From irimland@zundelsite.org Mon Mar 3 23:07:52 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:07:52 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 3/3/2003 - "An anniversary of sorts" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20030303180751.006edce0@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 3, 2003 - (My father's birthday, 1910, and the day my mother died, 1979) I so often think about the spiritual legacy that has been given to us, the "World War II Transition Generation" to which Ernst and I belong, since we are struggling still with the same enemy that caused so many wounds to our parents' generation! This is not the place or time to roll up yet another bloody chapter of yet another tragedy that befell those of us who were Germans - let me just briefly say that after more than 50 years, I found two Russian-born half-sisters who gave me some glimpses of my poor father's life. He was arrested in 1941, much as my husband was arrested less than four weeks ago in 2003, on the absolute flimsiest of accusations. It quite sufficed he was a German and, hence, considered an "enemy" to the powers that be. He was marched away from us at gunpoint, along with every German male age 14 and over in our town, and was not heard from again until I was already grown, married and with a family of my own, then living in Canada and learning to speak English. For years, we all believed that he was dead. Where I grew up, hardly anybody my age had a father. He was told upon release from a five-year sentence of hard labor in Soviet Russia's gulags, that his family had perished. He married again, named his oldest daughter from this second marriage after me, and tried to go on with his life. Now, almost half a century later, this half-sister told me a bit about my father's fate. He died on October 13, 1978. When I told my mother in a letter, her response was very odd. She wrote rather calmly, even stoically, that it did not really matter; she was prepared to join him soon. I was young then, and knew nothing of those deeply felt, searing emotions that can sustain us all our lives. I must confess that I resented my mother's reply - l loved my father; I wanted her to grieve - and stupidly assumed that she did not. She died five months later - on my father's birthday, twenty-five years ago today. ===== New page. This morning I found out why we have had so many Zundelsite shutdowns, and why so many of my ZGrams went astray. We thought it was just technical. Not so. Here is an email from our server's CEO: [START] Hello Ingrid Rimland: We have been under a lot of pressure just by simply hosting your site. We have continually been sent documents from the Canadian Human Rights Commission among other parties. We have even consulted legal council and held out this long. However at this point, our top level peer providers want us to remove it to ovoid risk of retaliation on the network. We believe in the freedom of speech and expression and is the only reason we didn't put the site down on the first contact several months ago. We are going to move you site to another server on another network which will give you at least another week to decide what you want to do from here out. Regards: Marcus N. Barnes CEO & President [END] My reply follows: Dear Mr. Barnes - this is the first time that I even found out that you, too, have been under political siege from Ernst's political enemies in Canada. This is very important for us to know. In 1996, the Zundelsite was under similar attack. Webcom was our server at that time, and the CEO held out valiantly. In fact, my hat was off to him, since he disagreed with our stance, but felt that freedom of speech was more important than his personal feelings. I cannot tell you how I appreciate that you held the fort under similar free speech assault. I will contact some help to see if we can find another server. One week should be enough. Can you please send me ALL the documentation you have on this free speech encroachment? I have some friends in the cyber world who helped me in 1996, and perhaps this can be used to help preserve freedom of speech on the Net in America, the last bastion of the free world. Ingrid Rimland ===== A word about the Petition: When I last checked, we had gathered 742 signatures. Our enemies got into it as well and spread some of their unsual, unbelievable filth. I have seen it so often, but I am always amazed at that character trait! You can ALWAYS tell "who's who" by the obscenities. No Gentile worth his genes writes like that or speaks like that! I hope we can remove these comments before we hand in the signatures to the Prime Minister of Canada. If you haven't yet added your name, please consider doing so. We would like to send this petiotion just as soon as we can, and it would be nice if we could round it out to 1000 signatures. The link is at http://petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5230 ===== I talked to Ernst briefly yesterday. Apparently he is only allowed some 10 minutes per day for phone calls, and if he has to contact people regarding some legal matters, that leaves no time for me. last time, I had maybe 90 seconds. But he did tell me that he knew nothing of another hearing this coming Friday. I could not remember who told me, and so I could not tell him for sure if this was, indeed, a set hearing. Now someone sent me these two items, no source given: [START] ANOTHER WEEK IN JAIL FOR ZUNDEL Thorold, Ontario.-- Ernst Zundel, a holocaust denier who is seeking refugee status in Canada, will remain in custody for another week in this southern Ontario community. At a detention review hearing yesterday, lawyers for the federal government argued Ottawa has reason to believe Zundel is a security concern and should be detained. The hearing was Zundel's second since he was turned over to Canadian immigration officials on February 19 after being deported from the United States. Zundel has been in the Niagara Detention Centre since arriving in Canada. The Crown and Zundel agreed yesterday that future hearings will be open to the public. The next hearing is expected to be held Friday. Zundel was arrested February 3 at his Tennessee home for overstaying a visitors visa. The German citizen was returned to Canada because he entered the U.S. from Ontario. If Zundel is deported to Germany, he would face charges of suspicion of incitement of hate. The Canadian Jewish Congress has said allowing public scrutiny of his efforts to remain might play right into his hands. ===== Zundel remains behind bars over security concerns By GLORIA GALLOWAY Saturday, March 1, 2003 - Page A2 Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel will likely spend the next month behind bars while the government determines whether his presence in the country poses a threat to the security of Canadians. "Mr. Zundel is being detained under legislation that allows the ministry to determine whether he is a risk to national security," Charles Hawkins, the regional spokesman for Immigration and Refugee Board, said yesterday. Mr. Zundel argued his own case yesterday against being detained. His detention is allowed under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and will be reviewed in 30 days. It has been reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is investigating whether Mr. Zundel is a security threat, including whether he assisted or helped finance violent white-supremacist groups. He is seeking refugee status since being removed from the United States two weeks ago out of fear that he will be jailed if he is returned to his native Germany. During the early 1990s, Mr. Zundel was fined the equivalent of $9,000 for breaking Germany's antihate laws while he was on a visit to Munich. Keith Landy, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said that the decision to detain Mr. Zundel comes as no surprise. "The security risk that Zundel is being accused of is incitement of hatred towards an identifiable group," Mr. Landy said. "As one of the most horrific Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites, it's not surprising that the government wants to ensure that he doesn't have an easy ride . . ." ===== I spent all this weekend collecting emails to media, free speech and immigration organizations and patriot groups. I would like to ask those of you who are willing to contact these sources with a brief letter to write to me requesting this list. It is quite long, and you may have to break it up so as not to be accused of spamming. Please write a very brief, preferably one-paragraph note to these sources. I will suggest some titles. I may be in touch later on if there is additional news. Thank you for your help and for your support in this very difficult time. PLEASE DON'T call me on my main line - I need to keep it open for further news from Ernst or from attorneys. If you need to get in touch with me, it is best if you fax - 865-774-7758. If you absolutely have to call, use my cell phone, 865-368-7756. Ingrid From irimland@zundelsite.org Wed Mar 5 02:13:54 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:13:54 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 3/4/2003 - "SOS: CSIS vs Zundel" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030304211354.01640fb8@getmail.lemire.com> SOS ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 3, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Before I write anything else, I would still like more readers on my=20 list to sign the petition at=20 http://www.PetitionPetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=3D5230 We are now=20 at 835 signatures, and I would like to have a round 1,000 before we=20 submit it to the Powers that be.=20 Please sign - and spread the word on your respective lists. Now to some very serious business: Ernst Zundel is in maximum lockdown in the Niagara Detention Center.=20 I talked to him very briefly yesterday and a little longer this=20 morning. He says the guards hang their heads because they are=20 ashamed at what is happening but will not give him any explanation=20 why he has to be in lock-down 24 hours a day. He says that he is=20 being treated like Rudolf Hess, having his food shoved in without=20 words, being permitted only a plastic spoon/fork combination - called=20 a "spork", by the way - some kind of black humor? He writes his=20 notes to himself and what letters he is allowed to send on the seat=20 of his toilet, the only surface available to him.=20 I believe this treatment is being meted out to keep him from=20 communicating with anyone, including media. The reason is that last=20 Friday, he told the "war crimes" attorney acting for the government=20 that the very agency, namely CSIS, that is trying to brand him as a=20 "terrorist" is the outfit that had knowledge of the parcel bomb en=20 route to the Zundel-Haus to kill him in 1995 - yet did not see fit to=20 warn him or anybody else!=20 This WILL be said at the next hearing - if such a hearing is ever to=20 take place. Allegedly, this hearing, scheduled for Friday, is open=20 to media. When I talked to Ernst this morning, nobody had yet=20 notified him of the date. I feel I have reason to fear that Ernst's=20 enemies will move heaven and earth, and may even attempt to harm him,=20 to prevent this hearing from happening.=20 Here is the pertinent information that has only recently come to=20 light in a book titled "Covert Entry / Spies, Lies and Crimes:=20 Inside Canada's Secret Service" by Andrew Mitrovica. Andrew Mitrovica is one of Canada's leading investigative=20 journalists. He has won numerous national and international awards=20 for his reporting. He has worked at the fifth estate, CTV national=20 news, W5 and most recently at the Globe and Mail, where he covered=20 security and intelligence issues. Born in Melbourne, Australia,=20 Mitrovica lives in Toronto. The inside book flap carries this text: "Canada's espionage agency, CSIS, enjoys operating deep in the=20 shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the 80s after the RCMP spy=20 service was abolished for criminal excesses, the Canadian Security=20 Intelligence Service was to be a squeaky-clean contrast to its=20 disgraced predecessors. But it's hard for Canadians to get a fix on=20 how well CSIS is doing its job or how well it is behaving. This=20 country's spymasters work diligently to prevent journalists,=20 politicians and watchdog agencies from prying into their secret world. "Few journalists have come close to rivalling Andrew Mitrovica at=20 unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In COVERT ENTRY, the=20 award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing pattern of=20 venality, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the service, and=20 provides a fascinating window on its daily operations. "At its core, COVERT ENTRY traces the eventful career of John=20 Farrell, a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the=20 service's most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by=20 senior CSIS officers in the name of national security. Mitrovica=20 delivers a ground level, day-to-day look at who is actually running=20 the show in national clandestine operations. The picture he paints=20 definitively shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and=20 liberties it is charged with protecting." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >From the back flap we learn this about John Farrel, the CSIS=20 undercover agent who came out of the closet about his, and other=20 operatives', illegal activities: "As a dedicated operative in CSIS's covert war against terrorists and=20 spies, John Farrell was once a true believer in the intelligence=20 service's "Ways and Means Act": if you have a way to get things=20 done, the means - legal or not - are justified. He is the first CSIS=20 operative to openly discuss the details of his highly classified=20 work. Whether he is condemned or applauded for breaking his silence,=20 Farrell is offering up his story so that Canadians can gain a clearer=20 understanding of what actually takes place in this country in the=20 name of national security. And what this unofficial tour deep inside=20 the service's cloistered world reveals is an alarming portrait of=20 incompetence - and worse." This hardcover, put out by Random House Canada, is listed at $35.95=20 and is available from Amazon.=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Mitrovica addresses how CSIS dealt with Ernst Zundel, a lifelong=20 opponent of those individuals, groups and organizations who do not=20 want the orthodox version of the Holocaust challenged, much less=20 investigated. In the vernacular referred to as the Holocaust Lobby,=20 Zundel has many times characterized the actions of this powerful and=20 ruthless entity as being an extortion racket based on fictitious=20 stories regarding the genocidal gassings of Jews in World War II in=20 German concentration camps.=20 As you read Mitrovica, please keep in mind that this investigative=20 journalist describes a highly unpopular, politically incorrect=20 dissident activist who has been systematically demonized by Canadian=20 media for decades - while under a judge's gag order for years that=20 prevented him from defending his motives and honor. Page 136 - 140 of Covert Entry: Mitrovica: Ernst Zundel was another prime target of CSIS's allegedly=20 covert campaign against white supremacists. For years, the balding,=20 German-born immigrant ran what amounted to an anti-Semitic propaganda=20 factory from his Victorian home in downtown Toronto. Working out of=20 his ramshackle basement, Zundel churned out pamphlets on his printing=20 press, held meetings and gave lectures, all with a common theme: the=20 Holocaust was a hoax. (Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel did not work out of a "ramshacke=20 basement". He worked out of a four-story Victorian home on prime=20 real estate in downtown Toronto - a 14-room building packed to the=20 ceiling with original documents, newspaper clippings, books,=20 pamphlets, affidavits, original World War II memoirs, photographs,=20 slides, audios and videos, court transcripts, government documents=20 etc. The Zundel-Haus was probably the world's largest private repository=20 of evidence documenting that the true events of World War II were=20 different from the brutal Hollywood-created version depicting Germans=20 as genocidal monsters on a rampage to kill every Jew in sight,=20 primarily by "gassing".=20 The Zundel-Haus was burned down on May 9th, 1995 - on the 50th=20 anniversary of Germany's surrender to the Allies in 1945. Street talk=20 quickly pointed to a culprit. Ernst turned over to the police the=20 name and address of a punk who had been paid $200 by "someone" to=20 douse the building with gasoline - a criminal act of the first order=20 that was actually caught on a surveillance video. Canadian police=20 chose to do nothing with this tip and never even questioned the=20 street person who did it.)=20 Mitrovica: The man who once described Hitler as his idol distributed=20 his message to fellow travellers around the globe in an infamous=20 booklet entitled DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE? In it, Zundel claimed=20 the Holocaust was a Jewish-inspired fraud. Canada Post temporarily=20 stopped delivering Zundel's mail in 1981 because he was using the=20 postal service to spread hatred. In 1985, Zundel was sentenced to 15=20 months in jail after being found guilty of wilfully causing harm to=20 Canada's racial and social harmony.=20 (Zundelsite comment: This paragraph is misleading through omission.=20 A postal commission, investigating the charge that Zundel "spread=20 hatred", cleared him of the charge after a year's worth of=20 investigation, stating in its verdict that - and here I quote from=20 memory - "the Holocaust is an issue between two peoples, the Germans=20 and the Jews" - recommending that the Canadian government should keep=20 its nose out of it.=20 The 15 months sentence was the result not of the judgment of the=20 postal hearing - it was the result of what is known as the FIRST=20 GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL of 1985, where, upon appeal, the judge was=20 found biased, leading via many legal detours to the 1988 SECOND GREAT=20 HOLOCAUST TRIAL which gave birth to the best-selling Leuchter Report,=20 still a thorn in the Holocaust/Zionist-Lobbyists side.=20 The charge of these two trials that rocked the foundations of the=20 Holocaust myth, was not that Ernst was "wilfully causing harm to=20 Canada's racial and social harmony" - it was that Zundel was=20 "spreading false news." This charge, brought by a Holocaust survivor=20 but soon taken over by the government, was based on an ancient law=20 out of the Thirteenth Century in England that Canada had on its=20 books, forbidding wandering minstrels to "defame the kings" with=20 ribald songs. That legal prohibition had no relevance in modern=20 Canada. After a nine-year legal battle, on August 27, 1992, the=20 Supreme Court of Canada overturned this ancient law, striking down=20 the "false news" law as a violation of the guarantee to free speech=20 contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, thereby=20 adopting Z=FCndel's viewpoint on freedom of speech. The court's=20 decision, as summarized in the headnote to the case, was as follows: Section 2(b) of the Charter protects the right of a minority to=20 express its view, however unpopular it may be. All communications=20 which convey or attempt to convey meaning are protected by s. 2(b),=20 unless the physical form by which the communication is made (for=20 example, a violent act) excludes protection. The content of the=20 communication is irrelevant. The purpose of the guarantee is to=20 permit free expression to the end of promoting truth, political or=20 social participation, and self-fulfillment. That purpose extents to=20 the protection of minority beliefs which the majority regards as=20 wrong or false. Section 181, which may subject a person to criminal=20 conviction and potential imprisonment because of words he published,=20 has undeniably the effect of restricting freedom of expression and,=20 therefore, imposes a limit on s. 2(b). In the Mitrovica paragraph that follows, the author summarizes this=20 legal battle spanning almost a decade:) "Three years later, [Zundel's] conviction was upheld on appeal. But=20 in 1992, Zundel won an unexpected victory when the Supreme Court of=20 Canada overturned his conviction on a charge of knowingly spreading=20 false information about the Holocaust. The decision, not=20 surprisingly, thrilled and emboldened the Holocaust denier and his=20 supporters, including the nascent Heritage Front.=20 (Zundelsite Comment: The Heritage Front was an organization=20 ostensibly created for the purpose of giving White Canadian Youth a=20 place where they could find some fellowship and mutual support in a=20 violently hostile multicultural environment that routinely=20 discriminated against them by favoring non-white immigrants in=20 seeking employment, scholarships, grants etc. I say "ostensibly",=20 for as was discovered shortly thereafter, the Heritage Front was, in=20 fact, a CSIS setup where a CSIS-paid agent provocateur, Grant=20 Bristow, tried to provoke and incite White kids to foolish racist=20 statements and even violence. When a Toronto reporter, Bill Dunphy,=20 exposed this CSIS infiltration of the Heritage Front to the media, it=20 caused a huge public relations problem for CSIS. Eventually, there=20 was a government whitewash, and the "problem" petered out.=20 This CSIS sore broke open around 1995 - exactly at a time when a=20 Toronto mob of street punks, called ARA (Anti-Racist Action) was used=20 by persons unknown to inflame Canadians against Ernst Zundel. At one=20 time, the city was blanketed by thousands of posters showing Ernst's=20 face in the cross-hairs of a rifle and giving a map of the location=20 of the Zundel-Haus. This hate- and defamaation campaign soon=20 thereafter led to the actual fire-bombing of the Zundel building.) =20 Mitrovica: After winning his legal reprieve, Zundel often made=20 public appearances wearing a hard hat and carrying a large wooden=20 cross.=20 (Zundel-Haus comment: Actually, I believe he carried the cross only=20 once to force a photo op, knowing that an otherwise hostile media=20 would not be able to resist this visual. The cross still exists in a=20 safe place in Canada. One day it will grace a Free Speech museum.) Mitrovica: To his followers, [Zundel] was a courageous martyr in the=20 fight to protect freedom of speech. His opponents thought=20 differently. In late 1993, they descended on his home, hurling paint=20 canisters and eggs. (Zundelsite comment: Actually, they hurled more than eggs. They=20 defecated into plastic bags and hurled feces! Somewhere among my=20 tapes there exists a recording of the howling of that mob, chanting=20 "Kill Zundel! Burn Zundel down!" If you listen to that tape, you'll=20 think you hear the howl of devils!) Mitrovica: Zundel had prepared for the onslaught by wrapping his=20 home in plastic. Riot police beat back the demonstrators. The ugly=20 skirmish helped Zundel and his admirers get the media attention they=20 longed for.=20 (Zundelsite comment: This is a typical comment by a liberal=20 journalist brainwashed into assuming that Zundel's cause was unjust=20 and was not based on years of serious, detailed study of the=20 Holocaust issue that led to his conclusion that the Holocaust was=20 merely a propaganda piece to extract reparations from Germany and=20 good-will gestures, including lavish financial aid and other perks,=20 for the Israeli and Disaspora Jews from the United States and other=20 Western countries. Ernst has always been a convenient target for=20 ritual denigration by mainstream media. Sadly, Mitrovica is no=20 exception.)=20 Mitrovica: But CSIS was also training a close eye on Zundel. The=20 service was busy intercepting mail for Zundel's home from a postal=20 station at 1 Yonge Street. Farrel says Zundel was also watched by=20 the service. The APIs were called when Hitler's admirer was seen=20 posting mail. A Canada Post driver would then be summoned to open=20 the mailbox and allow an API to retrieve the mail. Who was this API?=20 Frank Pilotte, [a postal inspector] though Farrell was often=20 enlisted to help. Letters and packages for Zundel arrived from all=20 over the world. On some days he received as many as 20 pieces of=20 registered mail. CSIS was keen to establish a list of Zundel's=20 worldwide supporters by noting the return addresses attached to each=20 piece of correspondence. To Farrell's surprise, Zundel often=20 received letters of encouragement and support from doctors, lawyers,=20 university professors, as well as prison inmates. (Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel has many distinguished admirers=20 all over the world who have followed his outreach campaign for=20 decades. It does great injustice to the image of this decent and=20 non-violent human rights activist, who has dedicated his life to the=20 defense of his vilified parents' generation, to paint Ernst Zundel as=20 some political dimwit, hysterical "Neo-Nazi", or media-greedy=20 publicity hound. He has thousands of letters from distinguished=20 sources all over the world that prove otherwise.) =20 Mitrovica: Farrell noticed that Pilotte took a particular interest=20 in Zundel's mail. Just how much interest became apparent early one=20 morning when the two APIs met behind a large grocery store on=20 Danforth Avenue. Pilotte drove up in his white Buick, while Farrell=20 arrived in his Geo Metro, a car he liked because it saved him money=20 on gas. Pilotte had just returned from the postal station carrying a=20 batch of Zundel's letters. As he flipped through the mail, Pilotte=20 noticed that one letter was partially open. Curious, he decided to=20 unseal it. Farrell urged him not to, warning him that the letters=20 might be booby-trapped and that he was only inviting more trouble=20 from Lunau. [Don Lunau was Farrell's superior] Pilotte opened the=20 letter. Inside, he found a short note addressed to "Dear Ernst"=20 urging the Holocaust denier to continue his campaign "to tell the=20 truth." To help in that effort, the letter also contained a=20 ten-dollar American bill, which the API slipped back into the=20 envelope. "It was amateurish," Farrell says. "It was none of the API's=20 business what was in the mail." Farrell didn't want to get embroiled in Pilotte's escapades, but as=20 the program's troubleshooter, he had little choice. He told Lunau,=20 who once again went easy on Pilotte. Then Farrell caught a break on the Zundel beat during one of his=20 routine visits to Canada Post's station at 1 Younge Street.=20 Dishevelled and unshaven, he arrived at 6:30 a.m. and walked up to=20 the station's second floor offices. He lumbered through a door=20 leading to a restricted area that housed bag after bag of registered=20 mail. On his way, he waved at Patrick Hilberg, the registration=20 clerk who often handled Zundel's registered mail, and George Fyfe,=20 the station's supervisor. Farrell had befriended them because he=20 knew the pair could make his job a whole lot easier. They didn't=20 know he was working for CSIS; they assumed he was still a postal=20 inspector. Farrell began rifling through the mail bags, searching for Zundel's=20 registered mail. He often had to flick through a thousand pieces=20 before plucking out Zundel's letters and packages. The mail, marked=20 priority post, arrived from Australia, Germany, Austria, France and=20 Switzerland. It was imperative that Farrell get his hands on the=20 mail before Hilberg, because once the clerk documented its arrival,=20 the clock began ticking on how long the service could hold on to the=20 letters and packages. The sooner Farrell dumped Zundel's letters=20 back into the mail stream, the less likely Zundel would complain=20 about how tardy the postal service was. (Zundelsite comment: Incidentally, just yesterday I received a=20 letter that Ernst had written to me on February 14, 2003, sent out of=20 Blount County Jail, located 45 minutes from where I live. It took 17=20 days to arrive!) Mitrovica: Farrell reached into the mail bag and pulled out a small=20 box. Later he learned that he had just laid his hands on the=20 Heritage Front's complete membership list and the names and addresses=20 of every individual in Canada and overseas who received Zundel's=20 anti-Semitic literature. (Mitrovica assumes that the Heritage Front mailing list and the=20 Zundel-Haus mailing list are identical. Not so! To my knowledge,=20 CSIS never did get the Zundel-Haus mailing list. They tried to=20 compile one on their own, as stated above, by copying the return=20 addresses of Zundel supporters.) Mitrovica: It was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Rarely did that=20 kind of information fall so conveniently into the laps of spy=20 services. Finally, Farrell thought, Operation Vulva had paid=20 dividends. (Zundelsite comment: Does the name of this undercover operation=20 spell who was behind it? Those of us who have been the target of=20 relentless Jewish hatred have always been amazed at how sexual=20 innuendos, and especially a perverted fascination with feces, creeps=20 into our enemies actions and words - notice the "shit bombs" hurled=20 at the Zundel-Haus during various mob demonstrations!) Mitrovica: Handling Zundel's mail was a risky business. Violence=20 gravitated to the Holocaust denier. A pipe bomb once exploded=20 behind his Carlton Street home, causing extensive damage.=20 (Zundelsite comment: Actually, it exploded *inside* his garage in=20 1984, prior to the FIRST GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL in 1985. the culprit=20 has never been apprehended.) Mitrovica: Farrell was always concerned when he intercepted Zundel's=20 mail. He knew the self-promoting propagandist had enemies and that=20 one day one of them might use the mail to deliver an unmistakable and=20 violent message to his front door. Farrell liked his hands and=20 wanted to keep them. (Zundelsite comment: Now read the next Mitrovica paragraphs carefully:) Lunau warned the APIs to be especially careful when handling any mail=20 addressed to Zundel from a post office box from Vancouver. He=20 refused to explain why the Vancouver address was on a watch list, but=20 it was clear that he was worried that mail from that address might be=20 used to conceal a bomb. Farrell's own nervousness peaked when Lunau ordered him to=20 temporarily stop intercepting parcels destined for Zundel's home. "I=20 got a call from Lunau and he said, 'Stop checking the parcels. Just=20 check the registered letters,' Farrell recalls. Lunau wasn't=20 kidding. Farrell could hear the urgency in his voice. In May 1995, a package arrived at Zundel's door apparently from a=20 Vancouver post office box. Zundel let the package sit unopened in=20 his home for nearly a week before claiming to notice that "it made a=20 funny noise" when he shook it. He drove the suspicious package,=20 cushioned by a bag of bird seed in the trunk of his car, to a local=20 police station, where bomb experts discovered that it contained a=20 powerful pipe bomb filled with large nails. Police cordoned off a=20 block around the 51 Division police station in downtown Toronto. A=20 remote-controlled robot gingerly placed the package in a blast-proof=20 hopper. Later, the pipe bomb was detonated at a nearby spit, leaving=20 behind a large crater. Zundel said the parcel, camouflaged to look=20 like a book, bore an outdated return address for the post office box=20 of his friend Tony McAleer, a B.C.-based white supremacist. Police=20 said the bomb was packed with enough explosives to seriously maim or=20 kill anyone within ninety meters of the blast. Zundel was certain that Jewish groups were behind a plot to kill him.=20 Initially, police investigated a phone call to the Toronto Sun by=20 someone claiming responsibility in the name of an unknown=20 organization called Jewish Armed Resistance. But the police weren't=20 convinced that the Holocaust denier was telling the truth about the=20 circumstances leading up to the discovery of the mail bomb. Why had=20 Zundel waited five days before alerting them to the suspicious=20 package? (Zundelsite comment: The bomb arrived 10 days after the Zundel-Haus=20 burned down, destroying an irreplacable library and causing $400,000=20 damage. Volunteers by the dozens descended on the Zundel-Haus from=20 all over the US and Canada to help clean up the damage. To say that=20 those were hectic days is putting it politely. A few days before=20 this parcel arrived, Ernst had received a poorly written letter,=20 gloating about the arson and stating "Next time it will be BOOM!"