From Mary Sparrowdancer
sparrowdancer1@earthlink.net

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
Marquis Two Tower, Suite 901285
Peachtree Center Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1221
404 659-4760
404 577-2719
atlanta@germany.info
 
Dear German Consulate:
 
I respectfully request that you forward this letter to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
Dear Madam Chancellor:
As one who takes seriously the laws of the land that outline, in our national Constitutions, our human rights and civil liberties, I am deeply concerned that the German court system is openly violating the German Constitution regarding the Ernst Zundel case. Copied below is Article 5 of the German Constitution.
 
“Article 5 [Freedom of expression]
 
(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
 
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honor.
 
(3) Art and scholarship, research, and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.”
 
The right to debate various opinions, especially when evidence produces various opinions, can only lead to further discovery of the truth. Any attempt to silence peaceful debate, as well as dismiss human rights, civil liberties, and one’s own Constitution, should be great cause for alarm in this world. That Germany would abolish freedom of speech - for any reason or demand - is frightening.
 
Please, Madam Chancellor, come forward now and show the world what true leadership looks like. The world is badly in need of true leadership at this time. Embrace your Constitution, ignore the dictatorial demands coming from Israel - a country that has no Constitution - and give freedom and liberty back to Ernst Zundel, as outlined and guaranteed by the Constitution of Germany.
 
Thank you and kindest regards,
 
Mary Sparrowdancer
 
www.sparrowdancer.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6061213358499552766

BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted.

Jim Kirwan

Rense . February 22, 2007

In a nation where ‘Ignorance is Strength’ and ‘War is Peace’ and where ‘Double-speak’ can lead to ‘Thought Crimes,” it might be understandable that some might see this as possibly the Death of Dreaming. Yet, in this place where power has become, not the means, but an end in itself: We must now find ways to prevent love from becoming hate; so that this wounded planet can emerge from the nearly finished prison that we’ve built with inattention. Welcome to the New World Order!

This country is being run by creatures that have lied to us about every single thing they’ve done-yet-people still listen to them. How is that possible! Not only do these imposters LIE, they are stealing everything that’s not nailed down, while they rob us blind. If the public were awake they would not accept anything this government says-about anything-ever again! In business or in life LIAR’s must be ostracized, shunned, ignored at the very lest-preferably imprisoned. But in America-incorporated, people treat these liars, as if they deserved respect? In the real world ‘respect’ never comes with a title or an office, it must always be earned.

There are no weapons inspectors for the US, the UK or Israel yet the US has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. Preaching Peace and waging War ­ it was the US that opened the door for ‘Terror’ in the world today. It was our policies created the resistance that we call terrorists. If we want peace then we should change these polices-yet all we get is “Stay-the-Course!”

Writers of late just can’t figure out why so many people simply don’t want to know; will not listen; nor will they choose to see, what’s happening everywhere that America-incorporated has chosen to intervene around the world. There is a video that has potentially many of the answers to this mystery and one that casts real light on the how and why of what got us into this mess in the first place. (1)

Here is a rough transcription of what Arundhati Roy says in part, in her video of “WE.”

“George Bush has said the US is the most peaceful nation on earth. Yet the US has been at war every year for fifty years. Wars are fought for hegemony, for business, and of course there is the business of war. All of this has been about oil, because whoever controls oil controls the world’s markets.

The ‘Hidden-Hand’ of the world’s markets cannot work without the ‘Hidden-Fist.’ The Hidden-Fist that keeps the world safe forSilicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corp. This is the definition of the New World Order.

After September 11, 01 both the Hidden-hand and the Hidden-Fist have had their cover blown; McDonald’s cannot flourish without MacDonald­Douglas. Now we can see the other weapons of the ‘Free Market’ bearing down on the Developing World with that clenched unsmiling smile that never ends. America’s perfect war has the perfect vehicle for this task that never ends, which is the perfect expansion for imperialism. In the last ten years of unbridled corporate globalization, the world’s total income has expanded by an average of two and a half percent a year; and yet the number of poor in the world has increased by one hundred million. Of the top biggest economies-51 are corporations now-not countries. The top one percent of the world has the same income as the bottom 57 percent, and that disparity is growing.

Now under the spreading canopy of the War-Against-Terror this process is being hustled along. The men-in-suits are in an unseemly hurry while bombs rain down on us and cruise missiles skid across the skies, while nuclear weapons are stockpiled ‘to make the world a safer place.’ Contracts are being signed, patents are being registered, oil pipelines are being laid, natural resources are being plundered, water is being privatized and democracies are being undermined. In India the structural end of the

corporate globalization project is ripping through people’s lives: development, massive privatizations and labor reforms are pushing people off their land and out of their jobs-resulting in a kind of barbaric dispossession that has few parallels in history.

