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- Number 39 -
January 1997

Contents

• Canadian "human rights" panel seeks close-down of Zuendelsite-- CODOH to the rescue!
• The Japanese Schindler. A million dollar baby waiting for a producer.
• Revisionist Focus: Verglag der Freunde
• Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Clinton's Censorship Bill
• Candor or slander? Northwestern academic challenges Arthur Butz
• Spiegelmouse's World
• and more!

Canadian "human rights" panel seeks close-down of Zuendelsite-- CODOH to the rescue!

    CODOH's Website has just gotten a whole lot bigger. We are cruising into the New Year carrying Ernst Zuendel's Internet site-"piggyback" as it were-on the World Wide Web.

    Why? Not because authorities in Canada have closed down the Zuendelsite -after all, it operates out of the United States of America. Not because computer whizzes among the Canadian censors have figured out a way to block the Zuendelsite's provocative contents as they whir through cyberspace-they're not up to that yet, and may never be.

    No, as usual in the continuing persecution of revisionists, truth is stranger than fiction. In late November Ernst Zuendel learned that he was to be summoned before a "Human Rights Tribunal" regarding the "hateful" content of his Holocaust revisionist Website. While Zuendel has never been prosecuted under Canada's "anti-hate" laws (despite being pestered in every other imaginable way), and despite his Website's location a thousand miles or so from Canada, the powers that be north of our border have found, doubtless after poring rigorously over every jot and tittle of the law, a loophole: Section 13 of Canada's Human Rights Act, which bans taped "telephone" messages that Canada's human rights gauleiters deem hateful and inciting.

    So now a computer is a telephone (by the logic, evidently, that the Internet and World Wide Web are characteristically accessed via telephone line). Ergo, the next step in the through-the-Canadian-looking glass logic of suppressing freedom and deepfreezing common sense is to safeguard "human rights" by attempting to forbid Zuendel his freedom of speech, i.e. deny him any revisionist input into the Internet, and thus, in effect, hold him hostage-a hostage to Holocaustomania-under threat of arrest, prison time, and thereafter probable deportation to Germany and even lengthier imprisonment, should he continue posting revisionist materials to the Zuendelsite.

    Zuendel, defended as ever by his able and courageous attorney, Doug Christie, is of course fighting the misnamed Human Rights Tribunal's attempts to haul him before its inquisitors. Zuendel has discovered that, needless to say, this latest venture in censorship didn't arise spontaneously: the two complainants were the Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations, a harum-scarum, multi-culti gaggle of Holocaustier-than-thou leftists, and-well, well!--Sabina Citron, the alleged Holocaust survivor who has spent the last decade and more making unsuccessful complaints regarding Zuendel's spreading of "false news" (leading to two memorable but costly trials), defamation, etc.

    Clearly the complainants had little trouble in catching the willing ear of Harvey Goldberg, Policy and Planning Director of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and his boss, CHRC Chairman Max Yalden (who as you read this will have moved on to the United Nations Human Rights Committee-perhaps his appointment signals a move from the UN's pathetic efforts at stopping present genocides to penalizing doubts about past ones). Human Rights Commissar Yalden signaled his impartiality to a Canadian newspaper, well before the tribunal was scheduled to open: "I'm as much interested in protecting freedom of speech as the next guy and I believe in a free and open debate in a democratic society like Canada... I don't think Zuendel is

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