- SOS ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
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- Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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- Before I write anything else, I would still like more
readers on my list to sign the petition at http://www.PetitionPetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5230
We are now at 835 signatures, and I would like to have a round 1,000
before we submit it to the Powers that be.
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- Please sign - and spread the word on your respective
lists.
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- Now to some very serious business:
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- Ernst Zundel is in maximum lockdown in the Niagara Detention
Center. I talked to him very briefly yesterday and a little longer this
morning. He says the guards hang their heads because they are ashamed
at what is happening but will not give him any explanation why he has to
be in lock-down 24 hours a day. He says that he is being treated like
Rudolf Hess, having his food shoved in without words, being permitted only
a plastic spoon/fork combination - called a "spork", by the way
- some kind of black humor? He writes his notes to himself and what letters
he is allowed to send on the seat of his toilet, the only surface available
to him.
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- I believe this treatment is being meted out to keep him
from communicating with anyone, including media. The reason is that last
Friday, he told the "war crimes" attorney acting for the government
that the very agency, namely CSIS, that is trying to brand him as a "terrorist"
is the outfit that had knowledge of the parcel bomb en route to the Zundel-Haus
to kill him in 1995 - yet did not see fit to warn him or anybody else!
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- This WILL be said at the next hearing - if such a hearing
is ever to take place. Allegedly, this hearing, scheduled for Friday,
is open to media. When I talked to Ernst this morning, nobody had yet
notified him of the date. I feel I have reason to fear that Ernst's enemies
will move heaven and earth, and may even attempt to harm him, to prevent
this hearing from happening.
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- Here is the pertinent information that has only recently
come to light in a book titled "Covert Entry / Spies, Lies and Crimes:
Inside Canada's Secret Service" by Andrew Mitrovica.
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- Andrew Mitrovica is one of Canada's leading investigative
journalists. He has won numerous national and international awards for
his reporting. He has worked at the fifth estate, CTV national news, W5
and most recently at the Globe and Mail, where he covered security and
intelligence issues. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Mitrovica lives in
Toronto.
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- The inside book flap carries this text:
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- "Canada's espionage agency, CSIS, enjoys operating
deep in the shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the 80s after the RCMP
spy service was abolished for criminal excesses, the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service was to be a squeaky-clean contrast to its disgraced
predecessors. But it's hard for Canadians to get a fix on how well CSIS
is doing its job or how well it is behaving. This country's spymasters
work diligently to prevent journalists, politicians and watchdog agencies
from prying into their secret world.
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- "Few journalists have come close to rivalling Andrew
Mitrovica at unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In COVERT
ENTRY, the award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing pattern
of venality, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the service, and
provides a fascinating window on its daily operations.
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- "At its core, COVERT ENTRY traces the eventful career
of John Farrell, a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the
service's most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior
CSIS officers in the name of national security. Mitrovica delivers a ground
level, day-to-day look at who is actually running the show in national
clandestine operations. The picture he paints definitively shatters the
myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is charged with protecting."
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- From the back flap we learn this about John Farrel, the
CSIS undercover agent who came out of the closet about his, and other operatives',
illegal activities:
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- "As a dedicated operative in CSIS's covert war against
terrorists and spies, John Farrell was once a true believer in the intelligence
service's "Ways and Means Act": if you have a way to get things
done, the means - legal or not - are justified. He is the first CSIS operative
to openly discuss the details of his highly classified work. Whether he
is condemned or applauded for breaking his silence, Farrell is offering
up his story so that Canadians can gain a clearer understanding of what
actually takes place in this country in the name of national security.
And what this unofficial tour deep inside the service's cloistered world
reveals is an alarming portrait of incompetence - and worse."
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- This hardcover, put out by Random House Canada, is listed
at $35.95 and is available from Amazon.
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- Mitrovica addresses how CSIS dealt with Ernst Zundel,
a lifelong opponent of those individuals, groups and organizations who
do not want the orthodox version of the Holocaust challenged, much less
investigated. In the vernacular referred to as the Holocaust Lobby, Zundel
has many times characterized the actions of this powerful and ruthless
entity as being an extortion racket based on fictitious stories regarding
the genocidal gassings of Jews in World War II in German concentration
camps.
