Total Victory in Toben Case
Mark Graffis
BREAKING NEWS FROM FREEDOM'S FRONT LINE
Total victory in TC6ben case
Dr. Fredrick TC6ben, facing a historic extradition trial in London
On the afternoon of 19th November 2008, while the British Parliament debased
itself in an act of homage to the President of a bandit state, a small group
of campaigners won a major victory for freedom of debate with the release of a
jailed historian.
Australian academic Dr. Fredrick TC6ben had been held in Londonbs Wandsworth
Prison since his arrest at Heathrow Airport on 1st October. Though not accused
of any offence against English law, he was detained under a European Arrest
Warrant issued by the German authorities, who sought to put him on trial in
Mannheim District Court for the bcrimeb of publishing historical source
critical opinions on the internet.
Such opinions are criminalised by the notorious bSection 130b of the
German Criminal Code, and Dr. TC6ben was facing a five year prison sentence. A
few weeks ago the Mannheim prosecutor Andreas Grossmann boasted to the press
that he expected Dr. TC6ben to be in a German prison by early next year.
Grossmann also indicated his inquisitorial pride in the fact that those
incarcerated for their opinions in Germany bhave little chance of getting
out before the end of their full sentence,b because of their refusal to
recant.
Happily Mr. Grossmannbs hubris met Nemesis in the Miss Marple form of
District Judge Daphne Wickham at the City of London Magistrates Court in
Horseferry Road, who ruled that the German warrant was invalid.
Judge Wickham upheld the argument of Dr. TC6benbs defence barrister Ben
Watson that the German authorities had not given sufficient detail in their
warrant as to the exact nature of Dr. TC6benbs bcrimeb b a deficiency
which proved impossible to rectify, perhaps because of the vagueness of the
very concept of bHolocaustb in the German law, which itself does not
specify what may or may not be bdeniedb and does not even mention the
supposedly bobviousb method of industrial mass murder by gassing. The
authorities had referred merely to bworldwide internet publicationb of
historical arguments forbidden under Section 130, without specifying exactly
which web page or email was concerned, or when it was published, or exactly
where it was published. The warrant failed even to specify the manner in which
Dr. TC6ben had infringed Section 130, which refers vaguely to arguments which
approve, deny or minimise the extent of what are asserted
to be the bmanifestly obviousb historical facts about National Socialist
Germany. Clearly the prosecutors had presumed that Dr. TC6ben would defend
himself, and that his amateur legal resources would be insufficient against
the might and expertise of the combined British and German governments,
British Crown prosecutors, acting on behalf of their German counterparts,
appealed to Londonbs High Court in an effort to reinstate the warrant and
resume the extradition process b but on 19th November this appeal was
dramatically abandoned with an executive order made for his immediate release
in a comprehensive victory for Dr. TC6benbs extradition experts.
Having begun the day in a Wandsworth prison cell, Dr. TC6ben spent the evening
at a champagne reception in St. Jamesbs as a guest of MichC(le, Lady Renouf,
who had coordinated his defence campaign and recruited the specialist legal
team of Kevin Lowry-Mullins of Dass Solicitors and barrister Ben Watson of 3
Raymond Buildings.
Lady Renouf believes that with Dr. TC6ben now fully vindicated, the
Germanybs oppressive laws are now in the dock. The court of international
opinion now charges 21st century Germany with crimes against traditional
European standards of justice and free scientific enquiry. These standards
were inherited from Classical Greece, which valued the inseparable four
virtues of wisdom (with scientific attitude), temperance, courage and
justice.
Joining the German state in the dock is the U.K.bs Attorney General Baroness
Scotland, who supervises the Crown Prosecution Service which unjustly
imprisoned Dr. TC6ben for fifty days on a warrant which failed even to meet
the minimum standards required to allow an extradition hearing to proceed.
Baroness Scotland herself (in an earlier role as Home Office Minister) was
responsible for piloting the Extradition Act through the House of Lords. She
specifically assured Parliament in 2003 that revisionist historians such as
Dr. TC6ben would not be subject to extradition under European Arrest Warrants
for publishing their views on the internet. Yet five years later she allowed
her senior officials to proceed with exactly the type of extradition which she
had promised Parliament could never take place. If she has any sense of
personal honour or political responsibility, Baroness Scotland will submit her
resignation forthwith.
Meanwhile Dr. TC6ben will proceed with his historical work, secure in the
knowledge that despite the perfidy of British politicians, the London courts
have rescued their countrybs honour and preserved the proud heritage of
Magna Carta.
Let this victory for traditional freedom lead to the rolling back of tyranny
from those European countries which jail opinions and increasingly jail
lawyers for defending them. Dr. TC6benbs defeat of the seemingly invincible
should lead to a renewed offensive against oppressive European laws, winning
long overdue freedom for Ernst ZC<ndel, Germar Rudolf, Sylvia Stolz, Gerd
Honsik and Wolfgang FrC6hlich b and the removal of legal threats to Vincent
Reynouard, JC<rgen Graf, Robert Faurisson and many fearless scientists and
other scholars who insist there should be no exceptions to the normal
revisionist method. They stand in defence of bdebate and rational
argumentb, in defiance of the anti-educational edict of the Stockholm
International Forum 2000, which attempts to prescribe bguidelines for
teaching about the Holocaustb. These guidelines are about to be enshrined in
the U.K.bs education policy, backed by a multimillion-pound propaganda
industry promoting a one-sided approach to what should be a democratically
debateable, multifaceted subject. The sudden halt to the extradition process
against Dr. TC6ben has already prompted diverse commentators, including the
Jewish Chronicle and Jerusalem Post, to call for revisionism to be combated in
the classroom rather than the courtroom. Dr. TC6ben and his fellow scholars,
freed from the Damoclean shadow of 21st century German bjusticeb, stand
ready to take open debate of historical truth onto this new front.
Dr. TC6benbs European spokesman Lady Renouf wishes to thank all those
wellwishers who have helped to keep up Dr. TC6benbs spirits during his
incarceration and who indicated their willingness to contribute towards his
B#100,000 bail security, happily no longer required.
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Further information can be obtained from Lady Renouf, Tel/Fax 0208 460 7453,
email: ladym...@tellingfilms.co.uk
Lady Renouf's DVD Jailing Opinions (see original url for address)
The background to the worldwide persecution of Holocaust revisionists is
examined in Lady Renouf's new DVD Jailing Opinions, reviewed here.
Further information about Ernst ZC<ndel's battle for truth and justice can be
found at the ZC<ndelsite
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email the web editor pe...@jailingopinions.com