Law-abiding citizens are probably going to find themselves tangled up in even more red tape thanks to people like Phillip Smith, Kris Willoughby and Christopher King.
Because these people have lied, hurt and manipulated people, and beaten the systems put in place to prevent the likes of them doing exactly what they have done, there will be inquiries, finger pointing and ultimately changes that will no doubt make life for us just that little bit more frustrating. That's fine if it would stop people like this but it won't.
There will always be people in this world who beat the system no matter what we do to prevent it. In just one week, murderer Phillip Smith and drug criminal Kris Willoughby managed to flee the country.
Every week television viewers can watch Customs officers interrogating people and going through their luggage on Border Control.
They stop all sorts of things and people coming into our country. They even stopped a nasty orange sitting in the bottom of my bag last year. Well, actually it wasn't the Customs officers - it was a cute little dog that starting sniffing my bag. I was asked if I had any food in my bag. No, I said. A Customs officer asked me to open my bag and lo and behold, at the bottom of my large handbag was an orange I had simply forgotten was there. That orange cost me $400, an expensive lesson. Every time I think about border control I remember that bloody orange. Anyway, I digress. The point I'm making is that Customs is tough already. However, no matter how many questions Customs officers ask and how many bags they search, people and banned goods are going to slip through the net because there are some really good liars out there.
