom Ridge and his Department of Homeland Insecurity we must face yet another season under cover of orange gloom. It is the Fear Factor, the instrument used by this administration that conditions us all to the coming usurpation of rights, freedoms and democracy and the introduction of the police state. It is the tool by which Bush inculcates his perceived leadership into our delirious brains, thereby assuring himself of our unwillingness to abandon the President-hero, the fighter of all evil, our Crusading Commander. Fear Factor Orange assures Bush that every three to six months the American public s never healing scars of 9/11 will re-open, pussing out once again our still fragile memories of the horrific tragedy that the administration never fails to conjure up. With the wave of the propaganda wand, Bush and his megalomaniac marketers make out of the President a fusion of Santa Claus, George Washington, Napoleon, Gandhi and the Almighty itself, reincarnated out of thin air to save the nation from imminent peril. It is the perfect public relations gimmick to help assure Bush a second term in office. And fear not, those who have grown dependent on Fear Factor Orange, it will return once or twice more before November 2004. Fear Factor Orange places in front of the masses the all too real and damaging emotions that we as a nation suffered on that most horrendous of days, where our innocence and perceived sense of infallibility were erased from the face of the earth. The construction of fear into our psyches places inside us our wanting for protection and salvation from those invisible yet perilous dangers of terrorism. It matters not that we cannot see the enemy, Fear Factor Orange conjures them up in our minds, full of bombs and bullets, hiding in every corner, ready to destroy us. In our search for self-preservation, therefore, we place our complete trust on the government to become the father figure we so desperately crave. The unthinking populace thus places into the hands of Bush the means to control and empower us. Through the use of fear Bush manipulates our behaviors, making us decapitated drones signing away our souls. Our animal emotions are resurrected every time ominous Fear Factor Orange glows from our television monitors. The rational, human brain is replaced by our primitive, older one that places the primordial necessity and interest of self-preservation ahead of the analytical, abstract-thinking side that makes us question authority and its sinister intentions. Our ability to weight complexities is forgotten, threats are too much to handle; we refuse to believe the reality of the absurdity and refuse to listen to the absurdity of the fantasy. This enables Bush and company to further induce cooperation and acquiescence to each and every mandate they enact from average Americans who do not realize, to their great detriment, the continued erosion of their once sacrosanct freedoms, rights and democratic institutions. Since 9/11, we have been told that in order to be made safe, in order to live in tranquility, we must place our undying trust in Bush and our government. In Bush We Trust. We must do as our government dictates for only it knows what is good for us. Fed insecurity and fear on an almost constant basis, either through government or corporate media propaganda, we are systemically brainwashed into believing that nobody is safe, that our nation is being attacked and that the future of our children is in peril. Forces of evil greater than anything we have ever faced are said to be invisibly flying throughout the nation, like winds carrying a deadly virus or toxin intent on destroying our way of life from within. Only by following the dictates of Bush, only by ignorantly and blindly obeying his commands will salvation be in our grasp. Only then will we be delivered from evil into the valley of heavenly safety. In order to achieve that which cannot be reached, we are told to sacrifice our freedoms, rights and liberties so we can be made safe. In truth, we are setting free onto the world and surrendering over to the authorities that control us the powers inherent in the people, those democratic principles passed down through generations of struggle and sacrifice that have for centuries saved us from the growing threat of autocracy we now face. That we continue to blindly relinquish the remaining freedoms that have not already been taken from us in the name of security and safety should only add to our growing concern at the direction this nation is heading in. Like drooling Pavlovian dogs, we are hypnotically following the glimmer of Fear Factor Orange down the road to fascism. Fear has been used wisely by this administration to rob us of the ingredients necessary to prevent and fight totalitarian governance from ever rising out of the fires of Hades. Like a flaming phoenix, however, this form of power is quickly rising, fed by our irrational give-away of that which we hold most dearly. Into the skies the phoenix flies, gorging on America s remaining ways of life. Smelling a most frightened