Ernst Zundel as popular as saving the Earth

I (we) recently attended Earth Hour in my town. It was a rather comparable event. Of course if you were to ask any of the 30,000 dough-heads around here if saving the earth is more important than getting wasted this weekend, they would invariably answer yes. Ask those same 30,000 to show up for an hour, walk a few blocks and hold a candle - and you see (or hear them drunkenly shout) their support from the sidelines at best.

I had to review this mans material as a part of my studies in preparation of university law, and I was utterly shocked at what I read. In my work I had to consider three cases; Keegstra, Andrews and Zundel.

The first two were unrepentant neo-nazis, foisting their views of 'jew-hating' onto either immature or otherwise undesirable intellects. It is not proper in any estimation to force certain political views which incite the hatred or degradation of any racial or ethnic class, this should go without saying. Thusly the first two are obviously culpible in a criminal offence... but as I began to review the works (and trials) of Mr. Zundle (an incomplete review I might add here [mostly due to its volumnous content) I was shocked. This man was never charged with hate crimes, mostly it seems he was charged with the dissemination of 'untrue messages', specificallly related to the question of wether 6 million people really died from gaseous executions at internment camps sanctioned and operated by the federal governemnt of Nazi germany and its legitimate (as in established and documented) policy programs.

Now obviously we are not likely to find a note to the effect:

Dear Fellow Nazis,

Please execute all joos in gas chambers.

In Loyalty to the Fatherland,

Your Loving Furher,

A

But some would argue that for such a sweeping campaign to have been enforcable it would have had to have been officially sanctioned, authorized and documented at some level if not many. Obviously I am no authority on these matters, but what I was able to easily deduce is as follows:

1) Mr Zundel is a racist in as far as he recognizes that chinese people generally have different physical attributes and psychological tendancies than, let us say, africans. I hope I dont come off as racist for saying this (as my black girlfriend will likely have at me if I do) but my lady-friend and I do have different physical characteristics because we came from parents of wildly different linage and or historical location. She is more 'black' and I am more 'white and middle eastern'. This is also somewhat reflected in our habits. Where she is quite taken with the causes of american civil liberties, I am more interested in spaceflight. Obviously this does not mean that white people are not interested in civil liberty no more than charles bolden is a basketball star, the point here is that genetic or environmental - race exists. Me and my girlfriend are obviously human, but we have different charactistics based on genetics (she loves the sun and I am more dormant, and we are physically built to suit such preferences).

2) Mr Zundel is as pro-neo-nazi as Ronald McDonald is pro-pure-beef. Even though Ronald and Mr Zundel 'sell a product (not an experience)' that seems like the real deal, it is, upon observation not as it first appears. Even when I had been discussing the interests of protecting such a man as this because he has not caused or purposfuly caused others to harm any identifyable group or individuals so far as I can tell - my friends look to me askance and ask "are you defending this?!"... to which I reply, absolutely not, but I am addicted to cheezeburgers.

That was a bit of fun, but I have been asked by reasonable people during a discourse about protecting the rights of free speech if I do then ALSO endorse the killing of millions in gas chambers as a solution to their...umm.... their... being jewish ? The answer to this rediculous postulation is of course "I dont think you understand the issue here." And we move on to more interesting topics like ass-to-mouth-matt-wrestling or which beer tastes better with these nuts ...really strong, heady stuff like this. This illustrates the problem I believe Mr Zundel faced quite aptly;

Bob: I must say, Andrew, after reviewing all the information I am not sure that much more thurough a job was done here with the holocaust than in the 9/11 comission... I dont think people have the whole picture, the people may be uninformed or underinformed even, I mean building WTC 7, come on !

Andrew: Hello, 911, Please inform Mr Harper that I am here with someone who supports 9/11 terror, osama, saddam and nazis.... yes at this address... I should be able to keep him busy yes...okay.... yes we'll be here just come in the back door and I'll act all suprised ----- oh, ahem, what was that bob ? --- yes yes, no I dont want any reward just please leave me to live in peace with freedom and security.... oh you can't guarantee that... well.....ok. Please hurry.