Across the world as the Free-Market brazenly protects Western markets, and forces Developing Countries to lift their trade barriers: the poor get poorer and the rich-richer! Civil unrest has begun to erupt in the global village. In countries like Argentina and Brazil,Mexico, Bolivia and India the resistance movements against corporate globalization are growing. To contain this, governments are tightening their controls. Protestors are being labeled ‘terrorists’- then being dealt with as such. But civil unrest does not only mean marches and demonstrations and protests against globalization-unfortunately it also means a desperate downward spiral into crime and chaos and all kinds of despair and disillusionment-which as we know from history, and from what we see unspooling before our eyes, has become a breeding ground for terrible things: Cultural nationalism, religious bigotry, fascism, and of course, terrorism. All of these march arm-in-arm with corporate globalization. There is a notion, gaining credence, that the Free-markets break down national barriers; and that Corporate Globalization’s ultimate destination is a Hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport, and we will all live happily together inside a John Lennon song: “Imagine there’s no country!”

What the Free-market undermines is not national sovereignty-but democracy! As the disparity between rich and poor grows, the Hidden-Fist has its work cut out for it-multinational corporations on the prowl for sweetheart deals that yield enormous profits: but they cannot push through these deals and administer these projects, in developing countries, without the active contrivance of state machinery in the police, the courts, and sometimes even the army. Today corporate globalization means the international confederation of loyal, corrupt, preferably authoritarian governments in poorer countries-to push through unpopular reforms. It needs a press that pretends to be free it needs courts that pretend to dispense justice. It needs nuclear bombs, standing armies, total integration laws and watchful coastal patrols to make sure that it is only money, goods, patents, and services that are being globalized: not the freedom of the people, not a respect for human-rights, not international treaties or racial-discrimination or chemical or nuclear weapons, or green-house gas emissions, or climate change-or god forbid-justice! It’s as though even a gesture toward international accountability would wreck the whole enterprise. Meanwhile down at the mall there’s a mid-season SALE. Everything’s discounted: Oceans, rivers, oil ~ flowers, childhoods, aluminum factories, phone companies, wisdom, wilderness, civil rights, equal systems, air-all 4,600 years of evolution-it’s packed, sealed, tagged, and valued; and available ‘Off-the-shelf” ­ NO RETURNS! As for Justice, I’m told that it’s on offer too-you get The Best-that-Money-can-Buy!

Because as Donald Rumsfeld has said: ‘Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life.’ ~ The American way-of-life is simply not sustainable, because it does not acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Fortunately ‘power’ has a shelf life. When the time comes maybe this mighty enterprise will, like others before it, over-reach itself and implode from within. It looks as though structural cracks have already appeared. As the War-Against-Terror casts its net wider and wider, America’s corporate heart is hemorrhaging.

For all the endless empty chatter about ‘democracy’ today the world is run by three of the most secretive institutions in the world: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and The World Trade Organization (WTO) ­ all three of which are dominated by the US. Their decisions are made in secret. The people who head them are appointed behind closed doors. Nobody really knows anything about their politics, their beliefs, or their intentions. Nobody elected them. Nobody said they could make decisions on our behalf. A world run by a handful of greedy bankers and CEO’s who nobody elected, cannot possibly last.”         End of Quote

History has a way of dealing with absolutes of any kind, especially despotic governments in service to criminal enterprises that masquerade as nations. (2) True: History has never had to deal with nuclear weapons or WMD’s on the scale that these exist today. However the planet has experienced worse and the planet will survive: the human race on the other hand ­ may not! Ordinary people designed these constructs that tower over us today, and because these are human projects they are filled with those things that will in-the-end bring them all down. Strip away all the flags and macho strutting, and all that’s left is just another set of barbarians out to steal that which is not theirs. And, as they are criminals, they cannot ever trust each other, much less the actual plans they’ve laid so far: which is why the RUSH is on, to get to the next step and open new wars to cover for the horrors of the wars already lost. If these people have their way, this world will look more like “Lord of the Flies” or “1984″ than anything that these would-be thieves could ever manufacture.

At the moment the cabal is caught mid-stride: neither connected to Iraq and Afghanistan, nor yet committed to Iran and Syria: NOW is when the public must begin to scream our discontent-because this may be the last time to let the world know just exactly how much we hate this whole idea of pillage and plunder and rape and murder just to keep our “American way of life” in a starving and dying world that was never ours to destroy!

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1) Arundhati Roy - WE

2) The Act of 1871

Greg Strange . February 21, 2007

I guess it had to happen sooner or later, what with the hysteria and all. When a doomsday scenario like apocalyptic global warming gets put out there and the Left hitches its wagon to it, if wagons don’t soon thereafter replace deadly emissive automobiles as the primary mode of transportation, the Left will throw out some pretty injudicious rhetoric.

