South Australia's Press club luncheons usually offer a ' window-of opportunity'  to the world where excessive parochialism, as exemplified by Adelaide's Advertiser super politically correct and grand-daddy journalist, Rex Jory, dissipates. The Press club offers contemporary newsworthy individuals a platform - but they must not be too contentious. Pauline Hanson was possibly the furthest the Press Club committee would go when deciding on whom to invite. Mental challenges as such usually upsets the entrenched journalists that let their minds be limited by their employer's dictates.

Brian Deegan, the former magistrate who has quit his $200,000 job to contest the next Federal election against Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, was a problem for the Press establishment when he addressed the last luncheon. His address was an irritation to those journalists who had matured from left-wing politics to right-wing establishment politics because Labor Party Senator Nick Bolkus claimed to be Deegan's prime supporter. So here was a man who declared he is standing against the Foreign Minister as an Independent. Although there is this Labor Party support, Deegan also calls upon the Democrats and the Greens to give him their vote so that Downer is finally removed from office. Deegan's prime motive rests with his personal loss of his son in the Bali bombing tragedy. In a personal communication to me, Brian Deegan indicated that he is aware of the larger context of things, that he is aware of the role played by the Zionist factor in the Middle East tragedy.

On 20 August, 2004 Tom Schieffer did not once mention the Zionist factor in his address to the South Australian Press Club luncheon. Although I heartily supported the sentiments that he expressed about the need to defend our western-style of democracy, Mr Schieffer in his address gave us a traditional world view that many Revisionists would find disturbing, and quite challenging.

Texan blond and blue-eyed Tom Schieffer appears to be a balanced man who sincerely attempts to live the world view that he legally represents in Australia.  He is a democrat, a former banker and former CBS Washington correspondent. Hailing from Adelaide's US sister-city, Austin, Schieffer had some fans among the guests - Australians who are now living in Texas. These individuals admired Schieffer as much as they loved Bill Clinton. My comment about Clinton's infidelity were brushed off by the ladies who blamed Mrs Clinton for Bill's lapses.

Mr Schieffer focused his address on the impact that Islamic Fundamentalism has had on the world since September 11, 2001. He stated that the new international world order is in the making and that the World War Two Order is at an end. Europe is now free of fear, for example there is no chance that any European country will invade another. Add to that the 'genius' of the free market, and the world is better for it, except for those who have been left out of this new world order.

The religious fundamentalists - religious zealots - says Schieffer have not understood this change, nor have they understood the concept of tolerance. Western society has changed the world and "nothing will ever be the same"!

He mentions irrational fundamentalism, Huntington's clash of civilizations, and then claims that Osama bin Laden and Hitler were both an 'abomination' of civilization. Schieffer claims that this fundamentalism has now linked up with terrorism, which he defines as "destruction for destruction's sake" - something that is not a tenable proposition.

Likewise, his analysis of the causes of terrorism seem simplistic. He claims that it can be defeated if we know who the terrorists are, then root them out by getting them jobs. He recalls that during the Depression there were no suicide bombers, though poverty was a great problem. We all know that Osama bin Laden comes from a prosperous family but that he chose terrorism as a way of life - and the wellspring of this is hatred. It is knowledge, logic and reason that will overcome ignorance and superstition.

And then he mentions a significant thought: "We are not the cause of terrorism; we are the victims of terrorism." Schieffer stresses that the USA is not anti-Muslim but merely anti-terrorist.

He concludes his address by repeating what all Revisionists hold dear - a celebration of democracy and free speech.

During question time I express my agreement with the sentiments that Tom Schieffer has expressed, but that I have problems selling our western kind of democracy to the Iranian students that I have met on numerous occasions. They regard US-western democracy with suspicion because it means military occupation - as in Germany and Japan for 60 years - and excessive materialism.

Schieffer responds by looking at the historical record, how the post World War II order multiplied many times the number of democratic countries in the world.

I ask a second question: there are moves afoot in the USA to eliminate the First Amendment. What is going to happen there? He replies that those who wish to eliminate free speech in the USA will fail, will not succeed.

Afterwards I advise Mr Schieffer that next Thursday week, 26 August 2004, I will be applying for a US visa at the Melbourne US Consulate, and that my 1999 German imprisonment precludes me from applying for that visa-waiver program that to date had me visit the US without a problem. Now since 2001 there is that new question on the visa waiver form about having been imprisoned, even if such imprisonment does not lead to a conviction.

My visa application will test the strength of the US administration's resolve to stand firm against the Zionist efforts to criminalise those Revisionists who refuse to believe in the 'Holocaust' mythology.

So, by next week we shall see how powerful the world Zionist lobby really is.

Dr Fredrick Töben enjoying a few personal words with US Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Tom Schieffer, who claims that the enemy of the First Amendment will never succeed in eliminating it from the US Constitution.

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