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February 15, 2003
When this incredible nightmare started, I had just started
on a diet - I need not have worried; I am down almost eight pounds. My
neighbors are bringing me food, as though we have had a family funeral. If
this keeps up - and if and when I get my hero back = I'll be a stunning
beauty. (Not that I ever was, but there's always a first time...!)
There was another court decision yesterday. We had less than
a day to prepare an appeal for "extraordinary relief", as it is
called in legalese - but there simply was no time to tighten up the
petition. We were turned down.
We are regrouping for more. I just wanted to let you know
that I am still around - and that this is a fight to the bone.
Here is a copy of the latest:
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Ernst Zundel, Ingrid A. Zundel vs James Berrong in his
capacity as Sheriff and Chief Executive Officer of the Blount County Jail,
Blount County, Tennessee, Immigration and Naturalization Services, an agency
of the United States Government, by and through Gary Slaybaugh, its
representative.
The plaintiffs filed an action in the district court
challenging the imminent removal of Ernst Zundel from the United States and
seeking an injunction against such removal. The district court dismissed the
action by order of February 13, 2003. Asserting that Zundel is subject to
immediate removal, the plaintiffs have filed in this court an emergency
request for stay of removal and/or injunctive relief.
This court may exercise its discretion to stay an order of
removal. Bajjani v. INS, (unreadable on my fax) 670.688 (6th Cir.2001).
However, requests for such relief are evaluated by the balance of several
factors: 1) whether the applicant has demonstrated a likelihood of success
on the merits; 2) whether the applicant will be irreparably injured absent a
stay: 3) whether issuance of the stay will substantially injure the other
interested parties; and 4) where the public interest lies. Id. The motion
presently before the court fails to demonstrate any basis for the requested
relief.
Therefore, the emergency motion of stay removal and/or for
injunctive relief is DENIED.
[END]
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Through the grapevine, I have been told that Ernst will be
deported on Sunday - media reports say either to Germany or Canada. May be
old information that slow media are only catching up on now. My next visit
is scheduled on Monday. I may not even get a chance to see him one last
time.
There may be a ZGram later in the day if I can manage it.
For now, take just a look at the man for whose freedom we are all fighting.
From a close friend:
"Well, Ernst, I'm sorry I dawdled so long before
visiting. Now it looks as if I may be dropping in on you abroad--though I
hope not. I do what I can right now, approaching "civil
liberties" advocates on your behalf, working with a revisionist
publicist or two to get a stronger message out to our own people.
"Your present circumstances, awful as they are, are
of course a badge of honor awarded to the best of our leaders in this most
crucial of struggles, since on it depends everything we hold dear. You are
in heroic company, through our kind's age-old struggle for truth, freedom,
and right, without which mere existence matters little for our kindred
peoples.
"At such times each of us does well to look to the
special exemplars of our traditions, so today I looked anew at the lives
and teachings of the Irish freedom fighters of the 19th and 20th
centuries, who endured every sort of brutality in jails and prisons in
Ireland, England, and Australia, and the saying of Padraic Pearse,
executed for his leadership in the 1916 Easter rising, reoccurred to me:
it is not those who inflict the most suffering, but those who endure it,
who will triumph. There's one for your kind and gentle jailers to
contemplate.
"I hope you don't suffer too much, and I'm sure you
will triumph.
"With friendship and all admiration - "
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From a long-friend who hates Hitler's guts and with whom I
have fought many a verbal battle for some 20 years telling him that
demonizing Hitler is one of the stronges psychop weapons where the enemy can
count on us playing the poodle who is jumping through the hoops:
"I have never been more disgusted with my government.
Due process??
"What a crock of &*@#!!!!"
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From a Professor in France - NOT Dr. Faurisson:
"Dear Sir,
"I have just learnt that M.ZUNDEL has been arrested.
"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.
"On top of everything as he is married to an American
lady there is no problem if one wants to avoid tricks just to harm 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."
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Again, those of you who have my phone, please don't tie it
up unless it is absolutely necessary! I need to keep it open for most
important calls.
I'll be around.
Ingrid
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