nation on its journey from coast to coast, like a wild animal it grows ever more powerful, brave and confident, ready to attack our collective jugular and enjoy the tasty morsels and blood of a most satisfying kill. Our construct of reality has vanished in a haze of fog called fear. We are scared for the present, future, our children and ourselves. Anxiety runs in our blood, filling our veins and minds. The buttons of fright and terror being pushed by Bush drive us from normalcy to panic in a cruel game of tug-of-war whose only end result is the political manipulation towards re-election and psychological domination by exploitation. The takeover of the American mind, designed to make subservient slaves without thinking brains out of all of us, is gaining momentum, cruising like a monstrous freight train in its sojourn through the country, robbing and raping all who appear in its wake, infecting us with the fantasies of fear and insecurity that are slowly digging our graves. Through the abuse and manipulation of fear, domestic and foreign policy are being concocted to suit conservative ideology. Social programs and services are being imploded by those who have for years wished them away. A police state is emerging that is subverting freedoms once deemed inalienable. Police officers now punish with impunity those who dare protest the evils of the elite. Patriot Act I, and now II, are giving the government powers once thought unimaginable, the stuff of Orwellian fiction. Government secrecy is now the norm, accountability is a thing of the past. Detentions, surveillance, intrusions and privacy annihilation, is this the America of yesteryear? Are we approaching 2004, or 1984? Dissent and opposition are being curtailed, the nation is being wrapped around the flag. To support the pillage of our rights is to be patriotic, to fight the oligarchy is to cavort with the enemy. Our wages and soldiers are being sacrificed for the sake of the Leviathan, education is but a hollow dream that is leaving all children behind. Fascism is spreading like an epidemic, imperialism is rising its tentacles and the basic tenets of American life are being gobbled up by the corporate Leviathan. Meanwhile, Fear Factor Orange glows in the night sky, warning us all to be vigilant spies, untrusting of neighbors, aloof in our ways, living life paranoid at best and scared shitless at worst. Catatonic we have become in our understanding of the war on terror. Fear Factor Orange, that color signifying a high threat of terrorist attack, spooks and terrorizes, creating a belief that evil people want to kill us. That the threat is even more remote than being struck by lightning does not matter to a citizenry that still suffers the post-traumatic fatigue of 9/11. Not to minimize the atrocities by any means, but it must be mentioned that only a minute part of Manhattan was struck, only a small side of the Pentagon was attacked. Those 3000 we will never forget, heroes to all, symbols of what makes this country great. Yet we are 285 million strong, spread over vast terrains. We must realize that the 3000 men and women are being politicized for cynical purposes, to use fear as a political tool in the game of power and control. Do not forget that. Terrorists are not nation-states, their resources are finite, their numbers small. We are told to be vigilant, to be on the lookout for suspicious activity. This, consequently, places the eyes of hundreds of millions of citizens squarely, consciously or not, on the millions of Arab men and women who live in this country as Americans. Fear Factor Orange and paranoia combine to make of these citizens walking, breathing targets of unfair stereotypes, real or imagined, that fester in the American consciousness. Profiling and labeling thus combine to segregate moral, law abiding citizens. For them, Fear Factor Orange is indeed a time to fear and grow anxious. Bush should not be allowed to control our lives or our destinies. Ashcroft and Ridge should not dictate our stresses and concerns. Our government should not shamelessly insert fear into our already hectic lives. The threat of attack will always linger, a strike is most likely inevitable thanks to our foreign policy and arrogance, but to constantly alter our way of being, to give up our freedoms for our security, to create a world in which our children will never breathe the same rights we once had, is to acknowledge that the terrorist elements have already won. They have succeeded in terrorizing, in instilling fear, in having our government change the basic structure of our democracy. We must fight Bush s attempts to bankrupt us of all we cherish. We must keep living our dreams, keep pursuing our goals and we must never allow our democratic principles to dissipate like stone eroded by the sands of time. Our children must live in freedom, they must savor their rights. They must enjoy the fruits of the labors and sacrifices of descendents long gone and those built by our hands and minds because if forced to live in a world devoid of freedoms, they will