Zundel may appeal decision; freedom from arbitrary political arrest hangs in the balance.

YESTERDAY WAS OUR DAY in the Knoxville District Court – and an education it was for me and, I believe, for the handful of people who attended. Our (partial) petition, as I explained in previous ZGrams, was our plea to the Judge to order the authorities to bring Ernst Zundel back from the Canadian Gulag for habeas corpus here in Tennessee.

Our entire submission is much more complex than that, but we had put the habeas corpus item on the “expedited track,” hoping that we would be granted some kind of relief for the egregious government violation. We had a compelling human rights violation story on our side – the government, in this case the defendant(s), had nothing but brash chutzpah and brute “law.” And arbitrarily and shamelessly, they used that “law” to beat down our petition.(More…)