From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Jun 1 16:36:08 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 1 18:36:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/1/2003 - "Canada: A Modern Guantabananamo" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 1, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I haven't yet had word about how the Toronto Zundel Protest Demonstration went, but I helped suggest a few paragraphs to be read at the event, which I culled out of several hundreds of letters I have, by now, received - all saying, in effect: Have you lost your mind completely, Absurdistan, to charge Ernst Zundel with being "a danger to the security of Canada" and, worse, a "terrorist"? Here is my favorite with which to end this stressful week: [START] Lisbon, 31 May 2003 Imprisonment of Ernst Z?ndel, a peaceful man and a free spirit Dear Sir/Madam The persecution of Ernst Z?ndel by the Canadian government is truly astonishing and its political implications will not go away. What is being done today to a peaceful, honest man whose views include a passionate belief in freedom and justice, and who is guilty of absolutely no crime or misdemeanour whatsoever, but the expression of his own thoughts, is already taking the shape of an international scandal. If Z?ndel is not left free to choose his own lawful movements and the place of his residence, believe me, it will be known and remembered. If he is sent to Germany against his will for no reason at all but the whims of the rulers of a once great nation where people used to live under the law, it may happen that the new status of Canada as a Northern Guantabananamo, a sinister backwater whose duties include the persecution and abuse of innocent men that not even the governement presently in power in the United States would dare to label a security menace, will, step by step, overgrow the Northern Absurdistan image. What is coming your way is not an Absurdistan but a totalitarian dictatorship. The unprincipled and stupid little men in office, who cannot measure the consequences of their abuse of the law, will one day be astonished to see -- like Messieurs Fabius and Gayssot, in France already do -- that their main claim to fame will be precisely the actions they most would like to forget and make others forget. The struggle for freedom is all-encompassing and indivisible and directly connected to the quest for truth, and in this sense it is the mirror image of the 20th century political totalitarianisms, with their empires of flickering lies, their wars of global terror and their terrorist rulers. This is why the little people in office should start thinking hard about what they are doing to their country and to themselves, even if they do not care about Ernst Z?ndel's civil rights. And this is why they should be restituting Ernst Z?ndel's precious freedom to him with no more delay. Antonio S. Marques Lisbon, Portugal [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 2 02:10:15 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 2 08:15:37 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/2/2003 - "Yesterday's Zundel Rally" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 2, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: It was certainly nice to wake up to some good news for a change! This just came in from Paul Fromm who sponsored and coordinated yesterday's Zundel Rally. And this is only the beginning - trust me! By the way, again I haven't heard from Ernst for more than three days. It always worries me when there is silence. I hope he will call me today. I am keeping the write-up below intact, but I want to add a word of caution. Paul Fromm is giving out the address of Ernst's prison. Ernst has asked me repeatedly not to give out the prison address since his enemies pose as his "friends" and write filthy and violent letters which the prison authorities (and others) can use to make life difficult for Ernst. If you write, identify yourself clearly and refrain from irresponsible statements. Please! It does not help to behave the way our enemies are known to behave, and the way they would like us to behave. Here is an account of what happened yesterday - and if you write, tell Paul also how much you appreciate his efforts - and support him if you can! paul@paulfromm.com [START] "FREE ERNST ZUNDEL, POLITICAL PRISONER," PROTESTERS DEMAND IN TORONTO REXDALE -- Over 50 people from across Ontario rallied today outside the Metro West Detention Centre here to protest the continued detention of German-born publisher Ernst Zundel. Protesters demanded an end to secret hearings that have marked part of all his previous detention hearings. They called for freedom for the man whom Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, labelled "a political prisoner." The demonstration, with more than a dozen large Red Ensigns, the flag of the old pre-New World Order Canada, snapping in the breeze, began with the launching of a small kite. The kite, made in the form of a Canada Goose, soared in the crisp wind and displayed its message: "Hi Ernst." The demonstration, organized by the Canadian Association for Free Expression, Canada's leading free speech advocacy group, drew supporters from other groups around Southern Ontario. Representatives were present from the Canadian Heritage Alliance, the Northern Alliance, the Nationalist Party, HF Niagara and the Freedom Party. Speaking to the protesters outside the prison, Paul Fromm reminded thanked them for being there to bear witness. "We're not going to let this peaceful writer and thinker rot in a Canadian jail and be mistreated," he pledged. "The eyes of the world are upon you," he shouted in the direction of several wary guards who stayed a good distance away. Fromm explained the degrading conditions the jailers had kept Mr. Zundel in when he first arrived on May 16. His toiletries --toothbrush, soap, towel -- were kept in the grimy hall outside his cell. He'd have to ask for them each time he wanted to use them. "In a place that is now shut down to all visitors because of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), such filthy treatment is degrading and dangerous." Mr. Zundel was denied the use of a razor for his first five days there: "Maybe tomorrow," he'd be told by guards. He was allowed one phone call in the first 48 hours. For the next three days, requests to make a call drew the standard, "Maybe tomorrow," answer. Most of Mr. Zundel's legal papers were also kept in the public hall outside his cell where they had gotten wet and damaged. He was allowed to have one sent in at a time. On May 21, Mr. Fromm protested to prison authorities and Minister of Public Safety and Security Bob Runciman. Conditions improved somewhat. Mr. Zundel is now allowed more regular phone calls and all his legal papers are now inside his cell. Still conditions are demeaning, Fromm explained. "Mr. Zundel is not permitted to have a pen or highlighter, despite having to mark up and co-ordinate piles of legal documents several feet thick. All he's allowed is a stub of pencil, like the one you'd use to mark a bowling score." "They're trying to break him and get him to say, 'I give up. Send me back to Germany.' We're here to say, 'No you won't' to Canada's corrupt political establishment and the minorities they serve," Fromm vowed. Wolfgang Mueller, who has done invaluable translation work in the detention hearings, spoke briefly in German for our overseas Internet audience. Melissa Guille, head of the London Branch of the Canadian Heritage Alliance, also declared support for the cause of Mr. Zundel's freedom. "We don't care whether the press covers this protest or not," Fromm told cheering supporters. "We have our own media and that's the Internet. People will see photos, video and audio of this protest around the world by tonight," he promised. The protest ended in a spirited rendition of "Hope" a new song and the protest's theme led Blago Simeonov, a talented musician from Bulgaria, whose lively song ended the protest on an upbeat note. ************************************************************************************************************* Friends of free thought, Ernst Zundel really needs your help. > > 1. If you live abroad, write to the Canadian Embassy in your >country and demand Zundel's release and humane treatment. > > 2. If you live in southern Ontario and wish to visit, call >ahead to Security: 416-675-1806 Ext. 4220. You must be on Zundel's >approved list. He didn't know he was supposed to submit a list of >visitors he'd like to see. You can also get directions, when you >call. > > 3. No matter where you live, why not send a card or letter to >encourage Ernst Zundel. Write Prisoner Ernst Zundel, c/o Metro West >Detention Centre, 111 Disco Road, Rexdale, ON., M9W 1M3. > > 4. We also need your financial support for Mr. Zundel's defence. > > We have a number of delicate colour-pencil sketches by Ernst >Zundel done in prison. Each is dated and signed. Each is a nature >study. Mr. Zundel has long been a paint and sketch artist. He had >returned to his love of art before the U.S. I.N.S picked him up and >deported him. >. > If you send us a cheque for $100 or more, we'll send you one >of these collector's items, a thank you sketch by political prisoner >Ernst Zundel. > > Mail your donation today to CAFE Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W >5L3, Canada or e-mail us your VISA number and expiry date. On your >cheque or an accompanying piece of paper, note: "For Zundel Defence >Fund." >_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ With less than 36 hours warning, the protest had received letters of support from around the world, from Australia, Germany, England, Scotland, France, Portugal and from people in 8 U.S. States and four provinces. Here are brief excerpts from the support from around the world. "Bravo, Paul. Please give my warm regards to Doug (and to Mr and Mrs Zundel whom I've not met). 'Yours in comradeship' (as say Brit veterans - eyewitnesses in Palestine 1945-48)" -- Michele Lady Renouf, London, England "The great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, once said, 'Here's freedom to him who would speak, Here's freedom to him who would write, For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard, Save he who the truth would indict.' True then as it is today. Free Ernst Zundel, and remember, the TRUTH WILL OUT. Jim Burns, Glasgow, Scotland. "The Canadian governments unjust treatment of Ernst Z?ndel gives rise to great concern. It reminds me strongly at the real conditions we have in Germany now. A small minority of zionists, organized in "Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland", watches carefully every spoken and written word concerning the so called "Holocaust". According to the laws in force you will never get the chance for a fair trial. No judge would dare to counteract the orders of the zionist lobby. So Mr. Zundels fate would be definitely prison for a long time without a chance to be released on parole - thats only for criminals like murderers, drugdealers and so on. You would be surprised to find out that there is no pardon to expect - e.g. many eyewitness, old people of eighty and more years were sent to prison only because they stated in written or even oral form I didn`t hear, experience or see anything like that during the war as stated by the many Jewish "testimonies" even if they contradict the known principles of science. So please dear Canadians be on the watch and try to do everything as to prevent something similiar to the real conditions in Germany. Fight for the freedom of speech before it is too late.You will do something real good for all those people suffering under the present conditions. Who knows maybe the fate of Mr. Zundel will be ours too if we dont fight agaist it in time. All my best wishes for Mr. Zundel and his wife. God will be with you." -- Heinz-Otto Lehmann, Wilhelmshaven - Germany " It seems that Canada has joined the unholy Germany where there are by now uncounted political prisoners languishing in jail for not agreeing with the history preached since the end of the Second War. Ernst Zuendel is held hostage without a proper reason.He is a man of peace and it is a travesty of justice [if there is any semblance of justice left in this country] to hold him in the most inhuman imprisonment." -- Helmut Becker, B.C., Canada. "This is to register my dismay that someone would be prosecuted/persecuted for his historical research. This prosecution/persecution must not be considered as against one man but human kind and liberty per se. But one man is now taking the brunt. Irnst Zundel. Is it not ironic that those who charge Zundel are the most guilty of that which they accuse him? " -- Robert P. Kelso Professor (Ret.) U.S.A. "Free Zundel, the freedom fighter! Free Canada and the world from zionazis." -- Tomasz Iwanowski, Mississauga, Ontario "I believe that the man Ernst and the woman, Ingrid have a vision to see their beloved land once again freed from more insidious chains than communism. They work tirelessly to this end. Ernst is a dangerous man because he has ideas that could bring the holocaust shrine to the ground, that the world would see it for the atrocity and hollow, rotten structure that it is. They fear this, who love and live off the shrine. They are afraid that their hatreds and deceptions might be revealed. And they will be! Ernst is the tool now. He is being forged in the disreputable jail that has become his home, being honed for perhaps a larger battle, a greater purpose, and he is not alone. We are with him. We in the states, in Texas. We are with you, Ernst Zundel, and I personally appreciate you. Thank you for taking such a stand. Thank you for the spirit of freedom we all believe and need for Germany. If Germany is freed, then we will all be freed because the ugly shrine of the holocaust will have shattered, come down like the Iron Curtain did. Thank you for hanging tough. We salute you." -- Diane King, Cushing, Texas "What in the world is going on in Canada? The Canadian government's mistreatment of Ernst Zundel is appalling to say the least! Mr Zundel is a pacifist who has been a victim of terrorist attacks, not a perpetrator! The Canadian governments actions resemble those of Stalinist Russian, rather than that of a free democratic judicial system. You Canadians should spend your time and energy finding and exposing the real cause to Mr Zundel's problems than terrorizing this innocent pacifist. The whole world is watching and your actions will speak for future generations to see. Perhaps George Orwell was correct when he wrote his fictional account of Big Brother - perhaps his visionary insight was into the Canadian (and US) government being run by the paranoid few who were compelled to suppress free speech and the truth it exposes. The whole world is watching!" -- Heinz H. Bartesch, San Rafael, CA " I request that Ernst Z?ndel immediately be released from unwarranted detention, because he was persecuted for his ideas. WE ARE NOT A COMMUNIST STATE, where we can't express our mind, are we? Mr. CODERRE MUST ACT N O W ! D O W N with PERSECUTION and SUPPRESSION!" -- Louis Horvath 56 Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Toronto, Ontario " I support this courageous and decent man wholeheartedly!" -- Linda Ashenbach, Lorain, Ohio "Z?ndel is a dangerous man only because his thoughts might liberate millions of Germans, including myself, from the self serving assertion made by Jews called the "Holocaust". From the millions and millions of people who died before, during and after the second World War, only a much inflated number of Jews matter, the rest of the victims are forgotten. Is this how you want history to be written? If you value free speech, the foundation of any civilized society, then you will not want to ship Ernst Z?ndel to a country like Germany where the laws in force today are still those established over half a century ago to suit the victors, including Soviet Russia. These laws were not made for the German people. For example, to this day there is no "free speech" permitted for Germans, the main reason for the efforts to send Ernst Z?ndel back to the country of his birth! I am also appalled at the way the Canadian government and some of its agencies have treated one of its own long-term residents. Ernst Z?ndel has never harmed anyone! Ernst Z?ndel has no criminal record! Ernst Z?ndel has never been a burden to the Canadian taxpayers! Ernst Z?ndel is a good man! He was also a devoted husband and family man! Please make every effort to free Ernst Z?ndel. He is already a 64 years old and may not have many more years left. Please enable him to go home to his loving wife in the foot hills of the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee and allow him to live out the rest his years in peace." -- Friedrich Adam Fayetteville, GA ===== Pictures of the rally are now online. ALSO, about 15 minutes of video and 18 minutes of audio are on-line, which people can download and see how the protest went. http://www.zundelsite.org/zundel_persecuted/mwdc_rally_pictures.html Please spread the word so people can go and see the largest "Free Zundel" protest yet! ===== From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 2 06:09:16 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 2 08:15:46 2003 Subject: *** Interim Zundelsite message: Humor wanted! **** Message-ID: June 2, 2003 Interim Zundelsite message: We need more ideas like this one below that was sent to us from South Africa, where a group of 7 (seven!) suspected Holocaust Deniers are getting ready to vacation in Canada. One of the ladies suggested this letter as a precaution (here modified a bit...): [START] To the Canadian Tourist Board To whom it may concern We would like to know, whether it is still safe to bring larger groups of tourists to Canada. So far we have been reluctant to organize one, let alone advertise it, in spite of some demand, because * There is a strong buzz all over the Internet that an alleged holocaust denier - but otherwise perfectly law abiding citizen - by the name of Ernst Zundel was taken prisoner without warning, warrant or reason given in the beginning of February and is still held in a Canadian high security prison under almost subhuman conditions, for good measure even charged with being a (gulp!) "terrorist"!. * Can the Canadian World Travel Board therefore give us a 100% guarantee that our tourists will not be molested, frisked, detained or have to undergo an interrogation (which could play havoc with our time schedules) at the Canadian border or air ports as suspected holocaust deniers, and consequently be arrested? [END] Similar ideas are requested. Use humor - and shame the self-serving censors! I will put together a letter that's going to be a smash where we could really optimize publicity mileage! Also, think of other industries that could be similarly warned of a Holocaust Denier sneak invasion. These critters appear cultured and sophisticated, as the ADL has repeatedly and grimly warned! Ingrid From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 2 15:18:10 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 2 17:33:11 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/2/2003 - "CSIS on the hot seat..." Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 2, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This might be a significant development in whether or not Ernst Zundel is going to obtain his freedom after all. Remember that it is CSIS, the Canadian civilian spy agency, that has supplied in camera - that is, secret - information to Canada's Immigration Minister, permitting him to certify Ernst Zundel as a "danger to the security of Canada" and even as being a "terrorist." Neither Ernst nor his attorney were allowed to know who supplied the so-called "evidence" for this obscene and utterly off-the-wall charge. Remember also that, according to investigative reporter, Adrew Mitrovica, author of "Covert Entry", it was CSIS that knew about a parcel bomb meant to assassinate Ernst Zundel in 1995. This bomb was shipped on several passenger airlines from Vancouver to Toronto to Ottawa and back to Toronto without anyone being notified that a deadly cargo was aboard - although a CSIS agent, snooping on the Zundel mail, was explicitly warned not to touch a parcel for Ernst Zundel coming from Vancouver. Now it turns out that CSIS's toes are being held to the coals by Canada's Opposition Party regarding a frighteningly similar case that happened almost two decades ago. Read on, and draw your own conclusions: [START] Opposition wants probe of CSIS 'cover-up' By ALLISON LAWLOR Globe and Mail Update Opposition MPs demanded Monday that the Liberal government call a full public inquiry into the possible involvement of a CSIS spy in the inner circle of the Air-India bombing conspiracy. Court documents recently released suggest that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service knew about the Air-India bombing before it happened but failed to report it to the RCMP, Canadian Alliance MP Kevin Sorenson said in the House of Commons Monday. "Will the Solicitor-General call a full public inquiry to ensure that there was full disclosure on the part of CSIS?" Mr. Sorenson asked. Solicitor-General Wayne Easter fired back saying that "to suggest that CSIS for any reason would pull back from an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation and jeopardize the lives of Canadians and others, Mr. Speaker, is absolutely absurd." Mr. Easter said the case is before the courts and his intention is to see it to its conclusion. "I am not going to in any way, Mr. Speaker, potentially jeopardize the case by making comments that might be misconstrued," Mr. Easter said during Question Period. "I am not commenting on the case." Canadian Alliance justice critic Vic Toews repeated the call for an inquiry, saying the victims' families deserved to know if there was a cover-up. Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien promised a public inquiry into the bombing years ago and should deliver on his promise before he leaves office, Mr. Toews said. "There is no cover-up," Mr. Easter said. NDP MP Alexa McDonough demanded to know what steps the Solicitor-General had taken to ensure that proper civilian oversight of CSIS existed. Mr. Easter pointed to the conclusions of a 1991 security intelligence review committee. After investigating the Air-India bombing, the committee concluded there was no truth to the allegations of cover-up, he said. Court documents released last week indicate that a CSIS mole may have been part of the conspiracy and may have been told to back away from the group a few days before the disasters to ensure that CSIS was not implicated in the deaths. Two RCMP officers identified an outspoken Canadian advocate of Sikh separatism in India, Surjan Singh Gill, as a CSIS spy. "Mr. Surgan Singh Gill was involved in this right from the start and was probably directed by certain people to stay involved and to learn what was going on," RCMP Inspector Lorne Schwartz stated on Oct. 28, 2000, while interrogating one of the defendants in the Air-India trial. RCMP Sergeant Jim Hunter said Mr. Gill, at the behest of his CSIS handlers, wrote out a note resigning from the group before the bombs were placed on the aircraft. "His CSIS agents have told [Mr. Gill] to back out," Sgt. Hunter stated. "They told him to get out of there. That things are happening and you can't be seen as part of that." CSIS refused to comment Sunday on whether Mr. Gill was one of their agents. "The matter is before the court, and we're not in a position to comment," Nicole Currier, a CSIS spokeswoman, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. The Air-India bombings on June 23, 1985, remain the deadliest crime in Canadian history. Businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik and millworker Ajaib Singh Malik are being tried on murder charges. The trial, which began on April 28, is not intended to answer questions about the multimillion-dollar investigation by the RCMP and CSIS. However, several documents submitted to the court in pretrial hearings deal with the activities of the police force and the security agency. An RCMP memo, marked confidential, shows that CSIS agents started surveillance of Mr. Gill on June 25, 1985, two days after the Air-India bombings. CSIS began wiretapping his phone a week after the explosions. The Mounties spoke with Mr. Gill on 24 occasions up to September, 1999. In the mid-1990s, prosecutor Robert Wright endorsed a plan to offer immunity from prosecution to Mr. Gill in exchange for his co-operation, the documents also show. With reports from Robert Matas in Vancouver [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 4 06:51:24 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Jun 4 08:53:00 2003 Subject: ZGram - June 3, 2003 - "EZ's PRE-REMOVAL RISK ASSESSMENT Document" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 4, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is an important historical document that I will place on the Zundelsite and preserve in our archives for scholars in the future. It is Ernst's PRE-REMOVAL RISK ASSESSMENT, which is to pave the way for deportation to Germany, if Zundel Enemies will get their way. Paul Fromm, his legal representative, will take these papers tomorrow to Canadian Immigration. I would like to add a few words of something that I hardly ever speak about in order not to hurt Ernst's feelings - but it needs to be said in this context: Ernst was a post-war child, which means he had an absolutely atrocious childhood education - if "education" can even be claimed. There were 93 hungry, frozen kids in his classroom. He had no shoes, no warm clothing, very little food. Before he went to school and after he came home, as the oldest son he was required to help his mother fend for his siblings. He was a sickly child, with many lung infections, that made him miss huge chunks of school days. He has often told me what torture he had to endure to acquire what little formal education he could. He was only allowed eight years of grammar school - his parents were too poor to allow him to go on to higher education. The language he spoke at home was the spoken-only Swabian dialect - so that, by the time he got to trade school as a 17-year-old in another city, he had to learn High German as a "foreign language." Two years later he emigrated to Canada, where he immersed himself in English and French - his third and fourth language. What I am saying is that Ernst is largely self-taught - and when it comes to spelling, punctuation and even syntax, such concepts have no meaning whatsoever for our brave Warrior for the Truth! Worse yet, when I met him and tried to help him put his truly independent and incisive political thoughts and conclusions into proper English so as to make them understandable, I ran into the proverbial brick wall! For some reason, he was extremely sensitive about the subject of his atrocious compositions that make perfect sense in his head and in his spoken language, and I found myself on the receiving end of many a furious lecture that he had done just fine without me, thank you! - and please not to mess with his output! Was it Sam Goldwyn that treated the world to his amazing dangling modifiers and such? Think of EZ when you think of Sam Goldwyn! Now with me it was a bit different. I can't sing, I can't paint, I can't swim - I cannot even cook! But I love language - words in a proper sentence have profound life and meaning for me! As a small child in World War II, I had the advantage of a grammarian mother/teacher who threatened to scalp me if I lost or misplaced as much as a comma! Additionally, in mid-adulthood, with no more than three years' worth of grammar school, I managed to bully my way into an American University and threatened to grow roots there unless I was provided a formal education. When I am tired, my poor eyesight gets in the way of some spelling, but I instinctively understand the power of words and try to apply the proper grammar principles that govern the power of thought. It has taken me years to convince Ernst that I really mean well - and that I do not lord it over him if I do a bit of nipping and tucking! Now, to my horror, I just realized this morning that one of the most important documents of his life will be submitted in the original Ernst Zundel Grammar Mode! I don't think there is still time to fix it - nor is there opportunity. I am letting you see, below, what I believe Ernst meant to say. An iron rule of editing, a famous editor once told me, is merely to rearrange and cut - but not to add, unless additions are so marked. I cut and rearranged. I haven't added anything unless so indicated in square brackets. With that in mind, here is what is going to go into the historical record: [START] Canadian Association for Free Expression Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 Ph: 905-897-7221; FAX: 905-277-3914 Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director June 3, 2003 Citizenship and Immigration Office, 6080 McLeod Road, Niagara Falls, ON, L26 7T4 re: PRRA INFO. CLIENT ID: 2218-7604. ERNST ZUNDEL To Whom It May Concern: I am the legal representative for Ernst Zundel and am hereby delivering his Pre-Removal Risk Assessment which he has prepared under very difficiult conditions in segregation, without pens, photocopy access, or highlighters in the Metro West Detention Centre. His only writing instrument has been a stub of pencil. This deprivation has curtailed his ability to present a full and professional case. I have had his pencil-written text transcribed for easier reading. I have included the pencil-written original. This is being presented under protest in light of the degradation and deprivation he has suffered which have adversely impacted his ability to fully present his case. Sincerely yours, Paul Fromm ===== ERNST ZUNDEL - MANUSCRIPT - June 3, 2003 Ernst Zundel #2218-7604 Toronto West Detention Center 111 Disco Rd. Box 4950 Rexdale, Ontario M9W 1M3 Tel: (905) 354-2143 Toronto 29.5.3 Citizenship and Immigration 6080 McCleod Rd. Unit #14 Niagara Falls, Ontario L2G 7T4 RE: Preremoval risk assessment. To Whom It May Concern: Friends filed the first set PRRA forms, filled out by me in Niagara Falls, by personal delivery well within the required deadline. With this letter, you will receive a second envelope of commented [on] and highlighted documents, prepared by me in my jail cell at best I could. We are not allowed Post-It-Notes, no yellow [or] other-colored highlighters, no staples and no binders. Please keep that in mind when assessing these documents. I will give you a list at the end of this letter of what documents it contains. You will be receiving a third set of documents, either directly or via a Canadian friend, colleague or agent, sent to you by my wife who lives in the United States. Please make certain that the caseworker will receive all documents sent to you pertaining to me. Now, to my submissions - why I fear harassment, persecution and mental tortures by German Authorities: Modern-day Germany is not an ordinary state evolved over the centuries like France, England, Canada, Australia or America. Modern-day Germany is an instrument for the subjugation and control of a conquered population, created by the victorious Allied Military Powers, who were the enemies of Germany in and after WWII. The Allied Military Governors ruled their respective zones of military occupation by military decrees. Only after the "Cold War" developed did the victors in East and West create puppet states, calling them "democratic" - which they [are] in name only! In reality, their founding documents, like " Basic Laws", were dictated to hand-picked, Allied-chosen founding groups of politicians, so-called "democrats" in the West - and Socialists, Marxists and Communists of every stripe in the East. The judiciary was bequeathed by the Allies to the Germans by the same method - they hand-picked the personnell for the police, the courts, the judges and the prosecutors. Anyone who ignores the most basic facts of German's postwar history cannot possibly claim to understand the modern German apparition called the "Federal Republic of Germany". [After the war], the Allies outlawed and weeded out all the vestiges of Germany's initially democratically elected National Socialist Party which governed Germany under "Emergency Laws" from 1933 -1945 - similar to Canada's "War Measures Act", modified in the 1970s by Pierre Elliot [Trudeau's] Liberal Government. Thus, the Allied victors outlawed with the stroke of a pen Germany's governing political elite and its governing institutions. Tens of thousands of Party and Government personnel were arrested, jailed in prisons or Allied concentration Camps taken over from the Germans. They were often starved, tortured, beaten - tens of thousands died! What replaced these people and their institutions were hand-picked "Quislings", functioning [in] newly created Allied-bestowed institutions - from village policeman to ordinary postmen. That Allied-imposed and installed System has perpetuated itself in power in East and West to this day. This situation did not change with the partial reunification of 1989 after the collapse of the Communist "dictatorship of the proletariat". ===== I am one of the many tens of millions of Germans who understand this historic tragedy which befell Germany after 1945 and comprehend the political realities - this legacy of our unconditional surrender [militarily] created [by Allied occupiers] of Germans and Germany "on the ground". The German "Quisling State" has ruthlessly persecuted all those politically-aware Germans who wanted to correct this abnormal situation by the spoken or written word, or by the ballot box, ever since its creation. In the 1970s, a global historical movement arose, called "Revisionism", composed of academics, historians, writers, poets [and] political and cultural leaders, who wanted to right the wrongs of the postwar puppet state with [its] draconian, antidemocratic, repressive laws and regulations, stifling freedom of speech and research. As this global intellectual movement grew in importance and impact - especially in the German ethnic and language states of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, [the Allied-imposed government] advocated ever more anti-democratic laws and measures to stop this attempt at peaceful, democratic self-assertion, self-renewal and revision. Soon, the courtrooms and then the prisons of these states were filled with tens of thousands of nonviolent "Thought Criminals". I was, and still am, one of the leading figures of this Revisionist movement and process. ===== Thanks to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms and also Anglo-Saxon legal traditions, I won all my court cases involving Revisionist publications, leaving me without a criminal record in Canada to this date. Not so in Germany, where I was convicted for my thoughts and writings in 1995 under these anti-democratic laws. There exists [in Germany] no meaningful Charter of Rights Guarantees, and no hate laws like in Canada, where Truth is the ultimate defence of an accused person. [Ingrid's comment: For readers not deeply immersed in the Zundel struggle, this might be a bit confusing - it sometimes is to me! Ernst was never charged, much less convicted, under Canada's Hate Laws, because such a charge would have allowed him TO PRESENT HISTORICAL TRUTH AS A DEFENSE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. However, under the obscene Human Rights Tribunal charges, which were ostensibly "remedial/administrative" in nature, Truth was declared NOT to be a defense. The only thing that mattered was that certain ethnically privileged groups could assert that their feelings had been hurt and that they detected "hate" in Ernst's writings! "HATE" was never defined - and, in fact, when Zundel Defense Attorney, Doug Christie, invited the Mayor of Toronto, Barbara Hall, to find one example of "hate" on the the Zundelsite, she sat there with a purple face, insisting that she could not find it - but she was sure she had seen it! It was there! Yessir! Somewhere! On the Zundelsite! Even the mainstream media mavens, always vilifying Ernst in their mendacious articles, do not understand this important distinction. It has been claimed over and over in the mainstream press and electronic media that Ernst Zundel was charged with and convicted for hate crimes. Not so. The government of Canada refused to go that route, despite all the screeching and hectoring by the Canadian Jewish Lobby, knowing that the prosecution could not win if Historical Truth WAS allowed as a defense. As Ernst wants to make clear below, in CRIMINAL proceedings in Germany, however, Truth is no defense! And he would face CRIMINAL charges!] In Germany, "TRUTH IS NO DEFENCE" under the draconian hate laws [having been] used in the 1980s ad the 1990s to suppress and criminalize burgeoning Revisionism. Thus, all the things I said and wrote and broadcast - perfectly legally, constitutionally protected in Canada in my 45 years here as a writer and man of ideas - would be judged pretty well all illegal in the repressive Germany of today. Thus, as soon as it became known in German police and judicial circles that I would be deported from the USA, a sweeping new, Europe-wide arrest warrant, some 15 pages in length, was issued against me on 17 February 2003, the day of my deportation from the USA, by a German judge in the town of Mannheim. A German Embassy official, Mr. Adelt in Ottawa, told the Canadian media that I would be promptly arrested, tried, convicted - and that a minimum of five years imprisonment would be my fate the moment I set foot on German soil! ===== I have gone through the farce of German legal proceedings in Munich and elsewhere before, where no rules of evidence like in Canadian Criminal proceedings apply, and where no Court stenographer takes down verbatim transcripts of the proceedings. Thus, none of my expert witnesses, qualified as such by Canadian judges in lengthy Canadian legal proceedings in the 1980s as Court recognized experts, were accepted by German Courts. Neither were any of my exculpatory historical documents allowed as evidence in these same subject matter German legal proceedings. To answer your questions 1 to 5 in your publication "preparing my PRRA application" on page 4 and 5: 1. Why would I be at risk if I was returned to my country of nationality or habitual residence? The answer is simple: Because my thoughts and beliefs based on decades of thorough research [all perfectly legal in Canada] would be considered criminal thoughts and illegal beliefs in Germany today. 