never know what their parents once had, and you cannot miss something you never had. Thus, they will never fight and sacrifice for that which they never knew existed. If an attack manifests itself, whether it is today or ten years from now, we must simply rise like we always do, united as one, standing proud and strong, ready to mourn, pick up and keep on living. This is America, after all, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Suffering and mourning is the story of man, whether in World War I and II Europe or Civil War America, in hundreds of revolutions, battles or fights for freedom, to honor a people s way of life is to sacrifice and mourn, to evolve and stand strong. It is what determines the character of a people, the strength of a nation. Ask the world, nothing comes easy. We cannot allow those who would do us harm to triumph in altering our way of life, and we cannot allow Bush and company to assist in this endeavor. Our security is important, but not at the expense of our freedoms, rights, liberties and democracy. It is not at the expense of creating a police state where we are all potential suspects and victims. The loss of our freedoms and rights should not come at the expense of the rise of a fascist state under the guise of comfort and refuge. For if we allow this to happen, we will have neither and the great reality that is the United States will fade away into dusty memories of oblivion. In the long history of mankind our era will be but a small blur buried and forgotten by the sands of time. Don t let Bush succeed. Decry fearmongering. Remember, what does not kill you makes you stronger. Fear not, for life is all about conquering that which we most fear. [END] ? Copyright 2003 by AxisofLogic.com Reprints - To Websites You are permitted to reprint, copy, reproduce and post a copy of this article. We ask you to includ a link to the original URL at Axis of Logic. Please do not edit the article or make any alterations. Thank you for your courtesy. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Dec 29 22:14:16 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Dec 29 22:27:24 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/30/2003 - "Hungarian President refuses to sign Legislation Outlawing Criticism of Jews" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20031229221414.012ce900@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: A President with backbone - believe it or not! Enjoy! [START] December 30, 2003 Hungarian President refuses to sign Legislation Outlawing Criticism of Jews December 25, 2003 -- Recently, Jews living in Hungary were able to push through a law, adopted earlier this month by parliament, stipulating that any person who publicly expresses hatred toward Jews could face three years in prison. And, someone who publicly insults a Jew could be found guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to up to two years of imprisonment. The Jews were very disappointed that the law was accepted by only a slim majority of just four votes with 184 parliamentarians saying yes, while 180 said no. Now, in a surprise development, President Ferenc Madl said he refuses to sign the hate speech legislation because the bill could "restrict freedom to a greater extent than is constitutionally permissible." . . . Full story: fpp.co.uk * * * Commentary by Mel Fowler: Almost never do I see this issue correctly, or honestly, analyzed. That is to say, analyzed in a manner to identify the excruciatingly elementary truth underlying efforts to suppress freedom of speech. The endeavor to limit freedom of speech always acts on a wish to silence, thereby to disable and defeat, opposition. That is ALL it is. Of course, those who endeavor to impose legal limitations upon the freedom of speech of others never identify their true objective. That always remains unspoken and unacknowledged. The objective is always falsified as something else: It is not nice to say things that may hurt someone's feelings; When directed toward certain individuals or groups, harsh, rude, prejudiced, uncivil, unfair, dishonest, or otherwise objectionable speech, it is argued, should be criminalized. All such deceptive arguments boil down to the silly notion that people should be permitted to say naughty things only when such speech is not directed toward "protected" persons or groups. Laws providing civil remedies for defamation are deemed not adequate because they don't block free speech as such, and because they do not criminalize the categories of speech sought to be suppressed. So called "hate speech" laws which criminalize speech deemed hateful when directed toward the persons or groups these laws are intended to benefit, formally render invisible the true purpose of such laws, which can then be described only by a deception. Read again the statement above attributed to President Ferenc Madl, who said he refused to sign the hate speech legislation because it could "restrict freedom to a greater extent than is constitutionally permissible." He tactfully chooses not to say that the