Dogmatix

Maybe reform needs to be pushed from the inside but Big Joke was allegedly a bag carrier for an influential person which was how he accidentally trod on the toes of a couple bag carriers for someone even more influential and got sacked from the police. He seems to have been deeply involved in corruption and influence peddling. So the reform thing is just a convenient hook to hang his hat on while it is a hot topic for a few days.

How does being vaccinated help when vaccinated people can still get infected and spread the virus about as easily as the unvaccinated, even if they don't get so sick.

They are always behind the curve which is how they imported delta. They waited several weeks while the delta wave of the pandemic raged in India, allowing arrivals from India to enter without quarantine and go all over the country. Many Indians with money fled to the UK to avoid the pandemic bringing it with them.

All the cops involved are accessories to murder, including the ones who walked into the room and watched without trying to intervene even if they were not part of the team but probably all were in the team. The doctor is an accessory after the fact. These are all criminal offences under the Thai Penal Code. There is also conspiracy to commit murder which Abhisit was unsuccessfully charged with re the 2010 crack down of red shirts. In that case it was impossible to prove that he deliberately targeted known individuals with the intent to cause death. In this case it should be easy to prove that they conspired to torture someone in a way that they knew was likely to cause death and were indifferent as to whether the victim might die. I think this is the same as premeditated murder. Being culpable of causing death unintentionally would be something like killing someone through reckless driving, with no particular victim in mind. They are all trying to use the Nuremburg defence that they were only following orders that they didn't agree with. That didn't work for the guys that got hung at Nuremburg and should not work here, although who knows with spineless Thai judges. They are obviously all thugs who were quite happy to torture and murder someone in the hope of a pay off.

We can all see the way this will go. The police chief has already make comments in support of the idea that the missing 100,000 speed pills were not actually seized and that it was not so bad because he was trying to get information rather than case out of the victim. There is a lot of money in this for senior cops and prosecutors and there are important businesses and franchises to be protected. They will all be out on bail soon intimidating witnesses, arranging for nasty accidents and destroying evidence. The trial will be delayed for at least 2 or 3 years until public interest has subsided. Then they will be acquitted for lack of evidence and reinstated with promotions and good service awards.

There does seem to be a clear implication that torture is fine to extract information (and presumably confessions). So why not bribes? The Kalasin case was particularly eggregious. A group of police colonels abducted a young boy, who was accused of stealing a motor bike, and they tortured, castrated and murdered him. Then they took him out into the woods and hung him to a tree to make it look like suicide. His aunt or grandmother, I can't remember which, campagned fearlessly for justice for him. The colonels were arrested after years of foot dragging. Then they were out on bail intimidating witnesses for about 8 years during which time all were reinstated into the police with back pay and promotions and given distinguished service cash bonuses before the case even went to trial. I think the female relative died before the case came up and they were all acquitted for lack of evidence.

Iguess that positives from ATKs will fall once they start importing the fake ATK tests from Lepu in China, as they reportedly had an unacceptable rate of false negatives which led them to be banned by the US FDA. I note that the importer that won the bid has only 5 million registered capital which may not be paid up and no corporate website but set up a dedicated website for these kits with hardly any information on it. The company shares an address in a residential neighourhood with another one product company that markets a pet deodoriser product. It is said in reports to be affiliated with a listed real estate developer that makes losses year after year but is not mentioned as an affiliate in that company's filings. I wonder what qualifications and experience are needed to win tenders from GPO. If bidders have no capital or assets, it will be hard to sue them for non-performance, if something goes wrong.

For sure he was involved in drug dealing and probably all or most Thai drug squads are. They don't have to run syndicates themselves. They just seize product from unaffiliated gangs and sell it on one of the gangs that are paying them to operate with impunity. Those gangs recruit small fry as dealers and couriers and shop 1 in 10 or so to the cops to get busted. So the cops have an easy life and act as middle men transferring drugs from one gang to another. In tourist spots like Koh Tao the cops allegedly do deal in drugs themselves. They sell to naive farang business owners, who are not doing well, to sell to their customers and then come along and bust them and get the product back for re-sale to some other mug.

This benefits only Palang Pracharat and Pheua Thai. Maybe they will form the next government together and bring home Thaksin after a massive offshore payment from him. In Thai politics there are no permanent friends or foes.

