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Jesus.
A Nigerian gets attacked and robbed by two white foreigners and every negative post on here is directed at Thais or Nigerians...
Why am I not surprised...?
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Bravo! That's some real progress.
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Interesting wording in the article:
In yet another example of how overrun this country is with tourists,The problem isn't that the country is overrun with tourists. The problem is that people at the airport insist on scamming them.
Why not take care of that problem instead of going through all this trouble creating a separate court? While this seems like a move in the right direction, nobody wants to get caught up in court on their holiday just because the authorities couldn't do their job and limit robbery at the airport...
I could also see this becoming a tool for getting more money out of farang, but hopefully I'm being overly-cynical.
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Phone conversations with girlfriends never very long....
Hi darling, did you eat yet?
Where are you now?
What time will you be home?
Ok I wait you...
That's called a language barrier.
This man was a Thai. Believe it or not, they have discussions with their girlfriends. Often extremely long ones.
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Corruption ... deceipt ... illegal payments ... Thailand at its finest Just par for the course
Yep, only happens in Thailand:
- Jim Bakker - Created the PTL organization. Convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges after illegally soliciting millions of dollars from his followers.[26]
- Hogen Fukunaga - Founder of Ho No Hana who was given a twelve-year jail sentence for fraudulently gaining 150 million yen from his followers.[27]
- Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino) - founder of the Creation Science Evangelism ministry. Willful failure to collect, account for, and pay over Federal income taxes, knowingly structuring transactions in Federally-insured financial institutions to evade the reporting requirements, and obstructing and impeding the administration of the internal revenue laws.[28][29]
- L. Ron Hubbard - Founder of Scientology. He was convicted of petty theft and ordered to pay a $25 fine in San Luis Obispo, California 1948[30] and in 1978 was convicted of illegal business practices, namely, making false claims about his ability to cure physical illnesses in France. He was sentenced to four years in prison, which was never served.[31][32][33][34][35]
- Luc Jouret - A founder of the Order of the Solar Temple. He was convicted in Canadian Federal Court of conspiring to buy illegal handguns.[36]
- Henry Lyons - Former President of National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Convicted for racketeering and grand theft.[37]
- Barry Minkow - Head pastor of San Diego's Community Bible Church, and founder of the Fraud Discovery Institute, who had turned to religion and entered the ministry after release from prison for the notorious ZZZZ Best fraud, returned to prison in 2011 for further acts of securities fraud while serving as a clergyman.[38]
- Sun Myung Moon - Leader of Unification Church, imprisoned for criminal tax fraud in the 1980s.[39]
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – later called Osho. Fined $400,000 and given a 10-year suspended sentence following a plea bargain agreement in which he made an Alford plea to (1) a charge of having concealed his intent to remain permanently in the U.S. at the time he applied for his visa extension and (2) a charge of having conspired to have followers stay illegally in the country by having them enter into sham marriages.[40]Deported from the United States.[41][42][43][44][45]
So... your argument is that two wrongs somehow make a right? The fact that you can pull up headlines from elsewhere is because those people too are being persecuted and prosecuted; that's why they are in the news. If there is murder somewhere else in the world, does that make it okay here? If there is corruption, then it's okay for people to be corrupt here? The monk should be prosecuted; and if found guilty--then he deserves all the legal and verbal abuse he can get. What does or does not happen elsewhere is of little matter; it is still up to all of us to hold up our own to proper conduct; no matter where we live.
It seems you failed to absorb the poster's point. You're acting like the list they posted was put up in response to the OP but it was not. It was clearly a response to the poster that said "Thailand at its finest Just par for the course." The intention was simply to remind the more racists readers and posters among our distinguished TV members that this type of thing doesn't only happen "par for the course" in Thailand.
Not quite sure how you missed it to be honest...
Of course these deeds should be lambasted and punished - no one is denying that. But what they shouldn't be used for is yet another reason to point fingers at Thais overall and insult their humanity. At the very best that's hypocritical. At the worst, it's fodder for breeding hatred of Thais, which there seems to be quite enough of here.
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He is my brother she said....... LOL.
I think this Thai chap just meet a "special date" with Rusian Mafia in the near future.
I hardly think he would have gone to the cops if he was planning to put a hit on the guy. You're stereotyping; not all Russians are Mafia, for godsakes.
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I went as a tourist to North Korea and had a very interesting and informative trip. Everyone in my group were advised regarding the restrictions about taking photographs without the government guides saying it was okay to do so first. Nobody on my tour group had any difficulty with that.He made photo's of starving children, showing the real face of NK is a danger to the nation !
And anyone that criticises this policy is a bit hypocritical considering you can even get arrested in USA just for taking photographs of the police doing their work?
Wow, you're quite the “open-minded” one, aren't you?
Look, I've often wondered if there might be more to the whole North Korea story myself. And I'd be the first to back up the idea that the American government and police have far more power than they should and often abuse it – it's one of the main reasons I chose to leave that country.'
But comparing the idea that you can get arrested for photographing police in the US with this incident, where a man was tried for the death penalty and then given 15 years hard labor for photographing poor people, is absolutely ridiculous. Neither use of power is right, in my opinion, but they're hardly on the same playing field either.
On top of that, how does an application of the law in the US make every person who disagrees with NK's policy a hypocrite? Not every person on here is American or supports our policies. In fact, not even being an American means you support our policies, as a great portion of our population disagrees with the way things are done.
So I'd love to hear you explain how the existence of that practice in America makes someone a hypocrite if they criticize the way North Koreans do something, especially to such an extreme, or call for this man to be freed.
Sometimes being too open-minded allows you to forsake common sense - a trait common among a lot of liberal, "college-educated" Americans these days, I might add (though we're not the only ones). If you'd have come in here and described your trip and offered an opinion of why it showed you a different side of North Korea, I'd have eagerly listened.
But your argument in the context you've provided it here is absolutely ludicrious and robs you of all crediblity, 6700+ posts or not.
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Strange Phuket incident as Nigerian is thumped and robbed
in Phuket News
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So by your logic every Caucasian robbed or attacked in Thailand was somehow a guilty party in something? Interesting...