- Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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- As I was talking to Ernst yesterday afternoon, he said
with some glee: "Hear that noise? That's the Zundel demonstration
outside!"
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- I want to thank all who came - and all who wrote in,
expressing their support. It looks like things are finally moving in our
direction in Canada, although the Canadian Jewish Congress bullies, as
always, are trying to muscle in with their hate mongering where they do
not belong, still pushing for a deportation. Don't miss the end of this
Zgram where you can read how they keep needling.
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- Pictures of today's Free Zundel Protest are now online.
http://www.zundelsite.org/zundel_persecuted/free_zundel_rally_march28-04_pic
tures.html
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- These photos look nice and will be a wonderful addition
for the coming attraction: the Tennessee Zundel Museum. We already know
the spot where it will be - now all we need is victory! (Only half-kidding)
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- One supporter wrote:
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- "The demonstration in Toronto brought out between
70 and 80 people. The protest in Edmonton, Alberta brought out 30 to 40
people, and was covered by numerous media outlets. Both protests went
great.
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- "CBC Morning and 680 News talked about the protests
in Toronto. CityTV/CP24 showed up and did a few interviews. 680 News actually
did a very fair report, and gave out the time and location of the demonstration.
A few passerby's [sp ?] did join in the protest, and plenty of people
were honking in support as they passed."
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- Paul Fromm, who led the Toronto Rally, wrote in a similar
vein:
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- TORONTO & EDMONTON: ZUNDEL RALLIES A SMASHING SUCCESS
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- TORONTO. March 28, 2004. They came from as far away as
a seven hour drive from Western Pennsylvania and the Eastern Townships
of Quebec to attend a rally of 65 persons outside the Metro West Detention
Centre in suburban Toronto for Canada's most famous political prisoner,
Ernst Zundel.
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- The free speech supporters arrived from Uxbridge, Richmond
Hill, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Keswick, Mississauga, Kitchener, and, of
course, Toronto. A large contingent came in by van from London, Ontario.
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- Musician Blago Simeonov set the theme of the protest
with a recording of his song "There is Some Hope" which inspired
the protesters on a crisp, sunny March afternoon.
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- Signs read "Free Ernst Zundel" and "No
secret hearings."
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- The protest was covered by CITY-TV and had been announced
repeatedly on 680-Radio and CFRB.
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- Under the watchful eye of about a half dozen police off
to one side, Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free
Expression, told the free speech supporters that Mr. Zundel was now in
his second year of solitary confinement "solely for the non-violent
expression of his political views."
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- "The government says he's a threat to national security
because he's a terrorist," Fromm said. "What's their case? Well,
they can't tell you. It's a secret," he mocked. "Their public
case is a joke -- a collection of empty guilt-by-associations."
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- "Canada's turned its back on 1,000 years of hard
won rights," Mr. Fromm told the protesters. "Our heritage of
Anglo-Saxon law established that a man has the right to know the charges
against him and the right to confront his accusers and the evidence,"
he added.
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- "However, before every series of hearings, the Crown
and the judge Mr. Justice Pierre Blais get together in Ottawa. They receive
evidence, they hear accusations and they may hear witnesses. Who they are
or what the evidence is, Mr. Zundel and his lawyers don't know. It's a
secret -- national security, you understand," Mr. Fromm said.
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- "Mr. Zundel is a victim of the most corrupt regime
in Canadian history -- former Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his gang
of crooks and their powerful minority backers. We're sliding into a police
state," Mr. Fromm warned.
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- "In the former Soviet Union, in Red China, in communist
Cuba, people are thrown in jail solely for their political views. Now,
that's happening in Canada," he said.
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- "The whole system is unfair," Mr. Fromm said.
The judge is a former solicitor-general and boss of the Canadian Security
and Intelligence Service (CSIS) which has prepared the case against Ernst
Zundel. He can't be seen to be unbiased. Mr. Zundel's former lawyer, Doug
Christie, asked him to recuse himself, but he refused."
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- "Pierre Blais was chosen by Ottawa deliberately
to commit a judicial assassination on Ernst Zundel, much as the Israeli
army did earlier this week on Sheik Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas,"
Mr. Fromm thundered.
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- As the protest was being broadcast over the Internet,
longtime CAFE associate Wolfgang Mueller gave a short talk in German for
our German-speaking listeners around the world.
