709 Frederick Toben helps Jewish Lobby to block changes to 18C Hate Speech Law

Frederick Toben helps Jewish Lobby to block changes to 18C Hate Speech Law

by Peter Myers, November 18, 2014

Newsletter published 19 November 2014

This material is at http://mailstar.net/Toben-Carr-Lobby-18C.doc

Bob Carr, Australia's former Foreign Minister, recently announced
himself a Friend of Palestine; decades ago, he had helped inaugurate
Friends of Israel.

In his Memoirs, he alleges that Australia's Gillard Labor government had
subcontracted MidEast foreign policy to Jewish donors. Labor MP Julia
Irwin had long complained about Labor dependence on Jewish funding.

Because of his high standing in Australia and overseas, Bob Carr was
able to get away with such statements. But ordinary Australians doing so
might find themselves accused of Hate Speech or Racial Vilification - a
criminal act under clauses 18C & 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act.

The most controversial part of that law is the lack of any objective
measure; all that's required is that the Minority group, through its
leaders, claim that it feels "Offended". The offender is then liable to
criminal prosecution by the police and courts. Frederick Toben, a
Holocaust Denier (or Revisionist, as he calls himself) had been
successfully prosecuted under that Act.

The new Government of Tony Abbott had promised to change clauses 18C &
18D to provide for an objective measure.

Australia's Jewish lobby came out against the changes, quite early.
"Jewish community opposes changes to 18C racial vilifcation laws", read
a Sydney Morning Herald headline of April 29, 2014:
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/jewish-community-opposes-changes-to-18c-racial-vilifcation-laws-20140429-zr14a.html

  Later, Aboriginal and Muslim groups join the campaign to block changes.

Toben asserted that the Jewish Lobby would be able to block the changes.

However, some powerful forces backed the changes - Attorney-General
George Brandis, ABC Chairman Jim Spigelman, and Quadrant Magazine.

Writers from Spiked Online were published in the major media; Spiked is
an online magazine, the successor to LM Magazine, which has always had a
lot of Jewish writers, eg Frank Furedi and Melanie Phillips. They are
Zionists, but support Free Speech and oppose the Culture War being waged
by the Green Left.

It looked as if the changes would go through. But the Lobby was saved by
its adversary Frederick Toben.

Toben couldn't keep his mouth shut. He insisted on making submissions to
the public Enquiry and publishing them on his website. They were
featured on the front pages of the Sydney Morning Herald and the
Melbourne Age:
"Holocaust denier Frederick Toben backs George Brandis' plans for
discrimination law"
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/holocaust-denier-frederick-toben-backs-george-brandis-plans-for-discrimination-law-20140513-zrbnx.html

Toben argued that, whilst Brandis and the Australian public thought that
the issue was about Free Speech (exemplified by the case of Andrew
Bolt),  section 18C had been designed by Jewish interests and "the sole
aim of this section has always been to legally protect ... the
Holocaust-Shoah narrative."

Toben congratulated Attorney General George Brandis for his proposed
changes to a "flawed law, which only benefits Jewish-Zionist-Israeli
interests".

Brandis had stated that Bigots should be tolerated for the sake of Free
Speech. Now, here was Australia's best-known Bigot, bold and brassy, at
the centre of the debate.

The debate had shifted, from one about Free Speech to one about the Nazi
Holocaust - and Toben.

That was the end of it; a few weeks later, Tony Abbot abandoned the changes.

On August 6, 2014, the Times of Israel ran an article headed "Australian
Jews block change in local race-hate laws"; the story was sourced from JTA:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-jews-block-change-in-local-race-hate-laws/

Here was confirmation from the horse's mouth, of Toben's claim that the
Jewish Lobby was the force behind 18C & 18D.

Toben says that his prediction, that the Lobby would be able to block
the changes, was vindicated. Yet a more objective assessment would be
that Toben himself was the best assistant the Lobby could have. If he
had kept his mouth shut, the changes would probably have got through.

Why did he enter the debate? He surely knew that the Lobby would make
use of him. Whatever his reason, he has a different agenda from the rest
of us. Because of him, we still don't have Free Speech in Australia.

Thinking that Toben might have an open mind, I suggested to him that he
read the books of Otto Strasser, which had awakened me to Hitler's true
nature.They are available at my website. But Toben had no interest. This
was the second time I'd raised the matter with him, and I came to see
that, unlike scholars who read all sides of a debate, Toben is more like
a missionary - a Nazi Missionary.

Just as the Green Left movement was infiltrated by Trotskyists, Radical
Feminists and Gay activists, the Dissident movement has been penetrated
by Nazi Missionaries, especially since 9/11. Even Leftist people who are
not Nazis by any stretch of the imagination have come out for Holocaust
Denial.

It doesn't help that Israel is committing a genocide of the
Palestinians, which we are not supposed to notice as we keep our focus
on what Nazis did to Jews 70 years ago.

Is Hitler really a savior from the Netanyahus of this world, as Toben
would argue?

Or was Hitler just another kind of Netanyahu? That's what I hold. I have
tried to get behind the Nazi defences, to focus on Hitler's genocidal
policy towards Ukraine and the Slavs.

That genocidal policyis expressed in  HITLER SPEAKS, an account of
conversations with Hitler in the years 1932-34, recorded by Hermann
Rauschning, who was Governor of Danzig. When it was published in 1939,
few believed that Hitler was the extremist depicted there.

Nazi Missionaries like Mark Weber dismiss it as a forgery. But the
genocidal policy towards Slavs is also articulated in Hitler's Table
Talk, a record of conversations and monologues of Hitler from 1941 to
1944, authenticated by Hugh Trevor-Roper and David Irving.

In Table Talk sessions from 17 September 1941 to 5th July 1942, Hitler says,

"The Slavs are a mass of born slaves, who feel the need of a master. ...
It's better not to teach them to read. ... The real frontier is the one
that separates the Germanic world from the Slav world. ... If these
people are allowed ... to multiply too quickly, it will be against our
interests ... Our interests demand just the reverse ..."

In Hitler Speaks, he says,

"We are obliged to depopulate ... as part of our mission of preserving
the German population. We shall have to develop a technique of
depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the
removal of entire racial units ... surely I have the right to remove
millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin! ...  It will be
one of the chief tasks of German statesmanship for all time to prevent,
by every means in our power, the further increase of the Slav races."

These texts demolish the heroic image of Hitler cultivated by his
missionaries.

Who does the Jewish Lobby prefer, Bob Carr or Frederick Toben?

For them, Toben is an asset, a bogeyman who scares the public into
sacrificing their Free Speech; the person they really fear is Carr,
because he's both credible and unassailable.