ZGram - 4/1/2004 - "Countdown to D-Day"

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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

April 1, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here is an update on my hunger strike plans, to start on April 19 in 
Tennessee Congressman Jenkins's office:

I spent all day yesterday to collect reactions from my readers about 
what I intend to do.  I can group them loosely into two categories: 
testimonials about the physical effects of a prolonged hunger strike, 
and warnings about political consequences since we are now, post 
9/11, in a de facto dictatorship where anything might happen.

Regarding how prolonged hunger will impact on my physical health and 
emotional well-being, the consensus seems to be that the first day is 
difficult in that the body reacts with an almost insufferable 
craving; the second day is still hard;  the third day will manifest 
itself as "light-headed" - and from then on, the body starts 
"consuming itself" - that is, it breaks down excess reserves stored 
in its cells, and switches off the physical craving.  The feedback is 
that three to four weeks are relatively safe;  after that, the 
situation gets "iffy."  Many people have told me as much.  I am not 
sure I quite believe this information totally.  I have been on 
traditional fasts before, and I can tell you that the hunger 
sensation is as strong at the end of one week as it was at the 
beginning. However, those were not a "pure" fasts.  I followed 
prescribed diet protocols that allowed, for instance, for a cup of 
chicken/vegetable broth a day  - perhaps that "extra food" triggered 
my body's "hunger gauge" and kept signaling over and over:  "More! 
More!" However, that was a vanity exercise I knew I could break off 
any time.  This time it will be different. 

This time, it's a political exercise to test if this is still a "law 
and order" country if enough people demand it and stand behind me; 
in essence, it's a test if justice for an innocent man can be 
kick-started by a lot of political will.  Many people will be 
watching me - it will not be easy for me to simply say:  "If I don't 
get what I demand, I'll take my marbles and go home." 

Will I do that?  I don't think so.  I can only promise that I will 
give this strategy my all.

Regarding warnings about the political consequences of my hunger 
strike, I am reminded of what Ernst said when I first asked for his 
endorsement of what I told him I would do.  I didn't think he would 
allow it, and I braced myself within myself to go ahead, regardless. 
To my surprise, he agreed.  He said, however, to warn me:  "According 
to the Patriot Act, a write-in letter campaign from your supporters 
can be interpreted as a terrorist act." 

That shocked me.  Have we fallen that low in this country?  How would 
my legitimate campaign to free my husband from an illegal and brutal 
deportation and subsequent incarceration be different from a 
write-in, let's say, about a demand for a voting ballot count reform? 
Or for non-fluoridated water?  Or even for a request for an impartial 
commission to really look into who did 9/11?

But this danger of somehow transgressing against the Patriot Act 
makes me urge my write-in readers to please, please not be abusive, 
threaten violence, use smutty language, make claims that aren't true. 
PLEASE DON'T!  Irresponsible words on a piece of paper would be used 
against me and would endanger me and my campaign.  I can see our 
enemies doing that, as they have done before, pretending that these 
messages come from some wild-eyed, fire-breathing  Zundelists - but I 
feel relatively safe these false flags can be identified and 
neutralized.  I ask MY kind of people to restrain themselves and not 
let their anger and frustration sabotage their law-abiding conduct.

All I want you to do is this:   Let Congressman Jenkins know that I 
have a legitimate grievance - I want him to help me find the 
bottleneck in Washington so I can follow lawful procedures to have my 
husband come back home.  Just last week , I was told that two 
signatures are required to reverse a deportation order.  Signatures 
from whom?  By what criteria?  How long would that take?  What would 
be involved?  Are those not legitimate questions?

I feel that Ernst's case would be ever so much more strengthened in 
Canada if the United States would signal that there is no problem on 
this side to have him be returned, since he did not transgress 
against the law, not even technically or accidentally.  The fig leaf 
the authorities could use would be to say that it was a clerical 
error that permitted the unlawful chain of events that ended in such 
heartbreak. 

Once again, Congressman Jenkins's fax number for his Tennessee office 
is 423-247-1834 and, if you are ambitious, 202-225-5714 in 
Washington.  Keep records of your faxes.  Ideally, send copies to me. 
I am collecting all the evidence I can to document that we intend to 
do things legally, responsibly, with dignity - but with a strong 
belief that an appalling wrong, committed by this government, must be 
undone by this same government.  There is no other way.

Let me say also, as I have said before, that I dread doing this.  I 
said last night to Ernst that what I  dread more than anything else 
is to go and intrude where I know I will be strongly resented.  To do 
that just isn't like me.  I am an intensely private person;  I cringe 
from behaving in an in-your-face mode.  My sense of violation must 
run deep for me to resort to that tactic.  Our enemies behave like 
that;  they have no shame;  that is their modus operandi.  My 
instincts are to cause no offense. 

I have no idea where all this will lead.  It could be very dangerous. 
But I tell myself over and over:  There is my husband, still in 
chains, treated worse than the worst of criminals in all of Canada 
for speaking his truth as he knows it - and on the other hand, 
there's me, with a perfectly reasonable and legitimate demand:  to 
have my representative look into a matter that is criminal by 
standard definitions of the books, at least prior to 9/11:  A brazen 
political kidnapping in broad daylight on American soil for no better 
reasons than to please a bunch of pushy Jews in Canada who have 
plagued and assaulted my husband  for decades. 

Please contact all the media outlets you know and can reach. 

Ingrid Rimland Zundel, Ed.D.