From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Sep 1 07:48:37 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Sep 1 10:14:09 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/1/2003 - "ISRAEL - A FAILED EXPERIMENT!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 1, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This is an absolutely MUST READING: [START} A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain Silent By AVRAHAM BURG The Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership. Neither of these is operative any longer. The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice. As such, the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep. There is a real chance that ours will be the last Zionist generation. There may yet be a Jewish state here, but it will be a different sort, strange and ugly. There is time to change course, but not much. What is needed is a new vision of a just society and the political will to implement it. Nor is this merely an internal Israeli affair. Diaspora Jews for whom Israel is a central pillar of their identity must pay heed and speak out. If the pillar collapses, the upper floors will come crashing down. The opposition does not exist, and the coalition, with Arik Sharon at its head, claims the right to remain silent. In a nation of chatterboxes, everyone has suddenly fallen dumb, because there's nothing left to say. We live in a thunderously failed reality. Yes, we have revived the Hebrew language, created a marvelous theater and a strong national currency. Our Jewish minds are as sharp as ever. We are traded on the Nasdaq. But is this why we created a state? The Jewish people did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programs or anti-missile missiles. We were supposed to be a light unto the nations. In this we have failed. It turns out that the 2,000-year struggle for Jewish survival comes down to a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies. A state lacking justice cannot survive. More and more Israelis are coming to understand this as they ask their children where they expect to live in 25 years. Children who are honest admit, to their parents' shock, that they do not know. The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun. It is very comfortable to be a Zionist in West Bank settlements such as Beit El and Ofra. The biblical landscape is charming. From the window you can gaze through the geraniums and bougainvilleas and not see the occupation. Traveling on the fast highway ?hat takes you from Ramot on Jerusalem's northern edge to Gilo on the southern edge, a 12-minute trip that skirts barely a half-mile west of the Palestinian roadblocks, it's hard to comprehend the humiliating experience of the despised Arab who must creep for hours along the pocked, blockaded roads assigned to him. One road for the occupier, one road for the occupied. This cannot work. Even if the Arabs lower their heads and swallow their shame and anger forever, it won't work. A structure built on human callousness will inevitably collapse in on itself. Note this moment well: Zionism's superstructure is already collapsing like a cheap Jerusalem wedding hall. Only madmen continue dancing on the top floor while the pillars below are collapsing. We have grown accustomed to ignoring the suffering of the women at the roadblocks. No wonder we don't hear the cries of the abused woman living next door or the single mother struggling to support her children in dignity. We don't even bother to count the women murdered by their husbands. Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism. They consign themselves to Allah in our places of recreation, because their own lives are torture. They spill their own blood in our restaurants in order to ruin our appetites, because they have children and parents at home who are hungry and humiliated. We could kill a thousand ringleaders and engineers a day and nothing will be solved, because the leaders come up from below ? from the wells of hatred and anger, from the "infrastructures" of injustice and moral corruption. If all this were inevitable, divinely ordained and immutable, I would be silent. But things could be different, and so crying out is a moral imperative. Here is what the prime minister should say to the people: The time for illusions is over. The time for decisions has arrived. We love the entire land of our forefathers and in some other time we would have wanted to live here alone. But that will not happen. The Arabs, too, have dreams and needs. Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing without paying a price. We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East. There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here, Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish majority in the world's only Jewish state ? not by means that are humane and moral and Jewish. Do you want the greater Land of Israel? No problem. Abandon democracy. Let's institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages. Qalqilya Ghetto and Gulag Jenin. Do you want a Jewish majority? No problem. Either put the Arabs on railway cars, buses, camels and donkeys and expel them en masse ? or separate ourselves from them absolutely, without tricks and gimmicks. There is no middle path. We must remove all the settlements ? all of them ? and draw an internationally recognized border between the Jewish national home and the Palestinian national home. The Jewish Law of Return will apply only within our national home, and their right of return will apply only within the borders of the Palestinian state. Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater Land of Israel, to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via the ballot box. That's what the prime minister should say to the people. He should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racialism or democracy. Settlements or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire, roadblocks and suicide bombers, or a recognized international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem. But there is no prime minister in Jerusalem. The disease eating away at the body of Zionism has already attacked the head. David Ben-Gurion sometimes erred, but he remained straight as an arrow. When Menachem Begin was wrong, nobody impugned his motives. No longer. Polls published last weekend showed that a majority of Israelis do not believe in the personal integrity of the prime minister ? yet they trust his political leadership. In other words, Israel's current prime minister personally embodies both halves of the curse: suspect personal morals and open disregard for the law ? combined with the brutality of occupation and the trampling of any chance for peace. This is our nation, these its leaders. The inescapable conclusion is that the Zionist revolution is dead. Why, then, is the opposition so quiet? Perhaps because it's summer, or because they are tired, or because some would like to join the government at any price, even the price of participating in the sickness. But while they dither, the forces of good lose hope. This is the time for clear alternatives. Anyone who declines to present a clear-cut position ? black or white ? is in effect collaborating in the decline. It is not a matter of Labor versus Likud or right versus left, but of right versus wrong, acceptable versus unacceptable. The law-abiding versus the lawbreakers. What's needed is not a political replacement for the Sharon government but a vision of hope, an alternative to the destruction of Zionism and its values by the deaf, dumb and callous. Israel's friends abroad ? Jewish and non-Jewish alike, presidents and prime ministers, rabbis and lay people ? should choose as well. They must reach out and help Israel to navigate the road map toward our national destiny as a light unto the nations and a society of peace, justice and equality. Translated by J.J. Goldberg. Avraham Burg was speaker of Israel's Knesset from 1999 to 2003 and is a former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He is currently a Labor Party Knesset member. This essay is adapted by the author from an article that appeared in Yediot Aharonot. [ Source: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.08.29/oped3.html ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 2 09:50:15 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 2 12:31:14 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/2/2003 - "ADL again in the detested censorship mode" Message-ID: ZGRAM - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 2, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Of interest to Mel Gibson Movie watchers: [START] ADL Statement on Mel Gibson's 'The Passion' : http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/4275_00.asp New York, NY, June 24, 2003 . Throughout history Christian dramatizations of the passion, i.e. the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, have fomented anti-Semitic attitudes and violence against the Jewish people. During the past forty years the Roman Catholic and most Protestant churches have issued pastoral and scholarly documents that interpret the death and resurrection of Jesus in their historical and theological contexts. These churches repudiate the teachings that gave rise to Christian accusations that Jews were "Christ killers." They make clear that correct Christian readings and applications of the New Testament must avoid provoking or reinforcing anti-Semitic attitudes and behavior. In light of the numerous media accounts of Mel Gibson's upcoming film, "The Passion," the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) joined with the Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in April, 2003 to assemble Jewish and Catholic scholars to evaluate an early version of the movie's screenplay (the names of the committee's nine scholars appear below). Both offices were in communication with representatives of ICON Productions, including Mel Gibson himself, who indicated their willingness to consider the scholars' suggestions. ADL thanks the scholars for their work and ADL fully stands behind their report. The committee unanimously agreed that the screenplay reviewed was replete with objectionable elements that would promote anti-Semitism. Based upon the scholars' analysis of the screenplay, ADL has serious concerns regarding the Mr. Gibson's "The Passion" and asks: Will the final version of The Passion continue to portray Jews as blood-thirsty, sadistic and money-hungry enemies of Jesus? Will it correct the unambiguous depiction of Jews as the ones responsible for the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus? Will it show the power of the rule of imperial Rome-including its frequent use of crucifixion-in first-century Palestine? Will the film reject exploiting New Testament passages selectively to weave a narrative that does injustice to the gospels, that oversimplifies history, and that is hostile to Jews and Judaism? Will it live up to its promise "to tell the truth?" To do so, the final product must rid itself of fictitious non-scriptural elements (e.g. the high priest's control of Pontius Pilate, the cross built in the Temple at the direction of Jewish religious officials, excessive violence, Jews physically abusing Jesus before the crucifixion, Jews paying "blood money" for the crucifixion), all of which form an inescapably negative picture of Jewish society and leadership. Will it portray Jews and the Temple as the locus of evil? ADL also welcomes the statement issued on June 17 by the four Catholic academicians in the group that can be found here. This statement explains the complex issues regarding dramatizing the passion in terms of official Roman Catholic teaching, and provides sound guidance for evaluating any presentation of the crucifixion. For filmmakers to do justice to the biblical accounts of the passion, they must complement their artistic vision with sound scholarship, which includes knowledge of how the passion accounts have been used historically to disparage and attack Jews and Judaism. Absent such scholarly and theological understanding, productions such as "The Passion" could likely falsify history and fuel the animus of those who hate Jews. Specific recommendations to remedy the numerous anti-Semitic elements in the script have been conveyed to Mr. Gibson's ICON Productions. Mr. Gibson has said that his film is not anti-Semitic. We hope that is the case. ADL stands ready to advise ICON Productions constructively regarding The Passion to ensure that the final production is devoid of anti-Semitic slander. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Sep 4 01:53:47 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Sep 4 04:33:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/3/2003 - "I call that German diligence!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 3, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Revisionism soldiers on! A word from Germar Rudolf: [START] Dear Friends and Supporters! Times of silence from our side are hardly ever an indication of lack of activity, to the contrary. During such times, we are usually so busy and productive that I do not find the time to let the world know about it. This is an issue which needs to be addressed in a separate mailout. But let me now briefly summarize what we have done lately and how you can access the results. We have been working intensively to expand our series HOLOCAUST HANDBOOKS by four new or revised books, all of which are available both for sale and for free downloading online (for all the mooches out there letting others pay for this service) If you want to see what progress we made with this HOLOCAUST HANDBOOKS series in general, please go to www.vho.org/GB/Books/HHS.html And here are the individual books: - For Sale: J?rgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno, "Concentration Camp Stutthof" http://vho.org/GB/Books/ccs (as PDF file only) - For Sale: J?rgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno, "Concentration Camp Majdanek" http://vho.org/GB/Books/ccm (as PDF file only) - For Sale: Germar Rudolf, "Dissecting the Holocaust," 2nd revised paperback edition (yes, I dared to use my real name this time!) http://vho.org/GB/Books/dth, (both as PDF and as html) - For Sale available in three weeks at the latest: Arthur R. Butz, "The Hoax of the Twentieth Century", http://vho.org/GB/Books/thottc (as PDF only; I announced that already) Don Heddesheimer's "First Holocaust" will be a bit delayed because the author preferred to spend a longer vacation in South America instead of proofing his manuscript, I am afraid to say. Well, he probably deserves his vacation, so let's be patient. As a redeemer of my reputation, we will probably be a bit early with Mattogno's and Graf's book "Treblinka", which I hope to bring out in December, and it also looks like Krege's "Krege Report" on ground penetrating radar research in various "Action Reinhardt" camps will materialize during the next 6 months or so as a finished manuscript. Be prepared for a real good read there! We are also making some progress with our huge tome on Auschwitz, based on tens of thousands of original wartime documents, but I am not yet able to tell a point in time when this will go to the printers. Next, I will be doing some writing myself again over the next couple of weeks to get the "Lectures on the Holocaust" redone in German and translated into English, to finally have a pedagogical work you can give to the brainwashed without them freaking out. Furthermore, I have posted one article from the second issue of The Revisionist on the human rights situation in Germany: - G. Rudolf, "Discovering Absurdistan" (The Revisionist, 1(2) (2003), pp. 203-219) http://vho.org/tr/2003/2/Rudolf203-219.html The August issue of The Revisionist was supposed to have come back from the printer during the second half of August, but I am just now picking a fight with them, because I have still no news about why it hasn't arrived here yet. Finally, there are one book and several articles by Jean-Marie Boisdefeu in French which our French readers might appreciate: - LA CONTROVERSE SUR L'EXTERMINATION DES JUIFS PAR LES ALLEMANDS (?dition revue et corrig?e 2003) http://vho.org/F/b/bdf - Collection des articles de Jean-Marie Boisdefeu, http://vho.org/F/c/JMB Also, almost a month ago, we posted the report of the International Red Cross on German Concentrations Camps (in French): - Documents sur l'activit? du Comit? international de la Croix-Rouge en faveur des civils d?tenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne (1939-1945), 1946 http://vho.org/F/b/CICR I hope this is indication enough that we haven't been lazy out here in Windy City - though I like hanging out at the beach, I must confess. I hope you appreciate our work, and I hope even more that you might show your support and gratitude for our selfless efforts of trying to enlighten the world. With best regards! Germar Rudolf Castle Hill Publishers chp@vho.org PO Box 257768 Chicago, IL 60625 USA PS: And if you think I made too many typos here, I always need voluntary and capable proofreaders. Please get in touch with Andrew Fuetterer at arbtmann@alltel.net in this regard. Thanks. GR. To be removed from this list, email to Revisionism-unsubscribe@topica.com To join the list, email to Revisionism-subscribe@topica.com ================================================== Ladies and Gentlemen! Castle Hill Publishers/Theses & Dissertations Press is looking for a new co-worker who can do marketing for our products. Tasks include suggestions to improve our websites www.vho.org, www.tadp.org (not the actual implementation), suggestions to complete our product range, design of promotional material (flyers, brochures, programs, advertisements offline and online), and search for means of promotion (acquiring address lists, finding media (offline, and online), negotiating ad placement). 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Thank you. --^---------------------------------------------------------------- ============================== This is a mutual information service by the following revisionist websites: www.vho.org; www.codoh.com; www.codoh.org; www.ihr.org; www.adelaideinstitute.org; www.zundelsite.org; www.aaargh.vho.org; www.hoffman-info.com From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Sep 4 01:55:50 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Sep 4 04:33:15 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/4/2003 - "Foxman is mighty worried!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 4, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: No commentary needed - just ponder the quotation marks: [START] Two years after 9/11, anti-Semitic theories are still going strong By Nathan Guttman WASHINGTON - Next week will see the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, which also spawned a whole new branch in international anti-Semitism. A survey published this week by the Anti-Defamation League finds that "hateful conspiracy theories" - claiming that Jews and Israel were behind the attacks in which 3,000 people were killed - are still being disseminated. In fact, these theories are gaining strength rather than dying out. "The 9/11 attacks have fueled an entire new genre of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories leading to an environment where rumors about Jews are finding acceptance in the mainstream," says Abe Foxman, the league's national director. The last year, for example, has seen radical right-wing groups in the United States publish two documents: "The truth about 9/11: How Jewish manipulation killed thousands" and "Did Israeli spies have advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks?" The documents seek to spread the theory that Israel was behind the terror attacks. The ADL's survey, "Unraveling Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories," finds that Arab and Muslim groups, and not just the radical right, are sometimes involved in spreading such theories. The conspiracy theories, mostly disseminated over the Internet, had be categorized into a number of groups: first, there are those claiming the Mossad carried out the attacks. One such theory, for example, purports that the Mossad and CIA wanted to take over the "Afghan-opium-derived" heroin trade and thus cooked-up the attacks to provide "a pretext for an American overthrow of the Taliban, which gave the U.S. control of the country's opium production." Other theories talk of an "Israeli art student spy ring" where Israeli spies passed themselves off as art students and tracked those suspected of carrying out the attacks but did not do anything to stop them or inform the authorities. There are also the claims that Israeli firms operating in the U.S. actually ran this spy ring and were used as a cover. A more "classic" anti-Semitic theory claims that the Jewish owners of the Twin Towers orchestrated the attacks to get the insurance money. A number of Web sites also claim that the Jews carried out the attacks to get international attention and criticism over the intifada away from Israel. In order to strengthen their theories, the groups use two "fables" that managed to gain a foothold in public opinion following the September 11 attacks. The first claims that "4,000 Israelis who worked at the World Trade Center were warned by Israeli intelligence to stay home on 9/11." A slight variation talks of "3,000 Jews" who received the same warning. The second fable talks of the arrest of five Israeli "spies" who were "caught videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers." This is based on the fact that five Israelis were arrested shortly after the attacks after they drove their van toward Manhattan. The five, who worked illegally in the U.S., were eventually released without any charges being brought. The ADL says in the report that what feeds such conspiracy theories are well-known anti-Semitic motives, a "modern manifestation of the anti-Semitic, [19th century] `Protocols of the Elders of Zion'." The report concludes by saying that "anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists have gone beyond just alleging that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. They have focused on Israel as an evil force ready to destroy anyone who gets in the way of its interests." The ADL says it is concerned that the "success" of these conspiracy theories will fuel anti-Semitism and "have laid the foundation for the proliferation of similar conspiracy theories about other global disasters." Israel is already being blamed for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; apparently Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon was actually a "spy." Israel and the Jews are also being blamed for "pushing" the U.S. into the war in Iraq. [END] (Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=336521&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y) (Source From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Sep 5 03:55:53 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 5 06:23:23 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/5/2003 - "Holocaust Restitution Leader Disbarred by Court After Investigation Of Job Misconduct" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 5, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Who was it that said that the "Revolution" would eat its own children? [START] Restitution Leader Disbarred by Court After Investigation Of Job Misconduct, [Jewish] Forward, September 5, 2003 "The former top American professional of an international Holocaust restitution commission has been disbarred. The move comes one year after the official, Neal Sher, former chief of staff in the Washington office of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, was investigated by the commission for allegedly misappropriating funds for personal use. The investigation was launched after Sher admitted "unauthorized reimbursements of his ICHEIC travel expenses," according to sources and an internal document written by the commission's chairman, former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger. On August 28, 2003, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ordered Sher "disbarred by consent effective forthwith" from the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. The order does not specify the reasons for his disbarment, but Sher signed an affidavit consenting to it. A consent affidavit is submitted when an attorney is the subject of an "investigation or a pending proceeding based on allegations of misconduct," according to a rule of the D.C. bar association that was cited in the court order ... As director of the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Department of Justice, Sher handled the denaturalization and deportation of dozens of onetime Nazi war criminals. He headed an investigation into the Nazi past of Austrian president Kurt Waldheim and is credited for Waldheim's placement on the watch list of persons ineligible to enter the United States. In 1994 Sher became the top executive of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which he led for two years. Steinberg praised Sher's work at the Justice Department: "Neal Sher has literally, not figuratively, laid down his life for the Jewish people on many occasions. I know of several death threats against him when he was hunting Nazi war criminals." But Sher's work at the commission was not as widely admired. Both during and after his tenure, the commission came under attack from some survivor groups and congressmen for spending more money on administrative expenses than on payouts to survivors." [END] ( Source: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.09.05/news5.sher.html ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Sep 7 14:39:00 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Sep 7 17:03:56 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/6/2003 - "How would YOU choose?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 6, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Is this ever an essay of mixed messages! Thought-provoking, nonetheless! Lots of intriguing information you don't ever see on CNN! The Hitler Test by Butler Shaffer by Butler Shaffer In previous years, and on the first day of class, I have given my new students a ballot, indicating that "it is time to elect the leader of a great nation," and offering them two candidates, A and B. Candidate A is identified as "a well-known critic of government, this man has been involved in tax protest movements, and has openly advocated secession, armed rebellion against the existing national government, and even the overthrow of that government. He is a known member of a militia group that was involved in a shoot-out with law enforcement authorities. He opposes gun control efforts of the present national government, as well as restrictions on open immigration into this country. He is a businessman who has earned his fortune from such businesses as alcohol, tobacco, retailing, and smuggling." Candidate B is described thusly: "A decorated army war veteran, this man is an avowed nonsmoker and dedicated public health advocate. His public health interests include the fostering of medical research and his dedication to eliminating cancer. He opposes the use of animals in conducting such research. He has supported restrictions on the use of asbestos, pesticides, and radiation, and favors government-determined occupational health and safety standards, as well as the promotion of such foods as whole-grain bread and soybeans. He is an advocate of government gun-control measures. An ardent opponent of tobacco, he has supported increased restrictions on both the use of and advertising for tobacco products. Such advertising restrictions include: [1] not allowing tobacco use to be portrayed as harmless or a sign of masculinity; [2] not allowing such advertising to be directed to women; [3] not drawing attention to the low nicotine content of tobacco products; and, [4] limitations as to where such advertisements may be made. This man is a champion of environmental and conservationist programs, and believes in the importance of sending troops into foreign countries in order to maintain order therein." The students are asked to vote, anonymously, for either of these two candidates. I employ this exercise only every other year, at most, so that students will not have been told to expect it. Over the years, the voting results have given candidate B about 75% of the vote, while candidate A gets the remaining 25%. After completing the exercise and tabulating the results, I inform the students that candidate A is a composite of the American "founding fathers" (e.g., Sam Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, etc.). Candidate B, on the other hand, is Adolf Hitler, whose advocacy for the programs named can be found in such works as Robert Proctor's The Nazi War on Cancer. In one of my classes a few years ago, we were discussing the Schechter case, in which the United States Supreme Court struck down the cornerstone legislation of the "New Deal," the National Industrial Recovery Act. I was explaining to the students how this legislation had transformed American commerce and industry into a system of business created but government-enforced cartels. I also pointed out to them how popular fascist/socialist programs were throughout much of the world at that time. There was Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany, Franco in Spain, and Roosevelt in the United States. I then informed my class how Winston Churchill had, in 1938, praised Hitler, as had such luminaries as Ghandi, Gertrude Stein (who nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize), and Henry Ford (who was pleased to work with the German leader). One of my students could take it no more. "How can you say that so many people could support such an evil man as Adolf Hitler?," she pleaded. "You tell me," I responded, "just two weeks ago 78% of you in this class voted for him!" Some twenty seconds of pure silence settled into the classroom before we moved on to the next case. A couple days ago, I decided to introduce a new group of students to this exercise. After they voted - again, anonymously - I tabulated their votes and discovered that, once again, Hitler had prevailed, but by a much narrower margin than in earlier years. In my two classes, Hitler won by a 45-41 combined total of votes (nor did he require the Supreme Court to validate his victory). His support, in other words, had fallen from previous averages of 75% to about 52.3%. One of my students wrote on his/her ballot "leaving ballot blank, or writing in a socialist candidate if one exist." At the following class meeting, I read this notation aloud and told the class that a "socialist candidate" did exist: candidate B, in the person of Adolf Hitler. The word "Nazi" was derived from the formal name of Hitler's party: the National Socialist German Workers' Party. That so many of Hitler's policies have become the essence of modern "political correctness," as well as "mainstream" Republocratic platforms, is a sad reflection on just how far the American culture has deteriorated in recent decades. Still, there may be some basis for optimism in this latest response from these students, who had never had a class with me before. When close to half of these young people were more comfortable siding with the kind of men whose thinking was reflected in the Declaration of Independence, there may be healthy signs that support for the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/Ridge form of fascist state is starting to wane. Additional evidence of a diminishing enthusiasm for leviathan can be seen in the resolutions passed by over one hundred city/town councils - plus one state legislature - stating their opposition to, or even refusal to abide by, the Patriot Act! The lobotomized voices that insist upon passive submission to authority may find themselves screeching to a rapidly depleting audience. They, and their statist overlords, may be able to count on the continuing complicity of a round-heeled Congress, but many thoughtful men and women may be peeling the "love it or leave it" bumper-stickers off their minds and cars. Having had a brief taste of the brown-shirted culture of the present administration, perhaps enough Americans are rediscovering the significance of their own history. As the media lapdogs continue to recite their scripts and slobber on cue, it may prove to be the case that the "spirit of '76," with its love of liberty and distrust of governments, is still sufficiently engrained in the fabric of our society. August 22, 2003 Butler Shaffer [send him e-mail] teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Sep 7 14:40:31 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Sep 7 17:04:03 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/7/2003 - "It's about time!