Take Ellen Goodman, for instance, a nationally known, long-time columnist for the Boston Globe. She’s always been basically a standard-issue liberal, given to not unpleasant anecdotal dawdlings, nothing too radical, just the usual stuff which, while debatable, is generally within the mainstream.

But change the subject to global warming and the formerly rational pundit goes enviro-cuckoo. Witness her column of February 9, 2007, which was her response to the latest global warming report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It starts out sane enough with a couple of mildly amusing paragraphs about buying an environmentally friendly light bulb and mentioning the planet-friendly Prius that she drives.

But then she suddenly careens out of control:

“I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.”

Holy smoke! Or should I say, holy carbon dioxide emissions! Global warming deniers are now equivalent to Holocaust deniers? Ellen, honey, are you sure you want to stand by a statement so egregiously outrageous that by all rights your writing career should be finished (though of course it won’t be since when it comes to well-meaning liberals, any statement, no matter how outlandish or illogical, can be gotten away with)?

Personally, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a retraction, or even a clarification, of her truly unhinged assertion. Therefore, the best thing to do is expose it for the illogical buncombe that it is.

So, her basic position appears to be that either you believe in global warming and its worst case potential consequences with the fervor and absoluteness of a snake-handling Pentecostal fundamentalist or you’re a slobbering, inbred global warming denier on a par with a Holocaust denier.

Well, guess what? In reality, it isn’t quite that cut and dry. There’s a whole range of skeptical beliefs that don’t neatly fit into Goodman’s one-size-fits-all, global-warming-deniers-are-scum box. But since she is either clueless about the many nuanced positions or just didn’t feel like trifling with them, allow me to elaborate:

1.) Some people believe the planet has warmed, but human activity has had nothing to do with it.

2.) Some people believe the planet has warmed, but human activity has had only a little to do with it. Within this grouping, various beliefs are that the majority of the warming is due to a.) ceaseless natural climatic cycles that occur on a regular basis and will eventually lead back to cooling; b.) ceaseless solar activity cycles that occur on a regular basis and will eventually lead back to cooling; c.) some combination of a and b; d.) some other poorly understood or unknown factors.

3.) Some people believe the planet has warmed and human activity has had a moderate amount to do with it. Within this grouping, various beliefs are still that the majority of the warming is due to a.) ceaseless natural climatic cycles that occur on a regular basis and will eventually lead back to cooling; b.) ceaseless solar activity cycles that occur on a regular basis and will eventually lead back to cooling; c.) some combination of a and b; d.) some other poorly understood or unknown factors.

4.) Some people fall into either 1, 2 or 3 from above and believe the warming will remain minimal enough that it doesn’t matter.

5.) Some people fall into either 1, 2 or 3 from above and believe that while the warming may become significant, there is nothing we can do to stop it.

6.) Some people fall into either 1, 2 or 3 from above and believe that while the warming may become significant, the only way to stop it would be to cease modern civilization as we know it, which they find unacceptable.

7.) Some people aren’t sure what to believe, but are confident that whatever happens, mankind will adapt to it just fine.

People’s beliefs about global warming could be broken down into even further categories, but the main point should be obvious. It’s not as cut and dry as either you believe or you don’t and the ones who don’t are on a par with Holocaust deniers. There are all sorts of variations, gradations, classifications and subgroupings that apparently eluded Goodman’s thought processes as she composed her columnar study in comparative deniers.

Which reminds me . . . Aren’t liberals the ones who are usually all about endless, hair-splitting nuances on every issue? Aren’t they the ones who always tell us that it’s never as simple as black and white, right or wrong, good or evil, you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists? Aren’t there always multitudinous shades of gray to be endlessly debated? So where are the nuances on this issue? Why is it that either we go on a crash diet of civilizational deprivation or we’re all doomed?

Goodman did happen to stipulate that while global warming deniers are on a par with Holocaust deniers, “one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.” Exactly! And, ironically, that’s the key to the absurdity of her entire thesis. It is totally outrageous to deny something from the relatively recent past that is as well-documented as the Holocaust, and such denials naturally lead one to question the motives of the deniers. On the other hand, skepticism about bug-eyed predictions of a future doomsday scenario should be chalked up to good old-fashioned common sense.

In other words, the two aren’t even remotely analogous.

But wait a minute, says Goodman in her column. “The certainty of the human role” in global warming “is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.” Sure, and 30 years ago scientists said that a new ice age was imminent. I don’t know if the probability at that time was calculated to be 90 percent, but here’s how one disquieted scientist put it:

“We simply cannot afford to gamble. We cannot risk inaction. The scientists who disagree are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.” The only thing he left out of his hyperbolic statement was, to deny global cooling is on a par with denying the Holocaust.

