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I find it interesting that here in Thailand, where the traffic is surely more dangerous than back home in the west, that foreigners will be less cautious than when they were back home. If you got on a motorbike or in a car back home then you wouldn't think twice about putting on a helmet or doing up your seatbelt, but come to Thailand and all that common sense just goes right out the window (along with the rest of you!).

I am not against them arresting and imprisoning Thaksin, I just think that it is far from Abhisit's top priority.

No 1 priorities should be catching Thaksin, and put him in Thai jail. Anything else does not matter.

I would have thought that the welfare of the Thai people was more important.

OMG, the gang leader has been release. Possibly more bombing? Quite possible.

Somehow, I doubt that someone who has just been released on bail and still faces a court case is going to risk things any further and get involved in bombings. Even a government spokesman is vouching for him as being peaceful.

There should be financial rewards for members of the public who can provide information about corrupt officials and automatic jail sentences of no less than two years plus prohibition on further being employed as a government official for life. The whole transfer to a less active position makes a mockery of any attempt to stamp out corruption.

Offer planned for Thai "red-shirt" in exchange for revealing masterminds

The Justice Ministry's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) plans to give an offer to arrested "red-shirt" guard Surachai Thewarat in exchange for him to reveal the masterminds of major incidents during the recent "red-shirt" rallies, DSI chief Tharit Pengdit said on Wednesday.

The Bangkok Post's website reported that DSI investigators are going to visit Surachai, who has been detained at the Bangkok Remand Prison, in the next day or two days, and will offer that his one-month-old baby girl be protected and his wife and mother be spared as witnesses in illegal arms trading case, Tharit said.

Surachai was arrested in the central Lop Buri province last week for allegedly being involved in terrorism acts during the recent "red-shirt" protests.

The terrorim acts include a series of RPG attacks on the Dusit Thani Hotel and Lumpini police station, and the firing of an M-79 grenades at the BTS station at Sala Daeng and attacking crowds at Silom Road. All of these attacked places are located in central Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.

Also, the DSI has claimed that it conducted a sting operation to buy weapons from Surachai and four accomplices before he was arrested.

Surachai's wife was the one, who received 60,000 baht (1,858.14 U.S. dollars), which the DSI officials paid for the weapons during the sting operation, according to Tharit.

The death toll from a series of violent clashes between the " red-shirt" protestors and troops during March 12 to May 19 in central Bangkok stood at 88 as some 1,885 others were wounded.

Xinhua - July 21, 2010

http://english.peopl...51/7075685.html

Would love it if he took the offer and implicated the government. Does he have to give actual evidence or just provide a name?

I saw these topics this week:

upper mathayom: patriotism, love to be thai, eagerness to learn, work committment, public minded

lowe mathayom: honesty, sufficiency economy, national unity

With topics like these I am not surprised the students couldn't be bothered to come up with their own answers. Yawn.

Is it the sex acts that are illegal or just the drugs and sex toys part?

Agree that Thaksin should be behind bars although very much disagree with the very boring notion that foreigners can't ever understand what is going on in Thailand. Of course no one knows everything about any topic but doesn't mean that they can not have a very good understanding about it. Thailand is not some unique place that is impossible for outsiders to understand.

People never feel intimidated as long as they toe the party line and don't rock the boat. Leave the status quo as it is and everything will be fine.

Well, Khun Chiranuch now faces 50 years in jail for this, hardly fair and proportional. Especially as no attempt was made to contact prachatai to remove such comments. Incidentally, the PM had said that he was concerned about the case and would deal with it. No such thing has happened.

I wasn't talking about the webboard but the website in general, which has been repeatedly blocked by the government everytime they set up a new internet address. As for the webboard, yes I knew that was their decision but that wasn't what I was talking about.

Don't know about intelligence but it was at the back of the queue for respect for differing opinions and they only got the few scraps at the end of the barrel.

All this censorship is an act of desperation and won't achieve anything in the long run. As prachatai has shown recently, you can shut a website down but then it can just spring up somewhere new in no time at all. This computer crime act needs to be got rid of.

If you go on a weekday (non holiday time) then it will be far from crowded. Water is, as mentioned, nicely solar heated. This weekend should be fairly busy as is a long weekend.