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NOC

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  1. I safely run red lights all the time. I was advised to when I first moved to Thailand. The reasoning is, so you don't get rear-ended by some shmuck.

  2. All the expats who live in the lap of luxury here are quick to condemn the poorest dregs of society here without a thought as to the lives of those involved.

    I don't condone the actions of this pathetic excuse of a human being,but I do take into account the ever increasing social divide within the Kingdom which obviously does little to help those at the bottom of the socio economic ladder who are more often than not the perpetrators of these crimes.

    Rather than spouting off why don't some of our Thai Visa regulars make a donation to a charity which may assist in helping to deter these grave acts being repeated time and time again.

    Thailand got hundreds of millions of dollars when the tsunami hit in '04, it hasn't changed a single thing.

    Cut is Vienna Sausage off. That changes things!

  3. Most foreigners in western countries would also just stand and watch. scared to get beaten up their selves.

    You got it so wrong! Most foreigners in western countries would step in and stop the violence. We understand fairness and compassion. We know when something is not right, and that is why don't understand Thainess, and we don't want to!

  4. Give the Thai Government some credit! They have reduced slavery in the Thai fishing industry. (In fact their investigations into this in April 2015 opened the whole 'can of worms' Bengali/Rohingya migrant trafficking issue); they have introduced a trawler registration system into which illegal trailers cannot be registered; they have passed a new Fishery Law- first one since 1947 which introduces international standards of sustainability for the fishing industry ; and they have introduced a minimum cod end mesh size of 5cm on trawlers, which will reduce the environmental damage caused by trawling. Whether these will be enough to lift the yellow card is hard to say. But IMHO it would be hard on the Thais if they were to receive a second yellow and be sent off in the european fisheries export game.

    Quite obviously, you're either from Thailand, or you drank the kool aid.

    How can you even consider being merciful to a people who have had nothing but unmitigated contempt for another?

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