There have been doomsday scenarios throughout recorded history and obviously, none of them have come true. That’s one of the reasons why it’s not an ignorant thing to be skeptical about this latest one, no matter how many scientists support it. And the fact is that most of those whom Goodman refers to as “deniers” would be more accurately described as “skeptics,” and even then their skepticism is not so much about the actuality of warming as it is about the degree of warming and the supposed apocalyptic consequences.

Besides the insult to our intelligence, comparing global warming skeptics with Holocaust deniers is pregnant with accusatory moral implications, but the comparison itself is the thing that’s shot through with intellectual and moral shortcomings. People who deny the Holocaust are generally anti-Semites and are therefore immoral people. Those who question apocalyptic global warming scenarios, however, are mostly expressing healthy skepticism about the predictions of a notoriously inexact science which is prone to gross error.

When someone like Ellen Goodman comes along and flippantly compares the two, you know the Left has completely flipped its wig over global warming.

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From Ingrid Rimland
2-21-7

This is really, really important. I just had word that, apparently, people are calling the German Embassy, complaining angrily about what has happened to Ernst! I have been told they, at the embassy, are “really shook up!”
 
Please do us ALL a favor - and CALL. The person to ask for is Mr. Kruger. His direct line is 202-298-4233.
 
If Mr. Kruger is not available, ask for Jose Schulz. I have been told that Mr. Schulz is quite rude - so don’t let yourself be intimidated.
 
Please be polite and to the point. It does not help to be abusive - we are civilized, classy people.
 
Please just protest the illegal RENDITION, incarceration and conviction of Ernst Zundel - all done without allowing him a defense.
 
Please call. If the phone is busy, try again. I would appreciate calls from all over the world!
 
Thank you so much in advance.
 
Ingrid Zundel
 
 
Update From Ingrid Rimland
 
irimland@bellsouth.net
2-21-9
 
 
Brief update on the telephone call-in to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. at 202-298-4233
 
It seems that their switchboard was flooded, or else somebody took the receiver off the hook! Good for you, America! Thank you very, very much!
 
Probably the funniest thing - and the most telling - was that the venerable Mr. Kruger got so rattled by all the telephone calls that he forgot his name and title and identified himself as the “custodian” !!
 
Please keep on calling…it really, really works!
 
The one thing they hate most is hearing from outraged callers that they, the Germans who always sanctimoniously scold other countries for their human right violations, have been caught in one of the most egregious human rights violations of our times.
 
Below are some of the responses I have received so far:
 
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Done… By me. I will have everyone in my family call and perhaps Andrew.
 
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I called twice and left messages both times, due to the fact that no one is answering the phone.
 
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I will do this tonight and I will post it on all Spanish Petition sites I can find. I will send you a copy of the translated document. Truth will prevail!
 
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I still believe that Ernst will go down in history!! And we may see it coming sooner than we ever hoped!!
 
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I live in British-Colombia and I am appalled by this unfair conviction. I am writing articles to be sent to all Canadian media outlets and I will repost your e-mail on my blog.
 
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I CALLED THE EMBASSY AND LEFT A MESSAGE ON MR. KRUGER’S VOICE MAIL AS TO MY DISGUST WITH GERMANY REFUSING TO ALLOW FREEDOM OF DISCUSSION ON ANY ISSUE AND REQUESTED HE DO WHATEVER HE CAN TO CORRECT THIS INJUSTICE.
 
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This note is to let you know that I called 202-298-4233 and left, on Mr. Kruger’s answering machine, a polite message in which I stated unequivocal support for Ernst Zundel. I also said that Mr. Zundel was fighting for freedom of expression for all of us, which I appreciate. As well, I said we need more men like Mr. Zundel in Canada and in the US, and that, in light of the tremendous history of the German people, and the great contributions they have made to every aspect of industry, science and culture, it is a sad black mark on the nation. I left my name, telephone number and e-mail address, and said I would appreciate a call from him. I intend to contact the German Embassy in Ottawa, to leave a similar message.
 
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I think Zundel’s jail term casts more doubt on the Holocaust narrative than anything he has ever written.
 
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After attempts to leave a message for Kruger whose mailbox was full and not accepting messages, I called the main #: 202-298-4000. The woman who answered told me Kruger couldn’t be found and gave me the voicemail for what sounded like the head of political affairs.
 
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I was polite, as you requested. At the end of my message, I did ask them to please stop being masochistic cowards and ninnies…Very politely, of course.
 
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Apparently they have stopped answering & have their voice mails taking messages:
 
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Again—as you always say, Ingrid–we are civil, polite, but to the point! We MUST make them know…..that..”The WORLD is watching!”…I don’t think they EVER believed this would come back to haunt them.
 
