Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 8, 2008

Like millions of other people, German-born Australian citizen Gerald Toben maintains a website he uses to publish his opinions. Mr. Toben, a self-described historical revisionist, used his website to dispute the established history of the episode commonly called The Holocaust.

During a recent flight from the U.S. to Dubai, Toben was arrested while changing planes in London. The British police were acting on a European Union arrest warrant issued by German authorities. Under German law it is a crime to express opinions classified as ?anti-Semitic and/or of a revisionist nature.?

Through the EU, Germany compelled British police to seize Toben to stand trial in Germany for a supposed offense committed in Australia.

The disreputable content of Toben?s views aside, incident illustrates the dangers posed by the emerging system of extra-territorial law enforcement. They?re going after a ?Holocaust denier? today; tomorrow, critics of homosexuality or radical Islam could find themselves in the dock.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.