proposed law would be constitutionally impermissible because it is intended to silence, thereby to disable and defeat, opposition to certain persons and groups the legislation is intended to benefit. I shouldn't have to point out that only those with supreme political power as well as stupendous audacity and arrogance could even contemplate seeking such a law by which to protect themselves from those who oppose them. It should be seen as the law of despotism, for despots have always relied on such laws to protect themselves from their enemies. [end] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 31 09:34:15 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 31 09:41:30 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/29/2003 - "Axis of Logic: Fear Factor Orange" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20031231093414.00e01720@getmail.lemire.com> Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 29, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: One of my favorite websites is called Axis of Logic at www.AxisofLogic.com It is a mix of carefully selected articles and editorials, and it consistently presents a global overview. Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I would like to not only visit but linger, but I have bookmarked it and visit as often as leisure (what leisure?) allows. Here is a nicely argued editorial - something I could relate to, after I tried to wind my way through absolutely ridiculous security at our nearest airport to see a relative off: [START] U.S. News/Comment Exclusive! Fear Factor Orange: Mind and Behavior Control in America, Manuel Valenzuela, Christmas, 2003 By Manuel Valenzuela* Dec 23, 2003, 07:46 [The lives and sacrifices of 3000 men and women should not be taken for granted. The deadly attacks of 9/11 should not be diminished. This article does neither. Threats do exist and concerns do arise, yet what we are experiencing today is much, much more than the government protecting us. It is manipulation, the greatest form of propaganda that is abusing our emotions and fears for political and powermongering gains.] It is that time of the year again when the nation erupts in an assortment of colors marking the holiday season. Green, red and white, Christmas colors are upon us. Colors of cheer and joy, of Christmas past and present. A new color, however, seems to have made its most unwelcome way into the cocktail of delight and merriment, once again attaching itself to the nation s pulse at a time of supposed warmth and happiness. The most un-Christmas-like color has infiltrated itself into our collective holiday cheer, creating with its presence a most frightful time of year. Like a most unwelcome neighbor or relative, orange has crept inside our homes and communities, making its annual appearance just in time to spoil our most cherished and comforting holiday. Like a bad flu, Fear Factor Orange has returned, after its prerequisite six month absence, just in time to instill fear into our Christmas cheer. Thanks to Tom Ridge and his Department of Homeland Insecurity we must face yet another season under cover of orange gloom. It is the Fear Factor, the instrument used by this administration that conditions us all to the coming usurpation of rights, freedoms and democracy and the introduction of the police state. It is the tool by which Bush inculcates his perceived leadership into our delirious brains, thereby assuring himself of our unwillingness to abandon the President-hero, the fighter of all evil, our Crusading Commander. Fear Factor Orange assures Bush that every three to six months the American public s never healing scars of 9/11 will re-open, pussing out once again our still fragile memories of the horrific tragedy that the administration never fails to conjure up. With the wave of the propaganda wand, Bush and his megalomaniac marketers make out of the President a fusion of Santa Claus, George Washington, Napoleon, Gandhi and the Almighty itself, reincarnated out of thin air to save the nation from imminent peril. It is the perfect public relations gimmick to help assure Bush a second term in office. And fear not, those who have grown dependent on Fear Factor Orange, it will return once or twice more before November 2004. Fear Factor Orange places in front of the masses the all too real and damaging emotions that we as a nation suffered on that most horrendous of days, where our innocence and perceived sense of infallibility were erased from the face of the earth. The construction of fear into our psyches places inside us our wanting for protection and salvation from those invisible yet perilous dangers of terrorism. It matters not that we cannot see the enemy, Fear Factor Orange conjures them up in our minds, full of bombs and bullets, hiding in every corner, ready to destroy us. In our search for self-preservation, therefore, we place our complete trust on the government to become the father figure we so desperately crave. The unthinking populace thus places into the hands of Bush the means to control and empower us. Through