On Wed, 24 May 2006 10:10:06 GMT, jwb@csse.monash.edu.au brought down
from the Mount tablets inscribed:


>
>(For non-Ozzies, these were two people who fell into the clutches
>of the goons in Australia's Immigration service. Rau was a 
>schizophrenic on the run, who pretended she was an overstaying
>tourist from Germany (she actually had been in Oz since childhood
>and only spoke broken German.) The goons tossed her into detention
>without medical treatment while they pestered the German government
>to accept her as a deportee. Finally someone noticed that this person
>on the police missing persons list was actually locked up in 
>Immigration's gulag.
>
>Solon's case was worse. She is a citizen, with a medical problem
>that has left her partly paralyzed. Somehow Immigration thought she
>was a Phillipina sex slave, and pressured the Phillipines government
>into accepting her as deportee. She spent about two years in a hospice
>in Manila while Immigration staff, who knew they'd stuffed up, tried
>to cover their tracks. Law suits are pending, and the Federal govt
>may have to pay megabucks in compensation.)
>
>All quite disgusting and shameful.

I was immediately reminded of this classic film treatment of this sort
of thing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092690/





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