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Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

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Little wonder that Lebanon’s pride and joy capital city, Beirut, had to be<br />

destroyed because this wonderful country shamed what was going on in<br />

Israel. The little Switzerland of the Middle East had to be fractured and<br />

split into its sectarian fault lines so that Israel could continue to attract the<br />

world’s human energy resources.<br />

* * * * *<br />

While in Wandsworth Prison I met a prisoner who had won his appeal<br />

before the High Court, was released, then when he walked out of the prison<br />

gates he was re-arrested by police because the French authorities had<br />

‘bettered’ their European Arrest Warrant. As I was about to walk out of<br />

Wandsworth I asked at reception about this possibility happening to me<br />

and was assured they would know about it, and there was no such matter<br />

before them so that I would be safe to exit the prison. Valkerie Mangnall<br />

reported on this aspect in her interesting and revealing article but things<br />

were slightly wrong – I did not flee but my sweet solicitor Kevin Lowry-<br />

Mullins put things in context (see Prelude).<br />

When I returned from my 50 days imprisonment in England Adelaide’s<br />

Channel 7 gave me some coverage, and the Australian’s Pia Akerman tried<br />

to be objective and not immediately use the term ‘Holocaust denier’ as she<br />

had when reporting in 2007.<br />

Holocaust denier withdraws apology<br />

Pia Akerman From:The Australian December 01, 2007 12:00AM<br />

HOLOCAUST denier <strong>Fredrick</strong> Toben has withdrawn his apology to the<br />

Federal Court for publishing banned material, vowing yesterday to defy<br />

orders to remove postings doubting the Nazi extermination.<br />

Dr Toben, who spent seven months in a German prison in 1999 for<br />

inciting racism, may face another jail term or fines if he does not comply<br />

with the orders renewed this week to remove the banned material and is<br />

consequently found in contempt of court.<br />

On Tuesday, Dr Toben apologised to the Federal Court in Adelaide for<br />

breaching orders made in 2002 that banned him from publishing material<br />

implying the Holocaust did not happen.<br />

The Australian Jewish News then published an article by Peter Kohn<br />

about the court proceedings, with the headline ‘Toben gives Holocaust<br />

denial apology in court’.<br />

Dr Toben yesterday published a response on his Adelaide Institute<br />

website, declaring ‘it's on’, and that he would cease removing the banned<br />

material from his website as ordered by the court.<br />

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