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Doyle Canning has only one
apparent crime to her name,
that of taking part in a
sit-in at a US congressman’s
office.
Australia, Friday, January 3,
2003
David
Irving comments:
ISN’T it amazing how that little tag “Holocaust denier” is used, and sticks? I am a writer.
I have never written a book or article on the subject of the
Holocaust, which I have to confess I find boring, boring, boring.
And yet thanks to
Deborah Lipstadt and her fellow liars, there it is for all the uninitiated: they have to assume that every one of my thirty books and biographies deals with nothing else. Incidentally, with the help of my global circle of supporters I shall be starting legal action of my own against the Australian government this year, once The
Final Gavel action against
Lipstadt and her publisher is
successfully concluded. Let nobody say I am not a fighter.
Related file:
Our dossier on some of the origins of anti-Semitism
Visa ban may land Ruddock in court
UNPRECEDENTED legal action is being planned against
Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock
(right) to force him to disclose why he banned a US student activist from entering
Australia.
[Ruddock]
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has never before had to take Federal Court action to force a minister or a department to surrender documents, The Australian
reported.
Doyle Canning, a 22-year-old who has been a S11 anti-globalisation activist, has only one apparent crime to her name, that of taking part in a sit-in at a US congressman’s office.
In 2000 she came to Australia to study and spoke out against the World Economic
Forum.
Ms Canning
discovered her ban during September of
2001 when she planned a flight to
Australia to visit a friend for
Christmas.
“When I put in my passport number (on the Department of Immigration’s website) it automatically alerted me that I had to contact the Australian embassy in
Washington. I was not eligible for an electronic visa,” she said.
“It’s a little scary isn’t it?”
Both the department and then the minister confirmed she was banned.
Mr Ruddock would not tell Ombudsman
Ron McLeod, Ms Canning or The
Australian why he or the intelligence agencies see her as a threat to
Australia.
The ban effectively places Ms Canning in the same dangerous alien category as
Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and outspoken Holocaust denier David
Irving.
©2002
AAP
Related items on this website:
David
Irving’s dossier on the fight to be
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