2. What kinds of risks would I face and why? Even if I did not utter a single word about my beliefs and thoughts after returning to Germany, there are millions [of these words] by me and about me in dozens of books, booklets, letters, articles and films on hundreds of web sites on the world- wide Internet, for which the German Authorities not only could but will charge me criminally, once [they have me] in their clutches. The instruments used would be the very anti-democratic freedom of speech and freedom of research suppressing laws introduced in the 1980s and 1990s. This being a fact - and not just some paranoid fear - I would be in jail in Germany not for what I might say after I arrived there, but for what I [said], wrote, published and broadcast perfectly legally and constitutionally protected in Canada and the United States in my 45 years on the North American continent. The situation is grotesque. 3. How do these risks concern me personally and directly? See above. 4. How is my situation similar to or different from the rest of the population in my country of nationality and habitual residence? Let me answer this two-part question this way: How is my situation similar to the rest of the population in my country of nationality and habitual residence? Over 130,000 Germans have been charged, tried and convicted to huge fines [up to] DM 50,000 - DM 30,600 in my case - and to long prison terms since 1989 [including foreigners living there or visiting only] in modern-day Germany, if they [spoke], wrote or published similar views to my own. How is my situation different from the situation of the rest of the population? All those who are politically and historically disinterested, ignorant or ill-informed who have not had the benefit of free inquiry we enjoy in Canada and America, are all safe. Ignorance is not only "bliss" in this case - in modern Germany, ignorance means freedom from persecution through judicial prosecution. 5. If I moved to another city or region of my country, would I be able to escape the risks for which I am applying for protection? The answer is shockingly simple: Not only would I be not safe from persecution in the smallest hamlet or town anywhere in Germany, I would be subject to arrest and extradition to Germany in any of the European communities comprising states - all of which have to honour Germany's arrests, warrants, and extradition requests! Only England and Ireland have not complied [in honoring these requests] in the case of British Historian, David Irving. 6. One important note for the caseworker: Since I have only lived 19 years [one-third of my life] in the country of my birth, Germany, but 45 years [with 2 years interruption] in Canada, I can rightly claim Canada to be my country of habitual residence, rather than Germany. You will understand that it is extremely difficult for me from a Maximum Security, 24-hour lockup facility to marshal all the proofs I would, were I free and not in prison! However, I think my case is so well known, documented by thousands of articles, interviews, news casts and court judgments, that if you find the evidence is not sufficient, then nothing more I could have sent in or supplied you with would make much of a difference. I am being railroaded on behalf of the powerfully connected Zionist-Jewish Lobby, for whom the Government of Canada once more, as so many times before, seems [to act] like mere errand boy. These powerful Zionist-Jewish groups have been at the bottom of every one of my court cases in Canada - all the way up to the Supreme Court. Read the names on the Supreme Court decisions of those who persecuted and prosecuted me. They are not French Canadian, Italian, Black or Indian Groups - they are always the Government-backed Jewish Lobby Groups. They have had one goal as their chief agenda - to criminalized me, to deport me to Germany for further "treatment". ===== Written in Segregation Cell #6, High Security Tract Toronto West Detention Center 29.5.03 Ernst Zundel [signed] ===== LIST OF CONTENTS Seven-page letter explaining why I would [be] persecuted, prosecuted, i.e., mentally tortured and abused if I was deported back to Germany: Two pages - list of documents. Five pages of short, biographical overview of my work. Four pages, short article, "Zundel's Crimes of Opinion" by French Canadian academic Pierre Lemieux. Four-page Affidavit [by] Ingrid Rimland about the real facts of the ownership of Zundelsite.org. Five-page article about "Political Correctness" in Germany by South African writer Claus Nordbruch. Ten-page article about the German legal system by Germar Rudolf, entitled "Flaws of State under the Rule of Law". Nine-page article entitled, "Censorship in Germany? Never! Unless ..." by Anton Magerle. 45-page article about "Outrage in Germany - Police Consider Using Torture" by The Guardian, U. K., John Hooper, Berlin Correspondent. Two-page letter by Dr. Robert Faurisson, proving persecution of Revisionists in Germany. One-page letter of encouragement by three Parisians in French. One-page [supportive] letter by Frank MacDonald, Canadian War Veteran. One-page [supportive] letter by Rolf Dieckmann, Canadian War Veteran. Two-page article in National Post, 21 February 03, pointing out that I will be arrested immediately and imprisoned for five years if I step on German soil. Three-page article, Globe and Mail.com, February 21, 2003, pointing out I will face persecution in Germany. Two-page article in Globe and Mail.com, February 19, 2003, Re: Persecution in Germany. One-page article in Toronto Star, February 19, 2003, same as above. Two-page article, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 20, 2003, showing Jewish Lobbying efforts to have me deported to Germany, charged there under their hate laws, etc. Two-page article in Boston Globe, 21.2.03, showing that I will be persecuted after being deported to Germany. One-page article in Canada News Wire, February 20, 2002, showing B'nai B'rith Lobbying against me. Two-page article by Bryan Carnell, December 1, 2000, explaining anti-democratic repressive German Internet Censorship activities, book banning, etc. Six-page Supreme Court Decision [dated August 27, 1992] in my 9 years' litigation, which I won, about the publication Did Six Million Really Die? which explains Germany's policies toward the Jews and [documents] the lack of a German genocidal policy. Ten pages of documents, new "Arrest and Warrant" in Germany of 17.2.03, explanation of German Laws under which they intend to arrest me, should I end up in Germany. These translations show clearly the totally different [German government] wording of their hate laws - laws so obscure and bizarre that no equivalent exists in Canada or elsewhere in the civilized world - [with charges] like "insulting the memory of the dead", "denying acts of National Socialist Government", etc. The documents clearly show that I will face decades of persecution should I be deported to Germany - as every Jewish Lobby Group demanded for 25 years! _________________ From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 4 08:09:14 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Jun 5 18:48:31 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/4/2003 - "Demand accountability from Amnesty International" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 4, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I have been so busy I have had to shelve even extremely important business regarding Ernst Zundel's unlawful incarceration to the back-burner - one of them being the unpleasant task of taking on Amnesty International in a systematic way for their refusal to step in and at the very least investigate the illegal kidnapping and holding-in-detention of my husband. As a non-profit outfit, taking membership money, this global organization, Amnesty International, is not supposed to let itself be shamefully politicized - and this is one of the areas we are looking into to see of grassroots action can be applied. Besides, it's not exactly attractive to see such a well-known "relief" agency dive for their fig leaf the moment they spot a "Holocaust Denier" who might need some protection from self-serving pressure groups as well. The second strategy, of course, will be to marshal protest demonstrations in front of their headquarters - in as many countries as we can! Particularly the Canadian AI has blatantly sided with Canada's freedom-of-speech oppressors by continually talking out of both sides of their mouths - but doing absolutely nothing. They ship a canned reply to every protest letter - and that's all! In fact, they have pre-judged Ernst Zundel to be guilty of "hate crimes" and meriting deportation to Germany when even a cursory investigation would have told them that he was never charged, much less convicted, in either Canada or the US of "hate crimes" where he has spent practically all of his adult life and where all his responsible (!) non-violent (!) activism took place. AI will have some explaining to do to its members - and its potential members! This morning I received some very interesting information from one of my eagle-eyed cyber monitors. We have had the following visitors to the Zundelsite from May 29, 2003 to June 3, 2003: Amnesty International: (US branch) May 29, 9:45 am US Navy: May 29, 1:47pm Anti-Defamation League (ADL): May 29, 1:56pm Justice Canada (justice.gc.ca) May 29, 10am Parliament of Canada (parl.gc.ca) May 29, 10:30 am (They listened to the unedited CSIS interview as well as checking about 50 other documents!) Justice Canada (justice.gc.ca) May 30, 11:52 am Justice Canada (justice.gc.ca) June 2, 11:04 am Parliament of Canada (parl.gc.ca) June 2, 2:40 pm Justice Canada (justice.gc.ca) June 3, 11am Amnesty.De (Amnesty International Germany) June 3, 11:27am Government of the Yukon - June 3, 12:30pm So you see, your letters to the government and media have an effect! Please don't let up! Just cite the facts: That Ernst was legally in the United States, being married to a US citizen, that his papers were being legally processed, that he never received any official notice that his application for residence had been "abandoned", that he was arrested without a signed arrest warrant, that he was thrown into Maximum Detention like a common criminal, that he is now barred from coming back to the United States for 20 (!) years - and that he is in imminent danger of being deported to Germany where lifelong incarceration is a very strong possibility due to Germany's Orwellian censorship laws. Be polite. Be brief. Show class. And send me a copy so I can preserve it in our archives. For today, please write to the following branches of Amnesty International in their respective countries - and ask them to intercede for Ernst Zundel at headquarters, lest they will have have some explaining to do to their membership why they let themselves be either cowed or politicized by a vociferous special interest lobby group in Canada. Here is that list: adminaia@amnesty.org.au, info@amnesty.at, directie@aivl.be, aibf@aibf.be, aibenin@nayako.leland.bj, aibda@ibl.bm, aburkina@sections.amnesty.org, info@amnesty.ca, info@amnistie.qc.ca, info@amnistia.cl, amnestycotedivoire@aviso.ci, admin@amnesty.hr, amnesty@amnesty.cz, amnesty@amnesty.dk, amnesty@amnesty.fo, amnesty@amnesty.fi, admin-fr@amnesty.asso.fr, amnesty@gamtel.gm, info@amnesty.de, info@amnesty.gr, admin-hk@amnesty.org, info@amnesty.hu, amnesty@amnesty.is, info@amnesty.iol.ie, amnesty@netvision.net.il, info@amnesty.it, info@amnesty.or.jp, e-mail@amnesty.lu, amnesty@tm.net.my, amnesty-mli@djom.net.ml, aimauritius@intnet.mu, aimncc@magicnet.mn, amorocco@sections.amnesty.org, ain@ccsl.com.np, amnesty@amnesty.nl, campaign@amnesty.org.nz, info@amnesty.no, amnesty@cyber.net.pk, admin-pa@amnesty.org amnestyp@palnet.com, amnistia@pla.net.py, admin-pe@amnesty.org, amnestypilipinas@meridiantelekoms.net, amnesty@amnesty.org.pl, aisp@ip.pt, asenegal@sections.amnesty.org, amnesty@amnesty.sk, amnesty.slo@guest.arnes.si, info@amnesty.org.za, amnistia.internacional@a-i.es, info@amnesty.se, info@amnesty.ch, aitaiwan@seed.net.tw, aitanz@simbanet.net, info@amnesty.or.th, admin-tn@amnesty.org, amnesty@superonline.com, officeai@dr.lv.ukrtel.net, info@amnesty.org.uk, admin-us@aiusa.org, admin-ve@amnesty.org, mjmusonda@hotmail.com, JMusonda@comesa.int, amnestyzimbabwe@yahoo.com, From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Jun 6 06:43:34 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Jun 6 09:12:40 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/6/2003 - "UPI Analysis: Jews flooding into Germany" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 6, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Up-front, again there seems to be e-mail interference. Did my Traficant ZGram go through? I doubt it! I am sending you this one this morning, and I am preparing another Amnesty International ZGram for later in the day. Some of you have written back to me and said, in essence: "What do you expect of that Communist Front? Those folks will never help you!" That's just the point! These people are flying under false colors, and they are an international non-profit outfit who aren't doing what they proclaim to do. They are fraudulently misrepresenting their mission. They are only one of several groups that need closer scrutiny because they are, essentially, enemies of Free Speech - and looking at their record, I would say, enemies of genuine democracies in general. So let us take a look at them and see how much of their shenanigans we can expose! Below is a telling article I leave for your interpretation. The only thing I want to add is that our enemies never cease to amaze me! Now they even appropriate Germany's best poets and most genuine social thinkers: Goethe and Schiller! Heinrich Heine was a Jew - whose poetry I love, by the way! - but to anyone's knowledge that I know of, Goethe and Schiller were not! Is anything safe? Just asking. Analysis: Jews flooding into Germany By Uwe Siemon-Netto UPI Religion Editor From the Life & Mind Desk Published 6/5/2003 5:26 PM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The turbulent relationship between Jews and Germany is taking yet another stunning turn. Seventy years after Hitler's ascendance to power and 60 years after the Holocaust, more Jews are flooding into Germany than into any other country, Israel included. This makes Germany the one nation with the fastest-growing Jewish community in the world. Ironically, one reason for this state of affairs is the anti-Semitism in their countries of origin, chiefly successor states of the former Soviet Union, Julius H. Schoeps, head of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam, told United Press International Thursday. "Of course there are other reasons as well, such as economic considerations and the chance to give their children a better education," Schoeps allowed. "Moreover, they see Germany as a 'safe country.'" As a result of this accelerating migration, the Jewish population in Germany has swollen from 33,000 in 1990, the year of that nation's reunification, to 200,000 today, according to Schoeps. Before World War II more than half a million Jews lived in that country. At the end of the war there were only 15,000 left. But in 2002, 19,262 Jews from the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States settled in Germany, compared with 18,878 who went to Israel and fewer than 10,000 who were admitted into the United States. German consulates in CIS cities report that 70,000 more Jews have already applied for resettlement visas. In addition, thousands of Israelis, whose parents had fled to Palestine in the Nazi years, are now claiming German passports to which they are entitled by German law. "Thanks to these developments I believe there is a good chance for the emergence of a new German Jewry," said Schoeps, a historian who was born in World War II in Stockholm, where his parents had found exile. "I absolutely welcome this," Rabbi Carl Feit, a Talmudic scholar and cancer researcher at New York's Yeshiva University, told UPI in an interview. Feit interpreted the Jews' return to Germany as "a fulfillment of a biblical spiritual theme -- the rebirth and rejuvenation for which there are many examples in history, where Jewish people in one part of the world or another have seemed to have been eclipsed only to reappear against all odds and common expectations." Feit added, "The biblical paradigm for this rebirth was the return of the Jews to Israel" from the Babylonian captivity in 516 B.C. There are many ironies in this sudden rejuvenation of Ashkenazic Judaism. The very word, Ashkenaz, which defines German and Eastern European Jews, is the Hebrew term for Germany. This is so, explained Feit, "because the entire Jewish culture in Eastern Europe derives from Jewish communities that lived in three German cities along the Rhine more than 900 years ago." "The German and Jewish cultures used to fertilize each other," Feit went on. Yiddish, the idiom spoken by 12 million Jews up until World War II, is essentially a medieval German dialect. The two languages are so close that Arnold Beichman, the New York-born writer and political scientist, often quips, "I like to speak German because it is just Yiddish with a better accent." According to Feit, Yiddish, too, is currently undergoing rejuvenation after decades of decline. This is to some extent also true in Germany, where the ultra-orthodox Lubavichers, coming primarily from New York and London, are doing mission among the mostly secularized Russian-speaking immigrants, most of whom "don't even know the difference between a synagogue and a church," Schoeps said. The Yiddish-speaking Lubavichers are a Hassidic sect. In their effort to bring immigrants from Eastern Europe to faith, they compete with assorted other religious movements, including Messianic Jews. Only about 60,000 of the 175,000 Jewish immigrants in Germany are already registered with any of the 84 synagogue congregations, most of which have sprung up in the past decade, Schoeps related. "In some eastern German cities, such as Potsdam, Halle and Rostock, our congregations are now 100 percent Russian-speaking," he said. Do they fear that anti-Semitism in Germany might once again be on the rise? "They are not really worried," replied Schoeps, who attributed the spate of racist outrages in the early 1990s primarily to hooligans raised without any values in eastern Germany's gray Moscow-style housing estates. As for the rest of the population, "there are now between 200,000 and 300,000 Russians in Berlin alone, and Germans don't know and don't really care who among them is Jewish and who is not." But there is another irony in this influx of Jews from the East: Although most are highly educated -- Schoeps described the quintessential immigrant as a mathematician from, say, St. Petersburg -- they cost the German taxpayer money. "Between 60 and 70 percent of them are on welfare because they cannot find work. They don't speak German yet, and their Soviet diplomas are not recognized by Germany." There are now programs to retrain them. "We have developed projects to turn mathematicians into computer specialists, for example," said Schoeps. But that's only one side. The other side is that now there is a sudden need for teachers, social workers, rabbis and cantors. At Potsdam University, of which Schoeps' center is part, a rabbinical seminary -- the Abraham Geiger Kolleg --has been created. What will Germany's new Jewish culture look like? Before Hitler, German Jews were among the most assimilated in Europe; culturally they were thoroughly German. Berlin was the first city in Europe with a Jewish high school, created in 1778 along the traditional German "Gymnasium" lines at the instigation of Moses Mendelssohn, the great Jewish Enlightenment philosopher. This school was closed in 1942 and did not reopen until 1993, when the sudden influx of Jews from the East commenced. But then most of its students and faculty were gentiles, and the Hebrew teacher was a Protestant pastor. Reflecting on the rich cultural history of Jews in Germany, which this school represents, Schoeps mused, "The intellectual heritage of German Jews included Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Heinrich Heine, while this new Jewish community is at home with Tolstoy and Gogol." But then, what about the next generation of German Jews? "Probably Goethe, Schiller and Heine, plus Gogol and Tolstoy -- not a bad prospect, don't you think?" Copyright ? 2001-2003 United Press International From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Jun 6 13:06:08 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Jun 6 15:07:29 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/5/2003 - "Traficant ZGram that did not go through yesterday" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth Is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 5, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Today I talked to Ernst for about half an hour - the first time we could have an extended conversation since he was transferred from Thorold. He had heard that CSIS is in the news, apparently having had foreknowledge of a bomb that blew an Air India airplane apart. The story is beginning to seep into the American media - which will be in our favor. Our legal team is expanding, and we are following all leads. Some of them are promising. Here is another prisoner about whose fate we should learn more: Jim Traficant's Letter From Prison From Ken Adachi Editor@educate-yourself.org ? Educate-Yourself The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought 6-5-3 Editor's Note: The following is from a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous: "I sent James Traficant a Christmas card a few months ago. I received this reply today". If you're unfamiliar with the Jim Traficant story, I've posted links at the bottom of this page to bring you up to speed...Ken Adachi By Jim Traficant June 4, 2003 Dear (anonymous), Thank you! Thank you for thinking of me and my family. Life is hectic and fast-paced-- and for you to have thought of me, and then to stop and take time from your precious life to write me-- is an honor. And once again, I thank you! Most of the people who write me say they cannot understand why the government targeted me with such a passion. Every rumor and innuendo that any political opponent would plant and foster became public and, before long, developed into an indictment without any physical evidence-- only the testimony of subjects who were able to avoid jail by fabricating falsehoods about me. Lies and half-truths became 'facts'; and ultimately became a 10 count indictment. My evidence, that would have proved they were lying, was not allowed to be presented -- either before the Congress or the Federal Court! However, I know why I was targeted: I was not afraid of the government, and I had learned too much! The U.S. Dept. of Justice & the John Demanjuk Case The beginning of all of this was my first trial, in 1983, when I became the only American in history to defeat the U.S. Department of Justice in a RICO case-- pro se (representing myself), and me not being an attorney. They were embarrassed! The straw that broke the camel's back was when I proved that John Demanjuk was not the infamous Ivan the Terrible of the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The government was stunned and in shock. The real Ivan was nine years older, taller, and had black hair and a scar on his neck; his name was Ivan Marchenko. My investigation, in conjunction with John Demanjuk's beautiful family, proved not only that John was innocent, but also that the Justice Department knew he was not guilty-- even before they took him to court! Shame, shame!! They lied to the court-- gave false testimony and presented false witnesses-- knowing that he would be put to death! Shame!! The Justice Department then came after me with revenge, and a passion! I lost my respect and my faith in our government. Because this case was 'too sensitive,' Congress would not even hold a hearing on my evidence... Congress, all of them, at the time-- turned their back, worried about reelection!! The Democrats were in charge then, and they knew of my investigation in Congress... hoping I would abandon it! I did not! I sent my findings to the Israeli Supreme Court-- and they had no choice: They released John Demanjuk! In fact, they delivered him to me at the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, and I personally brought him home, along with his son, his son-in-law, and Israeli bodyguards! I am proud of what I did. No one else, in the House or the Senate, would even talk to the family-- afraid of media power and the vindictiveness of the Justice Department. But even today, John Demanjuk is still being persecuted. Shame! Other Skeletons The government agents that destroyed Demanjuk's life should be in jail! That was just the tip of the iceberg. When people saw what I had done for the Demanjuk family they came to me with unbelievable information. The information is so powerful that it is hard to believe, and the government knew I was getting sensitive information that could damage the American people's confidence in the government. People came to me with facts about Waco, Ruby Ridge, Pan Am Flight 103, Jimmy Hoffa, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It may all sound far-fetched, but I do know what happened to Hoffa and J.F.K. The government knows that I know-- and so they had to ruin my voice by destroying my credibility. I may yet divulge this information if I can get the proper forum. As you know, I was the dreaded enemy of the I.R.S. My legislation in the last I.R.S. Reform Bill changed the Burden of Proof law. Before that, you had to prove you were innocent in a tax court. The burden of proof was on the taxpayer. The I.R.S. said you owed... but the I.R.S. did not have to prove it. Unbelievable! Now that the I.R.S. has to prove their charges, the following statistics tell the true story. Comparing One Year Before the changes to One Year After: 1. Wage Garnishments dropped from 3.1 million to 560,000; 2. Taxpayer Property Liens dropped from 680,000 to 161,000; 3. Foreclosures on individual family-owned homes dropped from 10,063 to 57! That's right: only 57 homes in all 50 states! Fact is, the I.R.S. was seizing our homes-- over 10,000 every year-- when they had neither proof nor the right to do so! Congress allowed the I.R.S. to intimidate us and frighten us. Think about it! And then maybe you can begin to understand why I love America, but hate the Government -- and why the Government hates me. The Justice Department had to get rid of me, but I'll be damned if I would back down! America is in trouble... not from without, but from within! The Central Government has become too powerful. Citizens fear the Government. This is wrong. This is dangerous! I know the Government covered-up and promulgated LIES about Waco, Ruby Ridge, Pan Am Flight 103, Hoffa, and J.F.K. The Government knew I was right when I called Janet Reno a traitor. Janet Reno sold us out when she refused to investigate a $10-million payoff to the Democratic Party from a general in the Red Chinese Army (no less!). Think about it! And the Government knew that I had known why Reno was forced to betray America! I'm proud that I tried to do something about it! Someday the truth will come out. (I hope China never attacks us!) Many of you have asked what you can do for me. I appreciate this. You can help my family: Mrs. Tish Traficant 429 N. Main Street Poland, OH 44514 Thank you for remembering me... for thinking of me... for caring! God Bless! (Signed) Jim Traficant Taking Out a Patriot: The Railroading of James Traficant ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/railroadingjamestraficant3jul02.shtml ) Railroading James Traficant, Part II ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/railroadingjamestraficantpartII17jul02.shtml ) Railroading James Traficant, Part III, Rescue Plan B ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/railroadingjamestraficantpartIII14aug02.shtml ) America, Law, and Freedom - A Matter of Integrity ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/matterofintegrity4jul02.shtml ) If you found this article of interest, please consider perusing the FriendsOfLiberty/SiaNews archives: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Stories_Archive http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=870 (Our thanks to D for the forward) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/jimtraficantletter04jun03.shtml From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Jun 6 13:18:12 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Jun 7 05:36:07 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/7/2003 - "Mr. Coderre's pencil stub solution" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 7, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: As the Enemies of Free Speech are trying their hardest to tighten their stranglehold on all of us, we need a little smile in order to keep some perspective. And look - here comes a smile! A supporter of ours sent me the following: Enclosed find my letter. You will find it a little different. I understand that right now (write now) you and Christie are inundating Ottawa with testimonial letters. Quite proper. But there are other ways to get their attention. One man in a lonely prison. It is easy to pass by. There are so many like that. I am 73, read a lot, but even I was shocked by the pencil stub business. All the other stuff was old hat to me. Chains, clogs, shackles, mistreatment, torture etc. We have had a steady diet of