Real History and dangerous aliens

Posted Friday, January 3, 2003

Alphabetical index (text) Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech

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.
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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.