Revisionist Zündel Back In Canada & Has Hired A High-powered Immigration Lawyer
REVISIONIST ZUNDEL BACK IN CANADA & HAS HIRED A HIGH-POWERED IMMIGRATION LAWYER
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Zundel Hires Top Immigration Attorney
"Unbiased" Immigration Minister Says He Will Expel Zundel, Regardless
Of
The Law
2/22/03 12:01:31 PM
Ottawa Citizen / Toronto Globe and Mail
Toronto, Canada -- [LSN: Note that almost all newspapers in Canada are
owned by Jewish hate monger Israel Asper, who tightly controls all news
printed in the country, and makes sure it reflects a Jewish
perspective.]
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Zundel hires prominant Toronto lawyer
by COLIN FREEZE
Globe and Mail Update
Sources say Ernst Zundel has hired a Toronto lawyer known for strong
words and a mercurial courtroom demeanour ? and for representing refugee
claimants whom Ottawa declares deportable threats to national security.
Rocco Galati's clients include several accused of being Islamic
extremists, including an Egyptian who once befriended Osama bin Laden.
Now Mr. Galati will represent Mr. Zundel, a German-born Holocaust
denier, as Canada figures out what to do with him.
Mr. Galati could not be reached for comment yesterday. Bernie Farber of
the Canadian Jewish Congress, and Mark Weber, a friend of Mr. Zundel's
in the United States, said separately yesterday that Mr. Galati had
been retained.
Mr. Zundel remains in a Canadian jail after being removed from the
United States by U.S. immigration agents, who arrested him in the Tennessee
home where he had been living for nearly three years. It's unclear what
will happen to him this weekend.
Mr. Zundel lived for most of his life in Canada but was never granted
citizenship. He is understood to have claimed refugee status after being
removed from the United States, for fear he will be jailed under strict
anti-hate laws if he is returned to his native Germany.
Debate about Mr. Zundel could centre on whether he is a threat to
national security ? as Canadian intelligence agents once deemed him when he
was denied citizenship in 1996.
Should Ottawa try to deport Mr. Zundel on the basis of being a security
threat, he'll have a lawyer with experience in defending against that
charge.
Mr. Galati has been frustrated many times by the secret intelligence
information that the Solicitor-General and Immigration Minister have used
to issue such security certificates against 23 people in the past 13
years.
"I cannot in good conscience . . . proceed with what I consider a sham
proceeding," Mr. Galati told a judge when he walked out of a trial last
year. "My oath would not forgive me. My conscience would not forgive
me. And history would not forgive me."
At the time, Mr. Galati was representing Egyptian Mahmoud Jaballah, who
was accused of being a member of al-Jihad, a radical group that merged
with al-Qaeda a few years ago. Mr. Galati also represents another
Egyptian named Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub, who admits he met Osama bin Laden
several times but denies being a terrorist.
Both of these clients ? who, like Mr. Zundel, entered Canada as refugee
claimants ? have been deemed security threats. However, Mr. Galati has
been able to keep them from being deported so far.
Immigration Minister Denis Coderre has signalled that he will take
quick action on the Zundel matter: "Just watch me," he said Thursday.
Mr. Galati is critical of cabinet ministers who would meddle in due
process. "The ministers in this case don't give a rat's ass about the
court," he once said.
Mr. Galati has always passionately argued for fairness and due process.
He is not affiliated with the movements of any of his clients.
Some observers see an ideological link between Islamic fundamentalists
and people such as Mr. Zundel. "There has been an unholy alliance
between Islamists and Holocaust deniers," said Manuel Prutschi of the
Canadian Jewish Congress. "In some ways, Mr. Zundel is a pioneer of that
movement."
[LSN: Ever notice how every Jew involved in organized Judaism,
everywhere in the world, says the exact the same thing, as if they didn't have
an individual existence, but were just one of the many mouths of some
giant beast?]
Mr. Prutschi said some of the tracts Mr. Zundel published and sent to
the Middle East 20 years ago resemble a false rumour that recently
circulated through the region: that Jews perpetrated the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.
"The basic premise from early on was the Jews were exemplary world
conspirators and pulled off the mother of all conspiracies," Mr.
Prutschi said.
Lately, Canada has been more concerned with terrorist organizations
than with hate groups. Still, white-supremacist groups continue to have a
presence here.
"Ernst certainly has his friends here in Canada who will help him out
and give him what he needs," said Elizabeth Moore, who was once involved
in Mr. Zundel's movement but now speaks out against racism.
"As far as the movement as a whole, it's not as organized as it was in
the mid-nineties," she said. "Everybody is kind of scattered."
[LSN: ??? Those mid-90s, when the Nazis were about to seize power ...
???]
Ms. Moore says she is ashamed of her past, which includes times when
she used to stuff propaganda envelopes in the house Mr. Zundel used to
own in Toronto.
"Ernst Zundel's placemats said 'Germany: Stop Apologizing For What You
Didn't Do.' How warped does that make you to see that at breakfast
every day?" Ms. Moore said yesterday.
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