the use of fear Bush manipulates our behaviors, making us decapitated drones signing away our souls. Our animal emotions are resurrected every time ominous Fear Factor Orange glows from our television monitors. The rational, human brain is replaced by our primitive, older one that places the primordial necessity and interest of self-preservation ahead of the analytical, abstract-thinking side that makes us question authority and its sinister intentions. Our ability to weight complexities is forgotten, threats are too much to handle; we refuse to believe the reality of the absurdity and refuse to listen to the absurdity of the fantasy. This enables Bush and company to further induce cooperation and acquiescence to each and every mandate they enact from average Americans who do not realize, to their great detriment, the continued erosion of their once sacrosanct freedoms, rights and democratic institutions. Since 9/11, we have been told that in order to be made safe, in order to live in tranquility, we must place our undying trust in Bush and our government. In Bush We Trust. We must do as our government dictates for only it knows what is good for us. Fed insecurity and fear on an almost constant basis, either through government or corporate media propaganda, we are systemically brainwashed into believing that nobody is safe, that our nation is being attacked and that the future of our children is in peril. Forces of evil greater than anything we have ever faced are said to be invisibly flying throughout the nation, like winds carrying a deadly virus or toxin intent on destroying our way of life from within. Only by following the dictates of Bush, only by ignorantly and blindly obeying his commands will salvation be in our grasp. Only then will we be delivered from evil into the valley of heavenly safety. In order to achieve that which cannot be reached, we are told to sacrifice our freedoms, rights and liberties so we can be made safe. In truth, we are setting free onto the world and surrendering over to the authorities that control us the powers inherent in the people, those democratic principles passed down through generations of struggle and sacrifice that have for centuries saved us from the growing threat of autocracy we now face. That we continue to blindly relinquish the remaining freedoms that have not already been taken from us in the name of security and safety should only add to our growing concern at the direction this nation is heading in. Like drooling Pavlovian dogs, we are hypnotically following the glimmer of Fear Factor Orange down the road to fascism. Fear has been used wisely by this administration to rob us of the ingredients necessary to prevent and fight totalitarian governance from ever rising out of the fires of Hades. Like a flaming phoenix, however, this form of power is quickly rising, fed by our irrational give-away of that which we hold most dearly. Into the skies the phoenix flies, gorging on America s remaining ways of life. Smelling a most frightened nation on its journey from coast to coast, like a wild animal it grows ever more powerful, brave and confident, ready to attack our collective jugular and enjoy the tasty morsels and blood of a most satisfying kill. Our construct of reality has vanished in a haze of fog called fear. We are scared for the present, future, our children and ourselves. Anxiety runs in our blood, filling our veins and minds. The buttons of fright and terror being pushed by Bush drive us from normalcy to panic in a cruel game of tug-of-war whose only end result is the political manipulation towards re-election and psychological domination by exploitation. The takeover of the American mind, designed to make subservient slaves without thinking brains out of all of us, is gaining momentum, cruising like a monstrous freight train in its sojourn through the country, robbing and raping all who appear in its wake, infecting us with the fantasies of fear and insecurity that are slowly digging our graves. Through the abuse and manipulation of fear, domestic and foreign policy are being concocted to suit conservative ideology. Social programs and services are being imploded by those who have for years wished them away. A police state is emerging that is subverting freedoms once deemed inalienable. Police officers now punish with impunity those who dare protest the evils of the elite. Patriot Act I, and now II, are giving the government powers once thought unimaginable, the stuff of Orwellian fiction. Government secrecy is now the norm, accountability is a thing of the past. Detentions, surveillance, intrusions and privacy annihilation, is this the America of yesteryear? Are we approaching 2004, or 1984? Dissent and opposition are being curtailed, the nation is being wrapped around the flag. To support the pillage of our rights is to be patriotic, to fight the oligarchy is to cavort with the enemy. Our wages and soldiers are being sacrificed for the sake of the Leviathan, education is but a hollow dream that is leaving all children behind. Fascism is