February 6 , 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Here's news from the Revisionist Front:


USA:

• · Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University told me that a short article about the Butz - Epstein - controversy appeared in the New York Times Magazine on Feb. 2. It pictured "The Hoax of the 20th Century". (!) Where would be without our enemies doing a little handy PR for the Beleaguered Few?
  
  
• · There are a lot of stirrings about the Oklahoma City bombing in the United States. According to some sources, the trial seems to be collapsing because of FBI lab tampering; according to others, the ever-handy "Nazi" scoundrels get fingered in various ways. This is a story to watch - Canada is not the only place where sting operations are performed by the Powers-That-Be and artificially created villains get blamed and subsequently hounded by the ever-obliging lapdog media pack.

United Kingdom:

• · By contrast, the Brits can teach us a lesson. It seems that British media is vigorous in condemning the looming Holocaust Law. Both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph have carried articles four days ago protesting against plans to introduce two year prison sentences for 'Holocaust deniers'.

Robert Harris, author of the novel "Fatherland", says in the Sunday Times that such a law would send a message that '. . . HERE ARE IDEAS SO POWERFUL, SOCIETY DAREN'T EVEN ALLOW THEM TO BE AIRED'.

Sweet words! Remember and repeat them!

In the Sunday Telegraph, Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that a definition of what is banned would be impossible, and asks whether the Oxford University historian, Norman Stone, would be breaking the law, since Professor Stone has said recently that he disputed that six million died by gassing - ". . . probably four million died, of whom a significant number died of hunger or disease."

Even more interesting - and telling of the spirit of the times - is that the British Sunday Times reports that audiences for Hollywood sex and violence films are falling, and that some directors are looking for a new taboo to break to boost sales.

For one, Paul Verhoeven, director of "Robocop" and "Basic Instinct", wants to make a biography of Hitler, but with a new approach. Instead of the traditional caricature of the Fuehrer we have all come to know - the screeching bully or the silly figure of fun with the little black mustache - the planned film will show Hitler as a 'likable guy' who concealed his real motives. Jewish groups fear that the film - another about Hitler called "The Populist" is also in the pipeline - will glamorize the German dictator. (Can't you see a film about Ernst Zundel and the Zundelsite . . . ?)

Switzerland:

• · According to several ANA reports, the "Nazi Gold" story is ever expanding. Three Swiss banking companies announced a few days ago (2/5/97) that they would be contributing $71 million to a "humanitarian" fund for "Holocaust victims." The banks -- Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp. and Union Bank of Switzerland -- said they hope the initiative would help solve questions about Jewish assets deposited in Switzerland. Last year Jewish groups called for such a fund as a "gesture of goodwill."

Supporters of the Holocaust Promotion Lobby in America are trying the same blueprint. One correspondent told us that a few days ago, Richard Cohen of the Mercury News in San Jose, California, inserted this salient tidbit after listing and discussing Switzerland, France, Sweden, & Portugal:

"Even the United States is combing its archives to determine what it knew about the movement of money during World War II and whether it chose silence over protest. The report is due next month and its findings may surprise --- possibly shame --- many Americans."

Get ready to stand in a corner - after you empty your pockets!

Canada:

• · One of our main Canadian correspondents writes this:

"The subheading to Friday's Globe & Mail reads 'Three TV shows suggest that Nazis were able to come here and live with impunity.' CBC did a show on Nazi war criminals in Canada on Thursday evening. NBC did a show on Nazi war criminals in Canada on Friday Evening. CBS is doing a show on Nazi war criminals in Canada on Sunday evening.

It's obvious what's happening. The word has gone out: Smash Ernst Zundel - using, to paraphrase Malcolm X, any means necessary. So, the media barrage has begun. Waiting in the wings to play their parts are, of course, the pols and the cops, the lawyers and judges.

Feb. 23rd, I understand, will be when NBC telecasts Schindler's List. So that will naturally keep up the momentum. But will it be too much?

I saw (Schindler's List) this summer on video. I thought (Schindler's List)was mediocre and unoriginal. I thought the first hour or so was slow and even often tedious. For example, the scene where Jewish black marketeers meet to broker deals while sitting in church pews was deadly dull. I found it work to follow the plot and found myself unwilling to even want to make the effort. I'm looking at an article by Joanne Jacobs from a January 1995 copy of The San Jose Mercury News describing the boredom and total indifference exhibited by Castlemount High School student during a field trip to an Oakland movie theatre to watch (Schindler's List). Part of a (Martin Luther King Day) ritual. It describes how they laughed during the most brutal scenes in the film. To my mind, (Schindler's List) is like a bucket of cold, slightly stale, occasionally greasy popcorn.

Look, I may be wrong, but I think the televised (Schindler's List) will bomb with the masses - maybe even with the elites. Who knows? Maybe this will be the start of a kind of cultural Intifada relative to the media's force-feeding us the tired, old Holocaust legend. They will have made the Holocaust boring . . . "

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:


"The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts."

(Francois de la Rochefoucauld in "Maxims")

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