You may all rest easier now. In case you hadn't heard, in 2006, immigration officials detained and deported public enemy number one: Ms. Nalini Ghuman. Who's that? What? You mean you haven't heard of the menacing danger of this English-born musician and Edward Elgar scholar?
Well, I'd like to direct you to this NY Times article, which will make everything clear. Or will it?
See, unfortunately, we don't get any answers as to why the DHS and ICE yanked this woman off of a plane, threw her into a holding room, proceeded to mock her, threaten her with indefinite detention if she moved, groped her, and refused to let her speak with someone in her consulate. In fact, at one point she was told:
"They told me I was nobody, I was nowhere and I had no rights," she said. "For the first time, I understood what the deprivation of liberty means."
Funny how that works. People in this country continue to say that we've got nothing to fear from our government while it's so incompetent it can't even figure out that someone who's name is Nalini Ghuman is not "hispanic" as the officers from ICE put down, or that it's even possible she really does speak Welsh, even though that's where she lives. The news is filled with stories of government incompetence, legalized graft, and abuse of rights. Just about EVERYONE acknowledges that your average bureaucrat couldn't find his ass with both hands and a map. And still people believe we should trust them, as if some magical cure for this bumbling and contempt for decency will show up one day.
Can't they see, can't you see that Ms. Ghuman threatens no one, except those who don't like Edward Elgar, oh, and maybe the former leading scholar on Edward Elgar: Lord Rumpole Winnifred Hingebottom. And still, as a non-threat to almost the entire world, she was treated like she was the primary suspect of 9/11. Maybe you've forgotten, but we had the primary suspect for the 9/11 attacks cornered on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan but through incompetence we let him slip through our fingers. Instead we waste time and money on egregiously abusive snipe hunts like what happened to Ms. Ghuman.
Hey, perhaps it was Lord Hingebottom that arranged to have Ms. Ghuman detained. After all, ICE was kind enough to suggest that a jilted lover or rival had written a poison pen letter to the State Department which caused her visa to be revoked.
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