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Form 20
Order 14, Rule 2
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY
No. NSD327 of 2001
JEREMY JONES
Applicant
FREDRICK TÖBEN
Respondent
AFFIDAVIT OF FREDRICK TÖBEN
On 11 July 2008 I,
Fredrick Töben, of 23 Caloroga Street, Wattle Park, in the State of South
Australia, director of Adelaide Institute, say on oath:
1.
I am the above Respondent in these proceedings and make reference to the Notice
of Motion of 17 January 2007, the Notice of
Motion of 2 January 2008, the Amended
Notice of Motion of 19 February 2008 and to all submitted Affidavits.
2.
The
Apology on 27 November 2007 was given by me in good faith, something that was
abused by Applicant and his associates. As stated in Affidavit, 30 April 2008, I
have no problem in deleting alleged offensive material.
3.
I
reject that I have been in contempt of court since the Orders were handed down
on 17 September 2002 and will contest each of the allegations made against me,
including those already deleted as per consent orders.
4. On 15 June 2008 I sent this email
to the following:
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From: Adelaide
Institute info@adelaideinstitute.org
Sent: Sunday, 15
June 2008 6:34 PM
To: srya.palaniappan@fedcourt.gov.au
Cc: slewis@slatergordon.com.au;
NSWListings@fedcourt.gov.au; rfm@stjames.net.au;
Adelaide Institute
Subject: Jones v Toben - for
consideration as a cost-minimizing matter
Dear Associate
to Justice Lander
I would be pleased if
you could forward the contents of this email to His Honour. A copy has also been
sent to Solicitor Lewis and SC Margo. As I am acting on my own behalf I cannot
see anything wrong in expressing myself in this way to the other parties
involved in this matter, especially because I seek to do everything in my power
to minimize costs.
1. I thank Justice Lander
and SC Margo for the numerous times during the 11 June 2008 hearing at Adelaide
for expressing their concern about the matter of my being afforded all necessary
assistance in preparation for the August 2008 hearing. I can therefore rest
assured that I will “get justice in this court”.
1.2 With respect, all this
rings hollow, especially because this assurance came when an oral order had been
made not to permit Justice Alan Goldberg to appear as a hostile witness on my
behalf, so that I am now unable at the August hearing to present the in-depth
political ramifications of the current action before Justice Lander.
1.3 Further, I was
propelled back 24 years when a school principal had publicly stated he wished to
help me because I had “massive teaching problems”. My response was to inform
the principal that my problems were no different to any other teacher working
within the Victorian Education Department, except that his hypocritical stance
against my person, my values and my German birth was common knowledge within the
school and wider farming community.
1.4 This ‘personality
clash’ escalated and ultimately caused a great injustice to me because it
effectively terminated my teaching career in Victoria and it destroyed my
marriage on account of an almost decade-long legal litigation process – from
1984 to 1993. Fortunately, a Victorian judge declared invalid my dismissal from
the teaching system.
2. Of interest is a
comment made by my former Barrister, Paul Charman, who summed up my current
problem thus: “You lost the war”. To that I responded that the South
Australian Premier, Mr Mike Rann, declared in State Parliament some time ago
that the Second World War was over.
3. After the 11 June 2008
hearing, I left Adelaide to seek out legal counsels interstate. During my brief
visit to Canberra and Brisbane I met with individuals who initially expressed
interest in taking on the case. Unfortunately, owing to my being on a disability
pension, I cannot afford to pay for their advice. This problem is compounded by
a general weariness amongst supporters to offer financial donations to the legal
battle. In other words I cannot afford engaging a legal counsel who is prepared
to represent my interests on 5 August 2008. That this is the sorry state of
affairs since 1996 before the HREOC and subsequent FCA hearings speaks for
itself – a legal railroading that will empower Jewish Holocaust-Shoah
interests.
3.1 By early July 2008 I
shall know whether another tentative counsel is prepared to take on the case.
Should this also prove unsuccessful, then I would have to rely on His Honour to
assist in securing for me legal counsel, and as I stated elsewhere I would not
mind having a Jewish barrister who is fearless about touching the
Holocaust-Shoah subject matter for the sake of free expression.
4. That this matter
of court costs is creating injustice for those involved in attempting to correct
the media’s continuing World War Two propaganda onslaught is highlighted in
the article below: “Accused ‘Nazi’ denied legal aid ‘.
5. Alternatively, I see no
reason why all parties cannot negotiate a successful settlement of this
matter. Our battle-of-the-wills is nothing out of the ordinary, and even
the legal fraternity is not immune from such battles – see article below:
“Magistrate urged to sue over ‘delusional’ blast”.
