Here's a better article.

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3764041&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

TWO Tucabia residents have been jailed for contempt of the Victorian
Civil and Administrative Tribunal and sentenced to nine months jail in
Victoria after refusing to remove offensive material from their
protest website.

A warrant for the arrest of Vivienne Legg and Dyson Devine was issued
on November 28, 2007 after a lengthy court battle was launched by
Brent Gray and David Bottrill, members of a religion called Ordo
Templi Orientis (OTO), in the State's anti-discrimination court.

The court found Legg and Devine guilty under the Racial and Religious
Tolerance Act anti-discrimination legislation pertaining to racial and
religious vilification after they published information on their
website, gaiaguys.net.

According to court documents obtained by The Daily Examiner, a
document penned by Dr Reina Michaelson who, at the time was executive
director of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program Inc, claimed the OTO
was not a religion but a paedophile ring operating in Australia, along
with other various unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims. The
court papers state that the words reproduced on the gaiaguys website
fuel religious bigotry and create an environment of persecution,
apprehension and that the reproduction of the words incited hatred
against, serious contempt for, revulsion of and severe ridicule of
members of OTO including Mr Bottrill and Mr Gray.

Mr Bottrill told the court the publication of the words on the
internet, and their subsequent republication by others accepting x
these allegations as facts harm the reputation of the OTO and hurt its
members. On July 27, 2007, nearly two years after the case began, the
court found in favour of Mr Bottrill and Mr Gray and OTO.

Devine and Legg were ordered to remove the document and subsequent
hyperlinks from the website specified and refrain from making,
publishing or distributing in Victoria, including on the internet
whether in writing or orally and whether directly or indirectly
(including by the internet or by inserting any hyperlink on the
internet), any statements, information, suggestions or implications to
the same or similar effect.

Legg and Devine failed to comply with the court orders, and in court
documents dated November 28, 2007, Honour Judge Harbison said neither
respondents (Legg and Devine) intends to remove the material from the
website in compliance with the order and the two were to be arrested
and sentenced to nine months jail.

Judge Harbison said at the time: there is still an enormous amount of
dreadfully insulting and quite bizarre material contained in the
offending part of the website in relation to which the order has been
made, adding Mr Devine said to me that as far as he understood it, he
was clearly in contempt of the Tribunal. He did not wish to call any
evidence and that he wished me to sentence him to prison.

The gaiaguys.net website was a well-known forum on the North Coast. It
hosted a number of unsubstantiated allegations about North Coast
politicians, particularly the former Member for Page, Ian Causley,
over his involvement in the transfer of land from the former Pine
Brush Forest near Tucabia.



----- Original Message ----- 
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> Aloha,
>
> From the viewpoint of cultural studies, what jumps out is the
> persistence of the allegations against the targeted group. This
> same constellation appears again and again in cases of Satanic
> conspiracies in various countries.
>
> I suppose that engaging powerful taboos and strongly sanctioned
> values provides a means to generate a lot of energy and to mobilize
> collective outrage.
>
> Musing Archetypal Agit-Prop! Rose,
>
> Pitch
>