it since World War II. But I had never seen the pencil stub business before. That is why it is powerful. It is not worn out from over-use. Just think - pencils from Sweden, Mexican pencils, Russian pencils, Lebanese pencils, pencils from everywhere. Pencils raining upon Ottawa! [END] AND THEN HE ADDED THIS: [START] MRS. ZUNDEL: CC GOVERNMENT OF CANADA: I wish to state that I have enjoyed the fine art produced by the well-known artist, Ernst Zundel, for many years. His artist's brush has an instinct for finding truth and beauty in a world often rife with ugliness and confusion. It is difficult to see how a man who has spent six decades as artist and pacifist could be seen by any government as a "terrorist". I was particularly saddened to see that this talented artist has been given only a short stub of a pencil with which to draw and write letters. it is not known to me whether it is the purpose of the country of Canada to prevent Mr. Zundel from painting/drawing or simply to deny him his right to freedom of speech. As a connoisseur of art, I am sending along another pencil stub for artist Zundel. I do this as common charity since Canada's budget seems to be strained in this matter. As for the restraints upon Mr. Zundel's free speech, the only thing I can do is to stay out of Canada and recommend that civilized people do the same, lest we all should end up sitting in a Canadian jail with a broken pencil stub in hand. Canada, you have sold yourself too cheaply. Artists of the World, Unite! [END] How about it, folks? Go and find a pencil stub and send it to Mr. Coderre and give him a piece of your mind - and please don't forget your manners! Some idiot already got Ernst in trouble for sending a nasty note to the prison. That doesn't help at all! Please don't forget your Mama raised you right! And please remember that we are people of culture and discernment - it's our enemies that you can recognize from pedding nastiness and smut! Mr. Coderre's address is: Emails to the Canadian media are as follows: ===== Immigration Minister Denis Coderre House of Commons Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: (613) 995-6108 Fax: (613) 995-9755 Email: Coderre.D@parl.gc.ca ===== Some Canadian mainstream media emails are" Some US mainstream media emails are: letters@newsweek.com, letters@time.com, conedit@ajc.com, letters@baltsun.com, letter@globe.com, news@globe.com, letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com, opinion@charlotte.com, letters@suntimes.com, news@cleveland.com, letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com, letters@denverpost.com, business@det-freepress.com, letter@detnews.com, viewpoints@chron.com, letters@latimes.com, HeraldEd@herald.com, politics@startribune.com, letters@newsday.com, letters@nytimes.com, Inquirer.Opinion@phillynews.com, DailyNews.Opinion@phillynews.com, letters@post-gazette.com, letters@uniontrib.com, chronletters@sfgate.com, letters@examiner.com, letters@sjmercury.com, editpage@seattle-pi.com, opinion@seatimes.com, editor@usatoday.com, letter.editor@edit.wsj.com, Letterstoed@washpost.com, wtnews@wt.infi.net, feedback@cnn.com, cnn.onair@cnn.com, crossfire@cnn.com, viewer@c-span.org, comments@foxnews.com, hardball@cnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com, opinion@msnbc.com, TheNews@msnbc.com, dateline@news.nbc.com, nightly@news.nbc.com, today@news.nbc.com, MTP@nbc.com, mrc@mediaresearch.org, shogenson@cnsnews.com, feedback@cnn.com, cnn.onair@cnn.com, crossfire@cnn.com, viewer@c-span.org, comments@foxnews.com, hardball@cnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com, opinion@msnbc.com, TheNews@msnbc.com, dateline@news.nbc.com, nightly@news.nbc.com, today@news.nbc.com, MTP@nbc.com, mrc@mediaresearch.org, shogenson@cnsnews.com, mrc@mediaresearch.org, shogenson@cnsnews.com, ar1@aim.org, info@acton.org, media@alliancedefensefund.org, Info@alec.org, info@ashbrook.org, rbalko@cato.org, jblock@cato.org, mchapman@cato.org, wdubois@cato.org, ckilmer@cato.org, amitchell@cato.org, hmitchell@cato.org, epierre@cato.org, rpollock@cato.org, lalbanes@cato.org, khardy@cato.org, tkibbe@cato.org, mklokel@cato.org, bwyche@cato.org, schamber@cato.org, cfrohman@cato.org, dkirby@cato.org, kbrand@cato.org, info@cfif.org, effwa@effwa.org, info@ff.org, info@heritage.org, Editors@HumanEventsOnline.com, prodriguez@insightmag.com, admin@patrickhenrycenter.org, info@washingtondispatch.com, yaf@yaf.org, njc@dc.infi.net, adkins@commonconservative.com, liberty@lc.org, letters@Federalist.com, mail@centerforhumanrights.org, Liaison@ISN.org, info@immigrationforum.org, witness@witness.org, levendos@trib.com, ABFFE@bookweb.org, infoaclu@aclu.org, infoaclu@aclu.org, info@bof.nl, casp@sirius.com, cfac@cfac.org, cjfe@cjfe.org, djw@cdt.org, nctecsuh@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, info@cpj.org, info@mediainstitute.org, info@dfn.org, eff@eff.org, mail@efa.org.au, directors@eftexas.org, info@epic.org, avedon@cix.co.uk, freedom@well.com, foi@vashti.net, pipking@mail.firn.edu, foodspeak@cspinet.org, cb@fipr.org, sgriest@ncac.org, frbspd@crl.com, news@freedomforum.org, foift@aimail.net, ftrf@ala.org, FunConGov@aol.com, gfaf@mindspring.com, gilc@gilc.org, hrwnyc@hrw.org, indexoncenso@gn.apc.org, oif@ala.org, lff@lff.org, Mediacoalition@mediacoalition.org, info@mediainstitute.org, nas@nas.org, ncac@ncac.org, nfoic@airmail.net, oif@ala.org, aaup@aaup.org, info@onlinepolicy.org, pen@pen.org, pfaw@pfaw.org, pi@privacy.org, rcfp@rcfp.org, roc@theroc.org, rockrap@aol.com, clay@sea.org, quillnet@link2000.net, splc@splc.org, jwheeler@igc.apc.org, rmo@Virginia.edu, infoaclu@aclu.org, amerunited@aol.com, ifas@berkshire.net, pfaw@pfaw.org, levendos@trib.com, From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Jun 8 12:54:08 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 8 16:35:55 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/8/2003 - "USS Liberty" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 8, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This being the weekend of the anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, It is appropriate to show a pro and con argument as to whether the slaughter and wounding of so many young American men by the Israelis was intentional. As you read the two accounts, please note also the difference in tone. You get insinuation and sneering from Maxwell Brown, and you get a restrained, factual argument from Joseph C. Lentini CTOC USN-ret., USS Liberty Survivor. First, Maxwell Brown: [START] Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:02:05 -0700 Subject: Another opinion I have just completed reading the book by A. Jay Cristol, The Liberty Incident, and I have to frankly say he beyond any doubt shows the attack on the Liberty to be mistaken identity. He also shows how Jim Ennes's book* was based on hearsay. Mr. Ennes has made some wild claims and outright lies. One is how the Israeli motor torpedo boats did not have any identification. However, William McGonagle testified he ordered the gunners not to fire on the boat as he saw the Israeli flag. Also he says the attack jets were flying so fast it would have been impossible to detect any markings on it, such as the Star of David. He also shows how to see the American flag, you have to have been within a certain distance and not flying past a certain speed. yet you continue to claim that they "must" have seen the flag. Also Ennes claims that then-US Senator William Fullbright said that Lyndon Johnson ordered him to cover up the attack. One problem. Fullbright denies this, and Ennes hears it 3rd party. Ennes was injured at the beginning of the attack, thus relies on full hearsay. Your theories on why the ship was attacked are nonexistent. The theory that Israel didn't want the US to know about their imminent invasion of Syria is dead and confirmed by John Borne, as proof is shown that Israel told the US they were invading Syria hours before the Liberty was attacked. The NEW theory--and their appears to be a new one every week--is the alleged Israeli massacre of Egyptian POW's. Considering that Egypt NEVER accused Israeli of this and has had the Sinai for 20 years and yet has found no mass graves, makes that theory useless. Also it was said that the Liberty intercepted messages of Israeli killing those POW's. One problem, the claim of a POW massacre was that it took place on June 7, one day BEFORE the Liberty reached Alpha Point. Do you have any other theories to propagate? Lastly, Mr. Ennes is now in full anti-Jewish conspiracy mode. He said he has friends in Tehran, Iran. What a shock. Iran, a nation that hates Jews, a nations that blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina and has executed Jews on alleged spying charges, is pro-Liberty. Also have we forgotten on how Iran financed the attack of the US Marines in Lebanon in 1983? Also the interviewer mentions how Pollard gave away the identity of US agents in Eastern Europe. This is a lie. It never happened. Ennes will associate with anyone who hates Israel. Anyone. I am still waiting for your "dissection" of the Cristol book. One has to wonder what excuse you'll use this time. Max Brown [END] Here, Joseph C. Lentini's answer: [START] Dear Mr. Brown: I was on board the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, and I can tell you without any doubt, the recount of the attack in the Ennes book is accurate and that there is much more to this issue than you are obviously aware. First, let me thank you for caring enough to even look into it. So many Americans know nothing about the attack because of the politics involved, and so many others have a dual allegiance to the US and Israel and, when it comes to any problems between the two countries, they always lean towards Israel and so cannot see what happened in 1967 or, for that matter, in more recent history (e.g., Pollard spy case, and the slaughter of Palestinians). There is an enormous amount of material which is considered documented and accurate by both this country and Israel, which clearly brings into question the accidental attack claim by the State of Israel. There have been discoveries over the last 35 years that have revealed attacking Israeli pilots identifying our ship and being told to attack anyway, identified US military intelligence personnel who were privy to various messages and transcripts clearly indicating the attack was a coordinated effort, and the sworn testimony of the survivors who, after all, were there. You may locate much of this material, and see the documentation for yourself, by simply doing a search on the Internet for "USS Liberty" and following all links (). You will see many sites with accurate information, and some with not so accurate information, and many with a clear bias towards protecting Israel's reputation. As for Jay Cristol's book--have not read it totally yet, but I can tell you without any doubt that much of his information and argument for the attack being an accident is based on half-truths and highly questionable Israeli reports. Let me give you something to think about, I hope, and something that will encourage you to look deeper into this historical moment. 1. The ships logs clearly indicate tracking first the torpedo boats and then the high-speed aircraft passing over them, both on a direct line to the USS Liberty. 2. The planes did not circle the ship trying to identify the ship, but, instead, approached the ship bow-on and came in shooting. 3. The planes were flying well below their top speed and many survivors who were fighting fires from the napalm and otherwise were topside performing assigned damage control noted that these planes were unmarked-- this at a time when Israel was in control of the skies and had no reason to paint out the Star of David and other clearly Israeli markings. 4. A high ranking Israeli officer was interviewed several years later and clear states that Israel had identified the USS Liberty by June 7, 1967. This is consistent with the several documented overflights by Israeli slow-flying aircraft on the day prior to the attack which were clearly taking our picture for identification purposes. 5. Our flag was flying until the jets shot it away. We then hoisted another, and that was also shot away. Finally, we ran up the huge holiday flag--one of these shot-up flags is on display at the museum at the NSA Cryptologic Museum at Ft. Meade, Maryland. We were slowly sailing into the wind, so the flag was standing out at all times and, while the pilots might not have seen it in a bow-on or stern-on attack posture, they certainly saw it as they crisscrossed the ship, attacking from both port and starboard. Please note that these pilots saw well enough to hit the four 50-cal. machine-gun mounts with at least two rockets each, put at least one rocket through all topside hatches/ doorways, hit all antenna pods with two or more rockets, blew up the two small boats on board, and hit the only gasoline drum on board. Again, their speed allowed this degree of accuracy and they obviously had knowledge of our strategic targets. 6. One of the Israeli torpedo boat captains was also interviewed several years later, and he said that after one of the five torpedoes had hit the ship, he saw the colors of our flag and thought he had hit a Russian ship. Kind of puts a kink in the Israeli claim of June 1967 that we had no flag, doesn't it? 7. Cristol and Israel both give credibility to the Israeli claim of 1967 that the torpedo boats misread their radar to the point that they thought the "unknown" ship off the Sinai Peninsula was traveling in excess of 20 knots and that local Israeli field commanders reported shelling of their position from that area of the Med. Possible? Sure! But take the time to look a little deeper, please. The torpedo boats identified us as the El Quisar (spelling?), an Egyptian troop and animal carrier 1)known to be in an Egyptian port at that time, 2) unable to make even 8 knots, and 3) with absolutely no armament whatsoever. It gets better! This ship is about 2/3 the size of the USS Liberty, and has none of the topside antenna equipment, did not have a huge satellite dish on its stern, and was not painted USN grey with US information on both sides of the bow. The ship they said they thought we were could not go the speed they say they mistakenly thought we were going and had no means to attack anything. Further, the Liberty had only 4 50-cal. machine gun and was also unable to shell anything from its position some 13 miles offshore. 8. There are documents available from the LBJ Library that clearly indicate that LBJ wanted to seek re-election, did not want to offend this country's Jewish Lobby, and had specific recommendations from his political advisors to stay at arm's length from anything having to do with the USS Liberty. 9. There are a number of plausible reasons for the attack, and 1) the accurate time-line of that day indicate that, in fact, taking the Golan Heights was not known until it was accomplished. 2) You might also find it interesting that Moshe Dayan, the head of the IDF at that time, said in an on-camera interview that this expansion had nothing to do with state security, but was, in his words, executed to take this property solely to increase the power and financial wealth of the political and some of the military leaders of that day. 3) There is also the very real issue of the added US support that would come if the US and the world thought a US ship was sunk by the Arab States--and the attack came very close to accomplishing that very thing. We were silenced in the first minutes of the attack and only got word out because our technicians were able to rig a temporary antenna under fire, an antenna that had never worked before, but was made usable by their efforts and by a partial rocket hit that somehow "fixed" whatever the initial problem was. Without that "word" getting out, they would have sunk us with all hands and, I suppose, planted some evidence that the deed was done by Arab state vessels/planes. 4) Israeli-documented slaughter of Arab prisoners at El Arish that day could have contributed to the "justification" for the attack. Maybe not, but the fact that this slaughter occurred is documented by statements from Israeli soldiers, so, who knows. There may be other related possibilities, but the point is that reasons exist and there is much more than reasonable doubt that the attack was a pre-planned, coordinated air and sea attack which took 34 American lives. By the way, if you wish to have any credibility in discussions about this subject, I suggest that you do not refer to sworn testimony of survivors who were there that day as "hearsay"! As for Jim Ennes being wounded so everything he said must have been second hand, simply not so, and to suggest that does him and other survivors a great disservice and indicates that you have not researched this very well. Remember, the Captain was also wounded, and I can personally promise you, his story was not "hearsay" but was very accurate. Oh yes, there are many men who were present that day who saw for themselves the Israeli torpedo boats deliberately machine gun the life rafts, and we have pictures taken just after the attack ended (about the same time as it became known we got word out to the fleet about the attack) which clearly show all life raft positions empty or with destroyed rafts clearly visible. One other fact you might find interesting, which relates back to the jets--their speed that day allowed them to target fire hoses in use by damage control personnel, and the men using them, during the attack. Again, multiple eyewitness accounts are documented concerning this and the use of "burning jelly" canisters dropped on our decks. If you truly care about the truth, take the time to look into this more deeply. Consider the growing number of senior military and political people who publicly denounce this attack as deliberate. Consider the document facts, many of which are agreed to by both sides. Consider the contradictions in the "official" story over these many years, and consider Israel's history, short though it may be, which is full of examples of drastic military actions against friend and foe alike, military and civilian, in the name of Israel's security. Finally, although it has nothing to do directly with the attack on the USS Liberty, I mention the Pollard case. Strange that you seem to be defending him when it is documented fact that Israel paid him to spy against this country. Let me put it another way: Israel, our "friend," paid him to spy against their claimed ally, the US. Is it really so hard to believe that this same "ally" found it to be in their best interests to attempt to sink a US intelligence ship with all hands back in 1967? Cristol's book, and several others by Israeli writers or friends of Israel, reaches the wrong conclusions. It does not take much more that a quick look at the documented facts of this case to realize that the Israeli claim of an "accident" fails to hold up. I hope you will take the time to dig deeper and, keeping an open mind about this subject, consider all possibilities. Again, thank you for your interest in this historical event. Joseph C. Lentini CTOC USN-ret USS Liberty Survivor http://www.ussliberty.org/lentini2.txt [END] *For USS Liberty Captain James M. Ennes Jr.'s 1993 summary account of this criminal act of international terrorism by the Jewish state go to: http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0693/9306019.htm From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 9 18:41:19 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 9 20:44:39 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/9/2003 - "Soul Rape" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 9, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I have often wondered about the damage that must happen to a society when its citizenry loses respect for its leaders. It is basic to at least our people, Aryans, to love one's country and to cherish and respect its institutions. That is as natural to us as is breathing. We WANT to love the country where we're born - if we are not so lucky to call that kind of country our own because we have been tossed about the many places on this globe because of circumstances not of our making, we want to love the country of our choice. When I first came to Canada - married, with a half-starved baby and a second on the way and understanding not one word of English, I thought that I had come to heaven! I was then 24 years old and had to learn to use a telephone. Today I ask myself: Could I have ever been that young? I felt the same way when I entered the United States a few years later and found a university where I could learn the many things I was craving to learn with a hunger that never seemed sated. This was in the late sixties. Kids half my age were trying to "cop out." I wanted in - and grow my roots that wars, upheavals and disasters of a magnitude I could not ever have described in their depths, had not permitted me to grow. I look with very great sadness at the corruption and corrosion of the fabric of society that was so beautiful, so peaceful and serene just yesterday. I often feel like a Prophet of One - a voice in a vast wilderness when I want to warn folks: Beware what is coming your way! I know, however, there are others why are crying out in pain at the abusive, wanton soul rape that happens to good people. Here's one - a person who was born in Canada: [START] For those out there who have never heard of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and for those out there who choose to ignore it, let me start by pointing out one very important section of that charter: Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that "EVERYONE has a fundamental freedom of: thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication" Seems pretty fair and straightforward, right? Think again. As Canadians we are systematically being denied these freedoms based on arbitrary decisions made by minorities, lobbies and special interests. Our weak and inept federal government is an easy mark for any semi-organized group who wishes to re-write the laws of this country for their own benefit. We as Canadians are "controlled" by those who "know whats' best" for us. We are controlled by those who disguise themselves in many different ways... they may call themselves "advocates" or "guardians of truth" or "saviors of the disadvantaged", whatever they may posture as, they are for the most part, frauds. One must ask the basic question: "How, in a "free" country like Canada, can ONE "group" not only INSTRUCT, but more oft than not, DICTATE how OUR government interprets these FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS? Unfortunately for Canadians, the most obvious reasons are our governments' inability to recognize truth and of course their inherent weakness for being totally corruptable. Bribes, favours and political correctness are the Canadian government's "modus operandi". These are the tools they use to ensure certain select "groups" get their grievences addressed to their satiafaction. These are the tools they use to quiet and stifle individuals who have a thought or idea that certain select "groups" hate or simply disagree with. These are the tools that our own elected government uses against its own citizens, to pander to certain select "groups" in order to maintain their own bloated egos and the egos of their co-conspirators. Our basic FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, as prescribed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are for all intents and purposes... FOR SALE. As a society that is addicted to the mainstream, sensational media such as television or radio. Is it any wonder that so many people really have no idea that they are being manipulated by same? The puppet media is no better at being honest than the government, or a serial killer for that matter. They too are taking advantage of the trough offered up by certain select "groups". Lets' face it, the media is what it is... entertainment. You see what someone WANTS you see every time you watch a newscast. Read what someone WANTS you to read every time you pick up a newspaper. Bad english sullied even further by maligned "poetic license". The Toronto Star series accusing the Toronto Police Force of "racial profiling" and other untruths was bought and paid for by certain select "groups". Stop kidding yourself. University educated morons that believe a career isn't built on hard work and passion. PHD's and MBA's and the rest of the pipe smoking elites who are nothing more than special interest whores. And thats' just the tip of media iceberg. The film industry perpetuates the smokescreen even further with their contrived fiction made to appear as truth. How does it feel to have virtually no control over your government or your life? How does it feel to be afraid to have a thought or idea that may offend certain select "groups" and land you in jail? To have a thought or idea that could destroy your family and your life? How does it feel to be persecuted, slandered, fire-bombed or beaten for having a thought, an opinion? How does it feel to watch third world thugs and criminals run free in your country with impunity? How does it feel to watch third world thugs and criminals bleed our healthcare system and social services dry? How does it feel to watch our police insulted and branded "racist". That is the climate that certain select "groups" have created here in Canada. They always seem to be short on facts and truth, but long on slogans, chants, buzzwords like "hatemonger" and "nazi". Thats' the thing. They claim to aspire to the "greater good" of society when in fact they are nothing more than liars and thieves. They shy away from debate because they need to hide the truth. Why is it that whenever certain select "groups" are simply asked to reveal facts or truths to substantiate or refute and idea or thought, the first thing they do is run to the government and cry foul. Then call a lawyer. Why? Because YOUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS have been sold to the highest bidder. Ask Ernst Zundel. He'd be glad to tell you. Free Mr. Zundel and give us back our freedoms. M Woelfle Toronto, ON From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Jun 10 17:44:38 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Jun 10 19:48:12 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/10/2003 - "Belgium Clears Way For War Crimes Case Against Israeli General" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 10, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I am sending you an interesting news piece impacting on the global scene while I am working on something else: [START] Belgium Clears Way For War Crimes Case Against Israeli Gen Amos Yaron 6-10-3 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Brussels court on Tuesday cleared the way for a war crimes investigation into the alleged involvement of an Israel Defense Forces general in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon, a lawyer said. The Brussels appeals court ruled that a complaint against former IDF Forces commander Amos Yaron by a group of Palestinians was admissible under Belgium's controversial human rights law. The complaint had been dissociated from a frozen lawsuit against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The court said it was not necessary for Yaron to live in Belgium for the investigation to proceed. "It's an important victory. The path has now been cleared for the investigation to continue," said Luc Walleyn, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs. The examining magistrate handling the case could now start interviewing witnesses to the massacre by Israeli-backed Christian militiamen in occupied Beirut, or travel to Lebanon, he said. But Walleyn said the Belgian government might refer the case to Israel to investigate if it wanted to avoid a fresh diplomatic crisis. The plaintiffs are using a Belgian law that claims universal jurisdiction, allowing the country's courts to try people for crimes against humanity and genocide no matter where they were committed. In February Belgium's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that Sharon, the prime target of the complaint, and Yaron could not be prosecuted over the massacre in Sabra and Chatila camps because they were not living in Belgium. But it also said the lawsuit against Sharon could only go ahead once he no longer had immunity as a head of government. That prompted Israel to recall its ambassador for several months until the Belgian parliament voted to water down the law. Survivors of the massacre of Palestinian refugees hold Sharon responsible for the deaths of hundreds of their kin. He was defense minister at the time of the massacre and in 1983, after the Kahan Commission found him indirectly responsible, he resigned but was never prosecuted. A recent amendment allows Belgium to send a lawsuit to the defendant's country if that country has a legal system that guarantees to handle a complaint properly. The law was changed to stem a flood of complaints against foreign political figures that threatened to clog Belgium's courts and compromise its foreign policy. Israel applauded the reform that eased tensions which could now flare up again. Last month, the government applied the amendment to a war crimes suit filed against Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq. It referred the case to the United States. [END] (Source: http://www.rense.com/general38/case.htm ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 11 05:58:32 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Jun 11 09:00:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/11/2003 - "Are Germans as 'screwed up' as are Jews?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 11, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Today's food for thought comes to you courtesy of former army chaplain, Dr. Robert Countess of Alabama: [START] Subject: Are Germans as "screwed up" as are Jews? An Essay on Gottfried Wagner and the Holocaust Disease, Historical Exactitude, and Ernst Zundel By: Robert H. Countess, Ph.D. Date: June 9, 2003 Recently, I visited the Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center [= SWC] book store and bought, among others, a copy of Gottfried Wagner's Twilight of the Wagners. The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy [New York: Picador USA, 1997. ISBN: 0-312-19957-0]. Gottfried Wagner is a great grandson of operatic composer Richard Wagner [died 1883], but he has become not only an anti-Wagnerian but a rabid pro-Holocaustian philo-Jewish fanatic. His criticisms of "the cult of Wagner" are worthy of serious consideration, I believe, but that is not the purpose of this essay. It is the Introduction of this book [pages 1-7] by the Jewish academic Abraham Peck that sets the tone and Holocaustian context for this quite fascinating monograph by the April 13, 1947 born Gottfried, now aged 56 and an operatic expert in his own right. Gottfried was birthed at Bayreuth and took the Ph.D in musicology, philosophy, and Germanistik at the University of Vienna, along with a degree in business at Bocconi University in Milan. He now works as internationally lecturing in music history and directs stage and video works, and writes in these fields, living in Milan with his wife and son. Abraham Peck claims to be "a Holocaust survivor" and lives in New Jersey, perhaps associated in some way with Stockton College. For Peck, the Jewish Holocaust Story is a basis for religion and ethics - as similarly preached by the obsessed fanatic Rabbi Michael Berenbaum and by the similarly obsessed fanatic professor of architectural history, Robert Jan van Pelt. Peck writes on page 1 that we live "in an age dominated by the shadow of Auschwitz". This self-serving concept of the 1933-2003 era, I suggest, is quite necessary for the continuing success of what Norman Finkelstein calls "the Holocaust Industry" [see his book by that title]. Add to this Peck's arrogant assumption that "Germans" and "Nazis" and Richard Wagner are the primary sources of Jewish persecution from the 1920s until today and we can grasp that Peck has positioned himself quite centrally in controlling Gottfried Wagner for Holocaustian purposes - which are 1) universal sympathy for and financial reparation to "Jews"; 2) unending support for the [racist] Jewish State of Israel; and 3) an unquestioning acceptance of Jews as sitting in the seats of moral authority over Gentiles who must agree everywhere and at all times that "the Holocaust" has rendered Gentiles incapable of making valid moral statements unless Jews agree that the statements are valid. Peck met Gottfried Wagner in 1991 at Stockton College in New Jersey where Wagner had been invited to speak to a "Scholars' Conference on the Church Struggle" and Wagner spoke on Richard Wagner, his music and, of course, "anti-Semitism". Peck distinguished himself by raising the question of how Germans today can show themselves properly respectful to Jews and if Germans today can ever atone for their role in "the Holocaust". Peck insists - along with Elie Wiesel and Deborah Lipstadt and Van Pelt et alia - that the "Six Million martyred Jews" cannot be reconciled to Germans unless these Jews, now dead, grant such reconciliation. Of course, those of us who work with classical logic wherein we move from A to B to C, understand that Peck renders such reconciliation to be an impossibility; hence, the German guilt must continue forever, or as one of my message T-Shirts has it, "No Guilt? No Geld!" [No guilt? No reparations!] Also, I suggest that for the atheist Peck and most Jews who are similarly atheist, so that there is no ultimate God to bring about reconciliation, this concept Peck is using is quite clever indeed - the guilt and the Geld must continue without any end in sight. I suggest that the Rothschilds and Warburgs could never have hit upon such a fine method of profiteering! I really do like the German word Versoenhnung [= reconciliation] since it is quite a Biblical New Testament term and focuses upon the alienation of a Sohn from his Vater and the need to bring the Son back into the good graces of his Father. In the NT, the sinner is, if I may coin a term, "re-sonned" - that is, brought from estrangement as sinner back into a loving relationship to God the Father, and all this via the Incarnation, Work, Atoning Death, and Resurrection of the ultimate Son, Jesus Christ. When Jews assert that Jesus was a Jew, I point out that this is not correct if we employ the current usage of "Jew" with all its controversial ambiguity and Talmudic racism. The second person of the Trinity became a human being birthed, as it were, by a simple descendant of the children of Abraham--himself being no Jew but a Hebrew; thereupon at the eighth day when the ritual circumcision took place, Jesus became an Israelite in the religious sense, not in some vulgar racist sense as so many Jews today promote this bloody ritual. Jesus was tribally "a Judean". In the mid-Sixth century BC, this tribal or southern Kingdom term had been shorted to "Jew" [= Classical Hebrew in transliterated English letters: Jehuwdiy] in the King James Bible. But, today, "Jew" is so vague and racialist or racist in usage by "Jews" themselves that they seem to prefer "Jewish" - that is, the adjectival usage. I like to compare this preference for ambiguity to a person calling himself "Christian-ish" or "atheist-ish" or "Moslem-ish" or "American-ish". The absurdity of the -ish suffix by "Jews" thus becomes clear - they do not want to be any longer JEWS, but rather merely in some ambiguous fashion associated with the traditions of a people who in ambiguous ways trace their lineage in some ambiguous manner to the eponymous ancestor Abraham [whom I said above was not himself "a Jew" and certainly NOT "Jewish"!]