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Truth seeks the light, it doesn’t shun it
From
Michael Walsh
15th November 2005
Ernst Zündel,
JVA Mannheim,
68169 Mannheim.
Dear Ernst,
Hello ‘old’ comrade! Thank you for your letter which was as
warmly received as the earlier one. I am following your ‘trial’
through the Internet but otherwise I won’t comment as to do so
would be superfluous. What could I say that we and the rest of
the enlightened world don’t know already? As Horace Mann, the
America educator surmised: truth seeks the light, it doesn’t
shun it.
I have also come to realise that such letters as mine are
probably more useful to your gaolers and tormentors than they
are to you. They use them to glean information; to discover who
your ‘co-conspirators’ are (as they would see it). Theirs is a
dark world similar to Golum’s but it is their choice so have
little sympathy for them. The Berlin Wall came down simply
because it was superfluous to requirements; the mind-set had
just been pushed further west, to the Atlantic shores.
Our problem, from our political standpoint, is that we were too
naïve, far too trusting. As a young idealist I used to organise
massive marches through London and elsewhere. Later on, as I
matured, I realised that all I was doing was organising mass
identity parades for those who had sold their souls to the
state. In my youthful idealism I couldn’t believe that such
people truly existed. Every age has had nation-betrayers.
All we have to compensate for our folly is the realisation that
our detractors dig their own graves; happy to do so as long as
the state (with their taxes) pays for the shovels and spades. So
just who is stupid?
I regret nothing at all and I will go to MY Maker with a totally
clearly conscience as you will. They cannot imprison truth, an
ideal or cultural aspiration. They can imprison the physical
being but not the intellect. As I wrote in an earlier letter –
inasmuch as the intellect is far more important than the
physical being – the man who puts the truth-seeker in gaol knows
in his heart that he has just turned the key on himself.
And the outcome? Nature does not look kindly on the weak but a
pity that they may drag some of us down with them along with
their own families.
Good luck in everything Ernst Zündel. You are much nearer to God
when you are in a cell than those who, for the time being at
least, have the ‘freedom’ to reside in the slightly larger cage
with the few extra breadcrumbs thrown for their ‘good
behaviour’.
Always remember that the greatest pioneers of human endeavour
and freedom suffered greatly for the rest of us.
From long before Jesus Christ, and through the ages, so many
unjustly maligned, but their ideas even so, inspired greater
things, whilst those who imprisoned them lie forgotten,
festering in their graves; God alone knows where their tortured
souls reside.
Of England, Nietzsche opined, ‘The Land of Consummate Cant.’ How
true and never as glaringly evident as Sunday’s Remembrance Day
circus. All these parading old bats, wallowing in the glory of
their having saved our way of life – before making their way
home down litter-strewn foul-mouth muggers alley; and the
biggest mugger of all? Their own Government!
To be intellectually free as we are is to be the one-eyed man in
the land of the blind, Ernst.
You talk of the state taking lives! Yes! A never ending
succession of them; it is what they do best and of course I
touched on this subject in ‘Round One to the Barbarians’. If the
destruction of 40,000,000 Russians is a mere statistic, and the
annihilation of thirteen million Germans and Europeans after the
war’s end is a footnote to history, then the murder of
individuals is of no consequence at all.
I just wonder how long it will be before our own George
Galloway, MP, thorn in the side of the pro-Iraq war lobby, has a
‘heart attack.’ He has all the symptoms; he smokes, he drinks –
ah, and he effectively exposes Israel’s lickspittles. The man
clearly has a death wish.
What can I say to comfort you, old friend? Out here in ‘freedom
world’ we face a day-to-day struggle to survive; we are all
hamsters on the wheel so never be under the illusion that our
situation is much better than yours. It isn’t; it is just a
little different - that is all.
Yes, we have the pleasure of tipping a glass of wine, or going
for a walk in a park, seeing those who are dearest to us. But in
so many respects you can lay claim to being freer than we are.
For more than three-hundred years after His murder Jesus Christ
was reviled; His name not mentioned unless accompanied by
spittle. Yet every civilised landscape is, 2,000 years after his
murder, dotted by cathedrals to his life.
In respect of human evolution it’s just the blink of an eyelid
since effigies of the Pope were burned each year. Now the
offspring of those papal tormentors flock to Rome in their
millions. Nothing adequately explains the stupidity and
duplicity of the human condition; it can be so exasperating for
the enlightened.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the day will come when plazas,
squares and great avenues will be named after our martyrs; their
names revered and etched in stone and hearts; but only when the
stone-hearts who gaol you come to their senses. Stay calm,
Ernst, we are all in the cell with you in a manner of speaking –
and freedom will prevail.
Your friend,
Michael
____________________________
Ian Buckley On The
Trials Of Ernst Zundel
15 November 2005
At the outset, it should be noted that this piece is in no sense
a substitute for Paul Eisen's excellent and exhaustive The
Holocaust Wars. Rather, it is a personal reflection upon the
growing lack of freedom in the Western world, as illustrated by
the story of one man. Though it is the story of one man, it
applies to us all, as the mistreatment once handed down to those
handily designated and demonized as 'extremists' and 'cultists'
is extended more and more to ordinary citizens.
Ladies and Gentleman, the New World Order is on your doorstep.
Open resistance brings down a rain of fire as at Fallujah, while
in the outer ring of indirect, diffuse oppression, more subtle
methods than mass murder usually prevail.
'Terror' and fear of 'terror' - which is anyway largely
sponsored and created by government intelligence agencies -
means acquiescence as acres of streets in the city of Leeds are
sealed off or tanks ring Heathrow Airport. Even English country
towns are monitored and secured, under perpetual watch by
veritable forests of security cameras on poles.