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 7, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I will predict that if the Germans succeed in this one, Germany will never be the same! [START] Telegraph Network - Sunday 31 August 2003 Anger over tribute to Germany's 'war victims' By Tony Paterson in Berlin (Filed: 31/08/2003) Germany is embroiled in a bitter row with its future European Union neighbours to the east over plans for a lavish Berlin memorial to the 15 million Germans expelled from central Europe at the end of the Second World War. The project has been championed by Germany's two million-strong Expellees' Association, which says the suffering of Germans driven out of Nazi Reich territory in Poland, Czechoslovakia and former East Prussia by the advancing Red Army has been ignored. During the clearances, thousands of women were raped by Soviet soldiers and many people sent to labour camps. To mark their plight, the Expellees' Association plans a [Euro]100 million (?69 million) Centre against Expulsion containing a permanent exhibition and library. Controversially, it aims to build the centre next to the city's Holocaust memorial which is now under construction. The project has been condemned by Polish and Czech critics who see it as an attempt to portray the Germans as war victims. Last week, Czech officials protested to Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, who was visiting Prague to discuss the Czech Republic's forthcoming EU membership. An embarrassed Mr Fischer was asked by hostile Czech journalists whether the memorial centre was intended "as Germany's welcome to the EU's new member states". The issue is likely to overshadow a visit by Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der to the Czech capital this week. In Poland, Marek Edelman, one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, said the centre risked "casting the executioner in the role of a victim". He added: "It will give the impression to future generations of Germans that only Jews and Germans suffered during the war." Walter Stratmann, a spokesman for the Expellees' Association, defended the project. "For decades, Germans have been brought up to think of themselves merely as perpetrators of Nazi war crimes. We want to show that the German people also suffered terribly as a result of being expelled." The centre has the backing of three German states and 400 towns and cities, which have levied a [Euro] 5 cent tax on each person to fund it. Although Mr Schr?der opposes the project, the Expellees' Association says he has no authority to halt it. Leading Polish and Czech politicians, including the former Polish foreign ministers Wladyslaw Bartoszewksi and Bronislaw Geremek, have signed a joint appeal stating: "Setting up such a centre as a national German project creates mistrust among neighbours and cannot be in the interest of our countries." They said that proposals to build the centre next to Berlin's Holocaust memorial showed that the project aimed to "weigh up the suffering of one group against the other". Millions of ethnic Germans were expelled from central Europe in 1945. Most were driven from territories such as East Prussia, Pomerania and Sudetenland - areas now belonging to Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic. Others were expelled during the late 1940s and 1950s, under the terms of the 1945 Potsdam treaty. Most of them resettled in western Germany, where they became - and remain - a significant force in regional and national politics. Erika Steinbach, the Expellees' Association president, dismissed her Polish and Czech critics, saying Germany should be allowed to mourn the plight of its people. She added: "Millions of those expelled were children. How can they be held responsible for the Nazis?" [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 9 04:05:59 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 9 07:06:56 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/8/2003 - "ZGram - 9/8/2003 - "Ingrid's Refusenik Ad, American Version" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 9, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Once more the Zundel Saga has made history! Important history! Let me briefly explain: As you know, some weeks ago I placed a full page ad in the Washington Times, calling attention to Ernst Zundel as America's best-known Refusenik and asking President Putin to grant him asylum and a passport. Many people were elated about this ad, thinking it a clever and inventive idea, but a few grumblers thought that I was wasting supporter money that could have been better used in other ways. I'd like to ask: How? I am already employing a legal time of five attorneys, soon to be seven, not even counting several lawyers on volunteer standby in countries other than Canada and the the US. I have spent more than $60,000 on attorneys' fees alone, all of it financed by volunteer donations in exchange for simple "Refusenik Sketches" Ernst draws with primitive children's crayons to help me from his cell. Fence-sitters dispensing good advice but little else are not helpful to us! We HAVE to be inventive and novel in our approaches - and we are! And there's more in the hopper, believe me! This first ad of mine produced only silence out of the Putin Quarters, but let's just assume that little birds whisper in our ears that it produced lots and lots of diplomatic attention in Washington Embassy Quarters we could never have otherwise penetrated with a mundane public relations outreach. Also, it brought us new supporters and lots and lots of write-ups, translations and commentaries on websites and in print media all over the world. This first ad more than paid for itself! I thought I should try it again - this time not only in the Washington Times but also in several important foreign publications. To make a long story short, through anonymous leads I connected with Zavtra, a Russian paper I have been told is being read by every politician in the former Soviet Union, now a democracy. To my amazement, not only was my ad immediately accepted and even translated without charge to me, it ran UNEDITED, full page, replete with my favorite Zundel cartoon, www.zundelsite.org, a few days ago! Not so in the Washington Times, an important mainstream publication in America. After much back-and-forth, a HEAVILY CENSORED, much truncated version ran on September 7, two days ago! Is this not a story that speaks volumes?! Where's freedom now in our world? In the former Soviet Union, you can call a spade a spade and name your tormentors. In Washington, DC., the media lets itself be gagged, even if you pay for what you need to say! For the record and our website archives, I am running both versions, the American edited version today, and the Russian unedited version in tomorrow's ZGram. As before, I urge all of you who have either access to popular websites or access to print paper, to spread the text of one or both ads as far and wide as you can! Here comes the American media version: START: Open Letter to the Senate and Congress of the United States of America This is an intensely personal story. When I was very young, I knew life at the mercy of four dictators - Stalin, Hitler, Peron and Stroessner. When I came to America in 1967, I thought that I had entered paradise where there was justice, law and order. I willingly and proudly became a US citizen in 1973. Fast forward to 2003. Now of retirement age, I was happily married for more than three years to a kind, gentle man with politically incorrect views - until, in broad daylight on American soil, my husband was brutally kidnapped by agents of my government! Ernst Z?ndel, a German national, was not arrested and deported because he "overstayed his visa", as the arresting officials falsely claimed. A compelling paper trail proves that my husband was deported and imprisoned because he is a high-profile activist best known for holding politically incorrect views on the Holocaust. Because of his dogged insistence on questioning unverified Holocaust claims, Ernst Z?ndel has made powerful political enemies in several Western countries. Repeatedly, he has been targeted for assassination -- twice by parcel bomb, once by arson, and once by a young woman posing as a foreign journalist who was stealthily deported. Follow what happened recently: ERNST ZUNDEL - PRISON MEMOIRS, FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 19, 2003 I lived for more than 40 years in Canada. After my marriage to Ingrid, I had applied for Adjustment of Status so I could live with her in Tennessee. My application had been accepted. I had been fingerprinted, given a work permit, a social security number, a medical. I was waiting for an interview with Immigration officials which I understood to be the last step before being granted permanent resident status. Since our first interview had to be canceled due to a time schedule conflict, our attorney had requested a new date. We have in our possession the original return receipt that our request to be re-scheduled had been received by INS. We waited for that interview in the belief that we had done everything we knew how to do, by the book. We had purchased an art gallery and planned to open it in weeks. One of my handymen was helping me frame some of my water colors, oils and line drawings which I intended to hang that very afternoon. All this came to an abrupt end when a virtual posse of police cruisers and paddy wagons materialized in my driveway in Tennessee at about 11:00 a.m., February 5, 2003. I was dressed in my work outfit, blue jeans, mountain hiking boots, colorful carpenter's suspenders and casual flannel shirt. I inquired what brought them there as they surrounded me menacingly. They told me to put my hands on the hood of a truck in the driveway and said that they were Immigration Service Enforcement Officers who had come to take me into custody because I had failed to keep a hearing date. There was no "hearing" date. We were waiting for an interview we thought was going to be rescheduled. I was stunned - as was Ingrid. The five officers had no arrest warrant. I asked to call my attorney. The request was denied. Ingrid, too, was told no calls to our attorney were allowed. I asked Ingrid to get my jacket, passport and medication, since I was not allowed to go back into the house. Ingrid was later told that this was deemed to have been a "civil" arrest. There was nothing "civil" about this arrest! Within minutes, I was in handcuffs and leg irons in a prison van, escorted in a police convoy down our mountain road, past our art gallery, into our little town where Ingrid and I did our shopping, and onto highway I-40 to the Knoxville Immigration Office, where I was processed, finger printed, and photographed. A Polaroid photo was taken of me against the wall of some garage. This photo was then trimmed and later on stapled onto a document. The photo clearly shows the outfit I wore the moment I was arrested. I was given some documents to sign, which were lying on the desk of one of the bureaucrats when I came in. They had yellow post-it notes, and one clearly said in someone's handwriting, "Add today's date here". One Immigration officer, not directly involved in my case, had his wall decorated with a 2 x 4-foot large Israeli flag. Needless to say, I found this somewhat of an odd wall decoration in a U.S. Immigration Office! I was then put again into a prison van in handcuffs and leg irons and driven for approximately 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours through heavy traffic from Knoxville via Maryville past the airport to a nearby jail, a cold, unfriendly place. The processing there took over four hours. I was kept in an ice-cold, all-concrete holding cell - even the seats and floors were concrete - until well after midnight. The medication I had brought with me to jail was disallowed. As a result, my blood pressure began to act up. I was told by the nurses, to whom I was taken - still in handcuffs and ankle irons -- that it was dangerously high. I was housed in a two-man cell, in 24-hour lockup, only allowed a brief shower after two to three days and a short call to Ingrid -- I don't remember when. My cell-mate was an engineer in chemistry, a manic-depressive who hallucinated, talked to unseen people all day and jumped up and down and out of bed all night long, hollering orders, thinking he was in charge of the CIA and talking loudly to "the President" on his make-believe telephone. He smelled awful, obviously not having showered in weeks. He annoyed the guards repeatedly in the middle of the night by using the in-cell intercom. Finally, the guards came, six or seven of them, and told me to get off my top bunk, grab my mattress and sheets and get out of the cell. I stood in the hallway where I heard hollering, screaming, and punching. I saw blood squirting against the wall as my crazy cellmate was dragged on one leg across the floor into a different area of the prison. I saw him a few days later. He was bruised, all black and blue over his eyes and head as guards led him past me from the doctor's office. I was put into a two-man cell with a gentle, soft-spoken 65-year-old barber who had tried to shoot his mother. He was kind and helpful to me. I was now briefly with the general population, half Black, Mexican and Indian, the rest being Whites, mainly from the Smoky Mountain area. Most were hardened criminals, murderers, bank robbers, car thieves. Almost all were repeat offenders. Many had 25 to 30-year sentences. There was anger, frustration and rage in that place that was palpable. Guards were unfriendly, cold, abrupt. One guard woke me up in the middle of the night by poking me into the ribs with a flashlight because I had left a book on the windowsill. Come Sunday, I heard dogs barking. We were all ordered into our cells while black-uniformed SWAT teams with dogs went systematically from cell to cell, threw us on the floor face down, hand-cuffed, arms twisted behind our backs. They dragged us outside the cells like sacks of potatoes while helmeted, visored, New World Order-type cops hollered commands at us. They searched our pockets, beds and plastic bins. The dogs dripping saliva from their snapping jaws were mainly Dobermans and German Shepherds and were kept on chain leashes two feet away from our bodies and faces. Young, pretty women in skin-tight uniforms and tightly-fitting flak jackets, all black in color, kept climbing over the men who were curled up, face down, shaking, frightened out of their wits. Some had tears streaming down their faces. The women filmed these hapless prisoners with mini-camcorders close up, laughing and joking, having themselves a ball. Why were those videos taken? I was there on two weekends, and this terrorizing of the prisoners happened on both weekends. I was lucky to miss it the last weekend because my American attorney, whom Ingrid had in the meantime engaged, had come to see me and I was in the visitor meeting area of the prison. He had found out by the grapevine that I was going to be deported from the USA to Germany where I was born, even though I lived in Canada since I was 19 years old and don't have a criminal record either in Canada or the United States. He filed a habeas corpus motion with the court, which was denied the same day, a decision challenged by us the very next day in the Cincinnati Sixth Circuit Court. By law, I should not have been taken out of that prison and deported without having seen a judge - yet that is exactly what happened a few night later! I was awakened by pounding on my cell door at 2:30 a.m. and told to get ready. By 4:30 a.m., the guards finally came to get me for "processing out". I was given a shower, ice cold, and changed back into my civilian clothing. It was a February 17, "President's Day". Because of the holiday, they could not let me have the U.S. $400 I had brought with me to prison. To this day, that money has not been returned, nor was my expensive medication. I was taken to the Knoxville Airport without a single cent in my pocket. We boarded a plane to Atlanta, Georgia shortly after 7:00 a.m., landing there after 9:00 a.m. I was not told where we were going, but I saw a sign at the airline counter: "Buffalo, New York". Then, I realized they were shipping me to Canada, not to Germany. I had had no opportunity to let Ingrid know where I was and what was happening to me. We arrived in Buffalo at 11:30 a.m. in a bad snowstorm. There I was told I was banned from the U.S. for 20 years, which meant Ingrid would be 87, and I would be 84 years old before I might see her again. I was taken across the Canadian border, kept in a locked room at Canadian Immigration offices at the Peace Bridge. There was lots of gesticulation and loud talking. For reasons never explained, I was taken back across the U.S. border, still in a snowstorm. We seemed to slide and slither for hours until I finally spotted a sign saying "Attica, New York, Maximum Security Prison". Luckily, the van turned into Batavia and we finally arrived there at dusk, way out in a wind-blown farming area. It was a flat-roofed facility, surrounded by high barbed-wire fences and search lights with a small guard hut and a barrier, reminiscent of the Dr. Zhivago film. A huge six-foot guard, dressed in a Russian-type fur hat and a dark green greatcoat, came to check papers and cargo, and soon I was processed into the Batavia Detention Center. It was a seemingly new, very clean, well-organized facility. Unfortunately, I was only there for not quite two days before I was taken back to Canada, this time for good. I was deported via the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie on February 19, 2003. I was interrogated for about seven or eight hours off and on. I was allowed to call Ingrid, my lawyer and, within two hours, some Scottish friends from Hamilton, Ontario. They came to bring me some much-needed money. I was "arrested" again - I thought I had already been arrested! - and taken to Thorold, the Niagara Region Detention Center where, a few weeks later, I was "arrested" for the third time when I was labeled, by ministerial decree, a "security risk" for Canada - NOT for what I had done in 42 years of responsibly and productively living in that country, but for what someone else in the future "might" do by reading what I had discovered about the murky business called the "Holocaust". ===== It has been six months since my husband was taken from me. Now seriously ill, he is still being held in Toronto in 24-hour lock-up. He has been viciously demonized by the Canadian media. He has been totally ignored by the US government. He must defend himself against "security risk" charges that could well lead to life-long imprisonment, yet is not allowed a ball point pen, a pillow, or a chair. After he was arrested, not a single law enforcement agency has contacted me to explain, much less defend, what I can't help but call a surreptitious extradition in the guise of "deportation" to punish a principled man for his politically incorrect views. Am I still living in America? If somebody smashes my window, I can go to the police and complain -- and can expect that someone will investigate. If somebody smashes my life, is there no recourse because of the politically incorrect views my husband happens to hold? I'd like to think that this is still America where dissident views have a place, as long as they are put forth peacefully - as my husband, a lifelong pacifist, has always responsibly done, and as the record shows. With this Open Letter, I am formally petitioning my government for a an impartial congressional investigation. I ask that men of principle and courage stand up to right this wrong. I am putting my trust in "We the People" and ask that members of the US Congress and Senate, elected to listen to our petitions, take concrete steps to have my husband be returned to me - replete with politically incorrect views. Sincerely, Ingrid Rimland Z?ndel, Ed.D. (This Open Letter has been placed and paid for by Ingrid Rimland Z?ndel, 3152 Parkway, Suite 13, PMB 109, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863. Readers are asked to write for information and help defray skyrocketing legal expenses.) [END] Tomorrow: Ingrid's Refusenik Ad, Russian Version. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 9 04:39:00 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 9 07:07:05 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/9/2003 - "Ingrid's Refusenik Ad, Russian Version" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 9, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This is Part II of the Zundel=Refusenik Ad Saga: Yesterday's ZGram told how I tried to run the same ad back-to-back in Washington, DC and in Moscow - and how the American Ad was heavily censored and truncated, whereas the Russian ad was not. Here is the Russian ad that run under the title "American Plank Bed. Story of American Refusenik" [START] There are a thousand hacking at the branches to one who is striking at its roots. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862) An American Refusenik Story Herewith I alert the Russian people and, specifically, the Russian leadership to one of the most dictatorial events that happened in America. It is an intensely personal story. For three years, I was happily married to a kind, gentle man with politically incorrect views - until, in broad daylight on American soil, my husband was brutally kidnapped by agents of the American government and taken away in leg irons. The claim is that my husband was "deported" because he "overstayed his visa" We have the evidence to prove this allegation is untrue. We intend to prove in court that American law enforcement agencies were used unwittingly as opportune "enforcement squads" for a nasty political lobby with an agenda of muzzling free speech. Brief Background Information I am a United States citizen, of German background, born in the Ukraine, having lived in the U.S. since 1967. My husband, Ernst Z?ndel, is a high-profile activist best known for various highly publicized Free Speech Holocaust trials in several countries. For decades, Ernst Zundel has fought for his right to challenge the orthodox Holocaust tale, which claims relentlessly the "gassing of six million Jews", allowing no debate. Ask yourself this: Who is powerful enough to dictate what shall be heard or not heard, spoken or not spoken, written or not written? Truth does not fear investigation. A lie must be investigated and disarmed. To accept without doubt, to accuse without trustworthy evidence, to intimidate without proof, to lie without punishment, to censor with impunity was unthinkable in the Western democracies in ages past. In the case of the "Holocaust", the "murder weapon" is missing, Jewish casualty numbers are highly inflated, and the tales of the "witnesses" are unverifiable and often grossly bizarre. For instance, Elie Wiesel, by universal acclaim a remarkable Holocaust Survivor deserving of the Nobel Prize, wrote this: "I learn from a witness that, for month after month, the ground [of an alleged Jewish mass grave at Babi Yar in the Ukraine] never stopped trembling; and that, from time to time, geysers of blood spurted from it." ( Paroles d'?tranger, Editions du Seuil, 1982, p. 86.) In practically all Western countries, self-serving fictionalizing about the Holocaust proceeds untouched by common sense and forensically verifiable science. Why? It is really very simple: Certain enormously powerful interests, Jews and non-Jews alike, benefit handsomely from a simplistic view of history nobody is allowed to question - especially since taxpayers are willingly footing the bill. World-wide, the "Holocaust" has grown into a secular religion. To question the new dogma makes one a heretic, subject to vicious persecution and even prosecution. Russian-born Israel Shamir, a noted Israeli journalist and courageous critic of the current Israeli government, defined the problem well: "...the Holocaust is not a Jewish religion; it is a religion par excellence for goyim" - a disrespectful Hebrew word for non-Jews. The 'Holocaust' must be examined, and questions must be asked. It is not un-American to want to know the facts and to make known those facts, once found and carefully examined. Ernst Z?ndel did just that - for decades! As a German descendant, Ernst Z?ndel refuses to live on his knees. For his responsible activism on behalf of his forebears' maligned generation, he has been targeted for assassination - twice by parcel bomb, once by arson, and once by a young woman posing as a journalist who was put on an airplane to Israel by Canadian authorities before she could do mischief with a microphone disguising a gun. Because of his insistence to check out the "Holocaust" claims, Ernst Zundel has made powerful political enemies at the highest levels of governments in various Western countries. Follow what happened recently: ERNST ZUNDEL - PRISON MEMOIRS FEBRUARY 5 - FEBRUARY 19, 2003 I lived for more than 40 years in Canada. After my marriage to Ingrid, I had applied for my papers so I could live with her in Tennessee. My application had been accepted by Immigration authorities. I had been fingerprinted, given a work permit, a social security number, a medical. I was waiting for an interview with Immigration officials which I understood to be the last step before being granted permanent resident status. Since our first interview had to be canceled due to a time schedule conflict, our attorney requested a new date. We have in our possession a return receipt that our request to be re-scheduled had been received by INS. We waited for that interview in the belief that we had done everything we knew how to do, according to government regulations. In our lawyer's opinion, the overwhelmed Immigration and Naturalization Service checking into thousands of illegal immigrants in the United States simply had not come around to looking at the file of two pension-aged Whites setting up residence in Tennessee and bothering no one. We had purchased an art gallery and planned to open it in weeks. One of my handymen was helping me frame some of my water colors, oils and line drawings which I intended to hang that very afternoon. All this came to an abrupt end when a virtual posse of police cruisers and paddy wagons materialized in our driveway at about 11:00 a.m., February 5, 2003. I was dressed in my work outfit, blue jeans, mountain hiking boots, colorful carpenter's suspenders and casual flannel shirt. I inquired what brought them there as they surrounded me menacingly. They told me to put my hands on the hood of a truck in the driveway. They said that they were Immigration Service Enforcement Officers who had come to take me into custody because I had failed to keep a court date. There was no "court date" that we knew of. We were waiting to be notified of our re-scheduled interview. I was stunned - as was Ingrid. The five officers had no arrest warrant. I asked to call my attorney. The request was denied. Ingrid, too, was told no call to our attorney was allowed. I asked Ingrid to get my jacket, passport and medication, since I was not permitted to go back into the house. Ingrid was later told that this was deemed to have been a "civil" arrest and no arrest warrant was needed. There was nothing "civil" about this arrest! Within minutes, I was in handcuffs and leg irons in a prison van, escorted in a police convoy down our mountain road, past our art gallery, into our little town where Ingrid and I did our shopping, and onto highway I-40 to the Knoxville Immigration Office, where I was processed, finger printed, and photographed. A Polaroid photo was taken of me against the wall of some garage, part of a hollow block-type building. This photo was then trimmed and later on stapled onto a document. I was given some documents to sign, which were lying on the desk of one of the bureaucrats when I came in. They had yellow post-it notes, and one clearly said in someone's handwriting, "Add today's date here". One Immigration officer, not directly involved in my case, had his wall decorated with a 2 x 4-foot large Israeli flag. Needless to say, I found this somewhat of an odd wall decoration in a U.S. Immigration Office! I was then put again into a prison van in handcuffs and leg irons and driven for approximately 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours through heavy traffic from Knoxville to a nearby jail, a cold, unfriendly place. The processing there took over four hours. I was kept in an ice-cold, all-concrete holding cell - even the seats and floors were concrete - until well after midnight. The medication I had brought with me to jail was disallowed. As a result, my blood pressure began to act up. I was told by the nurses, to whom I was taken - still in handcuffs and leg irons - that it was dangerously high. I was housed in a two-man cell, in 24-hour lockup, only allowed a brief shower after two to three days and a short call to Ingrid - I don't remember when. My cell-mate was an engineer in chemistry, a manic depressive who hallucinated, talked to unseen people all day and jumped up and down and out of bed all night long, hollering orders to persons unseen, thinking he was in charge of the CIA and talking loudly to "the President" on his make-believe telephone. He smelled awful, obviously not having showered in weeks. He annoyed the guards repeatedly in the middle of the night by using the in-cell intercom. Finally, the guards came, six or seven of them, and told me to get off my top bunk, grab my mattress and sheets and get out of the cell. I stood in the hallway where I heard hollering, screaming, and punching. I saw blood squirting against the wall as my crazy cell-mate was dragged on one leg across the floor into a different area of the prison. I saw him a few days later. He was bruised, all black and blue over his eyes and head as guards led him past me from the doctor's office. I was put into a two-man cell with a gentle, soft-spoken 65-year-old barber who had tried to shoot his mother. He was kind and helpful to me. I was now briefly with the general population, half Black, Mexican and Indian, the rest being Whites, mainly from the Smoky Mountain area. Most were hardened criminals, murderers, bank robbers, car thieves. Almost all were repeat offenders. Many had 25-to 30-year sentences. There was anger, frustration and rage in that place that was palpable. Guards were unfriendly, cold, abrupt. One guard woke me up in the middle of the night by poking me into the ribs with a flashlight because I had left a book on the window sill. Come Sunday, I heard dogs barking. We were all ordered into our cells while black-uniformed SWAT teams with dogs went systematically from cell to cell, threw us on the floor face down, hand-cuffed, arms twisted behind our backs. They dragged us outside the cells like sacks of potatoes while helmeted, visored, New World Order-type cops hollered commands at us. They searched our pockets, beds and plastic bins. The dogs, dripping saliva from their snapping jaws, were mainly Dobermans and German Shepherds and were kept on chain leashes two feet away from our bodies and faces. Young, pretty women in skin-tight uniforms and tightly-fitting flak jackets, all black in color, kept climbing over the men who were curled up, face down, shaking, frightened out of their wits. Some had tears streaming down their faces. The women filmed these hapless prisoners with mini-camcorders close up, laughing and joking, having themselves a ball. Why were those videos taken? I was there on two weekends, and this terrorizing of the prisoners happened on both weekends. I was lucky to miss it the second time because my American attorney, whom Ingrid had in the meantime engaged, had come to see me and I was in the visitor meeting area of the prison. He had found out by the grapevine that I was going to be deported from the USA to Germany where I was born, even though I lived in Canada for over four decades. This lawyer filed a request with the District Court that I be permitted to see a judge to tell him what happened - a request that was denied the same day. We challenged that decision the very next day in the Cincinnati Sixth Circuit Court where a law suit is still pending. According to procedural court rules, I should not have been taken out of that prison and deported without having seen a judge - yet that is exactly what happened a few night later, February 17, 2003 - a national holiday in America, "President's Day". I was awakened by pounding on my cell door at 2:30 a.m. and told to get ready. By 4:30 a.m., the guards came to get me for "processing out". I was given a shower, ice cold, and changed back into my civilian clothing. Because of the holiday, the guards could not let me have my medication and the U.S. $400 I had brought with me to prison. To this day, that money has not been returned. I was taken to the Knoxville Airport without a single cent in my pocket and without my medication. We boarded a plane to Atlanta, Georgia shortly after 7:00 a.m., landing there after 9:00 a.m. I was not told where we were going, but I saw a sign at the airline counter: Buffalo, New York. I realized they were shipping me to Canada, not to Germany. I had had no opportunity to let Ingrid know where I was and what was happening to me. To this day, not one agency has contacted Ingrid - either by phone, letter or visit -explaining, much less justifying the arrest. We arrived in Buffalo, New York at 11:30 a.m. in a bad snowstorm. There I was told I was banned from the United States for 20 years, which meant Ingrid would be 87, and I would be 84 years old before I might have my first chance to see her again. I was taken across the Canadian border and kept in a locked room at Canadian Immigration offices at the Peace Bridge. There was lots of gesticulation and loud talking. The end result was that I was taken back across the U.S. border, still in a snowstorm. We seemed to slide and slither for hours until I finally spotted a sign saying "Attica, New York, Maximum Security Prison". Luckily, the vehicle turned into Batavia and we finally arrived there at dusk. That prison was way out in a wind-blown farming area. It was a flat-roofed facility, surrounded by high barbed-wire fences and search lights with a small guard hut and a barrier, reminiscent of the Dr. Zhivago film. A huge six-foot guard, dressed in a Russian-type fur hat and a dark green greatcoat, came to check papers and cargo. It was a seemingly new, very clean, well-organized facility. Unfortunately, I was only there for not quite two days before I was taken back to Canada, this time for good. I was deported via the Peace Bridge at Fort Erie on February 19, 2003. I was interrogated for about seven or eight hours off and on. I was allowed to call Ingrid, my lawyer and, within two hours, some Scottish friends from Hamilton, Ontario. They came to bring me some much-needed money. I was "arrested" again - I thought I had already been arrested! - and taken to Thorold, the Niagara Region Detention Center where, a few weeks later, I was "arrested" for the third time, this time right in my cell. I have been labeled a "security risk" for Canada by ministerial decree - NOT for what I have done in 42 years of responsibly living in that country, where I have no criminal record, but for what somebody else in the future "might" do by reading what I have discovered about the murky business called the "Holocaust". I came to Canada in 1958 - a nineteen-year-old kid in search of a productive life. I will be judged at age 64 by secret hearings where neither I nor my attorneys will know what is being said about me, much less who the witnesses are. No way can I defend myself - except by raising public awareness. ===== Can this be happening in America - the Land of the Free and the Brave? Since my husband's arrest, six months have gone by. He is still in maximum detention. He is not allowed a chair, a pillow, or a pen. Yet there are no criminal charges. With this ad, I am pleading for public awareness. If somebody smashes my window, I can go to the police and complain - and can expect that someone will investigate. If somebody smashes my life, is there no recourse because my husband holds politically incorrect views backed up by solid research about the so-called "Holocaust"? Holocaust Revisionism is not a cult or a subversive ideology. It is a scientific methodology to sort out truths from falsehoods. Research has shown the "Holocaust" is not "self-evident" - yet it is shielded by practically all Western governments. The term has the power to hurt, and it has the power to silence. It is the central taboo of our time. I say the "Holocaust" has grown into a cult and a subversive ideology! Recently, I paid for an ad in one of the major American papers. The question I put to my country's elected officials is simply: Exactly, what is meant by "Holocaust"? HISTORY? OR DOGMA? * If the Holocaust is history, it MUST be open to investigation, like any other historical claim. * If, on the other hand, the Holocaust is a religious dogma, it has no place in law enforcement training manuals, supported by taxpayers' money. In my young years, I lived under four dictators - Stalin and Hitler in Europe, Peron and Stroessner in South America. When I came to America, I thought that I had entered paradise, where there was justice, where there was law and order. I willingly and proudly became a US citizen. I'd like to think that this is still America where dissident views have a place. Or am I wrong? Does my own government approve of American law enforcement officers to act as hit squads for alien interests, dragging a law-abiding man of retirement age away in handcuffs and leg irons to be dumped in maximum detention for months on end with no relief in sight - because he questions claims that demonize his people, the Germans of the World War generation? A taboo has bitten into America's soul - a taboo that is pose and pretense. It seems to get a free pass from the American government. And yet its claims have no foundation in reality. Those claims must be checked out. It's time to check them out. It's time to ask hard questions. I will ask the members of my Congress and my Senate to take swift, concrete steps to have my husband be returned to me, replete with his politically incorrect views. I ask that men of principle and courage stand up to the abuses of the Holocaust Lobby - and do so with verve and conviction. I ask that men of