. But, back to Peck and Gottfried Wagner. Gottfried today is so embarrassed and ashamed of his German-ish descent and of his Wagnerian lineage - due to the present Holocaustian dogma - that he goes out of his way to rewrite History. As such, I suggest that if Gottfried were to read Der Spiegel editor Fritjof Meyer's May 2003 article on the gas chamber problem at Birkenau and Meyer's denial of such gas chambers in the Crematorias, Gottfried might be even more ashamed and confused! Thus, I further suggest that the only way for Gottfried to be reconciled to historical reality is for him to learn that there is no convincing evidence for these "Holy of Holies" [Van Pelt] contraptions at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only then could Gottfried become "re-sonned" to historical reality and learn that "Jews" themselves committed enormous crimes against Slavic Christians in Russia and Eastern Europe from 1917 on - crimes much more horrendous than could ever be alleged for the Germans! Hence, the title of this essay: "Are Germans as 'screwed up' as Jews." I submit that Gottfried Wagner is thoroughly "screwed up" in his overall philosophy of life and history and religion and culture. His criticisms of the "Wagner cult" are such that I can agree with many of them. This "cult" still has its adherents in Germany among many of the faithful Festspielhaus loyalists every August to September when at Bayreuth in north Bavaria some of the truly magnificent operatic dramas are presented year after year. There are, to my knowledge, significant numbers of anti-Christians who in their own Goethe-like "pious heathens" fashion are devotees of Teutonic-Aryan religious concepts of Odin and the like. They would not at all like Gottfried Wagner's criticisms. But, I shall leave all this to the History of Religions scholars to fight over. I submit that Abraham Peck and Elie Wiesel and Robert Jan van Pelt and Deborah Lipstadt and the average "Jew" are all "screwed up". And by "screwed up" I do not draw upon any sexual meaning of the verbal participle here; rather I mean in the sense of the German Holzschraube [a wood screw] that one uses to bore into wood or metal. And this then leads to a state of affairs wherein things are not straightly put together but twisted. Gottfried Wagner is thus twisted up and around and under and down and out. His views of reality have been so twisted by the Holo-dogma that he is emotionally and intellectually unable to put things together straightly as a carpenter must do in the framing of a house or piece of furniture. "Jews" such as Peck and Company are even more twisted, even perverse, because they are in the drivers' seats of academia and commerce and government and culture and they twist everything in screw-like fashion down into the twisted hole of "the Holocaust." So, I conclude that both Germans and "Jews" in general today are likewise "screwed up" and need enlightenment [= Aufklaerung]. And this enlightenment can come from those who employ Exactitude in scientific-historiography, as Professor Robert Faurisson has insisted - that is, getting the data and the interpretation of the data as exact as humanly possible and without inserting politics and formal religion and social correctness. Exactitude as such is much to be preferred over "Revisionism" since this latter term has become so laden with political reactionism and with pro-Hitlerian sympathies. I say this despite the historical usage wherein Professor Harry Elmer Barnes and his contemporaries used revision, revising, and revisionism in ways that were quite acceptable in the 1920-1940 or so era. Exactitude is a method for writing scientific-historiography. Germar Rudolf's Vierteljahreshelfte fuer freie Geschichtsforschung and his The Revisionist are two current journals that attempt - not perfectly, of course - to conform to the method of Exactitude. And these journals are open to revising, even invite revising, by their Editor Germar Rudolf and his contributing authors. Where does - one properly asks - Ernst Zundel fit into all this? Is he also a "screwed up" German? Perhaps the simplest answer is that he is clearly not "screwed up" because he presently languishes in a Canadian prison and continues to be persecuted and prosecuted by "Jews" and the Gottfried Wagner anti-German types. Ernst Zundel has made statements in my presence or in writing that are clearly critical of many things German of the past and during the Hitlerian era. [Last week I read the New Order (neo-Nazi organization of the USA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) literature that a true follower of Hitler does not criticize "the Fuehrer." Therefore, Ernst Zundel is clearly not a neo-Nazi since I have heard him make critical statements about Hitler's policies. At the same time, in the immigration hearing room at Niagara Falls, Ontario last March 31st, I heard Zundel refer to Hitler as "the Great One." And, if one understands Zundel over the years, one can place this appellation in the context of Hitler's leadership of 1933 Germany wracked by economic and political woes and Communist revolutionary violence and Jewish intrigues to introduce Bolshevism throughout the nation. Zundel does what every historian ought to be doing - that is, try to offer a balanced assessment of a national leader's leadership. Hitler, for most part, is today so demonized that students acquire nothing of his positive accomplishments, being propagandized only into his holocausting of "the Jews". Zundel offers his own - not my own - interpretation of the National Socialist era and his interpretation is open to Exactitude revising. Any one of [us] can sit down with Ernst and discuss rationally his views and have a completely exchange of points and counterpoints and do so in a warm, friendly atmosphere - quite unlike the atmosphere surrounding the average Holocaustian's dogmatic insistence that it's ?the sacred Six Million - his way or no way! Editor Fritjof Meyer of Der Spiegel certainly has it wrong when it comes to Exactitude for homicidal gassings in the two little cottages outside the Birkenau perimeter, but he did get it right when he denied gassings in the crematorias. At least Meyer is moving in the right direction - willing to revise the accepted dogma that paralyzes the German people and their parliamentary republic, a dogma that totally paralyzes Richard Wagner's great grandson Gottfried, and a dogma that energizes perennially the Abraham Peck and his ilk for ill-gotten gain. How much longer will the Holo-dogmatists continue their dominance of World War Two historiography? How much longer will Ernst Zundel remain in prison and hounded by the evil Canadians such as Edgar Bronfman and Sabina Citron and Bernie Farber and the Canadian Jewish organizations who bribe and threaten Goy politicians? How long? Until capable Germans like Gottfried Wagner, a man who at bottom no doubt means well, learn the truth about World War Two. June 22 is almost upon us and with it the 52nd anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on Stalin's Soviet Union as it was positioned to invade Germany and subjugate all Europe under the atheistic, totalitarian, Judeo-Bolshevist heel of extermination. Stalin and his designs were totally evil; Hitler and his designs for eastward expansion were totally self-serving for German colonialism and brutally contextualized. There are comparisons and contrasts, to be sure. But then there are comparisons and contrasts for National Socialism and German colonialist empire building with the French and the British and the Dutch and - if we can bear to admit the truth! - the Americans. Perhaps we Americans are "screwed up" also. Robert H. Countess, PhD boblbpinc@earthlink.net [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 11 16:43:09 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Jun 11 22:07:39 2003 Subject: Fwd: ZGram - 6/11/2003 - "Are Germans as 'screwed up' as are Jews?" - Second try! Message-ID: > > > >ZGram >- Where Truth is Destiny > >June 11, 2003 > >Good Morning from the Zundelsite: > >Today's food for thought comes to you courtesy of former army >chaplain, Dr. Robert Countess of Alabama: > >[START] > >Subject: >Are Germans as "screwed up" as are Jews? An Essay on Gottfried >Wagner and the Holocaust Disease, Historical Exactitude, and Ernst >Zundel > > >By: Robert H. Countess, Ph.D. > >Date: June 9, 2003 > >Recently, I visited the Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center [= SWC] >book store and bought, among others, a copy of Gottfried Wagner's >Twilight of the Wagners. The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy [New >York: Picador USA, 1997. ISBN: 0-312-19957-0]. > > Gottfried Wagner is a great grandson of operatic composer >Richard Wagner [died 1883], but he has become not only an >anti-Wagnerian but a rabid pro-Holocaustian philo-Jewish fanatic. >His criticisms of "the cult of Wagner" are worthy of serious >consideration, I believe, but that is not the purpose of this essay. > > It is the Introduction of this book [pages 1-7] by the Jewish >academic Abraham Peck that sets the tone and Holocaustian context >for this quite fascinating monograph by the April 13, 1947 born >Gottfried, now aged 56 and an operatic expert in his own right. > > Gottfried was birthed at Bayreuth and took the Ph.D in >musicology, philosophy, and Germanistik at the University of Vienna, >along with a degree in business at Bocconi University in Milan. He >now works as internationally lecturing in music history and directs >stage and video works, and writes in these fields, living in Milan >with his wife and son. > > Abraham Peck claims to be "a Holocaust survivor" and lives in >New Jersey, perhaps associated in some way with Stockton College. >For Peck, the Jewish Holocaust Story is a basis for religion and >ethics - as similarly preached by the obsessed fanatic Rabbi >Michael Berenbaum and by the similarly obsessed fanatic professor of >architectural history, Robert Jan van Pelt. Peck writes on page 1 >that we live "in an age dominated by the shadow of Auschwitz". This >self-serving concept of the 1933-2003 era, I suggest, is quite >necessary for the continuing success of what Norman Finkelstein >calls "the Holocaust Industry" [see his book by that title]. > > Add to this Peck's arrogant assumption that "Germans" and >"Nazis" and Richard Wagner are the primary sources of Jewish >persecution from the 1920s until today and we can grasp that Peck >has positioned himself quite centrally in controlling Gottfried >Wagner for Holocaustian purposes - which are 1) universal sympathy >for and financial reparation to "Jews"; 2) unending support for the >[racist] Jewish State of Israel; and 3) an unquestioning acceptance >of Jews as sitting in the seats of moral authority over Gentiles who >must agree everywhere and at all times that "the Holocaust" has >rendered Gentiles incapable of making valid moral statements unless >Jews agree that the statements are valid. > > Peck met Gottfried Wagner in 1991 at Stockton College in New >Jersey where Wagner had been invited to speak to a "Scholars' >Conference on the Church Struggle" and Wagner spoke on Richard >Wagner, his music and, of course, "anti-Semitism". Peck >distinguished himself by raising the question of how Germans today >can show themselves properly respectful to Jews and if Germans >today can ever atone for their role in "the Holocaust". Peck >insists - along with Elie Wiesel and Deborah Lipstadt and Van Pelt >et alia - that the "Six Million martyred Jews" cannot be reconciled >to Germans unless these Jews, now dead, grant such reconciliation. > > Of course, those of us who work with classical logic wherein we >move from A to B to C, understand that Peck renders such >reconciliation to be an impossibility; hence, the German guilt must >continue forever, or as one of my message T-Shirts has it, "No >Guilt? No Geld!" [No guilt? No reparations!] Also, I suggest that >for the atheist Peck and most Jews who are similarly atheist, so >that there is no ultimate God to bring about reconciliation, this >concept Peck is using is quite clever indeed - the guilt and the >Geld must continue without any end in sight. I suggest that the >Rothschilds and Warburgs could never have hit upon such a fine >method of profiteering! > > I really do like the German word Versoenhnung [= >reconciliation] since it is quite a Biblical New Testament term and >focuses upon the alienation of a Sohn from his Vater and the need to >bring the Son back into the good graces of his Father. In the NT, >the sinner is, if I may coin a term, "re-sonned" - that is, brought >from estrangement as sinner back into a loving relationship to God >the Father, and all this via the Incarnation, Work, Atoning Death, >and Resurrection of the ultimate Son, Jesus Christ. > > When Jews assert that Jesus was a Jew, I point out that this is >not correct if we employ the current usage of "Jew" with all its >controversial ambiguity and Talmudic racism. The second person of >the Trinity became a human being birthed, as it were, by a simple >descendant of the children of Abraham--himself being no Jew but a >Hebrew; thereupon at the eighth day when the ritual circumcision >took place, Jesus became an Israelite in the religious sense, not in >some vulgar racist sense as so many Jews today promote this bloody >ritual. Jesus was tribally "a Judean". In the mid-Sixth century >BC, this tribal or southern Kingdom term had been shorted to "Jew" >[= Classical Hebrew in transliterated English letters: Jehuwdiy] in >the King James Bible. But, today, "Jew" is so vague and racialist >or racist in usage by "Jews" themselves that they seem to prefer >"Jewish" - that is, the adjectival usage. I like to compare this >preference for ambiguity to a person calling himself "Christian-ish" >or "atheist-ish" or "Moslem-ish" or "American-ish". The absurdity >of the -ish suffix by "Jews" thus becomes clear - they do not want >to be any longer JEWS, but rather merely in some ambiguous fashion >associated with the traditions of a people who in ambiguous ways >trace their lineage in some ambiguous manner to the eponymous >ancestor Abraham [whom I said above was not himself "a Jew" and >certainly NOT "Jewish"!]. > > But, back to Peck and Gottfried Wagner. Gottfried today is so >embarrassed and ashamed of his German-ish descent and of his >Wagnerian lineage - due to the present Holocaustian dogma - that he >goes out of his way to rewrite History. As such, I suggest that if >Gottfried were to read Der Spiegel editor Fritjof Meyer's May 2003 >article on the gas chamber problem at Birkenau and Meyer's denial of >such gas chambers in the Crematorias, Gottfried might be even more >ashamed and confused! Thus, I further suggest that the only way >for Gottfried to be reconciled to historical reality is for him to >learn that there is no convincing evidence for these "Holy of >Holies" [Van Pelt] contraptions at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only then >could Gottfried become "re-sonned" to historical reality and learn >that "Jews" themselves committed enormous crimes against Slavic >Christians in Russia and Eastern Europe from 1917 on - crimes much >more horrendous than could ever be alleged for the Germans! > > Hence, the title of this essay: "Are Germans as 'screwed up' >as Jews." I submit that Gottfried Wagner is thoroughly "screwed up" >in his overall philosophy of life and history and religion and >culture. His criticisms of the "Wagner cult" are such that I can >agree with many of them. This "cult" still has its adherents in >Germany among many of the faithful Festspielhaus loyalists every >August to September when at Bayreuth in north Bavaria some of the >truly magnificent operatic dramas are presented year after year. > > There are, to my knowledge, significant numbers of >anti-Christians who in their own Goethe-like "pious heathens" >fashion are devotees of Teutonic-Aryan religious concepts of Odin >and the like. They would not at all like Gottfried Wagner's >criticisms. But, I shall leave all this to the History of Religions >scholars to fight over. > > I submit that Abraham Peck and Elie Wiesel and Robert Jan van >Pelt and Deborah Lipstadt and the average "Jew" are all "screwed >up". And by "screwed up" I do not draw upon any sexual meaning of >the verbal participle here; rather I mean in the sense of the German >Holzschraube [a wood screw] that one uses to bore into wood or >metal. And this then leads to a state of affairs wherein things are >not straightly put together but twisted. > > Gottfried Wagner is thus twisted up and around and under and >down and out. His views of reality have been so twisted by the >Holo-dogma that he is emotionally and intellectually unable to put >things together straightly as a carpenter must do in the framing of >a house or piece of furniture. > > "Jews" such as Peck and Company are even more twisted, even >perverse, because they are in the drivers' seats of academia and >commerce and government and culture and they twist everything in >screw-like fashion down into the twisted hole of "the Holocaust." > > So, I conclude that both Germans and "Jews" in general today >are likewise "screwed up" and need enlightenment [= Aufklaerung]. >And this enlightenment can come from those who employ Exactitude in >scientific-historiography, as Professor Robert Faurisson has >insisted - that is, getting the data and the interpretation of the >data as exact as humanly possible and without inserting politics and >formal religion and social correctness. Exactitude as such is much >to be preferred over "Revisionism" since this latter term has become >so laden with political reactionism and with pro-Hitlerian >sympathies. I say this despite the historical usage wherein >Professor Harry Elmer Barnes and his contemporaries used revision, >revising, and revisionism in ways that were quite acceptable in the >1920-1940 or so era. > > Exactitude is a method for writing scientific-historiography. >Germar Rudolf's Vierteljahreshelfte fuer freie Geschichtsforschung >and his The Revisionist are two current journals that attempt - not >perfectly, of course - to conform to the method of Exactitude. And >these journals are open to revising, even invite revising, by their >Editor Germar Rudolf and his contributing authors. > > Where does - one properly asks - Ernst Zundel fit into all >this? Is he also a "screwed up" German? > > Perhaps the simplest answer is that he is clearly not "screwed >up" because he presently languishes in a Canadian prison and >continues to be persecuted and prosecuted by "Jews" and the >Gottfried Wagner anti-German types. Ernst Zundel has made >statements in my presence or in writing that are clearly critical of >many things German of the past and during the Hitlerian era. [Last >week I read the New Order (neo-Nazi organization of the USA in >Milwaukee, Wisconsin) literature that a true follower of Hitler does >not criticize "the Fuehrer." Therefore, Ernst Zundel is clearly not >a neo-Nazi since I have heard him make critical statements about >Hitler's policies. At the same time, in the immigration hearing >room at Niagara Falls, Ontario last March 31st, I heard Zundel refer >to Hitler as "the Great One." And, if one understands Zundel over >the years, one can place this appellation in the context of Hitler's >leadership of 1933 Germany wracked by economic and political woes >and Communist revolutionary violence and Jewish intrigues to >introduce Bolshevism throughout the nation. Zundel does what every >historian ought to be doing - that is, try to offer a balanced >assessment of a national leader's leadership. Hitler, for most part, >is today so demonized that students acquire nothing of his positive >accomplishments, being propagandized only into his holocausting of >"the Jews". Zundel offers his own - not my own - interpretation of >the National Socialist era and his interpretation is open to >Exactitude revising. Any one of [us] can sit down with Ernst and >discuss rationally his views and have a completely exchange of >points and counterpoints and do so in a warm, friendly atmosphere - >quite unlike the atmosphere surrounding the average Holocaustian's >dogmatic insistence that it's ?the sacred Six Million - his way or >no way! > > Editor Fritjof Meyer of Der Spiegel certainly has it wrong when >it comes to Exactitude for homicidal gassings in the two little >cottages outside the Birkenau perimeter, but he did get it right >when he denied gassings in the crematorias. At least Meyer is >moving in the right direction - willing to revise the accepted dogma >that paralyzes the German people and their parliamentary republic, a >dogma that totally paralyzes Richard Wagner's great grandson >Gottfried, and a dogma that energizes perennially the Abraham Peck >and his ilk for ill-gotten gain. > > How much longer will the Holo-dogmatists continue their >dominance of World War Two historiography? How much longer will >Ernst Zundel remain in prison and hounded by the evil Canadians such >as Edgar Bronfman and Sabina Citron and Bernie Farber and the >Canadian Jewish organizations who bribe and threaten Goy >politicians? How long? > > Until capable Germans like Gottfried Wagner, a man who at >bottom no doubt means well, learn the truth about World War Two. >June 22 is almost upon us and with it the 52nd anniversary of >Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on Stalin's Soviet Union as >it was positioned to invade Germany and subjugate all Europe under >the atheistic, totalitarian, Judeo-Bolshevist heel of extermination. >Stalin and his designs were totally evil; Hitler and his designs for >eastward expansion were totally self-serving for German colonialism >and brutally contextualized. There are comparisons and contrasts, to >be sure. But then there are comparisons and contrasts for National >Socialism and German colonialist empire building with the French and >the British and the Dutch and - if we can bear to admit the truth! - >the Americans. > > Perhaps we Americans are "screwed up" also. > >Robert H. Countess, PhD >boblbpinc@earthlink.net > >[END] > From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Jun 12 18:22:57 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Jun 12 21:31:34 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/12/2003 - "A politically correct hands-off approach" Message-ID: ZGram - where Truth is Destiny June 12, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Just like Ernst predicted, America is now getting introduced to what the Canadian Zundel Struggle was really all about - day by day, it is getting to be more the American Zundel Struggle. This last week, we have had a couple of breaks, of which you will hear more when the time is right, which may be very soon. Friends and Zundel supporters are alerting media and representatives of this blatant abuse of due process, and every day that passes, there are indications of a deeper understanding and awareness that this arrest has all the earmarks of an international scandal that does not do a democratic country proud. And we have barely begun! We are working along several fronts, and several legal torpedoes have already been launched and are running. As Ernst used to say so many times before: "My enemies will rue the day..." And haven't they always, in the past? Where would Revisionism be, had it not been for Ernst Zundel? The sparrows are now chirping it from the rooftops that Germany won't touch another big Holocaust trial in our lifetime - and just two days ago I learned of an attempt to use the Holocaust for yet another scam - in, of all places, Brazil - and the law suit was laughed out of the courthouse! I know that Ernst is sick of law suits and does not want to fight Holocaust Zundel Trial III in the United States, but if it has to be, it has to be - we'll give it one more round. As for myself, I'd welcome it. In the worst way, Americans need to find out how they have been used and deceived. America is ready, I believe, for Holocaust Trial Number Three! Meanwhile, I urge you to do what a Zundel supporter did - write to your Congressman and Senator. Tell him or her you know - and it is time they know. Here someone wrote to Congressman Ron Paul, one of the handful of courageous men in the US Congress. Disappointingly, back came a canned response - to which I am adding my own two cents' worth because I really like Ron Paul and am going to tell him this minute: [START] Dear Representative Paul - I am the wife of Ernst Zundel - an American citizen and ethnic novelist in my own right. In a recent e-mail communiqu? with one of your admirers who had alerted you to the illegal arrest of my husband, you wrote: "While the little I know of Mr. Zundel suggests he is an apologist for Hitler and thus an advocate of a philosophy diametrically opposed to mine, I believe that no one should be prosecuted for holding repugnant political views. "However, as this issue concerns the Canadian Government's enforcement of its immigration laws, it is inappropriate for an American official to interfere in any way with this case. I cannot consistently oppose infringements on America's sovereignty by foreign governments and institutions if I use my position to infringe on the sovereignty of other nations." Congressman Paul, let me preface what I am saying below by telling you that I am one of your admirers. You are admired for your stand across demographic divides and philosophical differences. You are a man of extraordinary courage to stand up to the abuses of the Zionist Lobby - and you do so with verve and conviction. That is more than can be said of almost every one of your genuflecting colleagues who dive for the fig leaf the moment the Zionist Lobby says "Boo!" . Having said that, I'd like to point out a few fact of which you do not seem to be aware. My husband, a lifelong pacifist, was not "deported" - he was, in fact, extradited to Canada under the guise of an INS "deportation" - without any due process at all! I call it a political kidnapping whereby American agencies were used - and misused - as the "hit squads" for a nasty political lobby in another country. Does that not bother you? Must such an audacious act of violence, initiated by another country but carried out by agents of this country, go unchallenged? It is very disturbing to me, and unfair to my husband, that you repeat the smears my husband's enemies are sprinkling through the media - to wit, that my husband is not worthy of support because he is a "Hitler Apologist". He may or may not be, but that is neither here nor there, for Hitler has been dead for almost sixty years - and Hitler's resurrection is not in the picture for America, whereas a brutal dictatorship by Hitler Haters may be. Here are some of the facts, as summarized by one of our attorneys: "Zundel did not miss a court proceeding and he did not miss a court hearing. Requests for rescheduling of an adjustment interview based on marriage to a US citizen are routinely and automatically granted, and that is what Zundel's lawyer at the time requested. The fact that this request was disregarded/lost/destroyed is the tip of the iceberg - but then, in order to contrive an arrest, INS had to ignore a second correspondence wondering why the rescheduling had not occurred, and then ignore the fact that all their mistakes were pointed out to them after Zundel was arrested in Tennessee. "Zundel was not 'detained' at the US-Canada border; he was delivered there after having been in INS custody for almost two weeks, into the hands of Canadian authorities. The transfer was in itself a violation of US law, since at the time there was an appeal pending... and that appeal is still pending." To this day, not one agency has even contacted me to give me an explanation, much less a reason for acting like Stalinist goons. If somebody smashes my window, I can go to the police and complain - and can expect that someone will investigate. If somebody smashes my life, you say there should be no recourse because my husband holds politically incorrect views? Representative Paul - my husband has been kidnapped in broad daylight on American soil. Let that sink in! He has been sentenced without having had a trial to what is shaping up as indefinite detention. He has been banned from coming back to me for 20 years. I have already spent more than $50,000 just to get a US judge to even hear the case - and have no guarantee that I should be so lucky. I'd like for you to look me in the eyes and tell me that I'm still living in America. Ingrid Rimland Z?ndel, Ed.D. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Jun 14 09:46:02 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Jun 14 12:00:30 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/14/2003 - Bad news and good news" Message-ID: ZGram - where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 14, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Bad news first, then good news! BAD NEWS: Someone is illegally using my name and the e-mail address irimland@conspiracypenpal.com to send around a virus. Don't open it! I am having an expert trace it to its source. ===== GOOD NEWS: _____ You can now send Ernst Zundel a greeting and a few words of support by sending him an electronic Zundelsite postcard. No, he does not have a computer in his cell, but we have a way of letting him know that we care and that his heroism will not be forgotten. Go to http://www.zundelsite.org/zundel_postcard/ and tell him you support him! ===== According to Times Online, June 14, 2003: Police find cocaine in German Jewish leader's flat From Roger Boyes in Berlin POLICE said yesterday that traces of cocaine had been found in the Frankfurt apartment of Michel Friedman, the prominent deputy head of the German Jewish community. They searched his apartment after a tip-off from Berlin investigators who arrested a Polish-Ukrainian prostitution gang. One of the arrested women said she was part of a group that supplied sexual services to celebrities, and claimed that she saw Herr Friedman take cocaine. The furore whipped up by the raid on the home of Herr Friedman, a Christian Democrat politician, has shaken some long-standing taboos in German society: since the Hitler years the press has been very cautious about openly criticising members of the Jewish community. Herr Friedman, whose parents were saved from death in Auschwitz by Oscar Schindler, has refused to comment on the accusation. But the mass circulation Bild newspaper, part of the Springer group, which requires its journalists formally to support the state of Israel, said in a headline yesterday, even before the police had tested the white powder found by dogs in the raid, "Drug-thriller Friedman". ===== Romania denies HolocaustSaturday 14 June 2003 Telegraph Network telegraph.co.uk Romania denies Holocaust By Shamillia Sivathambu (Filed: 14/06/2003) The Romanian government issued a blunt denial yesterday that the Holocaust hit the country during the Second World War, defying historical accounts of a campaign of anti-Semitic persecution orchestrated by its pro-Nazi wartime regime. The statement, issued by the Public Information Ministry, startled Jewish leaders in Romania, where 250,000 Jews were killed or deported to concentration camps under the rule of Marshal Ion Antonescu. "We firmly claim that within the borders of Romania between 1940 and 1945 there was no Holocaust," the ministry said. ===== The agency that provided the "documentation" that allowed Canada's ministers to issue the "Security Certificate" on Ernst Zundel, claiming that he is a "risk to the security of Canada" is in very hot water indeed: Canadian spy agency erased Kanishka tapes Press Trust of India Vancouver, June 11: Canada's spy agency wiped out tape recordings of intercepted phone calls of the suspected mastermind in the 1985 bombing of Air India's Kanishka flight, which killed 329 people on board, even while it was negotiating with police over giving them access to the tapes. Only 54 of about 300 tapes remained intact by the time senior Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) staff found out that CSIS was erasing them, court documents show shedding light on the controversial role of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service both before and after the bombings. ===== Finally, a ZGram reader wrote: Apparantly you have had no notice how the June 5th hearing went? I'm guessing they can't tell you anything because Zundel has put the Canadian government in an emergency bind! (...) Of course they would like to give automatic support to the CSIS. But they can't. Because then the Canadsian government gets international blame for whitewashing the CSIS scandal. As guilty as the CSIS. But what can Canada do? The U.S. doesn't want Zundel back bringing scandal. Germany doesn't want Zundel back causing uproar. You guys have got three governments into a super bind of the highest order. No wonder "they" can't report about June 5! They don't know WHAT to do! You blew every fuse in the works! ===== Last words: Wish it were true! We do have a number of initiatives in the works and some surprises in the making, but in the meantime, Ernst Zundel does not yet have a chair to sit on and must do his legal work either standing by the table or kneeling, and he sleeps by putting some books under his mattress so that he can pretend it is a pillow. This is important: Ernst has urged me again and again not to blame the guards or even the prison supervisors since the appalling prison conditions are not their fault. He says they are doing their job under very difficult circumstances, often dealing with the worst cases of serious criminality the human race has managed to bring forth. These appalling prison conditions are the faults of the politicians who permit these abuses - and who refuse to acknowledge, much less act, on complaints. The Government of Canada refuses to acknowledge that Ernst Zundel, who has NO criminal record in Canada, as they themselves admit, has worn for four long months the orange overall of convicted mass murderers, multiple rapists and child molesters! For what? For blowing the whistle on the Holocaust extortion racket? Who really is in charge of Canada? How long is this human rights abuse spectacle going to last? From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Jun 14 09:49:48 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Jun 14 12:00:44 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/13/2003 - "The New, Improved Amnesty International" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 13, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Your letters to Amnesty International have caused at least a partial reaction - and action. The minions pimping for the Canadian Holocaust Lobby are beginning to paint themselves nicely into a corner. They are a non-profit organization, flying under false flags - and ever more Zundel watchers world-wide are speculating that they are a Fifth Column Zionist front. Amnesty International claims to stand up for the protection of Freedom of Speech - yet they recommend that a man be kept in prison in Canada allegedly for "Hate Speech", allegedly on an American website that did not belong to him, "convicted" by an administrative outfit misnamed a "Human Rights Tribunal" with no enforcement powers, a tribunal that declared Truth not to be a defense, and which disallowed crucial witnesses for the defense, including Ingrid Rimland, owner of the website, from giving testimony that could have set the record straight? Get this, Amnesty International: Ernst Zundel has NEVER been charged, much less convicted, for "Hate Speech" in Canada! NEVER! And do you know why? Would you like to know why? Because such a charge would have been a criminal charge WHICH WOULD HAVE ALLOWED TRUTH AS A DEFENSE! Barbara Hall, Mayor of Toronto, who, among others, accused Ernst Zundel of "hate" in the Kangaroo Tribunal Trial for an American website that was NOT his website, sat there with a beet-red face for fifteen minutes when Doug Christie, Zundel defense attorney, invited her to find the "hate" on the Zundelsite that she claimed she had spotted. She couldn't find it - but she was sure that it was there! Somewhere! Give me a break! Well, now the eyes of the world are on Canada. All that, and more, is part of the Canadian record - to the disgrace of Canada that permits such obscenity to continue, and to the disgrace of Amnesty International that STILL talks out of both sides of their mouths! Anyway, here is Amnesty International/Canada now in a somewhat modified version of their policy and stand on the illegal incarceration of Ernst Zundel: [START] Thank you for your email. I am attaching Amnesty International's position on the case of Ernst Zundel for your information below. Sincerely, Samantha Burdett Information Services Coordinator Amnesty International Canada Amnesty International's position with respect to the case of Ernst Zundel Amnesty International has urged the Canadian government to allow Ernst Zundel to make his refugee claim. Amnesty International has suggested that the processing of Ernst Zundel's refugee claim could be accelerated, but only if his rights to a fair process are observed. Amnesty International has repeatedly expressed concern that the security certificate process in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, that is presently being used against Ernst Zundel, is unfair and not in keeping with international human rights standards. Amnesty International has reminded the Canadian government that numerous allegations of possible commission of hate crimes have been made against Ernst Zundel, largely stemming from his position with respect to the Holocaust, and that those allegations must be investigated, leading to charges if borne out by the evidence. Amnesty International urges Canada to ensure that any criminal or immigration procedure invoked in Mr. Zundel's case be consistent with international standards governing fair trials. Amnesty International does not consider Ernst Zundel to be a prisoner of conscience and is not calling for his release. Amnesty International does not adopt persons who are imprisoned for "hate speech" as prisoners of conscience. AI defines "hate speech" as the advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence. Hate speech is an activity aimed at destroying the rights of others, and inciting racial hatred, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, or other forms of intolerance. It may take a variety of forms, such as the use of threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour or displaying or publishing or distributing material where the perpetrator intends to incite racial or similar hatred or acts with reckless disregard for the likelihood that such hatred will be incited. AI's approach to hate speech reflects the balance in international human rights law between freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination in the enjoyment of rights. German courts and the Canadian Human Rights Commission have previously ruled that Mr. Zundel has been responsible for hate crimes because of the material he has published or distributed claiming that the ! Holocaust did not happen. Amnesty International does not, therefore, consider Ernst Zundel to be a prisoner of conscience and is not calling for his release from detention in Canada. The organization's position is that investigations of hate crimes allegations should continue. If supported by evidence, charges should promptly be laid against Ernst Zundel in Canada or he should be extradited to another country where he would face justice, consistent with international fair trial standards. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Jun 14 09:47:18 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 15 06:00:35 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/15/2003 - "Joerg Friedrich: The Fire" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 15, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Back To The Holocaust In Germany From Adelaide Institute.org 3-15-3 >From Walter Mueller thetruthisback@yahoo.com > Forget anything that's ever been written about war atrocities committed by the Allied in Germany. Clear your mind of David Irving and James Bacque. Here comes Joerg Friedrich, the German award-winning author. Not everything that he has done in the past would be agreeable with me. But that makes him just more - and I hate to use the word - perfect, to write about the Allied holocausts. I opened his book, "Der Brand" (The Fire) and I could not put it down. Der Brand is the new book from Joerg Friedrich, and it handles, in a scientific way, human way and documentary way, the Allied atrocities from 1940 til 1945. Friedrich makes sure that even the simplest of person understand the workings of firebombs and other explosives. His first chapter explains in detail these weapons of mass destruction. He furthermore analytically goes from the South to the West and from the North to the East. He leaves out no city. His last chapter talks about human emotions. Interviews with survivors that keeps you on a emotional rollercoaster. My friends, the book is the best that's ever been written about the "Bombenkrieg" by the Allies against Germany. Friedrich does not write in favor of the Nazis, I guess that is the only reason that he has gotten away with this book. Der Brand is still number 9 on the best-seller list in Germany and has sold 5.5 million copies. A documentary about that book is on the way and it supposedly will have ratings never seen before. Once you've read that book, it becomes crystal clear that there was some form of rage that drove the English and the Americans. It also becomes clear that the goal was the complete annihilation of the German nation. Deliberately, children's hospitals, retirement homes, and other social services were targeted by the English and Americans. For example, in Kassel, 2,000 children were killed in one night. The descriptions of bodies pasted against the wall, because of the tremendous heat, are horrifying. Everything, of course, is documented with footnotes. Nothing in the book is based on hearsay or made-up. Cities like Wuerzburg, Nuernberg, Hamburg, Dortmund, and many small cities were deliberately targeted by the English and Americans to release unspeakable terrors upon mostly women and children and the elderly. (...) I haven't seen a book written this well. Maybe because it isn't your usual diatribe about the holocaust or your common revisionist book that gives you the other side (don't get me wrong, I love them all). Friedrich's book is written by a truly unbias(ed) person, who has researched it for five years. Kind of Irvings "Hitler's War", but much, much better. The book is not available in the English language yet, and I hope it will find a sponsor that translates it into English. I could write 20 pages about this book, and the emotions it awoke in my, but I won't. Trust me when I say, of all the books I've ever read about suffering, this really brings you into the reality of what has happened from 1940 til 1945. You can order the German version at www.amazon.de > Walter F. Mueller RENSE.COM http://www.rense.com/general35/holo.htm From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 16 17:25:37 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Jun 17 08:45:27 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/16/2003 - "Rescinding Walter Durante's Pulitzer for lying through his teeth" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 16, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I was pleased to see this overdue Durante story being rolled up - finally! It was sent to me by Dr. Robert Countess who followed up the main description with a letter of his own: [START] The following Letter to the TIMES is based on newspaper and TV coverage recently about the Jason Blair New York Times matter and its relation to Walter Duranty, who in the late 1920s to early 1930s was the NYT journalist in Moscow. Just this past week, I saw a report on TV about thousands of Ukrainians who have sent postcard protests to both the NYT and to the Pullitzer Prize committee urging that the 1931 PP be rescinded from Duranty posthumously because of his covering up the Soviet induced famine in the Ukraine whereby some 6-8 million innocent Ukrainians died-largely due to their lack of willingness to see their farms stolen by the Communist Party and made into large cooperatives run by formerly free Ukrainians who then would become slaves or serfs, as it were, to the Party. A major source for the journalistic setting of the period is a book by Donald Day, authorized journalist for the Baltics, Poland, and the Soviet Union, from the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper famous for its honest journalism and pro-American interests, in contrast to the New York Times with its obvious slant toward Socialism and Soviet experiment with totalitarian Marxism from 1917 to create "a workers' Paradise." In 1920 Donald Day was invited by the Soviet representative in New York to visit Russia and report on events there, but when Day arrived in Riga, Latvia, he was refused a visa by the communist government. He waited some 20 years for a visa, but when the Soviets invaded Latvia in July 1940, he was given 24 hours to leave the country. All the while Day was NOT allowed into the USSR, there were journalists such as Walter Duranty who covered up Bolshevist atrocities and gave positive spins that were duly printed in the NYT. On page 48 of his book, he reproduces a letter to his Publisher, Colonel R.R. McCormick [Chicago Tribune] in which he describes an invitation in 1926 from a Soviet official. In short, the official made clear that if Day were to display "loyalnosty" [Russian for loyalty], meaning "objectivity" to place a positive spin on events and not report negatives, he would be allowed a visa. Day replied to the official that he had a loyalty foremost to his newspaper and could only report what he observed. The Soviet official told him "to think it over." Day writes on page 126 that "For 18 years Moscow's star reporter was Walter Duranty, an Englishman employed by The New York Times, a newspaper owned by Jews. [Day pointed out this ethnic ownership in view of the 80% dominance of the Soviet Communist leadership by ethnic Jews and the NYT spin on the Bolshevist Revolution as a positive development from the Christian Czar and his regime.] Duranty became the apologist and advocate for the Soviet government. He was afforded many privileges by his communist friends. For many years Walter occasionally included in his messages to The Times denunciations of 'The White Guard Colonels who were spreading lies about the Soviets from Riga.'" When Day met Duranty at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin on one occasion, Day asked Duranty about these denunciations and Duranty replied: "Donald, you have no idea how nice the Soviet authorities are to me after I sent out a message denouncing the White Guard Colonels in Riga." Then on the same page Day writes: "Duranty, Lyons and Chamberlain (Christian Science Monitor) all made a special point of denouncing me and my reports of the great famine in the Ukraine in 1934 when some five million people died of starvation. Lyons, after his reformation, estimated the victims at between seven and fifteen million. The Soviet government contended that there was no famine at all. Duranty was permitted to make a trip to the Ukraine and send a number of dispatches, one from Odessa, giving an absolutely false picture of conditions. Later he told a gathering in my presence how in Odessa he had seen a woman drop a bottle of milk, which broke on the pavement, and how a man had flung himself on his knees and lapped up the milk from the street with his tongue like a famished animal. In books written after they had left Russia, both Lyons and Chamberlain admitted it was they who had done the lying and they confirmed the [Chicago] Tribune's famine reports." [From Donald Day: 1920-1942: Propaganda, Censorship and One Man's Struggle to herald the Truth. (Day died in 1966)] I include this lengthy excerpt since it is so important to placing the lying, distorting, spinning Duranty in the context of his day and in the present era of the many "Jason Blairs" that graduate from schools of journalism [even though Blair was a drop-out hired by the NYT anyway, that is, without the normally required degree]. With this brief context, one can easily see that Walter Duranty's dishonesty about the Ukraine famine makes Jason Blair's dishonesty look like child's play. For the seriousness of the Soviet induced murder [no better word for it except perhaps for GENOCIDE], Duranty deserves to have the Pullitzer rescinded, in my view and in the view of millions of Ukrainians and others who have suffered so dearly due to journalistic dishonesty. A more recent analogy is the Israeli terror attack on the USS Liberty on June 9, 1967 and the killing of 34 US sailors and officers, wounding some 130+ in addition. The continued cover up of this terror attack as an "accident" is pregnant, for example, a week ago when the Huntsville Times carried NO article memorializing this event at all. Journalism that tells the truth--what one might call "exactitude" as the French call it-is the sort of journalism foreign to the Walter Duranty and Jason Blair types of this world. Thus, with all this in view, I submit the following letter, believing full well that the Editor will disallow it from being published. Dear Letters: My name is not "Jason Blair," nor is it "Walter Duranty." If it were either, I would go to court and seek to have it changed legally to an honorable name. Both of these New York Times reporters have shown themselves to be dishonest and willing to hide facts or invent facts to further their careers. I care not to spend another moment on Jason Blair, the college drop out from Maryland College Park campus. But Duranty is another story. Huge numbers of Ukrainians in recent days are sending protest postcards to both the Pullitzer Prize committee and to the New York Times to urge the rescinding of the 1931 Pullitzer Prize to Duranty. Reason? Millions of innocent Ukrainians died in the artificially induced famine holocaust and Duranty knew that it was caused by the Communist Party, but he refused to tell the truth to his New York Times readers. I have been a Visiting Professor in the Ukraine twice and plan to return. I have stayed in Kiev and Odessa and traveled widely in that rich bread basket with its thick and fertile black soil. Duranty's cover up and lies cannot be excused, even though withdrawing the Prize will not bring back the estimated 15,000,000 holocausted by the Communists. But, rescinding the Prize will be a move in the right direction. -- Robert H. Countess, Ph.D. Ancient Greek email: boblbpinc@earthlink.net 28755 Sagewood Circle Toney, AL 35773 USA Phone: (256) 232-4940 Cell: (256) 653-7598 Fax: (256) 232-4940 [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Jun 17 10:54:04 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Jun 17 17:00:28 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/17/2003 - "The Zundel Story: 762 times over!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 17. 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The Zundel story - 762 times over! [START] Blumner: Ashcroft Nonapologetic Despite Findings of Post-9-11 Injustice By Robyn Blumner ST. PETERSBURG TIMES / June 13, 2003 None Selected Attorney General John Ashcroft must loathe this country's traditions of freedom. How else can one explain his blithe reaction to a report released Monday by the Justice Department's own inspector general that details how his department mistreated hundreds of immigrants detained following Sept. 11? Page after page of the nearly 200-page report is as scathing and condemning as bureaucrat-speak gets. Yet Ashcroft told Congress Thursday that he does "not apologize" for the way his department conducted itself post-Sept. 11. None of the report's findings apparently pricked his conscience: not the way men were indiscriminately arrested, or the way they were kept from contacting attorneys, or the way they were left to languish for months while the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents assigned to clear them of terrorist links were given other duties. The report covers the experiences of 762 immigrants, almost all male and from Muslim or Middle Eastern countries, who were picked up on immigration violations and designated "of interest" in the terrorism investigation. In the end, beyond Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, not one of the detainees was charged with a terrorism-related crime. Not one. How can the Justice Department claim to have been safeguarding Americans when it threw away the rule book -- the principles of due process -- and in doing so came up with zero al-Qaida members beyond Moussaoui? If the great paradigm of this century is liberty vs. security, then where was the security payoff? At the direction of Ashcroft and his underlings -- including Michael Chertoff, an assistant attorney general who has been nominated for a federal appellate court seat -- we gave up the presumption of innocence, suspicion based on fact, the possibility of bail, public immigration hearings and humane conditions of confinement. In exchange, we obtained no added safety. I'd say this was a sucker's deal -- one Ashcroft not only vows to continue but wants Congress to authorize. Even after this bruising evaluation, Ashcroft had the audacity to ask the House Judiciary Committee for expanded powers to hold people suspected of terrorism indefinitely. When Ashcroft looks at the Bill of Rights, he must see it with shark-dead eyes. But let's put rights aside; how about just talking about the fundamentals of good police work? According to the inspector general's report, there was virtually no investigation done before immigrants were dubbed "of interest." For example, three Middle Eastern men in Manhattan were arrested after they were stopped for a traffic violation and had plans to a school in their car. They were doing construction work at the school, a fact their employer confirmed the next day, but they were nonetheless held as Sept. 11 detainees. If a "lead" -- which was often an anonymous tip about a Muslim neighbor who worked odd hours -- led the FBI to a location and there were a dozen others there with immigration violations, all would be arrested and treated as Sept. 11 detainees. Once an immigrant "of interest" was taken into custody, the Justice Department commanded that he not be released or deported until cleared by the FBI -- a process the inspector general found took an inordinate amount of time, on average 80 days. The report makes repeated references to the irresponsible way the FBI went about these clearances, often taking months to do a job that should have taken days. It also describes how then-Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyers pleaded with the FBI to provide them with facts on individual detainees that would justify holding them without bond. Typically, the FBI had nothing to offer. The INS was told to claim the need for bond denial anyway. As the report indicates, a whole new set of rules was imposed on these detainees. New policies allowed the INS (which has been absorbed into various parts of the Department of Homeland Security) to hold off for weeks or more before charging the immigrants. Aliens who agreed to leave the country and not fight their deportation orders were nonetheless kept for months until "cleared" by the FBI before being allowed to fly home. Another part of the report gives a sickening accounting of how some of the detainees were held. Eighty-four detainees deemed of "high interest" by the FBI were sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. All of them, without any individual assessment of dangerousness, were kept under the most restrictive conditions: a lockdown of 23 hours a day and hands and feet shackled when out of their cell. Petty cruelties were inflicted on these men -- men who were only charged with civil immigration violations -- such as having their cell lights on all night and not being given warm clothes so they could utilize their hour of recreation. The detainees were allowed one phone call to an attorney a week and one social telephone call a month. Their weekly phone call to try to secure counsel was sabotaged by the fact that the list of immigration attorneys given them had many wrong numbers. But a wrong number was counted as their weekly allotment. The report describes how word came from the highest levels of the department to the director of the Bureau of Prisons that any legal means should be taken to disrupt the ability of these men to communicate with the outside. They were also the subject of cruelties not so petty, such as being slammed against walls and having arms and fingers twisted by guards. Again, none of these men was found to have terrorist ties. Five hundred and five of the detainees have now been returned to their home countries. The bulk came from Pakistan, but many were from Egypt, Yemen and other places where hatred toward America has become a national security problem for us. Now they can hate us not just for our freedoms but for our repressions. And to this Ashcroft makes no apologies. How is this making us safer? ----- Tribune Media Services From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 18 15:53:51 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Jun 18 18:16:25 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/18/2003 - "National Post interview re Amnesty International" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 18, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Regarding that full page ad for which I collected some very nice pledges until PayPal cancelled my account: The ad was approved, then dis-approved - approved again, then dis-approved - and now approved for the third time to run in a large metropolitan paper on Sunday. Keep fingers and toes crossed! After it has actually appeared, I hope to collect from those of you who pledged - and maybe even from those of you who didn't? Like so much else we do - it's not just an ad, it's a story! I hope to be able to tell you more on Monday. In the meantime, I am waiting for one of my attorneys to come back from a trip to see if we should do something with Amnesty International's libelous statement that Ernst Zundel is in prison in Canada because of "hate" speech. If Amnesty International had done even the most superficial research instead of yelping right along with Canada's lapdog media, they would have discovered that Ernst is in prison because - get this once and for all and let it sink in! - he missed an interview with immigration authorities which, as it turned out, was never even scheduled! For that, he now has to wear the orange jump suit of serial murderers and rapists - if that isn't a case of the grossest human rights violation in a so-called "democratic" country that a decent, law-abiding person might imagine, I can't imagine what might be! As if clear-headed people don't see through THAT charade! Tomorrow I will run a cross-section of the letters in response to my request to write to Amnesty International and give them a piece of your mind since they don't seem to have one of their own. Today I'll just run by you a brief interview I did with a Canadian journalist via email: ===== To the attention of Ingrid Rimland: I am a reporter with the National Post, a large, daily newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. I am interested in speaking with you today (Monday, June 16) regarding Amnesty International's statement on the case of your husband, Ernst Zundel. I would very much appreciate a quick call. I can be reached at (416) 383-2388, and, please, feel free to call collect. Thank you for your consideration, --- Adrian Humphreys National reporter National Post --- 300-1450 Don Mills Road, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3B 3R5 --- (416) 383.2388 (vox) (416) 383.2305 (fax) ahumphreys@nationalpost.com http://www.nationalpost.com --- ===== My reply: Why don't you call Ernst at the prison directly and see if they will let the media do an interview - I bet you a dime that they won't! - or send me a few questions which I will try to answer? ===== Questions submitted and my replies: National Post: Why do you think Amnesty International has declined to intervene in your husband's case? Ingrid: It is my understanding that AI at headquarters decided some years ago that historical revisionists weren't worthy of protection and weren't persecuted or prosecuted - or if they were, it was their own fault. Double-check at http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/faurisson_beaten.html and http://www.zundelsite.org/english/debate/victims/index.html if in doubt what's being done to historical revisionists. Amnesty International did what politically correct courts do - they took "judicial notice" that the Holocaust was essentially what Hollywood told the world it was. An intellectually honest outfit professing to champion free speech ought to have at least investigated the scientific facts behind so-called "hate speech" - since science does not lie, not even for a "Nazi". But Amnesty International is not an honest organization - it is a Marxist front, in many people's eyes. National Post: - Did you ever seriously expect assistance from Amnesty International in regards to your husband's case?- If not, why seek it? Ingrid: Well, hope springs eternal, doesn't it? Besides, why are you writing this article? Would you have bothered, had Zundel supporters not pressured Amnesty International all over the world to stop playing coy and live up to its mission statement? National Post: Now that Amnesty International has declined to call for Ernst's release -- and in fact, they seem to be pushing for a continuation of the investigation into his activities -- what is your response to their statement? Ingrid: What activities? His activities have been investigated for decades in Canada, and nothing "hateful" has ever been found. There is nothing to investigate any more. Further "investigations" will make Jewish lawyers richer and Canadian taxpayers poorer. Is that what Canada wants? National Post: An earlier post -- from you, I believe, on the Zundelsite -- suggests a double standard is being applied to Ernst's case vis-a-vis other cases that Amnesty International has trumpeted. Could you please elaborate on this? What comparisons do you draw between Ernst's case and others that Amnesty International champions? Ingrid: Well, think of Nelson Mandela. Certainly violence attached to that man and his supporters. Even the government of Canada admits that Ernst Zundel is not, and has never been, a violent man. National Post: Had they decided otherwise, and issued a call for his release, do you think it would have had any impact on the Canadian officials? Ingrid: One never knows. Sometimes a government is grateful for a fig leaf, after it has painted itself in a corner and stands there, naked, for all the world to see. ===== Here is what the National Post published, some of it lifted from previous ZGrams: [START] Amnesty refuses to support campaign for Zundel's release In Toronto jail: Not 'a prisoner of conscience,' says human rights body Adrian Humphreys National Post Tuesday, June 17, 200 Under pressure from supporters of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to denounce his imprisonment, Amnesty International has instead issued a policy statement declaring it has no concerns over his incarceration. "Amnesty International does not consider Ernst Zundel to be a prisoner of conscience and is not calling for his release," says a statement issued by the London-based International Secretariat of Amnesty International. "Amnesty International has reminded the Canadian government that numerous allegations of possible commission of hate crimes have been made against Ernst Zundel, largely stemming from his position with respect to the Holocaust. "Those allegations must be investigated, leading to charges if borne out by the evidence," says the statement. The policy was drafted last week in response to a growing number of queries about the case. Mr. Zundel's supporters have been lobbying Amnesty International -- the world's foremost human rights organization -- to join the campaign against his detention by the Canadian government. Mr. Zundel is in jail in Toronto pending a Federal Court review of the government's declaration that he is a threat to national security, an order requiring removal to his native Germany where he faces charges of inciting hatred. "Amnesty International does not adopt persons who are imprisoned for 'hate speech' as prisoners of conscience," Amnesty International's statement says. Mr. Zundel's supporters lashed out at the organization over its decision. "Amnesty International is not an honest organization -- it is a Marxist front, in many people's eyes," said Ingrid Rimland, Mr. Zundel's wife, in an interview with the National Post conducted through e-mail. "[Amnesty International] did what politically correct courts do -- they took 'judicial notice' that the Holocaust was essentially what Hollywood told the world it was." Ms. Rimland accused the organization of having a double standard, one that champions the cause of Nelson Mandela, the former president of South African who was imprisoned under the Apartheid regime, but turns its back on Mr. Zundel. In an e-mail to Mr. Zundel's supporters, she said of Amnesty International: "The minions pimping for the Canadian Holocaust Lobby are beginning to paint themselves nicely into a corner. They are a non-profit organization, flying under false flags -- and ever more Zundel watchers world-wide are speculating that they are a Fifth Column Zionist front." Alex Neve, Secretary-General of the Canadian branch of Amnesty International, said his group has no hidden agenda or ulterior motives. "Amnesty International stands for one thing and one thing only and that is the protection of human rights," Mr. Neve said. "When it comes to freedom of expression, there are some legitimate limits and inciting people to hatred is one such limit," he said. Amnesty International's policy on the case reiterated, however, its concerns over the security certificate process under which Mr. Zundel was detained. The government's declaration ended his claim for refugee status after he was deported here from the United States. Although not a Canadian citizen, Mr. Zundel lived for decades in Canada. "We think refugee systems should be open," Mr. Neve said. "The minute we allow politicians to have any kind of role in deciding who gets