kriswillems

I've ever called to the government hotline and to some kind of government anti-corruption line, to tell them corrupt police.
It was a pure waste of time.

If other monks than watthammagaay would be protesting, I would support it.

But Watthammagaay is one of the most controversial and rich Buddhist organisations in Thailand and a cleanup would be more than welcome.

I do however support the right on freedom of speech and I think they should have the right to protest (I am against the martial law),

just like the government should have the right to cleanup corrupt organisations.

Somsak is extreme (within the Thai context) but I think all opinions should be heard.
I agree with many of his view.
One thing I don't agree with is the approach he takes for getting to his goal.
I think he made too many personal sacrifices.

I follow him on facebook (since several months) and so do 140000 Thais.
It's a loss for Thailand.

Looking at the smile on his face this man is here to stay.

Good to see Thailand moving rapidly into the 16th century and still believing in magical powers. Well done. Religion(s) like this are the con of the millenia.

forgive me for correcting you... this is not 'religion' and nothing to do with 'Buddhism' it is hocus pokus claptrap for the gullible and ignorant

Buddism, when practiced and understood, is peaceful, loving and compassionate (i.e Dalai Lama) and so there is NO connection between jet setting, sexual deviant or pot boiling 'monks' and Buddhism

A huge amount of Thai Buddhist temples supports all kinds of superstition. Saying superstition and Thai Buddhism are unrelated maybe goes a bit too far.

Please translate this to your native language and share it to the public on facebook!

Any update on this?

It has been more than a year. Joseph, one of the boys killed was a friend at school of my son.
My son still talks regularly about him.
Did the murderer get death penalty?

I agree with เพื่อนกิน

I used to get in at the Thai price if I showed my Thai drivers license. Did that change?

On previous posts I've asked if you get the same performance out of 1 litre of NGV or LPG as you do out of 1 litre of gasohol? Answer-No.

So all you posters who refer to prices per litre going up or down are not comparing like with like.

NGV is sold per kg. 1 kg NGV has a slightly more energy than 1 liter gasohol (if it's good quality NGV).

LPG is sold per liter, 1 liter LPG has only 70% of the energy of 1 liter gasohol.

Before taxis used LPG. Now they have all switched to NGV. Since there's NGV their costs have gone down dramatically and their profits have gone up.

Taxi driver make a reasonably good income (compared to their qualifications).

There a too many taxis. The airport TAXI queue is a huge parking lot and the drivers have to wait for hours to get a passenger.

There are other taxi queues around the city. Sometimes the drivers have to pay a commission to the owner of the queue or has to pay a fixed amount to be allowed to use the queue.

The government should solve the problem of the queues - maybe make it more difficult to become a taxi driver. Remove all illegal queue around the city.

This would be a good thing for the taxi drivers and their passengers.

Indoctrination is a big problem in Thai schools and it's one of the things that makes me worry the most.

The level of indoctrination is enormous - probably similar to North-Korea.

There's really no way to escape from it except sending your children to a very expensive international school that doesn't follow the program of the ministry of education.
If you send your children to such a school, they'll most probably not be able to pass the entrance test at any government university.

That means your children are forced to go to a private university or study abroad.

Whenever my son arrives at home with new nationalistic and religious bullshit in his head I bluntly ask him if he's not sure they are trying to brainwash him.

At this moment he starts to recognize the techniques used to brainwash him.

However, in the end it's a battle I can't win, because the number of hour children are brainwashed is huge.
Basically 80% of the subject social science, which is a very big subject, is about brainwashing. And during the other subjects there's at least 15% brainwashing.

And there's one more thing to think about. Is it safe to think critically in Thai society? I think it's not. And I want that my son gets a safe future here.

So happy. Now lets just hope my son will not be sick on camp day.

Japanese are so cool and calm it's almost funny ! Love it!

If this is how much time it takes to lift the martial law, how much time will it take to return to a democracy?

I am pretty sure the army has no intention of leaving anytime soon - they are here to stay.
All this constitution writing is just an act.

Taxis use NGV at a price of 8.55 baht per kilogram.

A toyota ALTIS uses 8 kg per 100 km

A toyota INNOVA (van) uses 10 kg per 100 km

If they have to drive 100 km for 1 roundtrip to the airport the difference in cost for the driver is 2 kg NGV or 17B.

So, change the airport surcharge from 50 to 70B for vans and everything is solved.

The last man that allowed Japan to build this railway in Thailand was this dictator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaek_Phibunsongkhram
Is history repeating itself?

Cinderella also didn't die. She just never woke up.

The man has no idea what democracy means. He should buy a dictionary.

Even though the USA is 100% right they would better shut-up.
They are not helping anyone this way.
If they really want to force Thailand into a democracy they should use their economical power to do so, in stead of just using void words.