honor, elected to serve the American people, not dive for the politically correct fig leaf the moment the Holocaust Lobby says "Boo!" . But I will do more! I am asking the Russian President, Wladimir Putin, to take a stand, condemning this abuse by government - exactly as America, in past years, condemned the dictatorial actions in Soviet Russia. I ask the Russian people to cut out the letter below and send it to the Kremlin. Please do that for a man who has done nothing wrong - who merely followed his conscience! Dear President Putin: You probably are not aware of my husband, Ernst Z?ndel - but hundreds of thousands of people all over the world know his name. Ernst Z?ndel is the man who, under vicious siege by a powerful political lobby, sent an investigative team from Canada to Auschwitz in 1988 to test forensically if "gassings" really happened - and found that they did not. Science does not lie, and scientific findings can be verified. His evidence must stand or fall in the free market of ideas. My husband has pleaded for a safe, impartial global forum ever since to make his findings known. The Canadian Holocaust Lobby has never forgiven Ernst Z?ndel. Recently, he was arrested on US soil - allegedly because he missed an interview with Immigration and Naturalization Services officials. No judge. No hearing. No recourse. Instead, leg irons and handcuffs - and brutal incarceration in four maximum detention prisons, first in America and now in Canada. False news was spread in mainstream media that he had "overstayed his visa". Not so. He was married to a U.S. citizen, and we have irrefutable documentation that he was legally entitled to be here. His "punishment", just for a starter? Banned from the U.S.A. for 20 years! My husband's brutal treatment by government officials in what many vainly hope are still two of the West's most law-abiding democratic countries is reminiscent of the darkest days of Soviet Russia. I know whereof I speak. At the age of five, I lost my father in a very similar arrest in 1941 - never to see him again! I am a Russian-born, German-descendant, award-winning novelist, best known for an early novel, "The Wanderers", a fictitious account of the life of my Russian-born Mennonite grandmother. More recently, I wrote a trilogy, spanning seven generations and 200 years and all the major political upheavals of the last two gruesome, bloody centuries. My people, living peacefully in the Ukraine since 1789, were ethnically cleansed in the political purges of 1938-1941, and only a handful of us could save ourselves, escaping with the retreating German Army in 1943 to Germany and, then, in 1948, to South America. I grew up in the jungles, functionally illiterate and knowing little of the political realities of dictatorships that transformed and decimated countries like Russia and Germany. As an adult, I emigrated to Canada and then to the United States, always thinking of the country of my birth, Russia, as a place out of the depths of hell - until I learned about an intellectual movement called Revisionism. My now imprisoned husband is globally known as a Revisionist pioneer. Ernst Z?ndel has a profound geopolitical understanding of the moneyed interests setting brother against brother, causing rivers of blood and tears for the gains of a handful of oligarchs who fattened themselves on our pain. Today I know that Russia was as horribly victimized as Germany was. Russia suffered as much as Germany did - and as America will suffer, unless America wakes up and comes to understand today's events in light of what was done so cruelly to law-abiding people yesterday. Referring to my husband's brutal arrest, one of my Russian Revisionist correspondents called Ernst and myself "America's Refuseniks" and pledged his intellectual solidarity. It is an apt description of who we are and what we do. We refuse to believe in historical lies. We refuse to be dictated to and told who are our friends and who should be our enemies. We refuse to surrender our Freedom of Speech. We refuse to swallow manufactured history such as the "Holocaust by gassing" - a lie that has become an intellectual stranglehold on every Western country. If our findings are deemed "wrong", then let's have a civilized debate in a respectable national forum where both sides can offer arguments and evidence - and let the people judge! Recently, I read an essay by Russian General Anatoly Wolkow, titled "People, Listen To The Signals!" Here is a former enemy of Germany who stretches out a hand of friendship to soften the political mistakes of the past and bring long-needed healing to both Germany and Russia. I believe there are millions of Russians who would identify with what he says. I know there are millions of Germans all over the world who would like nothing better than to bury the hostilities of World War II and once again be known as Russia's partners, friends and scientific benefactors. America would benefit from such a reconciliation. America is not in need of yet another war. We need to find ways to each other! I plead with you to send a message to those millions, Germans and Russians alike, as well as millions in America and Canada, that we are kin, not enemies. A Russian leader of courage and vision could tell the Western world that the Russia of today has finally become autonomous, living by democratic principles, abhorring censorship. There is a way to shame short-sighted Western bureaucrats for their repressive laws - and wake up people globally to the realities of vested interest power plays that move us ever closer to a frightening abyss. A simple gesture, even if only symbolic, would telegraph around the world that Russia, emerging out of decades of repression, has thrown away her dictatorial shackles: Declare Ernst Z?ndel, Prisoner of Conscience, in broad daylight kidnapped "legally" by his nefarious enemies on U.S. soil, to be the West's most notable "Refusenik" - and offer him asylum and a passport. Sincerely, Ingrid Zundel, Ed.D. [END] So there you have it. And let me tell you once again that this is only the beginning! Other plans are in the making, and we will not give up! Let this be our slogan - globally: NO SURRENDER! EVER! Ingrid From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Sep 10 16:53:52 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Sep 10 19:20:45 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/10/2003 - "Shamir isn't walking on eggs!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 10, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: When I first got to know Shamir - via email only - I cringed every time I called him "Israel." It seemed so out of joint and left a bad taste in my mouth. He must have felt it, too, for he asked me to call him Shamir. I told him that, in German parlance, calling a friend by his last name wasn't exactly polite. His answer: "If your name was Ursula Alexander, wouldn't you want people to call you Alex?" "Shamir" it has been ever since. I consider him one of the greatest and most courageous minds of our time. [START] WALKING ON EGGS By Israel Shamir The NY Times is a bountiful spring of instructions to perplexed mankind. Its editors appointed by Mr Sulzberger (apparently, God's representative on earth) have an advice for everybody: what should the French do with their cheese (pasteurise and shove it you-know-where), Russians with their media (give it to Mr Gusinsky, a coreligionist of Mr Sulzberger), Chinese with their country (open it to Enron) and Palestinians with themselves (die, soonest). Now from their Mt Sinai on the 5th Avenue they conferred on grateful humanity a new commandment penned by Ian Buruma, directing us How to Talk about Israel.[1] Yes, it is delicate task. You may speak freely about Saudis and describe them as a medieval Kingdom of Evil, famous for their cruelty and barbarism (Norman Liebman) or their monstrous regime (Lenni Brenner), you may say that Swiss are mean and ugly, you may call French 'froggies'; moreover, you may pour scorn and hate on the United States of America, as (justifiably) did Ms Roy in her recent epistle. But you have to be guided by Mr Sulzberger and his hacks if you dare to Talk about Israel. What is so special about Israel? Our sweet Jaffa oranges? Our modest nuclear armed forces able to destroy every European capital? Our superb snipers who can kill a child at half a mile? Our wonderful torture equipment eagerly purchased by every Enemy of Terrorism? No, when Buruma writes 'Israel', he does not mean the State of Israel, a small but nasty piece of goods located somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. He means a much stronger entity. Our friend, a gifted American writer Ghassan Ghraizi, whose novel, "Israel, by Any Other Name" I warmly recommend, was tricked by wily Buruma: "I started reading Buruma, expecting an answer to how I can discuss Israel with some of my Jewish friends; but all I got was obfuscation and misdirection. Starting with the first three words, 'the Jewish Problem', Buruma exploits the symbols of historically European Jewish persecution to confuse the Palestinian grievances. Like a magician's, Buruma's misdirection of focus on 'anti-Semitism' blurs a reader's understanding. The remaining text suffers from contradictions, omissions, and false comparisons." (read full text of Ghraizi's review below). Innocent man, Ghraizi, did not understand that Buruma (and many other people) used 'Israel' as a euphemism for the ineffable J-word. There is nothing special about Israel but we are full of Mr Sulzberger's nephews and Mr Wolfowitz' cousins. Nothing special, but whatever passes for the American Mind is manufactured by the JINSA. Nothing special, but we get more American money than any part of the USA. Nothing special, but every American politician from the President down to last State Governor will say 'uncle' if asked by our Prime Minister. In plain words, our special position is nothing but an indicator of exalted, nay, unique position of the American Jews. Witty Miriam Reik from New York City noted: "The fact that Ian Buruma wrote it as if walking on eggs, shows the depth of the problem." (read her response below). Still, publication of Buruma's essay (at the bottom of the email) is an important and encouraging event. Not because he says something new - he does not. Not because he is honest or sincere - he is not. But it is a sign that the elusive Enemy reels under the brunt of attack. It is a hurt cry, the first cry of Goliath hurt. Two years ago, when this list departed into uncharted waters of checking the Jewish connection behind the developments in the US and the Middle East, such an essay would not be needed. One could talk about Israel with admiration, or at worst with regret that she lost her youthful idealism. One could not even notice the new American Jewish elite of the superpower who directed every bullet of Israeli snipers and every bomb dropped by the US planes on Iraq and Afghanistan. Things had changed. Buruma admits that "the idea that Jewish interests are somehow at the center of American foreign policy in the Middle East is widely held, and not only outside the United States". He tries to pooh-pooh it, but he is painfully aware of peeling Stealth cover of the American Judeocracy. Once revealed, this peculiar form of social organisation, akin to Brahmin predominance in India, became obvious to millions of spectators. The ever-watchful Anti-Defamation League (ADL) also noticed "hateful conspiracy theories . about Jews continue to gather force around the world . despite two years of intensive efforts by watchdog groups and democratic governments to combat them"[2] But "a "conspiracy theory" is not prima facie absurd, at any rate in Anglo-American jurisprudence. Indeed, "participation in a common plan or conspiracy" to commit aggression was the centrepiece of the prosecution's indictment at the Nuremberg trial", writes Norman Finkelstein[3] The conspiracy of silence was undermined by the 'Jewish' dissidents: Norman Finkelstein, Miriam Reik, Jeff Blankfort, Michael Neumann, Gilad Atzmon, Edward Herman, Israel Shahak together with their 'gentile' comrades, for the 'Jewish conspiracy' works for the interests of the organised Jewish leadership, and against the true interests of ordinary folk of Jewish origin. More to the point, there is no Jew or Gentile but brotherhood of humanity for whoever accepts this brotherhood. But their effort and self-sacrifice will be lost unless supported by others. Or, in words of Samuel Adams, "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." If Ian Buruma 'walked on eggs', wonderful Arundhati Roy in her ode to equally wonderful Noam Chomsky did not even come close to the eggs. She noticed "the mainstream media's blatant performance as the U.S. government's mouthpiece, its display of vengeful patriotism, its willingness to publish Pentagon press handouts as news, and its explicit censorship". She noticed that the United States can commit horrible crimes and escape condemnation because "it has enlisted the services of the most powerful, most successful publicity firm in the world: Hollywood". But she circumspectly does not notice the American Jews who are predominant in the media and Hollywood. Out of two dozens of Media moguls she carefully mentions a non-Jewish one, although a friend of Israel, Berlusconi. She justly condemns 'Neoliberal capitalism' without referring to Milton Friedman and genocidal bombing of Cambodia without the name of Henry Kissinger. She writes of "the key role America has played in the conflict in the Middle East, in which thousands have died fighting Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territory" but avoids the real reason behind this American role: the mighty power of the Jewish Lobby, as attended and duly described by Noam Chomsky's co-author of Manufacturing Consent, fearless Edward Herman (alas, he remained unmentioned in her piece). She speaks of the war and preceding "sanctions that have led directly, and indirectly, to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq" but does not notice the [self-styled] Cabal, these 25 people, in words of Thomas Friedman to Ari Shavit ["Friedman laughs: I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened.[4]"] who caused the war, and almost all of them Jewish disciples of Leo Strauss and their schoolmates. Indeed, it is like talking of India's policy in 19th century without mentioning the British rule. Could it be that for an Indian writer, the Brahmins' leading role goes without saying? But our problem is exactly that: the huge monopoly of media causing lack of democracy in the US. The monopoly should receive the same treatment the giant Standard Oil received in the beginning of 20th century: it should be broken and democratised. [END] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- [1] HOW TO TALK ABOUT ISRAEL By Ian Buruma New York Times Magazine August 31, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/magazine/31ANTISEMITISM.html [2] Conspiracy Theories about Jews, US Newswire Sept. 2 [3] in his new foreword to the German translation he quotes Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: 2000), intro. by Robert Reich to such effect, while defending himself against such charges. [4] http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=280279 From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Sep 12 10:29:33 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 12 13:00:30 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/11/2003 - "Lucky his name wasn't Zundel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 11, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Again, I am sending you two ZGrams back-to-back. Today's ZGram shows how lenient the Canadian Government can be when it chooses to be lenient for a person calling openly for genocide. Tomorrow's ZGram shows that when the Canadian Government chooses to inflict humiliation and discomfort to the max, it can find ways to do so. [START] LUCKY HIS NAME WASN'T ZUNDEL by Paul Fromm Dear Free Speech Supporter: Like the Globe and Mail, we have consistently opposed Canada's restrictive and censorious "hate law". The Canadian government has spent 8 years trying to deport Rwandan refugee claimant Leon Mugesera as an inadmissible person for having committed war crimes or crimes against humanity; namely, promoting genocide. It seems that, by any reasonable definition, Mugesera was inciting listeners to violence and, indeed, genocide against minority Tutsis in a 1992 speech. He repeatedly referred to the Tutsis as "cockroaches" (verbal overkill, but permissible) and called for their "extermination". This would seem to be a clear incitement to violence. Not so, says the increasingly bizarre Federal Court. Mugusera is just another misunderstood would-be "refugee" and may stay. It's lucky for the Rwanadan that he's not a German or Ukrainian. It's even luckier that his name is not Ernst Zundel. In a number of cases, including that of Helmut Oberlander, our Federal Courts have been quite happy to order the deportation of Germans and East Europeans for having failed to admit they had been in certain military units, even when the documentation of what they actually said has long since been destroyed and their actual words lost. While Leon "Exterminate the Tutsi Cockroaches" Mugesera walks free, dissident publisher Ernst Zundel rots in solitary confinement in the West Toronto Detention Centre, without pen, chair, post-it notes, paperclips, herbal supplements and medication, or hardcover books. The Federal Court has thus far refused him bail. His crime is not advocating violence or genocide. No, according to the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), this pacifist, who has never been charged or convicted under the Criminal Code of Canada of ANY crime, let alone one of violence, is alleged to be a terrorist. In the Mugesera case, the Federal Court, apparently, rejected some of the evidence as coming from sources that were biased. The entire public -- as opposed to whatever evidence has been produced in the secret hearings -- case against Ernst Zundel is based on an hysterical guilt-by-association report from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Yet, as Mr. Zundel's defence team has demonstrated in hearings before the Immigration and Refugee Board, CSIS is not just biased against Ernst Zundel, it is pathologically hostile, having, according to Andre Mitrovica's book COVERT ENTRY, been, at the very least, a passive accomplice to a 1995 mailbomb assassination attempt aimed at Mr. Zundel. CSIS strictly instructed its mail snooping operatives not to open any package from Vancouver addressed to Mr. Zundel in May, 1995. That very month a powerful pip bomb with a Vancouver return address was delivered by mail to Mr. Zundel's Toronto residence. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION ____________________________ Assessing the violence in Mugesera's speech GLOBE AND MAIL Thursday, September 11, 2003 - Page A22 A Rwandan proverb has it that "when the word climbs the hill, we cannot get it down again." The proverb was surely never truer than when L?on Mugesera, now living in Quebec City, addressed a political rally in Rwanda in late 1992. Human-rights activists, including Canada's Stephen Lewis, have described those words as an incitement to genocide. The words have been at the centre of eight years of jurisprudence in Canada over whether the federal government may deport Mr. Mugesera. Now the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that Mr. Mugesera's words were misinterpreted, that they did not violate Canadian law and that he is free to stay. The word, however, remains on the hill for all to see. The word is "extermination," and it appears repeatedly in Mr. Mugesera's speech. And the Federal Court, though it did an excellent job in paring away falsehoods about Mr. Mugesera that have persisted ever since an international human-rights team wrote a hasty report about Rwanda in 1993, arrived at a couple of questionable interpretations of the 1992 address. Mr. Mugesera, then a regional politician and civil servant in Rwanda, spoke at a time of great conflict, and the Federal Court was right to insist that he be given latitude to address that conflict in his own way. As the court said, "exceptional care and caution" is needed in judging him. Canada's law against promoting hatred is a blunt instrument that unreasonably limits freedom of speech, to such a degree that this newspaper has taken issue with the law on many occasions. The country should not deport permanent residents simply because they exercise the right to free speech in an objectionable manner. However, a line needs to be drawn at the incitement of violence, which is covered by a separate provision in the Criminal Code. If Mr. Mugesera's remarks were found to be an incitement to genocide, it would not matter whether a link could be drawn between Mr. Mugesera's 1992 words and the genocide that began 17 months later, in which between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Incitement to murder and genocide is a crime in Canadian law whether or not the murder or genocide occurs. After careful scrutiny, the Federal Court wisely discarded erroneous allegations about Mr. Mugesera. There is no evidence that massacres took place in the immediate aftermath of his speech. He was not a member of Rwanda's governing inner circle whose views carried great weight. And the court was right to be skeptical of the findings of human-rights groups that visited Rwanda for two weeks in 1993. However, the violent imagery, set around repeated descriptions of Tutsis as "cockroaches," is difficult to dismiss. "Why do they not arrest these parents who have sent away their children and why do they not exterminate them?" Mr. Mugesera said. "Why do they not arrest the people taking them away and why do they not exterminate all of them? Are we really waiting till they come to exterminate us? . . . If justice therefore is no longer serving the people . . . we must do something ourselves to exterminate this rabble. . . . When you allow a serpent biting you to remain attached to you with your agreement, you are the one who will suffer." The court asserted that Mr. Mugesera cannot be blamed if others used his words in preparing the genocide. Yet is he not responsible for setting his words up on the hill? The court's comment also invites the question: Why did those who planned the genocide use his words if they were not an incitement? Most problematic is the Federal Court's naive interpretation of a crucial paragraph in the speech. That paragraph reads, in full: "Recently, I told someone who came to brag to me that he belonged to the P.L. [Tutsi Party] -- I told him, 'The mistake we made in 1959, when I was still a child, is to let you leave.' I asked him if he had not heard of the story of the Falashas, who returned home to Israel from Ethiopia. He replied that he knew nothing about it! I told him, 'So don't you know how to listen or read? I am telling you that your home is in Ethiopia, that we will send you by the Nyabarongo so you can get there quickly.' What I am telling you is, we have to rise up, we must really rise up." The court finds it "strange" that Mr. Mugesera would use the positive experience of the Falashas' return to Israel if he were intent on inciting violence. This seems a blatant misreading of the paragraph. The Nyabarongo River was a place of massacres in 1959; Mr. Mugesera said the mistake was to "let you leave"; the example of the Falashas was a way of saying: We will send you home again, to your true home in Ethiopia (the Tutsis were not seen to be true Rwandans), via the river. And the conclusion reinforces that message of violence: "Do not be afraid, know that anyone whose neck you do not cut is the one who will cut your neck." The court found that these statements did not violate Canadian laws against incitement to violence. We are pleased the court gave wide latitude to free speech, but troubled by its interpretation of Mr. Mugesera's statements. The federal government should seek an appeal so that the Supreme Court can take a look at this one. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Sep 12 10:33:07 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 12 13:00:40 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/12/2003 - "A chair for Mr. Zundel? Nyet!" (giggle) "... unless we put him in the nutcase ward!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny September 12, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Here is another blossom from the bureaucracy of Absurdistan. The hypocrisy and sadism embedded in this letter deserve to be added to Internet archives - while a still-sane world struggles against the Forces of Darkness to preserve and protect Freedom of Speech. For weeks, even months, the Zundel Defense team has argued that a man who has to defend himself against the spurious but very serious charge of being a "security risk to Canada" ought to at least be entitled to a chair and post-it note pads so he can sit and mark up his legal documents. Here is the response. The letter speaks for itself - and please don't miss the lofty source! [START] Ministry of the Attorney General Legal Services Branch Ministry of Public Safety and Security 8th Floor, 77 Greenwille Street Toronto, ON M5S 1B3 September 10, 2003 (Addressed to Douglas Christie, Attorney) Dear Mr. Christie, Re: Ernst Zundel Further to our recent conversations, I have consulted with the Toronto West Detention Centre and the Central Region Office with respect to your request that you be permitted to send post-it notes and a chair for Mr. Zundel. As I indicated when we spoke on the phone, the institution does not permit inmates to be sent materials or furniture that are not generally available to all other inmates. This is the ministry policy for security reasons, and in order to be consistent and fair with respect to the rights and privileges extended to all inmates. As you are aware, Mr. Zundel is currently being held in administrative segregation as the institution considers it necessary that he be held separate from the general inmate population for his own protection. Mr. Zundel's placement in administrative segregation is reviewed at least once every five days. While Mr. Zundel would be in a cell with a built-in stool if he were among the general population of inmates, due to those concerns for Mr. Zundel's safety, the institution does not consider it prudent to house Mr. Zundel among the general population. If Mr. Zundel were housed among the general population in one of a range of cells that gives on to a day room, he would be sharing a cell with at least one other inmate and could come into contact with other inmates on the range on a daily basis. The institution has reviewed the options for Mr. Zundel's accommodation in light of his concern regarding the lack of a chair or stool in his segregation cell, and has determined that once arrangements can be made, Mr. Zundel will be housed in a special needs intake unit while maintaining his status in administrative segregation. The special needs intake unit is architecturally like a standard range, as it includes 10 cells that contain bunk beds and built-in stools, however, each cell houses only one inmate due to the nature of the special needs intake population. You and your client should be aware that special needs inmates are those who require special health care services, often psychiatric care, or who have exhibited behaviour that may be either unacceptable or harmful to themselves or to others such that association with the general population may pose a risk. Mr. Zundel would need to go into the day room on that range in order to make phone calls and have access to a shower and fresh air, and there may be some restrictions on when he could be in the day room as interaction with other inmates on the special needs unit is generally avoided for safety reasons. If at any time the institution determines that a special needs intake cell is not appropriate for Mr. Zundel either due to concerns for his safety or for any other operational reason, Mr. Zundel will be returned to a segregation cell. Yours truly, Jinan Kubursi, Counsel c. Donald MacIntosh and Pamela Larmondin, Department of Justice, Fax (416) 954-8982. Justice Blais, Federal Court of Canada, Fax (416)973-2154 [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Sep 13 02:29:39 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Sep 13 04:51:17 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/13/2003 - "Leni" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 13, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This one will never be forgotten! When our world returns to sanity, as sooner or later it must, the autographed photo she sent to Ernst Zundel only months before she died will hang in the Zundel Museum, depicting those virtues she lived by, those values that should matter most: A love for beauty, diligence, self-discipline, courage, community responsibility, not living on one's knees - to name just a handful of many; [START] Hitler's Propaganda Filmmaker Dies at 101 Leni Riefenstahl, Renowned and Despised Filmmaker Who Depicted Hitler Rally, Dies at 101 The Associated Press BERLIN Sept. 9 - Leni Riefenstahl, whose hypnotic depiction of Hitler's Nuremberg rally, "Triumph of the Will," was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made, has died. She was 101. Riefenstahl died Monday night at her home in the Bavarian lakeside town of Poecking, mayor Rainer Schnitzler said. Riefenstahl's companion Horst Kettner said she died in her sleep. "Her heart simply stopped," Kettner told the online version of the German celebrity magazine Bunte. A tireless innovator of film and photographic techniques, Riefenstahl's career centered on a quest for adventure and portraying physical beauty. Even as she turned 100 last year, she strapped on scuba gear to photograph sharks in turquoise waters. She had begun to complain recently that injuries sustained in accidents over the years, including a helicopter crash in Sudan in 2000, had taken their toll and caused her constant pain. Despite critical acclaim for her later photographs of the African Nuba people and of undersea flora and fauna, she spent more than half her life trying to live down the films she made for Hitler and for having admired the tyrant who devastated Europe and all but eliminated its Jews. Even as late as 2002, Riefenstahl was investigated for Holocaust denial after she said she did not know that Gypsies taken from concentration camps to be used as extras in one of her wartime films later died in the camps. Authorities eventually dropped the case, saying her comments did not rise to a prosecutable level. Speaking to The Associated Press just before her 100th birthday on Aug. 22, 2002, Riefenstahl dramatically said she has "apologized for ever being born" but that she should not be criticized for her masterful films. "I don't know what I should apologize for," she said. "I cannot apologize, for example, for having made the film 'Triumph of the Will' it won the top prize. All my films won prizes." Biographer Juergen Trimborn, who wrote "Riefenstahl: A German Career," said she could not apologize because the Nazi films were the centerpieces of her career. "One can't speak about Leni Riefenstahl without looking at her entire career in the Third Reich," Trimborn said. "Her most important films were made during the Third Reich 'Triumph of the Will,' 'Olympia,' that's what's she's known for." The former president of the Goethe Institute honored Riefenstahl as an aesthetic model for many directors around the world. "Now that she is dead, we can distinguish between the aesthetic Leni Riefenstahl and her political entanglements," said Hilmar Hoffman. But Germany's Culture Minister Christina Weiss said Riefenstahl's life tragically demonstrated that "art is never unpolitical, and that form and content cannot be separated from one another." Riefenstahl said she had always been guided by the search for beauty, whether it was in her images of the 1934 Nuremberg rallies with thousands of goose-stepping soldiers and enraptured civilians fawning for their Fuehrer, in her dazzling portrayal of the 1936 Olympic athletes in Berlin, or in her still photographs of the sculpted Nuba men. "I always see more of the good and the beautiful than the ugly and sick," Riefenstahl said. "Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life." Born Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl in Berlin on Aug. 22, 1902, she was the first child of Alfred Riefenstahl, the owner of a heating and ventilation firm, and his wife, Bertha Scherlach. Riefenstahl's artistic career began as a creative dancer until a knee injury led her to switch to movies. After she saw one of Arnold Fanck's silent films set in the mountains, Riefenstahl presented herself to him as his new star, and he accepted, as much for her blue-eyed, high-cheekboned beauty as her daredevil spirit. She climbed rocks barefoot for the camera and was buried in an avalanche for the death scene in the 1926 film "Mountain of Destiny." Soon, she was making her own films, fairy tales such as "The Blue Light" celebrating Germany's Alpine mystique, in which she was star, screenwriter and director. She heard Hitler speak for the first time at a 1932 rally and wrote to him again offering her talents. In her memoirs, Riefenstahl describes her first impression of Hitler's charisma. "It seemed as if the earth's surface were spreading out in front of me, like a hemisphere that suddenly splits apart in the middle, spewing out an enormous jet of water, so powerful that it touched the sky and shook the earth. I felt quite paralyzed." Though she said she knew nothing of Hitler's "Final Solution" and learned of concentration camps only after the war, Riefenstahl said she confronted the Fuehrer about his anti-Semitism, one of many apparent contradictions in her claims of total ignorance of the Nazi mission. Likewise, she defended "Triumph of the Will" as a documentary that contained "not one single anti-Semitic word," while avoiding any talk about filming Nazi official Julius Streicher haranguing the crowd about "racial purity" laws. Many suspected Riefenstahl of being Hitler's lover, which she also denied. Nonetheless, as his filmmaker, Riefenstahl was the only woman to help shape the rise of the Third Reich. She made four films for Hitler, the best known of which were "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia," a meditation on muscle and movement at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She married once, in 1944 to army Maj. Peter Jacob, but the couple split three years later. She had no children, and her only sibling, Heinz, was killed on the eastern front during World War II. Riefenstahl spent three years under allied arrest after the war, some of the time in a mental hospital. War tribunals ultimately cleared her of any wrongdoing but suspicion of being a Nazi collaborator stuck. She was boycotted as a film director and sank into poverty, living with her mother in a one-room apartment. She reclaimed her career in the 1960s when she lived with and photographed the Nuba. "I've never laughed so much as I did when living with the Nuba. I became reconciled with myself," she said. She next turned to underwater photography, diving in the Maldives, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and off Papua New Guinea. She learned to dive when she was 72, lying about her age by 20 years to gain admittance to a class. Around this time, she met Kettner, a fellow photographer half her age who became her live-in assistant and companion. At age 100, she