Latest Letter from Germar Rudolf

Dear Fredrick,

I have in front of me your letters of May 23 - the one that went astray - and of August 1. I won’t comment on the newspaper clippings/letters-to-the-editor you included in your May letter. I’ve always considered letter writing to mass media a waste of time - like throwing pearls before swine. But that may be only so because I had other, better things to do while roaming freely.

To your questions: by court order I have been kept in a single cell. Hence I was never together with others, which is a blessing. The various cells I have been in are comparable to my student rooms of the 1980s while studying in Bonn/Frankfurt/Stuttgart - hence a mere step back in time.

They keep Ernst Zundel separate from me and I haven’t met him so far. It could happen accidentally, in the waiting room at the prison hospital. So far, though, no such luck.

I exercise five days a week: daily 80 minutes work-out, 5km jogging, plus Monday night it’s volley ball in the hall, and since Monday I can participate in the afternoon activity because I am off from kitchen work. This means I can play volley ball every day, but I actually restrict it to the time after I finish my daily 5 km run. I tried vegetarian food at Heidelberg prison and strongly disliked it. I am now on Muslim food which has much better meat. I try to eat muesli every evening, which is difficult to organize because I cannot buy any yogurt here in the prison supermarket. And so I have to trade it with other inmates who are on some diet containing yogurt but who are willing to give it up for this or that favour or alternative item they need. You know how it is.

Contrary to prison rules governing sentenced prisoners, the state prosecutor put me back on full mail censorship, phone ban and visitation surveillance - except for close family members whom I can call and whose visits are not supervised.

The reason for this is that I wrote an 18+ pages critique of my verdict, which according to prison authorities proves my lack of remorse and recalcitrance. Hence, they now try to make certain that I do not have any contact with individuals considered a threat to my getting brainwashed, i.e. I need to be protected by the German government against thoughts that could damage my mind - although they aren’t doing anything overt to wash my brain, quite to the contrary. He who uses force has proved that he has no arguments left with which to convince anyone of their point-of-view.

Anyway, these ’security measures’ don’t bother me at all because I don’t care if some official reads my mail. I had even suggested to them that they may even learn something, but when I suggested this back in June they said they didn’t have the staff for it. Now that I have proved to be obstreperous and unrepentent, they suddenly have the staff to supervise my visits and censor my mail. The supervision of some of my visits - those attended by may ‘fans’ - is welcome because I don’t know most of them. So, having an official joining in with our discussion is actually a good thing because they, too, can learn something in this way - and they do!

After some seven weeks of adjusting I must say that I feel much more comfortable in here than I did initially. Most of the really essential things have been sorted out to my liking, for example, being able regularly to call my wife in the USA, getting dental floss - quite an issue for the security paranoid officials, knee-pads for volley ball, a well-paid job with which I can finance the calls to my wife; plenty of sport.

All I need now to make me - almost - happy is yogurt and/or quark on a regular basis. That’s my next project. Also, soon I hope to start my English language course. I recently enrolled and am now waiting for the confirmation and for the first paperwork to get going. It’s not exactly that I am inept when it comes to English but one can always learn something, and it is really important for me to keep using the lingo because I haven’t had any opportunity to speak it since I got locked up 22 months ago - except for my wife’s visits during the summer months. It is also a little intellectual challenge that is desperately needed in this environment.

I guess that’s all for now. Oh, reading-wise, I focus on national Geographic, Scientific American and Science magazine, that is to say: back to my roots as an exacting scientist. No politics, please! It just drives me up the wall.

Cordially

Germar

Source = An email from Fredrick Toben of the Adelaide Institute

Politics in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Secrecy. Bias, Protection of Wrong-Doers.

By Robin Mathews

Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett presides, and hearings resume, after recess, on June 4. They are the hearings in the Supreme Court of B.C. on the way (?) to the criminal trial of Dave Basi, Bob Virk, and Aneal Basi. The men are accused of various (fraud and breach of trust) charges related to the dirty sale by the Gordon Campbell government of B.C. Rail four years ago.

The sale was publicly attacked by the CPR as being the result of a compromised bidding process. CPR withdrew from the bidding, dissatisfied, alleging the Campbell government made a “clear breach” of fairness and had given CN an unfair advantage in the bidding. To fake a real competition, moreover, government representatives are alleged to have promised benefits to the U.S. company Omnitrax to pretend to stay in the race, and…and…. In fact, the sale of B.C. Rail is very probably illegitimate.

On June 4, 2007, the hearings resume as Madam Justice Bennett rules on requests Defence has made for further disclosure of evidence so far denied. Evidence, it seems, has been denied or delayed by the Special Crown Prosecutor and his Crown team because of apparent oversight, apparent neglect, apparent disorganization, absent-mindedness, RCMP obstruction, apparent forgetfulness, cabinet obtuseness, RCMP inefficiency, computer failure, claims of irrelevance, and…and…and….

Justice Bennett has presided over months and months of delay and obstruction which now are shouting from every nook and cranny of Courtroom 54 in the B.C. Supreme Court building. The question which is forced upon the serious observer is this: is Justice Bennett a part of the forces wanting to “de-rail” (pun intended) the proceedings against Basi, Basi, and Virk?
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[Editor’s Note: The following letter by Robin Mathews to the Chief Justice of the B.C. Supreme Court is a courageous and finely worded challenge to the person in charge of justice for all British Columbians. It’s essential that the questions which Mr. Mathews asks of the Chief Justice are forwarded to as many citizens as possible throughout this province to insure that the courts are made aware of the extent of the general dissatisfaction with the questionable processes and decisions that Mr. Mathews alludes to in his letter. Please pass this letter on to as many of your associates as you possibly can. For the sake of those still living in prison under false charges i.e. Betty Krawczyk and for justice concerning the unnecessary death of Harriet Nahanee consider this request of an urgent nature. Thank you. Arthur Topham, Editor and Publisher, The Radical Press]
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My Lord:

Law Officer of the Supreme Court of British Columbia H.L. McBride, replying (March 30) to a letter of mine to Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett concerning “public access to documents filed” in the Basi, Basi, and Virk matter, repeated the objectionable terms of the general restriction of documents from public examination imposed by Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm - obviously imposed with the approval or consent of judges involved and with your support. That so-called “Practice Direction” has been explained as a device employed to insure the protection of the accused. In my own experience the substance of such documents does not bear negatively upon the accused; rather the denial of those public documents to the public appears to protect those who may be corrupt members of the present and past Gordon Campbell government and other highly placed people possessing political power in the province.

With respect, I submit to you that the so-called “Practice Direction” - which is in fact an illegitimate universal gag order - is intolerable and is a violation of the freedoms of Canadians to know. I believe an address to the Supreme Court of Canada would see the so-called “Practice Direction” struck down as illegitimate. I believe a process by writ of mandamus might have the same effect. With respect, I believe that any fair-minded person concerned with justice and the freedoms of Canadians would see the present so-called “Practice Direction” as an intolerable, dictatorial, and repressive invasion of the freedoms and the tranquility of Canadians. If you do not see it as that, would you explain to me why you do not?
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