He was so patently a gentleman and an honest figure of authority that he was able to use his prestige to intervene in the religious disturbances that flared up in northern towns in the early years of the regime.
From his detention compound in Villawood, Abdellatif told Guardian Australia he had been honest with Australian authorities "but they cheated me".
Jenny Allen, South West manager for the National Housing Federation, said: "We accept they may be certain circumstances where it's not possible to deliver all of the things that were originally promised, but we think it's really important they [developers] take an open-book approach and are really honest with local authorities and demonstrate why it isn't viable.
Others who come to the square argue that the guardians of the revolution must stay in place until Ukraine's May 25 presidential election, to keep the interim authorities honest and responsive to the demands of those whose defiance and bloodshed put them in power.
After all, Lun himself assumed he had no reason to avoid open, honest contact with immigration authorities.
"Holding up a natural process is dangerous, and now the day of reckoning has come," the paper adds, and warns that the only way forward is to "abandon attempts at manipulation" and start "an honest dialogue between the authorities and society".
Maybe it was because he was honest, but the college authorities let him off and he was allowed to stay in school.
"One organization [Detroit Impact] created a video about the criminalization of youth, featuring input from police officers, posted their video online, and then used the feedback from the video as a way for youth to have honest conversations with police authorities that they might not otherwise feel comfortable having".
Questioning authority — and getting honest replies — is the bedrock of truly free elections.
"The regulators are exceeding their authority, and criminalising honest accounting mistakes and legitimate differences in opinion," he says; in effect, they are robbing both businesses and businessmen of their right to due legal process.