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- Melissa Guille, leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance,
said: "The only crime being committed here is keeping Ernst Zundel
in solitary confinement. He's a man who never committed a crime in Canada
or the U.S. We're here to say that we will not tolerate a government that
seeks to control our speech or our beliefs."
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- Across the country, 30 people rallied on an equally sunny
Sunday afternoon outside the constituency office of Deputy Prime Minister
Anne McLellan, who is the new super security minister, in charge of CSIS.
Four television channels, including Global, CBC and the A Channel, Radio
Q-107 covered the hour and a half rally.
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- Glenn Bahr, Alberta leader of Western Canada For Us,
demanded freedom for Ernst Zundel in comments to a crowd that spanned the
age range. A carload of supporters drove up from Calgary and a supporter
came all the way from Vancouver.
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- At the Toronto rally, Paul Fromm said, CAFE had received
messages of support from four continents and from freedom lovers across
Canada and the U.S. Among those read at the protest were the following.
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- MESSAGES OF SUPPORT:
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- AUSTRALIA: As advocates of free speech and the preservation
of civil liberties, the Australian Civil Liberties Union condemns the forced
incarceration of Ernst Zundel for over a year and the demeaning circumstances
of his arrest and detention. He should have the right, as a citizen, to
free speech concerning the alleged events of World War II and to enquire
if the conventional version of the Holocaust being promulgated is correct.
If it is, he should be allowed to say so. If it is not, then hard factual
evidence should be permitted to show where he is wrong. The popularity
of his viewpoint should not be the criteria for judgement: instead, any
assessment should be based on the truth and falsity of his viewpoints.
Orwell said "free speech means the right to say what other people
do not want to hear." The Australian Civil Liberties Union calls for
the release of Ernst Zundel and the preservation of the right to free speech,
which is a central criteria of a free society. Geoff. Muirden, Research
Officer, Australian Civil Liberties Union, PO Box 1137, Carlton, Vic.,
3053, Australia.
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- CHILE: Free Ernst Zündel!. We cannot allow the New
World Order to destroy our RIGHT to free speech. Best regards. Hans Frings
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- FRANCE: We, the French revisionists in Professor Faurisson's
line, join our Americano-Canadian friends in their protest and indignation
at Ernst Zündel's arrest on February 5, 2003, in the shape of a kidnapping
in the United States but with the complicity of Canadian authorities,
and at the internment conditions he is subjected to. It is not worthy
of a country with democratic pretensions to keep in solitary confinement
a man who cannot be blamed for any crime or offence. The Canadian justice
represented by Judge Blais oversteps the generally accepted bounds of
human rights. We insistently require the governmental and judicial authorities
of Canada to release Ernst Zündel to whom we bring all our support.
On behalf of the French revisionists: René and Yvonne Schleiter
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- CANADA: Hello, Paul I will not be able to get down to
show my support for Ernst Zundel, but be assured that I SUPPORT HIM VERY
MUCH, as you know. We Canadians owe Mr. Zundel a great debt of gratitude
for his courageous fight for freedom of expression for all of us. Personally,
I believe our government should ask Mr.Zundel if he would give us the honour
of accepting Canadian citizenship. Then we should immediately give him
the highest class of the Order of Canada, if he will accept it. I would
not blame him if he declined to accept it, as it has been given to some
very unworthy and even unsavoury individuals. I am pleased to be a friend
and supporter of Ernst, and am honoured to think he may say that he is
my friend as well. Thank you, too, Paul, for your tireless efforts on
behalf of freedom of speech for all. Sincere good wishes. Grenville Rogers
Lively, ON P3Y 1N3 grogers@vianet.ca
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- USA: Please let Mr. Zundel know that many people not
only admire him for his strength, but love him for the courage of the last
thirty years of dedicated work in his attempts to right so many wrongs
in history. In memory of all those lost in wars, the mindless and lost
souls of today, and for tomorrow's children, we thank him. He towers in
mind, body and spirit over the tallest of his enemies -- God Bless all
of you and keep you in his care. Love, Linda Mihovich
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- CANADA: I join with the protesters in demanding: Free
Ernst Zundel now. Wolfgang Schoebe, Windsor, ON
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- USA: Whenever I receive news concerning Ernst's state
of mind, I learn that he is encouraged and positive. He is a man of destiny,
believing that his purpose is to contend for the truth of his people, our
people. His encouragement encourages me. And such a courageous man should
be championed and rescued from the den of thieves wherein he is wrongfully
imprisoned. You who attend these rallies on the our behalf are champions.