spreading like an epidemic, imperialism is rising its tentacles and the basic tenets of American life are being gobbled up by the corporate Leviathan. Meanwhile, Fear Factor Orange glows in the night sky, warning us all to be vigilant spies, untrusting of neighbors, aloof in our ways, living life paranoid at best and scared shitless at worst. Catatonic we have become in our understanding of the war on terror. Fear Factor Orange, that color signifying a high threat of terrorist attack, spooks and terrorizes, creating a belief that evil people want to kill us. That the threat is even more remote than being struck by lightning does not matter to a citizenry that still suffers the post-traumatic fatigue of 9/11. Not to minimize the atrocities by any means, but it must be mentioned that only a minute part of Manhattan was struck, only a small side of the Pentagon was attacked. Those 3000 we will never forget, heroes to all, symbols of what makes this country great. Yet we are 285 million strong, spread over vast terrains. We must realize that the 3000 men and women are being politicized for cynical purposes, to use fear as a political tool in the game of power and control. Do not forget that. Terrorists are not nation-states, their resources are finite, their numbers small. We are told to be vigilant, to be on the lookout for suspicious activity. This, consequently, places the eyes of hundreds of millions of citizens squarely, consciously or not, on the millions of Arab men and women who live in this country as Americans. Fear Factor Orange and paranoia combine to make of these citizens walking, breathing targets of unfair stereotypes, real or imagined, that fester in the American consciousness. Profiling and labeling thus combine to segregate moral, law abiding citizens. For them, Fear Factor Orange is indeed a time to fear and grow anxious. Bush should not be allowed to control our lives or our destinies. Ashcroft and Ridge should not dictate our stresses and concerns. Our government should not shamelessly insert fear into our already hectic lives. The threat of attack will always linger, a strike is most likely inevitable thanks to our foreign policy and arrogance, but to constantly alter our way of being, to give up our freedoms for our security, to create a world in which our children will never breathe the same rights we once had, is to acknowledge that the terrorist elements have already won. They have succeeded in terrorizing, in instilling fear, in having our government change the basic structure of our democracy. We must fight Bush s attempts to bankrupt us of all we cherish. We must keep living our dreams, keep pursuing our goals and we must never allow our democratic principles to dissipate like stone eroded by the sands of time. Our children must live in freedom, they must savor their rights. They must enjoy the fruits of the labors and sacrifices of descendents long gone and those built by our hands and minds because if forced to live in a world devoid of freedoms, they will never know what their parents once had, and you cannot miss something you never had. Thus, they will never fight and sacrifice for that which they never knew existed. If an attack manifests itself, whether it is today or ten years from now, we must simply rise like we always do, united as one, standing proud and strong, ready to mourn, pick up and keep on living. This is America, after all, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Suffering and mourning is the story of man, whether in World War I and II Europe or Civil War America, in hundreds of revolutions, battles or fights for freedom, to honor a people s way of life is to sacrifice and mourn, to evolve and stand strong. It is what determines the character of a people, the strength of a nation. Ask the world, nothing comes easy. We cannot allow those who would do us harm to triumph in altering our way of life, and we cannot allow Bush and company to assist in this endeavor. Our security is important, but not at the expense of our freedoms, rights, liberties and democracy. It is not at the expense of creating a police state where we are all potential suspects and victims. The loss of our freedoms and rights should not come at the expense of the rise of a fascist state under the guise of comfort and refuge. For if we allow this to happen, we will have neither and the great reality that is the United States will fade away into dusty memories of oblivion. In the long history of mankind our era will be but a small blur buried and forgotten by the sands of time. Don t let Bush succeed. Decry fearmongering. Remember, what does not kill you makes you stronger. Fear not, for life is all about conquering that which we most fear. [END] ? Copyright 2003 by AxisofLogic.com Reprints - To Websites You are permitted to reprint, copy, reproduce and post a copy of this article. We ask you to includ a link to the original URL at Axis of Logic. Please do not edit the article or make any alterations. Thank you for your courtesy. