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Yes, my mother did not like what I was doing though my father felt I was<br />

honouring the dead by trying to break through the mental Berlin wall called<br />

the Holocaust. But then I had not been a model son to her either, and it all<br />

began when I was thrown out of Victoria’s state education system, much<br />

dominated by Jewish influence.<br />

I am reminded what Australia’s most active Jew, sometimes called the<br />

Foreign Minister of Australian Jewry, had to say about my German<br />

imprisonment 10 years ago. His gloating does not sit well with his attempt at<br />

trying to play the victim to perfection.<br />

For example, when Jones began to complain about Adelaide Institute’s<br />

website contents, he discounted the free expression argument in favour of<br />

playing the victim. He stated in court that someone happened to view the<br />

material, that someone stumbled upon our website and was horrified at its<br />

‘Holocaust denial’ material.<br />

The question Justice Klaus Kern rightly asked himself at that Mannheim 10<br />

November 1999 hearing was pertinent: Was the Internet material to be<br />

taken into consideration when evaluating the action before him? He found<br />

that I had written a letter and sent it to judges and prosecutors, wherein I<br />

question matters Holocaust, and for that I was sentenced to 10 months<br />

prison, but to be released immediately upon posting Kaution of DM5000.<br />

He did not consider material appearing on the Internet, something the<br />

public prosecutor deemed significant.<br />

The push–pull argument – publish and purchase – was effected by Justice<br />

Kern’s decision. This meant that I was not pushing the material into Germany<br />

but that Germans had to pull it down to read from the Internet website.<br />

The 2001 appeal and cross-appeal to the Karlsruhe Constitutional Court<br />

gave effect to what the public prosecutor wished to see happen: German<br />

law was now to extend globally and grip any Internet website that<br />

diseminated so-called ‘Holocaust denial’, which so delighted Australia’s<br />

prime ugly, Jeremy Jones, who in 1999 expressed his thoughts thus:<br />

IN DENIAL<br />

By Jeremy Jones, The Review, May 1999<br />

At the mid-April meeting of the Adelaide City Council, a debate took<br />

place on when and how the name ‘Adelaide’ could be used by<br />

organisations and corporations. This extraordinary discussion was<br />

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