The point is that as soon as you start to talk about this you are painting yourself with a sitcky and stinky brush... is that appropriate ? In my review I found Mr Zundel not to be very aggrevating or purposful so far as supporting any ideas which end with "so lets kill all the jews". Much the contrary I have found him to be rather dry and academic [it is much more the people questioning him who jump to: so then you want to kill the jews?]. His analysis of the FACT of allied propoganda and manipulation in pre and post-war germany (and beyond) is not anything shocking. In any war you dont re-educate the defeated in the ideologies that led to war in the first place, you try to prevent it, even at the cultural expense of the victim state (ask the North American Indiginous People)

3) No one really cares about anything anymore anyway. Al Franken said it best in MOTY.

Paraphrased:

TV has destroyed my perception of reality, here on the left - a man who is fully accredited, supported and papered telling me that after years of research the holocaust never happened. Here on the right a man who claims to have survived the horrors of a death camp... now they sit and debate the points and their views back and forth... this happens for a while until I loose interest and basically decide that it doesn't really matter to me either way, I'm not a scholar or a survivor, so why worry - really I can never know which of these two people is correct.

In the years he has been gone Mr. Zundel has missed out on how the rest of us just stopped caring anymore. Mr Zundel may be the last of a dying breed... the ideological martyr. When all this was big news there was still some hope that perhaps Mr Zundel was wrong, a faith that he was an incorrigable individual, not even worthy of the paper he consumed to push forward his empire of disinformation... Now the attitude would be different on two accounts.

i) everyone KNOWS that the government is full of shit. If obama doesn't really wow us on April 15th then expect another domestic terror incident really soon after as people will be without purpose, direction, liberty or security for far too long to remain civil

ii) most of the 'falsehoods' that mr zundel was accused of propogating have been basically revealed as, at least, partial truth - or well closer than we'd imagined before !

The saddest thing about it is that NOBODY in his camp or mine is strongly advocating or in any way vocalizing hatred against jews or anyone else. What is happening here is an attack on dissent and the very nature of truth, history and democracy. What this case says to me in my limited understanding is: that its better to be in line with the current party line than it is to have an opinion. That it is safer not to worry than to do my due-dilligence and critically analyse the mythos of my own origins and history. We will tolerate no review of history or historic events that shape and define our national goals and ambitions, and we will not protect pepoles rights a human beings if we dont like what they are saying.

Take the content out and change his book to read: Is (and was) it really 100% (non-madcow) beef ? and you may have a libel suit on your hands but hardly a criminal charge for trying to incite hatred against McDonalds or the companies that brought us Bovine Suppliment (even though we should be nearly equally enraged as if the holocaust was a lie).

At the end of the day, I titled this blog as I did because its an important fact: Earth Hour in my community attracted about 30 supporters, many of whom were personal friends of one another - linked to the mayor and the city power structure - and a few were just plain friends of the Earth with no agenda. It may also be worth noting that me and my partner were the only ones between 1-50 who did not seem to have been brought to the event as part of a 'family outing'.

Mr Zundel was recieved by a small but intimate crowd who were there as, perhaps, the last supporters of common poeples right to think... to speak... and to be common people. As I have studied this mans work and persecutions I tremble in fear at the notion that when his generation is gone we will loose all connection to a western culture before income tax, SINs, modern economy, and the global village...free-range humans will be endangered if not extinct at that time. Here I am watching what may be the last truly free man on Earth be released from one of the most rediculous and illegal imprisonments in a long time... an no one cared... not like they cared for him when he was advocating their right to not be persecuted because of their german ethnic heritage.... not like they cared for him when his books were fuel for the pyres the white-heads used to stoke hatred and violence which mr zundel so abhorred... not like they cared so much when they opposed his re-admission to Canada... the only prominant article I could even find on his release came from the SUN (that bastion of truth) and was written by a very one-sided columnist, not even close to an impartial, someone with an old axe to grind.

I have seen interviews mr zundel was a part of which featured highly reliable british testimony in support of his 'cause' and I have seen him allow an interview, in what seems to be his home, to a jewish journalist whom he says he respects because that journalist at least came and asked mr zundel face to face. He in no way and at no time strikes me as a person who intends to cause any harm, in fact it seems his actions are motivated only by personal conviction and a quest for truth and knowledge on behalf of himself and all humanity.

Only one great truth lunges at me from the pages upon pages I have reviewed from both sides on this issue... the precedent in law has been made... if I ever publish my book "Was September 11 really a murder conspiracy created by Osama Bin Laden that killed 3,000 New Yorkers?" I'm done for.