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 31 09:34:21 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 31 09:41:53 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/30/2003 - "Hungarian President refuses to sign Legislation Outlawing Criticism of Jews" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20031231093421.01126c18@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: A President with backbone - believe it or not! Enjoy! [START] December 30, 2003 Hungarian President refuses to sign Legislation Outlawing Criticism of Jews December 25, 2003 -- Recently, Jews living in Hungary were able to push through a law, adopted earlier this month by parliament, stipulating that any person who publicly expresses hatred toward Jews could face three years in prison. And, someone who publicly insults a Jew could be found guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to up to two years of imprisonment. The Jews were very disappointed that the law was accepted by only a slim majority of just four votes with 184 parliamentarians saying yes, while 180 said no. Now, in a surprise development, President Ferenc Madl said he refuses to sign the hate speech legislation because the bill could "restrict freedom to a greater extent than is constitutionally permissible." . . . Full story: fpp.co.uk * * * Commentary by Mel Fowler: Almost never do I see this issue correctly, or honestly, analyzed. That is to say, analyzed in a manner to identify the excruciatingly elementary truth underlying efforts to suppress freedom of speech. The endeavor to limit freedom of speech always acts on a wish to silence, thereby to disable and defeat, opposition. That is ALL it is. Of course, those who endeavor to impose legal limitations upon the freedom of speech of others never identify their true objective. That always remains unspoken and unacknowledged. The objective is always falsified as something else: It is not nice to say things that may hurt someone's feelings; When directed toward certain individuals or groups, harsh, rude, prejudiced, uncivil, unfair, dishonest, or otherwise objectionable speech, it is argued, should be criminalized. All such deceptive arguments boil down to the silly notion that people should be permitted to say naughty things only when such speech is not directed toward "protected" persons or groups. Laws providing civil remedies for defamation are deemed not adequate because they don't block free speech as such, and because they do not criminalize the categories of speech sought to be suppressed. So called "hate speech" laws which criminalize speech deemed hateful when directed toward the persons or groups these laws are intended to benefit, formally render invisible the true purpose of such laws, which can then be described only by a deception. Read again the statement above attributed to President Ferenc Madl, who said he refused to sign the hate speech legislation because it could "restrict freedom to a greater extent than is constitutionally permissible." He tactfully chooses not to say that the proposed law would be constitutionally impermissible because it is intended to silence, thereby to disable and defeat, opposition to certain persons and groups the legislation is intended to benefit. I shouldn't have to point out that only those with supreme political power as well as stupendous audacity and arrogance could even contemplate seeking such a law by which to protect themselves from those who oppose them. It should be seen as the law of despotism, for despots have always relied on such laws to protect themselves from their enemies. [end] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Dec 31 09:34:37 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Dec 31 10:26:30 2003 Subject: ZGram - 12/31/2003 - "Germany's shameful statistics for ThoughtCrimes" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20031231093436.00e01720@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! December 31, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Let's state the following, as clearly as we can. Having exhausted all other resources, and having watched in horror their carefully constructed edifice of lies fall apart, in 2003 the Holocaust Lobby saw itself reduced to one last act of desperation - to kidnapping Ernst Zundel, one of the world's most outspoken challengers to their audacious, money-making hoax. In years to come, will this criminal act be known as their final hurrah? We know that history will judge, since Truth can't be destroyed. Maybe the coming year already will see that judgment spoken. We take this opportunity to record and archive to what extent these liars fear the truth, especially in still - but not forever! - thought-controlled, manipulated Germany. The statistics below were compiled by Germar Rudolf, the brilliant scientist of chemistry who not only verified but refined and scientifically cemented the forensic findings of Fred Leuchter, commissioned by Ernst Zundel in the midst of the 1988 Great Holocaust Trial, that genocidal gassings of incarcerated Jews could not have happened in World War II