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1. On 11 December 2009 Fredrick Töben visited Perth to observe in the District Court a call-over in the Matter of Director of Public Prosecution - DPP, Western Australia, and Brendon O'Connell.
2. The matter is important because Mr O'Connell is accused by the state of racially vilifying Jews, and so it must be clarified whether the Jews are a race, a religion or both, or anything else. The DPP has taken up this complaint laid by a young Jew in Perth who felt harassed by O'Connell.
3. If the court finds being a Jew is a racial matter, then this brings in the National Socialist definition that a Jew is a race, something that speaks against the facts, though the ethnic category would support the facts that some Jews make up an ethnic category, for example the Ashkenazi-Khazars and the Sephardics.
4. While visiting Israel during the 1970s Töben met Chinese and Indian Jews, and in Africa during the early 1980s he met African Jews.
5. He thus concludes that the Jew is a religion and not a race.
6. Problems may emerge when the definition is tested in the Perth District Court because there will be claims made that being Jewish is a matter of one's mindset.
7. There is legal strength in this argument because Australians of European descent have claimed they identify with the Aboriginal people and thus, for example, in matters of social security purposes they claim to be indigenous, which courts have accepted as legitimate.
8. Note Töben's court appearance on 13 May 2009 was the planned imprisonment date. The defence lawyer upset this when he informed the judge there would be an appeal, which visibly angered the judge who was eager to have Töben arrested on that day by the two police officers waiting in court.
9. On 26 May, on Channel 9's A Current Affair, a former washed-out Ku Klux Klan member and 'expert' on racism, wearing striking blue-eye contact lenses, lectured viewers on the evils of racism. A little later in Melbourne and Sydney Indian students 'rioted' on account of Australia's racism. Anyone driving through the country would be aware of the fact that such media racial incitement does not speak for the facts on the ground.
10. This vociferous anti-racist lobby desperately needs to find individuals whom they can then vilify as RACISTS.
11. Most of these anti-racist pressure groups and individuals have now moved into the Climate Change believers camp - from where they are now seeking out Climate Change Sceptics, if not outright horrible Climate Change Deniers - who are just as bad as Holocaust Deniers!
12. An Israeli news report summed up the matter before the court thus:
Police charged a man who allegedly posted a video on YouTube with inciting racism under a so-far untested Australian state law, officials said Thursday. A newspaper report said the video targeted Jews. The 38-year-old man from the west coast city of Perth could become the first person convicted under Western Australia state's racial vilification laws enacted four years ago. The laws were introduced in response to a series of violent attacks by white supremacists around Perth.
The only person previously charged under the law was a 16-year-old Aboriginal girl, but a magistrate said the case involved petty name-calling and dismissed it. State police spokeswoman Susan Usher said the suspect will appear in court next Tuesday charged with conduct likely to incite animosity or racist harassment. He cannot be identified under Australian law until his first court appearance. If convicted, he faces a possible maximum penalty of 14 years in prison plus a fine of $18,000. Detectives acting on a tip arrested the man at his home Wednesday. He was released on bail, Usher said.
The video shot at locations around Perth contained content that was targeting a specific religion including threats to harm specific persons, Usher said. Taunted Jewish man Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said police had contacted YouTube about having the video removed. "We have been working with them to pull the video down and they have been fairly cooperative in the past," O'Callaghan told reporters. Police have not specified the religion.
But the Perth-based newspaper The West Australian said Jews were targeted. The newspaper said the 10-minute video showed the man saying to the camera your days are numbered and I will put you in the camps with the rest of them. He is also shown taunting a Jewish man outside a shopping center and calling him a racist, homicidal maniac, the newspaper said.
Also Wednesday, an Australian who has denied the Holocaust occurred was sentenced to three months in prison in a different state for defying an order to stop publishing anti-Semitic material on his Web site.
The man, Fredrick Toben, remains free pending an appeal in the Federal Court in South Australia. Toben last year avoided prosecution in Germany on a Holocaust denying charge when a British court ruled against extraditing him.
In 1999, Toben was convicted in Germany on a similar charge and served seven months in prison.
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