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March 23, 2006

She WILL Be Sorry

From The Age:

Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone has written an apology letter to a mentally ill man wrongfully placed in immigration detention.

The Vietnamese born man, only known as Mr T, was held in immigration three times between 1999 and 2003, at one stage for eight months, because authorities failed to check his fingerprints.

Senator Vanstone said the department had written to apologise to Mr T, but she felt that was not enough.

Yo' damn right it ain't enough!

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I pity the fool who sends me to prison for a crime I didn't commit!

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Comments

Posted on The Age forum by: MTK at March 23, 2006 12:38 PM

The last think we want as a nation is to think that queue jumpers can just land on our shores and bleed our welfare system dry....I don't pay my taxes to let illegal immigrants essentially push in line! Ben, imagine having the streets filled with illegal immigrants.... what a wonderful solution to the problem! Typically 'loony left' solution to everything....they only look at one side of the balance sheet....everything has a cost my dear friend! No wonder the left always has (and always will be), unable to grasp even the most basic fundamentals of Budgetry Policy.(And no, 'Thuggery 101' taught by your Union mates doesn't count!)We as a nation have voted AGAINST such a short sighted solution....get used to it!

Wow. I think someone has his angry pants on...

You have to give the man credit though for managing to pack every cliche and false piece of alarmist crap that exists into one succinct, bigoted rant.

*applauds*

Posted by: Tom at March 23, 2006 03:53 PM

You're reading the Age forums? Jesus, hiding to nothing right there.

Posted by: Peter at March 23, 2006 04:11 PM

I had the same thought when I heard this on the news this morning. Mr T doesn't look very Vietnamese at all. If DIMA think he is, its little wonder they have all these mistaken identity problems when it comes to detaining and deporting people.

Posted by: Living in Canberra at March 23, 2006 08:42 PM

What gets to me most is the way Mr Angry Pants quoted above neglects the enormous costs associated with imprisoning people.

And rehabilitating them later. When it turns out that they did have the right to be here all along and we've incapacitated them so that they may struggle ever to support themselves.

Posted by: kate at March 23, 2006 10:35 PM

Many of you won't know about the ill-fated romance between Mr T and Yo-yo Ma.

One sunny day they bumped into each other in New York's West Village. To cut a long story short, Mr T asked Yo-yo on a date, and a week later Yo-yo found himself waiting for Mr T at a table in a nice Italian restaurant. Mr T soon arrived, and not empty-handed at that: as a present he had brought a yoyo for Yo-yo.

Yo-yo felt insulted by the present and marched off. When Yo-yo was almost at the door, Mr T shouted:

"Yo! Yo-yo! Yo' yoyo!"

Posted by: Lamppost_Dog in Amsterdam at March 24, 2006 03:08 AM

That's hilarious. Really, really hilarious.

Note to bureaucrats: If naming people by a single letter; skip "T".

Posted by: MrLefty at March 24, 2006 08:10 AM

I think, Lefty, that another note to bureaucrats could be: stop imprisoning your own citizens.

Posted by: Peter at March 24, 2006 09:42 AM

No, no, that's crazy talk. Stopping wrongly imprisoning citizens? What kind of tree-hugging hippy are you?

All this pain could have been avoided if they'd simply named this wrongly imprisoned person "Mr U" instead of "Mr T".

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Brilliant.

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