released a new film based on her dives, "Impressions Under Water." She said she hoped she would be remembered as "an industrious woman who has worked very hard her whole life and has received much acknowledgment." A funeral was planned for Friday in Munich. [END] ( SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/world/ap20030909_1133.html ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Sep 14 05:24:48 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Sep 14 07:49:49 2003 Subject: ZGrams - September 14, 2003 - "American Dissident Voices: Zundel Update - Part I"/ Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 14, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Zundel Case Update, Part 1 by Kevin Alfred Strom with Mark Weber I American Dissident Voices Broadcast of September 13, 2003 Welcome to American Dissident Voices. I'm Kevin Alfred Strom. Today we have as our guest Mr. Mark Weber, the Director of the Institute for Historical Review, who will update us on what has been happening in the case of revisionist writer and publisher Ernst Zundel, who was expelled from the U.S. and is now held as a political prisoner in Canada. *** KAS: Welcome to American Dissident Voices, Mark Weber. Mark, ever since Ernst Zundel was arrested in February in Tennessee, you've been the media spokesman for the Zundels. I understand that Ingrid Zundel asked you to do that so that she would be free to work for her husband's release on other fronts. May I ask, first, how she is doing? MW: She's carrying a tremendous load at their home in Tennessee without Ernst. She's been putting out the newsletter ever since his arrest. She has to coordinate the support that Ernst has from all over the country and even around the world. As a result of the Zundel matter, her workload has increased tremendously, not just because she doesn't have her husband, but because he's now more in the news and there's more going on than there has been in the two and a half years they were living pretty quietly there. But the big problem is that she is fearful -- rightly and understandably so -- that she may never see her husband again. The danger is that Canadian authorities will put him on a plane, send him off to Germany, and that he'll be put in jail in Germany and may never even return to North America. And she not only has the concerns that anyone would have who's a colleague of Ernst Zundel, but also the very special concerns and worries that a wife has for her husband. KAS: Indeed. I can understand that. You mentioned a newsletter. Is this a print newsletter or an Internet newsletter? MW: It's both -- or several things. She puts out a newsletter that Ernst has been putting out for years, reporting on his activities and his observations, and so forth. And now she has to compile that and put that out. In addition, Ingrid puts out -- every day -- her so-called Zgrams. These are email messages that she sends to a large email subscriber list. And these are archived on the Zundelsite Web site. [ http://www.zundelsite.org ] It should be obvious, by the way, more than ever, that responsibility for the Zundelsite is really Ingrid's. She started this site, and even though it's called the Zundelsite, it's really the work of Ingrid Rimland. [Rimland is the name she acquired through her first marriage, which she retains for much of her literary work. ] That's important to note, because the last big legal battle that Ernst fought in Canada, before he decided to move to the United States, was precisely over that Web site. And the Canadian authorities contended, and the Jewish groups charged, that he was really the one operating this Web site. And he contended -- and I know it's true -- that he doesn't even access the Web site himself. There's a lot of material on the Web site, granted, that he has written; but the responsibility for it is really with his wife, Ingrid. And it was with Ingrid before they were even married. One of the interesting aspects of all of this, too, is that at the recent hearing that was held in Canada, in which the Zundel side once again asked for bail and was turned down, the judge focused tremendously on the Zundelsite. Zundel insisted, 'Look, I don't run this site. I'm almost computer illiterate.' Which in fact I know to be true. And the judge focused on this. It was an encouraging development: The fact that the judge focused on that indicated that he did not feel that the case that the Canadian government's equivalent of the FBI -- the CSIS (Canadian Security and Intelligence Service) -- had made was very strong. Their case -- that he's a "threat to national security" -- is so empty that the judge doesn't feel that he can rely on that, but instead has to focus on this Web site. It's never been a contention of the Canadian authorities that this Web site is part of their case that he's a "threat to national security." KAS: And the Zundelsite has always been Ingrid Zundel's responsibility, not Ernst's. MW: Yes, even before they were married and she lived in California. That's right. KAS: How can one subscribe to the newsletters you mentioned? MW: Just click on to the Zundelsite. Or you can go the IHR's site [ http://www.ihr.org ] and go to the links -- we of course have a link to it. And there's a place to subscribe to her Zgrams. She's very easy to contact. So she puts out the newsletter; she has to manage donations and coordination of her supporters; and one of the biggest battles she has is to coordinate the legal campaign. They have lawyers both in Canada and the United States who are fighting this case. And she has to organize that, and raise money for their support. Another thing she's done is to place a large full-page ad in the Washington Times [ http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=154 ] on behalf of her husband in the form of an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, asking for his help to pressure the United States or ask the United States to release him. She did that, in part, because Ingrid Rimland was actually born in Russia. KAS: I see. MW: She was from a small Mennonite German community, settlers who had lived for many years in Russia. They were German-speaking people. At the end of World War II, as a girl, along with millions of other people who were refugees, she went westward when the German army and the Axis armies were retreating. Rather than live under Communist rule, they fled to the west with the German forces as they were retreating. She grew up, and spent some later years after that, in South America with this Mennonite community, and then came to California and made a life here. KAS: Has she received any response from the Russian government? [Since this program was recorded, another, more extensive ad has run in the Russian newspaper Zavtra. See http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=157 and http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=175 -- KAS] MW: Not that I know of, no. In fact the main purpose of the advertisement was to make the case better known in the American media and to the American public in general. It's a tragic thing, a sad thing, and I think a sad commentary that there's been very little coverage of the whole Zundel matter here in the United States media. It's been widely covered in the Canadian media because Ernst Zundel is a well known -- if 'infamous' -- figure in Canada. He's well known in that country, and as soon as he was arrested it was big news all over Canada, a front page story in major newspapers. But almost nothing has appeared about it here in the American media. I spoke to a reporter for one major newspaper, and he had some interest in it, but then he just asked me, 'Well why is this a story for America?' And I gave what I thought was a pretty good case for why this story deserves to be covered in the American media, but he never followed up and never wrote a story on it. So it's gotten very little coverage in the U.S. media. KAS: When we last spoke about this case on this program, Ernst Zundel had been transferred from New York to Ontario, and he was awaiting hearings on possible deportation to Germany, where he would surely be prosecuted and imprisoned for his writings. So really there are two 'sides' to this case. What is happening on the U.S. side of this case? MW: On the U.S. side, Ingrid is -- with a very tenacious lawyer here -- trying to appeal the arrest of her husband. And she has a strong case that the arrest was on a pretext. It's almost unheard of that a person living in the United States, who's married to an American citizen -- and this is really an important feature of it -- is just picked up on the grounds that he has broken some procedural regulation. That's the claim. He supposedly missed an appointment of some kind. Now I don't know precisely what happened, but Ingrid and Ernst both tell me that this is bogus -- that they were not notified of this meeting. And I know from my experience, and I know Ernst pretty well and I know the record of the man, that he's very careful about obeying the law. He is, if anything, super-careful. He tries to be like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. And throughout the whole lengthy legal ordeal that he faced in Canada, he was very punctilious and very careful to abide by every jot and tittle of the law there. Now, whatever the truth of the matter, even if he had missed a hearing, the notion that INS and local police just pick up this guy and put him in jail and then deport him for this -- considering that he's married to an American citizen and considering the way that American authorities overlook the presence of literally millions of illegal aliens here in this country -- it's just so obviously a focus on Ernst because of who he is and what he's done and what he's said. KAS: Has this tenacious lawyer managed to gain the right to a new hearing of any kind? MW: Not yet, no. And it will be difficult. But at least on the merits of the case, there's a strong argument to be made that his arrest was improper. But we're living in very unusual times, in which all sorts of safeguards of the law are being bent now, during a time our President calls this unlimited "war on terrorism" -- which he claims is going to go on for years. And in the name of that "war on terrorism," all sorts of very unusual things are happening in the United States: holding people without charges, and reportedly the mistreatment and torture of people, even if only on U.S. Army bases offshore. All of this is very ominous, and this is a very difficult time to be fighting for civil liberties as Ernst Zundel and his wife are doing. KAS: Certainly. It sounds like terror is what's going on under the guise of the "war on terrorism." What is happening on the Canadian side of the border in this case? MW: On the Canadian side, it's kind of a standoff right now. The Canadian authorities claim, on the basis of evidence that they will not make completely public, that Ernst Zundel is a threat to the national security of Canada. It sounds like I'm special pleading, but the case is really just ridiculous. Ernst Zundel lived for 42 years in Canada without a criminal record, and no one during that time ever alleged he was any kind of threat to national security. To claim that now, after living in the United States for two and a half years, he would suddenly be a threat to the national security of Canada, after 42 years of living in the country with an unblemished record, is just absurd on the face of it. Now, more to the point, the case against him -- at least the part that's been made public -- simply alleges that he's met with people who are so-called White supremacists. Even the Canadian authorities acknowledge that Ernst Zundel has never advocated violence of any kind, that he's not a violent person. Indeed, he's repeatedly been the victim of violence in Canada, especially violence from Jewish terrorist groups. KAS: He's a pacifist, isn't he? MW: He's a pacifist. That's why he moved to Canada in the first place -- to avoid, of all things, service in the German army after World War II. A number of fairly prominent mainstream voices in Canada, who are no friends of Ernst Zundel, nevertheless have acknowledged that the case against Zundel as a "threat to national security" is just a bogus pretext. And it takes some courage to say that right now in Canada. I was gratified, as I mentioned earlier, that the judge during the last hearing focused so much on the Web site. If there was really any kind of case to be made that Zundel actually was a threat to national security, the judge would really have no need to grill him about his wife's Web site in the United States. KAS: What was the purpose of that hearing? MW: The purposes of that hearing -- and there's another one scheduled for later this month -- are 1) to appeal for bail, so that he doesn't have be held as he has been, in solitary confinement under really humiliating circumstances, and 2) Ernst Zundel's attorney, who has been Doug Christie, is appealing the case on Constitutional grounds, arguing that the whole procedure under which he's being held is unconstitutional. For example, one major feature of it is that the Canadian authorities present the evidence to the judge "in camera" -- that is, IN SECRET. And Ernst Zundel is not able -- and his attorney is not able -- even to respond to it. Now this is a violation of a very basic principle of English or British or European common law: A defendant has the right to know what the evidence is against him, so he can try to deal with it. The problem is that now, under this sort of new order we're living under, when authorities call out "national security!" then all the normal safeguards go flying out the window. KAS: We've recently published a letter from Ernst Zundel on our news site. [ http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=75 ] It appears that Mr. Zundel's spirit and determination are as strong as ever. Is that true? MW: That's the impression I have. I've spoken with him several times by telephone. He calls collect; he is permitted to make telephone calls out. His spirits seem very very good. Of course, it takes a toll to some degree that he's held in prison in solitary confinement in this way. But the same spirit that was so infectious and so strong during the two major trials that he fought in Canada in 1985 and 1988 is every bit as manifest and still in evidence. He's positive and upbeat, but at the same time sober and realistic about just how difficult the situation is. And that's Ernst to a "T." KAS: We've heard some reports that his health has been suffering while he's been incarcerated. What can you say about that? MW: Well, I asked him about that, of course; everybody does who speaks with him. And he said that it's true that he had some pain and so forth, but his health is still to all accounts good. He is worried that he's been prohibited from taking the herbal medicines and herbal treatments that he's been used to. And even the judge ordered the authorities to do something about that. It's that kind of petty, you might say harassing, treatment of Zundel that is particularly irritating and humiliating and vexatious. KAS: You told me earlier today that you were writing an essay on Mr. Zundel's plight. Where can we read that? MW: It's being written for a monthly paper in Sacramento called Community News, which is put out by a man named Walter Mueller, who's a friend of the IHR. It's going to be entitled "Who is Ernst Zundel and Why is He In Jail?" It's meant as an introductory piece for people who don't know anything about the case. Except for those who are 'in the circle' here in the United States, Ernst Zundel is not a well known figure. I want to present, in a compact way, the highlights of the case and stress the injustice and why it's important for us. It's important because, while he's an obvious target, he is a political prisoner. And when the Canadian government, in cahoots with the United States government, arrests someone, deports him, and holds him for now more than six months in solitary confinement, without bail, without any criminal charges, that's dangerous for all of us, especially those of us who treasure our right to express our opinions even if they run counter to the Politically Correct dogma of our times. KAS: It sounds like something that more people ought to read in the United States. Would you be willing to give us the rights to reprint that article on our own sites? MW: That would be fine. We encourage the maximum distribution and circulation of everything that we put out. And especially the Ernst Zundel case deserves to be very well known. Ernst Zundel is the personification right now of oppression of Politically Incorrect views in North America. KAS: The National Alliance recently held a demonstration in support of Ernst Zundel in Seattle. Have there been any other public events to protest this political imprisonment? MW: Yes. It's gratifying and encouraging that there have been several demonstrations in Canada, organized by the Canadian Association for Free Expression headed by Paul Fromm. We organized a demonstration in May in Los Angeles at the Canadian consulate there, and I met with the consul and presented him a letter, which expressed our outrage at the treatment of this man. And we coordinated that with a demonstration in Seattle at the time. We're trying to organize other demonstrations, too, in other cities. But, as I say, it's a difficult thing because the Zundel case is not well known outside of Canada, except among those who are already in on it, or who are already supporters of Ernst Zundel and the rights that he stands for. *** [END OF PART 1} From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 16 14:19:23 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 16 17:04:35 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/15/2003 - "Anti-Christian legislation in Israel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 16, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I received the following from Shamir, the Russian-born Israeli journalist who, I believe, is a convert to Christianity. He considers the news below a most significant development - maybe some sheeple will wake up? [START] Dear friends, I received a very important document to share with you. It is a shocking proof of suspicions we harboured long time ago: the so-called 'Christian Zionists' or 'Evangelical Christians', the main force behind Bush regime, while being presented with a stark choice - Zionism of Christ - chose Zionism and denied Christ. As you will see below, the 'Evangelicals' signed a secret pact with the enemies of Christianity solemnly promising NOT to spread Gospel. It is not an exaggeration of a starry-eyed devotee: One can not overestimate the importance of this major event: millions of American Christians were led by their spiritual shepherds into crass apostasy The very expression 'Christian Zionism' (like 'hot ice' or 'calm tempest') is an oxymoron. A Christian can't believe in exclusivity of Jews that is not shared by all Christians. A Christian can't believe that Jews do not need salvation. But that is exactly the meaning of the secret agreement between the 'Evangelical' leaders and the Zionists. The leaders promised to give up spreading Gospel among Jews, and turned Christianity into a second rate religion for Gentiles. The document mentions Nisim Zvili, the Knesset Member, whose bill proposes imprisonment to whoever publicly confesses Christ or even refers to Him positively. This enemy of Christ expressed his satisfaction of the deal. Almost two thousand years ago, Christians accepted martyrdom, horrible tortures and death as an acceptable payment for professing Christ. 'The Christian Zionist' leadership preferred apostasy for the sake of Jewish favours. They betrayed Christ, betrayed the martyrs, betrayed their own flock. They made the name of Christ and Christianity hateful in the eyes of unsophisticated audience. Publication of this document proves the anti-Christian character of Bush regime supported by the 'evangelical' apostates and their neo-con allies. It should be brought to attention of their misled flock. *************************************************************** CHRIST BETRAYED So-called ''leaders'' of the Christian evangelical movement have agreed to give up spreading the Gospel of Christ in the Holy Land in order to avoid being jailed under a proposed Israeli law aimed at stamping out Christian missionary work in Israel. By Michael Collins Piper Anti-Christian forces led by a wide-ranging group of high-ranking Israeli officials won a major victory on March 30. Representatives of 50 different international Christian evangelical groups entered into what was described as an ''unprecedented'' joint statement promising not to carry out Christian missionary work in Israel. In return, Israeli lawmaker Nissim Zvili said that he would drop his sponsorship of a proposed measure before the Israeli parliament [widely supported among various political factions in Israel] that would outlaw any effort to teach or propagate Christian doctrine in Israel. Under Zvili's highly popular proposal, any Christian missionary found guilty of violating the law would be sent to prison for one year. Zvili hailed the Christian surrender, saying; ''This is better than a law. This is a very big accomplishment.'' The Christian groups that surrendered to Israeli pressure, and thereby abandoned their long-standing practice of proselytizing the Christian faith, issued a statement saying that they rejoice in the presence of the Jewish people in this country of their ancestors and agreed to avoid activities which alienate Jews in Israel from their tradition and community. In response to the surrender by the Christian groups in the face of the anti-Christian legislation, one American Christian evangelist, Reverend Dale Crowley Jr, expressed great shock and dismay. Crowley said that those groups that endorsed the agreement have, in Crowley's direct terms, ''Betrayed our Lord.'' Crowley says that purveying the Gospel of Christ to non-believers is integral to the Christian faith and stems from the biblical great commission directing Christians to share their faith. Crowley notes that two newspapers with prominent circulation in the pro-Israel community, Washington Jewish Week and the New York City-based Forward, have ''quite notably'' in his words, not reported on this Israeli victory over Christian evangelism. Crowley said that he has been prodding Washington Jewish Week to publish the story but that, thus far, the influential publication has not done so. ''The Israelis WANT TO KEEP THIS INFORMATION UNDER WRAPS,'' THEY DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, Crowley said, ''and the Christian groups that entered into this outrageous betrayal of their faith are ashamed of themselves, as they certainly should be.'' According to Crowley, the complete joint statement issued by the Christian groups has been virtually impossible to obtain, despite the fact that some 50 different groups have affixed their names to the statement. Also, says Crowley, the actual names of the 50 different groups that are signatories to the agreement are also out of reach. When the names of those groups are finally made public, says Crowley, Christians should cease supporting those groups since they have effectively betrayed their Biblical commission to spread the gospel by abandoning their missionary work in the land where Christ lived and carried out his work. VERY REAL PROBLEMS At the time the anti-Christian bill was first introduced in the Israeli parliament, even Rev. David Allen Lewis, president of the pro-Israel group, Christians United for Israel, admitted that there were some very real problems with the legislation. ''This bill means great hardship for Zionist evangelicals like myself, ''said Lewis, who worried that the action would revive the argument of those who question Christian support for Israel, saying, ''How can you support the Jewish nation when they are against Christianity!'' When I contacted the offices of Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, both of whom are loud advocates of pro-Israel policy [despite the ant-Christian stance of the Israeli leadership], neither would comment on the anti-Christian legislation. Sen. Jesse Helms [R-N.C.] another vocal supporter of Israel [and ally of the so-called ''Christian Right'' in the United States], likewise refused to provide me any comment on the anti-Christian offensive in Israel. Although Israel today is torn asunder by vast feuding among various political and religious factions even within the Jewish community as a whole, the anti-Christian proposal by Israeli lawmaker Zvili had wide-ranging support throughout the Israeli population. ARCHITECT NAMED Longtime Republican Party and conservative movement leader John Lofton, previously a pro-Israel zealot but now an unabashed Christian who is not afraid to criticize Israeli excesses, has been watching the anti-Christian offensive in Israel. Lofton recently reported in his Lofton Report that Clarence Wagner, director of the evangelical foundation Bridges for Peace, was the architect of this agreement, which, in Lofton's words, ''denies our Lord.'' Lofton says that ''Wagner and his cowardly crew have chosen to obey men rather than God'' and that ''they have chosen to be ashamed of the Gospel even though,'' says Lofton, quoting Romans 1;16, ''it is the power or God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also the Greek.'' John Alpher of the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle East Office has hailed the sell-out as ''a dynamic Christian commitment to the vitality of Israel and Judaism.'' His colleague, Rabbi A. James Rudin, the AJC'S ''director of Interreligious affairs,'' said that the agreement is ''a strong refutation of those Christians who sadly still target Jews as possible converts to Christianity.'' Rudin says that he hopes the statement will be ''a model for others to emulate throughout the world.'' NOT PREACH? Lofton had strong words in response to the AJC'S comments; ''For openers, no Christian would ever agree not to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, apart from Christ, there is no ''vitality'' for anybody, including Israel and Judaism. As for those Christians who ''sadly'' target Jews for conversion to Christianity, well, the Lord Himself was one of those ''Christians.'' Lofton concluded; ''God forbid that this Christ-hating agreement should ever be emulated, or become a model, for anybody.'' Virtually the only national news publication in America to report on the Israeli war on Christianity was us on March,17, 1997. We published a special eight-page report entitled Israel Declares War on Christianity and told the story of the anti-Christian legislation. The special report featured a ground-breaking essay by the aforementioned Christian evangelist, Dale Crowley, Jr, in which Crowley refuted the popular political theory that the present day geographic entity known as Israel is the ''Israel'' that is referred to in the Bible. http://www.whtt.org/ http://www.cometozion.org/ [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 16 14:32:47 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 16 17:04:47 2003 Subject: ZGram - September 16, 2003 - "American Christians in revolt" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 16, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Yesterday's ZGram dealt with Zionist Christians surrendering their cherished beliefs to political expediency - today's ZGram seems to indicate that American Christians are taking back theirs. Let me stress that I don't know these churchly people. I don't even know what they object to in the six Supreme Court decisions they reject - but I sense a genuine grassroots gesture that could impact on the land in ways we ever dreamed could happen. [START] September 25, 2003 - Ecclesiastical Court to be held in your city! Dates for DC weekend: October 4th-6th, 2003 Holding the U.S. Supreme Court in Contempt of Almighty God! A Call to the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of the United States of America By Flip Benham The devil never comes out in the open unless he is presented with a serious threat. Otherwise he is content to remain in the shadows. If you are as sickened as we are by the infuriating and blaspheming decisions of the Supreme Court and are wondering what God fearing people can do -- Here it is! An Ecclesiastical Court will be held at federal court houses in cities across this land on Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 11:30am. Then, during the opening session of the Supreme Court of the United States of America on Monday, October 6, 2003, Christians from across the nation will gather at the steps of this court to hold it in contempt of the Court of Almighty God. Hotel accomodations are posted on the front page here. [on OSA website - www.operationsaveamerica.org] Brief History: I am greatly encouraged by your response to the Ecclesiastical Court held on July 18, 2003 at the Charles Jonas Federal Court Building, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Little did any of us know while planning this event that it would have such an incredible impact on the city of Charlotte. We were met by dozens of city police, federal marshals on the ground and on top of the building, a police helicopter, and the fire department. It was a stunning sight! We began to realize that God had placed in our hands an anointed and very powerful mechanism by which to call our nation to true biblical repentance. It must be done in every city where a federal court building exists. Then we must go to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and hold it in contempt of the Court of Almighty God. The Challenge: We begin by calling the men of God to lead their churches out to the federal court houses in their cities at 11:30 am., on Thursday, September 25th, 2003. There, we will have the six coffins with the six abominable Supreme Court decisions - one court decision on each coffin. We will have one worship leader play appropriate music for such a solemn occasion. A self-contained sound system is a must (please obtain sound permit). When possible have someone who can sound the trumpet (shofar). Then have the men of God conduct the Ecclesiastical court (a copy of the Ecclesiastical Court may be found on our web site: operationsaveameric.org). By the authority of the Court before whom every knee shall bow, the men of God will pronounce these decisions null, void, and not binding upon us, our children, or our nation. We will go to the courthouse by families (moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, little boys and little girls). We were astounded by the resistance we met as the Church of Jesus Christ comes out of the closet to confront the very gates of hell. It appears that every other behavior, no matter how perverse, is out of the closet and parading its sin like Sodom with little resistance at all. But when the Church of Jesus Christ allows her theology to become biography in the streets - watch out! We are Coming Out of the Closet: The dates: On Thursday morning, September 25, 2003, at 11:30 am. We will go to the federal courthouses in our cities. Men of God will lead an Ecclesiastical Court service at the front of the court house holding the Supreme Court of the United States of America in contempt of the Court of Almighty God. There, we will read the charges brought against the court and our reason for being there this day. We will then tear the pages from each one of the decisions (The full text of each decision can be found on the web) and give them to our children to tear into pieces and place into a small bin. We will set the contents of these abominable decisions on fire and hold them not binding upon us, our children, or our nation. On Monday morning, October 6, 2003, at 11:30 am. We will do the very same thing at the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This day marks the opening session for the Supreme Court in its 2003 - 2004 term. __________________________________________________________________________ Columbia Christians for Life P.O. Box 50358 Columbia, SC 29250 dir. Steve Lefemine 803-765-0916 CCFL@sc-online.net Ecclesiastical Court planned outside federal court house in Columbia, SC Date: Thursday, September 25, 2003 A.D. Time: 11:30 - 12:30 PM Location: outside U.S. District (federal) Court House, 1845 Assembly St., Columbia, SC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send "Unsubscribe" to CCFL@sc-online.net [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Sep 18 05:46:05 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Sep 18 08:54:04 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/17/2003 - "Community News: A Special Zundel Issue" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 17, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Some weeks ago I received a request to write an article for Community News, a California paper based in the Sacramento area and published by Walter Mueller, author of the cyber Patriot Letter. I said that I would, but never heard anything else about the request again - and, frankly, I was glad, because I am so overwhelmed with work I simply did not have the concentration needed or the extra time for truly quality writing. But I knew that a special issue was in the making - and today I received a call from a fellow revisionist who left a message, pride trembling in his voice, that the special issue was finished - and a copy for me was in the mail. Below are additional details - and I urge all of you to order your own copies, especially since, incredibly, they will be sent to you for free! You can help to do your part to spread the word about Ernst - who he is, why he is targeted by our enemies, and what it all means to our struggle. Hopefully, it will bring us additional supporters, for I am now in charge of making sure that seven (!) attorneys working on getting Ernst released will also get paid as they should - four in Canada, and three in the US. Additionally, I am running a series of full page ads in America and, soon, in Germany and in Japan. An extensive full page ad, uncensored (!), has already been published in Zavtra, the most widely read paper by politicians in the former Eastern bloc, I am told. Order as many as you like - but please order ONLY as many as you think you can distribute. It costs money to print up a large run, and it would not be fair to drain the Sacramento group of their resources if the issues get mailed and then not get used as they should. Here is the write-up about the special Zundel issue: {START] Dear Fellow Patriot! It was about 1:30 in the morning when we had finished the envelopes to mail Community News. I had plenty of time to read it again and Dr. Toeben probably remembers the German saying: "Eigenlob Stinkt" (selfpraise stinks). Nevertheless, it is an awesome issue. It is also in most likelihood the most comprehensive story ever told about Ernst Zuendel by so many renowned revisionists. We just talked about freedom of speech in yesterdays Patriot Letter. This issue of Community News is a great testimony of what I was saying yesterday. It will also be a historic issue. We mailed it this late morning to all of our subscribers and prepared the packages for those who have asked for more than just one issue. It is an emotional roller-coaster about the life of Ernst Zuendel. The people brought together in this issue of Community News have had all personal experience and a friendship with Ernst Zuendel. All of the commentaries or essays are well written and a testimony of how much Ernst Zuendel means to the revisionist movement. There are two