You see what kind of media a handful of protesters can
generate? Get ready for a Zundel Protest in your respective country ON MAY
6!
HUNGARIANS PROTEST ERNST ZUNDEL'S IMPRISONMENT IN
GERMANY
The protest took place in Budapest on Saturday 16th of
April as I mentioned earlier. Three different TV channels reported on it
on Saturday evening in the news and according to the news reports the
numbers of those who attended varied from 40 to 150 depending on which
channel you were watching. One of the organizers was selling their
newspaper and he has sold exactly 230 papers, so it is not an exaggeration
to estimate that the real number of attendance to be 250.
On Monday three daily newspapers also reported on it, of
course all the news r
eports
and articles were negative calling them extremist right wing and neo-nazis.
A couple of days prior, the German ambassador stated that
they would not accept the petition and they didn't even come out and talk
or listen to what the protesters had to say. The organizers therefore
mailed the petition to them on Monday.
The police arrived in large force and protected the
embassy and with steel bar fences they surrounded the whole building. The
protesters carried over 20 placards in Hungarian, German and some in
English, demanding freedom for Zundel and for dismantling the anti-free
speech laws in Germany etc...
The last three years the 16th of April has been officially
announced as The Holocaust Day, so therefore all over Budapest the Jewish
community and established officials unveiled a new statue paying tribute
to the so-called victims of the Holocaust. Government officials paled
[paid?] their respects.
A couple of days prior to the protest one of the chief
rabbis of Hungary was protesting to the police as to why they allowed this
"anti-holocaust" protest to take place on Saturday and
complaining that their followers cannot organize a counter protest because
it is on a Saturday, their Holy day. The police however stated that they
would not allow a counter-protest for fear of fighting between the two
groups.
Throughout the whole protest there was no trouble, and the
speakers reflected on Zundel's life, his ongoing struggle and his
imprisonment as well as the German Liberal dictatorship and its anti-free
speech laws. They ended the protest by playing the German national anthem
and the Hungarian national anthem.
Please click on the following link < http://index.hu/politika/belfold/0416hlcstdnr/?print
> for some pictures which are on a hostile Internet site which
portrayed the protest in a negative light with a tone of insignificance. I
have been promised by the organizers that they will give me their own
pictures and when I receive them I will send it to you. I am also
attaching the text of the petition in German.
(Please note: The German-language text to the German
Ambassador to the Chancellor of Germany will be posted shortly on the
Zundelsite at www.zundelsite.org)