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- As you read Mitrovica, please keep in mind that this
investigative journalist describes a highly unpopular, politically incorrect
dissident activist who has been systematically demonized by Canadian media
for decades - while under a judge's gag order for years that prevented
him from defending his motives and honor.
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- Page 136 - 140 of Covert Entry:
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- Mitrovica: Ernst Zundel was another prime target of
CSIS's allegedly covert campaign against white supremacists. For years,
the balding, German-born immigrant ran what amounted to an anti-Semitic
propaganda factory from his Victorian home in downtown Toronto. Working
out of his ramshackle basement, Zundel churned out pamphlets on his printing
press, held meetings and gave lectures, all with a common theme: the Holocaust
was a hoax.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel did not work out of
a "ramshacke basement". He worked out of a four-story Victorian
home on prime real estate in downtown Toronto - a 14-room building packed
to the ceiling with original documents, newspaper clippings, books, pamphlets,
affidavits, original World War II memoirs, photographs, slides, audios
and videos, court transcripts, government documents etc.
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- The Zundel-Haus was probably the world's largest private
repository of evidence documenting that the true events of World War II
were different from the brutal Hollywood-created version depicting Germans
as genocidal monsters on a rampage to kill every Jew in sight, primarily
by "gassing".
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- The Zundel-Haus was burned down on May 9th, 1995 -
on the 50th anniversary of Germany's surrender to the Allies in 1945. Street
talk quickly pointed to a culprit. Ernst turned over to the police the
name and address of a punk who had been paid $200 by "someone"
to douse the building with gasoline - a criminal act of the first order
that was actually caught on a surveillance video. Canadian police chose
to do nothing with this tip and never even questioned the street person
who did it.)
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- Mitrovica: The man who once described Hitler as his
idol distributed his message to fellow travellers around the globe in an
infamous booklet entitled DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE? In it, Zundel claimed
the Holocaust was a Jewish-inspired fraud. Canada Post temporarily stopped
delivering Zundel's mail in 1981 because he was using the postal service
to spread hatred. In 1985, Zundel was sentenced to 15 months in jail after
being found guilty of wilfully causing harm to Canada's racial and social
harmony.
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- (Zundelsite comment: This paragraph is misleading through
omission. A postal commission, investigating the charge that Zundel "spread
hatred", cleared him of the charge after a year's worth of investigation,
stating in its verdict that - and here I quote from memory - "the
Holocaust is an issue between two peoples, the Germans and the Jews"
- recommending that the Canadian government should keep its nose out of
it.
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- The 15 months sentence was the result not of the judgment
of the postal hearing - it was the result of what is known as the FIRST
GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL of 1985, where, upon appeal, the judge was found
biased, leading via many legal detours to the 1988 SECOND GREAT HOLOCAUST
TRIAL which gave birth to the best-selling Leuchter Report, still a thorn
in the Holocaust/Zionist-Lobbyists side.
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- The charge of these two trials that rocked the foundations
of the Holocaust myth, was not that Ernst was "wilfully causing harm
to Canada's racial and social harmony" - it was that Zundel was "spreading
false news." This charge, brought by a Holocaust survivor but soon
taken over by the government, was based on an ancient law out of the Thirteenth
Century in England that Canada had on its books, forbidding wandering minstrels
to "defame the kings" with ribald songs. That legal prohibition
had no relevance in modern Canada. After a nine-year legal battle, on
August 27, 1992, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned this ancient law,
striking down the "false news" law as a violation of the guarantee
to free speech contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
thereby adopting Zündel's viewpoint on freedom of speech. The court's
decision, as summarized in the headnote to the case, was as follows:
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- Section 2(b) of the Charter protects the right of a minority
to express its view, however unpopular it may be. All communications which
convey or attempt to convey meaning are protected by s. 2(b), unless the
physical form by which the communication is made (for example, a violent
act) excludes protection. The content of the communication is irrelevant.
The purpose of the guarantee is to permit free expression to the end of
promoting truth, political or social participation, and self-fulfillment.
