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And yet the last peer-reviewed external research on this said that all parties do voting buying equally and that it has no impact on the results. Maybe you have other research to add to this? As to the rest, that must be quite a fog you are living in given the events of recent years.

Same fella who sent his uniformed thugs out to hose, gas and beat up kids who were demanding, amongst other things, police reform.

It is illegal to import these. It is not illegal to own or use. The courts have already thrown out possession cases for that reason this year.

This broken, corrupt, creep personally killed an air quality bill a year or so ago because it impacted his mates, the large corporations who bear much of the responsibility for this annual (and worsening) poisoning of the Thai people. How many kids will have their lives forever impacted by his actions (or lack of actions) over the years?

Generals prosecuted for corrupt practices? It would never happen on Prayut's *watch*.

She said the other day that Prayut was not fit to be PM, something most of the nation knows.

Because, as per the earlier link, vaping is legal as is the sale of the devices in LOS; what is illegal is the importation of the liquid and the devices. Anutin is talking drivel for a change.

They are already legal it seems. Meanwhile millions get poisoned daily by the toxic air and his government does nothing because a large part of the reason is the large corporations that own that government. https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/no-vaping-and-vapes-are-not-illegal-in-thailand-heres-why/

It will only end when the system is cleansed to the top (and I mean above the police). Thus it will never happen. A land where convicted drug dealers are allowed to sit in the cabinet, a cabinet that exists because its head committed treason to get there, where the highest court in the land is filled with compliant political appointees is not a land where the police are required to be clean.

Chewing it is legal, the only ban is selling it unless it is "medicinal". That said, I've yet to read of a Singaporean roadblock where you pay cops $1000 in cash if you have it in your bag. As a rule, it's largely ignored by the local cops.

Of course they are scapegoats. The whole RTP is rotten to the core, as is the justice system, the military and the the corrupt, rotten government that oversees the lot. And nothing will change.

^^^ still waving a flag for corruption I see. 24 hours ago you were blaming the victim here. You are clearly unaware of the countless studies that have documented how much corruption adds to the daily cost of doing everything. It's a vast cost to the country and to everyone living in it, not only financially but in lives lost or destroyed (the road toll for example and the pilfering from hospitals or bribes in many rural areas for healthcare). I can't believe you actually wrote that.

Or do what other countries have done, bring in someone external - from another police force - and give them the authority to do what is needed. The courts similarly. And then do what Indonesia did, and create a powerful and clean anti-corruption body (to replace the NACC, which is, incredibly, headed by a policeman) to ruthlessly prosecute. Once you have the police and courts cleansed (it will take a while, you go after the rest). It will take decades but it could be done if the ruling elite had the will. They don't sadly.

The thing is, that as awful and wrong as this is, the cops must look at the corruption all the way up and think that if it's okay for a senior member of the government to have 22 Rolex watches obviously gained from corrupt practices (and get away with it), then what is wrong with us doing much the same. This is just a symptom of a far bigger malaise that infects the country to the core and has done forever. In the end, unless there is some sort of revolution, nothing will change and this will fade. I bet somewhere the cops extorted money from someone else last night. Of course they did...

Thong Lor PS did exactly that a decade back. Made a big difference of course ????

Being in newspapers in Thailand and on Thai social media is not exactly a hit career move. It's a non-story in Taiwanese media. Or are you that naive?

He eats pizza with them.

What happens in Thailand is hardly likely to turn her into a star. Yes. It had nothing to do with her fame. I bet they had no idea, she was just an easy target in the normal shakedown game. And yet the paper we are not supposed to name used to be full of these. So much so, that the ThongLor police chief had to issue an apology AND issued tourist cards telling foreigners what their rights were when cops tried to shake them down. His cops. Anyone out at night in the TL police area knows what a shakedown feels like. I've had it and said a firm no. My wife has had it several times. Why was she held for an hour late at night? Body searched? Passport examined? This is not normal policing, it happens for a reason.

Anyone who lives in the ThongLor police area as I do, and who goes out late at night, knows what these police shakedowns look like. They happen all the time and are money grabs. What is surprising is that this is in another part of the city. I guess the criminal enterprise that is the Thai police is nationwide.

Thankfully most of the world disagrees with you here. Please try to keep up.

If the RTP are involved, then the other party is automatically the one with the more credible story. How many times a month are they caught blatantly lying about (insert incident)? A similar case was documented in Phuket this week also involving e-cigarettes (the banning of which in itself is a high end scam by the biggest criminal organization in the country, the Prayut government). Thank god Herr General cleaned up the RTP as he promised 8 years back.

You forgot the pizza. That makes it admissible in court surely.

Indeed, that is exactly what came to mind. It took the front page of BP to get those stopped. There is quite some naïveté with those saying ‘but she had done nothing wrong’.

I'd suggest that this claim is nonsense. It's sold in local markets now and certainly around our way most users are happy Thais

Then the senators should be marched out to a parade ground in the middle of the gulf of Thailand and left there.