- ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
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- Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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- If you thought the Marianne Ward write-up was bad, how
about this one? It just appeared in the Toronto Star - also known as the
"Red Star", as I was told when I last visited in Toronto. This
kind of demonization is a WEAPON OF WAR - and the sooner Canadians realize
that, the safer they themselves will be.
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- Here is the Star editorial, followed by my response:
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- Jan. 28, 2004. 08:10 AM
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- EDITORIAL: Deport Zundel now
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- At the risk of giving Ernst Zundel and his supporters
more of the attention they so crave, we must ask once again: Why is he
still in Canada?
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- Zundel, an infamous Holocaust denier, has no claim on
this country. He is not a citizen. He has thumbed his nose at our laws
and made a mockery of our justice system for decades, tying the courts
up with increasingly arcane legal gambits.
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- His latest attack on Canada began nearly a year ago,
when he was deported here by American immigration authorities. Since then,
he has tied up the courts in legal actions by trying to claim refugee status.
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- Now he is engaged in another endless fight, this time
over whether he is a security risk. The Canadian Security Intelligence
Service declared him a threat to national security a decade ago.
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- Zundel has a country. It is Germany, which wants to see
him return so he can face charges in a raft of crimes related to his spread
of hate literature. But his allies claim sending him there amounts to persecution.
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- It is time to end this legal mess.
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- The federal government and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler
must quickly get their act together and expedite this case. Judges should
also move the case to the top of their court files.
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- It's well past time to buy Zundel a one-way ticket.
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- Here is my response as Ernst's wife: Will it be printed?
I am not holding my breath.
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- Editor:
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- The Canadian mainstream media have glutted out on nasty
things spread far and wide about my husband, Ernst Zundel. Perhaps it's
time to let "the other side" speak up for a systematically demonized
man.
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- Society needs villains - how else to scare the public
up a tree and keep the cash cow willing to be milked?
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- Consider this: Our attorneys tell us that a "normal"
bail hearing takes only an hour. Ernst's bail hearings have now lasted
almost a year - and in the end, bail was denied this past Wednesday!
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- The Canadian taxpayer has picked up the tab to pay the
governments' expenses. Ernst Zundel has paid his own way.
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- Here are the essentials of what this newest Zundel prosecution
is really all about - in case it should happen to you:
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- We know today that Ernst's arrest and deportation was
a coordinated covert operation involving three so-called "democratic"
countries - Canada, the USA, and Germany. How do we know? Partly through
documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and partly through
various well-connected sources of our own.
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- US immigration officials as well as members/staff of
America's law enforcement agencies were used as hit squads by alien interests
to grab a peaceful man who lived openly, legally and lawfully in the United
States, preventing due process by ex parte means, thus aiding and abetting
in the deportation - in fact, a political kidnapping.
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- Ernst Zundel was not arrested for any criminal activity,
not even for any politically incorrect views or beliefs. He was arrested
on a minor bureaucratic technicality. Allegedly, he "missed an interview"
and "overstayed his visa."
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- Both allegations have been contested in the courts.
We are still waiting for a hearing.
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- Ernst did not miss an interview. An interview was scheduled
on June 12, 2001. Our then attorney could not make it and asked for a
re-scheduling. This is routine, routinely granted. He never received
a reply.
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- This attorney waited and waited, then sent a follow-up
letter, return receipt requested, on May 6, 2002. We have the original
postal receipt - documented evidence that INS received that letter. Again,
there was no reply.
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- Both of these letters are missing in the Immigration
files! Convenient, isn't it?
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- We never abandoned Ernst's Adjustment of Status application,
nor were we informed that it was considered abandoned. We had been advised
that the interview could take as long as three years, and that no status
check would be allowed. We simply went about our lives and waited.
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- When Ernst was arrested, we were prevented from calling
a lawyer. A Warrant for Deportation lay ready in Knoxville and was signed
and dated after the arrest. In the room where this was done, a poster with
the Star of Israel was posted prominently on the wall.