That purpose extents to the protection of minority beliefs which the majority
regards as wrong or false. Section 181, which may subject a person to criminal
conviction and potential imprisonment because of words he published, has
undeniably the effect of restricting freedom of expression and, therefore,
imposes a limit on s. 2(b).
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- In the Mitrovica paragraph that follows, the author summarizes
this legal battle spanning almost a decade:)
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- "Three years later, [Zundel's] conviction was upheld
on appeal. But in 1992, Zundel won an unexpected victory when the Supreme
Court of Canada overturned his conviction on a charge of knowingly spreading
false information about the Holocaust. The decision, not surprisingly,
thrilled and emboldened the Holocaust denier and his supporters, including
the nascent Heritage Front.
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- (Zundelsite Comment: The Heritage Front was an organization
ostensibly created for the purpose of giving White Canadian Youth a place
where they could find some fellowship and mutual support in a violently
hostile multicultural environment that routinely discriminated against
them by favoring non-white immigrants in seeking employment, scholarships,
grants etc. I say "ostensibly", for as was discovered shortly
thereafter, the Heritage Front was, in fact, a CSIS setup where a CSIS-paid
agent provocateur, Grant Bristow, tried to provoke and incite White kids
to foolish racist statements and even violence. When a Toronto reporter,
Bill Dunphy, exposed this CSIS infiltration of the Heritage Front to the
media, it caused a huge public relations problem for CSIS. Eventually,
there was a government whitewash, and the "problem" petered out.
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- This CSIS sore broke open around 1995 - exactly at a
time when a Toronto mob of street punks, called ARA (Anti-Racist Action)
was used by persons unknown to inflame Canadians against Ernst Zundel.
At one time, the city was blanketed by thousands of posters showing Ernst's
face in the cross-hairs of a rifle and giving a map of the location of
the Zundel-Haus. This hate- and defamaation campaign soon thereafter led
to the actual fire-bombing of the Zundel building.)
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- Mitrovica: After winning his legal reprieve, Zundel
often made public appearances wearing a hard hat and carrying a large wooden
cross.
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- (Zundel-Haus comment: Actually, I believe he carried
the cross only once to force a photo op, knowing that an otherwise hostile
media would not be able to resist this visual. The cross still exists
in a safe place in Canada. One day it will grace a Free Speech museum.)
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- Mitrovica: To his followers, [Zundel] was a courageous
martyr in the fight to protect freedom of speech. His opponents thought
differently. In late 1993, they descended on his home, hurling paint canisters
and eggs.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Actually, they hurled more than
eggs. They defecated into plastic bags and hurled feces! Somewhere among
my tapes there exists a recording of the howling of that mob, chanting
"Kill Zundel! Burn Zundel down!" If you listen to that tape,
you'll think you hear the howl of devils!)
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- Mitrovica: Zundel had prepared for the onslaught by
wrapping his home in plastic. Riot police beat back the demonstrators.
The ugly skirmish helped Zundel and his admirers get the media attention
they longed for.
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- (Zundelsite comment: This is a typical comment by a
liberal journalist brainwashed into assuming that Zundel's cause was unjust
and was not based on years of serious, detailed study of the Holocaust
issue that led to his conclusion that the Holocaust was merely a propaganda
piece to extract reparations from Germany and good-will gestures, including
lavish financial aid and other perks, for the Israeli and Disaspora Jews
from the United States and other Western countries. Ernst has always been
a convenient target for ritual denigration by mainstream media. Sadly,
Mitrovica is no exception.)
