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I could not let this article stand without my replying to it and so I wrote a<br />

covering letter addressed to the Australian’s editor on 3 September 2009:<br />

Dear Mr Whittaker,<br />

With reference to the Lewis/Wertheim Opinion piece, The Australian,<br />

18 August 2009, I would like to respond and hope you will offer me a<br />

Right-of-Reply after I exit the prison system on 12 November 2009. I shall<br />

certainly feature this item in my book on this matter.<br />

Still, it’s only an opinion, something my fight has been all about. I shall be<br />

judged by history, much like teachers are judged, not on immediate<br />

popularity but on long-term effectiveness, and such a judgment/opinion is<br />

usually reached after spending some time self-reflecting, i.e. the process of<br />

getting some wisdom, with which you as editor are quite familiar.<br />

What I would like to ask of you is whether you are aware of SC Robin<br />

Margo having approached the Attorney-General about expediting,<br />

through new legislation any future cases of similar nature to mine.<br />

It appears that US reports in Jewish media outlets mention such moves, of<br />

which nothing has as yet been reported in Australian media outlets.<br />

Then there was a concise voice from the USA that augmented this matter:<br />

Amelia Aremia says: Time To Fight Back!<br />

Re: The Executive Committee of Australia Jews asks Attorney General to<br />

streamline racial vilification<br />

Back in August 18, 2009, Steven Lewis and Peter Wertheim wrote<br />

Freedom of Speech should not be freedom to vilify’. Although it has its<br />

certain merits; however, when it comes to those who question or deny the<br />

Holocaust, the word is grossly overused…denying freedom to those who<br />

question. Instead of debating the issue, these people are vilified and their<br />

good character is assassinated by instilling and reading into what the Jews<br />

twist to believe the questioners had written. To the average reader the<br />

questions do not sound offensive, racial hatred, racist or anti-Semitic but<br />

are logical questions when one considers that a Holocaust did not occur as<br />

such, for the killings not only included Jews.<br />

Pulling a ‘Holocaust’ out of World War II, is, in itself, a racist act,<br />

ignoring millions of other minority or ethnic groups who met the same<br />

death. To question the Holocaust did not occur, or that there were no gas<br />

chambers at Auschwitz, that Jewish people who believed in the Holocaust<br />

have exaggerated the number of Jews killed during World War II to profit<br />

from what he described as ‘a Holocaust myth,’ are reasonable, not racist,<br />

anti-Semitic, or hatred. Many facts and stories were later proven wrong, or<br />

actually did not happen- even the 6 million supposedly killed had been<br />

reduced to a little over one million.<br />

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