By R. Cort Kirkwood
March 7, 2003

(AgapePress) - A twist on Orwell: All illegal immigrants are criminals, but some are more criminal than others.

That, it seems, is the case for Ernst Zundel, whom the Immigration and Naturalization Service recently arrested. One press report says he was headed back to Germany, but wherever he is, he may not reenter the country for 20 years.

You'd think Zundel was Public Enemy No. 1, that his name was Khalid Muhammed and that he enrolled in flight school, asking to learn only how to take off, not how to land.

But alas, aside from his immigration status, he has committed a far greater crime: He has questioned the Holocaust.

What Zundel Did
Putting it mildly, Zundel is an eccentric. According to the press accounts, he has called Adolf Hitler a "misunderstood genius," but his principal notoriety arises from asking whether 6 million Jews really died at the hands of the Nazis.

His website, Zundelsite, is full of stories explaining Holocaust revisionism in terms used for college courses; i.e., "Revisionism 101," "Revisionism 202" and so on. The site's logo looks like half a swastika. Undoubtedly, it's a magnet for cyberkooks.

Anyway, he has long struggled with the Canadian authorities, who denied him citizenship for saying things he is not supposed to say. Germany fined him for the same reason.

Zundel's trouble with the INS is yet another run-in with the law; the agency locked him up, it says, because he was living illegally in Sevier County, Tennessee.

Maybe So, but....
If he was here illegally, he should be deported, but one must ask how and why the INS found this particular needle in a haystack of 10 million illegal immigrants.

In my home town, Harrisonburg, Virginia, an immigration attorney estimates that as many as 80% of the Hispanics are illegal. INS has set up shop here, but the agency says it won't round up the illegals and deport them.

Here, the Daily News-Record has reported, the INS won't focus on "administrative" cases, which means an illegal alien broke only the immigration law. Instead, it will most focus on the "criminal element" of illegal aliens.

All of them are criminals, of course, but in any event before INS set up shop, a drunken illegal immigrant killed a young high school teacher in a car wreck. Local authorities had collared him for drunkenness before, the paper revealed, but released him. Like the INS, local cops don't bother the illegal aliens if they stay out of trouble.

When they don't stay out of trouble, well, you see what happens.

Summing it up, here, they ignore the "administrative" cases; in Tennessee, apparently, they don't. Or maybe Zundel was special.

Why Zundel?
Point is, you can't swing a dead cat in this country without hitting an illegal alien, every one of whom is a criminal simply by being here. Many peddle drugs, rape women, or commit murder, or kill young Americans in drunk-driving wrecks.

And don't forget the 19 illegal aliens who flew jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania countryside, or the remaining terrorists that authorities believe are hiding here, waiting to kill.

Yet INS collared Ernst Zundel, thought criminal.

Well, now that they have him, maybe the border gumshoes will reorder priorities.

That might stop another drunken, criminal alien from killing another teacher. Or better yet, it might stop a terrorist gang from knocking down the Empire State Building.