By Curt Maynard

About ten days ago I wrote a letter to Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and sent it through the General Consul’s office in Houston Texas, asking Rainer Muenzel to forward the letter on to the German Chancellor.

Today I unexpectedly received a form letter response from the Consular General, Herr Rainer Muenzel. I know it was a form letter response, because my daughter received an identical letter in the mail today too.

Before I reveal what the letter said, I want to reiterate something I wrote above and that is that I sent the letter, not to Herr Muenzel, but to Angela Merkel and that I specifically asked him [the Office of the General Consul] to forward the letter on the Chancellor. I am assuming that he did not do this, but instead took it upon himself to reply to a letter that was not addressed to him, nor is any of his concern.

In any case, his reply might well qualify as the most parochial justification for the persecution of Ernst Zundel that I have ever seen, and trust me; I have seen my fair share of schizophrenic explanations. When reading the below bear in mind that it was written by a man deemed to be competent enough to represent a modern European democracy on foreign soil, i.e. a diplomat. Bear in mind too that Herr Muenzel is allegedly an educated and intelligent man, or at least that’s what one might expect, based upon his curriculum vitae and given his position. Perhaps it was his years in Israel that skewed his views on what freedom of speech and individual liberties really mean?

Now, in the words of Herr Rainer Muenzel [Rainer Münzel] I present to you, the vast Internet community; the official German explanation of what freedom of speech means and who may exercise it:

Dear Curt Maynard,

Mr. Zundel denies the mass murder committed by Hitler and his henchmen. The denial of this mass murder will prepare the next mass murder.

Thus, irresponsible people like Mr. Zundel cannot claim the freedom of speech.

Yours sincerely,

Rainer Muenzel

Read the rest of this important letter/article here