ZGram - 1/11/2002 - "Australian Revisionist needs your help!"

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ZGram - Where Truth Is Destiny

January 11, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

In 1996, when the Zundelsite was the most controversial website on 
earth and under fire from three countries for politically incorrect 
content - namely the loaded question:  "Did Six Million Really Die? - 
many of my readers rushed to my side and sent financial and moral 
support.  I would not have made it without my loyal readers - many of 
whom have remained steady supporters to this day.   It was tough 
going for a while, but we managed to stay on the air - and the 
censors backed off.  We haven't had any problems for several years - 
and America is still enjoying freedom of speech on the Net.

I similar situation now exists in Australia.  Dr. Fredrick Toben of 
the Adelaide Institute is battling the Australian Jewish censors. 
I'll let him speak for himself:

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=46rom: "Adelaide Institute" <info@adelaideinstitute.org>
To: "Ingrid Rimland" <irimland@mail.bellsouth.net>
Subject: Critical Comments please, Ernst/Ingrid.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:45:35 -0600
X-Priority: 3

=46rom Dr Fredrick T=F6ben, Adelaide Institute, Australia

My name is Fredrick T=F6ben, and although I have a German background I was
raised on a farm in Australia. I have lived in Australia for almost 50
years, and I received my basic primary, secondary education there. I ended
my tertiary studies with a doctorate in philosophy. During 1994, together
with a group of like-minded individuals, I formed Adelaide Institute. Our
primary aim then as now is to introduce the Socratic method (asking
questions) into public discourse.

As a teacher I conflicted with those who wished to introduce into the
English syllabus 'Holocaust'-related novels, but who would criticise my
teaching of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'. When we established our
1996 Internet presence, Australia's media received an impulse from Rabbi
Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Centre who called our website a 'hate
site'.

Australia's Jewish Community spokesperson, Zionist Jeremy Jones, used this
as a pretext to initiate local action, and he took us before the Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. I was found guilty under the Racial
Hatred Act for spreading antisemitism, 'Holocaust' denial, et al. The
pattern used in these proceedings followed the precedent set by the Ernst
Z=FCndel case in Canada, and elsewhere.

To cut the story short, on 17 September 2002, a Federal Court of Australia
judgment found against our website - and I was ordered to remove certain
items that were considered to be offending against the Racial Hatred Act.
This we did.

However, we are now appealing against this verdict before the Full Bench of
the Federal Court of Australia. The main reason for this appeal rests in our
attempt to retain our freedom of speech. It is as basic as that.

In 1999 I was arrested and spent seven months in a German prison for the
material we have on our website that is hosted by an Australian server. My
attempt at discussing with a public prosecutor the German legal situation
led me to be arrested in that prosecutor's office. Ironically, only two
years before that, in 1997, I had an informative discussion with him in that
same office, without anything happening then.

During my 1999 German imprisonment I penned the following: If you deny me my
freedom to think and to speak, then you deny me my humanity, and you commit
a crime against humanity. Truth is my defence.

Australia is following the German legal pattern by proscribing the free
expression of ideas.

I wish to oppose this by mounting an effective challenge, so that we retain
the Common Law rights to free speech. Australia does not enjoy the US First
Amendment protection where only actually expressed physical incitement is a
criminal matter but not critical talk.

We are fighting this case to safeguard our humanity from an attack that
attempts to reduce our minds to slavery, as prevailed in the former Soviet
Union, and now in Germany, Switzerland and France - where every life's whim
had to be seen through the ruling oligarchies eyes of
atheistic-Marxist-materialistic ideology, or the repressive, intolerant
post-war new political elites in these countries, such as France, Germany
and Switzerland.

The issue now before the Australian court is not whether the 'Holocaust'
happened or whether Jews/Zionists can use it to hide behind and deflect
legitimate criticism of their behaviour and censorship attempts, especially
their oppressive behaviour towards the Palestinians.

Whether one believe in the 'Holocaust' or not is now irrelevant in this case
because there is now a much larger issue at stake. Our struggle is a global
struggle for human freedom against those who thrive on enslaving the minds
of the people of the world

=46or our 25 February 2003 Appeal to the Federal Court of Australia, please
send your cash or cheque to: Toben Defence Fund, P O Box 1137, Carleton
3053, Australia'

Direct electronic transfer to: Toben Defence Fund, National Australia Bank,
271 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000, Australia; Account Number:

083.170.54878.5499

Thank You.

=46redrick  T=F6ben

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