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- Through the Freedom of Information Act - some 30 pages
withheld for "security reasons"! - we found out that some coded
messages had been faxed on the very day of our first scheduled appointment
between US Immigration and Canadian Immigration. Who in Canada was interested
in causing us grief on that day? A good place to start would be to check
into some non-profit outfits that are fattening themselves on the taxpayers'
trough by shrieking "Hate!" for gain.
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- After Ernst was arrested, we immediately applied for
habeas corpus. We were turned down by a judge within hours in a one-sentence
ruling. Not even our attorney was allowed to speak up.
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- We appealed to the Sixth Circuit Appeal Court. Within
days, we were turned down again, this time in a one-paragraph ruling.
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- Through FOIA we found out that there was ex parte communication
prior to this ruling between a clerk who has a Jewish-sounding name and
an Immigration official who was exceedingly nasty to me when I tried to
find out where my husband had been taken, and why. I understand it is
illegal, perhaps even criminal, for court officials to solicit information
on a pending court case behind the judges' and the accused's backs.
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- Ernst Zundel was flown to the Canadian border, accompanied
by two INS officials. "Normal" deportations happen via bus.
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- On that very day, June 17, 2003, Germany swore out an
arrest warrant. Why on that day? Who notified them? And on what grounds?
An impartial judge could surely find out by requesting the missing Freedom
of Information Act pages.
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- Through various documents and private sources, some at
the highest levels of Germany's government, we learned that the original
covert plan had been to get Ernst shipped to Germany where "insulting
the memory of the dead" - of aliens, not of Germans! - is on the
books as a "criminal offense", and where a 5 year conviction
is a foregone conclusion for so-called "Holocaust Denial". Whoever
masterminded this kidnapping evidently didn't know that the US always deports
back to the country of entry, not to the country of nationality. Through
possibly another bureaucratic snafu Ernst ended up in Canada - and Canadian
taxpayers are now stuck with the bill.
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- Ernst had no choice but to apply for political asylum,
based on the certainty that prison awaited him in Germany for his politically
incorrect views, even though in 1992 the highest court in Canada had ruled
that he, too, had a right to speak his mind on views as he saw fit, "even
if the majority regards them as wrong or false."
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- Canada had a solution. Two ministers discovered that
they had a suspicion on their brains that he might be a "terrorist"
- it must have been his dimples, already deemed suspicious in 1985, the
year of the First Great Holocaust Trial. A security certificate was duly
sworn out. Such a certificate turns out to be the only way a deportation
to Germany can be arranged at all, since Ernst would otherwise be legally
entitled to remain in Canada, where he has lived for 42 years, and where
he never has transgressed against the law.
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- Canadian taxpayers might want to know that prosecuting
a national security certificate costs, on the average, a cool one million
dollars. Ernst Zundel, of course, is expected to pay his own bills.
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- For almost a year now, Ernst has been held in solitary
confinement in inhuman conditions, cold and hungry most of the time - without
having been charged for a crime. For almost that long, we have struggled
to get Judge Blais to grant him bail so Ernst can organize a proper defense.
He can't defend himself from jail where even a ball point pen is forbidden,
and where he does not even have a chair! He sits on a fat stack of transcripts
from some two decades worth of prior trials that have cost the Canadian
taxpayers plenty.
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- One final word: Ernst did not "flee" to the
United States, as has been reported ad nauseam. After he left to live
with me in Tennessee, he kept his business going at great costs to himself
for an entire year to see the Human Rights Tribunal hearings through -
the very "hick tribunal", as he described it aptly, that ruled
that "Truth is no Defence". In Canada, truth is now called "hate"
by those who hate the truth - a law underwritten by you.
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- No wonder the world calls Canada "Absurdistan"!
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- It is no secret that there is no grassroots support for
dissident like Ernst where a beholden media and unctuous politicians have
long ago sold out to the powers that be. I'd like to pose this question:
Who might cost less and leave Canada intact as a democracy - CSIS or Mr.
Zundel?
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- A man was kidnapped in broad daylight under cover of
the "law" on American soil and dumped in a Canadian prison.
Is there no legal mechanism left where he can spread his facts out on the
table and let a reasonable judge look at the facts impartially, give an
opinion worthy of a man of pride and principle, and, hopefully, restore
Ernst Zundel's rights?
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- Sincerely,
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- Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.
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