Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

The three judges upheld Lander’s opinion, and so the paper I presented at
the December 2006 Teheran Holocaust Conference, has been declared
illegal and cannot be re-published. Justice Graham, for whatever reason, tried
to suggest that my not having received the original 17 September 2002
Branson Court Orders, gave rise for concern. But this was a mere technicality
to suggest his impartiality and objectivity could not be impugned.
The media present were the Adelaide reporters who had been following my
case. I noticed they felt uncomfortable, which was so different to whenever
they sought my comment for that night’s newsbite. Especially Pia Akerman,
who usually was chirpy and civil towards me, was a shrunken violet. Perhaps
that’s because counsel for the prosecution, Robin Margo, asked her in a voice
for all to hear, ‘How’s your sister?’. I did not expect anything from the
Advertiser’s Shaun Frewster, who remained openly hostile towards me, and
whose reports remain unbalanced. Perhaps he will mature some day and
balance his reporting as had Channel 7’s news team throughout the past year.
SBS’s Karen Ashford and ABC-TV followed a middle course, while Channel
9 and 10 were not really interested in the whole matter.
I sat at the solicitors’ table with the Appeal Books at the ready whenever
Perkins, sitting at the bar table, needed assistance – if at all. There was
nothing I could assist with because the argument was a legal one and you
need experienced individuals to handle that within the crossfire of three
judges asking questions and doing their best to interrupt your train of thought.
Perkins has the habit of operating with a laptop only and all case law, anything
needed for his argument is before him and appropriately at the ready when
called upon. He lives the paperless legal battle and the contrast was striking
how the other side was snowed under with folders full of paper.
When Perkins valiantly tried to overcome Lander’s sentence provisions,
presiding Judge Spender in triumphant tone asked if he had the powers to
increase the sentence. One could sense how Spender was playing to the court
audience, calculating what would send a stern message to the community that
Töben has been more than a naughty boy. Spender is a larger version of
Lander, but more bulldoggy. His pugnacious nature came to the fore when
he unsuccessfully tried, with an outburst, to bully Perkins into withdrawing
the statement that Revisionist material is all over the Internet and that my
contribution to the global debate on this topic is miniscule.
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