German concentration camps as claimed. Science does not lie, not even for the "Nazis". As David Irving put it so plainly, "... more people died in the back seat of Senator Ted Kennedy's car than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz." [START] Dear friends! A recent mailing by Michael Santomauro made a false claim regarding the numbers of people fined and jailed over the last decade in Germany for "Thought Crimes." He stated that some 8,000 people were fined or jailed for Thought Crimes during the last decade. As a reaction to my correction of this figure, which Michael sent around subsequently, several persons voiced their disbelief about the figures given by me. Let me therefore go into more detail here. I have steadily documented the figures of people prosecuted in Germany for "Thought Crimes" since 1997 on my website at www.vho.org/censor/D.html#stats . These figures stem directly from the German authorities, here from their yearly "Report of the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution" (Verfassungschutzbericht), which gets its information from the German Federal Bureau of Investigation (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA). The German authorities are particularly proud to successfully and effectively prosecute so many "political extremists" for their "illegal expressions of opinion". This authority's website can be found at www.verfassungsschutz.de The reports with the relevant figures of the last two years can be found at: www.bmi.bund.de/Annex/de_24336/Verfassungsschutzbericht_2002.pdf and www.bmi.bund.de/Annex/de_20737/Verfassungsschutzbericht_2001_-_Pressefassung .pdf Those reports list criminal prosecutions against individuals who have committed crimes for political reasons. Those crimes are divided into several categories, some consisting of "normal crimes" (violent and non-violent, like murder, robbery, theft, assault, destruction of/damaging to property, etc.) and "unnormal" crimes ("propaganda offenses," stirring up the people, and the like). I summarized only those prosecutions concerning "unnormal" crimes, that is: only those, which were committed by merely stating an opinion by, e.g., publishing a text, selling, distributing, storing, importing, exporting, or offering a medium (pampflet, flyer, sticker, book, video, CD...), holding a speech, wearing insignia, waving a flag, streching an arm, being member of an (organized or non-organized) "illegal" group, participating in an outlawed assembly/demonstration, singing prohibited songs, etc. Thus, the following figures include only such crimes, which are described by the German authorities themselves as such - "Propaganda Delicts," i.e., THOUGHT CRIMES - which are covered by the First Amendmend to the U.S. Constitution. (Figures for 2003 estimated to make it a complete decade): Year Right* Left** Foreign*** Sum ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1994 5,562 185 235 5,982 1995 6,555 256 276 7,087 1996 7,585 557 818 8,960 1997 10,257 1,063 1,029 12,349 1998 9,549 1,141 1,832 12,522 1999 8,698 1,025 1,525 11,248 2000 13,863 979 525 15,367 2001 8,874 429 353 9,656 2002 9,807 331 467 10,605 2003~ 9,000 300 400 9,700 ======================================== Total: 89,703 6,266 7,946 103,915 !!!!!!! >> ONE HUNDRED AND THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FIVE << ~ estimate for 2003. * "Offenses with right wing extremist background", that is: "Propaganda Offenses" and "Stirring up the People" ** Left: "Offenses with left wing extremist background", generally referred to as "other offenses", i.e., crimes not covered by the usual definition of a crime (=thought crime) *** Foreign: offenses committed by foreign extremists, that is, crimes not covered by the usual definition of a crime (=thought crime). These are primarily "thought crimes" committed by Turks and Kurds in their ongoing civil war against each other on German soil. NOTE: These figures are **prosecutions** started by the German authorities for recorded "Thought Crimes." Not all of them led to convictions, because culprits could only be found in an unknown fraction of these cases. Only a small fraction of these cases led to prison terms, and again only a fraction of them were not suspended. Therefore, it may be assumed that 100,000 prosecutions per decade might have led to 50,000 persons being tried; most of them were fined; perhaps a few thousand of them received prison terms, of which perhaps several hundreds had to serve their term (between a few months and up to five years). Only the latter category would correctly be referred to as "political prisoners." Many individuals sentenced to prison terms for their revisionist views belong into this category (Remer, Deckert, Leuchter, Schmidt, Walendy, Witzsch, T?ben, Rudolf,...). Did anybody think I was joking when I went into exile and applied for political asylum in America? It seams that not even most revisionists have fathomed the degree to which Germany was transmogrified into a Stalinist dictatorship over the last two decades. Germar Rudolf [END] [END]