National Human Rights Consultation Submission AGWW-7MB22T Name: ray THORPE Submission Text: Recently ,I and sadly ,some of my innocent staff were forced to attend a secret court,where our human rights were abused.We were not allowed to advise friends or family of our attendance,were not allowed legal representation,faced immediate two years gaol if THEY PRESUMED we told a lie or if we told anyone any of the proceedings in the court etc.Outside the court ,I complained to the inquisitor of their abuse of our human rights and to my amazement he replied cheerfully and proudly "Yes I know !We are the only country in the world doing it ! Even my American counterparts tell me : How draconian ! How do you get away with it !" Well they do, because they can,as we have no real human rights laws in Australia.The inquisitor(again outside of the court - otherwise I could not publish this account) threatened me to expect lots of dramas,I believe, because he was angry that I was not intimidated by his bullying tactics, and the fact we were not the criminals he presumed.Many of my staff were indeed traumatised by the awful experience and I myself fear the consequences of complaining about their abuse of our human rights in this submission.As a law abiding ,taxpaying Australian I trust we can introduce human rights laws to protect us from such abusers Yours Ray Thorpe Page 1 of 1