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I called and got Herr Krugers’ answering machine. I left a message stating my name, and I told him that I have read most of what Ernst has said and written, and I agree with him in most subjects, especially about the 6 million Jewish victims. I told him this was a lie and I thought it was a crime against humanity to send Ernst to prison for telling the truth.
 
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(End)
 
 
Free Zundel NOW!
 
From Ingrid
 
This is an urgent appeal to my internet friends. We are regrouping after Ernst Zundel’s brutal conviction in Germany for “Holocaust Denial” - and I am counting on your help.
 
May 8 will be the anniversary of Germany’s surrender. It has been 62 years - about three generations ago. It is time that the demonization of Germany stops.
 
It is time that non-violent, responsible researchers of historical events no longer be demonized, vilified, arrested, tortured, renditioned, humiliated, and “legally” punished by governments beholden NOT to Truth in History but to the interests of Israel.
 
We will demonstrate in front of the German Embassy on May 7 and ask German officials why they saw fit to aid and abet the political kidnapping of Ernst Zundel.
 
We will call a press conference explaining why Germany sees fit to imprison responsible researchers of historical events such as the “Holocaust” that have been forensically disproven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
 
Here’s what you can do:
 
First, if you have a website, please post the attached graphic in as prominent a spot as you can.
 
Second, if the spirit moves you, create a link beneath that says, “Shame on Germany!” This link will take the rea www.zundelsite.org for updates.
 
We will advertise this May 7 demonstration and its purpose in our alternative media channels. We will alert as many Washington, D.C. reporters as we can. We will also make a special effort to invite reporters and demonstrators from around the USA and Canada as well as foreign countries.
 
A dinner is tentatively planned for Sunday, May 6, preceding the demonstration. I personally will seek sponsors for this dinner and entertainment to feature American and European musicians and folk singers. Negotiations are already underway.
 
I want to make this dinner a classy, civilized, informative event that will be open to ALL freedom-loving people regardless of race, background, political affiliation, and ideology. It is time to call a moratorium on dissent within the patriotic movement until we have neutralized the Enemies of Freedom and put them in their place.
 
For further information, please make it a habit to routinely check the Zundelsite at www.zundelsite.org.
 
Ingrid Rimland Zündel, Ed.D.

Xinhua . February 20, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the hundreds of foreign prisoners held at the American military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said civilian courts in the United States no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding the prisoners, as a law passed by Congress last year took away the rights of the prisoners to bring such cases and that hundreds of their lawsuits must be dismissed.

“Federal courts have no jurisdiction in these cases,” Judge A. Raymond Randolph concluded for the court majority in his 25-page opinion. He was joined by Judge David B. Sentelle, and both of them were Republican appointees to the federal bench.

Barring the prisoners access to U.S. federal court was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which the Republican-controlled Congress passed last year and Bush signed into law last October.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the court’s decision was a significant win for the administration and that the Military Commissions Act provided “sufficient and fair access” to courts for the detainees at Guantanamo.

Attorneys for the detainees said they would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration’s original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.

Last week, a group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what is means to be an “enemy combatant” against the United States, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the Republican-controlled Congress last year.

The law, tilted the “Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007,” strikes at the core of the Military Commission Act of 2006 by giving detainees access to U.S. courts.

Currently there are about 395 detainees at the U.S. navel base at detention facility at Guantanamo, which was opened in January 2002, to hold terror suspects and Taliban members mainly captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

From Ingrid Rimland
irimland@bellsouth.net
2-16-7

Yesterday, at 7:00 AM, I received word from Ernst’s son, Pierre, that a verdict had been pronounced - and that Ernst has been sentenced to the maximum penalty for “Holocaust Denial” - five years.
 
That’s what you get in Zionist-infested Germany these days for speaking the truth as you know it and have researched and documented it.
 
The likewise Zionist-controlled media world-wide has been poisonous, but as a friend from Spain, having monitored the news, reported to me, and here I paraphrase from memory: “SThings are being said between the lines that were never permitted to be uttered before.”
 
An example below from today’s taz, (Die Tageszeitung) in an article by Klaus-Peter Klingelschmitt):
 
“In the end, the judge rejected all attempts by the defense attorneys to enter facts into evidence with the lapidären/set-in-stone argument that it is of no significance whether or not the Holocaust happened - denying it is forbidden in Germany. (!)
 
Just as Ernst said in a recent letter to me, ‘even if I walked on water, it would not have made any difference.”
 
So there you have it!
 
I have been told that Ernst, in his summary statement, asked for an international investigative team to settle the truth about Auschwitz once and for all. “Judge Nein”, of course, rejected it - as he has rejected all attempts to offer expert witnesses as well as documented, scientific proof of what revisionists have calmly argued for decades.
 