=20 He received book parcels by the dozens every day - it was natural=20 that after this warning, he would be on the lookout for suspicious=20 parcels. He handled this one, thought it was too heavy for a book,=20 put it aside after instructing his staff not to touch it and,=20 frankly, forgot about it in the havoc of dealing with the horrid=20 destruction of his life's work caused by both fire and water.=20 During the weekend, when things had quieted down a bit, he remembered=20 the parcel, even shook it - and then realized, after a totally=20 coincidental phone call by the "addressee", that the return address=20 was an outdated address. That's when he knew it was a bomb. It=20 could not have been a book sent by Tony. Ernst called me that night in San Diego. He told me that when he=20 took that bomb to the police station, carefully bedded on a bird seed=20 box, his "...hair stood up on end" as de drove it carefully around=20 every bump on the road. When I asked him why he had not, instead,=20 called police to come and get the parcel, he said: "Do I need to get=20 the neighborhood upset with screeching police cars and howling=20 sirens? The neighbors are already traumatized by the fire which=20 could easily have killed the kids in the neighbor's house who had to=20 jump out of the window, stark naked..." In other words, he did not=20 want to call attention to himself, fearing more hostility. As a sidebar, it should also be mentioned that when Ernst told the=20 police what he had delivered to them, their snide response was that=20 he may have sent the bomb to himself - for attention!) Mitrovica: By late summer, however, the skepticism evaporated.=20 Several police forces launched a joint probe after mail bombs were=20 sent to five different targets: Zundel; another B.C.-based white=20 spremacist, Charles Scott; the Mackenzie Institute, a Toronto-based=20 terrorism and security-policy think tank; Kay Gardner, a Toronto=20 City councillor; and Alta Genetics, Inc., a Calgary cattle-breeding=20 centre. The Mounties believed that four of the bombs originated in=20 Vancouver. The mystery surrounding the mail bombs was solved when a shadowy=20 group of anarchists, called the Militant Direct Action Task Force,=20 sent "communiqu=E9s" to several media outlets claiming responsibility=20 for all the potentially lethal letters, save the one to Kay Gardner.=20 In its letters, which provided compelling evidence that the group was=20 behind the mail bombs, the anarchists responded to media reports=20 about the grave dangers to postal workers who had unwittingly handled=20 the mail bombs. "We have tested our devices and found that only=20 extremely rough handling (or opening them) would cause them to=20 detonate. All packages have been marked PERSONAL to keep=20 unauthorized people from opening them," the group wrote. (Zundelsite comment: We believe the so-called Militant Direct=20 Action Task Force was a "false road flare" diverting attention away=20 from two highly suspect culprits, last names Thursten and Barbarash.=20 This terrorist duo was arrested, along with a girl, last name Rubin,=20 after the most intensive telephone spy operation ever in Canada - as=20 I recall it, 7,000 hours, that led the mounties to a storage place=20 belonging to the suspects where bomb making equipment was stored.=20 The Canadian Mounties know a thing or two about those people. So,=20 one might reasonably suspect, does CSIS. There were even the=20 beginnings of a trial in Vancouver, but the case has been dropped and=20 the records have been sealed - for reasons of "national security"!=20 Incidentally, the original arrest warrant stated that it was issued=20 "for suspicion of attempted murder of Ernst Zundel." Later, that=20 phrase mysteriously disappeared.)=20 Mitrovica: Farrell is convinced that the package containing the pipe=20 bomb delivered to Zundel's home was intercepted by either himself or=20 Pilotte. This raises the possibility that the intelligence service=20 was aware of the package's potentially lethal cargo before Zundel=20 received it. Farrell says Lunau's warning to temporarily stop=20 intercepting packages addressed to Zundel's home came only after=20 police had detonated the first pipe bomb. What CSIS might have done=20 to alert either Canada Post, Toronto Police or Zundel himself remains=20 a mystery. But what is clear is that the rash of letter bombs=20 prompted police to issue an extraordinary warning to Canadians to be=20 extremely cautious when receiving unexpected packages or letters. Regrettably, Farrell says, Canada's spy service failed to heed the=20 warning and, as a result, unnecessarily put the lives of Canadians at=20 risk. That's because when CSIS resumed the interception of Zundel's=20 mail, it continued to ship hard-to-open packages by passenger plane=20 to Ottawa for inspection, even though a pipe bomb had already been=20 discovered. "My concern was that there could always be a bomb in=20 Zundel's mail," Farrell says. "And how are we sending that stuff up=20 to Ottawa? It was being shipped by Air Canada. So what do you think=20 was likely to happen if a bomb went off while we were transporting=20 his mail by commercial jet?" Farrell repeatedly raised this issue with Lunau. "I was concerned=20 about my own safety and the crew and passengers on the plane. I=20 told Donnie many times that I didn't think it was wise to send=20 Zundel's packages up to Ottowa by plane. But he didn't seem that=20 concerned. I would say, 'Don, for the record, we shouldn't be doing=20 this." Lunau would say, "Okay. Noted." Farrell rang the alarm, but no one at CSIS bothered to listen. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D So much for Mitrovica's expos=E9 of CSIS. And CSIS is the very same=20 Canadian government outfit responsible for Ernst Zundel's detention -=20 and that wants to tar him as a "security risk to Canada"!=20 Ask yourself what kind of "justice" he will get.=20 I ask myself if he will live to tell his story Friday when media will=20 be there. I don't think I exaggerate the danger.=20 Ingrid Zundel From irimland@zundelsite.org Thu Mar 6 02:54:25 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 21:54:25 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 3/5/2003 -"Wiesenthalers beg German authorities to 'suspend' their arrest warrant for Zundel" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030305215425.0169e880@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 5, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Our first victory came when we drove the CTV poll off the air after it went past 45% on behalf of fair justice for Ernst. The second victory came right on its heels when the CNN poll fared just as well in our favor - again it was pulled when it almost reached 50%. And now this! For the third time in just a few days we have mobilized decent folks on the Net to help us speak out and, so at least we hope, begin to rectify the brutal injustice of Ernst Zundel's arrest at the behest of the Holocaust Lobby. Before anything else, let me thank those of you who signed the petition I asked you to sign in yesterday's ZGram. We are at almost 1,000 signatures, at which point we will download the petition and send it to the powers-that-be. Once again, we have beaten our enemies by our quick action. ONLY TODAY did the Canadian Wiesenthalers get around to putting up a petition of their own! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D There is a new development of which I only learned today. But before I comment on the two amazing Wiesenthal pieces below, please take note of the attachment. It is an email list of major media, free speech organizations, columnists, first amendment groups, individual conservative writers and activists. It took me days to compile that list, and I urge you to use it with discretion. By that I mean - don't spam! Use it judiciously! One small chunk at a time! :) What should you write? I have a few suggestions. Compose a brief expos=E9 of how American INS officials and law enforcement people were USED by nefarious powers to act as hit squads to kidnap a politically incorrect activist under the guise of the flimsiest of excuses - a "missed" INS interview and "overstaying his visa"! Include the following: _______ Neither Ernst nor I were allowed to call an attorney when Ernst was told five officials had come to arrest him - _______ Ernst was taken away in handcuffs and thrown into maximum detention even though it was called a "civil" arrest - that is, without an arrest warrant - _______ Upon deportation to Canada, Ernst was handed an order by INS officials barring him for 20 (!) years from the US - _______ Now Ernst is still languishing in maximum security in Canada, facing a warmed-over charge of being a "security risk to Canada"- a country where he has lived for 42 years as a scrupulously law-abiding citizen. And who is bringing the charge? A sort of Canadian Mossad called CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) - a civilian spy agency that had full knowledge of a parcel bomb sent to assassinate Ernst in 1995. (!) How did CSIS know that a parcel bomb was in the mail? Why did CSIS not see fit to warn not only Ernst but passengers on Canada Air carrying this parcel bomb? Why did CSIS not warn postal workers who handled the parcel? CSIS DID warn their own undercover agent - does that not tell us something? Ask media to follow this story. Ask interested persons to read up on it and inform themselves on how "legal" power can be abused. Use your own words. Do make it brief, and be courteous. Tell them where to read up on the story: http://www.rense.com/general35/update.htm or at www.zundelsite.org Let the world know that Zundel friends are classy people who believe in the power of Truth. Tell them where to find the Truth as we discovered it. A Zundel supporter put it succinctly: "The USA has become a country where the criminals arrest honest people for pointing out their crimes." =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Now to a new development that, frankly, mystifies me. After having spent years, even decades, trying to get Ernst deported to Germany where he would face long incarceration for challenging the orthodox Holocaust yarn, what do the people with a rubberband conscience now do? They advocate that Germany "suspend" the arrest warrant! What do you say to that? Do they just want to ship him there - and then do one of their switcheroos and shriek that Germany should throw Ernst in the slammer? Here are two letters I pulled from the Canadian Wiesenthal web page. I don't know about you, but to me they spell fear of what Ernst will reveal once again if he is handed yet another battle in yet another court - either in Canada or, worse for our enemies, in Germany. Of all the ironies: After they brutally caused him to be kidnapped, they don't know what to do with him. Tar baby all over again - the more that they struggle, the "stucker" they get!. Read on! Marvel at their Talmudic gyrations! Watch them twist in the media hurricane that is of their own making - and hold your breath at what might well come next! [START] March, 2003 The Honourable Martin Cauchon Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 284 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8 The Honourable Denis Coderre, P.C., M.P. Citizenship and Immigration Canada K1A 1L1 Dear Ministers; On February 20, 2003 I sent you a letter in which I emphasized that Mr. Zundel not be given the opportunity to cause racial discord in Canada. However, before he could be sent out of Canada, Mr. Zundel was able to file an application, seeking asylum from German justice. This was most unfortunate, as we all know the legal manoeuvring which could result in a protracted stay in Canada by Mr. Zundel. Even the attempt to have him declared a security risk carries with it the possibility of lengthy court battles. Each of these options; whether it be an asylum hearing or a security enquiry, increases the likelihood of him arguing that his "political / social" views and freedom of expression are being stunted. Media coverage will be intense and will give Mr. Zundel a golden opportunity to further expound his beliefs, thereby allowing him to commit the very effrontery that Canada and Germany are hoping to prevent. With that in mind, I wrote to the German Ambassador to Canada (see attached letter), suggesting that Germany suspend any legal action against Mr. Zundel for his past misdeeds. The end result is that there would be no legal basis for a refugee / asylum hearing and no necessity for a national security court case. Indeed, he wouldn't even qualify to stay in Canada upon humanitarian grounds. Mr. Zundel, being otherwise ineligible to enter Canada, could easily then be expelled to wherever he would be legally admitted, whether that be Germany or elsewhere. After writing to the German Ambassador, I was able to secure a meeting with a top official in the Embassy. I was advised that our proposal had already been sent to the proper authorities in Berlin. Furthermore, after discussing the matter at length and explaining the reasoning behind it, I was assured that this would be given serious consideration. As well, it was believed that a similar request from Canada would give this suggestion much-needed impetus. Mr. Ministers, the last thing that anybody (except Mr. Zundel) wants is a protracted, media-hyped series of court appearances which serve to publicize Mr. Zundel. Neither Canada nor Germany ought to squander precious resources on Mr. Zundel. I believe that the same result (the expulsion of Mr. Zundel from Canada) can be achieved in the manner I suggested in my letter to the German Ambassador. As I pointed out, the sweetest justice would be to show Mr. Zundel a form of mercy that leaves his future in his hands, rather than allowing him to become a self-styled martyr for his cause. I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible. Delay only plays into Mr. Zundel's hands. Yours truly, Leo Adler Director of National Affairs Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D February 26, 2003 His Excellency, Dr. Christian Pauls, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada, 1 Waverley Street, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0T8 Dear Mr. Ambassador; I am certain that the name Ernst Zundel is quite familiar to you. I am equally certain that you are aware of Mr. Zundel s claim that he ought to be granted asylum in Canada because of (now quite old) allegations that are outstanding against him in Germany. Needless to say, Mr. Zundel s arguments are patently specious and we are confident that they will be shown to be so at any refugee or asylum hearing that he may have before Canada's Tribunals. That, though, is precisely the problem. Mr. Zundel aims to use our judicial system to thwart Germany s judicial system. The fact that (we believe) he will ultimately fail does not, however, solve this quandary. The issue, as we see it, is, how do we prevent Mr. Zundel from abusing our courts and how can we stop him from using them as a platform to spew his philosophy and thereby attract even more attention to him and his cause? The answer, I believe, rests within your nation's grasp. If Germany were to announce that they would suspend any legal prosecutions or actions that Mr. Zundel currently faces for his past activities, then there would be no foundation for his claim for asylum and he would be obliged to go to Germany. Mr. Ambassador, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies and all Canadians have a deep regard for Germany s legal system. But we also believe that German justice has the ability to be not only just and compassionate, but also innovative and inventive. Therefore, while Germany s decision would open the way for Mr. Zundel s return to Germany, we are confident that your country can easily enforce your laws, if need be. Once there, as long as Mr. Zundel obeys the law, he would remain a free man. If he chooses to break the law then, of course, like anyone else, he could be prosecuted for what he now does. Thus, Mr. Zundel would be completely responsible for whatever happens to him in the future. We are asking you to forward this letter to the Federal Minister of Justice. Her quick announcement that Germany will not prosecute Mr. Zundel for past misdeeds will succeed in simultaneously depriving Mr. Zundel of an opportunity to exploit the present situation, while highlighting the ingenuity and flexibility of Germany s justice system. Mr. Ambassador, I will call you shortly to discuss this matter further. I also look forward to the opportunity to meet with you in order to assure you that our 40,000 members believe that the sweetest justice would be to show Mr. Zundel a form of mercy that leaves his future in his hands, rather than allowing him to become a self-styled martyr for his cause. Yours truly, Leo Adler Director of National Affairs Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies =3D=3D=3D=3D (Source: http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pet1.cfm?petid=3D61) [END] What can I say? How sweet it is! Let's keep at it and at it and at it and publicize this bizarre story just as loudly as we can! Ingrid From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Mar 7 20:41:48 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:41:48 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 03/05/2003 - "He's got the Jew thing" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20030307154147.00db3880@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 5, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I was simply too tired yesterday to send out a timely ZGram - which means that I must ship out two today. My second ZGram might be more interesting to those directly following the Zundel Saga, but this one is for the scholarly type. =20 I personally met Kevin MacDonald, whose book is reviewed below, some time ago at a small private gathering in California. He struck me at the time as someone who was quite astonished at himself having stepped into a paint pot and was now leaving his footprints all over the place - but his trilogy books certainly won't go away; they give birth to review after review after review. This book reviewer, one John Derbyshiree, reminds me of someone who is precariously balancing on a very narrow and uncomfortable fence - he likes it, and he likes it not, he gets convinced by Kevin's arguments but quickly remembers his fulcrum and shifts accordingly. (Not a bad word, folks, though it sounds a bit salacious, doesn't it?) Be that as it may: =20 [START] The Marx of the Anti-Semites=20 [The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, 1stBooks, 466 pages] One evening early on in my career as an opinion journalist in the USA, I found myself in a roomful of mainstream conservative types standing around in groups and gossiping. Because I was new to the scene, many of the names they were tossing about were unknown to me, so I could not take much part in the conversation. Then I caught one name that I recognized. I had just recently read and admired a piece published in Chronicles under that name. I gathered from the conversation that the owner of the name had once been a regular contributor to much more widely read conservative publications, the kind that have salaried congressional correspondents and full-service LexisNexis accounts, but that he was welcome at those august portals no longer. In all innocence, I asked why this was so. "Oh," explained one of my companions, "he got the Jew thing." The others in our group all nodded their understanding. Apparently no further explanation was required. The Jew thing. It was said in the kind of tone you might use of an automobile with a cracked engine block, or a house with subsiding foundations. Nothing to be done with him, poor fellow. No use to anybody now. Got the Jew thing. They shoot horses, don't they? Plainly, getting the Jew thing was a sort of occupational hazard of conservative journalism in the United States, an exceptionally lethal one, which the career-wise writer should strive to avoid. I resolved that I would do my best, so far as personal integrity allowed, not to get the Jew thing. I had better make it clear to the reader that at the time of writing, I have not yet got the Jew thing-that I am in fact a philoSemite and a well-wisher of Israel, for reasons I have explained in various places, none of them difficult for the nimble web surfer to find. If, however, you have got the Jew thing, or if, for reasons unfathomable to me, you would like to get it, Kevin MacDonald is your man. MacDonald is a tenured professor of psychology at California State University in Long Beach. He is best known for his three books about the Jews, developing the idea that Judaism has for 2,000 years or so been a "group evolutionary strategy." The subject of this review is a re-issue, in soft cover, of the third and most controversial of these books, The Culture of Critique, first published in 1998. Its subtitle is, "An evolutionary analysis of Jewish involvement in twentieth-century intellectual and political movements." The re-issue differs from the original mainly by the addition of a 66-page preface, which covers some more recent developments in the field and offers responses to some of the criticisms that appeared when the book was first published. The number of footnotes has also been increased from 135 to 181, and they have all been moved from the chapter-ends to the back of the book. A small amount of extra material has been added to the text. So far as I could tell from a cursory comparison of the two editions, nothing has been subtracted. The main thrust of this book's argument is that Jewish or Jewish-dominated organizations and movements engaged in a deliberate campaign to delegitimize the Gentile culture of their host nations -most particularly the USA-through the twentieth century and that this campaign is one aspect of a long-term survival strategy for the Jews as an ethnicity. In MacDonald's own words, "[T]he rise of Jewish power and the disestablishment of the specifically European nature of the U.S. are the real topics of CofC." He illustrates his thesis by a close analysis of six distinct intellectual and political phenomena: the anti-Darwinian movement in the social sciences (most particularly the no-such-thing-as-race school of anthropology associated with Franz Boas), the prominence of Jews in left-wing politics, the psychoanalytic movement, the Frankfurt School of social science (which sought to explain social problems in terms of individual psychopathology), the "New York intellectuals" centered on Partisan Review during the 1940s and 1950s, and Jewish involvement in shaping U.S. immigration policy. MacDonald writes from the point of view of evolutionary psychology-a term that many writers would put in quotes, as the epistemological status of this field is still a subject of debate. I have a few doubts of my own on this score and sometimes wonder whether evolutionary psychology may eventually turn out to be one of those odd fads that the human sciences, especially in the USA, are susceptible to. The twentieth century saw quite a menagerie of these fads: Behaviorism, Sheldonian personality-typing by body shape (ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph), the parapsychological reseaches of Dr. J.B. Rhine, the sexology of Alfred Kinsey, and so on. I think that the evolutionary psychologists are probably on to something, but some of their more extreme claims seem to me to be improbable and unpleasantly nihilistic. Here, for example, is Kevin MacDonald in a previous book: "The human mind was not designed to seek truth but rather to attain evolutionary goals." This trembles on the edge of deconstructionist words-have-no-meaning relativism, of the kind that philosopher David Stove called "puppetry theory," and that MacDonald himself debunks very forcefully in Chapter 5 of The Culture of Critique. After all, if it is so, should we not suppose that evolutionary psychologists are pursuing their own "group evolutionary strategy"? And that, in criticizing them, I am pursuing mine? And that there is, therefore, no point at all in my writing, or your reading, any further? To be fair to Kevin MacDonald, not all of his writing is as silly as that. The Culture of Critique includes many good things. There is a spirited defense of the scientific method, for example. One of the sub-themes of the book is that Jews are awfully good at creating pseudosciences-elaborate, plausible, and intellectually very challenging systems that do not, in fact, have any truth content-and that this peculiar talent must be connected somehow with the custom, persisted in through long pre-Enlightenment centuries, of immersing young men in the study of a vast body of argumentative writing, with status in the community-and marriage options, and breeding opportunities-awarded to those who have best mastered this mass of meaningless esoterica. (This is not an original observation, and the author does not claim it as such. In fact he quotes historian Paul Johnson to the same effect, and earlier comments along these lines were made by Arthur Koestler and Karl Popper.) MacDonald is very scathing about these circular and self-referential thought-systems, especially in the case of psychoanalysis and the "pathologization of Gentile culture" promoted by the Frankfurt School. Here he was precisely on my wavelength, and I found myself cheering him on. Whatever you may think of MacDonald and his theories, there is no doubt he believes himself to be doing careful objective science. The same could, of course, be said of Sheldon, Rhine, Kinsey, et al. It is good to be reminded, too, with forceful supporting data, that the 1924 restrictions on immigration to the U.S. were not driven by any belief on the part of the restrictionists in their own racial superiority but by a desire to stabilize the nation's ethnic balance, which is by no means the same thing. (In fact, as MacDonald points out, one of the worries of the restrictionists was that more clever and energetic races like the Japanese would, if allowed to enter, have negative effects on social harmony.) MacDonald's chapter on "Jewish involvement in shaping U.S. immigration policy" is a detailed survey of a topic I have not seen discussed elsewhere. If the Jews learned anything from the 20th century, it was surely the peril inherent in being the only identifiable minority in a society that is otherwise ethnically homogeneous. That thoughtful Jewish-Americans should seek to avoid this fate is understandable. That their agitation was the main determinant of postwar U.S. immigration policy seems to me more doubtful. And if it is true, we must believe that 97 percent of the U.S. population ended up dancing to the tune of the other three percent. If that is true, the only thing to say is the one Shakespeare's Bianca would have said: "The more fool they." Similarly with MacDonald's discussion of Jewish involvement in the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Empire and the many horrors that ensued. This was until recently another taboo topic, though the aged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, presumably feeling he has nothing much to lose, has recently taken a crack at it. I believe MacDonald was driven by necessity here. Having posited that Jews are out to "destroy" (this is his own word) Gentile society, he was open to the riposte that if, after 2,000 years of trying, the Jews had failed to accomplish this objective in even one instance, Gentiles don't actually have much to worry about. So: the Jews destroyed Russia. Though MacDonald's discussion of this topic is interesting and illuminating, it left me unconvinced. As he says, "The issue of the Jewish identification of Bolsheviks who were Jews by birth is complex." Paul Johnson gives only 15-20 percent of the delegates at early Party congresses as Jewish. If the other 80-85 percent were permitting themselves to be manipulated by such a small minority, then we are back with Bianca. Since the notion of "group evolutionary strategy" is central to MacDonald's case, I wish he had been better able to convince me of its validity. For instance, I happen to be fairly well acquainted with the culture and history of China, a nation that, like the diaspora Jews, awarded high social status and enhanced mating opportunities to young men who had shown mastery of great masses of content-free written material. Anyone who has read stories from the premodern period of China's history knows that the guy who gets the girl-who ends up, in fact, with a bevy of "secondary wives" who are thereby denied to less intellectual males-is the one who has aced the Imperial examinations and been rewarded with a District Magistrate position. This went on for two thousand years. Today's Chinese even, like Ashkenazi Jews, display an average intelligence higher by several points than the white-Gentile mean. So: was Confucianism a "group evolutionary strategy"? If so, then plainly the Chinese of China were, in MacDonald's jargon, the "ingroup". But then =85 what was the "outgroup"? The more I think about the term "group evolutionary strategy," in fact, the more I wonder if it is not complete nonsense. From an evolutionary point of view, would not the optimum strategy for almost any European Jew at almost any point from AD 79 to AD 1800 or so have been conversion to Christianity? Rather than learning to argue fine points of theology, would not a better strategy have been to learn, say, fencing or Latin? Sure, the Jews held together as a group across 2,000 years. The gypsies held together pretty well, too, across many centuries, yet their "group evolutionary strategy" was the opposite of the Jews' at almost every point. And the Jewish over-representation in important power centers of Gentile host societies became possible only after Jewish emancipation-which, like abolition of the slave trade, was an entirely white-Gentile project! Did the genes of 12th-century Jews "know" emancipation was going to happen 700 years on? How? If they did not, what was the point of their "evolutionary strategy"? There is a whiff of teleology about this whole business. Kevin MacDonald is working in an important field. There is no disputing that we need to understand much more than we now do about how common-ancestry groups react with each other. Group conflicts are a key problem for multiracial and multicultural societies. Up till about 1960, the U.S. coped with these problems by a frank assertion of white-Gentile ethnic dominance, very much as Israel copes with them today by asserting Jewish ethnic dominance. This proved to be quite a stable arrangement, as social arrangements go. It was obviously objectionable to some American Jews, and it is not surprising that they played an enthusiastic part in undermining it; but they were not the sole, nor even the prime, movers in its downfall. It was replaced, from the 1960s on, by a different arrangement, characterized by racial guilt, shame, apology, and recompense, accompanied by heroic efforts at social engineering ("affirmative action"). This system, I think it is becoming clear, has proved less stable than what went before and has probably now reached the point where it cannot be sustained much longer. What will replace it? What will the new arrangement= be? At times of flux like this, there are naturally people whose preference is for a return to the older dispensation. It is obvious that Kevin MacDonald is one of these people. If this is not so, he has some heavy explaining to do about phrases like "the ethnic interests of white Americans to develop an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society." Personally, I think he's dreaming. The older dispensation was not as bad as liberal commentators and story-tellers would have us believe, but it is gone forever and will not return. For America, the toothpaste is out of the tube. And on the point of Israel having something very much like the old American dispensation, I am unimpressed by MacDonald's oft-repeated argument-it is a favorite with both Israelophobes and anti-Semites-that it is hypocritical for Jews to promote multiculturalism in the U.S. while wishing to maintain Jewish ethnic dominance in Israel. Unless you think that ethnic dominance, under appropriate restraining laws, is immoral per se-and I don't, and Kevin MacDonald plainly doesn't either-it can be the foundation of a stable and successful nation. A nation that can establish it and maintain it would be wise to do so. The USA was not able to maintain it because too many Americans-far more than three