Indeed it's fortunate that Zundel is still around to face the
Mannheim trial, when one bears in mind the dismal and sinister
fate that often befalls very high-profile dissenters when they
fall into the hands of the injustice system. Such was the case
even in the Eisenhower era : in this context one thinks of
psychologist Wilhelm Reich, the originator of the wonderful term
'Hoodlums in Government' or HIGs, a phrase which is much more
applicable now than Reich's days. Or of Francis Parker Yockey,
widely accused of being both pro-Communist and pro-Nazi, but
more likely a fellow of philosophical bent unenamoured of
liberal capitalism.
Reading through a selection of Ernst Zundel's letters from
prison, you may feel that he has descended as a witness into the
dismal and deadly underbelly of so-called democracy. Ernst notes
the following incident during his stay at the Ottawa Detention
Center, which he - quite justifiably - nicknamed 'Abu Ghraib
North' :
'One young Negro died in the cell next to me. Why? He must have
had some seizure or breathing difficulties. The guards shouted,
danced around and taunted him. I saw him the day before. He was
athletic, had good muscle tone like many young Blacks who are in
far better physical shape than Whites - yet I saw him through my
little 8 1/2 by 11 cell observation window, carried out of his
cell limp like a dish rag, dumped unto a gurney, electric shock
applied to his heart, given an injection, given CPR, oxygen -
the fellow was dead!'
What is prison, if not a place where society attempts - and
fails - to hide its true face, its real nature? Are not many of
the 'cons' little more than victims of a harsh, commercialised
and globalized environment? The outer jail is 'society', while
the inner one is prison itself. Over two million Americans are
now incarcerated; something to think about when you hear those
vain and bombastic State of the Union addresses. Ernst again :
'Four big guards came in the afternoon. Ordered me out of my
cell with my stuff, took me to the corridor, threw my mental
cell mate on the floor, kicked him, pummeled him 'til he was
dragged along the halls, bleeding and screaming. Eventually, I
was put into the general population, which meant three times out
of the cell.'
Ernst Zundel's initial arrest came over two years ago, a short
while before the start of the US-UK assault on Iraq. A posse of
immigration officials - some of them armed - descended upon his
home in rural Tennessee. A little excessive, perhaps, when the
'villain' concerned is a life-long pacifist and the ostensible
charge he faces is a mere visa violation! By all normal
standards, as his wife Ingrid is an American citizen, Zundel
should enjoy legal status, and not be subject to arbitrary
harassment in this way. Incidentally, as a pacifist, Ernst
Zundel would make quite an unusual 'Nazi'.
After the arrest, he entered into a nether world of leg irons, a
cell with a perpetually glowing light and a regime of
ridiculous, pettifogging regulations - such as being forbidden
access to Post-it notes and marker pens. And all for what?
The ostensible charge in America was a violation of immigration
rules. In Canada, Zundel was officially some sort of (undefined)
threat to national security. But in essence, Ernst Zundel is
being accused of heresy. He has challenged a dogma of the
'Church' and the 'Empire' prosecutes and persecutes.
We are all different, and have varying political ideals and
viewpoints. For example, I don't share Zundel's almost
instinctive anti-Communism. To my mind, there is something to be
said for Communism when mixed with national patriotism, as seen
in Fidel's Cuba or the latter years of the USSR. At least such
nations provide - or did provide - full employment, universal
health care, and a sense of community.
But for three centuries or more, opinion was sacred. The idea
that no man or woman should be arrested for their thoughts or
beliefs was an essential part of a civilised society. But Zundel
has endured over two years in jail, and faces the possibility of
much more jail time, solely because of his opinions on the
events of World War II. I say 'solely', but - who knows - maybe
his pamphlet The West, War and Islam also contributed to his
arrest as a 'Public Enemy'.
In The West, War and Islam he warns that '..distorted viewpoints
are deliberately being used and often magnified to goad the West
into a future criminal war against the Islamic world.' Huh,
completely wrong there, Ernst!
Jesting aside, Zundel 'denies' much less than some might
imagine, saying that: 'It is absolutely true that Jews were
incarcerated and often treated cruelly. They were seen as the
enemy, just as in our times the "Nazis" are seen as the enemy of
entrenched oligarchies.' He just disbelieves in the existence of
extermination gas chambers, after initiating some first hand
research on the matter. Surely the normal, rational procedure
would be have honest, open debate on this subject, and not to
suppress one side of the argument. Suspicion must always fall on
those who attempt to silence their opponents.
One very important statement on the case was made by Dr. Roger
Dommergue from France, who had this to say to American
officials:
'I have known M. Zundel these last 20 years, and as a Jew I felt
compelled to check what he said and published. I became
conscious of the fact that he was a most distinguished mind,
that he told the truth and that I could understand why my
all-powerful peers did not like him! I feel that a country in
which he resides can be proud of having him. Please give him
back his liberty in the country of liberty, and keep away from
the totalitarianism of my worst peers who think they have all
the rights because of their financial and political power.'
All true, of course, but Zundel was still railroaded back to
Germany, after high-level twisting of the law had taken place in
both the USA and Canada. There his trial began just a week ago,
on the 8th November, with Zundel's first thoughts just before
its start being for others : 'This judgment is important for
other imprisoned idealists / human rights activists - people who
struggle for their human and civil rights in Germany and
beyond!'
The trial itself has an interesting feature in that the defence
team must weave a delicate ballet, for if they seem to share the
heretic's views, then they too are subject to arrest. It is like
the return of Galileo!
However, unlike the deluded American and British dole queue
conscripts now occupying Iraq, Zundel has one great consolation:
'At least I have the privilege of understanding the forces which
took hold of me. God have mercy on mankind!'
©-free 2005 Adelaide Institute