I am waiting for a written report about this last hearing, but I have been told by an observer that he overheard one of the attorneys comment that never in his decades of practice has he experienced such uncontrolled virulence not only against the defendant but against the attorneys and even the audience. I have also been informed that Defense Attorney Rieger himself will be charged with “Holocaust Denial.” (I believe that Sylvia Stolz has already been charged, although I am not sure of the specifics.)
 
I used to say to friends that one of the ways I could tell that sanity and reason was winning out over hysterics is that the personal assaults against me (telephone calls, e-mail and snail mail) had abated. In 1996, when the Zundelsite first rose to prominence, vilification and demonization were daily occurrrences, but in the latter years, months would go by without a single hate message, calling me all sorts of filthy names - and worse. Yesterday, hate massages came out of the woodworks like bed bugs!
 
Where do we go from here? Of course, appealing this verdict will be one way of protest. We will also hold a demonstration at the German Embassy in Washington on May 7 - so, please mark your calendar. We know for a fact that the German Embassy vassals were up to their necks in the conspiracy to abduct and rendition Ernst - first to Canada, and then to Germany. We have the evidence and paper trail. The latest I heard is that the surreptitious plane that took Ernst to Germany in March of 2005, explicitly bypassing customs and media, cost the Canadian taxpayers a hefty $130,000 - not $50,000, as we had at first been told.
 
Once we have absorbed this shock, we will have to regroup - and rethink.
 
No Surrender!
 
Ingrid Rimland Zündel

Michael A. Hoffman II . February 18, 2007

“I think that they’ve given a strong message … to the world, that I believe will bring a tremendous amount of comfort to Holocaust survivors.” –Bernie Farber, chief executive officer, Canadian Jewish Congress.
 
“The sentencing today of Ernst Zundel also represents a slap in the face to Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s hateful campaign of Holocaust denial that unfortunately has generated too much support in the Arab and Muslim world.” –The Simon Wiesenthal Center.
 
67-year-old Ernst Zundel’s “crime” is to blaspheme the religion of Holocaustianity’s “execution gas chamber” shrine at Auschwitz- Birkenau.
 
Protestant and Catholic Europeans have a long and ignominious history of burning, tormenting and imprisoning heretics. Zundel is now numbered with Michael Servetus, Edmund Campion and countless other independent thinkers whose ideas could not be contested, so they had to be silenced.
 
If Mr. Zundel really were a flat-earther, he would be laughed into oblivion. But the fact is, he has been a mentor to some of the elite scientific revisionists in the field, including former Max Planck chemist Germar Rudolf, who is on trial in Germany on similar charges.
 
The most disgusting aspect of the verdict against Zundel, aside from his incarceration, is the effect it will have on the Muslim world, which is sanctimoniously hectored by the West to permit more freedom of expression and to be less defensive about blasphemy of Muhammad. But the imperial West has deigned to create an exception for its own tutelary idols, about which no blasphemy may be countenanced, on penalty of five years’ imprisonment. The verdict against Zundel represents a resurgence of the Dark Ages and that fact will not be lost on Muslims.
 
This is not the last word on Ernst! The enemies of freedom have not broken his spirit. He has been on trial intermittently for twenty- seven years. In that time, he has never recanted, compromised, or uttered a single weasel word of accommodation to the Auschwitz flatulence, even though, had he done so, he might have received a lighter sentence or been released entirely.
 
Mr. Zundel stands today as an example of a man who speaks spiritual truth to overwhelming material power. His ideas cannot be contained by cages and bars. From Venezuela to Iran, a new world –a youthful world — for whom the rotten, old, Skull-and-Bones mesmerism has lost its spell-binding hold, is watching and witnessing.
 
The verdict against Ernst Zundel is a searing indictment of the post-modernist West. It is a self-administered “slap in the face” not to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but to every jailer-rabbi and inquisitorial Zionist who applauds it. With each clap of their hands their studied pose as the eternal victims is unmasked, and all that stands before us is the mentality that wrote the book on tyranny, in Babylon, circa 300 A.D.
 
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Mr. Hoffman is the author of The Great Holocaust Trial, an account of Zundel’s courtroom ordeal in Toronto in 1985. He may be reached at hoffman@revisionisthistory.org.
 

Who’s Warning About The Hate Bill?

Rev. Ted Pike . February 16, 2007

The federal “anti-hate” bill, HR 254, is stealth legislation at its most devious. Its language deceives all but the most suspicious and informed. Maybe this helps explain why evangelical watchdog organizations do little or nothing to sound the alarm, even though the hate bill has been in the House of Representatives for six weeks!