5.1 I was willing to
go along with that Apology but then relied upon Counsel for advice because my
receiving the written Apology at around 7pm and then signing it around 9am the
next day, on 27 November 2007, did not give me any time to reflect on what was
contained in that Apology, which was written without my bot having any input
into its contents.
5.2 I was quite prepared to
delete offending material, as I already have, because doing this is nothing new
for me. However, if the Applicant wishes to have his ‘pound of flesh’
– that proverbial life-or-death battle – then, of course, my
willingness to compromise will be regarded by the Applicant as a sign of
weakness.
5.3 The fact that we are
now even further from weighing up ‘matters of fact’ and are right into only
considering ‘matters of law’ leaves me with little hope that a legal
cost-reducing solution can be arrived at. If that is the case, then the
situation will fuel the public impression that an injustice will occur and that
truth-telling will be legally punishable.
6. I am somewhat puzzled
by Applicant’s counsel’s tone when expressing dismay at my publishing all
material submitted to the NSW FCA Registry on our website. From my limited legal
knowledge I understand that British Common Law provides a Court of Record, and
is not like the German courts where this safeguard of a public written record
does not operate.
6.1 Further, all matters
aired in open court are privileged, which again is something that does not occur
in a German court where, for example, a barrister cannot defend his client for
fear of making himself liable if the argument is too forcefully presented,
especially if it too closely reflects the mindset of the accused. At one
instance in a Holocaust-Shoah case the barrister was physically carried from the
court because she objected to the judge wilfully preventing her from vigorously
defending her client. This is thought-crime legislation in action – and we do
not need this in Australia.
6.2 We have as yet not
reached such a situation within the Common Law system, though in Sydney there
are instances where open court defiance has been noted and acted upon as
contempt of court incidents. My understanding is that all Affidavit material I
submit as evidence via the Court Registry is available to anyone who seeks it
out, as for example, the media does on a daily basis – of course, for
example, being duly alerted by an insider that a judge will hand down
something significant.
7. Attached is a copy of
my January 2007 Notice of Motion, and my 19 February 2008 Amended Notice of
Motion, the latter if which His Honour could not locate on the court record. The
URL at which these and other matters can be found on Adelaide Institute’s
website is the following: http://www.adelaideinstitite.org/Legal/contents.htm
Submitted for your
consideration.
Dr Fredrick Töben
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From: Adelaide Institute [mailto:info@adelaideinstitute.org]
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 10:12 AM
To: Adelaide Institute
Subject: Australian DPP is hostile to German interests
Fredrick
Töben comments: Obsessive hate-monger and blood-hound Zuroff closer to victory?
I, too, was refused Legal Aid when in 1996 the action
Jeremy Jones v Fredrick Töben began in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission began in 1996 – and since then have had to rely on supporters
funding a limited legal response.
So, what’s new?
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Accused 'Nazi' denied legal aid
Paige Taylor, The Weekend Australian,
June
14, 2008
ACCUSED Nazi-era war criminal Charles Zentai has been refused legal aid for
a historic extradition hearing and is closer than ever to losing his home over
mounting legal costs.
Mr Zentai's
lawyers learned yesterday that the pensioner must pay for his own lawyer at the
three-day hearing in the Perth Magistrates Court from August 18-20. Commonwealth
prosecutors will argue at that hearing on behalf of Hungary that Mr Zentai
should be sent to Budapest to face trial for the 1944 murder of Jewish teenager
Peter Balazs, who was caught living in the city on false papers.
Mr Zentai's
only asset is a modest home unit, and in April costs estimated to be more than
$200,000 were awarded against him by the High Court. The retired mental health
nurse cannot afford to pay those costs.
He has less
than $40,000 after spending more than $100,000 on lawyers for the action, which
was a technical challenge to the authority of magistrates to preside over his
extradition hearing. He lost, and could become the first accused war criminal to
be extradited from Australia.
If the
86-year-old is ordered to be extradited, he also intends to appeal that decision
and will lobby Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus, who has the power to cancel any
extradition on grounds including ill health and advanced age.
Mr Zentai
admits taking part in patrols as a 23-year-old warrant officer in the
Hitler-aligned Hungarian army in 1944, but denies he was the one who plucked
18-year-old Balazs from a tram and took him to the Arena Utca barracks.
He also denies
taking part in the fatal beating of Balazs, after which the body of the young
resistance-movement member was covered with hay and taken by horse and cart to
the Danube River, where it was weighted and thrown in.
After the war,
Mr Zentai's fellow soldiers Bela Mader and Lajor Nagy were convicted in the
Budapest People's Court for their part in the murder.