He acquired smuggled high end cars that had been seized. The collection also looks like he may have been trading in the cars. Some are very ordinary and may have been extorted from victims who handed over their cars in lieu of cash. For sure there is more than meets the eye in this collection.

When I was a teenager in Edinburgh I knew a slightly older guy who got arrested for possession of cannabis. I can't remember the details but he was really worried because the amount he had was just over the amount that would have been considered dealing and liable for a custodial sentance. But when they asked him to acknowledge the charge he was surprised to find that 75% of his stash had disappeared and he was only fined. The drug squad was known to be completely corrupt, although they didn't use plastic bags on suspects to my knowledge. But they were obviously doing the same thing on a regular basis and selling the surplus dope back into the market and allegedly consuming some of it themselves too. If that kind of nonsense can go on in relative rule of law jurisdictions, I would say the sky is the limit in Thailand. The product that is consigned for destruction must be small proportion of what is actually seized. In cases like this one where cops were intending the let the suspects off with an informal fine, they would obviously have taken the comoplete haul for re-sale. I would guess that all drug squads in Thailand are doing the same thing.

Assts declarations every year for anyone over the rank of lance corporal would be a good start.

A lot of people have complained about plastic bag torture by Thai police. You can see in the full length video clip that cops were walking in and out while the murder was in progress. They just came to have a look at the man thrashing about in his death thoes while being held down on the floor and went off about their business. Clearly an everyday affair for them. The only thing remakable about is that a cop took huge personal risk to blow the whistle. I would nt' be surprised to read that he has had a nasty accident in future.

There must be more senior cops implicated in this. You can't survive for long as a rogue operator in the police. They have to pay upfront for their positions and and pay monthly rent. This guy wasn't discrete, so it was well known he was making a lot of money and, if he didn't allow enough of it to flow up the pipe, he would have been reassigned to a poor rural district in Isaan.

Pfizer's full approval by the FDA should open the way for it to sell direct direct to the private sector bypassing crocked governments in third world countries. Moderna is was only a couple of weeks behind Pfizer in filing for full approval. The Thai government likes its import monopoly and will probably try to hang on to it by delaying full approval by the worthless Thai FDA. But ultimately they will not be able to control the imports just like any other vaccines and their idea of Pfizer for them and tiny quantities of Moderna distributed to private hospitals on a lottery system will fall apart, if supplies ramp up and vaccine need persists. Maybe Dr Boon will eventually get his order of Pfizer after all.

Did a search for Ostland Capital and couldn't find a website but it has only B5m in registered capital which is probably not fully paid up. So basically a shell company that has no experience and cannot be sued for non-performance because it has no capital or assets. Not the kind of company allowed to compete in government tenders in rule of law jurisdictions.

Rape them and then stone them for adultery.

The good doctor has not taken into account the political expediences created by the upcoming no confidence debate.

Procuring supplies of Afghan black for the Mary Jane projects in Buriram and poppies for the sinister minister.

The delay is necessary to ensure statutes of limitations expire and bent cops and prosecutors can never be prosecuted, just like Boss.

Good news about lower cases, easing lockdowns and reopening tourism is an absolute political expediency ahead of the no confidence debate targeting Prayut and Anutin for mismanaging the pandemic. The big target is an early general election in 1H21.

I have a bottle of ethyl alcohol ordered from a chemical supplier last year when COVID started and it was difficult to get the blue stuff. It was originally a 5L tank. It is colorless and smells like Bacardi. I tasted a drop on my finger and it was nice. I think it would be good with coke and ice but I haven’t tried drinking it or spraying it on food yet.

Gosh it’s so lucky for Prayut and Anutin that the numbers are rolling over just before the no confidence debate. Soon they will be able to fully reopen tourism and onwards to a general election in the New Year before the 4th waves gets going.

They also announced vaccines for SARS and Ebola that were never used. SARS petered out and better Ebola vaccines were produced sooner.

LIke the great victories and news of popular uprisings in the South that announced in the Hanoi newspapers during the Tet Offensive, while thousands of North Vietnamese young men were actually being slaughtered like cattle in a foot and mouth epidemic and there were zero uprisings in the South. The readers wondered why they never heard anything more of their sons who had been sent South. It is typical dictatorial propaganda trying to create a distraction from current catastrophes with fake news about victories.