Toronto, Canada, Saturday, March 5, 2005 Imagine you're Ernst Zundel Peter Lindsay & Chi-Kun Shi, counsel to Ernst Zundel IMAGINE that you're 65 years old and you're in jail. In solitary confinement. You are strip-searched whenever you see your lawyer. Once before. Once after. For two years. Imagine that you're there because two politicians signed a piece of paper ("security certificate") saying that you are a security risk. You are not charged with a crime. You don't have a criminal record. You have lived in Canada for 42 years. Imagine that those two politicians don't have to be right, so long as a judge thinks that they are "reasonable". So long as they are "reasonable", they can deport you to a country where you go to jail for saying something that you have the right to say in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had promised you that right. Imagine that the prosecutor and the judge get to meet secretly without you and your lawyer and you never find out what they did in secret, what they read, who they saw. Again and again. David Irving comments: FOR some of us, imagining this nightmare is easier than for others. I went through much the same skewed judicial procedure in November 1992 in Canada, when the traditional enemies planted in Canadian government files fake documents about me (concocted by and obtained from the Board of Deputies of British Jews in England) and then persuaded the Canadian immigration service to deport me.    Our appeal was heard by a Mr Justice Rothstein, who mysteriously took over the case from a judge with a less unpromising name; in a one-line judgment Rothstein refused to hear the appeal, without stating any grounds.    The enemies have miscalculated: like Zündel, I fought back, and I fancy that Zündel's voice will roar louder than ever once he is a free man again.    The mystery is this: that the traditional enemies believe that all this will somehow advance their cause -- and that ordinary Canadians are not listing it all, in the darker recesses of their memories, for when the time comes. Imagine that your lawyer thought he was at a critical point in your trial. He thought the lunch break was longer then usual. Turns out the judge and the prosecutor were having a secret session again while you had lunch. They refuse to tell you or your lawyer what happened. Imagine that you are accused of causing violence so bad that you are a danger to Canadian national security. When you ask when and where, they say: can't tell you. You ask why not, they say: national security. Imagine that the judge making so many mistakes that it took more than 100 pages of transcripts to show them all. Imagine the judge making the same mistakes again and again. And always to your detriment. Imagine this judge having the power to deport you and you have no right of appeal. Imagine that a prominent civil libertarian tells you this process is wrong and he will stand with you to say so, only to back out at the last minute. Imagine that he comes back as soon as you were deported, condemning this process as your plane left Canada. Imagine that a judge says she thinks this process is unfair to you and will say so in court, only to change her mind at the last minute. Imagine that a newspaper counts the number of security certificates and yours is never included. Imagine the moment you have been deported, everyone talks about how awful and illegal security certificates are. Imagine that the media is suddenly interested in you, as soon as they are sure that you will be deported. Your deportation and upcoming jail time is reported in meticulous detail. Imagine that this is Canada in 2005 and you've been named in a security certificate. Imagine that everyone says that security certificates are a disgrace to Canada but somehow it was fine to use one on you. Imagine that you may be Ernst Zundel, or you may be someone with an opinion disliked by many.   David Irving proposes to create The Roland Freisler award, for selected judges and public prosecutors. The award is named in memory of the Nazi People's Court hanging judge (right) whose career was ended by an untimely mote in the eye -- a five-ton oak beam fell on his head in an American bombing raid on Berlin. "AN excellent idea; I will ask an artist to design a plaque. "Submissions of a suitable caricature nature, involving perhaps the fabled piano-wire/meathook execution scenes, but no Stars of David or other objectionable emblems, are invited: line art, 1200 dpi "At current rates, we may need to award more than one 'Roland' per year."   Our dossier on the Ernst Zündel case    Faurisson (left) on the character of Ernst Zündel Zündel ("a friend of David Irving") in jail in Germany | and commentary by Mr Irving Reader suggests that judges in hate-trials against revisionists should be awarded a Roland Freisler plaque   Links about deportation of Zündel:   BBC Online: Canada expels Holocaust denier Chicago Sun-Times: Canada deports immigrant who denies Holocaust CBS News: Zündel turned over to German authorities     Kvelling loudly, the traditional enemies tonight: Canada judge rules Ernst Zündel security risk; German jail now awaits DES-2-03 Decision rendered on February 24, 2005, IN THE MATTER OF A CERTIFICATE signed pursuant to subsection 77(1) of the IRPA and Ernst Zündel Web site for followers of Zündel: www.Zündelsite.org Text of ruling: www.fct-cf.gc.ca/bulletins Federal Court in Canada Rules Against Zündel CSIS intercepted Zündel's mail, ex-agent says | Closing arguments begin in Zündel deportation case: Zündel defence based on age draws scorn | Defence closing: Zündel's followers bookish seniors, not violent skinheads, lawyer says | Closing arguments begin in Zündel deportation case: Judge accused of 'misguided approach' in Zündel case Ernst Zündel is entitled to a hearing to challenge his deportation to Canada, a federal appeals court says Who is Ernst Zündel and Why Is He in Jail? Some Good News in the Zündel Case

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