pieces though that I think are absolutely incredibly written and are my favorite. I've read them over and over again. One has been exclusively written for us by IHR Director and Zuendel spokesperson Mark Weber. His piece is entitled "Who is Ernst Zuendel and why is he in jail?" Mr. Weber writes about the events surrounding Zuendel's imprisonment in a factual and understandable way. He gives a background of Ernst Zuendel, so no one gets lost or confused. Many people don't know that Mr. Weber, as the spokesperson for the Zuendels, has been on many radio stations and has been interviewed by many newspapers. Just last week he was again on the Dissident Voice with host Kevin Strom, talking about Ernst Zuendel and advertising this special issue of Community News. Mr. Weber's respect and reputation around the world are impeccable. I have seen many of his commentaries, articles and essays, and they are excellent. Once you have read the Ernst Zuendel piece in Community News, you'll know what I am talking about. The second piece in the special issue was written by Dr. Frederick Toeben and it is entitled: "Ernst Zuendel - A man of destiny" and it is just as incredible. I haven't really read a lot yet of Dr. Toeben's writings, I have heard him speak a few times, but, if all of his writings are like the piece he did for Community News, I have missed a great deal of good reading. Dr. Toeben managed to put all the things into the article that makes it worth reading. I think what fascinated me most on Dr. Toeben's piece was that he knows, he's been there, he himself has spent 7 months in prison. So he speaks from his own experience. Besides, I like the guy. He is unconventional and not arrogant, can handle people and runs the best website on the Internet. When I say that, of course I mean for people like me and the revisionists. I spend sometimes an hour just going through his site, laughing out loud over the sense of humor he displays and I mean literally, when I say display. Not too long ago he had an animated 30 second or less video spot of two penguins, one passing the other one and getting slapped in the back, falling into the water, over and over again. But enough complimentaries. In short, Mr. Weber's and Mr. Toeben's pieces are the heart of the Zuendel issue. Combined with the other articles, you got an outstanding combination of everything you ever wanted to know about Ernst Zuendel. There is Harvey Taylor, our assistant editor and friend of Ernst Zuendel; Paul Fromm, who has our utmost respect for all of the work he's done for Ernst Zuendel. His article is a horrible insight of the treatment of Ernst Zuendel by the Canadian government. Dr. Bob Countess and his brisk and defining protest of the Zuendel arrest. Something for the intellectual, written by Apollonian, clear and decisive. And then there is the people's man, Stan Hess, the voice of "the hood." Short and awesome. And, of course, Ernst Zuendel himself, with a letter from prison. Two small commentaries of support by the great revisionist from France, Dr. Robert Faurisson, and from Denmark, Dr. Christian Lindtner. All in all, if you miss this issue, you miss a lot. Let me remind you again. We do not charge for copies that you are distributing. We feel that your volunteer work is enough for us. We even pay for the mailing. Whether you want just two, 20, 100 or a thousand. All you have to do is spread them around. [END] You may order your copies to be distributed by writing to thetruthisback@yahoo.com The address for snail mail is: Community News PO Box 191677 Sacramento, CA 95819 From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Sep 18 05:46:32 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Thu Sep 18 08:54:16 2003 Subject: ZGram - September 18, 2003 - "The world revolt against the heirs of Trotsky" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 18, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This is as fine a piece of writing as I have seen in a long time! Enjoy! [START] The Times (London) September 17, 2003 The world revolt against the heirs of Trotsky by Simon Jenkins The world is clearly trying to tell us something. Stop running, it says, you can hardly walk. This week Sweden's citizens told us they were not prepared to join an alien currency on the say-so of a bureaucratic elite. This week we learnt that world trade could not be liberated in luxury hotels in Canc?n. This week we were forced to abandon some airily drawn "road map" for the Middle East. We might think we could declare "global war" on drugs or terrorism or climate change. But sometimes the world walks straight up to us, slaps our face and says: "Go home." I am afraid I cheered when the Swedes refused to treat a matter as serious as the euro as if it were a funeral gift to a murdered foreign minister. I cheered when the Mexican chairman of the World Trade Organisation banged his gavel and concluded that there was no way Europe and America would stop giving $300 billion in food subsidies to their farmers. Years of G8 pledges to narrow the gap between rich and poor were lies. No less stark has been the realism of Israel's threat to murder Yassir Arafat. Why not, if Israel is a free country? America tries to murder Saddam Hussein. Why go along with any so-called road map when everyone knows that George Bush will not enforce it, least of all in an election year? And why should Arafat mend his corrupt ways when he and his cronies are drenched in European aid? Nor is this an end to the clear light of day. Afghanistan has refused to stop exporting opium. Why should it, when the West imports it by the tonne and backs the warlords who produce it? Last week Osama bin Laden popped up to remind us that the West's various invasions and occupations have not won any war against terror, but rather sweetened the wells at which it drinks. Last week, economic sanctions against Libya were abandoned after two decades, despite Colonel Gaddafi still heading his appalling regime. His is now a "good" dictatorship, like Syria, not a bad one like Iran and North Korea. I hear an echo. In 1919 Moscow's rulers were so exhilarated by the triumph of communism that they determined to bring its benefits to the outside world. This was to be led by Lenin's Communist Party under the leadership of the Comintern. Agents were dispatched and uprisings stirred wherever bourgeois oligarchy seemed ripe for toppling. Trotsky sat in his armoured train, fantasising that no force on Earth could withstand his revolutionary Red Army. The Comintern boss, Zinoviev, declared that all Europe would soon be one socialist state. Communist ideology followed where crusaders and Victorian missionaries had formerly trod. Within half a century some version of that ideology had overtaken half the globe. The Internationale won the hearts of liberal-minded people everywhere. The export of Russian communism must rank among the great disasters of human history. Its final demise in the 1990s was one of the great triumphs. But I shudder to see the new crusaders for capitalism and democracy mimicking the attitudes of Trotsky and Zinoviev. Flushed with victory and blind to the views, or personal sovereignty, of others, they criss-cross the Earth claiming the right to superimpose their order on its states. The antics in Canc?n demonstrate the dominance of domestic politics over global philanthropy. Never was Marx's gibe more true, that capitalism was not about promoting markets but about closing them. There is no greater battery of "economic sanctions" in place against the world's poor than Western food subsidies and trade restrictions. Not only does Europe exclude Third World sugar but it dumps its surpluses on those who once grew it. America bans African and Asian cotton to maintain its own growers. It is not that Western governments mean to be cruel to the poor. They simply know that Third World farmers do not vote in Western elections. Humbug costs nothing. Dressing up self-interest as a supranational good is now an intellectual industry. But, like many industries, its day may have passed. The case for the euro has long been based on the axiom that what is "good for Europe" must be good for everyone. This satisfied those who breathe the exalted air of Europe's central institutions. But the euro's rigidities are clearly impeding the economies of its members. Its "stabilisation and growth" rules have been broken by Germany and France with impunity. The Swedish people were not fooled by the elite freemasonry that claims, on no foundation, to "speak for Europe". In this week's referendum, the Swedes did not reject the euro so much as declare its case unproven, a far more potent response. Likewise the interventionist's search for "world order" in the Balkans and the Middle East. They rule Bosnia and Kosovo, without democracy. They subsidise both sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. They bomb and try to make amends in Iraq. Always there are the best of intentions. Lenin too wanted to make the world a better place. But good intentions also pave the road to Hell. The one emotion now binding almost all Muslim countries is a hatred not of Western values but of Western power, as a survey in the latest issue of The Economist vividly records. Donald Rumsfeld's retort that any such hatred can be "confronted" by military might is pure Trotsky. George Bush's remark to Bob Woodward that he does not mind fighting the whole world alone because "we are America" is pure Comintern. Advocates of interventionism as diverse as Michael Ignatieff, Philip Bobbitt and Geoffrey Robertson have regarded the role of the West in setting the world to rights as a maxim not requiring proof. It is justified by faith. Their one enemy is isolationism (which they call appeasement). Their forebears sought a better Chile, a better Nicaragua, a better Vietnam and, I suppose, a better Bay of Pigs. But I find it bizarre that those who can be libertarian towards individual behaviour at home can be so deeply authoritarian overseas. I believe history will show the West's 15 years of intervention in Iraq as duplicitous, lethal and wholly counterproductive to regional peace and order. Yet at every turn some proto-imperialist will have called it "moral". The zest for world government is as old as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. Yet it cannot be soundly based when its chief enforcer, in this case America, regards any constitutional constraint as optional. The UN is humiliated. Armaments and ecology treaties are ignored. International law applies to the weak but not the strong. Nobody accepts Kant's requirement of a moral dictum, that it must apply universally or it will enjoy neither consent nor deterrence. Nation states are biting back. When democracy is allowed to speak, in Sweden over the euro or in France and Germany over Iraq, publics reject the automatic moral authority of supranationalism. Across the Middle East, Western intervention has fuelled the ghoulish menace of suicide killings. The West regards itself as entitled to overrule the integrity of states once guarded by the UN charter, yet America and Britain display a hypersensitivity when threatened in return. London today looks more embattled than it has since the Blitz. I am not a pacifist, merely a realist. I regard greater humility and deference to the self-determination of states (however awful) as probably wise. Just as we are unlikely to change the world's climate, however many conferences we attend, so we are unlikely to impose our values on the Middle East, Asia or Africa, however many states we invade. Despite Mr Blair's dossiers, I do not regard them as any threat to British security. As for world poverty, that is best met by the judicious application of health, education and charity, and by bilateral trade deals between states. World summits have only made the rich richer and the poor poorer. They do not deliver. Peoples formed themselves into autonomous nations for a good reason. Nations expressed their affinity, their sense of belonging. The post-Cold War craze for supranational action, to intervene at every opportunity to bring the world to order, has lost touch with national roots. It has lost its domestic accountability. Mostly it only prolongs disorder. Come back, Voltaire. We help the world better by tending our own garden. This week we heard that message loud and clear. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Sep 19 13:39:08 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 19 16:03:25 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/19/2003 - "The Holocaust Industry - operating in the Red!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 19, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Just this: Can you imagine collecting from an insurance company without having to supply any names? [START] Holocaust Insurance Effort Is Costing More Than It Wins by Joseph B Treaster WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the chairman of a widely criticized commission to help Holocaust survivors collect claims from European insurance companies, said today that his organization had spent 60 percent more for operations than it had persuaded insurers to pay in claims. In testimony to the House Committee on Government Reform, Mr. Eagleburger said that since its founding five years ago, his organization, the International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims, had spent $56 million and obtained offers of claims payments of $35 million. He also said that while the commission had received 54,000 claims that it regarded as valid - a tiny fraction in relation to the millions of policies that experts say were sold in Europe at the time of the Holocaust - only 2,600, or less than 5 percent, have received offers of payment. Mr. Eagleburger said he did not know how many people had accepted the offers. He said the insurance companies had offered to pay an additional $7.5 million on 650 claims that had bypassed the commission and gone directly to the insurers. Mr. Eagleburger said he was encouraged that the pace of dealing with claims was increasing, but he added, "The numbers are nowhere near where they need to be." He said the commission had set a deadline of Dec. 31 for survivors to file claims. The commission was created in 1998 by American regulators and Jewish organizations, and a half-dozen European insurers agreed to join in hopes of avoiding lawsuits. The United States government has endorsed the commission as the best hope for getting justice for Holocaust victims. Most of the lawsuits have been dropped or settled, but about 20 are pending against Assicurazioni Generali, a big Italian insurer. Independent Holocaust experts asserted at the hearing that the commission had been outmaneuvered by the insurers. Representative Henry A. Waxman of California (left), the committee's ranking Democrat, said that based on commission data, the insurers reject five claims for every one they pay. "Denials do not have to be justified," said Daniel Kadden, a former aide to the insurance commission in Washington State and a consultant to survivors. "There is no follow-up to see that the companies act on the evidence presented to them." A major roadblock, Holocaust experts say, has been the refusal of the European insurers to publish the names of owners of life insurance policies sold at the time of the Holocaust. In many cases the owners died in the Holocaust. Records of transactions were often destroyed when families were ripped apart, and potential beneficiaries have no way of knowing if insurance existed. At first many insurers refused to pay claims unless survivors could produce copies of policies or death certificates. Now they say they will accept less evidence, but survivors in most cases must determine whether they might have a claim. In the hearing, Republicans and Democrats as well as independent Holocaust experts expressed support for legislation intended to force the European insurers to publish the names of the policyholders. Mr. Waxman and Representative Mark Foley, Republican of Florida, have drafted such legislation. But Mr. Eagleburger and a senior Bush administration official objected today to forcing the companies to publish policyholders' names. Mr. Eagleburger said a listing would provide a jumble of information that would be difficult to process. The administration official, Ambassador Randolph M. Bell, the special envoy for Holocaust issues, said that requiring such a list "would not get any additional claimants and would almost certainly stop the current, now much improved process whereby claimants actually are getting paid." Mr. Waxman told Mr. Bell, "I don't see the reasoning." Mr. Eagleburger said that the commission had published the names of 500,000 policyholders on its Web site. He said the commission had not determined how many families in the Holocaust bought life insurance. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Sep 20 04:35:15 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Sep 20 07:22:57 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/20/2003 - "September Zundel Hearings" - Part I Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 20, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: It's reporting time from the Zundel-Front again! On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Bail Hearings continue. There will be a few surprises, we hope! We have added two Toronto attorneys to our team, and there are other plans we hope to actualize. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, to refresh your memory, to give you information ammo to send to your lists, and to urge you to support the Zundel battle in any way you can, here is the first installment: [START] This is the text delivered at a press conference in Ottawa, September 18, 2003 by Paul Fromm in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. An interview with Mr. Fromm on CPAC Television will be aired Monday night at 9:00 p.m. e.s.t. Also, Mr. Mark Weber of the Institute for historical review will be a guest on the Rense Radio Show at www.rense.com Canadian Association for Free Expression Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 Ph: 905-897-7221; FAX: 905-277-3914 Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director September 18, 2003 For Immediate Release Indefinite Detention, Secret Hearings, "Mediaeval" Prison Conditions -- The Fate of Those Held Under CSIS National Security Certificates Back in November, 2001, I was in this same room warning of the civil liberties consequences of the Federal Government's proposed anti-terrorist legislation, Bill C-36. I wish I could stand here and say, "We were wrong." Yes, we must protect Canada from terrorists. However, we must not erase fundamental civil rights and freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism. Canada's fight against terrorism has brought us secret hearings, deportations with few rights for the accused, and unlimited detention of men convicted of no crime in conditions of deprivation desgined to "break 'em" so that they'll give up their fight. In a number of hearings, I've acted as the legal representative of German-born publisher Ernst Zundel. He is a victim of Canada's anti-terrorist legislation and a Canadian Security and Intelligence Serivice (CSIS) that is out of control and is fanatically hostile to him. Ernst Zundel, 64, immigrated to Canada in 1958. He was a landed immigrant here, a successful graphic artist and an employer for 42 years. He emigrated to the U.S.A in 2000 and married an American citizen, Dr. Ingrid Rimland. While in Canada, Mr. Zundel published a number of pamphlets that questioned the establishment historical view of World War II. While controversial, he's never been charged or convicted of any violent crime in Canada or anywhere else. In February, Mr. Zundel was picked up for a minor problem with U.S. immigration law and ordered deported. He is unable to return to the U.S., where his wife resides, for 20 years. Mr. Zundel was deported February 19 to Canada, his place of last residence. Germany has a warrant out for his arrest under their bizarre law that criminalizes questioning the establishment account of World War II. Return to Germany could mean five years in prison for Mr. Zundel. Accordingly, he has filed a "refugee" claim. Normally, he would be set free pending the hearing of his claim. However, Ernst Zundel has been held in prison since February 19. On May 1, he was served with a CSIS "national security" certificate co-signed by Solicitor-General Wayne Easter and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre. Under the amended Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, this is the equivalent of a deportation order. The only recourse is a hearing before a federal judge. Unlike other cases which require proof of guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" or "reasonable and probable grounds" for a search warrant, the Crown need only prove that the accusations are "reasonable". How is a dissident publisher a threat to Canada's national security? National security is carefully defined in the CSIS Act as being espionage, sabotage, sedition, foreign run activities or the use of serious acts of violence against persons or property to promote one's ideology. The Act makes clear that protest and non-violent dissent, however controversial, are not threats to national security. The CSIS statement alleges that Ernst Zundel, while not personally violent, is a terrorist and supports serious acts of violence in Canada or abroad. The proof offered is laughable hodge-podge of guilt-by-association. Zundel is a pacifist who has counselled many young hotheads to obey the law and avoid violence. One such person, George Burdi, testified May 16 that Mr. Zundel had thrown him out of his house when he caught him writing violent lyrics on his computer. Ernst Zundel believes the certificate stems from a long hostility by CSIS against him. On the week of May 16, Mr. Zundel filed a complaint with the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), the body that oversees CSIS, asking that they investigate the shocking information in John Mitrovica's book Covert Entry, which shows that CSIS knew that the 1995 pipebomb was coming to Zundel and did nothing to prevent it or to warn or protect him. In the book, former CSIS operative John Farrell, who was involved in the interception of mail headed to Mr. Zundel, was warned by his CSIS handler twice in May, 1995 not to open any package from Vancoucer addressed to Mr. Zundel. Later that month, a powerful pipebomb arrived with a Vancouver return address. Police said, after they detonated the device, that it would have killed anyone within 100 yards had it exploded. Another problem with the anti-terrorist legislation is that it permits unlimited detention of people served with a CSIS certificate. On Tuesday, September 23, Mr. Zundel is back in court in Toronto for the sixth day of a detention hearing before Federal Judge Mr. Justice Pierre Blais. Mr. Zundel has been kept in solitary confinement in the Metro West Detention Centre. Despite having six legal cases to prepare, he is denied pen, highlighter, paperclips, post-it notes, hardcover books that he needs for the case, or a chair. Until two weeks ago, he had been without a pillow since May 16, despite recommendations by a doctor in July that a man of his age should have one. While recovering from cancer, Mr. Zundel has been denied access to the herbs and alternative treatments with which he's self-medicated himself for 30 years. On July 30, informed of Mr. Zundel's inhumane prison conditions, Mr. Justice Blais commented: "Even in medieval times, prisoners were allowed to use pen and paper," Judge Blais asserted. "I also have respect for Mr. Zundel. He is not a criminal. I think he is entitled to a little bit of flexibility." Since then, all Mr. Zundel has received, after extensive lobbying with provincial and prison authorities, is a pillow. Mr. Zundel, a non-violent man, has now spent seven months in the sort of brutal deprivation that would normally only be inflicted on the most hardened prisoners as punishment for violence in prison. Yet, this sort of harsh detention has been inflicted on him and others like Egyptian Mahmoud Jaballah held now for two years under a CSIS warrant. Before each of Mr. Zundel's court and detention hearings, the adjudicator or judge has heard secret testimony. The defence has no idea what the evidence was, who the witnesses were, or even what the accusations are. This procedure, permitted by the anti-terrorist legislation, cancels the basic right under Anglo-Saxon common law of the defendant to know the charges against him, to face his accusers and to challenge their evidence in order to make a full and complete defence. This procedure would also seem to violate the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Chiarelli case. [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Sep 20 04:54:49 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Sep 21 06:41:00 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/21/2003 - "Hill Times refuses ad on Zundel case" - Zundel Hearings, Part II Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 21, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: You will recall that I was allowed to run a full-page ad in the former Soviet Union, now a democracy. The paper that carried my ad was Zavtra. The financial arrangements were fair, the business transactions was courteous - AND NOT ONE WORD WAS CENSORED! By contrast, the Washington Times ran the same ad, but with modifications requested by them and reluctantly agreed to by me. Essentially, all references to the Holocaust Enforcer Lobby were deleted. In the world that we live in, half a free-speech pie is better than no slice of pie at all. We are now working on ads slated to appear in Germany and Japan. Why ads in other countries? Because important diplomats and heads of state notice - and talk about dictatorial censorship in the US and Canada to people we cannot otherwise reach! Here now is Canada. An interesting censorship issue development around an entirely fair and fact-based ad - don't you agree? Shame! Shame on Canada! [START] Subject: HILL TIMES REFUSES AD ON ZUNDEL CASE Canadian Association for Free Expression Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 Ph: 905-897-7221; FAX: 905-277-3914 Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director Hill Times Refuses Ad on Zundel Case: No Free Speech or Democracy in Ottawa Elite Organ Dear Free Speech Supporter: Canada's press is complacent, conformist, and all too often no friend of free speech. The range of debate on the issues of the day has narrowed and narrowed over the past 20 years. To the best of my knowledge only a handful of Canadian columnists took any note of the fact that Bill C-36, the govrnment's anti-terrorist act would give control over the Internet to the Canadian Human Rights Commission where truth is no defence. With few contrary comments, the press has all but ignored the attacks on the Internet by totalitarian bodies like the Canadian Human Rights Commission. With few examples coverage of the Zundel case has been stridently abusive, wildly incomplete or non-existant. Even the NATIONAL POST which has covered the hearings has scrupulously avoided reportage of his horrific prison conditions -- the very thing which might, dare we day it, create sympathy for a man who has been made a villain in the sort of coverage which increadingly reads like a soap opera, with all characters either villains or "good guys". Objective reporting -- the facts, just the facts, ma'm, as Sgt. Joe Friday used to say -- is rare. The press has given little coverage to the fact that persons served with a CSIS national security certificate are subject to secret hearings, with secret evidence and witnesses, and no chance to know what this evidence is or to cross-examine these witnesses. Even less reported has been the inhumane conditions in which Ernst Zundel has been incarcerated in solitary confinement for over seven months -- no pen, no hardcover books, no post-it notes, no highlighters, no paperclips, no chair, no herbal medications that are vital to his health regime, and, until very recently, no pillow. Back in June, CAFE began to raise money to buy some advertising to highlight these serious press omissions and to stir public debate on the Zundel case. We settled on The Hill Times in Ottawa. This weekly reaches the MPs and senators, their staffers, Ottawa press and policy makers. I made some inquiries and talked to Advertising Account Executive Craig Caldbick. He was pleasant and, over the next few months, sent a stream of e-mails, FAXes and phone calls my way eagerly seeking our business. With Parliament returning, September 15, I decided to commit to a half-page ad in the September 15 and 22 issues of The Hill Times. These ads and, with luck a growing debate, would occur just prior to Mr. Zundel's next court appearance on September 23 and 24. The text of this ad appears at the end of this CAFEGRAM. On September 8, I received a phone call from Mr. Caldbick. In politically correct, repressive Canada you can't even pay to get your point of view into the press. Caldbick conveyed to me the decision of publisher Jim Creskey. Apparently, the ad had created much discussion and consternation at The Hill Times. "Unfortunately, the publishers and General Manager have declined your ad as it's our policy to decline this type of message or associate with your type of organization," Caldbick told me. That's interesting: A Canadian newspaper unwilling to associate with advocates of free speech.These guys ought to consider membership in like minded organizations of conformist hacks like the Association of North Koreans Journalists. They'd looked at our website. "Your organization is too centred on one issue." Indeed, that's true. We are a one issue group, freedom of speech, just as other groups, like, say the World Wildlife Federation is all about wildlife welfare. After much verbal circling, Caldbick indicated that our site had a lot of material on Zundel. Well, I explained to him, we've been in existence for over 20 years and taken up a wide variety of free speech causes. Yes, there's a lot on Ernst Zundel right now, as he's one of the main thought crimes victims of the moment. But, so what? Doesn't Ernst Zundel deserve a defence? Or is the press prepared to convict him in advance and eagerly await the sentence? "The feeling here is they didn't want to tackle this message at this time," Caldbick explained to me apologetically. The Hill Times wasn't being asked to "tackle" this issue or even to commit to an opinion, merely, for money, to air our opinion. I next took the matter up with publisher Jim Creskey on September 9. He had problems with the fact that our website "is a one issue one, just about Ernst Zundel." I asked whether there was some way we could do business. I invited him to check the site more carefully and see the variety of free speech issues we've adopted. I awaited his answer. After several days, with September 15 fast approaching, I called again. Four messages went unasnwered. Finally, on September 16, Creskey got back to me. The answer still was "no". On September 18, in Ottawa for my press conference at the Parliamentary Press Gallery, I decided to visit The Hill Times in person. I spoke to Don Turner, Director of Advertising who seemed distinctly uncomfortable. I asked whether they would consider an ad in the future. Turner hemmed and hawed. Well, "no" can mean forever, he mused. Perhaps, they'd look at another submission. I learned from Turner that, in 13 years of publishing, ours was the first ad they'd rejected. "Our policy is not as clear as it might be," he offered. Oh, yes it is, Don: "No freedom of speech here!" Perhaps, we should consider submitting our ad to Gramna, the organ of the Cuban Communist Party. At least their rejection would be predictable and honest, based on their stated totalitarian ideology. It may or may not mean anything, but among The Hill Times' contributors is Liberal Party attack pitbull Warren Kinsella. He he known as a savage opponent of freedom of speech and a decade ago penned the error-riddled screed Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network. Paul Fromm Director IAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION ______________ Canadian Association for Free Expression Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 Ph: 905-897-7221; FAX: 905-277-3914 Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director September 2, 2003 Mr. Craig Caldbick, The Hill Times, 69 Sparks Street, Ottawa, ON., K1P 5A5 Dear Mr. Caldbick: The following is the text for the half page ad we've like to run September 15. Sincerely yours, Paul Fromm Director p.s. Please send me a mock-up of this. _______________________- [photo of Ernst Zundel] How Safe Are Human Rights in Canada? NOT VERY! German-born publisher, Ernst Zundel, a landed immigrant since 1958, has sat in solitary confinement in the Metro West Detention Centre for 7 months. CSIS says he's a threat to national security In 42-years in Canada, he was never charged with or convicted of any act of violence. He has * no pen * no pillow * no post-it notes * no hardcover books * no chair.Yet, he must try to prepare a half dozen legal cases. He is allowed only children's pencils for writing material. In Court, July 30, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais called these conditions "mediaeval>" Ernst Zundel Prisoner of Conscience Secret Trials in Canada? You'd better believe it! How would you defend yourself, if you didn't know what the evidence was against you? You couldn't. And neither can Ernst Zundel and about 20 other unfortunates ordered deported under a CSIS "national security" certificate. In a complete departure from Anglo-Saxon justice where the defendant can face his accuser and know the evidence against him, Mr. Zundel has been the victim of secret hearings before each of his detention and bail review hearings. He doesn't know the evidence or the identity of the witnesses and, thus, is handicapped in offering a defence. _____________________________________ To learn more about the Zundel case, see our website http://www.canadianfreespeech.com or write: The Canadian Association for Free Expression, Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3. 