Not because I am saying that it was an inside job, that it was a false flag tactic to spurr two middle-eastern wars.... but because it may have been closer to 2,500.

I dont expect much love for writing this, but I just want to say that I think it a grave miscarriage of justice what happened to this man and I hope he is vindicated one day for the remarkable dedication to principle and concience that he has shown. We may not agree with his views, we may find him personally objectionable, we might not even like Hitler, but that does NOT give us the right to imprison someone, nor to discriminate against them in an application for citizenship, etc.

Mr Zundel was specifically persecuted in several countries on account of ONE THING - he did not support the historical dogma about the holocaust. Worse still he questioned it openly !! This has made him a very dangerous man in the eyes of the government in several countries... What I wonder now is why ? If he is wrong about all this and the facts of the holocaust stand up to review then who cares... indeed who cares enough to distort the laws of several countries to secure his imprisonment... and who has the power... who benefited ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJy4IZFsG4&feature=related

Is the theory of Continental Drift true?

The question before us is indeed interesting. That a seperation of the continents did occur is certainly true, however I am afraid I must take issue with the standard model and expound my views towards a preference for ‘expanding earth’ theories of continental drift over more traditional concepts of ‘plate techtonics’. It goes without saying that elements of this established notion are also, invariably of high value and remain true. I will attempt to be subtle yet thorough in my analysis of the similarities and differences between the two models, and why I believe what I do, without detracting from the overal assignment.

As I mentioned, I do not have any issue with the idea of ‘continental drift’, there can be no doubt from simple observation (and more detailed data which we shall hereafter explore) that, at the very least, parts of South America and Africa were once much closer in proximity than they are today, indeed perhaps they were even directly connected. Moreover we cannot ignore the distribution of plant and other proto-life around the globe. Even a child can plainly detect the jig-saw fit between the coasts on the east and west Atlantic Ocean, but the biological and fossil records reveal even more upon examination and consideration.

Regardless of our preference of opinion regarding the mechanics or means of drift theory, we can deduce that the ends are certain, that the continents were at one time joined even though they are now seperated by miles upon miles of oceanic expanse. There are a number of bodies of research which support this position. Data related to mesosaur, plant and glacial distribution have yeilded some of the strongest support for the idea of drift. From the diagram below we can see that creatures in the distant pass had easy access to the various present land masses in what is now the southern hemisphere.

Throughout this analysis we will gather data from several fields which support the theory of continental drift. We have already addressed one, biology. The distribution of mesosaurs and some types of proto-mammals, marsupials, and others all point towards a geologic history which included easy access between the continental regions for animal life.

In paleobotanical studies we see that across the entire southern region of the planet the fern Glossopteris is found on all coninental regions. In the north aswell, as illustrated in the diagram below, the trees all share a similar genetic ancestry indicating one contiguous landmass at some point.

This diagram illustrates similarities in the diversity of some plant species across vast regions. We should note that the areas of present-day Eastern South America and Central-South Africa contain high levels of diversity, implying similarities beyond the geologic jigsaw. From this map we can see correlation between the Phillipene and the Central American/Caribbian regions in their density which may imply a ‘total’ Pangea with Pacific-Bio-Jigsaw fit.

In our mesosaur maps we saw easily that the southern regions had been connected in pre-history, but this map includes illustrations on the similarity in plant distribution across the northern hemisphere which is excluded from the previous diagram. Even though we notice similar increases in density in the south and central regions, here we also see less diversity is similar through North America and the northern Eurasian areas. Examples of global plant fossilization which point us towards acceptance of a unified planetary suffaceinclude various grasses, seeds and planet-wide examples of Lycopodiophyta among other things. It is worth noting here that the amount of diversity is similar over North America and North Eurasia but so is the contents of that diversity. The evergreen and oaks that grow in Canada and the corrisponding areas across the oceans are one in the same. Their lack of divesity has preserved them, and this correlation, for our examination. There are always going to be specific localized varieties in areas of great diversity, but even the presence of plant life in all quarters of landmass not innundated with heat or frost suggests either simultaneous distribution or easy access at one time across the now disperate regions.

