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Published August 11th, 2006 by Curt Maynard

July 3, 2006 [Celebrating July 4th in spirit in my cell again this fourth year of my POW time].

Dear Curt

I got your David Horowitz letter and report on the show – thanks for that – it’s important to keep the case before the public. Please give Mike Piper and Christopher Bollyn my thanks as well.

Regarding Horowitz – all too typical. I met and interviewed Stokely Carmichael in 1966 when he came to the University of Sir George Williams, where I was then assistant editor of the University’s Mature student newspaper, it was during the “Free Speech Movements,” heyday at Berkeley, which had swung over to Canada during that era. Curt, that man was no fool; believe me, he knew exactly that his group was being exploited! His dislike of them [Remember this letter is censored] was visible and visceral – I can attest to that. I was present at some of those “no holds barred,” encounters, he knew they were the invisible power behind the Civil Rights movement and he also knew they many were responsible for bringing his people to North America during the slave era.

I tackled another Horowitz many years ago – he became quite popular for writing about Big Pharma and vaccinations. Of course he focused on the German I.G. Farben and Bayer corporations. [Ernst undoubtedly means Leonard Horowitz – a leading disinformation agent and Jewish Supremacist propagandist] His book was pathological in its expressed hatred of all things German – you would have loved that encounter – wow. Even now, I am proud of myself for tackling that evil man, at a Health Fair, in Ontario no less. By the way, I heard from my American lady lawyer, she said that Professor Robert Hare had recently published another book entitled, Snakes in Suits, in which he details the psychopaths [read sociopath] role in modern corporate culture. If you or anyone you know comes across a book review, please send it to me incorporated in a letter, because as you know, that is the only way the censors will allow me to receive such information; In the text of the letter itself. I certainly haven’t lost interest in this topic – as you know I have been writing about it for years.

I consider the psychopathology topic, along with the role of nutrition as probably two of the most important issues faced by humanity today. I sincerely pity all of those human bipeds that haven’t a grasp of these topics for they are truly like a pilot flying without maps – flying blindly through their lives. Curt, I really couldn’t care less what others think about my harping away at these topics – ignorance of these issues may be bliss, but it is also quite deadly. Anyone unaware of these issues will pay a very, very steep price in the not too distant future; they’ll be blindsided by emerging conditions, as will their children, and their children’s children.

Take for example your father, he was blindsided by the “snakes in suits,” at Enron, as were millions of other Americans. Others have fallen for the scams of the Michael Milkens, and Ivan Boeskys; each generation is fleeced by people such as these. Western man has in fact lost his instincts – he is unable to discern the criminality or vile natures of these people. We once had these survival instincts, they protected us from roaming bears wolves and the like, but today we have become soft and have lost these important attributes. The loss of these instincts is widespread – it is so obvious, all one need do is look at the election results, voter turnout, the fact that the people fall for the lies of politicians.

Here in Germany the press is full of reports of how the Supreme Court allegedly slapped down the aspirations of George Bush, even though the courts ruling was less than unambiguous, but as we say here in Germany, one shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds one. Still it means slowly but surely the old America of Jefferson and Madison is stirring up Constitutional checks and balances – and these issues are stirring in the hearts of at least some Americans. Maybe this has had a “trickle down” effect on some of the courts in America, Britain and Canada.

Forget Germany, this place is a “special case,” especially when it comes to understanding true LIBERTY, the way Jefferson and Madison understood it. The Germans cannot fathom concepts such as these, in the same way that a man that has never had “birth pangs,” could understand the pain of labor. When I explain to Germans the impact of free speech as protected by the First Amendment on Americans and how it enables Americans to say, write and express any idea that they’d like, I am met with blank stares. They usually think I am exaggerating – they simply cannot grasp the concept that one should be able to think, write, and speak about any topic they’d like to.

Meanwhile – back to the ranch and to the reality of my cell in Mannheim Germany.

I am getting an abject lesson in the way the German legal process operates. The system is really an odd collection of small and large legal compromises, cobbled together over the centuries, all the way back to Roman and pre-Roman laws out of which Anglo-Saxon law evolved, which the Saxons and Angles, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, took over to England, when they decided to move there some 1000 to 1500 years ago. So the Germans have a composite or patchwork of sorts, but they haven’t seemed able to evolve legally in the same way others have.

One example is how in North America there are verbatim court transcripts available to the defense and history after the fact that the German system has eliminated. German civil law still allows for them, but they have been done away with in criminal cases, which as you can imagine makes it extraordinarily difficult to mount a decent defense. The only thing allowed today are “condensed notes,” written primarily by the judge. Curt, it is almost unbelievable to me that in the Twenty First Century, in a nation that allegedly imbues a modern democracy, that things like this take place in one of the most advanced nations in the heart of Europe. No Curriculum Vitaes are presented to the defense, by the prosecution as far as witnesses they intend to call. Thus one of the most important tools available to a defense in Anglo-Saxon proceedings is absent here. The defense is forced to accept more or less the word of the prosecution as far as the qualifications of expert witnesses, thus there is really no qualifying of witnesses, an extremely important part of court proceedings in North America. This of course skews the entire course of the case in favor of the prosecution, which represents the state. Judges here do much more independent investigations than do their western counterparts, but they are far more politicized here than in North America too, which means that the prosecution is even more favored. There is really no cross-examination here either, at least not like one sees in Anglo-Saxon law, the defense is literally hamstrung and at a decided disadvantage.

I am glad that I had the opportunity to live in Canada and America and fought my cases there, because what takes place here and is called Justice is an embarrassment to me personally in more ways than one [This is a censored letter].

Ernst Zundel

 
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