905-897-7221: FAX: 905-277-3914. Donations to the Zundel Defence Fund are gratefully accepted and all are acknowledged with a thank you piece of art done in prison by Ernst Zundel. [THIS AD WAS REJECTED BY HILL TIMES PUBLISHER JIM CRESKEY SEPTEMBER 8, 2003] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Sep 22 15:54:10 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Sep 22 21:03:43 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/22/2003 - "Mark Weber's Interview with Kevin Strom - Part II" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 22, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: This is sent to you on the eve of what could become an important Zundel Bail Hearing. More about that in tomorrow's ZGram. Meanwhile, here is Part II of the radio interview by Mark Weber about the Zundel case and other matters: [START] Resistance to Jewish Power; and Zundel Case Update, part 2 http://www.natvan.com/adv/2003/09-20-03.html by Kevin Alfred Strom with Mark Weber American Dissident Voices Broadcast of September 20, 2003 He's never been convicted of a crime, yet he rots in jail without a charge, denied access to his medicine and cruelly separated from his wife. He's a legal American resident, married to an American citizen, yet he was spirited away from his Tennessee home and into a Canadian dungeon on the flimsiest of paperwork pretexts. His name is Ernst Zundel, artist, pacifist, writer, and thinker; and the reason -- the only reason -- he is treated in this way is because he has dared to question the great historical lies of the 20th century, the lies that the Jews are always the victims and Gentiles the guilty. Today we conclude our talk with historian Mark Weber, Director of the Institute for Historical review on the Zundel case, which even Amnesty International has hypocritically refused to take, and on the abuses and the overreaching power of the Jewish establishment today. An interview with Mark Weber, part 2: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interview with Mark Weber: http://www.natvan.com/adv/2003/09-20-03.html KAS: It seems to me that free speech activists of all political persuasions would be up in arms over what has happened in the Zundel case. Have we made any inroads into the mainstream media with this case? MW: That brings up a really interesting point. Quite a few supporters of Ernst Zundel's rights have brought this case to the attention of Amnesty International and pleaded with them to support his civil rights. And Amnesty International has rejected that, contending that they don't support those who promote 'hate.' Well, that's a very elusive term. It's an amazing thing that in the trials that took place, the ones that were in Canada -- in fact, I was a witness in them, before this so-called Human Rights Tribunal, the presiding commissioner (he's not really a judge) stated explicitly that truth is no defense in these matters. The truth of the thing is just irrelevant. And what it really amounts to, this charge of so-called 'hate,' is the what Jewish groups find offensive becomes criminal or becomes illegal. That's just outrageous. A statement could even be true, but they don't care. And that's a very, very ominous thing. It points up how the Amnesty International organization operates in a kind of a 'PC' way. They're careful not to publicly support the freedom of speech of a man who holds such Politically Incorrect views in our society. KAS: I wonder if it's possible to get a list of cases which Amnesty International has refused. I wonder how long that list is; and I wonder if there are any cases of Jewish 'haters' who have been refused their services. MW: Well, Amnesty International declared that Nelson Mandela was not a political prisoner. They supported him even though he was actually imprisoned for his complicity in a terrorist bomb plot. But very few people know that. They just assume that Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned for the peaceful expression of his views. And that's just not the case. The Mandela case points up that Amnesty International will bend its own principles for Politically Correct reasons when it suits them. And I think the Ernst Zundel case also points up that same thing. KAS: It sounds like they're worse than useless, then. MW: Well, they at least do uphold a certain principle. But when any principle is applied selectively, then it's not real justice. KAS: Are there any prominent Canadians speaking up on the Zundel case? MW: I alluded to this earlier. There's a prominent Canadian journalist named Bill Dunphy. He's a veteran investigative reporter and editor for the daily Hamilton Spectator, and he spent six years investigating Canada's so-called "White supremacist movement." He got to know Ernst Zundel personally. And although he has no sympathy for Zundel's views, in a column he wrote in mid-May he was very critical of the whole case against Ernst Zundel. He said "Our government has seized and branded Ernst Zundel, stripped him of his human rights, tried him in secret and found him wanting, and will now hand him over to a foreign government anxious to throw him in jail. Zundel, who did this country a favor by wiping off the books our disgraceful 'false news' laws, has never once been convicted of a criminal offense in this country -- never once found to have violated the hate crime laws that rest snugly around the throat of free expression in this country." And he concluded, finally, that "the case by the Canadian government against Ernst Zundel is a shameful piece of dishonest, unreliable tripe." And he's not alone. There was a Canadian weekly newspaper called The Eye, a trendy giveaway paper that covers the arts especially, which said that "Declaring Zundel a terrorist now is not the result of any startling new information. It has to do with political pressure." It condemned the case as well. The Times-Colonist newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, in an editorial titled "Even Zundel Merits Fairness," was very critical of the trumped-up case against him. Now those voices are rare in Canada, because it takes a particular kind of courage to speak up for the rights of someone who Jewish groups want to put in jail. And that's a very important aspect of all of this. It points up the tremendous power and influence that Jewish groups have in Canada and in North America generally. Zundel would not be in jail today if Jewish groups did not want him there. That's a point that needs to be stressed over and over. It's unthinkable that any group has that kind of power. As I said, it takes a lot of courage, and it's rare for people to speak up for the rights of Ernst Zundel when he's been so hounded, harassed and vilified in the media as he has been. KAS: Where is The Eye published? MW: It's a Toronto weekly paper. And the Times-Colonist, as I mentioned, ran an editorial stating that the case against Zundel is really nonsense. I mean, the idea that whatever Ernst Zundel has to say is going to bust apart Canadian society is just childish. If Canadian society is that fragile, it deserves to fall apart. KAS: Well, there's a level of hypocrisy there that we also see in political prosecutions in the United States. Clearly, no one believes that Ernst Zundel's being free in Canada is going to cause Canadian society to fall apart. Even his strongest critics, though they may say that, clearly do not believe that. It's a lie. MW: Right. What Ernst Zundel wants to do is actually get out of Canada and live quietly in Tennessee. That would save everybody a whole lot of heartache and so forth. But, as I said, Canadian Jewish groups -- the Canadian Jewish Congress, the League of Human Rights of B'nai B'rith (a inappropriately named counterpart of the ADL in this country), the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- are all just demanding that Canadian authorities put Ernst on a plane and send him off to Germany and put him in jail there, where they hope no one will ever hear from him again. KAS: It's an exercise in Jewish power. Are we seeing more of this flexing of Jewish muscles, these exercises of Jewish power around the world these days? MW: I think, Kevin, we've seen in just the last few weeks expressions of the flexing of this muscle, as you put it, and with such an arrogant overreach. It's manifest in several things. There was a cartoonist in Australia who did some cartoons that were critical of Israel who was fired from his job. A book about the mistreatment of Palestinian youth under occupation was published in Britain, and Jewish groups in that country are trying to ban the book. But the most interesting case to me is the furor over Mel Gibson's new film called The Passion. Mel Gibson has essentially taken the story of the suffering of Jesus during the last twelve hours of his life as portrayed in the gospels and made it into what is by all accounts a very moving film. But Jewish groups want it banned. They want it stopped. In effect, they want any film portrayal of the gospels banned. And this is just incredible. They claim, for example, that it's wrong to portray Jews as being responsible for or playing a role in the death of Jesus in the movie or even in the gospels -- even though, amazingly, the Jewish Talmud, this very prominent holy writing for strict Jews, boasts about and claims credit for the Jews in the death of Jesus. It's amazing; the film hasn't even been shown publicly and already Jewish groups are alleging that the film is stirring 'anti-Semitism' and 'hatred.' Well, what's really stirring hostile feelings among many people isn't what's in the film, it's what Jewish groups are doing to try to ban the film even before it is released publicly. One of the incredible things, as a friend of mine once said, is that Jewish groups act as if non-Jews have Jews on the brain as much as Jews do themselves. When Christians watch The Passion what they're thinking of is the death and the suffering of Jesus. But when Jews see the film, all they can concentrate on is 'what does it mean for Jews?' The idea that Gentiles and Christians are so reckless and out of control that they're going to go out and hurt Jews because of a depiction of what some Jews did to Jesus 2,000 years ago is just incredible. Another example of this recently was the whining and protesting of Israel's government about the news coverage of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC. BBC radio has reported very factually on a number of aspects of Israel's reality: its nuclear weapons stockpile, and its mistreatment of Palestinians, for example. So Israel's government declared that it was banning all cooperation with the BBC. And one Israeli official said that the BBC was like "the worst of Nazi propaganda." Well, this is just incredible -- if the BBC is like the worst of Nazi propaganda, what does that say? -- both about the BBC and about what the press in the Third Reich was like during World War II. This is just tremendous overreach, tremendously out of balance here. KAS: Well, maybe the French ambassador to Israel was correct... Israel is a paranoid country. MW: Well, this may play well to Jews in the United States or in Israel. But for 98 per cent. of the people in the world, for people who can think on their own, this is just craziness, this is madness taken to a high degree. I mean, we live in a society where Jewish groups effectively insist on a Judeo-centric view of the world. And anything that deviates from that is punished. So countless films can be produced by Hollywood which are anti-Christian or anti-White or which denigrate any number of groups. But if one film comes out which portrays Jews in a less than favorable way, Jewish groups go berserk. Even one film is one too many as far as they're concerned. This is just madness. The world can, in effect, choose between a view of the world dictated by groups like the ADL -- or one in which there is freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry. That's the kind of choice, increasingly, that the world has to face. And that's manifest, right now, in the treatment of Ernst Zundel. KAS: Isn't this raw exercise of Jewish power, this overreaching as you describe it, going hand in hand with a considerable degree of drying up of support for the Jewish state around the world? MW: Well, yes. One of the most important weapons that Jewish groups have used, and that the state of Israel has used, over the years to shore up its support is the whole 'Holocaust' campaign. That well of sympathy was used to build a big museum in Washington, and to set up an official U.S. government agency to require so-called 'Holocaust studies' in schools. A lot of mileage has been gotten out of that -- so much so that they were able to shake down Switzerland, and banks, Germany, Austria, and other countries for billions and billions of dollars, which went to Israel and Jewish groups. But this well of guilt or good will or whatever you want to call it is just about running to its end, I think. Because the entire world is pretty strongly aware (though less so in our country) about the brutal occupation of Palestine, the oppression of the Palestinians, and Israel's illegal occupation -- for more than 20 years! -- of parts of Syria. I mean, it's just fantastic. The United States government, at the behest of Israel, is threatening Syria -- even though Syria's a country which has been a victim of Israel. It's fantastic. It's just a topsy-turvy world. But there are more and more voices speaking out against this. And I think something is really profoundly changing all over the world. KAS: Yes, it seems to me that it's only in the United States where we have an almost total thralldom to Jewish power among the citizenry. It seems to me that in Europe people are waking up from this false dream of collective guilt about the Jews during World War II. MW: Something is changing. There's no question of that. Just a few weeks ago, the longest-serving member of the British Parliament -- his name is Tam Dalyell -- said that the American government is controlled by a Jewish cabal which has gotten its hands on (and directs) American foreign policy. Now unlike some people in this country, who say something and then retract it immediately when the pressure gets too strong, he didn't retract his statement. There are more and more open and unafraid voices in Europe -- but not just in Europe. All over the world, more and more people are speaking out and acknowledging what is a fact of life. And the fact of life is the tremendous power that Jewish Zionist groups have in this country. And that they are able to dictate their will to our senators, our congressmen, the executive branch of our government, and so forth. Everybody should be ashamed to live under a government that is so corrupt that it puts the interests of a small alien minority above the interests of the American people and indeed of all humanity. KAS: Mark, not only do I honor you for the work you've done for the Zundels, but I also deeply appreciate your long service to the cause of historical truth and the embodiment of that cause, the IHR. Can you tell us what's going on at the Institute for Historical Review that our listeners ought to know about? MW: This last Summer has been very difficult. Money is short. From talks I've had, it's difficult around the country right now. But things are much better now than they were just a few weeks ago. We're going to be able to hire one or two new persons soon. KAS: Excellent. MW: But we really need to get back on track. There have been some very bad setbacks in the last year, but things are looking a lot better now than they were just even a few weeks ago. But there's so much that needs to be done and our resources are really very limited. KAS: You recently did an interview with media in Iran -- is that correct? MW: I've done a number of interviews with the English language service of what's called the IRIB, the shortwave radio service of Iran. It's their equivalent of the Voice of America, you might say. And I did one this morning. I've done maybe dozens of them over the years, giving my comment on events as seen from our perspective here in the United States. Today the focus was on the American double standard seen in our government's insistence that Iran not build any atomic reactors or develop any program that might be useful for nuclear weapons -- while at the same time effectively sanctioning and permitting Israel to develop and stockpile a large nuclear capability. You know, Israel does not admit officially that it has nuclear weapons, but even Shimon Peres just recently acknowledged that Israel has this nuclear arsenal. It's amazing. Israel has invaded other countries. At one time or another, it has invaded all of its neighbors. It still occupies portions of one of its neighbors, Syria. It's a country that demands to live within what they call 'secure borders' -- but they don't tell you what those borders are. It's a country with no constitution, which doesn't even know what its own borders are, which operates under a kind of special martial law, and which justifies its existence on supposedly theocratic groups -- that God, so they say, gave them this land. It's inherently an unstable state. This, I think is obvious to more and more people. Again, this was the topic, this double standard of U.S. policy regarding nuclear weapons for Iran and Israel. KAS: Were you able to get any interviews in American or European media? MW: Yes, yes; many. Indeed, when the Zundel case broke, I was interviewed several times by Canadian national radio and even by Canadian national television, by quite a few newspapers in Canada. And I've done interviews with reporters for television and for radio and for print for a whole range of countries in Europe and in other continents as well. KAS: How can our listeners and readers find our more about your work and the work of the IHR? MW: The IHR is easy to get to. The Web site is http://www.ihr.org. It can also be found easily enough by clicking on to the National Alliance Web site, which has a link to our Web site as well. KAS: How can our listeners and our readers who are not connected to the Internet contact you? MW: Our postal address is: IHR PO Box 2739 Newport Beach CA 92659 USA You can write to us and we'll send you a packet of information, a catalogue and other material. KAS: And finally, how can those who wish to do something, who wish to participate in this struggle for freedom of speech for Ernst Zundel and for all of us, do so? MW: Well, there's a couple of things. Ernst Zundel's campaign needs money. That information is easily found at www.zundelsite.org. Ingrid Rimland is coordinating that. I urge everybody who has an interest in this case, which I think deserves our support, just contact the Zundelsite. KAS: Mark, I want to thank you for everything you've done over the years and I want to thank you for returning again to American Dissident Voices. MW: Thank you very much, Kevin, and good luck to you, and it's a pleasure being on your program again. To contact Ingrid Zundel via post, write to: Ingrid Zundel 3152 Parkway #13, PMB109 Pigeon Forge, TN, 37863 USA [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Wed Sep 24 04:44:49 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Wed Sep 24 07:26:48 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/23/2003 - "Zundel Bail Hearing: Delay is the name of the government game!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 23, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: We are living in Stalinist times. I had managed to persuade Dr. Lorraine Day, a world-renown surgeon who has trained thousands of doctors, to fly to Toronto to examine Ernst and find out what the story is about his health and to give testimony at the hearing if at all possible, and I did not know if she had been admitted to the stand. I was on pins and needles all day long. I reached her in late afternoon; she told me of an incredible struggle to even be admitted to testify, since even the judge had put roadblocks in her way, but she had managed with the help of defense attorney, Doug Christie - and later Barbara Kulaszka, another attorney on the Zundel Team, told me that Dr. Day "...was a great witness - knowledgeable, fearless! Just great!" Only very late that night did I get to talk to Ernst who is always at the mercy of the goodwill of the guards on whether or not he will even get the telephone. He agreed that Dr. Day had been a powerful, impressive witness, but the rest of the hearing was creeping - and creepy! - delay. Delay, delay, and more delay! If bail isn't decided this round, Ernst told me, the next bail hearing will be in December. The tactic, he explained to me, is clearly to keep him in jail - evidently with the aiding and abetting of the judge, to use a vernacular phrase. "Understand the political constellation," he told me. "Two ministers have declared me a security risk. Is the judge going to let a security risk walk the streets? He is there to do the government's job. Be realistic." At that point I said: "Then why even continue with the charade?" Ernst told me: "You have to understand that they want to keep me here until after the election. The politicians can tell their constituents, "We said we would get him, and we have! He is now in our power!" And Ernst added quietly: "Millions are being raised on my back." Where do we go from here? We have added two young attorneys to our team who have a practice in Toronto, which will help. They will take over the case in the Provincial Court of Ontario. Ernst is very pleased with them, as are his regular attorneys. However, Ernst believes that the only way to dislodge him from the clutches of his enemies is public awareness - in other words, media. He says that with politically beholden courts, an unpopular dissident has next to no chance. Only public outrage at the injustice of it all will make a difference. That's where we are going to focus our energies now. I ask for your help - each and every one of you on my list. You can help, and you must help if you care about what is happening to all of our freedom. You can help with donations to pay for the costs on the legal front, and you can help by creating awareness in the weeks and months to come. I will tell you how, and together we will mount not only a defense but a media offense that is going to leave our enemies' heads spinning! I am already working on a dramatic plan! Here is Ernst's Zundel on-location representative, Paul Fromm, reporting about yesterday from the Absurdistan Front: [START] Toronto. September 23, 2003 ANOTHER SECRET HEARING & DOCTOR WARNS ZUNDEL'S LIFE'S IN DANGER When the detention hearing (bail review) for German-born publisher Ernst Zundel re-opened today in Toronto, Federal Judge Pierre Blais refused to recuse himself for bias. He also announced at the beginning of the hearing that he had agreed with the request of the Justice Department to conduct another secret hearing in Ottawa in early September. No report of the evidence or witnesses at this hearing was disclosed to the defence. U.S. doctor Lorraine Day, a surprise defence witness, testified that prison conditions posed a serious threat to Mr. Zundel who suffers from high blood pressure and a growth on his chest, which she fears may be a recurrence of cancer. When the hearing opened, Mr. Justice Blais said: "On July 30, Mr. Christie put a motion for recusal. After telephone conversations, the parties agreed to written submissions." Originally, Mr. Justice Blais had said he'd render a decision by the end of August, after reading the transcripts which were to be available in mid-August. Apparently, the Crown sought the delay to submit further arguments in writing. This allowed Mr. Justice Blais to set a September 9 deadline for sumbissions and, thus, to delay announcing his decision until Monday, September 22. Soon after Court resumed, Mr. Justice Blais said he'd agreed with a Department of Justice request for an ex parte hearing in early September "to hear evidence in camera that would not be disclosed to Mr. Zundel." Mr. Christie reminded the judge of his promise in the July hearings to see whether some of the material from the numerous secret hearings thus far might be added to the government disclosure summary. "So far, there is no evidence that can be added to the summary and made public." However, he added, "the hearing is not yet over and I'll keep it in mind, but there are different reasons why the [secret] information cannot be made public." A fierce argument ensued when defence lawyer Douglas H. Christie sought to interrupt Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh's cross-examination of Ernst Zundel, now in its fifth day, to introduce a surprise witness, Dr. Lorraine Day, a California orthopaedic surgeon. Dr. Day, 67, was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in 1993. She had a lump the size of a grapefruit on her chest. Formerly a practitioner of orthodox medicine, Dr. Day searched, experimented and cured herself through natural techniques which include extensive consumption of water, proper nutrition and reduction of stress. Since then, she's been an outspoken advocate of natural healing and has produced numerous books and videos. Day created a furor when she went public with charges that the AIDS virus can be transmitted in aerosol form. She ceased doing surgeries, as she said she was putting herself at unacceptable risk. Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh strongly objected to the surprise witness. Initially, the judge was reluctant to hear Dr. Day. "You know something. There are people who are in jail for 25 years and are sick and they don't let them out." "Mr. Zundel isn't even charged with a crime," Mr. Christie responded. "He's detained because he's considered a threat to national security," the judge shot back. Several of the 25 Zundel supporters hissed at this comment. An angry Mr. Justice Blais threatened the spectators. "You won't interrupt my court. Get out, if you won't be silent!" Mr. Justice Blais accepted Dr. Day as a witness, but not as an "expert" witness, because she had not filed a report on her visit Monday to Ernst Zundel. Douglas Christie pointed out that permission had not been granted by provincial authorities for Dr. Day to visit and examine Mr. Zundel until last Friday. She flew in from California on Sunday and examined him Monday morning. "The rules allow you to accept anything you want. Section 78.j. of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act says that the judge may accept anything into evidence, even if it is not admissible otherwise." Dr. Day, a slim blonde dressed in a light blue suit, took the stand. "There is a cartilagenous mass, a tumor, measuring an inch by and inch by an inch, at the inferior portion of the sternum," she told the Court. While in prison, "Mr. Zundel's blood pressure has been as high as 235/135, and that's in the area of stroke. In the past several years, he's had a blood pressure problem which he's handled by natural therapy." Dr. Day testified that the prison has been giving Mr. Zundel a beta blocker to control the high blood pressure. "Beta blockers have enormous side-effects," she warned. These side-effects can include cardiac arrest, arterial thrombosis, colitis, mental depression, memory loss , catatonia and even death. "He has some side effects," she observed, "including cold extremities, difficulty in urinating, memory loss, unsteadiness in his gait, and low heart rate.' "He has a low resting heart rate of 56, a false rate due to the medication," she testified. "He needs sunlight, fresh air. The stress of incarceration is immense and is raising his blood pressure." Asked by Mr. Christie for her conclusion after her examination of dissident publisher Ernst Zundel, Dr. Day said his continued incarceration "is life threatening, especially with his blood pressure and the tumor increasing in size." Under cross examination, Dr. Day elaborated: "Every beta blocker has side effects. Sometimes the patient usn't aware of them. The side effects get much more serous the older one gets." The prison had ordered an x-ray of Mr. Zundel's chest in July, after he complained of the growth. "The radiologist didn't even look for the tumor," Dr. Day charged. "A p.s. on his report says that he was only told after the x-ray was taken that the patient had a mass." In her exchange with the Crown, Dr. Day noted acidly about holocaust skeptic Ernst Zundel's present incarceration: "It's not a criminal activity in my country to question anything." When Ernst Zundel, dressed in an olive coloured windbreaker, took the stand and sat down, he joked pointedly, "Yes, I got a good chair this time," referring to the fact that prison authorities continue to deny him a chair in his solitary confinement cell. The rest of the day consisted of an interminable cross-examination of Ernst Zundel by Crown Attorney Donald MacIntosh, seeking to connect Mr. Zundel to various nationalist leaders or revisionists in a process Mr. Zundel denounced as guilt-by-association. Mr. MacIntosh frequently sounded as if he were testifying in his questioning. A typical exchange had Mr. MacIntosh asking about Ewald Althans, a former advance man for Mr. Zundel in Germany, who, when charged under Germany's anti-free speech laws, made a deal with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to give the names of 5,000 rightists in exchange for 360,000 Deutsche Marks. He later moved to Holland to live with his homosexual lover, an antique dealer. MacIntosh; "Althans' office was in Munich?" Zundel: "Correct." MacIntosh: "Munich is the birthplace of the Nazi Party." Zundel: "Correct." MacIntosh: "Were you aware Althans didn't like Black people?" Zundel: "No." MacIntosh: "Were yo aware he didn't like Jewish people?" Zundel: "Yes. Well, some Jewish people. He has an uncle who is Jewish." Finally, an exasperated Douglas Christie objected. "This whole process makes me wonder what's going on. Unsubstantiated newspaper clippings are put to the witness to see if he can recognize them. It's a fishing expedition." What does this have to do "with whether he's a threat to national security or a flight risk," the points of contention in the detention hearing, he demanded. After questioning Mr. Zundel about a series of personalities, Mr. MacIntosh, after each name, would ask, "like you, he was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler?" Finally, Ernst Zundel shot back: "Mr. MacIntosh, you have Hitler on the brain. I do not." Much of the afternoon questioning centred on an expose by the U.S. Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Questioned about Pastor Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations, whom he'd met just once, Mr. Zundel retorted: "The ADL is a Jewish hate group. What you're reading from is their take on Butler. This is ADL propaganda, as far as I'm concerned. I feel like a Black man convicted on Ku Klux Klan evidence. The ADL was convicted of burglary and spying and fined $500,000. Don't show me some Jewish propaganda and then ask me to agree with it." On the stand, Mr. Zundel noted that he'd been examining the 1,806 pages of newspaper clippings, reports, and portions of books that form the Crown's public case against him. "A net is being woven here of guilt-by-association," Mr. Zundel replied, when questioned about former Canadian Aryan Nations representative Terry Long. "I met Terry Long for 10 minutes after a speech in Calgary 15 years ago. Yet, there are 300 pages of information about Mr. Long" in the Crown's documents. Mr. MacIntosh, a thin man with a mane of unruly, iron grey hair, hunched over the podium, with his nose, at times, just inches from the document he was reading. The Court audience grew increasingly agitated by the Crown's badgering of Mr. Zundel. At the end of the day, Mr. Justice Blais asked Mr. MacIntosh about his intentions for the next day. He indicated that he'd continue the cross-examination of Mr. Zundel. When asked how long he thought he would need, he replied, "all day." Many in the audience groaned. Judge Blais exploded: "I will not tolerate this type of comment here. You do not have to be here. You can just get out," he threatened. Seemingly taking their cue from the judge's aggressive attitude to Mr. Zundel's supporters in Court, one of the Court security guards, nameless, so I'll call him Stringbean, asked two German men, one a leader of the Danube Swabian community, to be quiet or leave. He claimed he could hear their whispers across the courtroom. They were standing directly behind me and I heard nothing. As soon as Court was over, Stringbean tried to shoo us all out. When I didn't move fast enough, he demanded: "Do you have a problem with that?" "Yes," I said, "I have a big problem with a country treating a man the way they're treating Zundel." Parroting the judge, Stringbean said: "You don't have to be here." "We pay their salaries," a number of furious spectators said as they gathered outside the courtroom and discussed the Judge's threats. "It's just more German-bashing." One of the few opponents of Ernst Zundel present was lawyer Anita Bromberg, who sported an ID bade indicating that she was a staff person for the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith. After the Judge threatened the audience, one of Mr. Zundel's supporters whispered: "God help this country." Bomberg leaned over and warned "I could report you to the judge." The hearing continues tomorrow. Paul Fromm [END] If you can, please send your financial support to: Ingrid Zundel 3152 Parkway, Suite 13, PMB 109 Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 USA If you send a check, please make it out in my name or in Ernst's name, since my bank will NOT accept checks made out to "Zundel Defense Fund." Another tactic of harassment! From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Thu Sep 25 03:37:51 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 26 18:24:10 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/24/2003 - "An Open Letter to the Congressional Judiciary Committee, headed by Congressman James Sensenbrenner, to investigate the kidnapping of Ernst Zundel" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 24, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: I don't yet have specifics about how Day Two of the so-called Zundel Bail Hearings played out. Is anyone holding his breath? I will let you know just as soon as I can. We are making progress, however, in untangling that coil of snakes responsible for the arrest of Ernst Zundel. Below is the tip of the iceberg, especially as it pertains to wrongdoing by an appellate court of the United States of America, the Sixth Circuit Court. Just a few days ago, through another trickle of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, we managed to harvest a few additional names - and clues as to how it was done. It looks as though not only one, but two court employees were involved. But more about that later. These days in America, whenever one places a political ad, it amounts to a veritable dance on eggs - you can't say this, you can't say that, you have to be sensitive to "minority" feelings. Against that background, I managed to place Ad # 3 in the Washington Times. I could not have done the same in the Washington Post, let's say - or better yet, in one of Canada's national papers. However, I think that I managed to say plenty. This ad is to appear tomorrow - September 25 - full-page, large format paper! No way can this be missed by the powers that be - and the would-be powers that be: [START] An Open Letter to the Congressional Judiciary Committee, headed by Congressman James Sensenbrenner, to investigate the kidnapping of Ernst Zundel This is the third in a series of ads planned to inform America's leaders and the public at large about the arrest and detention of my husband, Ernst Z?ndel. My first ad, titled "An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin" (6-12-03) was meant to illustrate that Stalinist tactics have come to America. My second ad, titled "An Open Letter to the Senate and Congress of the United States", (9-7-03) was a graphic description of how a brutal, politically motivated kidnapping was carried out. This ad takes my campaign for basic human rights yet one step further - to free my husband, and to warn America. I have been cautioned not to mention America's most powerful taboo. Instead, I quote from a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times, written by one Nelson Marans, that was published in response to my first two ads - it mentions the taboo for me: While paid advertisements may be the financial lifeblood for many newspapers, I would have hoped that The Washington Times would have displayed more selectivity when confronted by an advertisement from a Holocaust denier [page A7, Sunday]. Convicted of that crime in Germany and guilty of spreading his message of hate throughout the world, Ernst Zundel is not misunderstood and a victim, but instead an advocate of religious and racial hatred. He supports the extermination