Politics & Power Quote by Ernst Zundel

Zundel’s real move here is to borrow credibility from a shadowy chorus: “many people…from around the world.” The phrase isn’t evidence, it’s atmosphere. By invoking “friends from the nationalist camp” alongside “revisionists,” he normalizes an ideological network that’s historically tied to Holocaust denial, then softens it with the casual, almost chatty “you know.” It’s a familiar populist trick: make extremism sound like a social circle, not a political project.

The line “and now again because of what happened” is purposeful vagueness. It gestures toward an incident without naming it, letting the audience supply their own grievance. That omission also functions as insulation: he can imply persecution while avoiding details that could be challenged. The repetition of “called me…called me” frames him as a sought-after narrator, a man who doesn’t chase attention but is repeatedly consulted when the state allegedly overreaches.

The key payload is the final clause: “they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.” He’s not just reporting cynicism; he’s laundering it. By attributing distrust to a dispersed, international set of sympathizers, he converts paranoia into consensus and primes listeners to interpret law enforcement as inherently illegitimate. “Police and the authorities” is deliberately broad, collapsing specific institutions into a single faceless “they,” which is essential to conspiracy-minded rhetoric: once the category is amorphous, any counterevidence becomes part of the cover-up.

In context, this reads like pre-emptive framing for legal scrutiny or public backlash: if consequences arrive, they’re not consequences, they’re confirmation.