Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

intelligence, and that some Jewish people had exaggerated the number
of Jews killed in World War II and the circumstances for financial gain.
He faces a possible finding of criminal contempt if found guilty.
Justice Lander has heard that Dr Toben publicly defied the court’s
authority by casting aspersions on judicial officers and the legal process,
promoting a view that the court was ‘merely a proxy’ for Jews.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/holocaust-denier-vows-to-defy-judge/storye6frg6no-1225697051972
Anyone can search the Internet for stories on the saga. Some articles attempt
to defame me, at other times there is some objectivity as in this article:
Holocaust revisionist given jail for internet offence
AAP, Herald Sun, May 13, 2009 12:00AM
HOLOCAUST revisionist Fredrick Toben has been sentenced to jail
for ignoring a court order stopping him publishing racist material on the
internet.
Found guilty on 24 counts of contempt by the Federal Court in
Adelaide, Justice Bruce Lander sentenced the 65-year-old on
Wednesday but stayed the jail sentence for 14 days pending appeal.
The allegations were brought against Toben by the former president of
the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Jeremy Jones, in 1996.
Following rulings by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities
Commission, the Federal Court in 2002 ruled Toben be forbidden from
publishing anti-semitic material on his Adelaide Institute website.
Justice Lander said Toben continued to breach the orders, including
publishing a document on the morning of the penalty hearing,
scandalising the court.
‘Evidence showed a continuing public defiance of the authority of the
court,’’ he said.
Toben’s lawyer, David Perkins, argued his client should be able to serve
the custodial sentence in home detention and requested time to appeal.
Despite noting that Toben’s reasons for seeking an appeal ‘were a very
late invention’’, Justice Lander stayed the jail sentence for 14 days to
enable Mr Perkins to submit the necessary paper work.
‘The world is my prison, where can I run to,’’ Toben told reporters
outside court.
‘I am under legal advice, but I am quite prepared to sacrifice my
physical comforts for the sake of free expression.’’
Adelaide Institute acting director, Peter Hartung, in a statement released
on Wednesday, said the website would continue to operate as normal
should Toben be absent.
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