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1 hour ago, Thechook said:

Checking papers and asking where they are going.  Freedom isnt really one of Prayuths likes.  The military shouldnt be oppressing citizens like this, its archaic and barbaric and no place in modern society.

No, instead they should let the redshirt going on a rampage.....again.

Burning buildings, killing others, placing and throwing bombs, threatening to form an army, threatening to break up the country, and so on.

That of course is not archaic and barbaric, but hugely democratic.

All this Yingluck business is just a clash between two factions, both intent of holding on or gaining power.

23 minutes ago, gummy said:

You would also remember then of the 58 murdered by the military, 38  Red shirt supporters were shot in the back

And maybe you remember the burnings and murders before and after that done by the redshirts and ordered by redshirt leaders?

Besides, there is reasonable doubt if all the deaths can be blamed on the military.

There is also the deaths during the "Suthep" demonstrations.

Anther case of "whodunnit"?

4 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

If he is an 'idol', it doesn't say much about the people who 'idolise' him !

To the contrary!

It says everything about the people "idolising" him.

17 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Guess they never heard of rubber bullets, which have been around for, oh.... YEARS! 

 

Or maybe, paintballs.

Shot with enough power and with a substantial weight, it will hurt mightily.

But like rubber bullets, if hitting the wrong spot, can still kill.

1 hour ago, DoctorG said:

This should not be a revelation. Intimate touching without consent is always sexual harassment.

Even looking without consent is sexual harassment nowadays, they say.

Men and women should never touch each other, it is dirty.

Women-women and men-men seems to be ok, in private and in public.

9 minutes ago, HHTel said:

Shame you didn't channel your efforts into English Language!

You did, presumably, too much.

And as a result now tend to forget many readers hail from non- English speaking countries.

And how many languages are you proficient in?

12 hours ago, YetAnother said:

i presume that the death penalty here exists when humans act unhumanlike; well , what clearer case , in excess of even that generality , than this one ? even animals do not act such

But they do!

2 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

While there is no doubt that the Shin family will be very influential in the party for many years to come, I truly hope that they choose an outsider, non-family member as Leader.

 

Thailand needs a party to challenge the Bangkok elite, and it would proceed much more smoothly without a Shin family member in charge.

 

Perhaps then the 'establishment' might actually have to come up with policies that attract supporters rather than whinge endlessly about the opposition.

Thailand needs a party to challenge the Bangkok elite?

With a party owned by a clan hellbent on making the country a private playground for personal gain and using the state's money to bind the poor?

You really think that is a good thing?

1 hour ago, gummy said:

so the instruction to have working one water pump will be sufficient to pump away a few hundred cubic metres per hour across the entire flood prone  region ?  This guy is either yet another Thai male ignoramus or else something has been lost in translation.  Or simply both

I presume the pump mentioned shall have a good capacity.

But sometimes nature is stronger as anything humans can fight it with.

Then you can only hope!

11 hours ago, TVGerry said:

So sad. Not only extorted by the corrupt locals but also by fellow refugees. 

Who am I to guess he was cleaned out by people from the same area he comes from.

1 hour ago, tracker1 said:

He always likes to ask the people which I find commendable only problem is his opinion rules ! “If the Thai people all over the country find it acceptable for unrest to happen again, I will not stand in the way,” he said, and who or what will be the cause of unrest ?

The redshirt leaders.

1 hour ago, sweatalot said:

The culprit is not the hill but the drivers.

 

They should ask their gods to make the drivers more responsible and more skillful and the car owners more responsible for their cars.

Besides, it is said, Chinese gods only do their jobs in the middle kingdom and only for Chinese.

Besides, they can easily be foiled and bought.

On 1/16/2016 at 1:11 PM, Gulfsailor said:

The star ratings of these 5 mentioned Thai airlines does surprise me somewhat. If I had to predict beforehand, based on my experience flying them all numerous times, I would have gone with;

Orient Thai: 1star

Nok Air: 2stars

AirAsia: 3 stars

Thai Air: 4stars

Bangkok Air: 4+stars

What might have skewed the results is the difference between long haul fligh and only short haul flight airlines. Short haul airlines are generally a lot more dangerous due to the inherent risk of take of and landing and use of smaller (prop) planes.

Anyway, still plenty work to do for all Thai airlines!

How did you get the idea propellor planes are less safe?

Maybe valid for piston engines, but turboprops are actually safer as jets and cheaper to run.

And where did you get the idea smaller aircraft are less safe.

Your only valid point is more take off and landings.

But there again, a prop is much safer.

14 hours ago, Briggsy said:

What is it with East Asians and drowing on holiday in Thailand? If it is not the Chinese, it is the Koreans. It is at least 2 every week, if not considerably more.

Like most Thai, not able to swim?

14 hours ago, Bobobirdiebuddy said:

Glad to see the government actually neutering strays. Now only 129,000 soi dogs..

129,000 stray dogs?

Probably 1,290,000

The danger of walking on railway lines is quite obvious but largely ignored in Thailand.

If you decide to walk on railway lines if something goes wrong, it is you who is to blame and not the train or driver.

1 hour ago, catman20 said:

thats the way i read it also

How?

Because they can and they do.

17 minutes ago, seajae said:

I thought officers were given a commission meaning they had to serve a certain amount of time, resigning should not be possible especially after the way he was given his rank, then again he does have family in top positions to do as they please and screw the regulations

If the study in any way might benefit the army or the country, it is quite possible in many countries to leave the army and become a reserve.

Also, in many countries, including western countries, family members or friends get a favourable treatment, more or less invisible of course.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Firs, TG should be ultimately responsibility for all mishapps under it's

control and supervisions no matter who have committed the infractions,

second, if you employ outsiders, they should be monitored at all times,

third, as a member already pointed out, it takes only one crazy loan wolf

a sympathizer of this or that cause to bring a fully loaded plane down,

do we really need a calamaty to happens before ' security will be stepped up '

headlines?....

 

Slip something into your luggage?

Quite possible, and happened before with disastrous results for the owner of the suitcase.

8 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Yingluck AND her Government set up the rice pledging scheme. Totally dishonest and corrupt people then abused the system and robbed an estimated 469 Billion baht. It strikes me that it is the people involved with the corruption who should have been chased down, assets frozen and be in court. The fact this is not so, in any major way, has "political prosecution" and witch hunt written all over it.

Sometimes the head honcho has to shoulder the ultimate blame, which is one of the risk of being the head honcho.

1 hour ago, missoura said:

Even after all these years of reading Thailand based newspapers about the problems in Southern Thailand, I am still confused. My Thai wife has always been told and believes that the problems in the south actually stems from years of sending all the inactive police posts from Thailand down there. Could be, I have no idea.

The problem is Islam.

Time for martial law.

13 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Worse now indisputably, but it was always thus. 

Blame the coup for everything wrong in the country, but most of all wrongs existing for decades.

People have very short memories and tend to forget why the army decided to step in.

11 hours ago, Bobobirdiebuddy said:

Put this scum under the jail.

Why is it that Thai women don't want to understand that massage jobs abroad will mostly end up in sex jobs?

3 hours ago, Thechook said:

Never ends

 

Junckers is so sorry?

When will he understand he and his EU friends are guilty about letting in so many of potential terrorists?

He should just shut up!

5 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

447 witnesses? What a joke.  These two guys are guilty by race and nothing else.

Not race.

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