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- Mitrovica: But CSIS was also training a close eye on
Zundel. The service was busy intercepting mail for Zundel's home from
a postal station at 1 Yonge Street. Farrel says Zundel was also watched
by the service. The APIs were called when Hitler's admirer was seen posting
mail. A Canada Post driver would then be summoned to open the mailbox
and allow an API to retrieve the mail. Who was this API? Frank Pilotte,
[a postal inspector] though Farrell was often enlisted to help. Letters
and packages for Zundel arrived from all over the world. On some days
he received as many as 20 pieces of registered mail. CSIS was keen to
establish a list of Zundel's worldwide supporters by noting the return
addresses attached to each piece of correspondence. To Farrell's surprise,
Zundel often received letters of encouragement and support from doctors,
lawyers, university professors, as well as prison inmates.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Ernst Zundel has many distinguished
admirers all over the world who have followed his outreach campaign for
decades. It does great injustice to the image of this decent and non-violent
human rights activist, who has dedicated his life to the defense of his
vilified parents' generation, to paint Ernst Zundel as some political dimwit,
hysterical "Neo-Nazi", or media-greedy publicity hound. He has
thousands of letters from distinguished sources all over the world that
prove otherwise.)
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- Mitrovica: Farrell noticed that Pilotte took a particular
interest in Zundel's mail. Just how much interest became apparent early
one morning when the two APIs met behind a large grocery store on Danforth
Avenue. Pilotte drove up in his white Buick, while Farrell arrived in
his Geo Metro, a car he liked because it saved him money on gas. Pilotte
had just returned from the postal station carrying a batch of Zundel's
letters. As he flipped through the mail, Pilotte noticed that one letter
was partially open. Curious, he decided to unseal it. Farrell urged him
not to, warning him that the letters might be booby-trapped and that he
was only inviting more trouble from Lunau. [Don Lunau was Farrell's superior]
Pilotte opened the letter. Inside, he found a short note addressed to
"Dear Ernst" urging the Holocaust denier to continue his campaign
"to tell the truth." To help in that effort, the letter also
contained a ten-dollar American bill, which the API slipped back into the
envelope.
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- "It was amateurish," Farrell says. "It
was none of the API's business what was in the mail."
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- Farrell didn't want to get embroiled in Pilotte's escapades,
but as the program's troubleshooter, he had little choice. He told Lunau,
who once again went easy on Pilotte.
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- Then Farrell caught a break on the Zundel beat during
one of his routine visits to Canada Post's station at 1 Younge Street.
Dishevelled and unshaven, he arrived at 6:30 a.m. and walked up to the
station's second floor offices. He lumbered through a door leading to
a restricted area that housed bag after bag of registered mail. On his
way, he waved at Patrick Hilberg, the registration clerk who often handled
Zundel's registered mail, and George Fyfe, the station's supervisor. Farrell
had befriended them because he knew the pair could make his job a whole
lot easier. They didn't know he was working for CSIS; they assumed he
was still a postal inspector.
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- Farrell began rifling through the mail bags, searching
for Zundel's registered mail. He often had to flick through a thousand
pieces before plucking out Zundel's letters and packages. The mail, marked
priority post, arrived from Australia, Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland.
It was imperative that Farrell get his hands on the mail before Hilberg,
because once the clerk documented its arrival, the clock began ticking
on how long the service could hold on to the letters and packages. The
sooner Farrell dumped Zundel's letters back into the mail stream, the less
likely Zundel would complain about how tardy the postal service was.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Incidentally, just yesterday I
received a letter that Ernst had written to me on February 14, 2003, sent
out of Blount County Jail, located 45 minutes from where I live. It took
17 days to arrive!)
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- Mitrovica: Farrell reached into the mail bag and pulled
out a small box. Later he learned that he had just laid his hands on the
Heritage Front's complete membership list and the names and addresses of
every individual in Canada and overseas who received Zundel's anti-Semitic
literature.
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- (Mitrovica assumes that the Heritage Front mailing list
and the Zundel-Haus mailing list are identical. Not so! To my knowledge,
CSIS never did get the Zundel-Haus mailing list. They tried to compile
one on their own, as stated above, by copying the return addresses of Zundel
supporters.)
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- Mitrovica: It was an extraordinary stroke of luck.
Rarely did that kind of information fall so conveniently into the laps
of spy services. Finally, Farrell thought, Operation Vulva had paid dividends.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Does the name of this undercover
operation spell who was behind it? Those of us who have been the target
of relentless Jewish hatred have always been amazed at how sexual innuendos,
and especially a perverted fascination with feces, creeps into our enemies
actions and words - notice the "shit bombs" hurled at the Zundel-Haus
during various mob demonstrations!)
