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I worked for BMW in Munich as a graphic designer, I often went into the factory to take pictures of the various stages of production. Once I climbed the steps up the production line, about two stories high, waiting for the right model to be transported along the line, to my delight the right model came along and I stepped forward to take the photos, I was really pleased that just at that moment the line stopped and I was able to take photos for 15 minutes until an enraged foreman flew up the stairs and pulled me away by the scruff of my neck whereupon the line started moving again. I had trodden on a safety plate which was there to stop the line to prevent people being knocked off the platform by the cars being transported along the production line. I had unwittingly stopped the whole production line in that hall and people were tearing their hair out trying to find the cause of the stoppage, I had cost BMW 30,000 Euros in production fall out, I thought the foreman was about to have a heart attack,.......safety first.

They haven't been paid off yet.

He will present himself to his peers who will 'understand'. Just back off a little BJ, we will set up a commission to look into this matter along with the things that this meddling lawyer Sittra has uncovered and after a few years of thorough investigation, when all has been forgotten, we will find that every one was innocent.

If you don't act you can't make mistakes. Srettha has to first check how many influential toes he would tread on if he acted (assuming of course that one of those toes isn't his own). It's a legal mine field out there, as brave as this lawyer is it could be his financial ruin, it isn't only bullets that can silence a man. This is Thailand and it doesn't like the light of truth.

Now you're taking the pi$$.

Seriously amusing would be a more apt description.

No way will they build it themselves, probably the Russians.

That's just what we expats needed, another foreigner behaving like a pratt.

protecting the criminals and serving themselves.....it could be their new motto, oh and protecting the public from those terrible foreigners.

I think he knows that his only protection is publicity, the more he is in the press and Facebook the safer he will be.

but he didn't even get that, he's a nice boy having an idealized love affair.

I don't know if this is the same thing but about 6 months ago (I'm a bit vague abut the time) I read about someone being asked by 'wise' to verify their info in their wise account, because of this I contacted wise through the 'help' button and asked if wise needed verification from me and was told no, it wasn't necessary. My bank account abroad is in Germany.

Is the fact that my 'wise' account is registered in Thailand the reason that I haven't received such a request?

Employment tax, trust me, I'm a government official, all above board.

I hope he isn't the prince who was going to give me 20% of a 100 million dollars if he could use my account, well you win some you lose some.

Well you have to consider the large sums of money daddy had to pay all the way up the grape vine against putting a spoiled brat behind bars, no profit in that. As police officers they are lousy but as pragmatic businessmen they are in a class of their own. The amounts paid would have been huge to offset the risk, how that was got rid off on the tax ledgers is anybody's guess, another payment made to cause bad eyesight at the tax office perhaps.

They will have been paid enough by daddy to take a mild prison sentence.

Of course it is Bob, of course it is, innocence and the ease of being is a puzzle to you, try giving a smile only once in a while. The world has more good people than bad, even in Thailand.

Now you believe in miracles, you are always complaining, you've lost the joy in just 'being' here a children's poem Jonathan Jo Has a mouth like an "O" And a wheelbarrow full of surprises; If you ask for a bat, Or for something like that, He has got it, whatever the size is. If you're wanting a ball, It's no trouble at all; Why, the more that you ask for, the merrier - Like a hoop and a top, And a watch that won't stop, And some sweets, and an Aberdeen terrier. Jonathan Jo Has a mouth like an "O," But this is what makes him so funny: If you give him a smile, Only once in a while, Then he never expects any money!

So off to the next destination that will disappoint you. Just think.....maybe it's you that's setting yourself up for bad experiences.

Good bye and good luck. Remember, you can leave a place but not yourself, Bob will always be with you.

An unfortunate accident brought about by karma.

Nothing is right or wrong, only thinking makes it so. Shakespeare To understand all is to forgive all. Marie Antoinette You are neither the body nor the mind...there is no body. Nisargadatta. Ask only, who am I? if you receive an answer it will be wrong but it will show you what you are not (the neti neti statements, not this, not that) Ramana Maharshi

I think you have misunderstood me, I was writing concerning the individual but I think your ideas of 'tight' control go to far. Humanity progressed due to cooperation not repression, that came later due to land possession, the earliest farming communities seem to have been egalitarian with no fixed governmental structure. The increase in population required government not for repression but for safety, the land possessed by the community had to be defended from outside communities. Property rights of the individual had to be protected with regulations. The corruption in government worldwide and the power of industrial complexes leading to wealth inequality is relatively recent, possibly only 2 to 3 thousand years old. Religion played an important role in power politics, think of 'the devine right of rule for kings', in Ancient Egypt the priesthood became so powerful that even a pharaoh had to wary of them. Early religions, as far as one can tell, weren't of a philosophical nature but based on animism and power. The Indus valley in India produced the first true spiritual deliberations which gave rise to the first mystics and eventually Hinduism which is also linked to Buddhism which came later as a less devine based religion. Certainly the Hindu 'Advaita Vedanta' and the Buddhist '4 noble truths' influenced human behaviour but it would be false to think that people in prehistory didn't know right from wrong, fairness and cooperation is built into every mammal that lives in groups. Spirituality has had to be rediscovered in the west, the basic mystical texts from the Jews leading eventually to Christianity have become so warped over time that the story has become more important than the message so that even the 14th Century German Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, was tried by the Catholic church, can't have ordinary people discovering spiritual truths, that would destroy the church.