- Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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- Our server was down briefly yesterday - NOT because of
sabotage, but because of huge, huge traffic. It took a few hours and some
extra money to get it up again. That is the reason why yesterday's ZGram
was only sent to you this morning.
- So far, the highest voting count "pro-Zundel"
was 35% that I know of. At that point, apparently, the CTV station decided
to pull the poll and drop it as fast as they could. One small victory!
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- Since then, I learned of another poll, this time at www.canada.com
About half an hour ago, it looked pretty much like the CTV poll when it
started - but this one is a bit more detailed, with four categories, to
wit:
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- Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is asking for refugee status
in Canada. What should happen?
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- 13.64% --- We should welcome him and give him a fair
hearing.
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- 1.95% ---We should welcome him, but prosecute him for
hate crimes.
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- 19.81% ---We should refuse to let him in.
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- 64.61% ---We should re-route him on the first plane back
to his native Germany.
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- To me, this means that Canada, in general, is sick and
tired of having to foot the bill for the Holocaust Lobby. Less than 2%
feel the need to prosecute Ernst for "hate crimes" - which, by
the way, he was never criminally charged with, much less convicted for
in Canada. The Human Rights Tribunal that ruled that the Zundelsite contained
"hate", is an administrative body - and is the very entity that
also ruled that "Truth is not a defense."
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- And, as a sidebar, remember how the Mayor of Toronto,
Barbara Hall, when challenged by defense attorney, Doug Christie, to point
out to the Tribunal just where she found some "hate", sat there
silent with a beet-red face ...until the Tribunal Chairman took mercy and
called a coffee break.
- And, never forget, the Zundelsite is MY baby, not Ernst's
Zundel's baby, and always has been. Just because the Human Rights Tribunal,
that disgrace to Canadian justice and fairness, refused to let me tell
them so on the very first of the hearing in 1997, has ruled it is a "hate
site", does not make it true at all. This is the very outfit that
admitted in its ruling five years later that HAD THEY PERMITTED ME TO
SPEAK, WHICH THEY DID NOT, the entire obscene hearings would never have
gotten off the ground! If they now want to challenge the First Amendment
in America, let them just go ahead and try.
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- Many people have asked me why Ernst asked for asylum
in Canada when that was the very country he vowed never to foot in again.
I don't know. Remember that he did not do so voluntarily. As far as I
am concerned, he was kidnapped under false pretenses - allegedly he missed
an immigration hearing and overstayed his visa - by American law enforcement
officials doing (having to do?) the bidding of the almighty Holocaust Lobby
and its aficionados in our government. Maybe Canada is a signatory to whatever
treaty says you don't deport a person to the very country where he will
go to jail for years because he challenges the (size, extent of the) Holocaust?
I am only allowed to speak to Ernst 10 minutes every day, and we have
more important things to discuss.
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- My strategy of forcing the mainstream media onto the
Zundelsite seems to be paying off. So far, we have had 75 articles in
major Canadian papers - and, by and large, we have not been misquoted.
Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, who handles my media
queries for me, always tries to paint the larger picture and international
ramifications that the Zundelsite matter and this arrest have brought to
the fore one more time. This is NOT about Ernst Zundel and Ingrid Rimland
per se. This is another attempt to force censorship laws onto the Internet.
For the most part, the tone of most write-ups and electronic broadcasts
has been poisonous, but already the uncomfortable "tar baby"
aspects of this case creep in: What to do with Ernst Zundel who is getting
ready to expose, once more, the sham of those outfits feeding at the Canadian
taxpayers' trough.
- An interesting article, making my point, appeared in
the Ottawa Citizen, dated yesterday:
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- 'Just watch me' kick Zundel out: Coderre
- Coderre vows to keep Holocaust denier from exploiting
refugee system
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- Norma Greenaway
- The Ottawa Citizen
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- Friday, February 21, 2003
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- CREDIT: Louie Palu, The Canadian Press
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- GRAPHIC: Ernst Zundel peers from a van window after
being delivered to Canadian officials in Fort Erie by U.S. immigration
officers.
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- A tough-talking Immigration Minister Denis Coderre indicated
yesterday he's prepared to act to thwart Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel's
attempt to claim refugee status in Canada.
