Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

I wish to bring to your attention some points, which are relevant to the
above:
1. That the Australian Jewish community were among the most
important backers of the racial vilification bill, when it was introduced
(see attached article - Racial vilification bill: the real agenda, News
Weekly, July 2, 1994)
2. That prior to the introduction of the bill, concerns were voiced that it
would be used to prevent anyone from the free expression of ideas. It
was predicted that ‘It is equally possible, indeed likely, that once a racial
hatred law is on the Federal statute book it will be misused at the behest
of some lobby group which has successfully stacked a few branches of
the Labor Party and wants to silence views which it finds offensive, even
if they are expressed moderately and in the course of ordinary debate.
(see attached article Lying by legislation , The Australian, 12 November
1994 (The same inference of course applies also to the Liberal Party)
3. With reference to the above; ‘remarkably, the Liberals’ Deputy
Leader Peter Costello who was also in attendance at the conference
refrained from distancing his party from Mr. Keatings’s bill.’ (ie they
also supported the bill)
4. That the Act has, in fact, been used by a very small, but influential
lobby group, namely the ECAJ. (Australian Jews represent
approximately 0.5 % of the population)
5. That no other religious group has influence of the same order as this
group.
6. That the ECAJ are the main beneficiaries and end-users of this
legislation. (see attached - ECAJ Cases under the Racial Hatred Act.
7. That the ECAJ has persecuted a Christian Group, an elderly widow,
and of course the intellectual, Dr Toben, all for having views which do
not coincide with their own, under the guise of racial hatred.
8. That the courts have a standard formulated order that was used in all
of the above-mentioned cases involving ‘Holocaust Denial’, and, that
includes the following: ‘The respondent be restrained from publishing
or republishing to the public by himself or any agent or employee and
whether on the World Wide Web or otherwise:
9. (iii) any other material which conveys the following imputations or any
of them:
10. there is serious doubt that the Holocaust occurred;
11. it is unlikely that there were homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz;
12. Jewish people who are offended by and challenge Holocaust denial
are of limited intelligence; and
13. some Jewish people, for improper purposes, including financial gain,
exaggerated the number of Jews killed during World War II and the
circumstances in which they were killed.’
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