Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Firstly, the ‘unreasonable’ Palestinians brought it on themselves by
objecting to having their homes and olive groves bulldozed to make room
for more Jewish settlements.
They also objected to a concrete wall dividing their land and their families.
They also objected to a blockade that deprived them of essential
medicine, food and fuel supplies.
Thirdly, the Israelis needed to try out the new armaments supplied by the
United States and to erase their recent defeat by Lebanon.
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Then there was this matter as featured in the Sydney Morning Herald on 14
May 2009, after Justice Bruce Lander, one of the prime uglies in this whole
14-year legal battle, lost his composure when things did not go according to
plan, i.e., that I be dramatically arrested on Federal Court premises and
carted off to prison! Barrister David Perkins had upset the whole proceedings
by requesting time to launch an appeal against Lander’s decision.
At an earlier hearing prime ugly SC Robin Margo urged the court to be
scandalised by my material, but Landern resisted this saying that a High
Court judge had cautioned against courts being too sensitive to criticism. But
on this day in May Lander lost the plot in more ways than one, and although
to the day three months later his brother judges upheld his judgment by
dismissing the appeal there is a smell about it that will not go away.
That journalist Harriet Alexander quoted what was on our website, and me
directly, on the important issues is good for the record:
1. ‘Richard Pratt received a judge’s indulgence. Will Fredrick Töben
receive the same? What does this tell us about Australia’s judicial
system?’
2. ‘Note: Court orders must be obeyed without exceptiopn, even if they
are unreasonable and absurd. They last for eternity, until they are
formally challenged. Tell that to the countless Germans summarily
executed or hanged at Nuremberg post-WWII who claimed they
were just following orders – a defence rejected outright.’
3. ‘If a man is sick I fully understand that he should not be brought in
court, something that, of course, doesn’t extend to those who are
labelled Nazi war criminals.’
Then prime ugly Justice Lander’s comment: ‘Dr Töben has shown on a
number of occasions that he is not prepared to recognise the authority of
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