He was
implicated by six witnesses at Nagy's 1947 trial but had already left Hungary
for Germany, where he worked as a driver and farmhand. An extradition request
sent to US officials in Germany in 1948 came to nothing and in 1950 Mr Zentai,
his young bride Rose and their baby Tomas sailed to Australia as refugees.
Efraim Zuroff,
of the Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said it was
understandable that people would develop sympathy for an elderly man who had led
a good life in Australia for almost 60 years. "But ... it's essential to
remember the victim was a teenager who had his whole life ahead of him," Dr
Zuroff said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23861127-5006789,00.html
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Magistrate
urged to sue over ‘delusional’ blast
Jamie
Walker, The Weekend Australian, 14-15 June 2008
South Australia’s
magistrates closed ranks around their deputy chief, Andrew Cannon, as civil
libertarians and lawgroups hit back at the state Attorney-General for
calling him “delusional”.
Colleagues of Dr Cannon
yesterday vented their anger at the vehemence of Michael Atkinson’s attack on
him, precipitated by Dr Cannon’s call for prison over crowding to be taken
into consideration by judges and magistrates when sentencing.
The deputy chief
magistrate was being urged to take defamation action against Mr Aktinson, who as
Attorney-General is the state’s first law officer.
A fellow magistrate,
declined to be named, told The Weekend Australian Mr Atkinson’s language was
totally inappropriate. “I would say Andrew … is crazy if he does not go to
see a solicitor about defamation,” the magistrate said. “I would, without
blinking.”
Mr Atkinson blasted Dr
Cannon on Thursday, accusing him of being “daft,” “delusional” and
misunderstanding his place in the legal hierarchy after he wrote sentencing
principles that were uploaded to website accessed by other magistrates and
judges.
Mr Atkinson has been
point man for Premier Mike Rann’s hard line law-and-order approach. Both have
played to public opinion by attacking lawyers for supposedly putting the
interests of criminals ahead of those of victims.
The ferocity of Mr
Atkinson’s criticism of Dr Cannon, a respected figure in Adelaide’s legal
community who holds a PhD and has been published widely on criminal justice
issues, has surprised senior lawyers used to being in the government’s bad
books.
South Australian Law
Society president, Grant Feiry, said Mr Atkinson “immoderate” language would
not help the debate on sentencing principles.
Rick Sarre, professor of
law and criminal justice at the University of South Australia, said it was
“another nail in the coffin” of the traditional role of the attorney general
to defend the judiciary.
Australian Council for
Civil Liberties president, Terry O’Gorman, said prison-overcrowding had long
been recognized as an ameliorating factor in sentencing. “The one out of step
is not this magistrate, but the Attorney-General with his rather bizarre,” Mr
O’Gorman said.
A spokesman for the
state’s Courts Administration Authority said yesterday Dr Cannon would not
respond to Mr Atkinson’s criticism. Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Bolton and
South Australian Chief Justice, John Doyle, also declined to comment.
Mr Atkinson refused to
say on Thursday whether Dr Cannon retained his confidence, and has referred the
veteran magistrate position paper on the implications of prison overcrowding for
sentencing and Australia’s international treaty obligations to Justice Doyle
and Ms Bolton for investigation.
Dr Cannon was at his
desk yesterday in central Adelaide’s court complex, and is said to have told
colleagues he intends to remain there.
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5.
That I attended an interfaith conference in Melbourne where the Applicant, Mr
Jeremy Jones, addressed a session. Among other things, Mr Jones stated in all
earnestness that there are two types of people: the sane and the insane. Such a
statement went counter to the conference’s theme that DIALOGUE is necessary if
conflict is to be avoided. I refer to Annexure
“A” as being a copy of the August 2008 No
400 Newsletter.
6.
That in August 2007 the
Federal Government suspended the Racial
Discrimination Act so that it could intervene in a number of Northern
Territory Aboriginal communities – to improve the living conditions prevailing
there.
7.
That
Professor Alan Dershowitz is the world’s leading Jewish Holocaust-Shoah
propagandist who engages in hate speech against Germans and anyone who refuses
to believe in the Jewish Holocaust-Shoah narrative.
I refer to Annexure “B” as being a DVD of his latest diatribe.
8.
That for the record I am again submitting the latest newsletters to the court
with the express request that the court advise what material offends against the
17 September 2002 Court Order. My dialectic dilemma is: Do
I tell the truth or do I obey the law.
Sworn by Deponent
at Adelaide
on the
11th day of
June 2008
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Deponent’s Signature
Before me:…………………………
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Filed
by Dr F Töben
Tel: 08.83310808
23
Caloroga Street
Email:
toben@adelaideinstitute.org
Wattle
Park 5066
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