of not only Jews, but blacks and any other members of so-called inferior races. (Nelson Marans, Silver Spring) When a charge that serious is being made about an ad I placed, I am entitled to a full reply. Moreover, I will pay for it so I can state it fully. What I have to say, below, is part of the public record and can be verified by anyone. My husband has NEVER supported "... the extermination of not only Jews, but blacks and any other members of so-called inferior races." That is an allegation that is actionable! With this ad, in a still semi-free America where an accused has the right, we all assume, to set the record straight, I take this opportunity to do precisely that. It is true that Ernst Zundel, a German nationalist, has been a political activist all of his adult life, speaking up for his people's maligned World War II generation. However, he was only six years old at the end of World War II. He came to Canada while still a teenager and lived there for more than four decades. He chose Canada because it did not require conscription since, raised as a Christian, he abhorred war and any kind of violence, and he has never changed his mind. As he has put it, then and since, "I won't take up a gun at governments' behest to kill another human being who has done me no harm." With an innate artistic talent and excellent training in graphic arts acquired in the ruins of bombed-out, postwar Germany, Ernst very quickly became wealthy - and seriously concerned about an increasingly hysterial crescendo of post-World War II propaganda against the country of his birth. At first, his activism was a part-time hobby. In 1967, he decided to get into mainstream political action, largely in token protest against ethnic vilification of the country that he loved. He was an immigrant, the youngest candidate ever in the history of Canada to run for political office as head of the Liberal Party. In an address to a live audience of 25,000, he pleaded for an end to anti-German hate propaganda and for Germany's reunification. Shortly thereafter, to his amazement, his then pending application for Canadian citizenship was turned down, even though his record of conduct was spotless, and citizenship was routinely granted to successful immigrants. A promising mainstream political career thus cut short, he turned to non-violent street activism, mostly picketing of movie houses and print media. By then, he had a following of mostly European immigrants from many different countries. His name became a household word, not only in Canada but increasingly abroad. Never once did he or his supporters resort to any form of violence, either in speech or in action. The record speaks for itself. In the early 1980s, the Canadian government arbitarily and dictatorially denied Ernst his postal privileges. It ruined his lucrative graphic arts studio but broadened his political appeal and brought him scores of free speech supporters from all over the world. After a prolonged and very costly legal struggle, he won his postal privileges back. A Government-sponsored Postal Tribunal ruled tersely that the Canadian government should keep its nose out of "... a conflict between two peoples, the Germans and the Jews." Next, his German passport was revoked and stayed revoked for many years. Documents obtained by his attorneys through the Freedom of Information Act revealed to his astonishment how much his ever more vociferous opponents feared his Truth-in-History campaign, and how seriously he was being taken by the powers in and behind several governments. He says today: "Scales fell from my eyes!" In November of 1983, a well-known, wealthy Holocaust survivor brought criminal charges against Ernst for "spreading false news" under the Canadian Code's ancient Section 177, a law that dated from 12th Century England. More than 800 years ago, this law had protected England's aristocracy from wandering minstrels chanting ditties against the powers-that-be. Only twice had it been used in Canada. Videos exist of the subsequent seven-week trial that show how Ernst, his legal team and friends were being threatened, pushed, beaten and spat on as they fought their way into the court house, while a frenzied mob, waving sticks and brandishing canes, hissed and screamed obscenities at the top of their lungs. One reporter from the Toronto Sun wrote that Ernst was "...winning the battle of images by mere contrast of behaviour." Next, a bomb exploded in Ernst's garage. Jewish circles contacted the media and claimed responsibility. Police chose not to follow up. Ernst Zundel lost that first trial, but upon appeal the judge was found to be biased. A new trial was ordered. This trial commenced in 1988. It lasted almost four months. Ernst paid for his defense, as he had done before, and has done ever since. The tax payers of Canada paid for the prosecution - by the millions! Right at the start of this new trial, the judge took judicial notice - which means, in layman's terms, that the historical event known as the Holocaust, as claimed, was a historical "given" - and could not be put to the test. This made a conviction a foregone conclusion. "Before this judge, in this court, the battle is hopeless," Doug Christie, defense attorney, told Ernst. "I can't win it for you." "This one," replied Ernst, "is not for myself. This one will be my gift to history." This trial made history. It gathered court witnesses and experts from all over the world - for no other reason than to document their testimony in court transcripts. One crucial outcome was the Leuchter Report, a global bestseller, obtained after a forensic investigative team flew to Auschwitz in then still Communist Poland. The Leuchter Report was a milestone. Since judicicial notice precluded victory, Ernst lost this trial as well, but after many appeals and a great deal of legal struggle and yet more millions spent on both sides, the Supreme Court of Canada exonerated him. After 9 years of costly litigation, the highest court in Canada said this: "Section 2(b) of the Charter protects the rights of a minority to express its view, however unpopular it may be. ...The content of the communication is irrelevant. The purpose of the guarantee is to permit free expression to the end of promoting truth, political or social participation, and self-fulfillment. That purpose extends to the protection of minority beliefs which the majority regards as wrong or false." The highest court of Canada had spoken. In a sane world this would have been the end. Ernst certainly believed it. Now he could turn to his first love and do what he had always longed to do - open an art gallery somewhere up in the mountains. Within four days, he was re-charged - this time under Canada's infamous Hate Laws. The government, however, refused to carry through. There were several more attempts, always with a new twist, to charge him with a hate crime. The charges never stuck, for he is not a hateful man - and he has the record to prove it. Thus having been cleared of all charges, Ernst decided to re-apply for Canadian citizenship. The Globe and Mail reported that his application was "flawless". Again he was turned down. Again, no explanation. In the fall of 1994, the Zundel-Haus, as it was known, became the target of 24-hour telephone terror, violent demonstrations, and postering of flyers across Toronto by the thousands with explicit instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails. These flyers cited the Z?ndel-Haus address and showed Ernst's face in the crosshairs of a rifle. Police looked the other way and never charged anyone for incitement to murder. Privately, Ernst was told by a policeman that the word had gone out that $800 would get him "bumped off". In the early morning of the 50th anniversary of Germany's defeat and surrender, the Zundel-Haus went up in flames. Had Ernst been home, he would have been killed. Invaluable documents, letters and books were destroyed. Even though the arsonist was caught on video and his name and whereabouts were known and turned over to the police, there was no follow-up. This act of violence was followed 10 days later first by an AIDS-laced razor blade and then by a parcel bomb which, had it exploded, would have killed everyone in a radius of 300 feet. Ernst rebuilt the Zundel-Haus - bigger, better and stronger - with the help of his freedom-of-speech friends from all over the world. Since criminal charges didn't stick, Ernst's opponents turned to Human Rights legislation, focusing on cyberspace. It would go too far, and be too tedious, to describe the subsequent 5-year cyberspace censorship battle in various Canadian courtrooms, the outcome of which was a Human Rights Tribunal Stalinist verdict: "Truth is no defense"! This ruling shocked Ernst to the core. If truth was no defense, he knew there was no way he could win his case in the courts of Canada. Moreover, he had made his mark. Historical revisionism had made spectacular inroads. Revisionist papers, books, seminars, symposia were sprinkled across hundreds of websites in cyberspace and seriously studied in colleges and universities, even in the embassies of countries that mattered. The information was out in the open - it would be up to the people to draw their own conclusions. Ernst decided his part of the struggle was done. By that time, Ernst Zundel and I were married and had settled in the hills of Tennessee, in looks reminiscent of his homeland in the Black Forest. Here he would do what he had always longed to do - create in his own gallery and use his talent to add beauty to the world. Then came the arrest, out of nowhere! Why? Why now? Ernst's censorship battles had lasted three decades. He was known globally for his politically incorrect views, but with no criminal record on the continent where he had lived all his adult life. He was married to a U.S. citizen, seeking adjustment of status pursuant to a properly filed application, whose presence in that capacity had been authorized by the Attorney General. Suddenly, with no provocation, he was brutally arrested and deported. Dictatorships act that way. Democracies have procedural safeguards - including habeas corpus. To make one's case before a judge is a basic American right, enshrined in our Constitution. Additionally, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 23 states that anybody in the custody of US law enforcement must not be removed to another location, much less booted out of the country, until a judge has heard the case. A court is expected to rule on the facts as presented truthfully and fairly by both sides. We asked that we be judged on all the facts and on the merits of our arguments. We asked to have a district judge in Knoxville hear the case. Within minutes, this court turned us down in a one-sentence ruling, without any hearing. The very next day, we appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court. Four days later, our appeal was denied by a three-member panel of judges. The order was signed by a Clerk. And here comes the ghastly part that ought to make America's judiciary shudder: Through the Freedom of Information Act, we learned that this Clerk, along with at least one other employee, resorted to ex parte soliciting of information. In laymen's terms, employees of an appellate court went outside the record to speed the deportation of a dissident - one might say that they aided and abetted a political kidnapping! At this point, we don't even know if the three judges cited in the ruling of the deportation order knew about our motion for stay of deportation. They may or may not have known. However, we are surely entitled to find out. Who was behind this kidnapping - which was, for all intents and purposes, an extradition in the guise of deportation? Conscientious men will recognize the danger of a precedent. The Sixth District Court ruling has given the jack boot to habeas corpus, a due process safeguard preventing abuse. Baseless arrests of inconvenient dissidents will be the outcome in the future unless this abuse is stopped in its tracks. Ernst Zundel has a flawless record of a kind and decent man who refuses to live on his knees. He never preached or practiced violence - he is the victim of repeated, politically motivated violence. As his wife, I hereby formally petition the Congressional Judiciary Committee, headed by Congressman James Sensenbrenner, to investigate the misconduct of the 6th District Court. It is imperative that this abuse of basic human rights be properly investigated and the misconduct be traced and punished at its source. Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D. From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Fri Sep 26 14:52:47 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Fri Sep 26 18:24:25 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/25/2003 - "Maddening!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 25, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Here now is Day Two of the misnamed "Zundel Bail Hearing", summarized by Paul Fromm: [START] YOU WILL SPEND THANKSGIVING WITH YOUR FAMILY; ERNST WILL SPEND IT IN JAIL Dear Free Speech Supporter: On Wednesday, the final day in this round of Revisionist publisher Ernst Zundel's detention hearing, before Mr. Justice Pierre Blais, Donald MacIntosh, the Crown Attorney, talked out the clock, ensuring that Mr. Zundel will remain in prison for another 13 weeks until the hearings resume for three days on December 10. Hour after hour, MacIntosh picked away at Mr. Zundel with an ever more obscure series of questions about people he might have interviewed once or known slightly. Allegations, often from hostile Jewish sources and sometimes third and fourth-hand hearsay, were put to him for his agreement or comment. Political prisoner Ernst Zundel arrived in court with five plainclothes guards. Two sat near him beyond the barrier separating the court officials and lawyers from the spectators, three more sat among the spectators or stood along the walls. While the lawyers toted their piles of legal volumes on suitcase-like carts with wheels, Mr. Zundel had to haul his legal papers in two white pillow cases. The day opened with a testy exchange between defence lawyer Douglas H. Christie and the judge. The judge expressed unhappiness that Mr. Christie had had a number of meetings with Mr. Zundel, while he was under cross examination. On July 30, it had been agreed that, provided he did not discuss Mr. Zundel's evidence, Mr. Christie could phone or visit Mr. Zundel, to get instructions or to discuss other aspects of the case. "I didn't hear a caveat that each and every time I wish to talk to my client I must inform or ask the Court," Mr. Christie snapped. When agitated, the judge pronounces "asked" with an aspirate: thus, "hasked". At the end of the exchange, it was agreed that Mr. Christie could continue to consult with Mr. Zundel as long as he is under cross-examination -- at least until December 10 -- provided he does not discuss his evidence or coach his responses. Then Crown Attorney MacIntosh commenced a long and laborious series of questions about Tom Metzger. Hovering, crow-like in his black robe, his nose an inch or two above the document on the podium, MacIntosh would spend long minutes searching for a quotation. More time would be wasted as the judge, Mr. Zundel on the witness stand, and Mr. Christie, would have to locate the often unnumbered page being referred to. After each answer, Mr. MacIntosh would painstakingly make notes of the answer, despite the fact he had three other legal assistants backing him up. It was a classic time-waster, like a veteran hockey player who hogs the puck while his team is ahead to run out the clock. In the fishing expedition about Tom Metzger, Mr. MacIntosh quoted from an author named Kaplan who wrote The Encyclopedia of White Power and quoted Morris Dees quoting Harold Covington's brief quotation of something Tom Metzger allegedly said. An angry Douglas Christie objected: "My position on all these documents is that they're all inadmissible hearsay. You have allowed the process to degenerate into a political inquisition and filibuster. It's creating a prejudicial record of guilt-by-association. This is prejudicial hearsay. It's bad enough that we have to deal with secret hearings. This is fourth hand hearsay." MacIntosh argued: "The statutory scheme of Section 78 [of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act] clearly states that you can rely evidence you might not otherwise." Then, in a remarkable one liner indicating how slight the Crown's burden of proof is, he reminded Mr. Justice Blais: "The case law is the reasonableness, not necessarily the correctness, of the certificate." The whole sinister process then became clear as a mountain pool. CSIS's case is a wild series of guilt-by-associations. Mr. Zundel knows or knew a series of people, some of whom at some time or other may have made an extreme statement, or are alleged to have done so. Under questioning, he admits he knew these people. Often, he is called to acknowledge that he disagrees with a statement he never knew they'd made or to acknowledge that if they did or advocated what a third party says they did, they might be considered a terrorist. Then, with this record, the Crown will argue that the CSIS accusation that Mr. Zundel is a terrorist is "reasonable" -- even if it isn't true. After all, he admits knowing all these extreme people. Once again, truth will be no defence. Outside the Court, Mr. Christie said: "This is like a Soviet show trial. It's a process of guilt-by-association. The condemned man is forced to disown or denounce all his friends or associations (like Terry Long, Tom Metzger, Ewald Althans). That doesn't save him. The Court then says that his denunciations are untruthful and just calculated to save himself. Then, all alone now, the prisoner if found guilty and shot." This is Canada. Canada ostentatiously doesn't have capital punishment. However, it condemns a man who is seriously ill to solitary confinement, denied proper herbal medication, where the reasonable likelihood of the State's action is the prisoner's death or incapacity. In answering Mr. Christie's objection, Mr. Justice Blais was a study in apparent fairness and convoluted expression. "Mr. Metzger is not here. He is not the object of this case. The problem I have is that we have 1,806 pages of documents filed by the Crown. [Ernst had counted them and told the Court the number the day before.] When he [Mr. Zundel] says 'I don't know or have any relation with this individual,' that's it. I take very seriously Mr. Christie's objection. Anyone can make speeches, but it does not mean he's responsible for others' actions. In a sense, we must be careful about guilt-by-association. We're here to trial [sic] Mr. Zundel's certificate." So far, so good. Then, with a verbal pirouette, the Judge said that, as these documents were before the Court, the interrogation could continue and Mr. MacIntosh was off again. When questioned on passages from the book The Encyclopedia of White Power, Mr. Zundel said: "Mr. MacIntosh, I sent a researcher to the University of Toronto Library to get a copy of this book. I'm not even in the glossary. Yet, I'm supposed to be the guru of the White racist right." In the morning session, a Globe and Mail reporter complained to both the Crown and to Mr. Christie that his tape recorder had been confiscated by the Court security guards. After the break, Mr. Christie argued: "The Ontario Court of Justice Act permits bringing of recorders into Court for note taking. My position is that we should allow the widest latitude for recording." No, said Mr. Justice Blais. "I don't think our rules allow that." A casual observer might have concluded that Tom Metzger was on trial in Courtroom 1 in Toronto on September 24. Mr. Zundel was asked if he knew of a publication called "White Berets", published by a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. Zundel said he didn't know the publication, but was sent some Klan literature from time to time by supporters. "You never asked anyone not to send you Klu[sic] Klux Klan literature," Mr. MacIntosh said triumphantly, as if he'd scored a knock-out point. Douglas Christie leaped to his feet objecting: "The Ku Klux Klan literature is another prejudicial document thrown into the hopper. Mr. Zundel didn't recognize it, hadn't received it and didn't adopt it." Now, Mr. Justice Blais admonished Mr. Christie for objecting so often: "Talking about a filibuster, but I don't want to stop any objection. I try to be flexible pursuant to Section 78.j." He then ruled: "The Klan document will be admitted." In the afternoon, the Crown played a portion of a video entitled "Hearts of Hate" produced with buckloads of Canadian taxpayers' money. The video seemed to show Ernst Zundel singing "Happy Birthday" in a pub on the occasion of the birthday of Toronto skinhead Chris Newhook. Mr. Zundel had earlier testified that he could not recall singing "Happy Birthday" on that evening almost a decade ago. Douglas Christie objected: "What is the relevance and purpose of the T.V. tape? If it shows Ernst Zundel involved in violence, okay. If it shows him singing 'Happy Birthday,' it's collateral and should not be allowed." Although he permitted showing of the propaganda video, it was too much even for Mr. Justice Blais: "Section 78.j allows flexibility, but we should apply it in good faith. No one will be deported for singing 'Happy Birthday.' Frankly, Mr. MacIntosh, it happens to everyone. People start singing 'Happy Birthday' in a bar and everyone joins in." Then, Mr. Zundel was questioned about Church of the Creator founder Ben Klassen, whom he had never met and didn't know, and his alleged sale of property to William Pierce. Again Mr. Christie objected: "Guilt-by-association is what this is all about. The witness was asked whether he knew Mr. Klassen. He said 'no'. Then, he was asked if he knew of a connection between Mr. Klassen and Mr. Pierce. I just point out that it's like asking whether person A, whom I don't know, has any connection with person B, whom I don't know. Where's the relevance to actions?" The later part of the afternoon was taken up with setting the agenda for the next round of hearings December 10-12. Mr. MacIntosh said he'll need another hour and a half to complete his cross-examination. Both lawyers will prepare written submissions as to whether Mr. Justice Blais has jurisdiction to decide Mr. Christie constitutional challenge to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; particularly, to the sections surrounding the CSIS certificate, which allow no appeal of the judge's decision and which permit secret hearings. The jurisdictional question will be argued. If the judge decides he has jurisdiction, the constitutional question will be argued. Both parties are preparing written submissions on this point as well. Finally, Mr. Zundel's detention will be argued. Optimists feel there's a chance Mr. Zundel will be free for Christmas. Despite the incarceration which will be 10 months come December, Mr. Justice Blais said: "The personal question for Mr. Zundel is important, but we're breaking new ground with a new law. So, we must take our time. I'm pre-occupied by this point, by Mr. Zundel's detention." Later that night, speaking to the Alternative Forum in Toronto, Mr. Christie praised those loyal 25-30 people who had filled the courtroom each day in support of the dissident publisher. "Every minute you're in the court bears witness to the fact that you have not surrendered to a corrupt government. It's a political inquisition, " Mr. Christie said. -- Paul Fromm [END] From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Sep 27 14:46:31 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Sep 27 18:56:23 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/26/2003 - "The Nature of N.S. and the Dangers of Compromise" - Part I Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 26, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Below is an absolutely extraordinary "revisionist" essay - which came to me essentially sans punctuation. At first, it was exceedingly difficult to read, and hence to understand, since the phrases and sentences ran into each other. Additionally, there were some spelling mistakes distorting meaning and some connectives missing, which didn't help. But what a fine mind - and what cogent and rational thinking! I took the liberty of playing the grammarian, not claiming that I fixed every flaw - and not claiming either that I understood every thought-within-a-thought of this essay. I got the drift - and hope that you will, too. (Where there are square brackets, I inserted a little something to help the flow along ...) This essay ought to be placed in forums (fora? fori?) where otherwise sane, reasonable and good-natured intellectuals with that well-known funny reflex can be found that makes them kick a dead man in the shin so as to preen themselves about their own above-board ethics to their colleagues - who'll never fail to nod approvingly. (By the way, NSDAP stands for Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei...simplified, the Hitler Workers' Party) I'll ship you this essay in two parts since it is rather long and not that easy to digest. It's worth the effort, though. Part I herewith: [START] The Nature of N.S. and the Dangers of Compromise This list, like all Eurocentric forums that don't cater to Hollywood nazis, expends a fair amount of effort on lambasting the lunatic fringe and condemning national socialism in the hopes of widening the appeal of nationalism. Perhaps it would be fruitful to step back from the rote condemnations and ritualistic appeals to moderation and address the matter of what exactly National Socialism entails, what are the essential elements of Eurocentrism, realistically appraise what the NSDAP regime stood for as well as consider the threats and opportunities inherent [to] compromise with a destructive Zeitgeist. As a starting point, it seems worth stating that, to a significant extent, all Eurocentrics are historically inclined and prone to nostalgia and that such tendencies can be, but often are not, positive in that they at least implicitly recognize that our identities are the product of our unique histories and the sacrifices and visions of our ancestors. In this respect we differ from the proponents of the anti-culture and Occidental destruction in that we do not subscribe to utopian constructs and societal formations that have never existed, nor do we speak of remaking humanity to conform with an ahistorical ideal via social engineering - as the Fabians, Anarchists, various flavors of Bolsheviks, Social Democrats, and others that reject folkish conceptions of humanity do. As Eurocentrics we recognize, or at least we ought to, that our existence has as its meaning the perpetuation and advancement of the genetic and cultural inheritance bequeathed to us by our ancestors, whose communal environment was an expression of the majesty of providence. As a result, we should realize the folly of taking inspiration from that which never was, as [it] is promoted by the likes of Saint-Simon, Fourier, or Godwin, as well as that which cannot be (ex. the new Soviet Man) and that which requires the destruction of that which is of proven value for the transitory and nebulous, as the proponents of the "tan everyman" would have us do. When looking to bygone eras, we see individuals and societies that prevented our enslavement and destruction and even cultural renewal and provided the means for salubrious living. Any era, society or individual that one could reasonably describe as providing such conditions deserves to be considered as a worthwhile source of inspiration, as European man is currently facing extinction and our cultures are nothing more than faded remnants of our ancestor's glories, strangled by the miasma of the anti-culture and demographic decline. It is my contention that the NSDAP era can be accurately described in such terms and represents the most recent example of Eurocentric resurgence. As to the NSDAP era, it is and will remain an issue for us to confront, because every socializing institution of any significance in the Western world is controlled by interests that wish to destroy Europa and raise the specter Hitler a la Hollywood as a means of demonizing any manifestation of Eurocentrism. In order for one to successfully confront this perennial problem, we must have a basic understanding of what the NSDAP regime actually did - and address its relevance to the struggle today without recourse to the hoary demonology of establishment propaganda, nor the equally unfounded counter-myth promoted by those nostalgic for an era they are ignorant of. While a great many theorists have written magnus opuses detailing the short-comings of multi-racialism, the virtues of folkish societies, the mechanisms of racial decline and prescriptions for national restoration, very few have ever made a viable bid to have such notions put into action, let alone had the opportunity to put theory into practice on a societal scale. This is not to say that ideas not enacted on a societal scale are somehow lacking utility, but it is to say that such notions should be judged within the context of that which has been implemented or at least tried on a large scale. We should give credit where due - and that means that accomplishments should be recognized even when the motive force has been both demonized and reasonably critiqued. In the case of the NSDAP regime, it should be recognized that it was a regime rather then a mere think tank, website, publication, sect, party, person or unfulfilled revolutionary faction, which simply can't be said of a great many NR/RC/NS manifestations that I and others of this list find more palatable. The Hitlerian regime succeeded in staving off the immediate destruction of Germany and successfully assisted numerous other forces of Eurocentric national insurgence in doing the same - as well as making a great many other credible efforts elsewhere. Obviously, such efforts were done because they served the interest of the regime rather than some fully noble cause of pan-European salvation as we all would like, yet the consequences of not doing so would have had very grave [consequences] indeed for a great many nations of Europa. While some here doubtlessly prefer other rightist regimes of similar vintage and rightly point out the substantial differences they held with the German model, and that Axis alliances were often marriages of convenience, the fact remains that they would have had more dubious prospects, were it not for the efforts of NS Germany to create a pan-European legion opposed to both Jewish Social Democracy/cultural Bolshevism in the West and Jewish Bolshevist totalitarianism in the East. If General Victor Suvorov's writings (see: Journal of the Royal Institute for Defense Studies June '85 ) are accurate, Western Europa would have fallen to the tender mercies of Stalin, had not Hitler invaded the USSR in '41 - placing Hitler into a very small group of leaders that can legitimately claim to have staved off the military conquest of the West, which in and of itself makes the regime worthy of recognition and qualified admiration in some respects. It is also undeniable that while one hears much talk about forging an economic path that is neither "right nor left", NS Germany under the economic genius of Hjalmar Schacht underwent one of the greatest economic recoveries of history, along with some noteworthy progress towards social justice. One of course does hear comments to the contrary from Strasserites, who reject racialism, praise Bolshevik economics, fawn over Mao and Che while quoting obvious forgeries as unadulterated historical truth - as well as various theorists unencumbered by the realities of governance. All of which is to say that while the NSDAP model was obviously not intended for export, nor in accordance with the vision of National Socialism I adhere to, it does not deserve to be summarily discounted as mere capitalism - as the Bolsheviks and idealists within our ranks often do with unqualified certitude. While I often have commented upon my fondness for agrarianism and the examples, in theory, advanced by French, Iberian and Nordic proponents of guild/corporatist/sydicalist arrangements as a way of advancing an Organic society, Walther Darre made it a reality until wartime conditions, combined with personal conflicts and bureaucratic struggles, forced his vision to give way to the pragmatic methods of Herbert Backe. That I find myself more in tune with Maurras, Marquise De La Tour Du Pin, Antonio Sardindha, Pedro Teotonio Pereira and Roloa Preto and some of my own landsmen than the Third Reich simply means that I am forced to admit that Hitler, in spite of numerous and serious flaws with his regime, had gotten closer to making nationalist agrarianism a reality than did the rightist Iberian regimes, in spite of their longer life and domestic tranquility. While plenty of nationalist regimes forcibly beat back the forces of moral degeneration and should be commended for doing so, the example of a folkish disposition being instilled by the new regime resulting in a cultural renewal of major proportion is something that very few in contemporary nationalist circles can lay claim to their preferred theorist or find replicated within the modern era, let alone living memory. One can also point to the vast outpouring of high quality life, affirming art along with fantastic technological advancements in countless areas as yet another indication of an inherent value of the NSDAP regime. The upshot of all of this is that the wholesale denunciations the NSDAP regime, and anyone that expresses an interest in what it offered, are ill-founded. Also ill-founded are the notions that the regime can serve as a basis for contemporary activism and ideology. I say this not because of the atrocity propaganda pushed by the establishment but rather because of inherent problems with the model itself. As Irmin so truthfully pointed out: "Hitler defined his own national socialism as a uniquely German movement: 'The National Socialist doctrine, as I have always proclaimed, is not for export. It was conceived for the German people.' (Hitler-Bormann Documents, Feb. 21, 1945) In other words, German National Socialism arose at a specific time in a specific place under the pressure of a unique set of historical circumstances, none of which could ever be precisely replicated elsewhere. In particular, the autocratic F?hrer state, central to NS Germany and still advocated by a few racial nationalists, would never be acceptable to Americans; our republican political culture and belief in individual rights is, thankfully, far too strong. Hitler was a dictator and his government authoritarian; Americans prefer their political and civil liberties, such as they currently are." On a fundamental level one can point out the obvious fact that the NSDAP model depended upon strong autocratic figures that simply don't have any modern equivalents, nor the societal conditions in which they could thrive if they did exist, meaning that slavish adherence to the Hitlerian model is simply not an option anywhere in the Occident. Furthermore, in spite of the abyssic [?] hate displayed by the Hollywood Nazis, the truth remains that the ideology of the NSDAP was a compressive world view used to address the problems of the day in all societal spheres. I have yet to hear any concrete recommendations on how one can make the legal, economic and societal prescriptions of the old regime valid today by even genuinely wise chaps like Colin Jordan. In moral respects, a sensible person can easily reject the inane propaganda that keeps making the rounds (ex. Hitler was Jewish, a pervert, a Satanist, junkie etc. or that NS is nothing more than racist communism) by those that wish to remove racialism from nationalism or pretend that theocratic pronouncements or Evolian notions [of] occult warfare are the basis for National Renewal as fifth columnists seeking to destroy what opportunities we do have for salvaging the West. Nonetheless, plenty of negative aspects exist that give reasonable people serious concerns about the NSDAP model. I refer to: the barbarous conduct of Einsatzgruppen, the widespread use of slave labor (yes, I realize it was needed to keep the war effort going), having a state be defined by a single leader causing succession problems, a severe authoritarianism that simply can't be held up as an inspiration in any but the most desperate of circumstances and an outlook that was Pan-European only because of wartime demands rather than by design. I deem these flaws serious enough to warrant the avoidance of using the NSDAP era as a model. When genuine nationalists (not theocratic cranks, Strasserites and "Traditionalists") condemn the Hitlerian movement, it most often has as its basis a rejection of the costumed fetish types that one sees so much of in the American scene. While such people are in fact a great liability to the struggle, they also are grossly ignorant of NSDAP ideology and public policy that they simply do not deserve to be lumped in with honorable men like Mr. Jordan and the members of the old WUNS activists. The worst aspect of all of this is that after 60 years or so omnipresent vilification of NS Germany and the suppression of genuine history and texts, the overwhelming majority of those attracted to the Hitler regime will be sociopaths incapable of productive activism or a genuine understanding of what the regime actually aspired to. As a result, I view the promotion of Third Reich style National Socialism to be counterproductive to such an extent that the minuscule number of sincere adherents that the school has are totally neutralized by the misfits that riddle such circles. When what I have said is taken in total, the question arises as to how the Hitler matter should be handled. We can not ignore it, as the propasphere will continue to raise the specter of Hitler = satanic evil & stupidity = any fundamental rejection of multi - racialism. I for one can't trust anyone that feels the need to make ritualistic condemnations of the Third Reich while repeating widely accepted falsehoods, as such notions, it seems, almost always lead to avoiding addressing the Jewish question or pretending that race is somehow less than critical to the future of Europa. In the end, the only way that I can advise the matter be handled in good conscience is to simply state [that] we should state clearly that our efforts to prevent the destruction of our kinfolk and the restoration of our heritage and historic obligations to blood and soil do not entail mimicry of any past regime - that we, instead, stand for the eternal values of folkish restoration, self determination and separatism for all races and an adherence to public policies that preserve our uniqueness as a biologic and cultural entity and nothing more. [END of Part I] (Source: http://www.polinco.