access to the refugee systems and who does not, we just know from around the world that is bad news for genuine refugees," he said. The government said in court that Mr. Zundel is the figurehead or patriarch of the white supremacist ideology and that violence is a tool the movement uses. Mr. Zundel, testifying earlier on his own behalf, denied allegations that he is involved in violence or advocates violence. The judicial review of the security certificate against him continues next month. ahumphreys@nationalpost.com [END] Tomorrow: A cross-section of reader letters to Amnesty International From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Jun 19 10:48:34 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Jun 19 13:24:08 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/19/2003 - "Amnesty International: Readers Respond" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 19, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Once more about Amnesty International - straight from the Horse's Mouth: "Amnesty International has no political affiliation, endorses no political party, accepts no funds from governments or any political party. Amnesty International is impartial. It is independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the protection of the human rights involved in each case, regardless of the ideology of the government, opposition forces or the beliefs of the individual." You realize you have just heard a sick joke! Below is a cross-section of letters where irate readers take that hypocritical organization to task, with copies of their letters sent to the Zundelsite for our bulging archives. Several of these letters made me laugh out loud because of some eminently practical applications of how to teach these unctuous folks a lesson: ===== For some time now I have been responding to AI support requests by refusing to contribute, citing their double standards regarding revisionists. I use their post paid envelopes and forms in my response. You should encourage your supporters to do the same and to mention Ernst's case specifically. I have also written them directly on Ernst's case alone. They wouldn't know a prisoner of conscience from an elephant. One last suggestion: while I would call them hypocrites of the first order I wouldn't call them marxists. ===== I am writing for information on Ernst Zundel . Ernst has been deported from the US for missing an immigration hearing that was not scheduled. He has been barred from reentering the US for 20 years, although he is legally married to a US citizen. This alone should raise hackles on any human rights organization. As I understand, Amnesty International Canada has accepted the charges of a politically motivated minority as fact without further study. I believe it is your responsibility to look into this matter. Did Ernst Zundel just start making accusations out of thin air or did he in fact respond to numerous accusations made against his country and his ethnicity - accusations which have, in fact, often been proven to be exaggerated if not outright false? Ernst Zundel is a lifelong pacifist. He came to Canada because he did not want to carry arms, Canada had no draft. If you will look at the record, it is not Ernst Zundel who is guilty of hate, but his accusers. It is an old saying, the way you shout into the forest is the way the echo comes out. Let Ernst's accusers explain and prove their charges. The reputation of Amnesty International is on the line. ===== I find it difficult to believe that an association like Amnesty International, which is so devoted, I believe, to fighting torture, whether physical or psychological torture, can, to such an extent, neglect or refuse its support to the Canadian revisionist Ernst Z?ndel! Here is a man who, OK, is disliked by the Jews because he challenges the story of the Holocaust, but who is an actual peaceful man, a man who constantly complied with all his duties as a Canadian resident, and who has now been kept in jail for four months while waiting to be maybe deported to Germany, a country where you know perfectly well that there is no freedom for those who challenge the official version of World War II. My impression is that, by doing nothing to help liberate Ernst Z?ndel, you are practising social EXCLUSION, as if that man were a social outcast who doesn't deserve being defended for not thinking the proper way. Wouldn't it be that Amnesty International is afraid? Afraid of getting some reproach from the Jewish community? Yet, is it not high time now for you to show that you are a free association, that you do not depend on anybody and need no advice from anyone? Are you not grown-ups? One expects from Amnesty International that you defend the rights of a man like Ernst Z?ndel whose elementary rights are scorned by the government of Canada by keeping him inside a jail and practising against him an unbearable psychological torture at least. I know Ernst Z?ndel personally. Never in my life have I ever met such a good, peaceful, decent and altruistic man. I'm relying on you and expecting you to show some courage in that matter. ===== As a member of AI, I am outraged at Amnesty's position on the brutal incarceration of Ernst Zundel in Canada. I am forwarding a copy of Amnesty's position as reported to me below. Amnesty's position appears to be nothing more than a slick example of doublespeak. Amnesty knows full well that "Hate Speech" is nothing more than a catchall term used to persecute people for being politically incorrect. The term "Hate Speech" is a cleverly crafted term used in place of the word "slander" which according to my Funk'nWagnalls means "to injure by maliciously uttering a false report". However, it is well settled law that truth is an absolute defense against slander. Therefore, in Canada, they had to invent the term "Hate Speech" so their "Kangaroo Tribunal" court was able to rule that truth is not a valid defense against it. There is a HATE CRIME being committed in Canada and it consists of the brutal incarceration of senior citizen Ernst Zundel by political stooges in the Canadian Government. In the interest of human rights and concern for the integrity of Amnesty International, I strongly urge your reconsideration of your position on the Ernst Zundel matter. ===== Amnesty International, What's with you people? I have been waiting for months for you to at least speak out on Ernst Zundel's behalf and have heard nothing about you speaking up for one of the most blatant exercises of repression to come to the fore in recent memory. Your reputation for defending the free exercise of human rights could very well be disappearing. Surely you aren't just an extension of Zionism? ===== Maybe you should publish this: 1-800-AMNESTY. It is the 1-800 # for Amnesty International (In USA). Since they don't spend their donations helping political prisoners such as Mr. Zundel, perhaps we should help them spend money on their telephone bill. Just a thought. ===== TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN IS IT SAFE TO TRAVEL TO CANADA? World wide there is growing concern as regards human rights in Canada. A certain Mr. Ernst Zuendel, a law abiding, innocent citizen, married to an American woman, was arrested without a warrant, kidnapped and shipped to Canada. It is rumoured that he is to be deported to Germany where further political persecution awaits him. WHY? It is alleged that he holds political opinions which are unpopular with the powers that be. In pre-apartheid South Africa this kind of persecution was a common daily occurence. Strange to say, Canada was one of the nations which helped to erradicate this scourge. Must we now accept that in Canada you can expect the same treatment, once so rigoroussly applied in South Afrca? Surely all agencies, to whom this appeal is being addressed, should seriously question the treatment to which an innocent, law abiding man like Ernst Zuendel is subjected. E-H. Schwacke in South Africa where freedom of speech and opinion is no longer violated. ===== Dear Sirs, I would like to know why you have done nothing on behalf of Ernst Zundel. He is legally married to a U.S. citizen. He has been convicted of no crime. He has been secretly spirited across an International border. Held in poor conditions. All because of what he thinks. The only injustice greater is your refusal to help. I see on your site you are concerned with the disparity of race among death-row inmates. This suggests a course of social engineering. What is your mission statement? ===== For a non-profit outfit, taking membership money from members who believe in your integrity, your organization is shamefully politicized. Your information officer's verbose ready-made answer to my letter from May 20 proved to me that this is the frightful reality. To see such a well-known relief agency dive for their fig leaf the moment they spot a "Holocaust Denier" who might need some protection from self-serving pressure groups is a terrible sign. It is a sign that you and your organization today are nothing more than another big puppet petrified in the face of nefarious power. ===== Amnesty International is a joke upon the duped, deceived and deluded, don't hold Your breath until they respond...they are jew controlled jerks from the word go... ===== This organization is a communist front organization which has a political agenda to make communists look good. Since you and Ernst are the perfect red herrings to deflect the attention from the atrocities of the communists, what ever would make you think they would take up the cause for Ernst? They are being perfectly consistent. Your only possible allies would be Americans like me who believe in the right to believe what ever you want and to say what ever you want. Ernst's deportation is an affront to the Constitution. I see Canadian socialists as loving to have Ernst to trot out as an evil man who will take the spot light off the atrocities of their own form of government....... ===== If there ever was a political prisoner who deserves the kind of help your organization was founded to give, it is Ernst Zundel. His treatment by the American and Canadian authorities reeks of vindictiveness driven by a politically powerful pressure group. Zundel was arrested without a signed arrest warrant while residing legally in the United States, married to a US citizen. His papers were being legally processed. He never received any official notice that his application for residence had been "abandoned". Yet he was accused of an immigration violation and thrown into Maximum Detention like a common criminal. Zundel is now barred from coming back to the United States for 20 (!) years - and he is in imminent danger of being deported to Germany where he will be jailed for at least five years if not for life for opinions which he published legally in Canada and the US. Please prove that Amnesty is not under political control of the same pressure group that is persecuting Zundel by giving him the kind of assistance that is your stated purpose. ===== Here in Costa Rica were are regularly informed about people condemned in Cuba for expressing views not officially allowed. In the 'democracies of our western world', we are taught, the human rights for free speech are respected. My friends and I, just before going to our knees to thank for living in one of these democracies, heard about thousands of people imprisoned for politically incorrect views in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and - most recently - Canada, where your husband is held in maximum security custody under the most ludicrous of accusations: destabilizing this poor shaky country. I suppose Fidel Castro is proud to learn that his methods - secret hearings, solitary confinement, 'threat to national security' claims - are exported to the 'western democracies' , instead of democracy being imported to Cuba. Mrs. Rimland, we support you in your admirable struggle against Zionist arrogance worldwide. ===== Let that be enough for now. One day we'll flush 'em out - guaranteed! For now, below is that list, one more time - you have proven that you have an effect. I told that to the National Post reporter yesterday! Write - and give them another piece of your mind. They can use all the help they can get! Here is that Amnesty International list one more time: adminaia@amnesty.org.au, info@amnesty.at, directie@aivl.be, aibf@aibf.be, aibenin@nayako.leland.bj, aibda@ibl.bm, aburkina@sections.amnesty.org, info@amnesty.ca, info@amnistie.qc.ca, info@amnistia.cl, amnestycotedivoire@aviso.ci, admin@amnesty.hr, amnesty@amnesty.cz, amnesty@amnesty.dk, amnesty@amnesty.fo, amnesty@amnesty.fi, admin-fr@amnesty.asso.fr, amnesty@gamtel.gm, info@amnesty.de, info@amnesty.gr, admin-hk@amnesty.org, info@amnesty.hu, amnesty@amnesty.is, info@amnesty.iol.ie, amnesty@netvision.net.il, info@amnesty.it, info@amnesty.or.jp, e-mail@amnesty.lu, amnesty@tm.net.my, amnesty-mli@djom.net.ml, aimauritius@intnet.mu, aimncc@magicnet.mn, amorocco@sections.amnesty.org, ain@ccsl.com.np, amnesty@amnesty.nl, campaign@amnesty.org.nz, info@amnesty.no, amnesty@cyber.net.pk, admin-pa@amnesty.org, amnestyp@palnet.com, amnistia@pla.net.py, admin-pe@amnesty.org, amnestypilipinas@meridiantelekoms.net, amnesty@amnesty.org.pl, aisp@ip.pt, asenegal@sections.amnesty.org, amnesty@amnesty.sk, amnesty.slo@guest.arnes.si, info@amnesty.org.za, amnistia.internacional@a-i.es, info@amnesty.se, info@amnesty.ch, aitaiwan@seed.net.tw, aitanz@simbanet.net, info@amnesty.or.th, admin-tn@amnesty.org, amnesty@superonline.com, officeai@dr.lv.ukrtel.net, info@amnesty.org.uk, admin-us@aiusa.org, admin-ve@amnesty.org, mjmusonda@hotmail.com, JMusonda@comesa.int, amnestyzimbabwe@yahoo.com, ===== From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Jun 20 18:44:32 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Jun 20 20:56:14 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/20/2003 - "Schadenfroh!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 20, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Germany is "schadenfroh" - a descriptive term that is hard to translate but that means, loosely translated, gleefully watching an enemy getting in trouble. Literally it means "being glad about the damage." Michel Friedman, a prominent Jew who claims to have been one of Oskar's "Schindlerjuden", was heartily disliked by young and old in Germany for his oily moralizing. Now look what happened lately - can you spell "schadenfroh"? [START] Police Find Cocaine In German Jewish Leader's Apartment By Roger Boyes in Berlin www.timesonline.co.uk 6-17-3 Police said yesterday that traces of cocaine had been found in the Frankfurt apartment of Michel Friedman, the prominent deputy head of the German Jewish community. They searched his apartment after a tip-off from Berlin investigators who arrested a Polish-Ukrainian prostitution gang. One of the arrested women said she was part of a group that supplied sexual services to celebrities, and claimed that she saw Herr Friedman take cocaine. The furore whipped up by the raid on the home of Herr Friedman, a Christian Democrat politician, has shaken some long-standing taboos in German society. Since the Hitler years the press has been very cautious about openly criticising members of the Jewish community. Herr Friedman, whose parents were saved from death in Auschwitz by Oscar Schindler, has refused to comment on the accusation. But the mass circulation Bild newspaper, part of the Springer group, which requires its journalists formally to support the state of Israel, said in a headline yesterday, even before the police had tested the white powder found by dogs in the raid, "Drug-thriller Friedman". The police took a hair sample from Herr Friedman and confiscated documents. Three small paper sachets, "typical of the drug milieu" in the police phrase, were analysed and at least one tested positive for cocaine. Cocaine abuse is common among Berlin celebrities, and it is rare for the police to act. This has stirred speculation on why the police should suddenly have singled out Herr Friedman. It was Herr Friedman who, through his sharp questioning on his own television talk show and public statements as a politician, had branded J?rgen M?llemann, a Free Democrat politician, as anti-Semite. Herr M?llemann had printed an election pamphlet attacking Israeli policies; Herr Friedman accused him of trawling for far-right voters. After the Free Democrats lost badly in the general election, Herr M?llemann, who was being investigated for suspected fraud, was ostracised by his own party and died last week when his parachute failed to open in what appeared to be suicide. One newspaper suggested yesterday that somebody was trying to even the score for his death by dragging down Herr Friedman. If Herr Friedman does not dispute the cocaine find, his days as a television celebrity could be numbered, and with it his power to argue the Jewish case in German society. Four planned television shows starring him have been removed from the schedules. [end] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Jun 21 06:34:32 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Jun 21 08:39:58 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/21/2003 - "Zundel Update" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 21, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I'll give you a quick rundown of where we are and what has happened since Ernst was "legally" kidnapped in broad daylight on American soil on February 5, 2003: _____ During this past month, I have had three offers of what I consider substantial money. I turned these offers down - all three of them, with gusto. Why? Because I did not know where the money came from. The moment I asked questions, these would-be donors de-materialized. I do not want and can't afford to be assisted by what looks to me like murky money. Can you imagine what the ADL would do to us if they could establish a link to you-know-who? For some decades now, the Zundel Information Outreach has been financed primarily by "little people", scores of them, honest and straightforward folks, most of them on marginal income. These people support us as they eke out a living in an increasingly hostile environment because of what they consider their values reflected in our work. These values are sacred to us. We don't need murky money. _____ This past month also, one of our legal team members was approached by an odd visitor with a threadbare excuse about his unannounced visit. I wasn't there, but I imagine a gleam in his eye as he laid out on the table what he must have thought would be a very tempting offer: He would help us get Ernst Zundel released and back to Tennessee. How? Go the ACLU route. Get a Jewish lawyer with connections. There is a waiver, the sly stranger let it be known, that Ashcroft could sign. There are people who know how to get him to sign it. Do the Zundels have money, he wanted to know. We could cut us a deal. No guarantee, of course. There's only one small problem. Zundel woud have to throw THEM a "sop". What is a "sop"? I asked, when I was later told about this offer. I didn't ask, "who's THEM"? A "sop" could be, I learned, that Zundel would agree he would no longer harp about the Holocaust. At that, I said: "Now let me get this straight. Is he telling me that I should pay that kind of money and ask Ernst to surrender his Freedom of Speech? Something that Ernst has spent practically all of his life fighting for? Forget it!" There is a word for this kind of a "deal" - it's called extortion when a person who is loved has been kidnapped, and family members are vulnerable, fearful and hurting. Of course we are not dealing with a kidnapped child - we are dealing with a blatant attempt to imprison the truth by holding the truth teller hostage. But the danger to the kidnapped person's safety is the same. I know that all too well. _____ Out of Germany comes word from what I consider one of the highest governmental echelons that the last thing on earth they need is Zundel to come back and cool his heels in a prison while, outside, the Right coalesces around a real live political martyr whom they admire and respect. There are already people eager and willing to self-accuse themselves - sounds like poor grammar, doesn't it? - to flood the government with Holocaust Denial prosecution dares. Additionally, there are Zundel Sympathizers in several countries lining up, ready to fly in and help him "serve his time" by offering the government to "sit off" part of his pending sentence, by mutual agreedment a foregone conclusion. In other words, the government of Germany, already hanging on with white knuckles against an increasingly restive population fed up to the hilt with the Holocaust Diet still being forced down their reluctant throats, is not exactly eager, or so at least it seems, to get the Zundel Problem as an additional public relations nightmare. _____ In Canada, there is the CSIS nightmare looming for Canada's increasingly jittery Zundel foes. If Ernst is forced to stay in Canada and fight, there will be revelations about the shady CSIS stuff - such as allowing to have parcel bombs transported on passenger planes to take out inconvenient dissidents like Zundel. There is some information known to RCMP sources that has yet to be revealed - such as, let's guess, who caused the "attempted murder charge against Ernst Zundel" in 1995 to be dropped into the memory hole. RCMP is not exactly friendly to CSIS. Some people speculate there will be some surprises in the court rooms. _____ So-called "human rights" organizations like Amnesty International have taken a real public relations hit in that they found themselves between a rock and a very hard place: How to stop Zundel supporters from the most godforsaken places from badgering their brass with inconvenient question marks? How to keep handlers at bay? Reporters tell us things in private that do not show up in their write-ups. No self-respecting scribe likes to be told to kick a man in maximum detention once more right in the shin who can't defend himself. There is a Zundel-sympathetic journalistic undertow gathering momentum that is going to cause a few splashes. _____ I have collected hundreds of letters, half of them notarized, from people from all walks of life who are willing to come out of the closet and say: "This Zundel fellow is not the evil ogre you Zundel Haters would like to have us believe. From personal experience, we know him to be a kind, good, gentle man - a real gentleman. And it so happens, we agree with what he says - that there is something very foul about your so-called Holocaust." You'd be amazed who is willing, these days, to endorse Ernst openly - and proudly. These letters will be used in various ways - not the least of which will be a concerted campaign in the still laid-back German-language media. Our mailing list and our connections are growing, and we haven't yet begun! _____ Also, let's not forget, there is fall-out that is going to benefit our struggle that has nothing to do with our efforts to get Ernst freed from prison. Wherever you look, the global climate is changing, with people getting ever more resentful about the ring that has been threaded through their nostrils. A Zundel aficionado from South Africa faxed me an article documenting - I am paraphrasing here - that former Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in a rather prominent forum that America has put its own soldiers in harms way in order to accommodate the needs of Israel. Having delivered himself of that politically incorrect plum, the good ex-Chancellor deftly fell back on his own heels and added unctuously that such a sacrifice, you see, was to America's credit - because it "increased moral standing". Would it be okay for my son, or yours, to go beat up a neighbor on the right, getting a bloody nose in the process, because it would please your neighbor on the left who sells him the idea that it would surely increase his moral standing? Where might our offspring park that "moral standing" - with blood still dripping on our kitchen floor? Is there a thinking person left who does not tell himself/herself, "...it looks we have been had!"? And who likes "to be had"? What is being said in Germany by none other than former Chancellor Kohl is being repeated a thousand-fold in America's streets, malls and patriot meetings. You know the old adage: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. These days, there are people sympathetic to Ernst Zundel who wouldn't have dreamed taking a second look, had it not been for the mischief of America's neo-con cabal. _____ On our legal front, all papers have been filed. They are as airtight as can be. The Vengeful Yammerers have now imported the Canadian Zundel Struggle to America. We are resolved, again, to make proverbial lemonade from lemons. Of course, there is a simple "out" to all of the above: The Zundel foes could just pull in their tails and let my guy come back. I think he would be quite content to watch the New World Order self-destruct while standing on the sidelines. _____ One final point: Let's quickly go on record stating that the rumors of a Mel Gibson movie about the Trials and Tribulations of Ernst Zundel are not true. :) Stay tuned. Ingrid From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Jun 22 16:21:16 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 22 18:28:36 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/22/2003 - "Ingrid's Full Page ad: Another Revisionist Milestone!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 22, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Shortly after I started my pledge drive to get the money together to purchase a full page ad in a major national paper, PayPal nastily pulled the plug on me to please the Yammering Tribe. That short-circuited my original plans - a full page ad in the Canadian Globe and Mail or even the Washington Post - but I had managed to get enough pledges together that I felt I could do something that would create a real splash. I chose Washington, DC - and the Washington Times. That is how far the pledge drive stretched. It bought me a full-page ad with the following text and two graphics: http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/iceberg.html and http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/iceberg.html Let me tell you, it was high drama all day Friday - and tomorrow I will tell you why I did what I did, and what it could potentially mean. For now, here is the text for the ad: [START] Dear President Putin: You probably are not aware of my husband, Ernst Z?ndel - but hundreds of thousands of people all over the world know his name. Ernst Z?ndel is the man who, under vicious siege by a powerful political lobby, sent an investigative team from Canada to Auschwitz in 1988 to test forensically if "gassings" really happened - and found that they did not. Science does not lie, and scientific findings can be verified. His evidence must stand or fall in the free market of ideas. My husband has pleaded for a safe, impartial global forum ever since to make his findings known. The Canadian Holocaust Lobby has never forgiven Ernst Z?ndel. Recently, he was arrested on US soil - allegedly because he missed an interview with Immigration and Naturalization Services officials. No judge. No hearing. No recourse. Instead, leg irons and handcuffs - and brutal incarceration in four maximum detention prisons, first in America and now in Canada. False news was spread in mainstream media that he had "overstayed his visa". Not so. He was married to a U.S. citizen, and we have irrefutable documentation that he was legally entitled to be here. His "punishment", just for a starter? Banned from the U.S.A. for 20 years! My husband's brutal treatment by government officials in what many vainly hope are still two of the West's most law-abiding democratic countries is reminiscent of the darkest days of the Stalinist years. I know whereof I speak. At the age of five, I lost my father in a very similar arrest in 1941 - never to see him again! I am a Russian-born, German-descendant, award-winning novelist, best known for an early novel, "The Wanderers", a fictitious account of the life of my Russian-born Mennonite grandmother. More recently, I wrote a trilogy, spanning seven generations and 200 years and all the major political upheavals of the last two gruesome, bloody centuries. My people, living peacefully in the Ukraine since 1789, were ethnically cleansed in the Stalinist purges, and only a handful of us could save ourselves, escaping with the retreating German Army in 1943 to Germany and, then, in 1948, to South America. I grew up in the jungles, functionally illiterate and knowing little of the political realities of dictatorships that transformed and decimated countries like Russia and Germany. As an adult, I emigrated to Canada and then to the United States, always thinking of the country of my birth, Russia, as a place out of the depths of hell - until I learned about an intellectual movement called Revisionism. My now imprisoned husband is globally known as a Revisionist pioneer. Ernst Z?ndel has a profound geopolitical understanding of the moneyed interests that would set brother against brother, causing rivers of blood and tears for the gains of a handful of oligarchs who fattened themselves on our pain. Today I know that Russia was as horribly victimized as Germany was. Russia suffered as much as Germany did - and as America will suffer, unless America wakes up and comes to understand today's events in light of what was done so cruelly to law-abiding people yesterday. The people of America MUST urgently try to understand today's events and dramas in historical perspective. Today's Russia is far ahead of the United States in that respect - in fact, I am the one who sponsored the first ever Revisionist seminars in Russia in a Teachers College, a feat I have not been able to accomplish here in our so-called "free speech" country. Russia welcomes conscientious scholarship and does not fear controversial historical findings. Referring to my husband's brutal arrest, one of my Russian Revisionist correspondents called Ernst and myself "America's Refuseniks" and pledged his intellectual solidarity. It is an apt description of who we are and what we do. We refuse to believe in historical lies. We refuse to be dictated to and told who are our friends and who should be our enemies. We refuse to surrender our Freedom of Speech. We refuse to swallow manufactured history such as the "Holocaust by gassing" - a lie that has become an intellectual stranglehold on every Western country. If our findings are deemed "wrong", then let's have a civilized debate in a respectable national forum where both sides can offer arguments and evidence - and let the people judge! Recently, I read an essay by Russian General Anatoly Wolkow, titled "People, Listen To The Signals!" Here is a former enemy of Germany who stretches out a hand of friendship to soften the political mistakes of the past and bring long-needed healing to both Germany and Russia. I believe there are millions of Russians who would identify with what he says. I know there are millions of Germans all over the world who would like nothing better than to bury the hostilities of World War II and once again be known as Russia's partners, friends and scientific benefactors. America would benefit from such a reconciliation. America is not in need of yet another war. We need to find ways to each other! I plead with you to send a message to those millions, Germans and Russians alike, as well as millions in America and Canada, that we are kin, not enemies. A Russian leader of courage and vision could tell the Western world that the Russia of today has finally become autonomous, living by democratic principles, abhorring censorship. There is a way to shame short-sighted Western bureaucrats for their repressive laws - and wake up people globally to the realities of vested interest power plays that move us ever closer to a frightening abyss. A simple gesture, even if only symbolic, would telegraph around the world that Russia, emerging out of decades of repression, has thrown away her dictatorial shackles - declare Ernst Z?ndel, Prisoner of Conscience, in broad daylight kidnapped "legally" by his nefarious enemies on U.S. soil, to be the West's most notable "Refusenik" - and offer him asylum and a passport. Sincerely, Ingrid Zundel, Ed.D. [END] That's it for today. Those of you who pledged that you would help, please don't let me down - I have stuck out my neck for a big chunk of money. Those of you who didn't pledge, perhaps you'll reconsider. My address is: Ingrid Zundel 3152 Parkway, Suite 13, PMB 109 Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 USA Thank you so very much - any and all, who have helped and sent me your money already, and those of you who will, or else your nose will grow. Tomorrow I will tell you more, as promised. Your cyber warrior Ingrid Thought for the Day: Fast-track Revisionism 101 can be found at http://www.zundelsite.org/cartoons/8_cartoons.html Tell a friend! From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 23 04:38:48 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 23 15:24:21 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/23/2003 - "Admit you're a terrorist..." Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 23, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: There will be TWO important ZGrams today - the one below, and one on my Washington Times ad later. First, to the one below. The headline says it all. The Zionist-beholden Government of Canada: "If you're a terrorist, we'll let you free. If you are innocent, we'll keep you in jail. He he." Have our enemies ever more clearly revealed their poisonous claws - and their agenda? I haven't talked to Ernst about this latest, but as far as I know him, he'll NEVER agree to this deal. He will stay in prison - but it is already shaping up, as he put it recently: "Perversely, I am worth more to the movement in prison than I would be on the outside." How long did it take Solzhenitsyn until the whole world rallied to his side? Here goes - courtesy of Paul Fromm, Director of C-FAR and Ernst's legal representative on location: [START] Subject: ADMIT YOU'RE A TERRORIST & WE'LL LET YOU GO, FEDS TELL ZUNDEL Dear Free Speech Supporter: Have I got a deal for you! The Federal Government, through sneaky leaks, seems to be recognizing the emptiness of its lying case against Ernst Zundel: that somehow this gentle artist, this pacifist, is a terrorist, supporter of violence, and, therefore, a threat to Canada's national security. Now, via press leak, they seem to be offering him a "deal": plead guilty to being a terrorist and threat to national security and they'll let him go -- to prison in Germany or to a safe third country. It's a secular, watered down version of the Devil's deal offered Christ in the New Testament when He was fasting and tormented in the desert. Luke 4:6 6) And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Ernst Zundel can never lie and say to the minority-directed Canadian government that he is a threat to national security. He is a non-violent seeker after truth, an historical revisionist, the sort of feisty intellectual who would be seen as an asset to any free state. However, in the stifled, totalitarian land of political correctness, any independent mind is seen as a threat. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION Toronto Sun, June 22, 2003 Feds offer to set Zundel free if he'll agree he's security threat says lawyer By BRUCE CHEADLE OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government offered to set jailed Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel free to travel to the country of his choice if he would plead guilty to being a national security threat, says his lawyer. And a senior government source told The Canadian Press the national security certificate could still be dropped altogether if Zundel would return immediately to his native Germany. "We'd gladly buy Zundel a ticket back to Germany tomorrow," said the federal source. But Germany, where Zundel faces up to five years in prison on charges of suspicion of incitement of hatred, is the last place he wants to go. Zundel remains in solitary confinement at Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre awaiting his next Federal Court hearing on July 28 and weighing his options, say confidantes. "As far as accepting deportation to Germany, I don't believe that's on, at least when I visited him a week ago," said Paul Fromm, a free speech advocate and sometime legal adviser. In fact, both federal offers amount to the same thing, Zundel's lawyer Doug Christie said in an interview: "It's the chute that leads to the slaughterhouse." Christie said Donald MacIntosh, the senior immigration lawyer Ottawa assigned to the Zundel case, proposed to set the 64-year-old German national free "only if he pleads guilty to being a security threat." "And if he does that no other country (but Germany) will take him. Checkmate. Germany has the most repressive laws in Europe to enforce the state religion of German guilt for the Holocaust." Zundel has been in running legal skirmishes for at least a decade because of his published writings and Web site glorifying Nazism, denying the Holocaust and alleging a global Jewish conspiracy. Federal officials are predictably reluctant to be seen negotiating any kind of deal. A spokesman for Immigration Minister Denis Coderre was tight-lipped. "Things are before the courts right now and we have to let due process take it's course," Mark Dunn said. Zundel has been behind bars since February, when he was deported to Canada from the United States for overstaying a visitor's visa. Zundel immediately applied for refugee status in Canada, claiming he'd be persecuted if he was deported to Germany. The Solicitor General and Immigration Department responded by slapping him with a security certificate declaring him a threat to national security. A Federal Court judge is in the process of deciding whether the certificate is reasonable based on secret evidence from the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. Immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman said he would find it very troubling if Ottawa were to use the security certificate process as leverage in immigration matters. "What they were trying to do by using the security process was to prevent him from having a refugee claim," said Waldman, who was quick to add he holds "no sympathy at all" for Zundel personally. He believes Zundel's refugee claim was frivolous and could have been easily rejected. "It causes me some concern that the government would be issuing the certificate and then negotiating with Mr. Zundel," Waldman added. "If they have the evidence in the certificate, they should proceed with the process." But Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress said getting Zundel permanently out of Canada is what matters. Farber doesn't care where he ends up. "People would always like to see someone like Zundel face justice in Germany," he said. "But I think for most Canadians, their bottom line is we don't want Ernst Zundel in Canada. If there's another country out there willing to take him, they're welcome to him." Zundel, who lived in Canada for 40 years without being granted citizenship, would like to return to the United States, where his American wife lives in Tennessee, says Fromm. But it's not at all clear that Zundel's destination of choice would accept him. The newly created U.S. Department of Homeland Security, contacted Friday and told of the case, couldn't immediately comment on Zundel's status. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 23 13:16:53 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 23 15:24:38 2003 Subject: Second ZGram - 6/23/2003 - "How Ingrid's ad came about" Message-ID: Interim ZGram June 23, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Here comes my report about the Washington Times ad that hit the newsstands yesterday. That ad is going to be the buzz of Washington, D.C. today in many a place we could never have otherwise reached. I just had a report from my volunteer webmaster that since the ad appeared, we have had 33,557 hits - and this despite a Washington Times misspelling of the URL that gave the zundelsite as sundelsite! (On purpose? Naw! Couldn't be!) Actually, a similar idea started way, way back - long before Ernst was arrested. It has been percolating to the surface ever since. When Ernst and I moved to the hills of Tennessee, we did so with the understanding and resolve that we would rethink our struggle and our mission and see where we could apply our energy and limited resources best. We were dealing with some rather imponderable difficulties as well as exciting challenges we had to reckon with and figure out how they could be managed. What we wanted to do, plain and simple, was to spread more of the Truth to more places and people, but in a different, more exciting way. One of the "imponderables" was the state of Revisionism itself. A lot of hard work had gone into the excavation and forensic exposure of the Holocaust Lie - but all the skeletons in the closets of our enemies had been unburied in painstaking, scientific work of some two decades, and there was nothing more to uncover or dig out. We had the evidence. We knew the Holocaust, as peddled by our enemies, was fraudulent. How often do you re-excavate a site to find out what lies buried? How often would we run like idiots and frantically start digging all over again the moment some obscure "Holocaust Survivor" shrieked "prove that it didn't happen!"? Why didn't we stop running, dig in our heels, give them the Zundel Laser Stare, and say: "YOU prove it! It's up to YOU to prove it. YOU prove it, once and for all! Or else, shut up! We've had it!" The task at hand was two-fold: Legitimizing Revisionism,getting rid of the stigma - and stop being on the defensive. We knew the truth would be far more seductive than the lie - at least for our kin. We badly wanted to move on. Ernst longed to paint, to plant his potatoes, to live a normal life, to get to know our new relationship and our neighbors - and to think, think, and think! He knew the hard, forensic struggle had been won - what we were facing were barriers that had to do with stigma, unjust stigma, much of which was fraudulently peddled as well. For my part, I was tired of my ZGrams that drained away a lot of time - and, frankly, I was tired of the Zundelsite because I felt it had outlived its usefulness. There were now better, more focused Revisionist websites availalable than mine - for instance, www.vho.org, www.ihr.org, and others. - All the information was available, out on the Internet, with or without me. I had done my part launching it in cyberspace, but now I longed for something else. I had started working on a screenplay and wanted more time for myself. Additionally, I was dreaming of re-vamping my website, making it more relevant to what I considered Stage Two: Building cohesion among our wildly scattered groups, attracting more creative people, calling for a moratorium on the disgusting sniping at each other by folks who should be comrades, giving back pride to our guilt-ridden youngsters who walk bent because of what their forebears never did but were accused of having done for clearly self-serving, geopolitical reasons. Thirdly, Europe was stirring - particularly Germany. In many ways, the partly reunited Germany had all the earmarks of East Germany before the Wall came crashing down: A lot of undertow. I mean - a lot! Atop perched still a very jittery elite - with "bad conscience" clearly written on their foreheads because they were beholden to elements who did not have Germany's welfare and autonomy in mind. This was not visible so much in Germany itself as one could see reflected in the German-language foreign media that ran a lot of formula articles that had the cookie-cutter look: Opening paragraph: Of course we are guilty as hell. Shame on our forefathers! Shame! Body of article: Durnit those wicked Revisionists! All of them closeted Nazis! You know what they claim? They claim this and that and the other. Shame on those folks. Shame! Shame! More shame! Closing remark: Off to the woodshed we go! Where are the nearest Wiesenthalers? You didn't hear them snicker, did you? All the revisionist info was there, right in the body of the article. Discerning folks learned long ago how to read between the lines. We all knew why those brackets of political correctness were there - the politically correct opening paragraphs, the politically correct conclusion - they HAD to be there, for protection. You see the same tactic on websites - not merely dissident websites. They'll give you all the info, but the fig leaf is in place. When I chide them, they say: "Please! Patience! One front at a time!" Fourth, there was Russia - and Putin. He is a mysterious political leader. We didn't know of anybody who really managed to do a concise, convincing reading on Putin's personality and political goals. But we knew he speaks a fluent German, and what political chess moves he made looked interesting and promising to people on the Right. Also - and this is not always clearly spelled out in the West: Russia adores talented writers, particularly novelists who understand how to embed important messages artistically. I felt that I had some useful coin in having written about a painful time in Russian/German history. That, in a nutshell, was the frame of reference against which Ernst and I discussed many times what we could do to take into account these independent variables and make them work for us to bring History in Accord with the Facts in a carefully planned, attractive but socially responsible cultural offensive. I mean, let's face it - state-of-the-art Revisionism is a bit stuffy. Who can get excited about a less-than-airtight door? I was actually dreaming about a publicized trip to Russia and perhaps manage to get myself invited to the Kremlin. For me, it would have brought a circle to a close. Then Ernst was arrested, and the arrest changed everything! My husband was under such brutal surveillance that, sometimes, after he finished talking to me on the telephone, with two guards standing at his elbow and listening to every word, he was frisked as if he had caught something forbidden. Maybe another politically incorrect thought that would start sprouting in the still fertile Zundel mind? Horrors! What was I to do - under the circumstances? I didn't have any physical sorties - and wouldn't have known how to use them to blast away the Lie. I had only our thoughts that Ernst and I used to bounce off of each other. And, therefore, I said to myself: I need a thought sortie! Of the right kind. Of the most effective kind! One that will hit where it counts most - in every politically correct corridor of power! That's when I started thinking of an ad. To make it work full force, I needed a national paper. At first, I had the Globe and Mail in mind, the only Canadian paper I thought might give me a chance and let me place an advertisement. However, a full page ad cost a hefty Can$ 53,000.00 - about $40,000.00 in American dollars. I did not have that kind of money, but Ernst and I had friends, and I thought we could get it together. Well, PayPal pulled the plug on my pledge after I collected a little more than $9,000.00. My next choice was the Washington Times. This paper has a circulation of 250,000 - to a respectable target readership! I contacted them and told them what I had in mind. Would they have trouble with that kind of an ad? It was political, I said, and it was controversial. No problem, I was told. A full page ad would cost almost $12,000.00 for a prime placement. A lot of money - but then, the pledges were close to the mark. I couldn't quite believe my luck, but I started refining my message. I felt that with the help of my internet friends, my plan was definitely affordable. Next, I was told the ad was off! There was a policy in place, I was informed, permitting them to refuse any ad they did not think appropriate. No other explanation could be given. Sorry! "Too bad!" I told myself and a few others whom I had taken into confidence about my plans. On to another front! The next day, a surprise, and totally without my doing: The ad was on again! After all, this was America. Free speech still reigned. The Washington Times would run it - in their metropolitan daily, on Thursday, full page. At that point, I realized something I had not known before: There were two versions of the Washington Times - a daily, distributed in Washington, D.C., and a weekly condensation, distributed nationally. Which one did I prefer? It seemed to me a national version was more to my advantage because for the same kind of money, I could even get a double spread. So I said: "Let's go with the national version. I'm thinking Centerfold!" Fat chance! THEY turned me down! Back to the Washington version - with a very queasy stomach! And lo and behold, they were still willing. By then, it was Thursday, and the ad was to run in the Sunday edition. They would even design it for me. Let's just put it this way: I had my own ideas about how the ad should look, which conflicted with the ad staff's ideas who chose the most atrocious fonts and otherwise messed with my concepts. The hair was bristling in my neck. The clock was ticking. Deadline was Friday noon. I gently protested. They had botched up my ad! i couldn't approve it that way! I got them to work past the deadline. It was knots in my stomach all the way - and the end result is not quite what I had in mind, but very nearly so - Eureka! My ad appeared in all its glory yesterday! That it appeared while the Barnes Review Conference was still in session is sheer coincidence. Willis Carto read it to the conference attendees. It got a strong applause! Now back to Mr. Putin. It is true that I wanted, and still want, to reach him - but what were my chances? Before the ad was even firmed up, I faxed the Embassy of the Russian Federation and simply asked: How would I go about delivering a personal message to the President of Russia? I couldn't just ring the bell, could I? A very courteous gentleman with the thickest Russian accent called me back. Why not? Just come on over. Or else, just send it Priority Post. Which is what I did. My three novels about the tragic story of the Russians and the Germans caught in the cauldron of the Hidden Hand pulling the strings behind the scenes went out with a brief cover letter, to be delivered before noon today. On one of its covers, it sports the Czarist Crest. I can't imagine that it won't have an impact. And now I'll lean back and just wait. Will President Putin reply to our liking? Will he reply at all? I must tell you honestly that I don't know. My heart tells me, yes - but my mind tells me, no! It will depend on how beholden this mysterious leader of that vast country is to our enemies and their own power base. It will depend on who will come running, wringing hands in distress, warning him not to reply - or else! What power our enemies, and theirs, wield over Russia still, I do not know. I don't know what gestures President Putin can afford, even if he might be favorably inclined. But here is what's going to happen: Somebody will tell him about the ad, about our request, about Ernst Zundel, a Western Refusenik, now languishing in a Canadian jail cell thanks to the underhanded, sly shenanigans at ministerial levels of three important Western countries - Germany, Canada and the United States. That is a powerful and politically extremely useful message - not just for Russia and Germany. That message crosses not just borders but ideologies. It may well bring together people from all walks of life who might be willing to declare a moratorium about the differences between their aims and ours and link arms for the sake of Freedom of Speech. I feel I do not have to go to Russia with tears in my eyes and beg the President of Russia to pry my husband from the clutches of his kidnappers who claim with a straight face they run "democracies". There's going to be a lot of influential diplomats in many embassies in Washington, DC., who will prick up their ears about this strange incarceration and brutal treatment of a Western dissident who isn't guilty of a thing else except a wish to make his independent thoughts about forbidden subjects available to others. "What is it," they will ask, "about this so-called 'Holocaust' that freaks out certain people? Why put him in prison if he hasn't done anything bad. Could it be Ernst Zundel is right?" All I can say, at this point, is that the rock has been thrown in the pond, and there are going to be quite a few far-reaching ripples. There will be many spin-off articles. There will be discussions in highest echelons of many governments. There will be syndicated columnists who are going to pick up this topic who wouldn't have dreamed of doing it before. There might even be serious retaliation against me. I am well aware of the danger. But somebody has got to speak out. That's what I did - I spoke out. The outcome is still written in the stars. Ingrid Thought for the Day: "Germany has the most repressive laws in Europe to enforce the state religion of German guilt for the Holocaust." -Doug Christie, The Toronto Star, June 22 From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Jun 24 14:57:03 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Jun 24 17:06:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/24/2003 - "Onward and Upward!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth Is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 24, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This is going to be one of the shortest ZGrams ever - but it is a weighty one. One day after my Washington Times ad appeared, the following piece of news was sent to me by half a dozen folks: [START] THE official website of the Auschwitz Museum has bowed down before Revisionists and has finally admitted officially that the gas chamber and Crematorium No. 1, which is shown to visitors as evidence, was built after the war. This dramatic admission can be found on the Auschwitz museum's web page where the following passage has now been inserted: "After the war, the Museum carried out a partial reconstruction. The chimney and two incinerators were rebuilt using original components, as were several of the openings in the gas chamber roof." The photograph on that page shows clearly that the "chimney" of the alleged crematorium, is not even connected to the building. [END] Of course revisionists have long known this - but is this the FIRST time that the Auschwitz Camp administration has actually admitted this? I must confess my ignorance because I haven't kept up with the details of Auschwitz. If this is a real first, we need to get active and spread the word in mainstream media. Can you imagine how many millions of people were told that what they saw was the original structure? Think of all the young minds who have been lied to - for decades! More about the results of the ad in our snail mail Power letter which goes to our active sponsors. Let me just say that since yesterday, I have actually dreamed about organizing a Revisionist Caravan to the Washington, D.C., Holocaust Museum where we could stage a dramatic demonstration. We could meet at my place first and then head East to protest. I would have to find out the details about demonstration permits and such - for now, just give me an indication if this might be something that you would like to participate in. I have some very good ideas about how we could make it an unforgettable and very media-genic event that mainstream media couldn't afford to ignore. We might even bring our own media along. Only if you are serious and think that there's a strong possibility that you would like to be part of this historic event, give me your name and address. I will then correspond with you privately. I have tentatively slated the Labor Day weekend because I hope to entice a few kids to come along on a trip they will never forget. Ingrid From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Jun 25 13:44:08 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Jun 25 18:17:58 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/25/2003 - "Why are our foes so jittery?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 25, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: That the "shadowy ones" are increasingly nervous about Ernst Zundel's legal moves, imprisoned though he is and savagely restricted in contact with the outside, can be glimpsed by the Paul Fromm summary below: [START] Dear Free Speech Supporter: Elinor Caplan's Stasi, her thought police, Customs Canada are out of control. I frequently travel to the U.S. and for the past four months am ALWAYS pulled over for a secondary inspection. Often the nameless operatives -- like minions in any authoritarian state, these cowards refuse to identify themselves -- paw through my luggage and papers, carefully scrutinizing NATIONAL POST or GLOBE AND MAIL clippings for signs of what? On June 11, I returned from Washington, D.C., where I had addressed a dinner meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens. One of my topics, ironically, had been Canada's Customs thought police. In Canada, thought control begins at the border. Another topic had been the persecution of publisher and political prisoner Ernst Zundel. When I was hauled over for my routine secondary inspection, I was told by a middle aged nameless agent that, as I had previous material seized, I would be examined every time for six years. (Oh, why not make it seven, or is that a lucky number? I thought.) I was carrying several papers having to do with Ernst Zundel's case. I act as his legal representative. I was also bringing back a six-page personal testimony by a U.S. professor about Mr. Zundel that might be submitted in his upcoming hearing. I asked the middle aged agent to see his superior. Eventually, Suzie Satin Curls, a dumpy middle aged woman with a large mop of tight black curls, came over. I told her I was a legal representative and had legal papers, as well as several of my personal medical files, and asked that these not be examined. "We just want to inspect your briefcase," she said. "But that's the point," I explained. "These are confidential and privileged papers and I don't want them looked at." With dogged brainlessness, she insisted they just wanted to take a look. I then asked for her name. The gutless "supervisor" said: "I will not reveal that information." So, the snooping continued. The professor's statement was taken away, perhaps to be photocopied by Caplan's Stasi. Eventually, it was returned. I was asked by another nameless snoop whether I would be publishing the professor's testiomonial. "I have no plans to," I answered, "but if used in Court, it might well form part of the transcript." He again asked whether I would be publishing it, having decided in his cursory examination, that it was contraband. Reluctantly, on the understanding that I was not about to rush it into print, it was returned to me. However, the thought police kept 2 audio casettes of Doug Christie's talk "The Zundel Case & Why Freedom is Essential to Be Human" (London, May 3, 2003) and nine copies of an information sheet about the Zundel case "'Free Ernst Zundel, Political Prisoner' Protesters Demand in Toronto", a report on the June 1 protest for Ernst Zundel. These were "detained" -- I told them I considered it theft -- as they were "suspected of constituting hate propaganda," I was told in a notice from Agent #19336, whoever that is. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION [END] Zundelsite comment: Simultaneously I received a letter from Ernst, referring to our various legal initiatives: "I agree with you. We should give it our all, here as well as there. Since they are so paranoid about me being in contact with the press, that's obviously the weakness in Ottawa's case. They know what they are doing to me is totally unethical and unfair, and they know that an experienced investigative reporter will see through it within half an hour, once he gets all the loose ends explained by me. Thus the fear!... "I will send you a list of the inconveniences caused by being incarcerated and trying to prepare and file papers for court...In Canada, there are only pencils allowed to prisoners, which means - since pencils can be erased - your signatures are able to be erased. An important point when trying to write a motion, a deposition, even a will. [Such documents] are not legal! "No access to a photocopier - only through an attorney, notary or legal agent on the outside. Guards, Ltnts., or Captns. have to look [through] and okay each document before it is given by them to the agent through a security officer, who checks it, too. "No carbon paper allowed to make copies of any handwritten letters or documents...Only sporadic access to phone - at the whim of guards and/or captns in my case, since the guard alone cannot allow me access to the phone by himself, it seems (...) "No highlighters. No felt markers of any kind. No scissors. No scotch tape. No post-it notes. No rubber bands. No paper clips. No stapler. No folders. No filing means of any kind. No extra-large envelopes to send legal documents plus exhibits. No different color papers to separate files. No plastic tabs to identify legal documents (...) "I have no chair in front of my mounted-against-the-wall metal desk, thus write kneeling on a pile of transcripts or standing up, or lying down on my bed, propped up on my elbow. I have no decent dictionary - the prison one does not even have "guru" in it - no Thesaurus, no access to a typewriter, computer, scanner or printer. No access to a law library. No Criminal Code. No Constitution or Bill of Rights. Thus no chance to look up and cite precedents etc. "To reach my lawyers is even more cumbersome than to reach you because I cannot call collect to a cell phone in America or Canada. Lawyers don't like the idea that our client-attorney is violated by the prison phone monitoring. "In Canada, even outgoing prisoners' mail has to be given open to the censors or guards. I can only call pre-approved phone numbers which the security chiefs decide. They are paranoid about any contact I may have with the media." Some paranoia there! I wonder why! Could it be that CSIS foreknowledge about the parcel bomb sent to the Zundel-Haus is 1995? Remember the letter I faxed to SIRC at Ernst's request, asking this alleged "Watch Dog" agency, SIRC, to look into the parcel bomb matter? Here is how they responded, as Ernst relayed it to me and for our archives: "Yesterday I got the first response from SIRC - a letter which will go down in history, for it is unequalled in haughtiness, verbiage, obfuscation. But they do admit that they are "familiar with the book and the allegations made therein," which will sound interesting to a police investigative team, or a judge, once they begin to delve into this issue. [For new readers, the book referred to is COVERT ENTRY by investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica who documents CSIS's extraordinary involvement in all sort of shady business, including having knowledge of a parcel bomb that traveled on several passenger planes and was meant to kill Ernst Z?ndel...)" The SIRC letter says this, for the record: [START] File No: 1170/ZUND/95 June 5, 2003 Dear Mr. Zundel - This will acknowledge receipt of your correspondence dated May 14, 2003. Your suggestion for a SIRC review has been duly noted. The Committee is familiar with the book you cited and the allegations made therein. A significant component of the Security Intelligence Review Committee's legal obligation to review CSIS's performance of its duties and functions takes the form of research projects. The Committee selects particular areas for review, taking into consideration such factors as the nature of the threat environment, the need to follow up on past reviews or issues arising from complaints, significant events and areas of particular interest to individual members. The approved reviews are then carried out by SIRC staff under the direction of the Committee. Respecting limits imposed by individual privacy rights and national security concerns, the Committee produces an annual report to Parliament detailing the activities of the Committee in the preceding fiscal year. While the Committee welcomes correspondence from the public identifying or suggesting areas for review, the decision on the projects to be undertaken rests solely with the committee members. (Signed) Susan Pollack, Executive Director PO Box 2430, Station "D" Ottawa, ON KIP 5W5 Tel: 613-990-8441 Fax: 613-990-5230 [END] Can anybody read between the lines? Ernst continues: "I just wanted you to get this letter safely. I will check with you how long this letter is delayed in the mail. There are now at least 7 to 8 very important and interesting topic letters that are simply gone. I will reconstruct some for you in due course because you wold have liked these topics since they cover stuff in history only I know and was privy to." For the record, Ernst's letter took 10 days, but at least it reached me and gives not only us a glance about what's going on and what the future might yet reveal - it is important for future times, for it shows how SIRC views its priorities. Remember that it wasn't just Ernst who received a parcel bomb - there were four or five sent in the mail within a span of a few days, and the two punks fingered by the RCMP in this incident and put in jail for a brief period, were let go because of "national security" concerns. Ever since, the records have been sealed. A third young woman - last name Rubin - was arrested also but, tellingly, not charged. All that is percolating in the files - and in some people's memories. Almost certainly, there are RCMP staffers who know more than was revealed in the official papers. One of these days, they might come forward and tell all. ===== On the legal front in the United States, several important documents have now been filed. The government has asked for a 30-day extension for their reply brief. Their time will be up in the third week of July. Incidentally, Ernst commented on the timing, saying that it could well be that yet another Zundel case will go the Supreme Court route - THIS TIME SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TWO ADJACENT COUNTRIES! Inquiring minds want to know: Why on earth didn't they leave him alone?! On his own, he would never have started this latest - but being forced to fight, he's going to give it his best! Stay tuned! ===== From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Jun 27 16:30:12 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Jun 27 18:40:05 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/26/2003 - "Metro Times/Detroit Editor gets a revisionist reality check" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny June 26, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Excellent developments in response to my Washington Times ad, some of which are still percolating. I can tell you, however, that it has appeared on quite a few prestigious websites and has been translated and disseminated in three European countries: France, Italy and Sweden! One website created a Zundel banner that has, so far, received more than 128,000 hits! More in a few days! To change topics: It strikes me again and again how interesting the Internet can be, compared to the stuffy, canned write-ups or broadcasts in the mainstream media! Preceding the three letters below, you have the Editor of the Metro Times/Detroit, one Jeremy Voas, responding to the website editor of RePorterNoteBook@aol.com, chiding him for flirting with Revisionism by championing the cause of Ernst Zundel. RePorterNoteBook puts part of the exchange on the Net, and Metro Times Editor gets a one-two-three punch lesson in Revisionism 101: ===== Letter Number One: Mr. Voas This is a response to your claim that Reporter's Notebook is "undermining its cause by promoting Holocaust revisionism." Quite the contrary, Mr. Voas, by promoting Holocaust revisionism, Reporter's Notebook is doing a public service. The traditional view of the Holocaust, an outrage against the