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- Mitrovica: Handling Zundel's mail was a risky business.
Violence gravitated to the Holocaust denier. A pipe bomb once exploded
behind his Carlton Street home, causing extensive damage.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Actually, it exploded *inside*
his garage in 1984, prior to the FIRST GREAT HOLOCAUST TRIAL in 1985.
the culprit has never been apprehended.)
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- Mitrovica: Farrell was always concerned when he intercepted
Zundel's mail. He knew the self-promoting propagandist had enemies and
that one day one of them might use the mail to deliver an unmistakable
and violent message to his front door. Farrell liked his hands and wanted
to keep them.
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- (Zundelsite comment: Now read the next Mitrovica paragraphs
carefully:)
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- Lunau warned the APIs to be especially careful when handling
any mail addressed to Zundel from a post office box from Vancouver. He
refused to explain why the Vancouver address was on a watch list, but it
was clear that he was worried that mail from that address might be used
to conceal a bomb.
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- Farrell's own nervousness peaked when Lunau ordered him
to temporarily stop intercepting parcels destined for Zundel's home. "I
got a call from Lunau and he said, 'Stop checking the parcels. Just check
the registered letters,' Farrell recalls. Lunau wasn't kidding. Farrell
could hear the urgency in his voice.
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- In May 1995, a package arrived at Zundel's door apparently
from a Vancouver post office box. Zundel let the package sit unopened
in his home for nearly a week before claiming to notice that "it made
a funny noise" when he shook it. He drove the suspicious package,
cushioned by a bag of bird seed in the trunk of his car, to a local police
station, where bomb experts discovered that it contained a powerful pipe
bomb filled with large nails. Police cordoned off a block around the 51
Division police station in downtown Toronto. A remote-controlled robot
gingerly placed the package in a blast-proof hopper. Later, the pipe bomb
was detonated at a nearby spit, leaving behind a large crater. Zundel
said the parcel, camouflaged to look like a book, bore an outdated return
address for the post office box of his friend Tony McAleer, a B.C.-based
white supremacist. Police said the bomb was packed with enough explosives
to seriously maim or kill anyone within ninety meters of the blast.
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- Zundel was certain that Jewish groups were behind a plot
to kill him. Initially, police investigated a phone call to the Toronto
Sun by someone claiming responsibility in the name of an unknown organization
called Jewish Armed Resistance. But the police weren't convinced that
the Holocaust denier was telling the truth about the circumstances leading
up to the discovery of the mail bomb. Why had Zundel waited five days
before alerting them to the suspicious package?
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- (Zundelsite comment: The bomb arrived 10 days after
the Zundel-Haus burned down, destroying an irreplacable library and causing
$400,000 damage. Volunteers by the dozens descended on the Zundel-Haus
from all over the US and Canada to help clean up the damage. To say that
those were hectic days is putting it politely. A few days before this
parcel arrived, Ernst had received a poorly written letter, gloating about
the arson and stating "Next time it will be BOOM!" He received
book parcels by the dozens every day - it was natural that after this warning,
he would be on the lookout for suspicious parcels. He handled this one,
thought it was too heavy for a book, put it aside after instructing his
staff not to touch it and, frankly, forgot about it in the havoc of dealing
with the horrid destruction of his life's work caused by both fire and
water.
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- During the weekend, when things had quieted down a bit,
he remembered the parcel, even shook it - and then realized, after a totally
coincidental phone call by the "addressee", that the return
address was an outdated address. That's when he knew it was a bomb. It
could not have been a book sent by Tony.
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- Ernst called me that night in San Diego. He told me
that when he took that bomb to the police station, carefully bedded on
a bird seed box, his "...hair stood up on end" as de drove it
carefully around every bump on the road. When I asked him why he had not,
instead, called police to come and get the parcel, he said: "Do I
need to get the neighborhood upset with screeching police cars and howling
sirens? The neighbors are already traumatized by the fire which could
easily have killed the kids in the neighbor's house who had to jump out
of the window, stark naked..." In other words, he did not want to
call attention to himself, fearing more hostility.