percent-came to think it violated Constitutional principles. Israel, however, was founded on different principles, and there seems to be no large popular feeling in that country for dismantling Jewish-ethnic dominance, as there was in Lyndon Johnson's America for dismantling European dominance. The Israelis, most of them, are happy with Jewish-ethnic dominance and intend to keep it going. Good luck to them. The aspect of Macdonald's thesis that I find least digestible is his underlying assumption that group conflict is a zero-sum game rooted in an evolutionary tussle over finite resources. This is not even true on an international scale, as the growing wealth of the whole world during this past few decades has shown. On the scale of a single nation, it is absurd. These Jewish-inspired pseudoscientific phenomena that The Culture of Critique is concerned with-Boasian anthropology, psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School, and so on-were they a net negative for America? Yes, I agree with MacDonald, they were. Now conduct the following thought experiment. Suppose the great post-1881 immigration of Ashkenazi Jews had never occurred. Suppose the Jewish population of the U.S. in 2003 were not the two to four percent (depending on your definitions) that it is, but the 0.3 percent it was at the start of the Civil War. Would anything have been lost? Would America be richer or poorer? Would our cultural and intellectual life be busier or duller? It seems incontrovertible to me that a great deal would have been lost: entrepreneurs, jurists, philanthropists, entertainers, publishers, and legions upon legions of scholars: not mere psychoanalysts and "critical theorists," but physicists, mathematicians, medical research- ers, historians, economists-even, as MacDonald notes honestly in his new preface, evolutionary psychologists! The first American song whose words I knew was "White Christmas," written by a first-generation Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant. The first boss I ever had in this country was a Jew who had served honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps. Perhaps it is true, as MacDonald claims, that "most of those prosecuted for spying for the Soviet Union [i.e., in the 1940s and 1950s] were Jews." It is also true, however, that much of the secret research they betrayed to their country's enemies was the work of Jewish scientists. The Rosenbergs sold the Bomb to the Soviets; but without Jewish physicists, there would have been no Bomb to sell. Last spring I attended a conference of mathematicians attempting to crack a particularly intractable problem in analytic number theory. A high proportion of the 200-some attendees were Jews, including at least two from Israel. Sowers of discord there have certainly been, but on balance I cannot see how anyone could deny that this country is enormously better off for the contributions of Jews. Similarly for every other nation that has liberated the energies and intelligence of Jewish citizens. Was Hungary better off, or worse off, after the 1867 Ausgleich? Was Spain better off, or worse off, before the 1492 expulsions? "To ask the question is to answer it." Now, Kevin MacDonald might argue that he, as a social scientist, is not obliged to provide any such balance in his works, any more than a clinical pathologist writing about disease should be expected to include an acknowledgment that most of his readers will be healthy for most of their lives. I agree. A scientist, even a social scientist, need not present any facts other than those he has uncovered by diligent inquiry in his particular narrow field. He is under no obligation, as a scientist, to soothe the feelings of those whose sensibilities might be offended by his discoveries. Given the highly combustible nature of MacDonald's material, however, it wouldn't have hurt to point out the huge, indisputably net-positive, contributions of Jews to America, right at the beginning of his book and again at the end. MacDonald has in any case been fairly free in CofC with his own opinions on such matters as U.S. support for Israel, immigration policy, and so on. He is entitled to those opinions, but having included them in this book, his claim to dwell only in the aery realm of cold scientific objectivity does not sound very convincing. This is, after all, in the dictionary definition of the term, an anti-Semitic book. Its entire argument is that the Jews, collectively, are up to no good. This may of course be true, and MacDonald is entitled to say that the issue of whether his results are anti-Semitic is nugatory, from a social-science point of view, by comparison with the issue of their truth content. I agree with that, too: but given the well-known history of this topic, it seems singularly obtuse of MacDonald not to try to calm the troubled waters his work is bound to stir up. From my own indirect, and rather scanty, knowledge of the man, I would put this down to a personality combination of prickliness and unworldliness, but I am not sure I could persuade less charitable souls that my interpretation is the correct one, and that there is not malice lurking behind MacDonald's elaborate sociological jargon.=20 __________________________________ John Derbyshire (http://www.olimu. com) is a Contributing Editor of National Review and a twice-weekly columnist for National Review Online. His book Prime Obsession, an account of the Riemann Hypothesis, will be published April 18 by National Academies Press.=20 From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Mar 7 20:42:02 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:42:02 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 03/06/2003 - "Prisoner of Paradise" Message-ID: <3.0.32.20030307154202.00db3880@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 6, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Before I forget - there is a new news service that might be of interest to you. I haven't yet had a chance to check it out myself, and I invite your comments. Here is the information: AlterMedia is proud to announce AlterMedia Canada. The new Canadian news site is in English and in French and is updated very regularly. http://ca.altermedia.info/ AlterMedia is a free news service which relies on the work of volunteers. If you wish to be part of AlterMedia, tell me more about you and your motivations, I'll send you a user name and a passwords so you can post your own news. The AlterMedia team wishes to express its support to Mr. Zundel. 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AlterMedia WebMaster contact@altermedia.info AlterMedia U.S.A : http://us.altermedia.info AlterMedia France : http://fr.altermedia.info AlterMedia Belgium : http://be.altermedia.info AlterMedia Spain : http://es.altermedia.info AlterMedia Greece : http://gr.altermedia.info AlterMedia Romania : http://ro.altermedia.info AlterMedia Germany : http://de.altermedia.info AlterMedia Flanders : http://vl.altermedia.info AlterMedia Canada : http://ca.altermedia.info AlterMedia Main : http://www.altermedia.info -- To unsubscribe from: AlterMedia_int., just follow this link: http://www.altermedia.info/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi ===== Next leaf: I had a chance to talk a bit longer yesterday to Ernst, and also received the first letter from the Canadian Detention Facility where he is still held in Maximum Lockup - ostensibly because he is a "flight risk" but in reality to keep him from talking to media. He told me he felt "very calm inside", and that he looks forward to "taking a strip out of CSIS" if and when those barbaric hearings commence. I read the transcript yesterday of his first immigration interview regarding his asylum claim and/or his landed immigrant status - what a phony issue to drag up by the hairs that he should be a "security risk" - not for what he has ever done or even MIGHT do in the future, but for what somebody else might do who comes into contact with him! Threadbare is all I can say! There are a few small light beams emerging from the Zundel-Saga, but I would rather wait until things are firmed up and the direction is clearer. I talked at length to various people last night and had some feedback regarding the Wiesenthaler's back-pedalling on the German arrest warrant, for which they have lobbied for years - and the concensus is that Jews world-wide, and the Canadian Jews specifically, are extremely jittery at this point, what with all the anger buidling to almost critical mass about the looming Iraq war that no one wants, it seems, except the Zionists. Those folks don't need another spotlight on Ernst Zundel's claim that all those gruelling "gassing stories" of the Jews in Germany just do not meet the test of truth for verifiable scientific reasons. Besides, were concentration camps really that bad? I personally never was in a concentration camp, but I can tell you that it was no picnic either being outside. Hasn't Ernst argued for years, perhaps decades, that the German concentration camps, put into service at a time of mortal national crisis to neutralize people perceived as a danger and a menace to their struggle, were NOT the murderfactories the Holocaust Lobby has claimed? Was there not a swimming pool for detainees? Didn't inmates have art lessens, musicals, their own script money, sanitary hospitals where 3,000 babies were born, not one of which was harmed at birth? Didn't they even have - get this! It upsets me, prude that I am! - a brothel? So what do you say to the newest artistic development below? To mind comes a vignette that fits - that has become a standard joke between Ernst and myself as we are battling the censors. When Ernst was still living in Toronto, he would take much of his printing to a Chinese-run print shop. The owner, who was very fold of Ernst, would always greet Ernst with the widest grin and ask: "More plopaganda for the Fuehrer?" Look at the movie review below. More "plopaganda" for the Holocaust? [Start] In the name of art By Matthew Hays Toronto Globe and Mail | March 6, 2003 Montreal - You'd think there would be some opportunities to see the feature-length Prisoner of Paradise, Canada's contender for the best-documentary Oscar. But unless you live in the Toronto suburb of North York, you won't have a chance to catch its Canadian premiere. That's because the film's distributor has opted to release the film in but one Canadian cinema, the relatively obscure Empress Walk Theatre. For the filmmakers, this is undoubtedly a bitter pill to swallow. Their film has become the surprise nod in a field of candidates that includes Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Montreal-based Malcolm Clarke, co-director of the film, has difficulty concealing his disappointment about its limited release. "You'd have to ask the distributor about that," he says evasively. Jim Sherry, executive vice-president and general manager of Alliance Atlantis, says the single-cinema opening is not a slight against the film, but rather a measured approach to distribution. Sherry says he and the Alliance Atlantis team were thrilled with the nominations of both Prisoner of Paradise and Bowling for Columbine, which the corporation also produced. "Prisoner of Paradise is a film which has gotten an extreme push from the Academy Award nomination," he says. "In response to that, we've actually rushed to get the film to market prematurely. If the film performs strongly enough in Toronto, we obviously will look to take that momentum and push it into Vancouver and Montreal." Prisoner of Paradise recounts the story of Kurt Gerron, a popular German Jewish actor who found himself making a Nazi propaganda film in order to survive. The documentary was made for both PBS and BBC broadcast. Sherry says that since the film was made for TV, there weren't any prints ready for big-screen distribution. Thus the film will be projected from a DVD in North York. Clarke says he was as surprised as anyone by the Oscar nod. While Holocaust documentaries appear to please the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Anne Frank Remembered, The Last Days and Into the Arms of Strangers have all won Oscar nods), Clarke says that if anything, he feared "Holocaust fatigue." "I assume most people are so damn sick of hearing about it," says Clarke, who has already received one Oscar nomination and an Oscar win (for Soldiers in Hiding and You Don't Have to Die , respectively). "There's often a degree of iridency about discussions surrounding it. No, I wouldn't have thought a Holocaust-related documentary would necessarily have an edge." What did grab Clarke and co-director Stuart Sender (an Emmy Award-winning documentarian) was the moral ambiguity surrounding Kurt Gerron, something that struck them when Montreal filmmaker Jamie Gilcig presented them with Gerron's life story as a movie idea. Gerron was a household name in Germany when the Nazis ascended to power, a theatrical actor who had broken into films and made a number of memorable appearances, most notably with Marlene Dietrich in her star-making turn, The Blue Angel. Gerron had also taken to the director's chair, making a series of entertaining films that were a hit with German audiences. Gerron's story then takes on dimensions universal to Jews in Germany (and throughout most of Europe) at that time: rights stripped away, employment terminated, and ultimately, interned in a camp. In Gerron's case, he was detained at Theresienstadt (or Terezin), a camp near Prague where the Nazis sent Jewish intellectuals, artists, musicians and religious leaders. What happened to Gerron then is far from universal and forms the crux of Prisoner of Paradise. The artist was made an offer he couldn't refuse: make a propaganda film that makes the concentration camps look like beautiful oases, Gerron was told, and his life would be spared. (The Nazis, of course, weren't so famous for keeping their promises, particularly those made to Jews. It wouldn't be giving anything away to say the film doesn't have a happy ending.) The result was The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews , a horrifying, surreal film in which the camps are made out to be luxurious bastions of promising, happy family life. Everyone appears well fed and content - intended to stand in stark contrast to the bad rap Hitler's regime was gaining interna-tionally as word of the genocide slowly spread. In effect, Gerron, himself a persecuted Jew, was forced to put a Nazi PR spin on the Holocaust. Though much of the film was destroyed, parts were resurrected and Sender and Clarke spent time piecing together as much of it as they could. "I couldn't quite believe it when we watched it," Clarke says. Though the story does involve the Holocaust, Clarke points out that the film has a morally ambiguous figure at its centre, something that's not part of most films on the subject. Like The Grey Zone , Tim Blake Nelson's recent dramatic film about camp detainees at Auschwitz, Prisoner of Paradise examines levels of complicity in the genocide, meditating on the excruciating choices offered to Jews who negotiated with the Nazis in a desperate effort to survive. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing had I been Gerron," Clarke says. "The film makes us think about how heroic we really would be as opposed to how we'd like to think we'd behave under very difficult conditions." And if Gerron's uncertain place in the moral universe made him all the more attractive to Clarke and Sender, it didn't make funding come any easier. Clarke says they scored a coup early on when they presented a treatment of the film to Steven Spielberg, who promptly "flipped out," says Clarke, writing them a cheque for $100,000 (U.S.) of seed money. "He was like, what a brilliant idea." With that name behind them, you'd think the rest of the funding would simply fall into place. "But you'd be wrong," corrects Clarke. Instead, he says, "no one really wanted to support a film about a sort of traitor. We thought it would have been relatively easy. And with a saint it would have been. But Gerron was not a hero. When he accepted the gig from the Nazis, he hadn't directed a film in seven years and he was desperate to. Only this time, the National Socialist Party was the studio. I think people hated him all the more because he made such a good film. He pissed off a lot of people, who said he should have taken a bullet instead - which is something many people did, of course." Clarke points out that the nature of Gerron's character and his actions lend Prisoner of Paradise an openendedness that makes the film all the more fascinating and open to interpretation. "It's great to see how the film has been received. I think we've made a really solid documentary. I just want as many people to see it as possible." [END] (Source: http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030305.wpara0503/BNStory/En tertainment ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Sun Mar 9 04:25:03 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:25:03 -0500 Subject: ZGram - 03/08/2003 "Zundelmania in Canada" Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030308232503.016aa510@getmail.lemire.com> ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 8, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: A long-time ZGram reader wrote: "Zundelmania is overwhelming the Canadian media ...The media pretend to deplore what they see as Zundel's personality cult, and yet do all they can to boost it. Zundelwise it is utterly surreal up here in our aptly-named Dominion of Absurdistan." Kevin Strom of Dissident Voices summarized once more what Zundelmainia is really all about: (Zundel) understandably fears a loss of his freedom should he be sent to Germany, where he would be severely punished merely for writing and speaking what he believes to be the truth. He understandably fears that he may spend the rest of his life in prison. He understandably fears that he may never see his wife and family again. So he has applied for political asylum in Canada, where he> lived for 42 years prior to moving to Tennessee. No claim of refugee status ever had firmer justification. But Canada's powerful Jewish lobby has geared up a heavy campaign to make sure that Ernst Zundel never gets a fair hearing, with smears in the media and pressure on lapdog politicians like Immigration Minister Denis Coderre. Coderre was asked by the press how he could possibly stop Mr. Zundel from at least beginning the application process to obtain refugee status, a process which can last for years. Unable to come up with a printable answer, Coderre uttered an ominous "Just watch me." To prosecute Zundel, they have retained a prominent attorney previously involved in Canada's deportation of alleged "Nazi war criminals," Donald MacIntosh. This is extremely unusual for either a free-speech case or a matter of a missed hearing, which was the original pretext for arresting Mr. Zundel in Tennessee. The media campaign is vicious -- so vicious that it seems to be disgusting a large number of Canadians who do believe in freedom of speech. The St. Catherine's Standard recently ran an editorial which openly advocated the imprisonment of Zundel for what he has written, saying how good it will be when "we'll no longer have to deal with his crazy diatribes." [St. Catherine's Standard, March 5, 2003 (http://canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=3bd2d938-af05-4bba-aa91-5a0fd993f0cd) The popular Web site canada.com ran a poll on Mr. Zundel recently, and when the results began to turn in his favor, the poll was unceremoniously pulled off their site, never to be mentioned again. You can see a screen shot of the poll shortly before it was pulled by logging on to my personal Web site, http://kevin-strom.com . Although he is still denied his freedom while in Canada, Zundel did win one concession in a recent hearing: the Crown prosecutors agreed that all future hearings in the case would be public. This has set the Jewish establishment, in the person of Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, screaming that giving the case publicity would "play into Zundel's hands." [St. Catherine's Standard March 1, 2003 http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=24 331&catname=Local+News This is one time that Bernie Farber is right. Giving the case publicity will expose the fact of the outrageous persecution of this peaceful writer and thinker. Giving the case publicity will show that it is Jewish supremacists that are behind the imprisonment of Ernst Zundel and many other innocents whose only crime was to doubt what Jewish supremacists told them. Giving this case publicity will expose phony or compromised "human rights" groups like Amnesty International which, shamefully, not only refuse to help Mr. Zundel, but actually support the so-called Hate Speech laws that criminalize speech that Jewish groups disapprove of (while Jews in Israel practice "hate" and ethnic cleansing on an almost unimaginable scale with hardly a chance of extradition or imprisonment). Alex Neve, the Secretary-General of Amnesty International Canada, has come out strongly in favor of prosecuting and punishing Ernst Zundel, a true prisoner of conscience if there ever was one. Neve stated "The Canadian Human Rights Commission has already ruled that he has spread hate through the Internet, and he has been convicted by German courts. Strong hate-crimes laws, vigorously enforced, are a crucial human-rights tool." [Toronto Globe and Mail, February 22, 2003 http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030222/COZUNDE L//?query=zundel Yes, publicity is what this case needs -- and donations for Mr. Zundel's legal defense. Visit http://www.zundelsite.org or http://lebensraum.org or http://ihr.org for updates on this case, or write to Mrs. Zundel's postal address: Ingrid Zundel, 3152 Parkway #13, PMB109, Pigeon Forge, TN, 37863, USA. There is also a petition drive for Mr. Zundel at http://www.petitionpetition.com . Just type "Zundel" into the search box to find the "Free Ernst Zundel" petition. ===== Then there are several Letters to the Editor from Zundel friends: To The Editor Canoe News Sir, As one who has followed the happenings surrounding Ernst Zundel for the past 12 years or so, I put it to you that this man is gravely misunderstood by the Canadian public. The blame for this misunderstanding results from a long history of biased and sensational news reporting by Canadian and world media. I ask you also, who largely controls the media in North America? In whose interests is it to continually smear and attack a courageous man like Ernst Zundel who has persisted in his attacks on the holocaust lobby? What do you really know about his recent deportation from the United States? Are you aware of the efforts by Zundel and his attorney to have had his original residency hearing rescheduled, to which their letters were never replied? Have you ever approached Zundel or his wife, Dr. Ingrid Rimland, for an unbiased interview; an interview from which you could derive your own conclusions without taint from a biased media? Do you believe that the people in Canada and the United States deserve the right to free speech? Is it permissible in a free and open society to allow persons like Zundel and other historical revisionists to present views questioning aspects of the holocaust? Is there danger in open debate? Are not the public of both countries capable of judging argument and debate on its own merit? Should other viewpoints be allowed in a free and democratic society? What constitutes "hate speech"? Zundel has never been convicted of any crime in Canada and never been convicted of promoting hate speech. Yet he has lived in Canada for over 42 years. I ask you to investigate his history: when he came to Canada; his employment record; his run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada; the establishment of his businesses; his early introduction to revisionism; and, finally, his desire to speak out about revisionism as he sees it -- and ask yourself whether or not a man should be free to hold such views? Is man, any man, free to hold viewpoints which are not politically correct? Unless Mr. Zundel can be prosecuted for committing a crime, be it a "hate" crime, or any other, I believe he should be allowed to resume living in Canada without harrassment from those who disagree with him and a pressured government staffed by bureaucrates who do not know the background and who are fed hatred, in turn, towards Mr. Zundel ===== Dear Editor, having attended a number of sessions of the Human Rights Tribunal in 1997/98 before which Mr. Zundel had to appear (and which cost him a fortune) I am able to look through this charade foisted on the Canadian taxpayer in order to silence a courageous individual. To claim that Ernst Zundel is a "security risk" to this country is outrageous. Who violated whose security? Certainly not Zundel. But murder was on the agenda of his opponents who sent him two mail bombs and set fire to his house. That he is spreading hatred was not at all established in his trial. Hatred, however, is in the hearts of those who can not cope with the revelations which his research into history has uncovered. His weapon is the written and spoken word, nothing else. If that constitutes a security risk then we are a very insecure society. Nobody will believe it. Unfortunately, the "free press" is mainly responsible for the distorted public image of Ernst Zundel by not telling the truth. It's not surprising. They have willingly submitted to the dictate of the Human Rights Commissars who decreed that "truth can not be used as a defense". They are complicit in the gradual disappearance of free speech from our country. The question should not be if Mr. Zundel needs to be deported sooner or later, but how soon he will be released and compensated for his suffering. He has lived in this country for nearly 40 years, paid his taxes and was never convicted of any crime. How do people in a free country justify such treatment? His stay in the United States was perfectly legal and the immigration hearing which he missed was not his fault whatsoever. I consider Mr. Zundel a spokesman for myself and my compatriots who are victims of World War II - bombed out and ethnically cleansed from their homelands, but considered guilty to this day. Canadians know nothing about these facts since the press has kept them ignorant. ===== A sad situation re: Mr. Zundel. The demonic media appraisals are so at odds with the Ernst I know that their wild and sinister depictions are almost comical. Unfortunately, the situation he finds himself in is not. Our family's prayers for him and Ingrid. ===== Ernst Zundel does not deserve to be treated like a criminal merely because he openly and honestly questions what many people claim to have been an historical occurence. If the holocaust actually did occur as it it claimed, then why can it not be discussed OPENLY and HONESTLY? Why are certain people so afraid of honest inquiry? ===== And, finally, a small excerpt from Ernst himself, written to a neighbor in our area who has befriended us: "I wanted desperately to start a new life - free of persecution, free of lawyers, free of courts, free of the media. Karin, I just wanted to live a clean, simple, healthy, godfearing life in that beautiful Wears Valley. Drawings and paintings were in the planning stage, which would have made you, the original inhabitants of the valley, happy and proud that the Zundels came and were part of your area. We loved that place without reservation. Now my days consist of begging guards to please sharpen my pencils, to please allow me to make a phone call or two, to allow me a shower, or to get me an extra roll of toilet paper since I used the original roll for Kleenex since my cell was cold and drafty and I caught a cold. Big favors and kind gestures are when one guard gives me a cup of soymilk another prisoner did not drink. Another kindness is when the guard does not put on my leg irons on the way to the Detention Review Hearing because I am one of the oldest prisoners and not as agile as some. I am locked in 24 hours a day, as I was in Blount County Jail. I have no criminal record in America. None in Canada where I won every court case in the end. My crime is that I exposed criminal racketeers - in fact, billionaires of blackmailing the German people for over US$ 100 billion in war reparations these people were not entitled to. That's my crime, Karin. All the best, Ernst Zundel ===== A new poll by CNEWS to the question "Should Germany's charges against Ernst Zundel be suspended, to allow for a swifter deportation? shows this evening that 51% want Zundel to leave if Germany drops the charges, 22% want him to stay and face another "hate" trial, 15% opt for refugee status, 3% don't know and 9% don't care. (Source: http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/ ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Mon Mar 10 00:43:36 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 16:43:36 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/9/2003 - "120 Armed FBI Agents Arrest Saudi Student At U Idaho" Message-ID: ZGram- Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 9, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I thought it was outrageous that three INS officials, accompanied by two local law enforcement officers, would show up to arrest my husband on FEBRUARY 5, a peaceful and sunny Tennessee morning as he was framing one of his paintings. I thought it was a show of force meant to intimidate on purpose and for political effect. I thought it looked like "overkill" and was utterly unnecessary, given the smallest of minor infractions of which he was allegedly guilty - a clerical error at most! Now this? [START] 120 Armed FBI Agents Arrest Saudi Student At U Idaho SEVIS 3-8-3 The following letter was forwarded to SEVIS, and is chilling testimony to the campaign of fear and intimidation on university campuses. Information shared by universities through the SEVIS tracking system enable the INS, FBI and CIA to carry out such crimes. Send copies of this letter to your International Student Services, and your administration! Put it in your campus newspaper! This raid conveniently happened in a small town where it is difficult to build a strong movement in support of immigrants and international students. We'll keep you posted. From Prof. Elizabeth Brandt University of Idaho 3-8-3 Well, yesterday was an exciting day in my small town. The FBI flew in 120 agents, fully-armed in riot gear, on two C-17 military aircraft (I think -- they were BIG planes) to Moscow Idaho (population 17,000 +/-) to arrest one Saudi graduate student for visa fraud. The raid went down in University of Idaho student housing at 4:30 a.m. in the morning, terrorizing not only the suspect's family (he lived in student housing with his wife and three elementary school age children) but also the families of neighboring students who were awakened by the shouting and lights and were required to remain in their homes until after 8:30 a.m. At least 20 other students who had the misfortune to either know the suspect or to have some minor immigration irregularities were also subjected to substantial, surprise interrogations (4+ hours) although none were detained or arrested yesterday. Now, however, a witch hunt for additional unamed suspects who supposedly helped the guy who was arrested is on. The INS and FBI are working together using gestapo tactics to question the students -- threatening their immigration status (and hence their education) if they don't answer questions which are really aimed at the criminal investigation. They have also threatened their partners and spouses with perjury charges if they don't talk. I spent yesterday working with our immigration clinic director and local criminal defense attorneys to organize legal representation for the students who are being swept into the hunt for co-conspiritors. We have reached out to our entire area (40 -mile radius) to find enough attorneys. Now I'm working on getting resources and support to them. The Saudi government is providing financial support. Reading about this stuff is one thing. Having it in your backyard is another. The international students at the University of Idaho are terrorized and scared. Liz Brandt Elizabeth Barker Brandt Professor University of Idaho College of Law http://lists.linefeed.org/pipermail/stop-sevis/2003-March/000080.html [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Tue Mar 11 15:09:16 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:09:16 -0800 Subject: ZGram - March 10, 2003 - "Gibson Family Under Fire for Holocaust Denial": Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 10, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I missed two calls from Ernst yesterday because I had to run errands - therefore I cannot give you any new update on where the struggle is. I could use lots of input from my libertarian readers, German sources, Freedom-of-Speechers etc. on the difference between German law and American/Canadian law regarding Freedom of Speech in the respective countries. Also, I could use information on how prisoners are treated in German jails, and on by what criteria initial jail terms are prolonged, once a prisoner is in detention and cannot really fight back. For yesterday's ZGram, I have this update on Mel Gibson, one of my favorite actors ever since "The Patriot": Gibson Family Under Fire for Anti-Semitism: [START] LOS ANGELES / ABC - Mel Gibson and his parents are under fire today from a leading Jewish group for reportedly anti-semitic impulses in the former's new film and the latter's denial that Al Qaeda executed the Sept. 11 attacks. The actor's father, Hutton Gibson, told The New York Times he flatly rejected that the terrorist group led by Usama bin Laden had any role in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Sept. 11. "Anybody can put out a passenger list," the elder Gibson told The Times. "So what happened? They were crashed by remote control." He and the actor's mother, Joye Gibson, also told The Times that the Holocaust was a fabrication manufactured to hide an arrangement between Adolf Hitler and "financiers" to move Jews out of Germany to the Middle East to fight Arabs. "Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," Hutton Gibson told The Times. "It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now six million?" Said Joye Gibson: "That weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe." Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, shot back. "To bigots and antisemites, no amount of evidence of scientific proof is ever enough. In their world, only hate matters." The comments from the Gibson family come just after the actor built a church in near Malibu that caters to a revisionist version of Catholocism. According to The Times, the church has a congregation of 70, including the star of such films as "Braveheart" and "Conspiracy Theory." Mel Gibson, a devout Catholic, is directing and co-wrote an upcoming movie "The Passion," rooted in a theological movement known as Catholic traditionalism that seeks to return the faith to its pre-1962 period, before the Pope issued what is known as Vatican II, a series of proclamations that did away with the notion that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. "If the new film seeks to undo that," Hier told The Times, "it would not be uncovering truth. Rather, it would unleash more of the scurrilous charges...directed against the Jewish people, which took the Catholic Church 20 centuries to finally repudiate." [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Tue Mar 11 15:11:21 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:11:21 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/11/2003 - "Ron Paul: A Far-Right Texan Inspires Antiwar Left" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny March 11, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: A lot of readers have complained to me that they have been dropped from my ZGram list. We are still having technical problems. Please check and try to subscribe again within a week. It is not my fault, and we are trying to fix our malaise. Meanwhile, check for updates on the Zundelsite, and please don't get mad at me or think I disregard your loyalty. I am so swamped with work I sometimes eat breakfast in late afternoon. To get today's ZGram out of the way, I send you this - an update on a man I have long admired. Ron Paul, to me, is the quintessential American - the kind I used to encounter when I was still on the road as a freelance writer and convention speaker and did lots and lots of programs for Rotarians. I guess these days I would have a hard time getting a speaking invitation at a Rotary Luncheon if I tried to tell them that my husband has been kidnapped through the interference of another country and now is held as a hostage for an American website. Want to bet? [START] A Far-Right Texan Inspires Antiwar Left By SHAILAGH MURRAY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- A far-right Republican congressman from Texas is looking like a voice of reason to the antiwar left. Ron Paul is a political iconoclast who takes his libertarian ideology seriously. He's a cheerful advocate of all sorts of unpopular causes like abolishing the federal minimum wage and returning to the gold standard. That few of his ideas will ever catch on doesn't deter him one bit. Rep. Paul's nickname is "Dr. No" because he votes against so many things, often alone. Despite his lack of clout in Congress, he ran as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in 1988, drawing less than one half of 1% of the vote. But on an Iraq war Mr. Paul is finding plenty of allies, especially at the other end of the political spectrum. Unlike his fellow Texas Republican in the White House, the retired obstetrician believes Saddam Hussein poses no direct threat to Americans and wants the U.S. to mind its own business. A fiscal conservative, he also believes the country can't afford the war's potentially staggering cost. "Ultimately, our money, weapons, and interventionist policies never buy us friends for long," Mr. Paul wrote in one of his recent columns, which are published on a range of Web sites, including libertarian and Christian. "And more often we simply arm our future enemies." Rep. Paul attracts special attention across the Atlantic, far more than in the mainstream U.S. media that largely ignores him. Writings such as his 35 "Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq" have appeared in French, German, Russian, Italian and Swiss publications. The congressman's 3,200-word "Statement Opposing the Use of Military Force in Iraq" was posted on the progressive New Zealand publication Scoop, two days after its Oct. 8 delivery on the House floor. Mr. Paul has even inspired an antiwar group, the Washington-based National Peace Lobby Project. It was formed Feb. 6 to promote a resolution introduced by Mr. Paul and Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio that would repeal the authorization of military force in Iraq that Congress granted to Mr. Bush last year. Project founder Jenifer Deal is a Washington actress and D.C. Green Party official. "What we have here is a nexus of ideological concerns," Ms. Deal says of her alliance with Mr. Paul. It doesn't faze her that she disagrees with the congressman on almost every other subject. "If he were a fascist Klansman, I would obviously have misgivings," she says. "But I actually think Ron Paul has tremendous moral courage." Mr. Paul's aggressive stand, a stark contrast to most mainstream politicians reluctant to challenge the president, hasn't hurt him with his southeast Texas constituents -- in fact, he is more popular than ever. In November, weeks after joining just five other Republicans voting against giving Mr. Bush authority to go to war, Mr. Paul was re-elected with 68% of the vote. It was his most lopsided victory ever. "It's so clear where he is, and that works for him," says Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a liberal Texas Democrat from an adjoining district. Mr. Paul believes that, privately, he has much broader support within his party. "If this had been a Clinton war, the majority of Republicans would be with me," he says, noting that most of his colleagues refused to support North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrikes in Kosovo. Mr. Paul's swath of rural Texas stretches southeast from Austin to the Gulf of Mexico. The region is populated by farmers and small-town folk who voted twice against President Clinton and overwhelmingly backed Mr. Bush. Mr. Doggett describes the mood as "rugged individualism and independence of the Texas frontier spirit." Mr. Paul, in an interview, attributes his record re-election margin to the combined forces of independent-minded "Ross Perot types" and Democrats who are upset that their national party leaders aren't rigorously challenging Mr. Bush on Iraq. Local Republicans, too, have misgivings about their former governor's actions. "I think people are a little apprehensive about what's going on," says Mary Wyatt, leader of the Republican Party in Victoria County. "President Bush has a tremendous level of support here, but everyone is concerned." THE LONELY CRUSADER Right-wing and antiwar, Ron Paul is in a category all to himself on Capitol Hill. * Born: Aug. 20, 1935, in Pittsburgh * Occupation: Obstetrician/Gynecologist * Ideological Inconsistency: A libertarian who supports a government ban on abortion * Political Inspirations: "Doctor Zhivago;" Austrian economist and free- marketeer Ludwig von Mises * Radical Positions: Wants to abolish the IRS and federal drug laws * Infamous Quote: "I fear, and there's a lot of people in this country who fear, that they may be bombed by the federal government at another Waco." -- (C-Span, February 1997) Source: Congressional Quarterly When the Texas Republican Party sent a questionnaire to state politicians in 2000 on core issues, Mr. Paul, 67 years old, wound up 95% in sync with the party platform, helped by his opposition to abortion and his staunch support of gun-owners rights. Plus, there is his advocacy for the smallest possible government. He refused to accept Medicare and Medicaid when he ran his medical practice and won't apply for a government pension. For all his Washington bashing, Mr. Paul is known in his district as an effective congressman. Paul staffers are whizzes at tracking down a Social Security check. And while he votes against all spending bills, he has found a way to deliver some of the highway and Army Corps of Engineering pork that his sprawling coastal district craves. He gets the money shifted from previously authorized funds that were originally directed elsewhere. Don Truman, another Victoria Republican who runs a family storage business, didn't support Mr. Paul earlier in the legislator's career, but has grown to admire how he sticks to his beliefs. "He's consistent and he's a very honorable person," says Mr. Truman. "People are willing to give him a little more allowance on certain things because they respect him." The goodwill isn't universal. Some Republicans have cast support for the war as a patriotic litmus test. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, also of Texas, last September called Mr. Bush's Iraq critics "hand-wringers and appeasers." Mr. Paul says he has never exchanged harsh words personally with his Republican colleagues. After Mr. Paul and the five other Republicans voted against the Iraq resolution, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said on Fox News that he respected the group's stance. Mr. Paul doesn't even bother to attend the administration's war briefings: "I don't want to get confused by their propaganda." His alliance with the left -- the "NPR crowd," as aide Jeff Deist calls it -- makes him a little uncomfortable, but not so much that he's backing down. He may even attend an antiwar student rally in a few weeks, at the liberal oasis of the University of Colorado-Boulder. (SOURCE: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB104725224693862700,00.html ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Thu Mar 13 03:50:06 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:50:06 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/12/2003 - "Buchanan: 'J'Accuse'" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now More than Ever Probably today's most significant essay was penned by Patrick Buchanan for the American Conservative's upcoming issue. I subscribe to this publication and am recommending it gladly to the readers of this list. It is a joy to read! [START] Whose War? A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interest. by Patrick J. Buchanan The War Party may have gotten its war. But it has also gotten something it did not bargain for. Its membership lists and associations have been exposed and its motives challenged. In a rare moment in U.S. journalism, Tim Russert put this question directly to Richard Perle: "Can you assure American viewers ... that we're in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel?" Suddenly, the Israeli connection is on the table, and the War Party is not amused. Finding themselves in an unanticipated firefight, our neoconservative friends are doing what comes naturally, seeking student deferments from political combat by claiming the status of a persecuted minority group. People who claim to be writing the foreign policy of the world superpower, one would think, would be a little more manly in the schoolyard of politics. Not so. =46ormer Wall Street Journal editor Max Boot kicked off the campaign. When these "Buchananites toss around 'neoconservative'-and cite names like Wolfowitz and Cohen-it sometimes sounds as if what they really mean is 'Jewish conservative.'" Yet Boot readily concedes that a passionate attachment to Israel is a "key tenet of neoconservatism." He also claims that the National Security Strategy of President Bush "sounds as if it could have come straight out from the pages of Commentary magazine, the neocon bible." (For the uninitiated, Commentary, the bible in which Boot seeks divine guidance, is the monthly of the American Jewish Committee.) David Brooks of the Weekly Standard wails that attacks based on the Israel tie have put him through personal hell: "Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail and in my mailbox. ... Anti-Semitism is alive and thriving. It's just that its epicenter is no longer on the Buchananite Right, but on the peace-movement left." Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan endures his own purgatory abroad: "In London ... one finds Britain's finest minds propounding, in sophisticated language and melodious Oxbridge accents, the conspiracy theories of Pat Buchanan concerning the 'neoconservative' (read: Jewish) hijacking of American foreign policy." Lawrence Kaplan of the New Republic charges that our little magazine "has been transformed into a forum for those who contend that President Bush has become a client of ... Ariel Sharon and the 'neoconservative war party.'" Referencing Charles Lindbergh, he accuses Paul Schroeder, Chris Matthews, Robert Novak, Georgie Anne Geyer, Jason Vest of the Nation, and Gary Hart of implying that "members of the Bush team have been doing Israel's bidding and, by extension, exhibiting 'dual loyalties.'" Kaplan thunders: The real problem with such claims is not just that they are untrue. The problem is that they are toxic. Invoking the specter of dual loyalty to mute criticism and debate amounts to more than the everyday pollution of public discourse. It is the nullification of public discourse, for how can one refute accusations grounded in ethnicity? The charges are, ipso facto, impossible to disprove. And so they are meant to be. What is going on here? Slate's Mickey Kaus nails it in the headline of his retort: "Lawrence Kaplan Plays the Anti-Semitic Card." What Kaplan, Brooks, Boot, and Kagan are doing is what the Rev. Jesse Jackson does when caught with some mammoth contribution from a Fortune 500 company he has lately accused of discriminating. He plays the race card. So, too, the neoconservatives are trying to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives. Indeed, it is the charge of "anti-Semitism" itself that is toxic. For this venerable slander is designed to nullify public discourse by smearing and intimidating foes and censoring and blacklisting them and any who would publish them. Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon. And this time the boys have cried "wolf" once too often. It is not working. As Kaus notes, Kaplan's own New Republic carries Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman. In writing of the four power centers in this capital that are clamoring for war, Hoffman himself describes the fourth thus: And, finally, there is a loose collection of friends of Israel, who believe in the identity of interests between the Jewish state and the United States. =8A These analysts look on foreign policy through the lens of one dominant concern: Is it good or bad for Israel? Since that nation's founding in 1948, these thinkers have never been in very good odor at the State Department, but now they are well ensconced in the Pentagon, around such strategists as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. "If Stanley Hoffman can say this," asks Kaus, "why can't Chris Matthews?" Kaus also notes that Kaplan somehow failed to mention the most devastating piece tying the neoconservatives to Sharon and his Likud Party. In a Feb. 9 front-page article in the Washington Post, Robert Kaiser quotes a senior U.S. official as saying, "The Likudniks are really in charge now." Kaiser names Perle, Wolfowitz, and Feith as members of a pro-Israel network inside the administration and adds David Wurmser of the Defense Department and Elliott Abrams of the National Security Council. (Abrams is the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, editor emeritus of Commentary, whose magazine has for decades branded critics of Israel as anti-Semites.) Noting that Sharon repeatedly claims a "special closeness" to the Bushites, Kaiser writes, "For the first time a U.S. administration and a Likud government are pursuing nearly identical policies." And a valid question is: how did this come to be, and while it is surely in Sharon's interest, is it in America's interest? This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, "Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight." We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people's right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity. Not in our lifetimes has America been so isolated from old friends. Far worse, President Bush is being lured into a trap baited for him by these neocons that could cost him his office and cause America to forfeit years of peace won for us by the sacrifices of two generations in the Cold War. They charge us with anti-Semitism-i.e., a hatred of Jews for their faith, heritage, or ancestry. False. The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a "passionate attachment" to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America. =8A [END] (The entire article is available at bookstores.) ( Source: http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/print/coverprint.html ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Mar 14 16:32:06 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:32:06 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/13/2003 - "Forked Tongue Amnesty International Canada on Ernst Zundel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 13, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: My apologies for not sending yesterday's ZGram - this is its substitute. At the end of the day, with all the demands, all the phone calls, all the coordination etc. that are now my responsibility alone, I feel so frazzled I cannot even look at my computer. A heartfelt thank you to those of you who have sent in your financial support - I will do my best in the coming week to dig into our formal thank you notes! That used to be Ernst's job, but now it is one added chore of mine. I look with dread at my "out-basket"! Still nothing new to report about Ernst Zundel, and communication is very difficult. There are only restricted times when he can call - and only collect, which rules out cell phones, answering machines etc. Nobody can call in, except in a dire emergency. When I try to leave a message, Ernst gets it late, gets it garbled, or does not get it at all. Even attorneys get discouraged and drop out because Thorold, where he is being held, is off the beaten path and it is difficult and time-consuming to travel there - and it is horribly expensive for us, since we get billed by the hour, even travel time. Even mail is severely restricted - and he told me that he has to write on the seat of his toilet, the only surface that he has for writing. It becomes ever more clear why Ernst is being held in detention in the first place - so a meaningful defense against the obscene charge that he is a "security risk to Canada" is impossible. What has he ever done that would justify such a ridiculous claim? His enemies don't even claim he MIGHT do something in the future, they say that HIS SUPPORTERS MIGHT. Apparently two hearings about Ernst's landed immigrant claim/asylum application have already been held, only one of which Ernst attended. Media were not allowed at either one, even though they were entitled to be there. A final hearing will take place in about a week or so, which will decide his fate. I will keep you posted to the extent that I can. ===== A friend from Canada wrote: "This was posted to the [BNF] Yahoo forum. I thought you might find it of some interest." And he added: I don't think Ernst has ever been convicted of a "crime of hate", at least not in North America." That is exactly right. Not that Ernst's enemies haven't tried, but even the Canadian authorities, always so eager to dance to the tune of the Canadian Jewish minority, refused to lay charges regarding "hate crimes" because they knew they could not win. That's why we had the Kangaroo Court of the Human Rights Tribunal where truth was not a defense and only Jewish feelings counted. Remember how "antisemitism" was defined by that shameful, undemocratic outfit misnamed "Human Rights Tribunal"? If a Jew said something critical about another Jew - why, that was a family quarrel. But if Ernst Zundel said something identically critical about a Jew, that was "lethal antisemitism." And these people want to be respected - never mind liked or even loved? A Zundel supporter wrote from Scotland to Amnesty International Canada, complaining about Canada's treatment of Ernst Zundel who is still held in detention, where communication, even with his attorneys, is severely restricted - even though he isn't charged with anything: Dear Sir/Madam, "I write to complain about the stance taken by your branch of Amnesty International as regards the detention of Ernst Zundel. Freedom of thought and speech is a right that must be protected, yet AI Canada has not only failed to support this ideal but has actively taken up the cudgels on behalf of organised Zionism by calling for Zundel's 'deportation' to Germany. This is an outrage, and one that has cost AI my long term membership here in the UK. Please take time to read the short poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns. "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. "You in Canada should be ashamed to call your 'organisation' Amnesty International. You have betrayed the very name. "Signed in disgust, "Mr. John Ross, Scotland" Now read the answer of Samantha Burdett, Amnesty International's Information Services Coordinator: [START] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:58 AM Subject: complaint Dear Mr. Ross, I am attaching an editorial written by the Secretary-General of AI Canada on the Zundel case, it clearly states our position on this case and explains why we hold this position. The Zundel Affair: Troubling Case, But the Principle is Clear The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says it simply: everyone shall have the right to seek asylum. Everyone. It is one of the most crucial human rights safeguards that exists in our violent, unjust world. When terror and fear reign at home and one's own government is the source of the problem or refuses to be part of the solution, individuals must be able to turn to the world community for safety. The right to seek asylum is a vital means of preventing human rights violations. It is also a right under siege around the world as governments devise an expanding arsenal of laws and practices meant to keep refugees out. But the devastating reality is that keeping refugees out very often means condemning them to face the very persecutors they are trying to flee. This week we have learned that Ernst Zundel might be seeking refugee status in Canada. His case puts this fundamental principle to a very difficult test. The widespread reaction has been that to allow a claim by this man, notorious for his crimes of hate, makes a mockery of the very notion of asylum. But the principle must hold. It does and absolutely must apply to everyone. The impartiality of Canada's refugee system and the best chance for safety of the thousands who turn to it for protection every year, lies in simply letting the system do its job. There can be no space for political interference, dictating whose case should be heard and whose not. We know that the worldover, political interference ends up in refugees being denied the protection they deserve: nationals of a particular country denied status because of a politician's discriminatory attitudes, claims made by women turned down because of a government's refusal to recognize women's rights, adherents to a certain religion or political movement rejected because of a host country's foreign policy concerns. Interference and selectivity puts refugees at risk. Once we allow it, where do we draw the line? Maintaining the integrity of Canada's refugee system, however, is also a crucial government responsibility. It must be protected from abuse and manipulation. If the system's integrity fails, real refugees will suffer in the end. As such, officials could accelerate their consideration of this claim, to ensure that it is dealt with expeditiously, but fairly, and does not linger. This keeps both the sanctity of the right and the integrity of the process intact. At the same time, of course, hate crimes allegations against Mr. Zundel continue to demand investigation and justice. Our own Canadian Human Rights Commission has already ruled that he has spread hatred through the internet. Strong hate crimes laws, vigorously enforced, are a crucial human rights tool. Refugees know the devastating human cost of hate firsthand. Amnesty International and other groups have pressed Canada to improve its laws and practices in this area, including with respect to Holocaust denial when it is motivated by hate. These obligations must also be at the forefront of the government's response to Mr. Zundel's renewed interest in Canada. The refugee process and the justice system: the two should go hand in hand. Someone may be in Canada while their claim is being assessed or perhaps should not be deported because they face torture abroad. But at the same time they may have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity or hate crimes, for which they absolutely must face criminal prosecution. Sadly governments, including Canada often get this wrong - willing to deport, unwilling to prosecute. But we cannot simply export the problem cases to other countries with fingers crossed that someone else will do the right thing. We need actively to ensure that justice will be the response (if not abroad, then here at home). Yes, justice is sometimes difficult, perplexing, and even costly. But it is the road we must travel. Sincerely, Samantha Burdett Information Services Coordinator Amnesty International Canada sburdett@amnesty.ca 613 744 7667 extn. 249 Visit our online library at http://www.amnesty.ca/library [END] What is she saying? Charge and convict, so Amnesty International gets off the hook? She knows perfectly well that Ernst has NEVER been accused of a hate crime in Canada or the United States! Has anybody from Amnesty International even bothered to give Ernst a call or find out some of the facts before joining in the chorus of condemnation? This reply by Amnesty International is now being bandied about on the Net, where millions can see the double standard and draw their own conclusions. Ingrid ===== From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Mar 14 16:34:04 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:34:04 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/14/2003 - "Shamir: The Dark Side of Jewish Power Is Out" Message-ID: =1FZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 14, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: On the eve of what may well turn out to be World War III, here is an essay that America, if it survives, will never forget and will call one of the most courageous essays ever written: [START] 'The Dark Secret Of Jewish Power Is Out' Midas Ears By Israel Shamir 3-14-3 A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. It is the spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out. Just recently it was 'third rail', touch-and-die, deadly dangerous to mention, certain end to a career. Just recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an eminence with an Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and muttered to himself: Surely it is just a coincidence that so many important and largely unelected people in our country happen to belong to this small minority group. Surely it is just a coincidence that they belong to different parties but reach the same conclusions. Surely it is just a coincidence that ninety per cent of American foreign aid goes to their cousins in prosperous Tel Aviv. Surely it is just a coincidence that they run our newspapers, television, cinema, universities. Anyway, we are not allowed to notice this elephant in our sitting room. Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on Rense.com: "The silence in America concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old adage has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who really runs things, one need determine only who is spoken about in whispers, if at all." Judged by this measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I referred to 'Jewish media lords' during a UNESCO conference in the summer of 2001, the audience's hearts missed a beat. The yet-unfought War on Iraq changed this. The American Ultimatum date was set on 17 March, the Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw destruction of Iraqi armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many coincidences for a purely American war. The Americans peeped into the bottomless abyss of World War Three and woke up from their generation-long stupor. Thus the first victim of the Iraqi War is not truth, but the strongest taboo in the West. A Democrat member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen, one James Moran, dared to tell his supporters: "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this." He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: "It is simply stunning to hear Representative Moran make such accusations", said National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. "First, a number of the current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and Jewish organizations have clearly not been at the forefront among those groups actively and stridently supporting a war in Iraq". Forman had spoken, and the media reported and amplified his view, and Moran duly recanted, slapped. But he is not the only one. The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his long ears, it is being sung now from coast to coast, despite the frantic efforts of the organised Jewish community to clamp the lid back on the boiling cauldron. Kathleen and Bill Christison, [i] two ex-CIA experts, exposed the link between right-wing American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward Said, the most celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin, stated the cause: "An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public pressure." [ii] He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort. These Americans of Jewish origin object to the un-elected, anti-democratic Jewish power as they would object to any disproportionate minority power. Their presence, as they were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was instrumental in turning the tide and saving the intimidated majority from its browbeating. Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent (together with Noam Chomsky), wrote of "the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States, which advances Israeli interests by pushing for U.S. aid and protection to Israel, and, currently, by pressing for a war against Iraq, which again will serve Israeli interests. This lobby has not only helped control media debate and made congress into `Israeli occupied territory', it has seen to it that numerous officials with 'dual loyalties' occupy strategic decision-making positions in the Bush administration" Jeffrey Blankfort, the Californian who defeated ADL in court and made =46oxman pay heaps of dollars for his espionage against activists, took an important next step and rejected the views upheld by Noam Chomsky, Joel Beinin and Stephen Zunes, for these older radicals play down the crucial importance of Jewish power. Jeff Blankfort noticed the roots of the Rupture Evangelicals' meteoric rise in the US. This obscure sect would never have left its lair in remote Dixie, but for the Jewish media lords. Jeff noticed that when Black Entertainment Television was taken over by Viacom, whose owner, Sumner Redstone (n=E9 Murray Rothstein), was recently described in the New York Times as the world's biggest media owner, he eliminated BET's news program and began running evangelical Christian infomercials for Israel. Blankfort's list of 'Jews in media' [iii] enables an understanding of the secret of Jewish charm, and it can be compared with a similar extensive list by Prof. Kevin MacDonald of California State University. The Iraqi War, and even more its linkage with Palestine, became the litmus test of Jewish power. Organised Jewry pushed for war and at the same time denied its involvement. Thus in New York City, the City Council rejected an anti-war resolution, and only 12 of its 51 members were for it. This is not strange for heavily Jewish New York. Indeed, a Democrat, Rep. Robert Jackson, said it in a most straightforward way: "New York City is the home away from home for most Jews; and many members of the Jewish community think [the war is] in the best interests of the state of Israel." According to Jackson, several of his council colleagues have been intimidated into silence by the pro-Israel crowd: "People are not talking about this." Jackson was certainly right, but a Jewish newspaper [iv] (surprisingly or not, all newspapers in the New York area are Jewish) condemned him for racism: "[He claimed that] not only do the Jews run New York City, but they've cowed their opponents into silence. Jackson could as well call New York Hymietown." This response is remarkable for its typically Jewish logic. First, the opponent's rational argument is perverted and distorted, then it is aligned with opprobrium; and at the last stage, the opponent is destroyed forever. That is one of the secrets of Jewish might: the Jews enter a dialogue berserk-like, with great vehemence, quite foreign to the Socratic style. While sane people are satisfied with quoting their opponent and fighting his arguments, madmen (for berserk is a temporarily-mad individual) go for the jugular. David Mamet, the Jewish American playwright, provides a good example of this vehemence as he notices a "Volvo of old, the vehicle of my brethren, the congenitally liberal. It was festooned, as are its kind, with every sort of correct exhortation: Save James Bay, Honour Diversity, and so on. A most interesting bumper sticker read: Israel Out of the Settlements a slogan which could best be translated as Hook-nosed Jews Die". I wonder why Mamet stopped at this, for with equal adequacy the slogan can be translated as Torture Babies, Denounce America and Burn Apple Pie. Who cares for the form of the Jewish nose? Mel Brooks noticed long ago that Jewish girls have the cutest noses, made by the best plastic surgeons It is the racist Jewish policies in occupied Palestine that annoy good, 'congenitally liberal' people. But if Mamet were honest, he would not be Mamet. Now, Bill Keller of the NY Times read the Riot Act to the Americans. He kindly allows that 'most of the big Jewish organizations and many donors are backing the war' but insists that 'the idea that Israel's interests are driving one of the most momentous shifts in America's foreign policy is simple-minded and offensive'. Well, Keller is certainly being paid for his convictions by a Jewish media lord, and one of the nastiest, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, the owner of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a host of other publications. This undermines the possible veracity of Keller's words. Let something similar be written in a thoroughly non-Jewish newspaper! But alas, there are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews Surely a coincidence? Do not bet on it. A few days ago, in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an important all-Jewish conference on anti-Semitism took place under the auspicious aegis of the Sasson Centre. The talk given by the French Jewish historian Simcha Epstein dealt with pre-war France but pertained more immediately to America. This is what Epstein said: "The pre-war anti-Semites said that the Jews of France organized a syndicate secretly bankrolling and subverting the press. And what did the Jews say at that time? They said: 'Of course not! No, it's a lie, of course not! We are not engaged in conspiracies!' And what did the historians and the Jewish historiography coming afterwards say? 'Of course not! It is anti-Semitic drivel!' But we know now from Jewish sources that before the WWII the Jews of France secretly financed the press. "Since the end of 19th century, there was a secret Jewish organization, well financed, which bought and bankrolled newspapers. Sometimes it took over existing newspapers, which suddenly became pro-Dreifus because they received Jewish subsidies. New papers were created especially by the Jews. Two very important papers of the period, one was called Les Droits de l'Homme, the Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and L'Humanit=E9, which was the Socialist and then the Communist newspaper of France, was also financed by Jews. I say this on the authority Jewish sources of course. "And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography. Saying this, saying what I said, is something horrible and unacceptable, because it means that the Jews organized a conspiracy and secretly bought the media, or part of the media. That was precisely what the anti-Semites said at that time, and what they still say today. And we know now from Jewish sources that the allegations were true, that there was a Jewish clandestine activity of bankrolling the press." End of quote. Some people perceive every suggestion that Jews are able to act together as a mad conspiracy theory. Let them read and re-read this report by a Jewish historian made at a Jewish conference. If it is proven now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jews of France secretly bought and subverted French media for many years in order to distort the national discourse and eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and unneeded World War Two, is it impossible to consider that the Jews of the US have secretly taken over their national media and are now pushing the US into a horrible and unneeded World War Three? Actually there is no need for secrecy. One of the chief Zionist ideologists, Zeev Hefetz (ex-spokesman of PM Begin), wrote in an American daily: "Disarming Iraq is only a start in Middle East" as "the Arab and Iranian (sic!) cultures" are "irrational" and that nothing can be done, short of war, to "improve the collective mental health of Arab societies". [v]Certainly this massive 'disarmament' will be carried out by American soldiers, though the commands will be given by the Jewish chicken-hawks roosting in Pentagon. As for reasons for the war, they were eloquently stated by a keynote speaker at a conference on anti-Semitism by Yehuda Bauer, the director of the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem: The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion, he said. They are a civilisation, and they have their civilising mission. They cannot tolerate the competing civilisation of Islam, as they could not tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the war with Islam is unavoidable. But the war is avoidable. Even today, at minutes before H-hour, the war is avoidable. And if fire is unavoidable, let the Jewish advisers of President Bush be fired. Let this Purim see the great Exodus of the "Wolfowitz Cabal" from the Pentagon. Excluding the clinical possibility of his actual zombification, G W Bush should be able to understand that he has been misled by this powerful, un-elected minority. They cannot deliver what they promised. Moreover, their own days at the helm of the Republic are numbered. They over-estimated their abilities, and pushed too hard. As the frog of La Fontaine, they can blow up. Bush still can do a U-turn, and save himself and his country. In a way, today's America reminds of Russia in 1986, at the beginning of glasnost. After the Soviet citizens were allowed to learn who rules them and how, the days of the Soviet regime were counted. Glasnost gave place to perestroika. Now, for the first time in a generation, Americans are allowed to see the men in power, the toxic combination of the Right-Wing Democrats of Lieberman, the Republican neo-liberals, the Neo-Cons and plain Con-men. The Iraqi War brought them forward and presented them in clear light. Now is the time to undo their hold. It can't be postponed for the divisive presidency of G W Bush is perceived as the period of 'White' Protestant Anglo-Saxon rule, despite the prevalence of his Jewish advisers. All available contenders for the next elections - Lieberman, Kelly and even Kuchinich - claim their Jewish connections and declare their undivided loyalty to Jewry and to the state of Israel. In the present political setup of America, there will be no real alternative to Jewish ascendancy. If Bush flops, it will be construed by the media as a WASP flop. If he succeeds, it will be seen as success of his Jewish advisers. That is why American patriot forces should not wait for the next elections, or for the end of war. They must act now, by calling the war off. They have an enemy, but he is not in Iraq. What is called for is a new American revolution, on a par with the New Deal and abolition of slavery, with de-monopolisation of the discourse; that is of media and universities, for starters. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Americans undid the mighty Standard Oil. They created new anti-monopoly laws and terminated the threat to democracy. This achievement could be repeated now. Notes: [i] Kathleen and Bill Christison, `A Rose By Another Name: The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties', Counterpunch, Dec. 13, 2002). [ii] http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/628/op2.htm [iii] Here is enough sampling to indicate that it is not: =46irst of all, Sumner Redstone ( n=E9 Murray Rothstein) owns $8 billion dollars worth of Viacom, which gives him the controlling interest in CBS, Viacom, MTV worldwide (Brian Graden, president), and most recently he bought Black Entertainment Television and proceeded immediately to cut down its public-affairs programming. The president of CBS is Leslie Moonves, the great nephew of David Ben-Gurion. Michael Eisner is the major owner of Disney-Capitol Cities, which owns ABC. David Westin is the president of ABC News. Although it has lost viewers, Nightline host Ted Koppel is a strong supporter of Israel. Lloyd Braun is chair of ABC Entertainment. And there is the perennial Barbara Walters. Neil Shapiro is the president of NBC News. Jeffrey Zucker is the head of NBC Entertainment and Jack Myers has some important post there, as well. Although Rupert Murdoch of Fox is not Jewish, Mel Karamazin, the president of the corporation is, as is Peter Chernin, the second in command at Murdoch's News Corps. Sandy Grushow is chairman of Fox Entertainment, and Gail Berman is president. Murtdoch has received numerous awards from various Jewish charities. Jamie Kellner is chair and CEO of Turner Broadcasting. Walter Issacson is the News Director of CNN which also has Wolf Blitzer, host of Late Edition, Larry King of Larry King Live, Paula Zahn, and Andrea Koppel, Ted's daughter. Jordan Levin is chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Howard Stringer is chair of Sony Corp. of America. Robert Sillerman is the founder of Clear Channel Communications, Ivan Seidenberg is chair of Verizon Communications Terry Semel, former co-chair of Warners is CEO of Yahoo. Barry Diller, former owner of Universal Entertainment, is the chair of USA Interactive. Joel Klein is chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American operations, the largest publishing conglomerate in the world. Mort Zuckerman, the Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, owns US News and World Report and the NY Daily News. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publishes the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a host of other publications. Marty Peretz publishes the New Republic, which is unabashedly pro-Israel, as= is William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard. Donald Graham, Jr. is the chair and CEO of Newsweek and the Washington Post. Michael Ledeen, of Iran-Contra fame, edits National Review. Ron Rosenthal is the Managing Editor of the SF Chronicle and Phil Bronstein is the Executive Editor. David Schneiderman owns the Village Voice and a number of other "alternative" weeklies. Columnist William Safire, Tom Freidman, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jeff Jacoby, are among the most widely syndicated columnists. There are a number of widely syndicated talk show hosts such as Michael Savage (ABC) on more than 100 stations, Michael Medved, 124 stations, and Dennis Prager who has an Israeli flag on his website. Others include Ron Owens, Ben Wattenberg, and former ZOA official Jon Rothman, all in San Francisco on ABC. In Hollywood, which was founded by Jews, there is of course, Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Kranzberg of Dreamworks, Eisner of Disney, Amy Pascal, chair of Columbia, and many, many more. =46or the intellectuals, we have NPR, with pundit Daniel Schorr and weekend hosts Scott Simon and Liane Hansen, Robert Segal, Susan Stanberg, Eric Weiner, Daniel Lev, Linda Gradstein (a well-known speaker at pro-Israel events) covering Jerusalem, Mike Schuster (whose soft-ball interview with Ariel Sharon after Sabra and Shatila should have brought him before the court of Hamarabi). Brook Gladstein. And that's just for starters. From the boss to the delivery it's an impressive list. While they certainly can't be put in the same box when it comes to Israel, they more or less guarantee that there will be limits to any criticism they may make of Israel". [iv] NY Post 22.02.03 [v] November 12, 2002 The New Haven Register [END] (Source: =1Fhttp://www.rense.com/general35/poawer.htm ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Sat Mar 15 23:56:02 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:56:02 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/15/2003 - "A NEW ANTISEMITIC VIRUS SEEKS TO BLAME ISRAEL AND ITS SUPPORTERS FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 15, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: No wonder Marvin Hier is getting jittery: [START] TO: CONCERNED CENTER FRIENDS FROM: RABBI MARVIN HIER RE: A NEW ANTISEMITIC VIRUS SEEKS TO BLAME ISRAEL AND ITS SUPPORTERS FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ! America's Jews are under attack. Voices from both the right and the left are playing the antisemitism card with glee as they righteously blame the Jews for America's war with Iraq. What's worse, the silence from more moderate voices in America is deafening. One-time Presidential candidate and CNBC commentator Pat Buchanan, in a just-published article in the American Conservative, blames the conflict with Iraq on the State of Israel and a 'cabal' of neoconservatives, the majority of whom are Jewish and supporters of Israel. Among Buchanan's vitriol: "We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords." What is truly frightening is the fact that this anti-Israel, anti-Jewish rhetoric is not coming from the lunatic fringe. It is now creeping into the American mainstream -- helped by bigots like Buchanan and Rep. James Moran. The fact is, it is now in vogue to blame an Iraq war on Israel and American Jews. Just read what else Pat Buchanan had to say: "We charge them [American neoconservatives; read: Jews] with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian peoples' right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris and bellicosity." And in summary of his remarks, Buchanan writes: "They charge us with antisemitism. False. The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a passionate attachment to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America." And on another front, Democratic Congressman James Moran is still feeling the heat (even after his apology) for his recent remarks asserting, "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this." Moran went on to perpetuate the old canard of a powerful group of Jews machinating behind the scenes when he said, "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should." Even more shocking, this sentiment reflects a new canard that is alarming and must be stopped: that support of Israel is outweighing the better judgment of American Jewry and forcing U.S. President Bush and his advisors to pursue war. You and I know that these assertions are baseless: Never mind that Jewish support for American military action to disarm Saddam Hussein's Iraq is identical with non-Jewish Americans at 59%. Of course, this is not the first time Buchanan has singled out Israel and its supporters for censure. No matter what the issue, Buchanan draws a straight line to blame the Jews. But in this case, he has had the audacity to lay the most serious crisis facing the United Nations and the U.S. at the doorstep of the Jewish State and those who support her. The war in Iraq may be over in a matter of days, or perhaps weeks. But the war against the Jews will continue long after the troops have returned home. We are determined to fight this and all lies about the Jewish people with our most powerful weapon: the TRUTH. But we need your help to put a stop to the Buchanans and Morans of the world. Please don't delay. It is so imperative that we have your support now to help us continue on with our work sounding the alarm on the dangerous falsehoods that are seeping into the American consciousness. (Source: http://www.wiesenthal.com/ec.cfm?m=7249L7506819s) [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Mon Mar 17 01:40:54 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:40:54 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/16/2003 - "Almost 60 years ago..." Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 16, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: There won't be any news on Ernst Zundel's situation until March 31, when another immigration hearing will take place. I am sure he keeps distressing things from me, but every once in a while the truth slips out. Can you imagine living in a cell with no window but with the light on at all times, and with no sign what day it is, what time of day or night, what's going on outside - and if a pencil breaks, and the two pencil sharpeners outside the cell don't work, he cannot even write? A ball point pen is forbidden! I had sent him some articles I pulled from the Net about the horrid censorship in Germany. The articles were very well researched and pertinent to his defense. They were, however, kept from him, only my personal letter was given to him. Today he negotiated that he will be allowed to see those documents, one at a time - if there are more than two papers in a cell, that means there is a fire hazard! I can see how a psyche can crack! Not that I think his will - but knowing him the way I do, I can surmise the price that kind of injustice extracts. And all for what? Because he missed an immigration appointment the Immigration bureaucrats never saw fit to reschedule - or even to advise us that something was remiss? =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Just a few days ago, I thought we would be spared a war - what with all the revelations about faked documents and blackmail and what-have-you. But today the news is glum, and if the war begins, then heaven help the children! [START] Back to the Holocaust in Germany Margit Alm Melbourne Australia, malm@ica.net.au Here is how I remember the 1943 air raids over Hamburg. It is a story far removed from Zionism but it turned into a Holocaust of its own kind. It had been a particularly beautiful sunny summers day in July and a busy one for us children. My baby brother, my older sister and I were safely tucked into bed, watched over by the elderly lady from next door whilst my mother had walked to the Central Station to collect my father, who was a conscript soldier in the Wehrmacht, but stationed in North Germany whilst rehabilitating from a war injury sustained the previous year. This enabled him to spend his free days with his family. We lived in a flat in a big block of commercial/residential apartments in Hamburg's inner city (CBD), some 300 m away from the "Binnenalster" (Alster lake). My parents had just arrived home; my mother had put the kettle on for a cup of coffee and a piece of freshly baked cake when the howl of the sirens sounded and simultaneously the buzzing roar from the squadron bombers filled the air. We were torn from our beds, hastily dressed, my mother grabbed her handbag with the family documents and some photos and we raced down the stairs from our 4th floor flat to the cellar. As we passed the window between the 4th and 3rd floor I could see the bombs falling and the "Christmas trees" lighting the sky to guide the bombers. We hovered in the cellar together with other people from the building, everyone preoccupied with their own thoughts and fears. My father meanwhile raced up and down the four floors, scouting for fires. He put out some 18 spot fires. Eventually he reappeared in the cellar, took my mother in his arms, told her that everything was lost, and then ordered everyone out. A huge load of fire bombs had hit the building next door and the fire was now spreading to neighbouring buildings and streets. Whilst our cellar was fire proof, it was not smoke proof. Smoke quickly began to fill the cellar and we rushed up the stairs into the foyer, holding wet handkerchiefs over our mouths and noses. There was only one entrance/exit to/from the building and that was enveloped by flames. There was a lonely chair in the foyer, which my father grabbed and smashed the window, through which all of us escaped, the adults jumping the two odd metres, the children being lifted out. The air raid was still in full swing, so my father took our group some 50 m down the burning street into another building that had not yet caught fire and temporarily "parked" us there whilst he continued on his way to investigate the air raid shelter another 100 m away. It was still intact and had room for our group. As we left our temporary abode I cast a last glance to our building where my childhood dreams and toys were turned to ashes. It stood there, a dark and silent silhouette in the fire-lit sky, seemingly untouched by what was going on around it. However, a blaze of flames escaping through the roof shot skywards and I knew that the building was burning itself out from within. =46ive metres away from us, across the street, a whole building came crumbling down and rained a shower of phosphorous sparks on us. One of them must have hit me in the face as my mother was for a while fearful that I could become blind. Thank heavens, not so. The whole group made it safely to the air raid shelter where we waited out the end of the air raid and the end of the night. I cannot remember whether I was scared. This air raid was a totally new experience for me. There was no time to become scared. I also had 200% confidence in my father's ability to see us through safely. Although air raids had taken place earlier over Hamburg, they left only sporadic damage to the inner city and were mainly targeting the port and industrial areas. They provided some excitement to us children. We would tour the bombed-out buildings the next day. But this air raid was not child's play. It was meant to destroy more than infrastructure, and it certainly did just that; yet it could not have targeted civilians as there were relatively few civilians living in the inner city. Maybe it was a practice run for what was to come next. As soon as daylight broke, and being summer it broke early, my father made his way across town to my aunt, who lived on the other side of town, some 5 km away, in a large residential area. They (two aunts lived there and one uncle but he was on the eastern front) had escaped the bombings and we found shelter in their apartment - but only for one night. The second night the sirens once again forced us into the building's cellar. This time there was a much larger group, the building being residential only. My father, now on compassionate leave from the Wehrmacht, again patrolled the building like a security guard would patrol a casino, checking every corner. Again, he told us we had to vacate. A time bomb had fallen into the small courtyard (where the rubbish bins were stored) and it could explode any time. But escape where to? The whole suburb was burning. Luckily the emergency services had earlier on dynamited an entrance through the walls of the underground, and this was the only safe spot far and wide. The rule was that my father carrying my brother would lead the way, followed by my mother who dragged me along and my aunts who took care of my older sister. But when we emerged from the cellar and I stood on top of the stairs leading into the street I could only see fire: all buildings were ablaze, fire was raining from the sky, and as the sparks were ricocheting from the stones it looked to me as if the road was burning. I jerked away from my mother's hand and told here I was not running through that. My mother followed my father, screaming "I lost Margit" (I have never ceased wondering whether at that moment my father was not cursing her for being unable to control a pre-school child), and I just stood there and watched in abhorrence. To my left shadows were rushing past me disappearing into the firy night, following my father to safety. No one noticed me, or so I thought. Suddenly I felt swept off my feet and strong arms held me. I buried my face in a broad chest. It turned out that my rescuer was a young Dutchman who lived in the apartment building and knew us quite well. When my feet touched the ground again at the dynamited entrance to the underground I looked into my father's face. He was about to run through the fire and air raid once more and fetch me. However, he would not have made it. The time bomb explored just after the last person had left the building, turning the building to rubble. We were lucky, everyone in the building was saved. We spent the remainder of the night cowering and squatting on the rail tracks. At daylight my father again went on his by now familiar scouting trip to find the best way out for everyone. The best way out turned out to be a long, long walk along the tracks until we reached platforms and a station in another suburb. When my father investigated the devastation from the previous night, he not only found the rubbled buildings but piles and piles of corpses just lying in the streets. He wanted to spare us such a sight. They say, 45000 people perished during that night. =46rom the railway station we were taken to big halls in Neum=FCnster, and a new episode of our lives began. For the next four years we settled elsewhere, but that is a different story. My father was a decorated soldier (and threw all his decorations into a river because they would have hindered his escape from a Russian POW camp back to Germany after the war had ended), but I think his greatest deed was to show leadership in those two air raids. Neither our family nor all those belonging to the two groups would have escaped the bombing and the fires without his initiative. There were mainly women and children in the cellars, but I remember a few males present, yet apart from the Dutchman who carried me to safety, no one showed initiative (maybe for that reason the men were at home and not at the front). I now look forward to the book Der Brand and what it says about Hamburg's firestorm. By the way, more than 30 years ago I saw a play here in Melbourne by Rolf Hochhuth, called The Soldiers. It dealt with the planning of this air raid over Hamburg. At the time a Swiss girl from work was in our group of theatre goers. She was quite devastated after the play and said to me: "but they never carried it through". I had to tell her that they did. [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Tue Mar 18 02:01:34 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:01:34 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/17/2003 - "Courtesy of Israel: Innocence bulldozed!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 17, 2003 I read about Rachel Corrie yesterday but did not have the heart to write about her death. Somebody did it for me: The Truth about the murder of Rachel Corrie In Rafah, Gaza Strip today Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American woman from Olympia, Washington, who was a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by the Israeli Army. Rachel was standing in the path of the bulldozer as it advanced towards her. When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside she climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it wearing a fluorescent jacket to look directly at the driver who kept on advancing. The bulldozer continued to advance so that she was pulled under the pile of dirt and rubble. After she had disappeared from view the driver kept advancing until the bulldozer was completely on top of her. The driver did not lift the bulldozer blade and so she was crushed beneath it. Then the driver backed up - effectively running over her again. The seven other ISM activists taking part in the action rushed to dig out her body. An ambulance rushed her to Al-Najar Hospital where she died. From Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where Rachel was a student, came this: [START] Rachel Corrie 1979-2003 It is with the heaviest of hearts that I inform you that Rachel Corrie was killed on Sunday, March 16, while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a building in a refugee camp in Gaza. Rachel, a senior at Evergreen, was most recently a student in "Labor and the Environment," "Common Ground," "Local Knowledge" and a contract entitled "Public Art and the Middle East Conflict." She was not enrolled this quarter. Rachel was known to many in the Olympia community. She grew up here and graduated from Capital High School. She was actively involved in many area activities. Rachel is described by faculty and staff as a shining star, a wonderful student and a brave person of deep convictions. Rachel will be remembered at a gathering sponsored by the International Solidarity Movement at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 16, at Olympia's downtown Percival Landing. We have been in contact with and extend deepest condolences to the Corrie family. We are in the process of contacting the many faculty members with whom Rachel worked. As more information about memorial services becomes available, we will share it with you. Vice President of Student Affairs Art Costantino [END] Ibriham Barzak of the Associated Press described what happened yesterday for the wire: [START] An American woman in Gaza to protest Israeli operations was killed Sunday when she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer, witnesses and hospital officials said. Rachel Corrie, 23, a college student from Olympia, Wash., had been trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator. Greg Schnabel, 28, of Chicago, said the protesters were in the house of Dr. Samir Masri. Israeli almost daily has been tearing down houses of Palestinians it suspects in connection with Islamic militant groups, saying such operations deter attacks on Israel such as suicide bombings. "Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," Schnabel said. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled, 'Stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her." Witnesses said Corrie was wearing a brightly colored jacket when the bulldozer hit her. She had been a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and would have graduated this year, Schnabel said. The Israeli military and the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment. [END] Combined News Services, also yesterday, had this to say: [START] The killing of the student by the Israelis - the first of a foreign activist in 29 months of fighting - came as President Bush announced his "road map" for peace in the Middle East. An Israeli official tried to put his government's spin on the killing. "This is a regrettable accident," said Capt. Jacob Dallal, an army spokesman. "We are dealing with a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger." Meanwhile, U.S. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor issued a perfunctory statement that the United States "deeply regrets this tragic death of an American citizen" and sent official condolences to Corrie's family. "We again call on the Israeli defense forces to undertake all possible measures to avoid harm to civilians," Fintor's statement said. In the past the Israelis have routinely ignored similar U.S. complaints. Corrie was with a group of four Americans and four Britons who were trying to stop Israeli troops from destroying a building belonging to Palestinian Dr. Samir Masri. For months Israel has been tearing down houses of Palestinians with the pretext that they are suspected of militant Islamic activity. (...) Her killing should be a message to President Bush, who is "providing Israel with tanks and bulldozers, and now they have killed one of his own people," said Mansour Abed Allah, 29, a Palestinian human rights worker who witnessed Corrie's death. [END] A Seattle ZGram reader wrote: Dear Seattle Media people: Here is the story of a local kid, a senior from Evergreen State College, who has been killed in a very horrible manner in Israel. Please remember the sacrifice of this precious young person who had the courage of her conviction, and for it, was slaughtered by monsters. Please honor her memory in your news reports. ===== Rachel was an American kid - idealistic, innocent, unaware of the evil she was facing. If you want to see "before" and after pictures, go to www.whatreallyhappened.com You have to scroll down quite a bit. From irimland@zundelsite.org Wed Mar 19 02:54:28 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:54:28 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/18/2003 - "Some of Rachel's last words and thoughts" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 18, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The young girl murdered by an Israeli bulldozing crew has haunted me all day. She was an exceptional young lady. I am amazed that America takes it so calmly. Here are some of her last words and thoughts: [START] Email From Rachel Corrie - An American Martyr A EURO Press Release 3-17-3 (Rachel Corrie was a University student in Washington who decided to go to Israel and try to stop the killing of Palestinians and the destruction of their homes. By reading her letter it is obvious that she became immediately aware of the realities of Jewish supremacism. Though she was probably liberal, her bravery and commitment to her convictions are something to be honored and respected. For those who still don't understand the realities of the Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, here is a reality check. A picture of Rachel can be found on our website at www.davidduke.com) ===== Excerpts from an e-mail from Rachel Corrie to her family on February 7, 2003 from the Gaza Strip. I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. It is most difficult for me to think about what's going on here when I sit down to write back to the United States--something about the virtual portal into luxury. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls and the towers of an occupying army surveying them constantly from the near horizons. I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that even the smallest of these children understand that life is not like this everywhere. An eight-year-old was shot and killed by an Israeli tank two days before I got here, and many of the children murmur his name to me, "Ali" --or point at the posters of him on the walls. The children also love to get me to practice my limited Arabic by asking me "Kaif Sharon?" "Kaif Bush?" and they laugh when I say "Bush Majnoon" "Sharon Majnoon" back in my limited Arabic. (How is Sharon? How is Bush? Bush is crazy. Sharon is crazy.) Of course this isn't quite what I believe, and some of the adults who have the English correct me: Bush mish Majnoon... Bush is a businessman. Today I tried to learn to say "Bush is a tool", but I don't think it translated quite right. But anyway, there are eight-year- olds here much more aware of the workings of the global power structurethan I was just a few years ago--at least regarding Israel. Nevertheless, I think about the fact that no amount of reading, attendance at conferences, documentary viewing and word of mouth could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here. You just can't imagine it unless you see it, and even then you are always well aware that your experience is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli Army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen, and with the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and, of course, the fact that I have the option of leaving. Nobody in my family has been shot, driving in their car, by a rocket launcher from a tower at the end of a major street in my hometown. I have a home. I am allowed to go see the ocean. Ostensibly it is still quite difficult for me to be held for months or years on end without a trial (this because I am a white US citizen, as opposed to so many others). When I leave for school or work I can be relatively certain that there will not be a heavily armed soldier waiting half way between Mud Bay and downtown Olympia at a checkpoint"a soldier with the power to decide whether I can go about my business, and whether I can get home again when I'm done. So, if I feel outrage at arriving and entering briefly and incompletely into the world in which these children exist, I wonder conversely about how it would be for them to arrive in my world. They know that children in the United States don't usually have their parents shot and they know they sometimes get to see the ocean. But once you have seen the ocean and lived in a silent place, where water is taken for granted and not stolen in the night by bulldozers, and once you have spent an evening when you haven,t wondered if the walls of your home might suddenly fall inward waking you from your sleep, and once you,ve met people who have never lost anyone-- once you have experienced the reality of a world that isn't surrounded by murderous towers, tanks, armed "settlements" and now a giant metal wall, I wonder if you can forgive the world for all the years of your childhood spent existing--just existing--in resistance to the constant stranglehold of the world,s fourth largest military--backed by the world,s only superpower--in it,s attempt to erase you from your home. That is something I wonder about these children. I wonder what would happen if they really knew. As an afterthought to all this rambling, I am in Rafah, a city of about 140,000 people, approximately 60 percent of whom are refugees-- many of whom are twice or three times refugees. Rafah existed prior to 1948, but most of the people here are themselves or are descendants of people who were relocated here from their homes in historic Palestine--now Israel. Rafah was split in half when the Sinai returned to Egypt. Currently, the Israeli army is building a fourteen-meter-high wall between Rafah in Palestine and the border, carving a no-mans land from the houses along the border. Six hundred and two homes have been completely bulldozed according to the Rafah Popular Refugee Committee. The number of homes that have been partially destroyed is greater. Today as I walked on top of the rubble where homes once stood, Egyptian soldiers called to me from the other side of the border, "Go! Go!" because a tank was coming. Followed by waving and "what's your name?". There is something disturbing about this friendly curiosity. It reminded me of how much, to some degree, we are all kids curious about other kids: Egyptian kids shouting at strange women wandering into the path of tanks. Palestinian kids shot from the tanks when they peak out from behind walls to see what's going on. International kids standing in front of tanks with banners. Israeli kids in the tanks anonymously, occasionally shouting-- and also occasionally waving--many forced to be here, many just aggressive, shooting into the houses as we wander away. In addition to the constant presence of tanks along the border and in the western region between Rafah and settlements along the coast, there are more IDF towers here than I can count--along the horizon,at the end of streets. Some just army green metal. Others these strange spiral staircases draped in some kind of netting to make the activity within anonymous. Some hidden,just beneath the horizon of buildings. A new one went up the other day in the time it took us to do laundry and to cross town twice to hang banners. Despite the fact that some of the areas nearest the border are the original Rafah with families who have lived on this land for at least a century, only the 1948 camps in the center of the city are Palestinian controlled areas under Oslo. But as far as I can tell, there are few if any places that are not within the sights of some tower or another. Certainly there is no place invulnerable to apache helicopters or to the cameras of invisible drones we hear buzzing over the city for hours at a time. I've been having trouble accessing news about the outside world here, but I hear an escalation of war on Iraq is inevitable. There is a great deal of concern here about the "reoccupation of Gaza." Gaza is reoccupied every day to various extents, but I think the fear is that the tanks will enter all the streets and remain here, instead of entering some of the streets and then withdrawing after some hours or days to observe and shoot from the edges of the communities. If people aren't already thinking about the consequences of this war for the people of the entire region then I hope they will start. I also hope you'll come here. We've been wavering between five and six internationals. The neighborhoods that have asked us for some form of presence are Yibna, Tel El Sultan, Hi Salam, Brazil, Block J, Zorob, and Block O. There is also need for constant night- time presence at a well on the outskirts of Rafah since the Israeli army destroyed the two largest wells. According to the municipal water office the wells destroyed last week provided half of Rafah,s water supply. Many of the communities have requested internationals to be present at night to attempt to shield houses from further demolition. After about ten p.m. it is very difficult to move at night because the Israeli army treats anyone in the streets as resistance and shoots at them. So clearly we are too few. I continue to believe that my home, Olympia, could gain a lot and offer a lot by deciding to make a commitment to Rafah in the form of a sister-community relationship. Some teachers and children's groups have expressed interest in e-mail exchanges, but this is only the tip of the iceberg of solidarity work that might be done. Many people want their voices to be heard, and I think we need to use some of our privilege as internationals to get those voices heard directly in the US, rather than through the filter of well-meaning internationals such as myself. I am just beginning to learn, from what I expect to be a very intense tutelage, about the ability of people to organize against all odds, and to resist against all odds. Thanks for the news I've been getting from friends in the US. I just read a report back from a friend who organized a peace group in Shelton, Washington, and was able to be part of a delegation to the large January 18th protest in Washington DC. People here watch the media, and they told me again today that there have been large protests in the United States and "problems for the government" in the UK. So thanks for allowing me to not feel like a complete polyanna when I tentatively tell people here that many people in the United States do not support the policies of our government, and that we are learning from global examples how to resist. ===== Read previous EURO press releases: http://www.whitecivilrights.com/news/ (Source: http://www.rense.com/general35/eme.htm ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Thu Mar 20 02:02:33 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:33 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/19/2003 - "The Infiltration Business" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 19, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: If you have heard this before, bear with me. Once upon a time - actually, not all that long ago - CSIS, the nefarious Canadian civilian spy agency that likes to go bump in the dark, infiltrated a rather dishevelled Right Wing group called the Heritage Front, located in Toronto. Their agent provocateur was a fellow named Grant Bristow, long since disappeared into a new identity, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayers. Bristow busied himself with getting white kids to say nasty things to the multicult crowd and otherwise behave as one might expect low-brow, disaffected White kids to behave, if you believe your television set. Eventually, the story blew, thanks to a Toronto Reporter, Bill Dunphy. There was a meek governmental attempt to get to the bottom of it, but a government watchdog agency did the obligatory whitewash - and the story fizzled out. This was just about the time when I first met Ernst Zundel and other revisionists of note, and I remember listening to one of Ernst's tapes where he voiced his suspicions about the Heritage Front not being what it claimed to be - that it was a fly trap for angry young Whites, with somebody egging them on. It is ironic that, periodically, Ernst Zundel now gets smeared with his "association" with the Heritage Front - by none other than CSIS, of course. So I asked one of his former attorneys a couple of days ago just how Ernst was connected to the Heritage front and this story. The attorney said: "Well, Ernst gave a couple of speeches to the kids, as did others." Almost a decade ago! As he has given speeches to many other groups, before and since that time! I am quite sure Ernst was never a member, much less a leader, of the Heritage Front. Not that that stops CSIS from reeling him in with delight and keeping him locked up in prison - with the "Heritage =46ront connection" being one of their main "national security risk" trumps up their deceitful sleeves. Just so you know how things are done in Marxist-run "democracies"! Now here comes Germany - and as I was reading this story, I thought to myself: "Well, NOW we get a glimmer of why suddenly the deportation of Ernst Zundel to the fatherland gets shelved!" Or so, at least, it seems. I haven't heard anything lately - after all those Talmudic gyrations and foaming at the mouth to deliver Ernst over to German "justice" - run, not too incidentally, by the same kinds of Marxist creatures that run CSIS. A particularly nasty character in Germany is a censorious fellow named Otto Schilly - and it is Otto who has been lusting for Ingrid Zundel's website for some time. In fact, somebody told me it was Otto Schilly - and not Joschka Fischer, as I at first reported - who visited America in early February, and Bingo! Ernst Zundel gets arrested! A classic political hit right out of Stalin's book! Coincidence? You tell me. Now watch how Germany shakes off one of its monkeys on its back - a ripple and a shudder at a time! Ignore the sneering tone and read between the lines: [START] > >THE GERMAN government's concerted bid to rid itself of a neo-Nazi >party accused of promoting race attacks and tarnishing the country's >international image collapsed in farce yesterday. > >Germany's highest court threw out an effort to ban the party in a >process that has taken nearly two years and cost millions of pounds in >legal fees. > >It reached the ruling because the National Democratic Party (NPD) was >full of paid informers for Germany's domestic intelligence services. > >Top-ranking figures, including the publisher of the party's newspaper, >were secretly on the government's payroll for decades. > >Germany's federal constitution court threw out the government's case >to outlaw the NPD, a far-Right party that was accused of whipping up >racist violence and spreading neo-Nazi propaganda. > >The ruling delivered an embarrassing defeat to the chancellor Gerhard >Schr=F6der's government, which invested considerable political capital >in the drive to outlaw the party following a wave of hate crimes in >2000. > >There is speculation that it may cost the interior minister, Otto >Schilly, his job. > >This was a banana skin episode of the highest order German >intelligence source. > >The case has been stalled for more than a year after it emerged that >the government's case rested, at least partly, on a network of >informants in the National Democratic Party. This raised the question >of whether any acted as provocateurs. > >German media began reporting in February that judges mulling the bid >to ban on the NPD had concluded the government's case was "hopelessly >compromised" because at least nine, possibly as many as 30, leading >party figures were also paid agents and informers for the BND, >Germany's domestic intelligence agency. > >Mr Schilly's ministry helped rally individual German states to join >the government in pursuing the NPD ban. Sources within the government >say he knew early on about the informants but didn't submit that fact >to the court for almost a year. > >When the court suspended its hearings as a result, rival politicians >heaped scorn on Mr Schilly. > >Germany took action against the party, largely composed of neo-Nazi >worshippers, immigrant hating skinheads, disaffected, jobless east >Germans and ultra-nationalists, early in 2001 after a rise in attacks >on foreigners and Jewish property that resulted in several deaths. > >Horst Mahler, a former member of the left-wing Red Army Faction >terrorist group, is the NPD's lead lawyer. He said informers >"distorted" information and said the party was targeted "merely >because it stood up for national values". > >Although the NPD has no parliamentary seats the government now fears >the wrong message has been sent. It is unclear if or when there will >be another attempt to ban it. > >German officials acknowledge many NPD officials acted as paid >informants from 1997-2002. They have refused to identify them in court >unless the public and NPD representatives are excluded. > >The BND had two types of spy within the party ranks - government >agents posing as recruits and disaffected party members who were eager >to report back for money. One of the informants was alleged to have >been on the party' s leadership committee. > >The intelligence operation against it, however, ended in at least one >instance of informers telling on fellow informers. Only when >controllers compared their notes did they discover where things had >gone badly wrong. > >For Mr Mahler and party chiefs, the discovery of clumsy spies >clambering over each other to expose far-Right plots was manna from >heaven. Mr Mahler said the spies were "steering" party members to >excessive behaviour. > >Wolfgang Frenz, 66, the vice-leader of the NPD's vital North >Rhine-Westphalia region, was paid up to =A3260 a month by the >intelligence services between 1962 and 1995. > >Mr Frenz, a co-founder of the party, had a relationship with the >intelligence services he described as "particularly intensive" in the >1970s and 1980s. Udo Holtmann, 64, Mr Frenz's superior and the editor >and publisher of the party's newspaper, was paid by the government for >24 years and is said to have told his party colleagues about his >informer status, acting as a double agent. > >"This was a banana skin episode of the highest order," said a source >within the BND. "The government created a legal loophole wide enough >for the NPD to drive a tank through," he added. (Source: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=3D330602003 ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Fri Mar 21 02:29:25 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:29:25 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/20/2003 - "America at War!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 20, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I have been busy all day long putting our monthly newsletter for our supporters together - and therefore have not had the time to even scan the news about "our" war, which seems to have started, despite all the protests by millions of people all over the world. I don't know what to say. My heart is very heavy. This does not bode well for this country and for our little planet that could have been such paradise in space. The title below spoke to me, and I think the words of this essay fit, too. I don't agree with all that is said, but the tone fits my mood, and this cannot be anything but one of the saddest days for this country that has been my home for most of my life - and that I came to love dearly, never really having had another home. [START] Today I Weep for My Country Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D - WV) March 20, 2003 I believe in this beautiful country. I have studied its roots and gloried in the wisdom of its magnificent Constitution. I have marveled at the wisdom of its founders and framers. Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic. I have been inspired by the story of their sacrifice and their strength. But, today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam Hussein, we seem to have isolated ourselves. We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many. We say that the United States has the right to turn its firepower on any corner of the globe which might be suspect in the war on terrorism. We assert that right without the sanction of any international body. As a result, the world has become a much more dangerous place. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance. We treat UN Security Council members like ingrates who offend our princely dignity by lifting their heads from the carpet. Valuable alliances are split. After war has ended, the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe. The case this Administration tries to make to justify its fixation with war is tainted by charges of falsified documents and circumstantial evidence. We cannot convince the world of the necessity of this war for one simple reason. This is a war of choice. There is no credible information to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. The twin towers fell because a world-wide terrorist group, Al Qaeda, with cells in over 60 nations, struck at our wealth and our influence by turning our own planes into missiles, one of which would likely have slammed into the dome of this beautiful Capitol except for the brave sacrifice of the passengers on board. The brutality seen on September 11th and in other terrorist attacks we have witnessed around the globe are the violent and desperate efforts by extremists to stop the daily encroachment of western values upon their cultures. That is what we fight. It is a force not confined to borders. It is a shadowy entity with many faces, many names, and many addresses. But, this Administration has directed all of the anger, fear, and grief which emerged from the ashes of the twin towers and the twisted metal of the Pentagon towards a tangible villain, one we can see and hate and attack. And villain he is. But, he is the wrong villain. And this is the wrong war. If we attack Saddam Hussein, we will probably drive him from power. But, the zeal of our friends to assist our global war on terrorism may have already taken flight. The general unease surrounding this war is not just due to "orange alert." There is a pervasive sense of rush and risk and too many questions unanswered. How long will we be in Iraq? What will be the cost? What is the ultimate mission? How great is the danger at home? A pall has fallen over the Senate Chamber. We avoid our solemn duty to debate the one topic on the minds of all Americans, even while scores of thousands of our sons and daughters faithfully do their duty in Iraq. What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon diplomatic efforts when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy? Why can this President not seem to see that America's true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire? War appears inevitable. But, I continue to hope that the cloud will lift. Perhaps Saddam will yet turn tail and run. Perhaps reason will somehow still prevail. I along with millions of Americans will pray for the safety of our troops, for the innocent civilians in Iraq, and for the security of our homeland. May God continue to bless the United States of America in the troubled days ahead, and may we somehow recapture the vision which for the present eludes us. [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Sat Mar 22 03:09:46 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:09:46 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/21/2003 - "The Toledo Blade: 'Whose national interest?'" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 21, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I send you the introductory comment and actual editorial below the way they were sent to me: [START] Here is phenomenal editorial from the Toledo Blade which should be disseminated near and far, and which could form the basis for many good letters to the editor and talk show comments: The Toledo Blade is a substantial US daily newspaper. Jim (a friend) spoke with its news department to verify that the piece below was an actual editorial, and not an op-ed piece, and told the reporter to gi= ve his congratulations to the editors and to say that they had made newspaper history. Finally, he said that if the nation's larger papers had run editorials like this one a few months ago, the present war may have been averted. If you wish to send a message of encouragement or support to counterbalance the criticism they must be receiving, their contact information follows: The Toledo Blade Company, 541 N. Superior St., Toledo, OH 43660, (419) 724-6000 RUSSELL, ROSE Associate editor SHUTT, DAVID Editorial director (419) 724-6067 WALTON, TOM Vice president-Editor (419) 724-6170 -\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/- http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=3DTO&Date=3D20030318&C= ateg ory=3DOPINION02&ArtNo=3D103180065&Ref=3DAR&SectionCat=3DOPINION Editorials | Article published Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Whose national interest? The Democratic Party's shunning of Virginia Congressman James Moran because of remarks some wrongly construe as anti-Semitic suggests a greater fear of losing conservative American Jewish money in 2004 than an adherence to honest, intelligent, political principles. Mr. Moran, an 11-term congressman, was critical of U.S. Jewish leaders who, he felt, could alter war fervor. He said many were swayed after talking with hawkish former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If he misrepresents their position, they can say so. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is out of line to demand Mr. Moran's head. =46or half a century there has been a wrongheaded effort to label anti-Semit= ic any criticism of anyone or anything Jewish, including Israel. Fear of the hateful tag inhibits open discussion, minimizes honest criticism, and blocks informed decisions. Mr. Moran isn't alone in linking White House policy makers to Israeli interests. He may be, sad for him, the first elected official to be forthcoming. And he erred in alluding to strong support for war in the Jewish community, which is diverse. Stanley Heller, American and Jewish, has tried to keep his co-religionists honest for 20-odd years. In a Feb. 20 article at www.antiwar.com, he cited "rabid neocons" - some of whom, "like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser, actually worked for Israeli think tanks writing grand papers for (Likud) Prime Minister Netanyahu on how the U.S. and Israel should take apart and reconstruct the Middle East," and who now hold key roles in shaping U.S. foreign policy Though Mr. Heller ascribes most war zeal to oil, empire dreams, and weapons testing, he says "We owe it to Americans to tell them the whole truth, that part of the war drive is being fueled by a wacko militarist clique from Israel and its interlocking bands of American Jewish and Christian supporters." He's not alone. In the Feb. 23 (London) Observer Ed Vulliamy, and in the March 3 San Diego Union-Tribune, James O. Goldsborough, speak in the same vein - of America's first religious war and proponents' visions of empire. Mr. Vulliamy takes on the empire theme. In 1992, he says Paul Wolfowitz wrote a blueprint for America=92s 21st century foreign policy that seems a play book for this administration. It talks of using "nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponry, pre-emptively 'even in conflicts that do not directly engage U.S. interests.'" Is this what Americans want? Does Israel have too strong a hand in our foreign policy, or do its interests merely coincide with ours? Americans won't know without open discussions free of political repercussions and stifling accusations. [END' From irimland@zundelsite.org Sun Mar 23 01:52:16 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:52:16 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/22/2003 - "A brief weekend Zundel update" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 22, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I'll make this short and sweet. Last Saturday, exactly a week ago, I did an interview with a reporter from one of the major Toronto papers, the Toronto Sun, who flew in to talk to me and a few of my neighbors to check if we had horns. This is the only face-t-face interview I have given so far, and I put the young man on his honor to report accurately about what was being said. Just to make sure, we also taped the interview. I had the feeling that this young fellow of nice manners who asked intelligent questions would do a fair and honest job. A poignant moment happened when our Canadian reporter squirmed a bit, cleared his throat, and told us kind of shyly that he was not a Jew. To that I said: "I know. You're one of us. You just don't know that yet." We all had a good laugh. The interview went well. I teased him a bit that a feature that showed us, particularly Ernst Zundel, as kind and decent human beings would probably not run. He said he had never been seriously censored. He left for his hotel and planned to write his feature that night so that it could run the following day - last Sunday. So far it hasn't run. I'd be curious if it will run tomorrow. I am not holding my breath. I sent an email a couple of days ago asking what happened. No answer. ==== There will be another immigration hearing on March 31. A Zundel detractors' nightmare is coming true - media are expected and expecting to be there, and CTV is planning to broadcast the hearing - live, I believe, and nationwide. Thus, Canada will get another earful about Zundel, I predict. Ingrid From irimland@zundelsite.org Mon Mar 24 03:14:04 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 19:14:04 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/23/2003 - "Husband held as hostage...for a website?