On ten top conservative websites, I found no mention of the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 254). I found just one alert on the citizen link page of Dr. Dobson’s Focus on the Family website. When several friends and I called D. James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Ministries, American Family Association, and Jerry Falwell Ministries, they promised to research the hate bill immediately.

But this legislation is so disarmingly worded that even Christians and conservatives contact me to ask, “This bill just wants federal power to prosecute bias-motivated violent crimes in the states-what’s wrong with that?”

There’s plenty wrong with that!

What’s the Threat?

The Constitution does not grant federal government the police state privilege of intervention in local law enforcement. Unless the government finds evidence of slavery in the states, jury tampering, voter fraud, or crimes involving interstate commerce (where jurisdiction is unclear), the Constitution’s message to the federal government is blunt and emphatic: “Butt out of local law enforcement!”

But HR 254 gives the government the right to do what the Constitution forbids. Because five states do not have hate laws, this bill says the government has no choice but to “enhance federal enforcement of hate crimes” and “increase the number of [federal] personnel to prevent and respond to alleged violations [of hate crimes in the states]” (Introductory Statement of Purpose and Sec. 7). HR 254 asserts hate crimes and lack of effective countermeasures on the state level is a “serious national problem” necessitating federal intervention (Sec. 2[1])

The hate bill strains to find any pretext whereby a federal hate crimes bureaucracy can take over local law enforcement. Its arguments toward this end are so absurd they insult the reader’s intelligence.

Sneaking Around the Constitution

In order to evade the Constitution’s clear limitations on federal intervention in law enforcement, HR 254 alleges that hate crimes are actually slavery! “Violence motivated by bias is a relic of slavery that can constitute badges and incidents of slavery.” (Sec. 2,

HR 254’s second absurd ruse is that hate criminals affect interstate commerce, by terrorizing their victims into traveling across state lines - or not. In the latter case such victims may be impeded in purchasing many products imported or exported across state lines, which adversely affects state economies. Also, since weapons of hate violence may have been imported from out of state or traveled across state boundaries, the government is entitled to intervene in “crimes involving interstate commerce.”

Considering the pervasive influence of interstate commerce upon our lives, how often can the government meddle in local hate crimes enforcement? Any time. In fact, this ridiculous argument could be used to justify federal intervention in a crime of any kind, since any crime victim might be scared into different spending or traveling choices.

Frighteningly, HR 254 says its goal is to “prevent and respond to alleged violations” of federal hate crimes laws. This means the government does not even have to wait until a hate crime has been committed but may act preemptively to “prevent” crime.

Further, penalties for violation of federal anti-hate law can be extremely severe, even tripling the normal penalties. 1 For example, what if a man calls a woman “bitch” (evidence of bias motivation against woman, a federally protected group under HR 254) and attempts to rape her, but fails. If convicted of this assault, he could be sentenced to prison for the rest of his life. (Sec. 4[B][B,ii]).

HR 254 Shatters Civil Rights

America’s justice system requires proof of physical tangible damage before an arrest can be made. Our English system of law evolved over at least 3500 years from both biblical and Roman legal precedent.

HR 254 is not based on this foundation. It seeks to establish a different “bias motivation” justice system, which will be defined in courts by judges, as has happened in Canada over the past 36 years. Closely advised and pressured by ADL, 2 these federal and local (and mostly liberal) judges will establish legal precedents-precedents that protect groups such as homosexuals not only from physical bias-motivated violence but also from “verbal violence.” This will include the “hate speech” of Bible-believing evangelical Christians. This is exactly what has occurred in Canada and the many European nations who accepted hate laws’ Orwellian chains.

HR 254 thus does more than violate states’ rights in law enforcement. It also leads inexorably to an end of free speech!

We Need You Now

The powerful Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith is determined to pass the hate bill in their Democrat-controlled Congress. ADL has vowed it will never give up until a federal hate crimes bureaucracy, like it established in Canada, shackles the United States. ADL has weathered six rejections of their hate bill by Congress since 1998. Their tenacity doesn’t come from concern for the emotions or safety of homosexuals. ADL is using the powerful homosexual lobby as a tool to pass a law that will ultimately make it a hate crime, punishable by prison or deportation to Israel, to criticize Zionism or matters Jewish. David Irving, like Galileo, Victim of ‘Thought Crimes’ Inquisition)

I never thought I would see the day when legislation so enormously destructive to freedom would be virtually unopposed by the religious right. 3 Incredibly, the many thousands of participants with the National Prayer Network, through massive calling and mailing of my hate crime flyer to Congress, have delivered the primary protest against imminent passage of HR 254.

Yet, we desperately need assistance from the vast constituencies of conservative evangelical organizations. These groups claim to protect America and our freedom. Yet they have been virtually oblivious to a very present danger that threatens to wipe away our freedom to fight all other battles. If we allow the hate bill to pass, we will soon have no free speech left with which to protest evils like abortion or the redefinition of marriage. The present silence of Christian/conservative organizations is ensuring their future death.

