Tatsujin

It's all moot. It happened under a legal SoE.

Then why not starting from the beginning? Reopen Thaksin's asset concealment case, were he got off scott free because some of the judges though, "hey he is gulty all right, but if we sentence him there's going to be trouble"

Or maybe reopen the case of "Shipping Moo", key witness on a fraud case against Thaksin's company, murdered before he could testify.

I mean, clean slate, begin from scratch, right?

Or maybe we should get on with our lives and let Taksin get on with his.

Ah yes, the look-the-other-way-when-you-see-wrong c#ap.

It's Thaksin (with an H) that should let Thailand and it's inhabitants get on with their lives, instead of insisting in his right to rule over the country, leading his band of political mercenaries and red shirted sycophants into his goal of a dynastic kleptocracy.

Unfortunately his ego and incessant need to line his own pockets means that he will never give up and never stop trying.

I think the only hope to possibly stopping the massive amount of corruption in Thailand and changing the general Thai attitude that corruption is okay is for the 2 most highly respected institutions in Thailand, namely the Royal family and the Buddhist Monks, unite to do a massive campaign against it. They could really promote how Un-Buddhist like corruption is, how much it hurts the country, your fellow Thai and the Thai culture in general. Someone has to put their foot down to stop this and those 2 institutions are the only ones that have the moral authority to be successfully at doing this as most Thais in general do listen to and respect those 2 institutions . Otherwise I think it is hopeless and will only get worse.

Not having encountered Buddhism before coming to Thailand, I was of the understanding that bribery is what Thai Buddhism is all about, i.e. pray and leave an offering and ask for what you want. I give to you, you give to me. Is that not correct?

Thailand is not run by a family it is run by a Liberal government.

Are you actually living in Thailand or do you just simply believe all the bullshit you read?

No nation holds the PM responsible for loss of life during a riot.

There was no riot.

There was a 2006 coup - a delayed reaction protest against that coup in 2010 - an attack resulting in many deaths on those protesters instead of an easily achievable political solution - A protest and acting in self-defence does not a riot make - the protesters demands for an election and not letting the coup 'stand', were vindicated in subsequent elections.

The election validated the protesters as they knew they were being governed by an electoral minority.

Responsibilities for the deaths from those political events need to be ascertained, in order to give pause to future endeavours in this regard.

This applies in equal measure to both sides.

Are you for real?

He's obviously off his meds and his memory is fading . . . I remember riots and storming of buildings.

Ah, Thai Visa members chortling as they patronise and insult their hosts . . .

But . . . but . . . but . . . it's just so easy!!!!

Rising household debt is not a concern, Somchai said, as it has not yet reached a critical level.

Outstanding consumer loans surged 20.4 per cent year on year to Bt2.75 trillion while defaults on personal loans jumped by 37.8 per cent and on credit cards by 11.1 per cent.

Hey Somchai, When will you become concerned? After defaults have reached a critical level? Great plan!

"Money for nothin and checks for free" Dire Straits.

An easily solvable problem BY NOT BORROWING MONEY FOR THINGS YOU DON'T NEED (new iphone, new car, new house etc).

So, is the civil service health scheme costing B70 billion covering 5 million civil servants just overly generous or is it the national health scheme (a.k.a., gold card/30 baht program) cosing B100 billion covering 48 million people greatly underfunded?

Both . . .

With the new increases in salary for Govt employees, why can't they just take a cut of this to fund it all?

Maybe it's just me, but I always "check" the route independently/separately before blindly following any directions . . .

Sounds similar to a lot of the people in the UK that found themselves driving into the sea after following some GPS directions . . . if they are that stupid, or inattentive to the road conditions and positioning etc they shouldn't be on the road at all lol

Am guessing BigC is British, if so it was the good ol' British sarcasm at work lol

For a small fee, it might actually be the case that he was found to be delusional and not actually there at all ...

The most interesting part of this I found was that David was arrested whilst using an ATM. For those doubters out there that keep saying the Police are useless, I suggest that they are not as inept as you all think. My experiences with the Cyber Crimes Division showed they are catching up with the rest of the world pretty quickly and "can" track people electronically pretty easily now.

Mass surveillance of civilian populations on the pretext of catching criminals is not a replacement for police work. It's exactly the opposite.

I was not suggesting anything like mass surveillance. I was suggesting they placed an "alert" on the guys cards so that when they were used, the location is flagged and, if they are on the ball enough, can arrest on scene. That is the far likelier scenario in this case.

Just see that Thread.

After the first Posting and with 0 Posts coming to start that Thread, I knew that is a Troll!

No, this is a troll . . .

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All goverments are corrupt,not only in this country.

sent from the jungle using my I pad drum kit

Yes they are to one degree or another. But Thailand ranks right up there at the top with the blatant self-serving thievery. And that is the same no matter what "color" they are.

As a foreigner I still do not understand what Thaksin did or did not do that on the face of it gives him such appeal to many Thais and yet attract a large degree of condemnation from foreigners.

Everything Thaksin has done/did has (if you buy into the propaganda) been (on the face of it) for the "people" of Thailand.

If you are able to look beyond that, you'll see that everything he has done/did was for HIS benefit and HIS benefit alone. Why do you think he is so rich? He didn't get that way by any honest means.

There's an easy answer to this one, they can use the same principle that they use with foreigners and problems such as car accidents. If you weren't here, it wouldn't have happened, therefore it's your own fault.

I'm sure Chalerm will pop round with a report of how he has eliminated all those tourist mafias.

. . . only after yet another overseas fact-finding mission with his cronies at the taxpayers expense . . .

Oh, I should add the .co.th domain must exactly match your registered company name or they won't do it.