Ernst Zundel denies the Holocaust

Ernst Zundel denies the Holocaust happened. Rex Murphy says Canada, in adjudicating his "refugee" claim, should deny he ever existed:

We cannot go through the transparent folly of taking his claim to be a refugee seriously, of letting our addiction to process suffocate the claims of common sense. He left Canada in 2001 and headed for the more cosmopolitan ozone of Tennessee, but not before offering the immortal witticism that he was now "in Canada-denial." Fine by me. We should return the gesture.

I suggest this country put itself in Zundel denial. "Never heard of him. Wasn't here. Ernst who? You say you were in Canada for 40 years? Never happened." I never thought I'd find myself making a case for repressed memory, but if there was ever a moment for trundling out the sad baggage of the talk-show therapists, this is it.

Ernst Zundel never happened. He wasn't here. We never heard of him. We can't give him a hearing because he never existed.

(via Bourque)

Posted by damian at February 22, 2003 09:49 AM