- I have been waiting for the rest of this report regarding
the latest Zundel hearing from Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Free
Speech Association, but Paul is on the road a lot, as we all are - so I'll
just send you what I have, in addition to what Ernst told me.
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- Paul first:
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- TORONTO. July 27, 2004. It was high noon. Dressed in
a light gray suit, a white shirt, a cream coloured vest and cream tie,
Canada's most famous free speech lawyer was finally summoned to the witness
stand. Most of the morning at the hearing for political prisoner Ernst
Zundel was consumed by Crown attempts to prevent or limit the testimony
of the Battling Barrister from Victoria who had been German dissident Zundel's
lawyer for 18 years, until December, 2003, when family illness called him
back home.
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- The tall lawyer strode to the witness stand. Would he
swear or affirm, he was asked. Indicating that he would swear his oath
to tell the truth, Mr. Christie was handed a book. It was the Moslem Koran.
"I want a Bible," he said. The request had to be repeated. A
somewhat flummoxed Judge Pierre Blais eventually had to send to the judges'
chambers to locate a copy of the Christian book which is sacred to the
vast majority of Canadians. Before swearing, Mr. Christie, a conservative
Catholic, opened the leather-covered black book and briefly examined it
to make certain it was the Christian Bible.
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- In calling Doug Christie as a witness, Mr. Zundel's new
defence lawyer Peter Lindsay made one of the most dramatic moves in free
speech trials since defence lawyer Clarence Darrow called assistant prosecuting
attorney William Jennings Bryan to the witness stand in the famous 1926
Monkey Trial in Tennessee.
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- Mr. Christie began his testimony by emphatically explaining
that Mr. Zundel had rejected violence and condemned people who involved
themselves in violence. Such tactics are utterly counterproductive, Mr.
Christie, quoted Mr. Zundel as warning. "Mr. Zundel repeatedly said
that every good White man should behave like a noble person," Mr.
Christie testified.
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- Paul Fromm
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- (more to come later)
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- From what Ernst said to me last night, I infer that it
looks like the anticipated September 16 deportation has been averted or
postponed once more. No hearing on bail has been held, even though Ernst
was entitled to that hearing, and even though we had fully expected another
shameful judicial gyration denying bail. If the poor Arabs, who have been
in detention much longer than Ernst, don't get bail, is he going to be
the exception? Also, the second day of hearing was canceled - and, as I
remember it, will now be held on August 9th.
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- Media was plentiful this time. Was something dramatic
expected - and derailed by Doug Christie on the stand? Ernst also said
- and this needs to go on the record - that the judge made quite an overt
effort stating that he wanted to get to the bottom of CSIS's suspected
involvement in the parcel bomb that was sent to the Zundel-Haus in 1995,
chiding the government lawyers for not cooperating in producing the elusive
witness, the petty thief/turned CSIS agent/turned anti-CSIS snitch/turned
Catholic teacher, John Farrell, who was the main informant for the Mitrovica
book, Covert Entry, implicating CSIS for at least having foreknowledge
that the bomb was on the way via Canadian Air with some 300 passengers
aboard. Ernst believes that the judicial/government strategy is now to
lean on Farrell to recant the information given to Mitrovica so as to whitewash
CSIS. If the Zundel defense succeeds in getting Farrell on the stand, and
Farrell says, squirming, he made it all up, it lets CSIS off the hook to
dig deeper. Farrell's job, in other words, will now be to deliver the whitewash.
I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, if he doesn't deliver the goods!
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- Ernst also said something I wish I had taped because
of the way he expressed it. I know that the impact of his words will be
lost in my recalling it, but the gist of it was that he feels utterly at
peace with what has been accomplished with this latest martyrdom, because
it served a cosmic purpose. Three Zundel submission to the Supreme Court
challenging the Marxist New World Order tactics are now pending. He said
that these three documents were written with passion and emotion by competent,
committed lawyers, and that these documents, thanks to the Internet where
they will be posted before long, will be true icons for the historical
record. He said that since it seems to have been his fate, once more, symbolically
speaking, to hold the enemies' toes to the fire by documenting their misdeeds
for all the world to see, he feels that these three documents will have
accomplished that. He said that he feels he acounted himself well and was
up to the challenge against great odds.
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- He said that if Western society, at least in Canada and,
by extention, the United States that pimped for the Holocaust Lobby in
cooperating in his arrest, is THAT indifferent to what is happening judicially
that they don't choose to see how the New World Order will take over their
own world by setting precedents, he has no business any more in Canada
staying and fighting this battle. With an utterly calm voice, he said,
he is content to go to Germany to finish what will be his task to complete.
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- It was quite a speech, delivered with an almost deadly
calm, and I am not doing it justice by giving it my voice. Ernst also said
what I have heard before: That past injustices and cruelties inflicted
on the planet demand to be avenged, because the Universe is out of kilter,
and it can't right itself until the past has been avenged.
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- He did not say that he was advocating it. He only said
it was a given, that it was written thus in cosmic language, and so it
would happen one day.
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- Ingrid
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