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- "Just watch me," declared Mr. Coderre when
he was asked what measures are available to him to bar someone from getting
access to the country's refugee system, a process that can last years.
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- Though privacy requirements prevent Mr. Coderre from
discussing the Zundel case by name, the minister acknowledged the Immigration
and Refugee Protection Act gives him the power to order the removal of
someone from Canada before the refugee process begins if, for example,
that person is a convicted criminal.
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- "Yes, I have the possibility," Mr. Coderre
told reporters. "But I won't go further. I'm not talking about the
case."
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- Mr. Zundel, who was forcibly returned to Canada from
the United States on Wednesday, is a German citizen who lived most of his
life in Canada. In 1968, he briefly sought the leadership of the federal
Liberal Party in the contest won by Pierre Trudeau. The Nazi sympathizer
moved to Tennessee in 2001 after angrily denouncing Canada's attempts to
silence his anti-Semitic views.
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- Mr. Zundel was forced out of the U.S. for allegedly overstaying
his visitor's visa, and is being held in an immigration detention centre
at Thorold, Ont. He is seeking refugee status because Canada no longer
considers him a permanent resident.
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- Mr. Zundel was convicted in the early 1990s of breaking
Germany's anti-hate laws and fined $9,000. There also is an outstanding
warrant for his arrest on suspicion of incitement of hate, stemming from
his Web site, German Embassy official Harry Adelt said yesterday. The Canadian
Human Rights Commission also ruled last year that Mr. Zundel's Web site
spread hatred.
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- For its part, Germany appears to be adopting a hands-off
approach. Mr. Adelt said the government has no plans "at this moment"
to seek Mr. Zundel's extradition, a process he described as complicated
and time consuming. "But if the Canadians want to deport him, they
can do it," he said.
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- Government insiders said Mr. Coderre is seriously considering
using the administrative process within his department to order Mr. Zundel
deported rather than allowing him to make a refugee claim to the independent
immigration and refugee board.
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- Lawyer James Chalk, national director of the Association
of Immigration Counsels of Canada, says Mr. Coderre would be foolish not
to use the provision and nip the controversy over Mr. Zundel as soon as
possible.
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- "If I were the minister I would be shooting every
angle to get him out of my hair," he said.
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- Using existing ministerial power to declare Mr. Zundel
inadmissible to Canada because of his criminal record could result in his
being shipped out within two weeks, Mr. Chalk suggested.
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- The Canadian Alliance and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler led
demands inside and outside the Commons for Mr. Coderre to evict Mr. Zundel
as quickly as possible.
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- "The minister has the option under the immigration
act to summarily dismiss any refugee claim and to clear the way for deportation
and that's what he should be doing," said Alliance MP Diane Ablonczy,
the party's immigration critic.
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- Mr. Cotler, a Montreal MP and leading human rights activist,
says it's ludicrous to think Mr. Zundel would qualify as a refugee who
has a well founded fear of persecution if deported to his native Germany.
He argued Germany is a democratic country where he would get a fair trial,
and that Mr. Zundel should not even be allowed to apply for refugee status.
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- NDP Leader Jack Layton called the Zundel case a "tragic
outfall" of a system that he maintained must be honoured to protect
the rights of legitimate refugees. He insisted Mr. Zundel's refugee claim
will be rejected in the end but that the government has to follow the "laws
that are laid down."
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- (Source: http://www.canada.com/search/story.
- aspx?id=0469158e-fe63-46c4-aa33-b6e07bfbae23 )
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- [END]
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- And, yes - Ernst has retained Rocco Galati, described
by yesterday's Globe and Mail as "...a Toronto lawyer known for strong
words and a mercurial courtroom demeaner - and for representing refugee
claimants whom Ottawa declares deportable threats to national security...as
Canada figures out what to do with him."
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- How about letting him go back to planting his peach trees
in the hills of Tennessee?
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- Finally, if you really strive to even begin to understand
the finer points of this newest attempt to silence and deport Ernst Zundel,
search for the article "The case is troubling, but the principle is
clear" by Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada.
I don't have time to find the URL for you on my ever more sluggish computer.
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- For further information, go to the Zundelsite, www.zundelsite.org
- and don't forget to please help support this newest round with your donations.
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- Ingrid
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