jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> nf43 <nf43@hotmail.com> dixit:
>>> (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.)
>
>> Key words - "pretended she was an overstaying tourist from Germany".
>
>> If you have someone who is deceitful and uncooperative it is very
>> difficult to give them a fair go.
>
> Well, there is the good old innocent-until-proved-guilty concept.

I wouldn't try that in the United States these days.

Dan

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