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 23, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I need your help. There will be an immigration hearing regarding Ernst's deportation from the US to Canada on March 31, 2003. We need some US-based media there. I ask each and every one of you to send the News Alert below to at least one prominent news source - be it your city paper, your favorite columnist, an energetic commentator, your television station, your network radio, your alternative media. It is okay to contact your local media - they are going to pass on the story. It is more effective if they do it - rather than you. Please be creative. Contact at least one media source! It is extremely important! Faxes work better than email. Please do it now! ====== March 23, 2003 News Alert - Breaking Story... HUSBAND HELD AS HOSTAGE...FOR A WEBSITE? Ingrid Rimland and Ernst Zundel have been married for three years. Rimland is a one-time child psychologist who made a name for herself as an award-winning ethnic novelist. Zundel is a noted artist - and controversial human rights activist. "If somebody smashes your window," says Rimland, "there is a consequence. There will be punishment. Law enforcement will be on your side. If you are politically incorrect and somebody smashes your marriage, there is no recourse whatsoever. Your husband will be snatched from you and barred from the United States for - get this! - twenty years!" Zundel, who lived in Canada for more than four decades before his marriage to Rimland, is a high-profile publisher and broadcaster best known for having initiated the first ever forensic investigations of Auschwitz and other Third Reich concentration camps - and for his highly publicized Free Speech Holocaust Trials spanning decades. Rimland runs a website called the Zundelsite, one of the best-known historical revisionist websites. "My husband can't come back to live with me in the United States for the next twenty years" says Rimland. "He has been given a medieval sentence - without a judge, without a jury, without an arrest warrant even. Ten years for having missed an immigration hearing! Ten years for having overstayed his visa. Am I still living in America - or am I living in the Soviet Union?" Rimland is a United States citizen. Her website, www.zundelsite.org , has been the target of repeated censorship attempts by Canada and Germany. Her husband, says Rimland, has now been taken hostage to force her to take the Zundelsite down. "My husband's arrest was a political hit," Rimland says. "We fought Canadian censorship for five long years before one of those atrocious so-called "Human Rights" Tribunals - and gave up only after Truth was declared to be no longer a defense." Since their marriage in 2000, they lived quietly among congenial neighbors in the hills of Tennessee - until three Immigration agents, accompanied by local law enforcement officials, came roaring up their driveway, spread-eagled Zundel brutally against a truck, snapped handcuffs on his wrists and whisked him away. Zundel is presently held in a maximum security setting in Canada, where he has asked for asylum as a political refugee. Both Zundel and Rimland insist they did everything they were instructed to do by their immigration attorney to secure permanent residence for Zundel after their marriage in January of 2000. "This country is crawling with illegal immigrants," Rimland says. "My husband was here legally. Our papers were being processed. We had no warning that this arrest was planned or imminent. We were not allowed to call an attorney, although we both requested it. Are we allowed to doubt the Holy Ghost - but not the Holocaust?" "US public officials were used shamelessly" claims Rimland, "to act as hit squads for the Canadian Jewish Lobby. As far as I am concerned, this immigration charge is just a fig leaf for nefarious powers to hide behind. My husband has been kidnapped to force me to give up free speech." What is behind this story? What caused this unusual arrest? If you are an American reporter, a Free Speech advocate, or a patriot concerned with the erosion of the Constitution, find out by attending a scheduled immigration hearing on March 31, 2003 at the Niagara Falls Immigration and Refugee Board, 6080 McCleod Road, Room 15, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. From irimland@zundelsite.org Wed Mar 26 01:18:53 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:18:53 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/24/2003 - "Two brief letters to the Zundelsite" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny March 24, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Two short letters I consider to be signs of the times. Please make allowance for some language difficulties: The first one came from Russia: [start] Dear Ingrid! In February one of the main Russian newspapers 'Sovershenno secretno' (Top secret) by name published an article about revisionists' arguments on gas chambers and so on. The main idea of the article - there are no facts proving the station that Germans had had a plan of destruction of Jews. Maybe this article would be useful for you and I'm sending it to you on mail. It must be a scientific conference in April in Nizhnevartovsk (Russia) on the problem of new approaches in studying history and I have sent to it an article about never existed gas chambers in Aushwitz. I hope that they will publish my article. Dear Ingrid! What is the American revisionists' opinion on the American attack on Iraq? I know that in your country there is a terrible censorship now and if it is dangerous do not answer my last question. [END] The second letter comes from Portugal: [START] Dear Ingrid: Here is a copy of a page of the last issue of LIUSO (n. 285) a portuguese patriotic newsletter which goes to portuguese speakign people all over the world. It might not be of your knowledge, but about 180 million speak german and 250 million speak portuguese. The translation of the text is as follows: Ernst Zundel This revisionist, fighter for the truth, who kept us awake for the last 50 years, was arrested in the "Land of Freedom." He was arrested without order of capture, expelled without order of expulsion, condemned without judgment, in clear violation to the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States...( freedom of speech, freedom of the press...) The United States are going down the sewer. Zundelsite: www.zundelsite.org In eight days the "zundelsite 670,661 calls. 2.3 million pages were read. Call it yourselves and read! His wife continues his work, and how extraordinarily! [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Wed Mar 26 01:24:18 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:24:18 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/25/2003 - "Boycott of American Goods begins in Germany" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny March 25, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: The rift between Germany and America is going mainstream in Europe: [START] Boycott Of American Goods Begins In Germany By Erik Kirschbaum 3-25-3 BERLIN (Reuters) - No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to protest the war in Iraq. Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are telling patrons, "Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the current political situation." The boycotts appear to be part of a nascent worldwide movement. One Web site, www.consumers-against-war.de, calls for boycotts of 27 top American firms from Microsoft to Kodak while another, www.adbusters.org, urges the "millions of people against the war" to "Boycott Brand America." Consumer fury seems to be on the rise. Demonstrators in Paris smashed the windows of a McDonald's restaurant last week, forcing police in riot gear to move in to protect staff and customers of the American fast-food outlet. The attackers sprayed obscenities and "boycott" on the windows. In Indonesia, Iraq war opponents have pasted signs on McDonald's and other American food outlets, trying to force them shut by "sealing them" and urging Indonesians to avoid them. In the Swiss city of Basel, 50 students recently staged a sit-down strike in front of a McDonald's to block customers' entry, waved peace signs and urged people to eat pretzels instead of hamburgers. Anti-American sentiment has even reached provinces in Russia, where some rural eateries put up signs telling Americans they were unwelcome, according to an Izvestia newspaper report. A German bicycle manufacturer, Riese und Mueller GmbH, canceled all business deals with its American suppliers. "Americans only pay attention when money is on the line," director Heiko Mueller told Reuters, whose firm buys $300,000 worth of supplies from half a dozen American firms each year. "We wanted to make a statement against this war and told our American partners that unless they renounce what their government is doing we won't do any business with them anymore." SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC ACTS The German restaurant boycotts of American products started small but spread rapidly after the Iraq war began on Thursday. The conflict has struck a raw nerve in a country that became decidedly anti-war after the devastation of World War II, which it initiated. "If people all around the world boycott American products it might influence their policies," said Jean-Yves Mabileau, owner of "L'Auberge Francaise" which joined 10 Hamburg restaurants in banning Coca Cola, Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes, whiskey and other American goods. "This started as a light-hearted reaction to Americans dumping French wine in the gutter and renaming 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'," he said. "But it feels good to take a stand against this war. It is just a small gesture, but a good one." Diners at the Osteria restaurant in Berlin are finding that "things go better without Coke" and are ordering Germany's long overshadowed imitation of "the real thing" -- the slightly sweeter "Afri-Cola" -- to express their outrage. "We wanted to do something to express our annoyance," Osteria owner Fabio Angile told Reuters. "We want to hit America where it hurts -- in their wallets. None of the customers have complained. On the contrary, most thought it was a great idea." Herve Keroureda, owner of a French restaurant in Hamburg known as "Ti Breizh," said he was astonished by the massive media coverage of their small-scale anti-American protest. "It was only intended as a small gesture but has turned into a gigantic issue," he said. "And the reaction from the patrons has been tremendous. Most have called it a brilliant idea." In Bonn, bartender Bruno Kessler said he was refusing to sell American whiskey or American beer such as Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser at his "Eifeler Stuben." "I asked myself 'What can I possibly do to show my anger over this barbary?'," he told Germany's N-24 television network. STARBUCKS, BIG MACS AVOIDED Sarah Stolz, a 22-year-old German student of American studies, was headed for a Starbucks, coffee shop in central Berlin when her anti-war conscience got the best of her. "I was thinking about going into Starbucks which I love, when I realized it was wrong," she said. "I'm backing the boycott because the war is totally unjustified." Rita Marschall was avoiding McDonald's and Burger King. "I'm boycotting American products because their policy on Iraq is totally wrong," said Marschall, 26, in front of a Berlin McDonald's. "It's just one of many ways we can take a stand." Some German bakeries have renamed a local cake known as "Amerikaner" -- a disk-shaped pastry with icing on top -- as "Peace-ies," bearing a peace sign piped in chocolate sauce. The boycotts are having only a negligible business impact. Establishments often associated with the American way of life such as Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, McDonald's and Coca-Cola reported no major business impact from the protests. Dunkin Donuts is owned by Britain's Allied Domecq "We're really a local business in Germany, the product is made in Germany and they're boycotting German products," said Jonathan Chandler, communications director for Coca-Cola Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East in London. Chandler declined comment on whether it was hurting sales, but an industry source said any impact would not be serious. A spokeswoman for McDonald's in Europe said there had been no discernible impact on sales from the actions, and described the attack on the Paris restaurant as "an unfortunate incident during a protest." "As a global entity, McDonald's is just a brand," she said. "Most of the restaurants are local franchises and support their local community. So why do they attack McDonald's? If you get a good answer please let me know." In the London suburb of Milton Keynes, the Greens party have called on consumers to boycott 330 American products ranging from Mars bars to Gap jeans and American films on DVD and video. In Zurich, travel agents said some clients who usually take holidays in the United States are changing their destinations. "Some of the most loyal customers who have been traveling to the United States for years have changed their plans because they don't like what Bush is doing," Lucia Zeller, director of the Travac travel agency, told the Tages Anzeiger newspaper. [END] (Source: http://www.rense.com/general36/boycottofamerican.htm ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Wed Mar 26 21:37:09 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:37:09 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/25/2003 - "Zionism And The Art Of Humbuggery" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 25, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: If Americans ever had a reason to take a good, hard look at what their bosom buddy, Israel, is doing, it has been given that chance by the brutal death of Rachel Corrie. Below, a very angry American speaks out: [START] Zionism And The Art Of Humbuggery Commentary By Donald Cassidy donjaycass@hotmail.com 3-23-3 It is truly nauseating, the constant bombardment by the zionist media, decade after decade, of propaganda glorifying the Holocaust, Anne Frank, Klinghoffer, Schindler's List, etc. and their thousands of shrines, museums and memorials across America, costing US hundreds of millions. Meanwhile, America's Vietnam veterans had to pay for THEIR OWN memorial...and there is no memorial at all for the tens of thousands of US dead in Korea's forgotten war. There is a reason. As a result of this endless propaganda, in the last fifty years, Washington has pressured Europe into paying over one hundred billion dollars to the survivors of the Holocaust. In addition, Washington also has paid over one hundred fifty billion dollars - and continues this vast charity - to this miniscule state every year. And, amazingly, after over fifty years the survivors - instead of dying off - have multiplied like rabbits. And now their HEIRS have joined in the tax-free collections. Why doesn't Washington tell them what it tells its own poor and disadvantaged: 'Get a Job'? Now these despicable grubs have shown their true selves; it's our money they want - not our friendship. They are filled with venom. They have crushed under the treads of their American bulldozer an American girl, a pacifist and humanitarian, and have the chutzpah to say it was her own fault. And our current government - and our Zionist media - obsessed with genocide and greed, are silent just like they were when Israel attacked the USS Liberty years ago and murdered dozens of Americans. Israel has poisoned our government against US with our own money. American youth are dying for Israel right now just like the Americans in the Twin Towers. Did zionazis really murder their own people in the gas chambers, as Hollywood [claims]? Are ethnic Jews their own people at all? There are many Jewish sites on the internet that are saying "No". Let Rachel Corrie be our Anne Frank. Let US 'two percenters' put signs everywhere especially cars, SUPPORT RACHEL CORRIE. Let laws be passed requiring that all such shrines, museums and memorials dedicate immediately substantial space for Rachel and her memorabilia, her baby shoes, letters to parents, photos of her young face before and after the Horror...or lose their funding. Arlen Spector can lead the way as he did for Mr. Klinghoffer. Arlen can rage on the Senate floor for Rachel and demand that Israel deliver up the zionazi who killed her, or military forces will be sent into Israel to arrest him and deliver him to an American court with broken wrists. How about it, Arlen? You're either with US or against US, remember? By the way, how many weapons factories are in Israel? How many nuclear weapons? Tell us. May the God of all people vomit these barbarous flag-waving hypocrites out of His mouth and curse them forever! Soldiers, you fight an unholy war! SUPPORT RACHEL CORRIE NO TV ON WEDNESDAYS IT'S HER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE SPREAD THE WORD [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Sat Mar 29 02:49:18 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:49:18 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/28/2003 - "Countess vs Hier" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 28, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Today a preacher tells a rabbi where it's at: [START] Dear Rabbi Hier: Since I have not heard from you concerning my two earlier letters, I am moved to write again. Your attack - veiled and not so veiled - on the Christian movie producer Mel Gibson, who is also my fellow Christian, revealed your narrowly focused Jewish ethno-centrist agendum. Jews as racists are not new, nor Jews as HATERS of Jesus Christ, Christians, Christianity, and Goyim are also not new. When your fatherly forebears took over Czarist Christian Russian and unleashed their anti-Christian pogrom that lasted for decades and resulted in the genocide of millions of innocents [making the alleged sacred Six Million Jewish Holocaust Story to pale into insignificance by comparison!], you and your fellow Jewish fanatics made no trenchant condemnation of this holocaust. But, then, I am not surprised. The Talmudic mentality works that way. Now, with the Easter Season almost upon Planet Earth and with a couple of billion Christians of various stripes focusing their attention upon the Last Supper, the Arrest, Show-Trial, Scourging, Crucifixion, Suffering, Burial, and then Resurrection of Yeshua Hameshiac [= Jesus Christ], I am reminded of your egregious attack on the Gospels on the FoxNews Bill O'Reilly spin-zone Show of three weeks ago when you declared [although you are no New Testament expert at all, of course] that they were in error re: the Great Sanhedrin holding a meeting. Think with me for a minute - f your attention span will enable you to focus that long - on Mark 15:6 where the Gospel writer wrote that the Roman governor Pontius Pilate [who had no patience with Jewish religious squabbles in view of his years of having to hear about Talmud ravings as part of his job] would release a jailed felon to the people at the Passover Festival. And one of the Bad Guys on hand was a Jewish extremist robber-murder type like Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin of later centuries. Then there were a couple of others of perhaps lesser sort like Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahlmer, Sam Berkowitz [Son of Sam] the crowd could have asked for. Now, St Mark wrote in what we call verse 11 [there were no chapter or verse demarcations in the autographa, with these written in Greek captal letters and with no punctuation in general, and with all the letter pressed together, unlike Hebrew, with no spacing between words] that your rabbinical Chief Priests [some or all being members of the 71 Great Sanhedrin court?] agitated the crowd to demand Barabas to be released. The Greek verb here is 'anaseio and is related to our adjective seismic, having to do with a shaking. These evil chief priests who hated Jesus for exposing their evil thoughts and actions stirred up or shook up the masses of illiterates who were very much like the masses at World Wrestling matches, people with empty heads but lust for blood. These evil priests and rabbis were artful manipulators of the masses then [as you are today!], but they detested the masses as execrable hordes of Jews that had to be endured. You know, the masses did not wear fine robes and phylacteries and pray with their talith shawls and know the ins and outs of Talmudic claptrap. Think of it. These wicked religious leaders REALLY wanted Jesus to die a cruel, horrible slow death while a murderer went free!!! This ought to shake every one of us to our foundations, but I believe you are not one whit troubled at it. So seared is your conscience, if you still have one at your age, that you display no concern for the innocent Jesus. And, for the sake of discussion, let us say that he was crazy and thought himself to be a deity and a miracle worker. Yet, did he deserve to die while a murderer, Barabas, went free? At bottom, Jesus was not deluded nor evil as were you rabbis and ilk of that era. But he did commit a horrendous "crime" that you guys just HAD to make him pay for - he upset your apple cart; he overturned your Wall Street and World Bank-in-the-Temple-precinct scam. And, I suggest that if he came to West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles today, he would condemn your Museum of Tolerance for what it is, a Museum of Hypocrisy and Lies and IN-tolerance, with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's $31,000,000 income for 2001 and over $500,000 going to the Hiers, all coming under his word of condemnation as he enunciated it in Matthew Chapter 23. People whose god is Mammon are people who love riches more than they love the true God of Creation. But, back to Jesus, you and your fellows made Jesus pay the capital price with his life on a Roman gibbet. From the theological standpoint, of course, all human beings were and are responsbile, not just Jewish leaders of that era. So, you have no basis for continuing to attack Christians and Christianity as the US Holocaust Memorial Museum does for 12 minutes endlessly throughout the day when it shows the video on ANTISEMITISM to gullible masses of Jews and Goyim, and thereby it perverts and distorts the historical data in order to get Jews off the hook for any every evil deed they have committed. [The USHMM is a scam similar to the SWC wherein taxpayer monies are skimmed off into circumcised coffers and for kosher-esque political activities such as "Holocaust Education"--a misnomer if there ever was one!] In closing this Third Epistle, I suggest that with the Easter Season almost upon us and with the notion of releasing someone from prison at this time as a gesture of either good will or just plain gamesmanship, that we consider the pacifist Ernst Zundel who is now in prison near Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. You and your fellow Holocaust promoting colleagues [maybe even ol' Prince of Darkness himself Daniel Perle] such as Abe the Fox-man and Edgar the Booze King Bronfman succeeded in having this pacifist but highly intelligent and articulate German immigrant now married to a US citizen, arrested and schlepped off to a squalid jail in Maryville, Tennessee and then to Atlanta and Buffalo, NY and now in Canada in maximum security. Ernst Zundel is no Jesus Christ of course, but he, like Jesus, made you Jewish leaders quite unhappy in exposing "the Holo-Industry" for what it is - a get-rich scam. Look at the $500,000+ in salary and other compensations for the Hier family just in 2001. You do not relish the idea of losing out on this fine Milchkuh, do you? And Abe does not want to lose his ADL milkcow either, nor Debbie Lipstadt her Dorot Chair in Holocaust Studies milkcow, and on and on down the line. So, I suggest that we ponder at this Easter Season of love and grace and mercy and peace on Earth and Goodwill to all sorts of humans that we all demand the release of the pacifist Ernst Zundel and that the German government erase all its charges against him and that the Canadian Human Rights Commission cease and desist from seeking to close down the American website by Zundel's wife, Dr. Ingrid Rimland [although she was not his wife when she began it and she did it on her own], and that the Canadian Jewish Congress and ADL of the secret lodge B'nai B'rit all together "get a life" and find something worthwhile to do with their time and wealth.* Let Ernst Zundel go back to Hatcher Mountain near Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee and enjoy his wealth of flowers and vegetables and trees and his scenic artworks and books and papers and files and the animals that run wild. Let him live in peace with his lovely and intelligent wife. Let them enjoy their ideals and their goals for their remaining years. Leave Ernst Zundel alone! After all, his major sin was telling the truth about history as he saw it. I really think that most of us ought to be able to live with that kind of "sin." Oh, by the way, Marvin. I hope that this Easter Season will bring you to see your miserable state of wretched sinfulness and your total need to trust in the Risen Savior Jesus Christ as your personal Savior from sin. If so, then you and I would be brothers in Christ and I would no longer be -i n your Talmudic eyes - simply a Goy animal and subhuman non-entity. Sincerely, -- 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 *My suggestion for these Jewish organization is that they could use their wealth and personnel to track down the Jewish criminal types of the Robert Maxwell and Berezovsky and Ariel Sharon and George Soros types, along with multitudes of Jewish hatemongers such as Abraham Foxman and Edgar Bronfman Sr. and Jr., and Elie Wiesel and Debbie Lipstadt. The list is a VERY long one, I fear, and with Ernst Zundel out of the way, they could make a real go of it. From irimland@zundelsite.org Sat Mar 29 02:44:31 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:44:31 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/27/2003 - "Two former Allied soldiers speak in defense of Zundel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 27, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: There is nothing new to report about Ernst Zundel. We are all waiting what Monday will bring. In the meantime, some of you would like to listen to Ernst in an *unedited* tape called "The Fifth Estate": I thought for today I would bring you two letters from former Allied soldiers who now look at the war they fought in their youth and ask themselves: "For this?" THE FIRST LETTER is to the President of the United States and is representative of hundreds that I have received: [START] Dear Mr. President: While we have been off stamping out terrorism and fighting for human rights around the globe, a terrible thing has happened in the land. A gang of heavily armed thugs arrested a gentleman and hauled him off to jail. They claimed to be from the Immigration Service. In New York Harbor stands the Statue of Liberty, welcoming people to America. This thought prevails throughout the land as we welcome strangers from all points of the globe. Now this gentleman arrived openly with his personal belongings. He did not sneak across the border at night. He did not bring in drugs or other contraband. We must ask why Mr. Ernst Zundel of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. was singled out for unusual attention. He was denied access to an attorney; in fact his wife had to surmount difficulties before even she could visit him in jail. This is not the America I grew up in and know. This country bends over backwards to even safeguard the rights of mass murderers - even if they are non-citizens. Why this illegal persecution of Mr. Zundel? Mrs. Ernst Zundel is a citizen of our country and Mr. Zundel has certain privileges and rights as a spouse of an American citizen. I ask: Why have these rights been trampled on ? I can only surmise that there has been some sort of administrative error. Therefore, Mr. President, as a church-goer, as a champion of law and order, as a supporter of right and justice, I call on you to right the wrongs imposed on Mr. Zundel. I call on you to return Mr. Ernst Zundel to family and friends, so that this veteran can remain proud of the flag under which he served. [END] THE SECOND LETTER is addressed to to Denis Coderre, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada, who actually went public with threats against Ernst to advertise his loyalty to what we sometimes call the Shrill Minority. Coderre actually said: "Watch me kick Zundel out!" He will be remembered for that one! [START] Dear Mr. Coderre: I just read in today's Toronto Star that you made it clear to the press that you won't allow "Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel to manipulate the system to draw out his stay in Canada. Are you inferring that in his case due process of the law will be circumvented? How can a law that applies to everyone be manipulated? By inference you thereby make a mockery of our so-called Bill of Rights and Freedoms which supposedly guarantees freedom of speech, assembly, religion, even thought etc. Which of these, or what laws are you accusing Ernst Zundel of trying to manipulate? Selective justice is not justice. Or are you not concerned about that? Zundel's enemies and the controlled media regularly refer to him as a hate monger. He has been so vilified by an all-powerful pressure group in connivance with a compliant one-sided media that Canadians consequently know nothing positive about the man. What they say about him in the media is a complete contradiction of what he really is, a peaceful human being to whom the truth is omnipotent. He found out in a "Human Rights Court" in which the chairman (not a judge) had the gall to state for the record that "truth is no defense", even though one has to swear on the Bible to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. If the truth is no defense in a courtroom, then the lie prevails. Sadly, that is the case in Canada today. May I remind you that the truth is called hate only by those who hate the truth. His accusers are the real hate mongers, for they continually foster hatred among the peoples of Canada. However, to my dismay, they seem to be immune from official censure and are free to foster their vicious, unfounded accusations with impunity. If we live in a just society, why has Ernst Zundel not been given the same right? I recall that some years ago Zundel was charged with "spreading false news". Actually, his enemies were spreading false news in the media at the time, but they were not charged. Zundel disproved all allegations against him in court. Despite the one-sided proceedings, much of the Holocaust dogma was exposed as a fraud and lost credibility. But because of a news blackout during his second trial, the Canadian public was kept in the dark about what had transpired in court. That particular law was struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada and he was a free man for a time. But not for long, for his detractors have not yet learned when enough is enough. I spent close to five years in the Canadian Army, including one year in the Service of the British Military Government in occupied Germany, so I am well informed about what went on there during and after the war. [Neither] I, nor anyone elase in the world, had heard of the term "Holocaust" until it was created by Hollywood in 1967. So I, and an increasing number of thinking Canadians, have become holocaust skeptics. How in good conscience must I accept something that I know from personal experience and extensive research is largely a fraud? George Orwell once wrote: "In this deceitful world, telling the truth is revolutionary act". Well, I am not a revolutionary, I just want to live in peace. Fostering a blatant lie will only create more Holocaust skeptics because there are still Canadians who can reason for themselves and resent being told what they must believe. I read in the paper that Ernst Zundel is a danger to Canada. This is absurd. He never has been, and is not now a danger to anyone, least of all Canada. He has lived here for 42 years and never committed a crime, yet he is treated as a criminal. Despite the constant unfounded vilification of his character, he has broken no law in Canada. His Canadian sons, their families and his grandchildren, as well as his loyal wife in Tennessee, should not be deprived of his presence. He not only deserves to remain in Canada, but also Canadian citizenship. If he is shipped to the Zionist vassal state of Germany, in which the truth of Germany's past is punishableby law, he will likely have to spend many years in prison - just for telling the truth. Who will this benefit? Certainly not the Canadian people. Truth ennobles the esteem of those who have the courage and moral backbone to promote it, people like Ernst Zundel. In a just society they would not be punished for it. Your mind is probably made up - or has more likely been made up for you by his traditional enemies. However, I appeal to you to reconsider Ernst' Zundel's deportation based on common sense and humanity. If you do deport him to Germany you will prove to me that my years in the Canadian Army during World War II in defense of freedom and democracy were wasted. And banish the thought that Zundel was right after all! Think about it! [END] ===== From irimland@zundelsite.org Sat Mar 29 03:16:07 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:16:07 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/27/2003 - "Two former Allied soldiers speak up for Ernst Zundel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 27, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: There is nothing new to report about Ernst Zundel. We are all waiting what Monday will bring. In the meantime, some of you might like to