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- As a sidebar, it should also be mentioned that when Ernst
told the police what he had delivered to them, their snide response was
that he may have sent the bomb to himself - for attention!)
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- Mitrovica: By late summer, however, the skepticism evaporated.
Several police forces launched a joint probe after mail bombs were sent
to five different targets: Zundel; another B.C.-based white spremacist,
Charles Scott; the Mackenzie Institute, a Toronto-based terrorism and
security-policy think tank; Kay Gardner, a Toronto City councillor; and
Alta Genetics, Inc., a Calgary cattle-breeding centre. The Mounties believed
that four of the bombs originated in Vancouver.
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- The mystery surrounding the mail bombs was solved when
a shadowy group of anarchists, called the Militant Direct Action Task Force,
sent "communiqués" to several media outlets claiming responsibility
for all the potentially lethal letters, save the one to Kay Gardner. In
its letters, which provided compelling evidence that the group was behind
the mail bombs, the anarchists responded to media reports about the grave
dangers to postal workers who had unwittingly handled the mail bombs.
"We have tested our devices and found that only extremely rough handling
(or opening them) would cause them to detonate. All packages have been
marked PERSONAL to keep unauthorized people from opening them," the
group wrote.
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- (Zundelsite comment: We believe the so-called Militant
Direct Action Task Force was a "false road flare" diverting attention
away from two highly suspect culprits, last names Thursten and Barbarash.
This terrorist duo was arrested, along with a girl, last name Rubin, after
the most intensive telephone spy operation ever in Canada - as I recall
it, 7,000 hours, that led the mounties to a storage place belonging to
the suspects where bomb making equipment was stored. The Canadian Mounties
know a thing or two about those people. So, one might reasonably suspect,
does CSIS. There were even the beginnings of a trial in Vancouver, but
the case has been dropped and the records have been sealed - for reasons
of "national security"!
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- Incidentally, the original arrest warrant stated that
it was issued "for suspicion of attempted murder of Ernst Zundel."
Later, that phrase mysteriously disappeared.)
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- Mitrovica: Farrell is convinced that the package containing
the pipe bomb delivered to Zundel's home was intercepted by either himself
or Pilotte. This raises the possibility that the intelligence service
was aware of the package's potentially lethal cargo before Zundel received
it. Farrell says Lunau's warning to temporarily stop intercepting packages
addressed to Zundel's home came only after police had detonated the first
pipe bomb. What CSIS might have done to alert either Canada Post, Toronto
Police or Zundel himself remains a mystery. But what is clear is that
the rash of letter bombs prompted police to issue an extraordinary warning
to Canadians to be extremely cautious when receiving unexpected packages
or letters.
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- Regrettably, Farrell says, Canada's spy service failed
to heed the warning and, as a result, unnecessarily put the lives of Canadians
at risk. That's because when CSIS resumed the interception of Zundel's
mail, it continued to ship hard-to-open packages by passenger plane to
Ottawa for inspection, even though a pipe bomb had already been discovered.
"My concern was that there could always be a bomb in Zundel's mail,"
Farrell says. "And how are we sending that stuff up to Ottawa? It
was being shipped by Air Canada. So what do you think was likely to happen
if a bomb went off while we were transporting his mail by commercial jet?"
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- Farrell repeatedly raised this issue with Lunau. "I
was concerned about my own safety and the crew and passengers on the plane.
I told Donnie many times that I didn't think it was wise to send Zundel's
packages up to Ottowa by plane. But he didn't seem that concerned. I
would say, 'Don, for the record, we shouldn't be doing this." Lunau
would say, "Okay. Noted."
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- Farrell rang the alarm, but no one at CSIS bothered to
listen.
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- So much for Mitrovica's exposé of CSIS. And CSIS
is the very same Canadian government outfit responsible for Ernst Zundel's
detention - and that wants to tar him as a "security risk to Canada"!
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- Ask yourself what kind of "justice" he will
get.
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- I ask myself if he will live to tell his story Friday
when media will be there. I don't think I exaggerate the danger.
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- Ingrid Zundel
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