[Botting letterhead] 19 April 1996 Mr. Douglas Christie 810 Courtney Street Victoria, B.C. V8W 1C4 Dear Sir: Re: Ernst Zundel, Samisdat, "Friends of Freedom" and ---------------------------------------------------- The Canadian Free Speech League ------------------------------- It has become increasingly clear in the past few years that Ernst Zundel's Samisdat and your own Canadian Free Speech League are merely fronts for an antisemitic, pro-Nazi agenda. I have little doubt, in retrospect, that this has always been the case. In 1985, on your urging, I testified as an expert witness at the trial of Ernst Zundel. At the time, Ernst Zundel was presented as a publisher who was being censured and censored for merely publishing a Canadian edition of someone else's book, a book that had been successfully published in England and America already. As an author, professor and publisher, and as founding president of the Alberta Publishers Association, I was very concerned about censorship of this kind. As a former journalist and Jehovah's Witness, I was particularly concerned about the section of the Criminal Code under which Zundel had been charged: "Spreading false news", since "news" by definition is current, and the law had been used, inappropriately, as a second line of attack in the infamous Jehovah's Witness sedition cases of the 1940's and 50's (see R. v. Carrier (1951), 104 C.C.C. 75). After I testified, Ernst Zundel taped me talking about "culture myth" and censorship. At the time of the taping, I had no idea that Mr. Zundel would use these tapes in an attempt to lend credibility to his anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi agenda. His promotion of the interview under the rubric and logo of Samisdat amounts to misrepresentation, and infringes on my copyright. I therefore demand that Ernst Zundel and his organization immediately cease and desist distributing the tapes and promoting them on the Internet and elsewhere. Failure to do so will lead to litigation in the Federal Court of Canada. Sincerely, /signature Gary Botting, Barrister
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