listen to Ernst in an *unedited* tape called "The Fifth Estate" on the homepage of the Zundelsite, www.zundelsite.org since it will be part, I believe, of Monday's hearing. Unfortunately, it is not as clear as it should be but it is understandable. I thought for today I would bring you two letters from former Allied soldiers who now look at the war they fought in their youth and ask themselves: "For this?" THE FIRST LETTER is to the President of the United States and is representative of hundreds that I have received: [START] Dear Mr. President: While we have been off stamping out terrorism and fighting for human rights around the globe, a terrible thing has happened in the land. A gang of heavily armed thugs arrested a gentleman and hauled him off to jail. They claimed to be from the Immigration Service. In New York Harbor stands the Statue of Liberty, welcoming people to America. This thought prevails throughout the land as we welcome strangers from all points of the globe. Now this gentleman arrived openly with his personal belongings. He did not sneak across the border at night. He did not bring in drugs or other contraband. We must ask why Mr. Ernst Zundel of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. was singled out for unusual attention. He was denied access to an attorney; in fact his wife had to surmount difficulties before even she could visit him in jail. This is not the America I grew up in and know. This country bends over backwards to even safeguard the rights of mass murderers - even if they are non-citizens. Why this illegal persecution of Mr. Zundel? Mrs. Ernst Zundel is a citizen of our country and Mr. Zundel has certain privileges and rights as a spouse of an American citizen. I ask: Why have these rights been trampled on ? I can only surmise that there has been some sort of administrative error. Therefore, Mr. President, as a church-goer, as a champion of law and order, as a supporter of right and justice, I call on you to right the wrongs imposed on Mr. Zundel. I call on you to return Mr. Ernst Zundel to family and friends, so that this veteran can remain proud of the flag under which he served. [END] THE SECOND LETTER is addressed to to Denis Coderre, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada, who actually went public with threats against Ernst to advertise his loyalty to what we sometimes call the Shrill Minority. Coderre actually said: "Watch me kick Zundel out!" He will be remembered for that one! [START] Dear Mr. Coderre: I just read in today's Toronto Star that you made it clear to the press that you won't allow "Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel to manipulate the system to draw out his stay in Canada. Are you inferring that in his case due process of the law will be circumvented? How can a law that applies to everyone be manipulated? By inference you thereby make a mockery of our so-called Bill of Rights and Freedoms which supposedly guarantees freedom of speech, assembly, religion, even thought etc. Which of these, or what laws are you accusing Ernst Zundel of trying to manipulate? Selective justice is not justice. Or are you not concerned about that? Zundel's enemies and the controlled media regularly refer to him as a hate monger. He has been so vilified by an all-powerful pressure group in connivance with a compliant one-sided media that Canadians consequently know nothing positive about the man. What they say about him in the media is a complete contradiction of what he really is, a peaceful human being to whom the truth is omnipotent. He found out in a "Human Rights Court" in which the chairman (not a judge) had the gall to state for the record that "truth is no defense", even though one has to swear on the Bible to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. If the truth is no defense in a courtroom, then the lie prevails. Sadly, that is the case in Canada today. May I remind you that the truth is called hate only by those who hate the truth. His accusers are the real hate mongers, for they continually foster hatred among the peoples of Canada. However, to my dismay, they seem to be immune from official censure and are free to foster their vicious, unfounded accusations with impunity. If we live in a just society, why has Ernst Zundel not been given the same right? I recall that some years ago Zundel was charged with "spreading false news". Actually, his enemies were spreading false news in the media at the time, but they were not charged. Zundel disproved all allegations against him in court. Despite the one-sided proceedings, much of the Holocaust dogma was exposed as a fraud and lost credibility. But because of a news blackout during his second trial, the Canadian public was kept in the dark about what had transpired in court. That particular law was struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada and he was a free man for a time. But not for long, for his detractors have not yet learned when enough is enough. I spent close to five years in the Canadian Army, including one year in the Service of the British Military Government in occupied Germany, so I am well informed about what went on there during and after the war. [Neither] I, nor anyone elase in the world, had heard of the term "Holocaust" until it was created by Hollywood in 1967. So I, and an increasing number of thinking Canadians, have become holocaust skeptics. How in good conscience must I accept something that I know from personal experience and extensive research is largely a fraud? George Orwell once wrote: "In this deceitful world, telling the truth is revolutionary act". Well, I am not a revolutionary, I just want to live in peace. Fostering a blatant lie will only create more Holocaust skeptics because there are still Canadians who can reason for themselves and resent being told what they must believe. I read in the paper that Ernst Zundel is a danger to Canada. This is absurd. He never has been, and is not now a danger to anyone, least of all Canada. He has lived here for 42 years and never committed a crime, yet he is treated as a criminal. Despite the constant unfounded vilification of his character, he has broken no law in Canada. His Canadian sons, their families and his grandchildren, as well as his loyal wife in Tennessee, should not be deprived of his presence. He not only deserves to remain in Canada, but also Canadian citizenship. If he is shipped to the Zionist vassal state of Germany, in which the truth of Germany's past is punishableby law, he will likely have to spend many years in prison - just for telling the truth. Who will this benefit? Certainly not the Canadian people. Truth ennobles the esteem of those who have the courage and moral backbone to promote it, people like Ernst Zundel. In a just society they would not be punished for it. Your mind is probably made up - or has more likely been made up for you by his traditional enemies. However, I appeal to you to reconsider Ernst' Zundel's deportation based on common sense and humanity. If you do deport him to Germany you will prove to me that my years in the Canadian Army during World War II in defense of freedom and democracy were wasted. And banish the thought that Zundel was right after all! Think about it! [END] ===== From irimland@zundelsite.org Sun Mar 30 00:47:10 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:47:10 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/29/2003 - "On the history of the WWII Allied air campaign" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 29, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Although there are political correctness sparklies sprinkled throughout this commentary, here is more evidence that Germany is getting into Revisionism (of sorts...). Jorg Friedrich, a military historian, is the bestselling author of "Der Brand" ("The Fire"), a history of the Allied air campaign against Germany during World War II. Few books in Germany have caused such a stir as this one. March 28, 2003 COMMENTARY Beyond Slaughter: Memories of '45: The bombing of Baghdad cannot be compared to the Allies' incineration of German cities in WWII. By Jorg Friedrich, Special to The Times At high noon on March 12, 1945, just eight weeks before the capitulation of Germany to the Allied forces, 1,000 American planes attacked the city of Swinemuende on the Baltic coast of Germany. The city, crammed with refugees from eastern Germany who had been ethnically cleansed and systematically raped by the Red Army, was bombed mercilessly and sprayed by machine gun fire from American dive bombers, which chased people through the city. Of the city's 25,000 civilians, 23,000 were killed that night. A similar fate befell the city of Wurzburg just four days later, when 225 Lancaster bombers dispatched by British bomber command dropped 1,100 tons of bombs. The city -- a bishop's seat in southern Germany, one of the jewels of European rococo style -- was destroyed by flames in 17 minutes. Although the end of the war was imminent, 6,000 civilians were killed that night. This was more than "shock and awe": This was the final months of the relentless, five-year Allied bombing campaign that took civilian deaths to their apex -- bombing, burning, incinerating the cities of Germany in a round-the-clock effort to destroy morale, foment insurrection and weaken the industrial heart and soul of Adolf Hitler's war machine. This was no Iraq. Despite comparisons made in recent days between the bombing of German cities and the "shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad, this was actually the opposite. Instead of seeking to avoid civilian casualties as they are doing today, the Americans and British in the 1940s sought to maximize them. Forty-five thousand people were killed in Hamburg during the air attacks; 50,000 in Dresden, 12,000 in Berlin, 10,000 in Kassel, 5,500 in Frankfurt and so on. In Pforzheim, a city of 63,000, one-third of the population was incinerated in one night in February 1945, even as the war was coming to a close. Night after night after night, entire cities were lighted on fire, like a non-nuclear version of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Never before in modern history had a civilian population endured such a military assault. One and a half million bombs were dropped on 161 German cities and 800 villages over five years, leaving half a million civilians dead, including 75,000 children. An additional 78,000 of Hitler's slave workers and prisoners of war were killed. No one was ever punished for these acts. The winners, not surprisingly, didn't indict themselves for war crimes. And, in fact, there was nothing technically illegal about their actions. According to Telford Taylor, the chief U.S. prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, there was no international agreement limiting aerial bombardment to military targets -- so, technically, the bombing was legal. Nevertheless, it was unprecedented and beyond any of the customs of war. The war itself was just, but the means by which it was conducted were unjust and unimaginable. And worst of all, the bombing was an unmitigated failure. It simply didn't work. It weakened Hitler but didn't lead to his overthrow. It didn't destroy morale or incite rebellion; 75,000 children killed and it didn't do anything except, perhaps, strengthen the resolve of the German people against the Allies. For years afterward, Germans didn't mention these things. We lost the war, and rightly so. Now we were making peace with the world, and it seemed wrong, somehow, to speak about the wounds that had been inflicted on us by countries that were now our allies, our protectors. In the years that followed, none of the numerous British and American historians of the bombing campaign fairly described the tragedy of mass destruction and massacre wreaked on the German cities. Even German historians who knew better didn't dare to describe the devastation unleashed by the Allies. At a press conference last week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld noted comparisons had been made between the current campaign and the bombings in Germany. It's a laughable comparison. You cannot compare the mass destruction of incendiary warfare -- aimed at killing civilians in extraordinary numbers -- with the noisy but relatively precise and targeted attacks on Baghdad. Such comparisons are far too kind to Arthur "Bomber" Harris, the British leader of the Allied air campaign. The difference is this: In Baghdad today, civilian deaths constitute failure; in WWII Germany, they meant success. The U.S. would be a pariah in world opinion today if it targeted even one Iraqi city the way it attacked German cities relentlessly for five years. A better comparison is to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. If the Iraqi leader were to use chemical or biological weapons -- which strike civilian and military targets indiscriminately over a large territory -- that would be comparable. Then Hussein would be the true heir of "Bomber" Harris. ===== (Source: Los Angeles Times, 3/28/2003 ) From irimland@zundelsite.org Sun Mar 30 02:09:25 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 21:09:25 -0500 Subject: Fw: ZGram - 3/27/2003 - "Two former Allied soldiers speak up for Ernst Zundel" Message-ID: <003101c2f661$6522df40$a716e540@horvath> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 22:16 Subject: ZGram - 3/27/2003 - "Two former Allied soldiers speak up for Ernst Zundel" > > > > ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! > > March 27, 2003 > > Good Morning from the Zundelsite: > > There is nothing new to report about Ernst Zundel. We are all > waiting what Monday will bring. In the meantime, some of you might > like to listen to Ernst in an *unedited* tape called "The Fifth > Estate" on the homepage of the Zundelsite, www.zundelsite.org since > it will be part, I believe, of Monday's hearing. Unfortunately, it > is not as clear as it should be but it is understandable. > > I thought for today I would bring you two letters from former Allied > soldiers who now look at the war they fought in their youth and ask > themselves: "For this?" > > THE FIRST LETTER is to the President of the United States and is > representative of hundreds that I have received: > > [START] > > Dear Mr. President: > > While we have been off stamping out terrorism and fighting for human > rights around the globe, a terrible thing has happened in the land. > A gang of heavily armed thugs arrested a gentleman and hauled him off > to jail. They claimed to be from the Immigration Service. In New > York Harbor stands the Statue of Liberty, welcoming people to > America. This thought prevails throughout the land as we welcome > strangers from all points of the globe. Now this gentleman arrived > openly with his personal belongings. He did not sneak across the > border at night. He did not bring in drugs or other contraband. > > We must ask why Mr. Ernst Zundel of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. was singled > out for unusual attention. He was denied access to an attorney; in > fact his wife had to surmount difficulties before even she could > visit him in jail. > > This is not the America I grew up in and know. This country bends > over backwards to even safeguard the rights of mass murderers - even > if they are non-citizens. Why this illegal persecution of Mr. > Zundel? > > Mrs. Ernst Zundel is a citizen of our country and Mr. Zundel has > certain privileges and rights as a spouse of an American citizen. I > ask: Why have these rights been trampled on ? I can only surmise > that there has been some sort of administrative error. > > Therefore, Mr. President, as a church-goer, as a champion of law and > order, as a supporter of right and justice, I call on you to right > the wrongs imposed on Mr. Zundel. I call on you to return Mr. Ernst > Zundel to family and friends, so that this veteran can remain proud > of the flag under which he served. > > [END] > > THE SECOND LETTER is addressed to to Denis Coderre, Minister of > Citizenship and Immigration, Canada, who actually went public with > threats against Ernst to advertise his loyalty to what we sometimes > call the Shrill Minority. Coderre actually said: "Watch me kick > Zundel out!" He will be remembered for that one! > > [START] > > Dear Mr. Coderre: > > I just read in today's Toronto Star that you made it clear to the > press that you won't allow "Holocaust denier" Ernst Zundel to > manipulate the system to draw out his stay in Canada. Are you > inferring that in his case due process of the law will be > circumvented? How can a law that applies to everyone be > manipulated? By inference you thereby make a mockery of our > so-called Bill of Rights and Freedoms which supposedly guarantees > freedom of speech, assembly, religion, even thought etc. Which of > these, or what laws are you accusing Ernst Zundel of trying to > manipulate? Selective justice is not justice. Or are you not > concerned about that? > > Zundel's enemies and the controlled media regularly refer to him as a > hate monger. He has been so vilified by an all-powerful pressure > group in connivance with a compliant one-sided media that Canadians > consequently know nothing positive about the man. What they say > about him in the media is a complete contradiction of what he really > is, a peaceful human being to whom the truth is omnipotent. He found > out in a "Human Rights Court" in which the chairman (not a judge) had > the gall to state for the record that "truth is no defense", even > though one has to swear on the Bible to tell the truth and nothing > but the truth. If the truth is no defense in a courtroom, then the > lie prevails. Sadly, that is the case in Canada today. > > May I remind you that the truth is called hate only by those who hate > the truth. His accusers are the real hate mongers, for they > continually foster hatred among the peoples of Canada. However, to > my dismay, they seem to be immune from official censure and are free > to foster their vicious, unfounded accusations with impunity. If we > live in a just society, why has Ernst Zundel not been given the same > right? > > I recall that some years ago Zundel was charged with "spreading > false news". Actually, his enemies were spreading false news in > the media at the time, but they were not charged. Zundel disproved > all allegations against him in court. Despite the one-sided > proceedings, much of the Holocaust dogma was exposed as a fraud and > lost credibility. But because of a news blackout during his second > trial, the Canadian public was kept in the dark about what had > transpired in court. > > That particular law was struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada > and he was a free man for a time. But not for long, for his > detractors have not yet learned when enough is enough. > > I spent close to five years in the Canadian Army, including one year > in the Service of the British Military Government in occupied > Germany, so I am well informed about what went on there during and > after the war. [Neither] I, nor anyone elase in the world, had heard > of the term "Holocaust" until it was created by Hollywood in 1967. > So I, and an increasing number of thinking Canadians, have become > holocaust skeptics. How in good conscience must I accept something > that I know from personal experience and extensive research is > largely a fraud? > > George Orwell once wrote: "In this deceitful world, telling the > truth is revolutionary act". Well, I am not a revolutionary, I just > want to live in peace. Fostering a blatant lie will only create more > Holocaust skeptics because there are still Canadians who can reason > for themselves and resent being told what they must believe. > > I read in the paper that Ernst Zundel is a danger to Canada. This > is absurd. He never has been, and is not now a danger to anyone, > least of all Canada. He has lived here for 42 years and never > committed a crime, yet he is treated as a criminal. Despite the > constant unfounded vilification of his character, he has broken no > law in Canada. His Canadian sons, their families and his > grandchildren, as well as his loyal wife in Tennessee, should not be > deprived of his presence. He not only deserves to remain in Canada, > but also Canadian citizenship. > > If he is shipped to the Zionist vassal state of Germany, in which the > truth of Germany's past is punishableby law, he will likely have to > spend many years in prison - just for telling the truth. Who will > this benefit? Certainly not the Canadian people. Truth ennobles the > esteem of those who have the courage and moral backbone to promote > it, people like Ernst Zundel. In a just society they would not be > punished for it. > > Your mind is probably made up - or has more likely been made up for > you by his traditional enemies. However, I appeal to you to > reconsider Ernst' Zundel's deportation based on common sense and > humanity. If you do deport him to Germany you will prove to me that > my years in the Canadian Army during World War II in defense of > freedom and democracy were wasted. And banish the thought that > Zundel was right after all! Think about it! > > [END] > > ===== > > > > > > > > > > > > > From irimland@zundelsite.org Sun Mar 30 12:07:19 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 04:07:19 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/30/2003 - "French encyclopedia may be fined for citing revisionist Holocaust figures" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Here you can see with your own eyes how Holocaust "history" gets force-fed into mainstream use: [START] Sunday, March 30, 2003 Adar2 26, 5763 Israel Time: 05:39 (GMT+3) French encyclopedia may be fined for citing revisionist Holocaust figures By The Associated Press PARIS - A French court on Friday ordered the publisher of France's leading reference book to pay fines if it can't prove it took enough measures to correct a passage raising questions about the number of people killed in the Holocaust. Publisher Robert Laffont has 15 days to prove it followed through with an earlier court order, or it faces fines. In a section on World War II extermination camps, the Quid reference book said the official number of deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau was 1.2 million. However, it adds that "other figures have circulated," and cites one by a revisionist historian, Robert Faurisson, who claims that 150,000 people died at the camp, of whom 100,000 were Jews. Quid has been brought to court several times for the affair. In 2001, five French Jewish groups filed a complaint, saying the passage violated a French law against publishing revisionist theories. A court ordered the publisher to remove the passage from the Quid by 2003, but the publisher failed to heed the order. The Jewish organizations then demanded that Quid's publishers retract the 300,000 copies of its 2003 edition that had already been sent to stores. In November, Judge Marie-Therese Feydau refused to grant the request but ordered the publishers to remove the offensive passage from its 2004 edition as well as from its Internet site. Among other measures, publishers were also ordered to send a correction notice to all bookstores where the 2003 Quid is being sold, and to insert the correction in the 100,000 copies that were still being printed. On Friday, the court said the Quid failed to follow through with the order on the correction notices. It gave the publishers 15 days to prove they inserted a correction in the 100,000 copies of the 2003 book, or face a fine of 3,000 euros (US$3,200) for every day it violated the order. For every bookstore caught not posting the notice, the Quid is also subject to a 400 euro (US$430) fine. The Quid is widely consulted, not just by researchers but also by ordinary French people. A new edition appears every year. [END] From irimland@zundelsite.org Mon Mar 31 12:06:33 2003 From: irimland@zundelsite.org (irimland@zundelsite.org) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:06:33 -0800 Subject: ZGram - 3/31/2003 - "Zundel Update: Immigration Hearing Today" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! March 31, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I want to remind all my readers that today is another Immigration Hearing dealing with Ernst Zundel's illegal incarceration - and what should happen next. Please remember that Ernst was literally kidnapped from his home in Tennessee under false pretenses - an allegedly "missed immigration appointment" and "having overstayed his visa" - when, in fact, American law enforcement and American immigration officials were shamelessly used as hit squads by what we suspect and intend to prove were Jewish Lobby interests in Canada and Germany. THE ARREST WARRANT WAS PREPARED, SIGNED AND DATED AFTER ERNST'S ARREST! Ernst does not expect to be released on bail, although his friends and, naturally, his family all hope for it. There is no reason whatsoever to keep him in maximum detention since he is innocent even of the petty immigration charges, is not a flight risk, and certainly is not and never has been a "danger to the security of Canada". The only thing that is in danger from Ernst Zundel's fountain pen is a cleverly crafted, widely repeated and systematically force-fed, monumental lie that "six million" Jews were "gassed" on "genocidal orders" in wartime Germany. Let's call a spade a spade - what you have in that lie is a suggestive mantra, aimed at the gullible masses, supporting a global extortion racket - to keep otherwise moribund, self-serving political interests on a life-sustaining drip! A number of legal moves have been initiated both in the USA and in Canada to unravel the unsavory details of this politically motivated arrest and detention. At today's hearing, Canadian national media are expected to be present even though media representatives were prevented from attending two previous hearings. BY LAW, they are entitled to be there, although their reporting, as many times before, is expected to be cowed and submissive to their New World Order masters' agenda. The Progress Report of the Institute for Historical Review of March 26, 2003 summarized this latest portion of the Zundel Saga well: "Ernst Zundel is in prison not because his views are unpopular, or because he's a "security risk." He's in prison because Jewish-Zionist groups want him there. He's a prisoner because he holds and promotes views that the Jewish-Zionist lobby considers dangerous to its interests." Refresh your memory - and pass this excerpt on: [START] Ernst Zundel was arrested on Feb. 5 at his home in Tennessee, and a short time later deported to Canada - even though he is married to an American citizen, Ingrid Rimland - on the pretext that he missed an interview date with immigration authorities. For weeks now Canadian authorities have been holding him in prison, without bail. Citing supposed ties, years ago, to "white supremacist" groups, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) - something like the FBI - contends that Zundel is a risk to national security. While acknowledging that he is not violent himself, CSIS argues that material published by Zundel might cause "like-minded individuals to engage in violence." That Canadian authorities should resort to such a far-fetched argument only underscores the politically motivated nature of the campaign against him. Regardless of the formal reasons given for his arrest, jailing and deportation, it appears that - once again - Ernst was targeted because of his dissident views about history. In fact, Ernst is a peaceful man who, as even his adversaries concede, has never advocated violence against anyone. He is himself a victim of hate and violence. He has survived at least three attempts on his life, including a devastating arson attack against his residence. And anyway, if Ernst Zundel is really such a threat to "national security," Canadian society is fragile indeed. Far from being a danger to Canada, he deserves the gratitude of Canadians for waging a protracted legal battle that strengthened the rights of all Canadians. Jewish-Zionist groups have been demanding that Canadian authorities deport him to Germany, where he faces years of imprisonment for the "thought crime" of "denying the Holocaust." As you know, "Holocaust denial" is against the law in Germany, France, Switzerland and some other European countries. Such laws are inherently unjust because they criminalize nonconformist views of only one chapter of history - the wartime fate of Europe's Jews. Dissident views of other chapters of history are not similarly prohibited. Ernst Zundel is in prison not because his views are unpopular, or because he's a "security risk." He's in prison because Jewish-Zionist groups want him there. He's a prisoner because he holds and promotes views that the Jewish-Zionist lobby considers dangerous to its interests. Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, recently told an American audience: "People are scared in this country to say [that] wrong is wrong, because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful." He's right. In Canada, as in the United States, politicians and journalists are in fearful awe of Jewish-Zionist power. This lobby is the decisive, critical factor in the decades-old campaign to silence Ernst Zundel. The only sustained and institutionalized effort to imprison him has come from this lobby, which includes the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association, and the League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith (with the Anti-Defamation League, its counterpart in the US). It is not Zundel, but rather his Jewish-Zionist adversaries, who are to be feared. Canada's Jewish-Zionist groups, immeasurably more powerful and influential than he, openly support and collaborate with the "Jewish supremacist" state of Israel. And Israel's "Jewish supremacy" is not merely rhetorical; the Zionist regime brutally oppresses an entire population in brazen defiance of international law and world opinion. Zundel's Achievement Ernst Zundel is probably best known for his central role in the two great "Holocaust Trials" in Toronto, 1985 and 1988. He was brought to court on a charge of "publishing false news" by reprinting a booklet, Did Six Million Really Die?. Those two lengthy trials have been the closest thing anywhere to full scale debates on the Holocaust issue. In defending himself in a legal battle that was forced on him, Ernst brought together an impressive international team of scholars, specialists and researchers, and presented to the world voluminous and compelling evidence refuting the Holocaust extermination story. Among those who testified on his behalf in those trials were Dr. Robert Faurisson, David Irving, Dr. William Lindsey, Udo Walendy, and Bradley Smith, and, most notably, Fred Leuchter, the American gas chamber expert who spoke about his on-site forensic examination of the alleged extermination gas chambers in Poland. [Mark Weber of the IHR was also called to the stand, testifying for five days as an expert witness in March 1988.] For the first time ever, "Holocaust survivors" and Holocaust historians were closely and critically questioned under oath about their claims and views. The confusion and ignorance of these witnesses were laid bare, resulting in astonishing headlines and reports in papers across the country. Although Ernst was found guilty and sentenced to nine months imprisonment, the country's highest tribunal later overturned the verdict. On appeal, Canada's Supreme Court threw out the conviction, declaring on August 27, 1992, that the archaic "false news" law under which he had been convicted was a violation of the country's Charter of Rights. His victory only further enraged his adversaries. Ernst's last great legal battle (until his recent arrest) was fought out before the "Human Rights Tribunal" in Toronto on charges of promoting "hatred or contempt" against Jews through the Internet web site operated from the US by Ingrid Rimland. From the outset, the Tribunal declared that the truth or validity of the supposedly "hateful" items was not a consideration. This outrageous restriction made a fair hearing impossible. As expected, the Tribunal ultimately ruled against him. After 42 years in Canada, Ernst moved to the United States, where he married Ingrid in January 2000. Since the summer of 2000, they lived quietly in a mountainous region of eastern Tennessee. Right after his arrest, Ernst and his wife asked for [the IHR's] help in dealing with the media. As a result, in recent weeks [Mark Weber, IHR's Director] has spoken with dozens of reporters and [has] conducted numerous interviews about the still-developing case. [END]