National Prayer Network can’t win alone. Freedom of speech is America’s lifeblood. It is the precious birthright of all Americans. Many, many more individuals-liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, Christian and non-Christian-must help us save this freedom now.

Endnotes:

1. This is mandated by ADL’s Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

2. ADL obtained such a mandate through passage of their Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. It gave them power to teach U.S. Justice Department, FBI, and local police their twisted definitions of hate crimes and how to report them. It is out of 25 years of such indoctrination that ADL intends to create its national hate laws gestapo and police state.

3. As of Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, important conservative websites where we could find no mention of the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act, HR 254, include:

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HR 254 is presently assigned to the House Judiciary Committee, but as a streamlined version of a bill that previously passed in the House, it could race forward to passage very quickly. Call all 40 members, available at www.truthtellers.org and protest.

Also call your House member and two state senators at 1-877-851-6437. Send them and their influential legislative aides Rev. Ted Pike’s flyer, “Anti-Hate Laws Will Make You a Criminal.” All this information is available at www.truthtellers.org.

TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Pike! Call 503-631-3808.

NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR 97015
www.truthtellers.org

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This is the primary text of HR 254, the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. This is a much shorter version of S 1145 which failed passage in the Senate last year. ADL, desperate to pass their hate bill, has deleted many items and is concentrating in this new streamlined version on getting what they want most: establishment of a bias-oriented justice system in American and union of federal and local police powers (creating a police state). With this foundation, ADL can then rely on federal and local judges to expand jurisdiction from violent physical crimes to verbal violence against protected groups.

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 254

To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 5, 2007

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL

To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007′ or `David’s Law’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that–

(1) the incidence of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the victim poses a serious national problem;

(2) such violence disrupts the tranquility and safety of communities and is deeply divisive;

(3) existing Federal law is inadequate to address this problem;

(4) such violence affects interstate commerce in many ways, including–

(A) by impeding the movement of members of targeted groups and forcing such members to move across State lines to escape the incidence or risk of such violence; and

(B) by preventing members of targeted groups from purchasing goods and services, obtaining or sustaining employment or participating in other commercial activity;

(5) perpetrators cross State lines to commit such violence;

(6) instrumentalities of interstate commerce are used to facilitate the commission of such violence;

(7) such violence is committed using articles that have traveled in interstate commerce;

(8) violence motivated by bias that is a relic of slavery can constitute badges and incidents of slavery;

(9) although many local jurisdictions have attempted to respond to the challenges posed by such violence, the problem is sufficiently serious, widespread, and interstate in scope to warrant Federal intervention to assist such jurisdictions; and

(10) many States have no laws addressing violence based on the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability, of the victim, while other States have laws that provide only limited protection.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF HATE CRIME.

In this Act, the term `hate crime’ has the same meaning as in section 280003(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (28 U.S.C. 994 note).

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN ACTS OF VIOLENCE.

Section 245 of title 18, United States Code, is amended–

(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and

(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

`(c)(1) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an explosive device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person–

`(A) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(B) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or fined in accordance with this title, or both if–

`(i) death results from the acts committed in violation of this paragraph; or

`(ii) the acts committed in violation of this paragraph include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(2)(A) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an explosive device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person–

`(i) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(ii) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or fined in accordance with this title, or both, if–

`(I) death results from the acts committed in violation of this paragraph; or

`(II) the acts committed in violation of this paragraph include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the circumstances described in this subparagraph are that–

`(i) in connection with the offense, the defendant or the victim travels in interstate or foreign commerce, uses a facility or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce, or engages in any activity affecting interstate or foreign commerce; or

`(ii) the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce.’.

SEC. 5. DUTIES OF FEDERAL SENTENCING COMMISSION.

(a) Amendment of Federal Sentencing Guidelines- Pursuant to its authority under section 994 of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall study the issue of adult recruitment of juveniles to commit hate crimes and shall, if appropriate, amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements (in addition to the sentencing enhancement provided for the use of a minor during the commission of an offense) for adult defendants who recruit juveniles to assist in the commission of hate crimes.

(b) Consistency With Other Guidelines- In carrying out this section, the United States Sentencing Commission shall–

(1) ensure that there is reasonable consistency with other Federal sentencing guidelines; and

(2) avoid duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense.

SEC. 6. GRANT PROGRAM.

(a) Authority To Make Grants- The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice shall make grants, in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, to State and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles.

(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL TO ASSIST STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice, including the Community Relations Service, for fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009 such sums as are necessary to increase the number of personnel to prevent and respond to alleged violations of section 245 of title 18, United States Code (as amended by this Act).