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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (2561)	5/2/2003 11:37:54 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 37228

Zundel declared a security risk. By SHAWN McCARTHY Globe and Mail Update UPDATED AT 10:44 AM EST Friday, May. 2, 2003 Toronto — The federal government has declared Ernst Zundel a national security risk, setting the stage for his deportation from Canada. Immigration Minister Denis Coderre has issued a national security certificate against the 64-year-old Holocaust denier. A government source told Canadian Press the certificate was filed Thursday night in Federal Court. But a Federal Court judge must first decide whether the certificate is reasonable before Ottawa can bypass the courts and fast-track Mr. Zundel's deportation. There has been much discussion within the Immigration Department over whether Mr. Zundel's hate propaganda and his denial of the Holocaust makes him a threat to Canada's national security. Mr. Zundel has been in Canadian custody since Feb. 19 when he was forcibly returned after the U.S. government arrested him at his Tennessee home for overstaying a visitor's visa. He applied for refugee status in Canada because he is wanted on outstanding charges in Germany, where he was born. Asked upon Mr. Zundel's return whether he was going to remove him from the country, Mr. Coderre said, "just watch me." Since then however, he has been under fire from opposition MPs and the B'nai Brith for allowing Mr. Zundel back into the country. Mr. Zundel left Canada in 2001 for the United States after a long-running human-rights complaint alleging he spread anti-Semitic literature. He built a reputation as a hatemonger for his repeated denials of the Holocaust and his glorification of Nazism. A report of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says Mr. Zundel is a national security threat who would act as a lightning rod for white supremacism. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that he has supported groups and individuals who advocate and use violence to achieve their objectives," the report says. If deported to Germany, he would face charges of suspicion of incitement of hate. The charges stem from material on his Web site that denies the killing of six million Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War took place. At a recent refugee hearing in Niagara Falls, Ont., Mr. Zundel said he was merely a human-rights fighter concerned with helping the German people. "I am known as the Gandhi of the right," the 64-year-old said. "What I defend with all my heart is my ethnic group. "There is no evidence. I have never supported white supremacy," Mr. Zundel testified. "I am a German-Canadian human-rights activist." A CSIS official testified that Mr. Zundel could be considered a white-supremacist leader. "Mr. Zundel is a lightning rod for individuals who believe in the neo-Nazi white-supremacist philosophy. He sows the seeds, and other people build on that." © 2003 Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.