truth, is used by the Jewish-Zionist power elite as an ideological weapon against Palestinian Arabs, Arabs in general, Muslims, Christians, and Europeans in general. For this reason alone, Reporter's Notebook's attempt to bring truth to the people about the Holocaust is both laudatory and correct. Indeed, once the masses of people clear their minds of the distorted Holocaust ideology, we will then be able to find peace in the Middle East and justice for the Palestinian people. Paul Grubach grub222@aol.com ===== Letter Number Two: Dear Mr. Voas, You say, "I am not a Zionist. I'm a protestant of German-English descent." Yet, it is clear, Mr. Voas, that you have a Jewish axe to grind, so I suppose you haven't told the whole truth in that statement about yourself. To clear this up, I respectfully ask you to tell me: Are there Jews in your family lines, or did you marry into a Jewish family? Ordinarily, I would not ask such questions, but the unsolicited statement about your descent invites it. My own position is the common sense view that, to understand what a person thinks, it is helpful to "know where he's coming from" as they say. Perhaps you will agree with me that there are too many people out there who try to operate from a position of concealment. Very truly yours, Mel Fowler mel.fo@verizon.net ===== Letter Number Three: (Here I can't resist adding a few paragraph returns for the sake of readability...) Dear Mr. Voas! With interest I read your admonition to Reporter's Notebook not to concentrate so much on "Holocaust denial". Ah, yes! I wonder whether you are aware of the fact that the term "Holocaust denial" is of purely Jewish origin, same as "Politically Correct". Both verbal perversions have in the meantime become so pervasive that even decent people are so taken in by these terms, that they use them exactly as the predatory parasites intended. You see, Mr. Voas, it's not that Reporter's Notebook and all the others are denying anything. They are merely stating indisputable facts, undeniable truisms against which people like you have absolutely no argument. These facts may be stated in terms which offend some, but the truth is invariably offensive. The problem with folks like you is, you are so brainwashed that even a discussion of this Freudian Fraud is anathema to you. "One simply doesn't question it. One accepts. To do otherwise would be to insult the victims". How can one insult a victim, who has by blatant lies collected tens-of-thousands of Dollars in his/her lifetime? Such (expletive deleted} is beyond insulting. When concrete facts, forensic evidence even is produced which proves that this entire thing is the most horrid, most shameless, most insane hoax ever foisted upon mankind, the source of the information is immediately defamed, ridiculed, silenced or put into prison, such as it has happened in present-day Germany, Switzerland, France or right now in Canada (Zuendel). Your world Mr. Voas is so corrupt, that in an open court in Canada it was stated that truth is no defense and in Germany a historian of impeccable reputation (Walendy) was put behind bars (at he age of 73!) not for what he had written, but for that which he had not written! You are a journalist, or so it seems. One would hope that you would be interested in the truth, but alas, you are like the rest of your profession, a narrow-minded, brainwashed Holocaustian disinterested in the truth, while loudly proclaiming that it is exactly that which sets us free. Sir, you are a dishonest hypocrite. Gerry Frederics gerard@germancross.com ===== From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Jun 28 11:43:26 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Jun 28 19:33:14 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/27/2003 - "Raimondo Blasting the Permit Deniers" :) Message-ID: Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 27, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: It is time to feature Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com once more: THE NEW THOUGHT POLICE The campaign to criminalize criticism of Israel Last week, after Israeli targeted Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi - and, instead, got a woman passer-by and a three year-old child, while 27 others were injured. - George W. Bush came out with some very mild criticism of Israel: "I am troubled by the recent Israeli helicopter gunship attacks. I regret the loss of innocent life. I also don't believe that the attacks help Israeli security." From the hysterical reaction, one might have thought that he had uttered a blood libel, or suddenly taken to wearing a kaffiyeh. Such a commotion! House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), reportedly strode into the Oval Office and threatened to push a resolution through Congress offering unconditional support to Sharon and implicitly rebuking the President. God forbid the President of the United States should mourn the death of a three-year-old child whom the Israelis say was inadvertently killed. That this troubles him troubles DeLay - and that is more than a little troubling. I mean, what are we talking about here: aren't we supposed to be against the taking of innocent life? And why, pray tell, shouldn't an American President forbidden say out loud what he really thinks about the immoral and self-destructive behavior of a foreign government, albeit one that is ostensibly our faithful ally? We hear constantly about the supposed rise of anti-Semitic sentiments in Europe: this is not neo-Nazi activity, or the "old" anti-Semitism of the Protocols, but the "new anti-Semitism," which boils down to criticism of Israel and its supporters. As officials of the Anti-Defamation League recently put it in the Denver Post: "Today's strain of anti-Semitism usually targets Israel in some form. The most socially acceptable way to vent anti-Semitism today is to criticize Israel, the only state controlled by Jews, by holding Israel to standards not applied to any other country. Of course, it is not anti-Semitic to express sympathy with the Palestinian people or to disagree with Israeli government policies. But a hateful bias is revealed when critics subject Israel, and Israel alone, to invective and demonization, while human-rights abuses of other countries are overlooked or excused." If you criticize "the only state controlled by Jews" you aren't necessarily anti-Semitic - but you probably are. And just what are these standards that Israel alone is held to? Any other country that separated out the majority of the population on the basis of ethnicity, and subjected them to draconian controls, controlling their movements, and keeping them penned up in special ghettos, would long ago have been declared an international pariah. How has Israel managed to get away with it - and, not only that, but how have they managed to go on the offensive, and target their critics as 'bigots"? Make no mistake about it: they are indeed on the attack, and not only in the occupied territories. At a recent international conference on anti-Semitism called by the O.S.C.E. , addressed by former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a number of Orwellian proposals were floated "Another idea advanced by some delegates that would certainly provoke disagreement if it ever became actual policy by O.S.C.E. governments was that ways need to be found to control publications and Web sites that promote anti-Semitism. One delegate, for example, Jean Kahn, president of the Union of French Jewish Communities, argued that the Arab television network Al Jazeera fomented anti-Semitism and that it should be suppressed." The American representatives, far from dissenting, sat complicit with this totalitarian proposal, and hailed others just as bad if not worse. Giuliani, whose Mussolini-like reign in New York City made the trains run on time, endorsed the totalitarian spirit of the proposals: "Words aren't going to suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism, which is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world." Israel's international amen corner is hoping that criticism of the Jewish state is now going to be made a "hate crime," at least in Europe. So that if harsh words for Ariel Sharon aren't accompanied by equally harsh words for, say, Yasser Arafat, the author may find him-or -herself fined, jailed, and silenced. The ever-expanding definition of "anti-Semitism" is certain to put a chill on Israel's critics, as the socialist EU imposes limitations on speech throughout the continent: even, now, in England. The campaign to stamp out all but the mildest criticism of Israel is also likely to impinge on the Internet, as the New York Times reports: "That idea [the banning of Al Jazeera] was not challenged, given the nature of the conference proceedings, but it also did not become a main theme of the conference, though worries about the power of the Internet to spread anti-Semitism did. 'Hypertexts and cybertexts are mostly imitations through which the social deviancy present in society speaks,' Jacques Picard, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland told the conferees. His point was that the ideas being expressed on the Internet hate sites are imitations of old anti-Semitic notions but that they have gained new force both by the power of the Internet and by the anonymity of many of those who use it. 'What's new here is that the Internet disseminates these ideas with the protection of anonymity,' Mr. Picard said. 'Anonymity should be lifted.'" This pompous frog flapping his lips about "hypertexts and cybertexts" is the voice of the new Euro-commies, at once absurd and deadly dangerous. "Hate speech" as defined by some committee of commissars is a crime throughout Europe, including the once-free British isles, as well as Canada. And our own would-be commissars on this side of the Atlantic are all too eager to start implementing the same totalitarian methods here. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, to its ever-lasting shame, has been especially active on this front, leading the charge to enforce and extend "hate speech" laws that could never be enacted in the United States without first overturning the First Amendment. That hasn't happened, as yet. They can get away with banning newspapers and prohibiting speech in Iraq on the grounds of an "incitement" to violence, but treating U.S. citizens like the inhabitants of a conquered province is still out of bounds. For how much longer is an open question?. What really disgusts me is the silence of the so-called "libertarians," who are so quick to pounce on instances of censorship, both real and imagined, especially when it comes to the Internet. Yet a campaign that seeks to ban plain speech about Israel and its supporters is ignored. If only Israeli radio had been forbidden to play the music of Eminem, perhaps then the gang over at Reason might have noticed what's up. And then there's that fearless defender of freedom, Glenn Reynolds, who hails the "liberation" of Iraq, but can't be bothered to notice a major American politician's endorsement of Ba'athist methods. As the Thought Police go after the Internet, the fake "libertarians" have nothing to say, because they're just soooo wound up over Senator Orrin Hatch's anti-"rave" legislation. The goal of this O.S.C.E. initiative is to apply the same standards to criticism of Israel that have been enforced in regard to matters of race, religion, and ethnicity. Taki Theodoracopoulos, the British columnist and socialite, is now under "investigation" for his politically incorrect remarks in The Spectator on Britain's growing criminal underclass. In Europe, today, opposition to an open borders policy on immigration is for all intents and purposes an illegal act, along with displaying Nazi paraphernalia and denying the Holocaust. The enemies of Israel are supposed to be infused with an ungodly hate, and in the socialist utopia of a united Europe, such nasty emotions are verboten. This has historically been a leftist idea: if we ban hateful expressions, we can socially engineer society in a less hateful direction. That's what campus "speech codes" are all about. But who really hates whom? Who is trying to shut up whom? And who has now arisen to parrot the politically correct thought control methods once confined to the multi-culti left? Giuliani is a Republican politician, albeit one from New York City, and not just any Republican, mind you, but one who has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for high national office - as a replacement for Cheney on the national ticket, if the Vice President should be felled by health problems, or even in the top spot in 2006. The passage of a constitutional amendment forbidding Giuliani from holding any office higher than mayor is, perhaps, just a thought. Short of that, however, I cannot think of a single measure that would ensure us protection from the draconian designs of Manhattan's El Duce, unless it's an outcry from the supposedly oh-so-influential "blogosphere," whose yipping and yapping drove Trent Lott from the Republican leadership. If only we could somehow shame Giuliani into retracting or somehow modifying his rash endorsement of a radically anti-American proposal. After all, he's advocating the abolition of the First Amendment - and he did it on foreign soil! So, where's the outrage, bloggers? The tactics of the pro-Israel crowd are bound to backfire. Americans don't like to be told what they can read, or hear, and they aren't easily intimidated, either physically or intellectually. Israel's amen corner can scream "anti-Semitism" all they want, but the actions of the Israeli government in the West Bank and Gaza are not winning them any friends in the U.S. When the President of the United States can be forced to make an abrupt about-face, is it a "hate crime" to point to the power of the Israeli lobby? Is it "anti-Semitic" to wonder how and why Tom DeLay can threaten the President of the United States, the leader of his party - and win? Is it a "conspiracy theory" to observe that Israel always gets what it wants from the U.S. government, come hell or high water, and to wonder out loud: now, why is that? Israel's supporters are well-organized and well-funded; what's more, they are strategically placed within the Republican coalition, with unconditional support for the policies of the ruling Likud party coming from fundamentalist Christians and the influential neoconservative faction, which dominates the making of foreign policy at the highest reaches of this administration. What amounts to an Israeli fifth column in the U.S. is not only well-placed, but exceedingly militant: they don't just attack their enemies, they go for the jugular, branding them with the stain of alleged "anti-Semitism" and cutting off all debate. Increasingly, they are seeking to use the power of the State to silence their enemies. Stanley Kurtz, writing in National Review, is right on the cutting edge of this battle: he recently testified before Congress that "one-sided" criticism of Israel in publicly funded institutions of higher learning must be banned. Mideast scholars are "anti-American," avers Kurtz, especially the followers of Edward Said, and he proposes nothing less than a "supervisory board" to conduct investigations of scholars who might be guilty of a "hate crime." Senator Rick Santorum is also on board this Orwellian campaign to purge the universities of voices not amenable to the Amen Corner. Ruthless, single-minded, and increasingly desperate, Israel's lobby, in the U.S. and internationally, is a force for evil. In the realm of foreign policy, its advocates are the loudest and the shrillest calling for war. In the domestic policy arena, too, the pro-Israel camp is increasingly unafraid to call for outright repression. We all remember what the outspokenly pro-Israel New York Sun had to say about denying a parade permit to the anti-war protests: they opined, furthermore, that in the event the protest was allowed to proceed, the FBI ought to have shown up and started taking names. As even a wartime President at the height of his popularity cowers before the power of the Lobby, it's almost as if the perpetrators of this dangerous nonsense realize that it will provoke real anti-Semitism, and fuel the fires of hate - to what end, is hard to say. But let them consider, for a moment, the possible consequences of their success. This kind of stuff can backfire all too easily on the would-be ayatollahs of Middle East scholarship and deniers of parade permits. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Jun 29 06:53:57 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 29 09:00:48 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/28/2003 - "The informational nuggets can be found in the middle" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 28, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Remember what I told you of the formula of how revisionist information is being disseminated, even within mainstream and what some might call hostile media? It does like this, here vastly simplified: Opening paragraph: "Those blasted revisionist haters!" Body of article: "Here's what they claim: This and this and this...Be your own judge!" Closing paragraph: "We must defy those blasted revisionist haters!" (Cue card: "Applause!") This article illustrates my point: [START] Rights group: hatred of Jews at highest level since WWII Anti-Semitism is rising at a rate unseen since the end of World War Two, fuelled in part by an explosion of hate sites on the Internet, Jewish leaders told an international conference on intolerance Monday. From just one Web site in 1985, there were now more than 4,000 promoting terrorism, hate and historical revisionism, according to a report released at the conference held at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, the UN scientific and cultural body. The three-day conference, which plans to combat anti-Semitism through "education for tolerance", is attended by religious leaders and experts, as well as political representatives including Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky; U.S. congressman Robert Beauprez, Republican of Colorado; and France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Also scheduled to attend are the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello and former NATO commander in Europe General Wesley Clark. "Not since the end of World War Two has the world seen such a proliferation of anti-Semitism," Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center which preserves the memory of the Holocaust, said in a conference address. "I believe that you have a new generation of professional haters who are serving as leaders, demagogues, and they're inspiring young people to do their bidding while they often hide," he told journalists earlier. Hier cited cartoons in Western newspapers and a range of comments by leading Arab officials as evidence of the rise in anti-Semitism. It was wrong to blame poverty or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the upsurge, which could only be confronted by speaking out, he said. "There is nothing new about the oldest hatred," he said. "Some will hide behind what Israel is doing... but those are just excuses, that's a ruse." Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal center, presented a report detailing 4,000 international Web sites that he said promote terrorism, hatred or Holocaust denial. "We are seeing now a very sophisticated manipulation of the Internet by terrorists and their supporters," he said. "They are ahead of the curve in understanding the possibilities of the Internet." But protesters outside, including many Jews and members of the Americans Against the War coalition, said Cooper had deliberately excluded radical Zionist groups from the list. In a letter to the conference host, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, the protesters said the Wiesenthal center, "under the deceitful cover of the struggle against anti-Semitism, is on the contrary encouraging intolerance and racism in our societies." Protesters also denounced the decision to invite Sharansky, who is also in charge of Jerusalem affairs, claiming he "is avidly against making even the slightest concession toward the Palestinians." Two-thirds of the 313 acts of violence reported in France last year were directed at Jews, Hier said, while in Britain, new figures showed a 75 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents. The rise in attacks in France over the past year have been mostly attributed to Muslim youths of North African origin angered by the continued Israeli-Palestinian conflict. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the conference he refused "categorically to explain the madness of anti-Semitism by the situation in the Middle East," and repeated his "zero tolerance" policy on all racially-motivated attacks. Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Paris branch said anti-globalization protests had degenerated into attacks "on what they see as the vultures of society [who] are in most cases the United States and the Jewish people." "They have taken the old stereotypes and simply modernized them... thereby proliferating and having a multiplier effect they were never able to do in previous decades," he said. In his opening remarks, Matsuura said efforts to combat anti-Semitism include promoting unbiased teaching, revising school textbooks to reflect universal values and introducing classes on religious, ethnic and racial tolerance. Beauprez said "Americans are all acutely aware of the devastating impact that hate crimes... have on innocent communities." He said he had come to Paris to "express on behalf of the American people our solidarity with the victims of these [hate] crimes in France and wherever they have occurred." [END] (Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=292472&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Jun 29 06:27:34 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Jun 29 09:03:28 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/29/2003 - "The poor dears!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 29, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: One of the lighter moments of the otherwise dreary and sometimes brutal 5-year "Human Rights" Tribunal Marathon around the question of who owned the Zundelsite occurred around the definition of who, exactly, is a Jew. The question the defense posed was as follows: Why is it that a Jew can criticize a Jew without a penalty, whereas if a non-Jew allows himself to criticize a Jew, he gets invariably assaulted with the charge of "antisemitism"? After some back-and-forth, the Witness for the Prosecution came up with an interesting bit of wisdom. If Jews criticize Jews, that is "a family quarrel". However, if someone like Ernst Z?ndel criticizes Jews, that is "lethal antisemitism." That's right! The Witness actually said "lethal"! So then, asked Zundel Counsel, Christie, how do you know who is a Jew? What's your definition of a Jew? The palaver that ensued determined that a Jew was someone who "felt" like a Jew. The Zundel Legal Team went home, had dinner, and mulled over what had been said. Mr. Zundel came up with a solution. "You wouldn't!" cried a shuddering Christie. "Oh yes I would!" said Zundel. The next morning, Defense Attorney Christie drew himself up to his impressive lawyerly height and declared: "This morning my client feels like a Jew!" Thereupon Ernst Zundel fished for a beanie in his trouser pockets and ceremoneously put it in his baldie! Can't you just see this scene in a movie where Ernst Zundel's beanie allows him to criticize Jews? I call that scene delicious! It's one of many scenes already forming in my head that I am saving up for the screen-play-in-progress which I will finalize and pitch to Mel Gibson as soon as I have time! :) The article below made me recall this incident. Read it and ponder the Jewish psyche that needs to "define" itself in such a pathological way as this essay reveals! [START] "Jews unable to define themselves except in terms of the hatred of others" ANTI-SEMITISM WITHOUT ANTI-SEMITES by Jonathan Rosenblum When otherwise sane and intelligent people affirm nonsense, it behooves us to inquire into the reason. Falling into that category is the recent finding by the American Jewish Committee that American Jews believe antisemitism is a greater threat than intermarriage by a margin of 57% to 38%. In order to reach that conclusion, American Jews have to ignore the evidence in front of their eyes to a startling degree. And they do. In a 1985 survey of Jews in Northern California, for instance, a full third expressed the belief that non-Jews would not vote for a Jewish candidate for Congress, At that time, all three Congressmen from the area were Jewish. As Leonard Dinerstein concluded in his 1994 work, Antisemitism in America, "Today antisemitism in the Unites States is neither virulent nor growing. It is not a powerful social or political force. [It] has declined in potency and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future." But if Poland has proven that antisemitism can persist even in the absence of Jews, says National Review literary editor, David Klinghoffer, so America today proves that antisemitism persists in the minds of Jews even in the absence of antisemites. At the same time, intermarriage - about which only a little more than a third of American Jews are concerned - coupled with low fertility rates, is projected to reduce American Jewry to between one-third and one-sixth of its present size within two generations. The professed fear of resurgent antisemitism goes hand in hand with the elevation of the Holocaust as the defining element in Jewish self-identity. All surveys of American Jewry place the Holocaust way ahead of any other factor in Jewish self-identity. Between 75%and 85% of American Jews rate the Holocaust as a very important factor in their sense of themselves as Jews, far higher than belief in God, Torah or Israel. When they think of themselves as Jews, then, American Jews overwhelmingly identify themselves as victims. Their sense of themselves as Jews is purely negative, unless one thinks that a history of persecution tells us something fundamental about the victim. For them Jews are nothing more than a social construct of antisemites, an occasion for fevered conspiracy theories of Jew-haters. And, indeed, Judaism is devoid of positive content for most American Jews. Nearly 60 percent of Americans, according to a 1989 Gallup study of religiosity in American, view religion as very important in their lives; only 14% say that it is not at all important. Among Jews, however, the figures are nearly reversed. 39% say that religion is important; 35% that it is of no importance. While American Jews claim to be concerned about antisemitism, they do not act upon those fears, apart from the occasional check in response to a scare letter from the Anti-Defamation League or some other Jewish defense group. But if American Jews are, in their heart of hearts, not really that scared of resurgent antisemitism, why do they insist on keeping the specter of antisemitism alive? Why do they react so strongly to every crackpot Holocaust denier who would deny them their status as history's champion victims? The answer is that antisemitism is a convenient balm for the pangs of conscience. Antisemites, even imagined ones, provide confirmation that one is a proud, loyal Jew, linked to all those other Jews throughout history who knew too well what real Jew-hatred was. To paraphrase Descartes: I am hated, therefore I am. If Hitler would have killed my grandchild, let no one deny that my grandchild is Jewish. It is more convenient to focus on what others do to us, or want to do, than to consider what we are doing to ourselves. Far easier to conjure up imaginary Hitlers than to wonder whether we have failed when our children intermarry and show little interest in even the vague ethnic identity with which we provided them. As long as we can cite the names of relatives killed by the Nazis, we assure ourselves that our Jewish bona fides are intact, and we are indeed proper heirs to two thousand years of victimhood. We focus on the Holocaust as the defining event in Jewish history without even asking ourselves the real question: What power did our ancestors find in their Judaism that enabled them to withstand and survive all the Torquemadas, Chmelnicis and Hitlers? To ask that question would force us to admit that Judaism has content and is not defined by our enemies. That admission would, in turn, force us to confront the possibility that we have failed our ancestors by not even inquiring into the source of their spiritual strength. Jewish "worry" about antisemitism would be funny but for the deeper tragedy it seeks to mask - Jews unable to define themselves except in terms of the hatred of others. (Source: http://www.jerusalemletter.co.il/archives/July20,1998/anti.htm ) ===== Thought for the Day: "Deep down, I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for the Jews - reminds us who we are." --Jay Lefkowitz (NYT Magazine. 12 F. 1995, 65) Jay Lefkowitz is now Deputy assistant to President Bush and Director of Domestic Policy Council. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Jun 30 05:31:02 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Jun 30 07:38:43 2003 Subject: ZGram - 6/30/2003 - "'Hannibal the cannibal' to star as Irving the Holocaust denier" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! June 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: From Portugal we have word that the Leuchter Film, "Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter" has recently played twice on national television. It must have played dozens of times, by now, in dozens of countries. Even though it was heavily edited from the original version that had, in a pre-screening, students ask each other in astonishment: "What if the Holocaust DIDN'T happen?" it is still a powerful film - and Ernst Zundel gets to say in a most impressive scene in his most assertive and authoritative voice: "We will not go down in history as genocidal maniacs. We will not!" Now David Irving gets the satisfaction of seeing himself on the Big Silver Screen. Although this film about his recent London Trial it is going to be a Jewish propaganda production and expected to have the traditional, politically correct storyline - Evil Holocaust Denier Charges Saintly Jewish Professor With Libel - it will not hurt the Revisionist cause. Millions of people who were not aware of the Irving/Lipstadt trial will have some second thoughts about a lot of things they took as dogma before. [START] 'Hannibal the cannibal' to star as Irving the Holocaust denier By Catherine Milner and Chris Hastings (Filed: 29/06/2003) The trial of David Irving, the British historian branded a Holocaust denier by a High Court judge, is to be turned into a ?10 million drama, expected to star Sir Anthony Hopkins. Ridley Scott, the director of Gladiator and Alien, is to produce the film, based on the libel trial three years ago in which Irving was called an "anti-Semite and racist" who "distorted historical data to suit his own political agenda". The declaration effectively ended Irving's career, during which he had argued that Hitler did not plan a "Final Solution" for Jews. His court defeat was hailed by campaigners against Holocaust denial. The film is being scripted by Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar last year for the screenplay of the Holocaust drama The Pianist. Scott is keen for the role of Irving to be played by Hopkins, who won fame as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. One senior executive involved in the project said: "The film will be the definitive story of the trial and its role in the Holocaust story. As far as both Scott and Harwood are concerned, Hopkins has the first say on the role. The part is his for the asking." The drama is being produced by HBO, the American production company behind The Gathering Storm, the recent award-winning drama about Churchill starring Albert Finney, on which Scott was the executive producer. The Irving libel trial came about after the American historian Deborah Lipstadt condemned him in her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Irving sued, saying the description of him as a man prepared to bend historical evidence "until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda" was damaging to his career. Irving - a heroic figure to some far-Right groups - represented himself during the trial, in which he argued that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis had been exaggerated and that there had been no programme of "systematic extermination". However, Mr Justice Gray ruled that Irving was an anti-Semitic racist whose claims were demonstrably untrue, and ordered him to meet the ?2.5 million costs of the case. An appeal by Irving was rejected and he has since been declared bankrupt. Professor Lipstadt has discussed the script with Mr Harwood and is very enthusiastic about the film project. "I am very pleased that Ronald is involved and that the film is being done by the team behind The Gathering Storm," she said. "There is always a danger with things like this that they can end up generating publicity for people who don't deserve publicity. I don't think that will happen here: these are serious people who will bring a professional and committed approach to the story." Irving, 63, told The Telegraph he had not been approached by anyone connected with the project, but added that he would be happy to help whoever was going to portray him. "I'm relatively relaxed about the whole thing," he said. "If it is an accurate portrayal, they'll have to reflect some of my arguments and show that I was fighting on my own against a massive team of lawyers." He thought the American public found Holocaust dramas "a big turn-off", but added: "I think a story like this will work best as a courtroom drama. I just hope they give me a fair crack of the whip." [END] ===== (Source: http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/films/Ridley_Scott/STel290603.html)