ZGram - 9/14/2004 - "Paul Fromm: Watch for fireworks at today's
Zundel hearing"
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Tue Sep 14 03:15:04 EDT 2004
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September 14, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
I haven't heard anything more about the confrontation between the
Zundel supporters and the ARA street punks who were probably paid to
provoke it. I guess the media didn't get the "violence" footage they
expected.
For your information, a write-up of what is on the agenda today at
the Toronto Zundel hearing:
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Dear Free Speech Supporter:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, the review of the CSIS
certificate declaring German-born pacifist and publisher Ernst Zundel
a "terrorist" and threat to national security picks up again before
former CSIS boss Mr. Justice Pierre Blais. You noticed that too? Yes,
certainly an apparent conflict of interest. The former boss has to
judge the quality and honesty of the "evidence", much of it secret
presented by his former employees.
The first item of business is submissions on our second
motion to have Judge Blais recuse himself. The first motion argued
back in November by Doug Christie, Mr. Zundel's counsel, centered on
Blais's obvious conflict of interest and past. The current motion
brought by Mr. Zundel's new lawyer Peter Lindsay centers on a host of
prejudicial rulings and injudicious remarks made by Mr. Justice
Blais, including telling Mr. Zundel he didn't believe his evidence,
before his evidence was even completed.
Yes, the submissions should be heated. The judge will be in a
testy mood. There should be some high drama.
Equally tense should be the appearance of criminal lawyer John
Norris of the lefty law firm of Ruby (that's Clayton Ruby) and
Edwardh. Norris will be seeking to quash a subpoena finally served
last week on John Joseph Farrell, a former CSIS operative who was in
charge of the physical interception and opening of mail to
dissidents, including Ernst Zundel, in 1995. His story and
information were told in Andrew Mitrovica's book COVERT ENTRY.
Farrell revealed that, in May of 1995, his CSIS handler repeatedly
told him not to touch any package addressed to Ernst Zundel from
Vancouver. That month,. a parcel postmarked Vancouver arrived at Mr.
Zundel's and contained a deadly pipe bomb.
Thus, CSIS, Mr. Zundel's major antagonist in this case, knew the
bomb was coming and did nothing to protect Mr. Zundel, postal
employees or Air Canada personnel and passengers. The incident
suggests a murderous animosity on the part of CSIS toward Mr. Zundel
and calls into question the reasonableness of their evidence, much of
it secret.
Farrell who was mouthy enough as the source of Mitrovica's book
took great pains to evade service of the subpoena this spring. His
principal lied for him and then assaulted Peter Lindsay who was
trying to serve the subpoena, allowing Farrell to run out of the
school and escape. His employer the Toronto District Catholic School
Board has co-operated with an August 12 order of Mr. Justice Blais. A
September 9 letter from Guy Bisson, legal counsel, employee relations
to the Board advised Peter Lindsay: "Mark Tanel, Principal of our
Lady of Fatima Catholic School, advises me that he hand-delivered to
John Joseph Farrell a package containing ... the subpoena and
attendance cheque for Tuesday, September 14."
It's interesting that both author Mitrovica who blew the whistle
on much of CSIS's wrongdoing and his informant Mr. Farrell have
developed such an attack of shyness. Judge Blais quashed our subpoena
for Mitrovica in the summer.
Oh, yes, we may get to learn whether Judge Blais has made up his
mind yet about the continuing detention in solitary confinement of
Canada's most famous political prisoner. He reserved his decision on
August 30.
Yes, tomorrow should be a day of high tension and drama in the
Courthouse at 361 University Avenue in Toronto.
Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
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