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1354" ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sat Sep 27 14:47:40 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sat Sep 27 18:56:39 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/27/2003 - "The Nature of N.S. and the Dangers of Compromise" - Part II Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 27, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Part II on "The Nature of N.S. and the Dangers of Compromise": [START] A matter that cannot be separated from the issue at hand is the gross distortion of the term National Socialism. While one expects Americans to view the term as synonymous with the Third Reich as they lack an ingenious variant, the language skills and cultural background to know better, I have become distressed by seeing Europeans do the same. It should be common knowledge to everyone in Eurocentric circles that National Socialism has had numerous manifestations from the 1880s onward and that it simply makes no sense whatsoever to limit it [to] a system of governance found in Germany from '33 to '45. Defining in a broad sense what is meant by National Socialism is a simple matter by defining key terms. A nation is the political expression of racial interests in the context of the Traditionalism of a homogeneous and fully sovereign folk rather than merely the perpetuation of coalition of disparate interests seeking dominance over society, as is currently the case. Such an expression can be either from the state or privately organized by societal interests, but what makes such arrangements nationalistic is the extent to which they can be made to maintain and advance their own Traditionalism rather than simply impose a sectarian will upon the nation, state, or government at large. Race is a widely extended aggregate comprised of those that share a highly similar genetic legacy. A history that produced a collective sense of purpose in the form of folkways and aesthetics, that encouraged societal cohesion over a great number of generations, is what defines a national Tradition. The means by which the collective affairs of the nation is carried out via a set of institutions that outlive their creators is what I refer to as the state. Government is nothing more than a temporary collection of individuals or organizations that control the state. Being a nationalist in part means recognizing the centrality of the fact that the nation is a product of the people that created the national Tradition we wish to protect. Socialism is quite simply an economic arrangement whereby class-based oppression and conflict is actively discouraged by the state and/or society via institutionalized representation designed to balance the various sectoral interests within society. As such, socialism does not entail any particular form of governance (or theoretically any form of governance at all) and most definitely does not require state control of the economy. Prior to Marx, socialist doctrine was decidedly anti-statist (or libertarian in the pre-Randian sense of the term) favouring economic decentralization. Within the "rightist" camps, socialism had traditionally been seen as a means to counter the crass materialism, cosmopolitanism and urbanization that undermined the traditional societal arrangements of Europa. Socialism in such a context sought to stop class warfare which engendered bolshevism and societal decay while meeting traditional Catholic notions of social justice. These schemes entailed not state-run industries nor the destruction of private property but popular control over the means of production by employee-managed or owned enterprises organized into guilds and syndicates along the lines first described by the Marquise De La Tour Du Pin, latter guild socialists and distributalists. It should also be mentioned that a style of governance does not follow from such a form of socialism as one can readily note that La Tour Du Pin and Maurras both advocated an autocratic form of monarchy while their ideological descendants have promoted everything from plebescites to fascistic forms of governance. The form of the state and method of governance is legitimate to the extent [that] it maintains a racially based nation state with maximum sovereignty, minimal societal discord and a culture that reflects the traditional folkways and mores of the race that created the nation. As such, while I prefer a decentralized state and one that is not autocratic, I realize that under certain historical conditions authoritarianism may be the only means to prevent the destruction of the nation. These ideas were integrated by numerous national revolutionary groups across Europa during the first few decades of the last century with the best known being a long series of French theorists, beginning with Berres and continuing with Valois, DeMann and a great many others that radically "reconstructed Marxism" into a conception designed to foster national unity and cooperation between the classes rather than the destruction of private property and a "dictatorship of the proletaria[t]". A National Socialist then is one that fuses the biologic underpinning of nation with a state whose purpose is the advancement of the folkways and mores of a homogenous population sharing a common sense of purpose and an economy based upon the minimization of class conflict via sectoral representation. The form of socialism that I feel that best represents such a vision is detailed in strictly economic terms here: http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/...f/gildpref.html although the site http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Mary_Parker_Follett/ has some very good material as well as the works of the theorists I have mentioned earlier. The preceding matters were raised in order to introduce the matter of the dangers and opportunities of moderation in an attempt to broaden the appeal of nationalism. Within nationalist circles one sees a great deal of efforts to surrender our core principles in the hopes that by being more like the establishment, our views will be accepted and we will be propelled to power. Typically, this begins out of a fear of being called a "racist" or "hateful" leading to supposed Eurocentrics mimicking the propasphere's propaganda about the Third Reich. Simply denouncing Hitler does not satisfy those that control our nations, so supposed nationalists attempt to prove that they are socially acceptable by having the products of miscegenation, Jews and other racial aliens as members or even candidates and leaders. Oftentimes such parties will avoid raising any economic concept that is not already fully institutionalized so as to appear mainstream, while simply addressing some aspect of economic distress (ex. the welfare state, aid to asylum seekers, high taxes, de-industrialization etc.) while pretending that minor reforms done fully within the current framework of a globalized economy, social democracy and all other pillars of the current order are meaningful responses to the crisis of the West. Eventually, such compromises result in the faux nationalist of abandoning any fundamental rejection of muliracialism, racial separatism, and adoption of the neo-conservative position that culture exists independently of race and that the demographic decline of Occidental man is not the problem, but rather it is just happening too fast, and that an Occidental society will survive our demise via the magic assimilation, conversion to some modernistic version of Jew-approved Christianity, the mystical workings of "market forces" or the restoration of some legal doctrine sans the societal conditions that gave rise to it. At best it leaves the nationalist opposition simply pointing out the negative consequences of societal destruction while completely avoiding the crux of the problem (i.e. the inherent nature of multi-racialism) or the consideration of any systemic solution in favour of simply reducing the rate of decay via mucking about with the tax code or reducing the rate of our dispossession via scaling back the third world invasion a bit. Following such a notion to its logical conclusion, one gets supposedly traditional Catholics that denounce Maurras and the delusion that Western civilization exists wherever the faith is prominent. Such a causal chain leads to the implicit multi-racialism found in American neo-confederate groups and the anti Occidental insanity found in the Scottish National Party. It also results in supposed paleo-conservatives like the American Pat Buchanan embracing multi-racialism while rejecting the societal damage it has done, all in the name of "respectability" as one can see here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=30233 This is not to say that genuine nationalists must never support populist parties that promote policies that stand to reduce the rate of our dispossession, as a great many parties in Europa seek to do. It is to say that we should not confuse the limited and short term gains brought about by such efforts as a victory for nationalism, nor should we let such efforts consume our energies to such an extent that they hamper the public promotion of real nationalism as a genuine alternative to the current order. Instead, populist parties serve mainly as a stopgap measure to buy us time to form activist cadres and tailor our policy prescriptions to various segments of our kinfolk and form tactical alliances with those that do not share our grand vision of National Restoration. In the end, the efforts of appeasing the current order by the populists will fail because they have no systemic solution to the problems facing our nations, but merely peripheral reform that serve as a pressure valve for the establishment. We are already seeing just how short-lived such faux alternatives are in several recent elections, which are bound to come from the fact that pointing out the symptoms of decline but not addressing its causes prevents any profound change from happening. As nationalists, our job is [to] prove by public activism and personal example that our cause is the only real and comprehensive alternative to societal decay. Fine-tuning the presentation of what we stand for need not and should not entail the surrender of principles, because gaining power is only useful and moral if used for the purpose of Occidental Restoration rather than simply the promotion of an election list that is somewhat less socially destructive than our supposed opponents. Rather than surrender principle to expediency we need [to] demonstrate not just the shortcomings of the current order but what we can offer that meets the needs of our countrymen. We do so by pointing out how a nationalist economy provides our kinfolk with greater control over their own lives. We do so by detailing how the empowerment of local communities provides for a fuller, safer, more wholesome environment for our neighbors' children. We do so by addressing the value of our identity, the uniqueness and value of what our people have done. We do so by not demanding anything for our own folk that we would not grant to others. [END] ( Source: http://www.polinco.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1354" ) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Sun Sep 28 02:50:14 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Sun Sep 28 05:23:14 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/28/2003 - "Jonathan Eric Lewis: The dangers of Arab Holocaust denial" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 28, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: Remember that as late as 1996, the Nizkorites argued that Holocaust skeptics were so few and far between that they would fit into a telephone booth? We predicted that the Holocaust claims were so threadbare that it was only a matter of time until whole countries would wake up to the Holocaust Extortion Game and its political consequences. Here a fellow of the Tribe admits it - and yammers mightily: [START] The dangers of Arab Holocaust denial By Jonathan Eric Lewis September 19, 2003 Although the word has certainly been overused in the past few months to describe the world in which we now find ourselves, "Orwellian" remains the best term by which one can fully grasp some of the most bizarre and maddening pronouncements made by Arab dictators in the two years after 9/11. A case in point is Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi's recent awarding of Roger Garaudy the Qaddafi International Human Rights Prize. The very fact that a "human rights prize" would be issued in the name of a brutal dictator and bestowed upon a French ex-Communist, convert to Islam, and infamous Holocaust denier, would have given George Orwell ample material for satire. What is perhaps even more disconcerting is that this display of anti-Semitic hate passed with little condemnation from major international human rights organizations. This belies the fact that Holocaust denial is well within the political mainstream in much of the Arab-Islamic world and that many observers of the region now take this kind of action for granted. One of the few voices of protest came from Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center who accurately contended, "Qaddafi and Roger Garaudy are members in a brotherhood of hate that knowingly spreads the big lie of Holocaust denial as part of a worldwide effort to demonize the Jewish people." Sadly, the state-run media in myriad Arab dictatorships regularly indulges in the most vulgar forms of Holocaust denial, arguing simultaneously that the Holocaust is a Zionist myth and that the Israelis are worse than the Nazis. While most observers rightly attribute this to anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, it also reflects a far deeper - and even more dangerous - trend in Arab-Islamic political life, namely a retreat from historical reality and societal responsibility and into the fundamentally anti-democratic politics of the irrational. Arab Holocaust denial is, without question, deeply anti-Semitic. There is, however, this other dimension that merits further exploration. The sheer virulence and popularity of Holocaust denial in the Arab media can no longer be explained away simply as the product of anti-Semitism and as a problem with which Jewish groups must deal on their own. It must be seen within the larger context of the lack of a rational, democratic political culture within the Arab world and as a problem for all people who believe in both safeguarding the democratic, rational, and scientific institutions upon which modern Western societies are built, and in promoting democratic political institutions in the Arab world. This is, in no manner, meant to suggest that there is some sort of 'racial' characteristic possessed by Arabs that encourages irrational political thought or that Arabs alone possess it. Indeed, one would only have to look at 1930s Europe to find the prevalence of irrational politics based on extreme nationalism, conspiracy theories, and cults of personalities. That said, one wonders why so many Arab intellectuals, rather than focusing on the economic and social, not to mention political problems, facing the Arab world, choose to diminish the Holocaust and mock the suffering of the Jewish people. While I may seem to be making a particularly harsh judgment, consider the following examples of political irrationality at work in the Arab world today: Yasser Arafat's continual insistence that there was no Jewish Temple in Jerusalem; the theatrics of the Iraqi Parliament 'voting' to recommend that Saddam Hussein not accept the UN Security Council Resolution demanding that Iraq disarm; and the simultaneous insistence on the part of the Arab Street that Arabs were not responsible for the World Trade Center attack and that the attacks were a justifiable reaction to American foreign policy. Political irrationality is more than just anti-American or anti-Israeli propaganda. It is a mindset that lends itself to denial of all empirical evidence that disproves their widely held beliefs; a virulent anger at perceived conspiracies being directed against the Arab world; and an intense fear of non-conformist intellectuals such as Fouad Ajami, Joseph Farah, and Ali Salem who critically examine the flaws of Arab society and Islamic civilization. It finds a perfect home in the perverse world of Holocaust denial. After all, nothing could be more 'illogical,' in the strict definition of the word, than to categorically deny such a fundamental episode in human history. As an indication of how bad the situation is, the Arab League's Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up lent its name to an August 2002 Holocaust denial conference in Abu Dhabi. Rather than discussing such important issues as overpopulation, illiteracy, and stagnant economies, the Arab League's think tank chose Holocaust denial as being a theme worthy of an international conference. Criticism of this forum was essentially ignored. The Zayed Center, thankfully, will soon be closed, a minor victory in the war of ideas between freedom versus totalitarianism. The Arab press is likewise replete with Holocaust denial. In 1998, for instance, the official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al Jadidah, wrote that "the persecution of the Jews" was "a deceitful myth which the Jews have labeled the Holocaust and [have] exploited to get sympathy." Sheikh Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddin, head of Lebanon's Shiite Council, responding to the Vatican's release of "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah" that same year, called the Holocaust "a tissue of lies, as has been revealed by Western scientists, and it is being used to blackmail the world." These statements are widely repeated in slightly different forms throughout the Arab media and even repeated by Arab-Americans living in the West and are well within the current mainstream. The root of the problem can be traced to the fact that, for many Arab intellectuals, the twentieth-century was one of failed economic and political ambitions and was a shameful chapter in the history of a great civilization. Myriad ideologies of Arab political life - Nasserism, Ba'athism, and militant Islam - all failed to place the Arab world on par with the West. This humiliation was compounded by the fact that many in the region saw themselves as victims of British and French imperialism in the first half of the century and of American and Israeli imperialism in the latter. There is indeed, a deep sense of shame, in the Arab world today, exemplified in the often-repeated notion among Arabs that Arabs couldn't have been behind the events of 9/11 because they weren't skilled enough to pull off such a brazen act. Without disparaging the great achievements of Arab civilization throughout the centuries, it is arguable that, with the exception of the discovery of oil and the proliferation of oil wealth, the Arab-Islamic world has been on the sidelines for much of the twentieth-century. But rather than accepting responsibility for the failing of the Arab world and offering concrete solutions to concrete problems, many Arab intellectuals, both leftist and Islamist, had to find a scapegoat - an "Other" - to explain the region's failures. This is where Holocaust denial fits in, for it both explains Zionism's success and provides the Arab world with a means to deny any responsibility for the myriad failures that engulf its societies. After all, if Zionism manufactured the lie of the Holocaust, then the Arab world, in exposing the lie, can view itself as the double victim of European imperialism and Zionist propaganda about European history. This attitude is best reflected in the musings of Mahmoud Al-Khatib writing in the Jordanian newspaper, Al-Arab Al-Yom: "The Holocaust is not what happened to the Jews in Germany, but rather the crime of the establishment of the State of Israel on the ruins of the Palestinian people." The denial of the Holocaust and the disparagement of Israel's existence are thus two sides of the same coin. By incorporating myriad forms of Holocaust denial into their educational system and the state-run media, Arab leaders guaranteed that much of their populations would base their thinking about not only Israel, but also the United States, on the denial of one of the last century's greatest crimes. By presenting Washington as the part of a Jewish and Zionist conspiracy, anti-Western Arab intellectuals are able to construct a grand scheme in which Holocaust denial and anti-Americanism are blended together in a virulent strain of irrational politics that many in the United States government are just beginning to understand. The Egyptian gunman - the terrorist/murderer - who opened fire at an El Al terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on the Fourth of July reportedly told an employee that he believed Israeli prostitutes were responsible for infecting Egyptians with AIDS. One shudders to think of what his views on the Holocaust might have been. Although America will be engaged militarily in the Arab world for years to come, it cannot simply rely on force to foster regional reform. That is not to say that our presence in Iraq is not justified. For the sake of both regional and world stability, America must begin a deliberate, organized, and sustained informational campaign to counteract the irrational political rhetoric so prevalent in the Arab-Islamic world, Holocaust denial being a primary example. Congressional pressure must be put on Arab leaders friendly with Washington in order for them to halt the publication of Holocaust denial material in the state-run media. While this will not be an easy task, it must be done in order to safeguard the next generation of Arab youth from a form of political indoctrination that offers no hope and no future. Paraphrasing Shimon Peres, Arab societies that wish to be part of the modern, technological world, cannot be built on a foundation of lies. That said, the choice for reform or a further retreat into irrationality ultimately lies with Arab intellectuals and leaders. In conclusion, Arab Holocaust denial is both about Jews and not about Jews. It simultaneously seeks to mock Jewish suffering and explain Arab failures. It is employed both to disparage Israel's existence and to present a narrative by which Arabs, not Jews, were the primary victims of Europe. It denies historical reality while simultaneously creating an alternative narrative of twentieth-century history. This line of irrational political thinking lends itself to totalitarianism, not democracy. Jews need not feel guilty for building a vibrant democracy in the Middle East. The Arab world, on the other hand, must examine its flaws in a manner that doesn't blame its failures on Jewish success. The danger that the irrational politics of Holocaust denial represent is so great that it can no longer be seen as solely a problem of anti-Semitism or as a challenge for Jewish groups alone, but rather as a threat to liberal civil society and democracy taking root in the Arab-Islamic world. Views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of israelinsider. (Sources: http://www.midstreamthf.com/200304/issue.html , http://www.samajkantha.com/) From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Mon Sep 29 05:47:18 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Mon Sep 29 15:12:53 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/29/2003 - "Were there similarities between NS and Communism?" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: A fellow named "Bruce" sent me a copy of a letter he had sent to Dr. Henry Makow, who did a treatise on the controversial "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", to be found at http://www.rense.com/general41/prot.htm In a note to me, Bruce added: "Ol' Hank did a pretty good job but I took issue with his likening Hitler's movement with the Bolsheviks. He's certainly different, I must say..." I don't know if "Bruce" is right on every single point he makes in the letter below, because I don't know the history of the pre- and post-Weimar Republic all that well, but I have heard enough people express similar opinions that the letter below does ring true to me - it has more than a kernel of true history. You be your own judge: [START] Henry - Great piece. Very gutsy, as usual. I agree with everything you write here except the connection between the Bolsheviks and the German National Socialists. National Socialism was a counterforce, just as was the PLO, to Jewish aggression. Hitler's great initial problem was how to separate the millions of unemployed German workers from the Communist Party? They were unemployed because of the Versailles diktat, a product of Jewish control of America and England. The thinking Germans could see what the Great War had been about: the British-authorized and protected migration of Russian Jews to Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was the only reason that America entered the war on the British side, based on the blackmail by Untermayer of Wilson. The Germans were marked for extinction by the Jewish allies. (Kill the best goyim!) As a Scotch-Irish American, I can say that the Germans are the best at most things except defending themselves. This they will not ordinarily do. Hitler got them to defend themselves from Jewish (Communist/Capitalist) aggression. Anyway, Hitler used the basic red flag to reassure the workers. He called it "National Socialism" as opposed to Jewish International Socialism. However, I don't think you can find any similarities between the two, or between NS and British Labor socialism or with any other form of socialism, such as the New Deal. All National Socialism meant was, "Let's work together to remove ourselves from the slavery and oppression of the Versailles Treaty and the general world depression." Hitler said that National Socialism was for Germans only, that it was not for export. And it worked very well for them in their emergency condition. As Hitler wrote to FDR in the German declaration of war, In two years I brought Germany out of hopeless destitution and starvation into productivity and dignity. What have you done, as the leader of the greatest nation on earth, to alleviate your Depression? Jews were recognized everywhere - especially here - as subversives. But they had VIP treatment in Germany and many today look back wistfully on that Jews' Paradise. Hitler complained about "that Goddamned German objectivity - always willing to see it from the enemy's viewpoint." The Jews tried to crush Germany in the Great War and very nearly did so in the Weimar period, with its hyperinflation. Communism was threatening to kill Germany, which the Capitalists were already attempting with economic warfare. Thinking Germans could see the future, and it didn't look so good. It could well be a war to the death of either Soviet Russia or Germany. My point is that once aggression is unleashed upon you, you have the natural right to defend yourself. That's all Germany did. She didn't start the Great War and she didn't start the World War. Hitler did everything he could to avoid war with England, France and especially America, despite dreadful provocations. He needed peace to complete the German economic miracle - and he needed to destroy Jewish Communism before it destroyed Germany. This had to be done in Moscow, not Bavaria, he thought. Perhaps he really knew that it had to be done in New York and Washington. WWII was created by the Council on Foreign Relations. Policies antagonistic to Germany and Japan were formulated by these rich psychopaths of the CFR (...) German nationalism was encouraged and supported to make Germany a credible threat worthy of a catastrophic war against civilization. Roosevelt persuaded Poland to attack ethnic Germans living in the new Poland (somewhat expanded at Germany's expense under Versailles). Thousands of Germans were slaughtered by the Poles. Hitler warned them to quit or else, but FDR kept goading them to continue in their bloody delights. FDR promised the Poles that America and England would defend them if Germany ever retaliated. This proved to be another FDR lie. Six years later, FDR, at Yalta, presided over the seizure of Poland by Stalin. World War II was the worst thing that ever happened. It should not be seen any longer through the eyes of the victorious Jewish allies. It is time to see it through German eyes. It is time to examine the Morgenthau Plan, which was based on Theodore Kaufman's Germany Must Perish! It is time to read James Bacque and also time to give up the fairy tale known as The Holocaust. See the Nuremberg Trials for what they were: Jewish justice! And congratulations for writing a great piece on The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion. Bruce From zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org Tue Sep 30 05:26:14 2003 From: zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org (zgrams@zgrams.zundelsite.org) Date: Tue Sep 30 08:05:32 2003 Subject: ZGram - 9/30/2003 - "Let's sue the Holocaust Story Enforcers for spreading their lucrative lies!" Message-ID: ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever! September 30, 2003 Good Morning from the Zundelsite: When the Fritjof Meyer story broke more than a year ago, I was amazed at the silence in the Revisionist community. Here was an important member of the German intellectual elite, saying what had gotten countless lesser-known people in trouble with loss of jobs, huge legal bills, Stalinist-type trials, enormous fines and lengthy prison sentences - namely that the numbers of Auschwitz victims were highly inflated. And nothing happened to this man in Germany where you go in the slammer for up to five years for FAR LESS than that! So okay - he still held onto the "gassing" story with white knuckles. A man has got to survive, even try to make a living in enemy territory, right? To me, this Fritjof Meyer story was a major, major story. Revisionism hasn't made its inroads by a Big Bang - it has made its inroads via salami tactics: Debunking the Holocaust Fraud one big or little lie at a time. Last July German attorney Horst Mahler got into the act. I told you about how he went up to the Wartburg and in a somber ceremony declared the Holocaust kaput! I thought it was a daring gesture - and half-expected the Holocaust Cudgel to land on his head. Nada! Now he takes his campaign a step further. I, for one, give thumbs up to his daring spirit! Ernst and I have certainly become prime victims of the world-wide Holocaust Enforcer persecution. For once, let's go on the offensive - and put our enemies for once on the stand! [START] German Lawyer Horst Mahler has begun to challenge the Holocaust orthodoxy. In the past anyone who challenged any of the Holocaust orthodoxy's pillars - in particular that the National Socialists killed six million Jews, four million in Auschwitz, with Zyklon B gas - was guilty of 'minimising the Holocaust' , ? 130 , and sent to prison. Mahler has begun a legal campaign that aims to have the German judiciary take notice of the latest reduction of deaths at Auschwitz. This occurred in May 2002 when senior editor of Der Spiegel wrote the article 'Die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz - Neue Erkenntnisse durch neue Archivfunde', published in Osteuropa, May, 2002, p.631ff. Fritjof Meyer stated that not more than 356,000 Jews and non-Jews died through Zyklon B gas. The total number of deaths for Auschwitz is 510,000. Mahler extends his legal battle to that of liberating the German people and to re-activate the German Reich. He says it is time to stop the persecution of the non-believers in the Holocaust religion and to liberate the Germans from the dogma that six million Jews were gassed. Mahler claims that resistance to Jewish world domination began with the second Palestinian Intifada, and this war of liberation is now continuing in Germany by attacking the dogma that states six million Jews were killed by gas. Anyone wishing to receive more information about this is invited to contact Horst Mahler directly. His email is hm@deutsches-kolleg.org Or, if you wish to join the organisation Mahler is setting up, then submit your name, date of birth and residential address, no post box number, together with a minimum monthly contribution of 3 Euro, 10 Euro if you are not a victim of the Holocaust law. [END]