Much established data is existant regarding glaciation of the southern portions of pangea. I believe this is because of two main reasons. One, there seems to be a great deal of hesitation about cosing up the pacific rift in these models. By leaving the northern and western most portions unexamined, theories of a constant earth size and traditional plate techtonics can be more easily maintained. Two, this may also be in part because the northern polar cap is without landmass, but again I wonder how much of this is because of a reluctance to close up the pacific much as we do with the atlantic in simulations. There seems to be equal or greater growth indicated in the pacific area from the analysis of the ocean spread, yet in models showing the progression of pangea this area seems to have been ever covered in water, 75% of the Earths surface. I believe this would result in destabilization of orbit, but admittedly this is only speculation. However regarding the paleoglaciation of the southern region; the polar ice cap which we are able to identify from the carboniferous period, covers the southern end of pangea. Glacial deposits, specifically ‘till’, of the same age and variety are found on many now separate continents as a result of the migration and termination of this glaciation.

There is indeed a great deal of evidence to support the theory of plate techtonics. Not least of which is the plates themselves. Using seismographs and other methods, geologists have been able to actually map the shapes and locations of these plates with, what is presumed to be, a great deal of accuracy. I have faith in this data also. I do believe that beneath the surface, the continents and parts of the ocean shelf may ride on a hardened series of plates as described. What I am not so sure about is subduction; it seems to me areas of subduction are mountainous indicating the plates are pushing up not down into the Earth (their age correlates roughly to that of the ocean floor also, the highest ranges being only some estimated 40- 70,000,000 years old. Even though we do know that the ocean floors are spreading, plate techtonics theory does little to address the differences in age between the seafloor and the continental crust (and the size difference). The difference in age is quite tremendous. When this age data is examined it leaves us with a map and details of how the Earth seems to have grown. While subduction and creation of the ocean floor are possbile and allow for the maintenance of size, I believe the evidence of the age of the underwater shelfs indicates that at one point the entire planet was mostly solid on the surface, much smaller and with perhaps small traces of water in the form of lakes or chemical pools dotting the surface. However, later on, I believe an ice meteor or something similar crashed to the earth and interfered with the natural cycles inside. I think this caused a variety of heating and cooling to occur which resulted in destabilization of the size to some degree, part became hotter and the Earth expanded perhaps because of the liquid nature of part of the interior. I also deduce that the composition of the impact site, considering the meteor and the planet at that time, caused for the massive distribution of water around the globe and unleashed a great change in the planets overall composition and dimension on the outside, the cooling from the formed water and ice deposits may have cooled and stabelized the planet surface. Once more, much of this is speculation, but if we do not measure continued growth then there must have been a reason for the changes at that time. The fact that we still measure new production and subduction may be residual from the fractures in the interior structure which, though healed, seem as molten scars of an old wound. I believe that this impact likely occurred in the Mexican peninsula and this shattered completely the landmass of the caribbian and phillipines and caused a tremendous and lasting push through the pacific. Obviously these theories are incomplete. From my present humble position I cannot verify these claims, they are simply my deductions and observations from this study of continental drift.

Mostly from these studies I have developed an understanding of how limited our knowledge base is on these topics, how new the field and how intersting and important these studies can be. The implications are tremendous. We really have not explored into the earth very much. It even seems to me that it has been easier for us to get into space than it has been for us to get into the Earth to a very significant degree. Perhaps current plate theory is the ‘end all be all’ of this geologic research. It has certainly helped to cement the debate around continental drift into a very one sided affair. We are no longer concerned with if the continents did or are drifting, rather we are interested in why or how they did or are.

The purpose of this assignment was to address wether the theory of continental drift is accurate. In my opinion drift is accurate, but plate techtonics is only the tip of the proverbial iceburg.

I would encourage you to observe the following digital maps and videos of ‘growing earth’ theory.

Continental Seperation Animation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

Wiki Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth

Interview on C2CAM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ylrPfLxFI

Planetary Models - http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html

Bibliography for Study and Data related to plate techtonics and continental drift.

Internet

-Videos

The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens (1975-1995) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfXn6WzetI

Plate Techtonics (1976 Production) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzWKR--ovbI&feature=PlayList&p=12491D2AE0BC3C02&index=0&playnext=1

-Data

Bio-Diversity Map Study - http://www.nees.uni-bonn.de/infodocs/MutkeBarthlott_2005_GlobalDiversity_BiolSkrift.pdf

Continental Drift, Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift

Title Image - http://www.novacelestia.com/images/earth_impact_moon_space_art.html

Book

- PLANET EARTH – Johnathan Weiner (1986) [Fully Illustrated with data and maps]