Thank you for contending for truth for us for Ernst Zundel. Diane King,
Cushing, Texas
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- [Country omitted] Free Ernst Zundel! Nothing like violating
someone's human rights! Hopefully you will use comon sense and free him.
J.Rizzo
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- USA: Dear Paul: You asked me to send a short message
to the rally for Ernst Zundel. Greetings form Marshfield, WI. You are
not only fighting that justice gets done for one man, Ernst Zundel. You
are fighting for justice, the underpinning of every civilization. A Government
willing to give you everything you need will soon need everything you have!
Wish I could be with you. Christine B. Miller -- Marshfield, WI.
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- Finally, here are the very ones, spokesmen for the CJC,
who lobbied for the abominable security certificate as the means to get
an allegedly representative government to agree to Ernst Zundel's judicial
lynching, nosing their way into that very government:
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- In the Senate, March 10, 2004
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- QUESTION PERIOD
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- Citizenship and Immigration
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- Refugee Claim by Mr. Ernst Zundel-National Security Certificate
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- Hon. David Tkachuk: (e-mail) Honourable senators, it
has now been over a year since Holocaust denier and hate-monger Ernst
Zundel was deported to Canada from the United States. When Mr. Zundel
was initially returned here last February, Denis Coderre, the former Minister
of Citizenship and Immigration, led Canadians to believe that he would
be quickly removed. More than a year later, we have a new immigration
minister, yet Mr. Zundel is still here, making a bit of a mockery of our
refugee system at considerable expense to the taxpayer.
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- How much longer does the Leader of the Government in
the Senate believe that Mr. Zundel will be here? What exactly has been
the expense of his stay so far to taxpayers?
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- Hon. Jack Austin (Leader of the Government): [ jaustin@pco-bcp.gc.ca
] Honourable senators, I do not have an answer for either of Senator Tkachuk's
questions.
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- Senator Tkachuk: I am not sure what that response means.
Usually, the Leader of the Government offers to obtain the answer to the
question, which I hope he will do.
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- I will ask a supplementary question.
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- Senator Di Nino: He will probably say no to that one,
too.
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- Senator Tkachuk: Three months after Mr. Zundel was returned
to Canada, the federal government issued a national security certificate
against him, which was intended to speed up the removal process. Shortly
after the Martin government took over last December, the discretionary
power to remove an individual under such a certificate shifted from the
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Solicitor General to the
new Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Anne McLellan.
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- Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell
us the rationale behind changing who has the power to issue national security
certificates? Will the move to place national security certificates solely
under the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness have any
bearing on this particular case?
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- Senator Austin: Honourable senators, I certainly will
look into the matter and hope to provide an answer. If I did not say that
in answer to the previous question of Senator Tkachuk, I will make it
explicit now.
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- With respect to the supplementary question, let me point
out that the public safety minister is also the Solicitor General for
Canada. Therefore, no authority has been moved. The office of the Solicitor
General is now within the public safety responsibility of Minister McLellan.
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- Senator Tkachuk: I may have gotten this wrong, but the
minister thinks that there is no such thing any more as the Solicitor
General, simply the Minister of Public Safety. Under what act has this
all been changed?
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- Senator Austin: My information is that it has been done
under the administration act.
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- (Source sent to me below - I don't have time to check
it out since my computer is crawling)
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- http://www.cjc.ca/docs/PARL/156_sen_Mar10.doc
?CJC=4f43954f3251927d0957db97219565e2
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- To all my Zundelsite and Zgram readers:
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- It looks like another fax campaign is in order to Anne
McLellan - but hold off a bit. In order to make a Zundel Fax Blitzkrieg
effective, as apparently the last one was, we have to coordinate it -
to get important voices from many different countries. I anticipate that
I will ask you around April 13, the date of the next hearing, when a few
surprises might be in store. But please stay in touch, stay informed,
and tell the world that you stand behind "the world's premier thought
criminal," as Counterpunch as dubbed Ernst Zundel.
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- Finally, I thank all of you who donated in return for
a Prisoner of Conscience sketch. I have sent another 35 of them to be
computer-enhanced, and they will be on-line soon as well.
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- Ingrid Zundel
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- Reminder:
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- Help free Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience. His
prison sketches - now on-line and highly popular - help pay for his defense.
Take a look - and tell a friend.
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- http://www.zundelsite.org/gallery/donations/index.html
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