Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Its scope is dangerously imprecise. Under its terms, people can be
extradited to a country which accuses them merely of ‘racism and
xenophobia’. But these prejudices are notoriously difficult to define.
Indeed, those who object to the EU arrest warrant and the EU project
itself as an attack on national sovereignty are themselves routinely accused
of xenophobia.
It is surely not fanciful, therefore, to imagine an Orwellian scenario in
which such people may themselves be extradited and prosecuted — for
warning against the very abuse of power that may put them in the dock.
Holocaust-denial falls into the category of ‘hate-crime’ which has become
such a fixation among Left-wingers and an article of faith within the EU.
These zealots appear to believe that hatred and prejudice can be
expunged from the human heart through the exercise of the law.
Like other utopian fantasies, however, far from ushering in a new era of
tolerance and enlightenment, this creates the very illiberalism it purports
to oppose.
More and more arrests and prosecutions are taking place against people
who are deemed to offend against ‘hate speech’ — simply because they are
preaching Christianity, denouncing immorality or even, in one
consummately ironic case, scrawling on a wall ‘Free speech for England’.
And all this against the background of the campaign by certain Muslims
who seek to outlaw even the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ in order to shut
down debate about that particular threat.
This sinister encroachment of hate crime into English law has little to do
with preventing harm and more to do with an abuse of power. And the
EU has put rocket fuel behind it.
It is this erosion of fundamental liberties and denial of national differences
at the heart of the EU project which is behind the current alarming rise of
neo-Nazi parties in countries such as Austria — which jailed David Irving
for Holocaust-denial.
It is not bigots like Fredrick Toben who pose the biggest threat to our
freedom, but the EU and its incendiary doctrine of nation-denial.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=617
On 16 October 2008 Bernard Keane, Canberra correspondent for
www.crikey.com comments on the wider implications of my arrest.
On freedom of speech and Gerald Fredrick Toben
Holocaust denier Gerald Fredrick Toben remains in prison in the UK
and will return to court this Friday. He will not be tried before 2009 at
the earliest and, given the apparently fanatical zeal of German
prosecutors, is likely to remain in prison until then.
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