There is an old bureaucratic tactic called "file stuffing" and the various threads on Pprune and elsewhere are the modern equivalent if they can be coherently collated.
The method of file stuffing is very simple. Every time your "target" makes the slightest mistake or infringement, you add a description of it to the targets file. It matters not how trivial. The file includes things like the gardener being caught mowing the nature strip outside the ops room at 7.00am in defiance of noise polution laws in 1981 or the fact that one of your pilots made a log error in 1972, or the day in 1993 when an FOI with a tape measure caught you refueling an aircraft 15cm short of the required building clearance.
It matters not what, when or how trivial the alleged offence committed, the purpose is to achieve sufficient thickness of the file, preferably at least Three inches, Two or more volumes is even better. When the appropiate opportunity appears - say you commit an offence, you strike. You figuratively throw the file on the judges desk and state "look, Judge! This person is a serial offender, look at the size of this file of his offences!
It matters not what you say then because no one has the time or inclination to listen to your long winded justifications, the damage is done, you have been successfully painted as a serial offender and scofflaw.
CASA seems to do this a lot and the AAT falls for it every time. However, Two can play this game and it appears that One or Two people are keeping a list of CASAs apparent transgressions and when the time unfortunately comes when there is another major accident, we can sit back and say "why are we not surprised?".
Last edited by Sunfish; 2nd May 2013 at 22:23.