Carolina man spends over 5 years in Thailand prisons, shares journey of survival, redemption

[rooster59]

Carolina man spends over 5 years in Thailand prisons, shares journey of survival, redemption

 

Jesse Moskel SOURCE: WIS

 

Jesse Moskel faced the death penalty for one drug charge and a life sentence for another in Thai prison

 

One Columbia man embarked on a trip to Thailand in 2007 after teaching English in South Korea for a year and ended up behind bars.

 

Jesse Moskel, who now owns a public relations firm in the Columbia area, faced the death penalty for one drug charge and a life sentence for another in Thai prison. After five years and time in five different prisons across that country, he came home to the U.S.

 

Moskel said he was sitting in a jail cell in 2008, crammed in with dozens of others. He had just been arrested and had no way to call loved ones or even a translator to explain his sheet of charges. That is, until he found another prisoner who spoke English, who delivered some devastating news.

 

Full story: https://www.wyff4.com/article/carolina-man-spends-over-5-years-in-thailand-prisons-shares-journey-of-survival-redemption/30398123

 

WYFF News 4: 2020-01-05

[holy cow cm]

Halleluja, another missionary is all we need in this world, especially one that comes back to Thailand and converts. Bet he won't make any money off of it.

[nausea]

Yeah, i knew an ex-copper in one of my previous incarnations (jobs), he said they didn't like bringing in reformed addicts to talk to schoolkids as they tended to be religious fanatics. That 6:1 ratio is a pretty good deal, us Brits should be so lucky.

[Gecko123]

The Rickshaw Shank Redemption?

[saakura]

Look at the good side. At least he reformed himself using religion as a crutch. Better than turning into a hardened criminal after so many years inside.

[BigStar]

52 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Halleluja, another missionary is all we need in this world, especially one that comes back to Thailand and converts. Bet he won't make any money off of it.

Maybe if you converted you could stop worrying about money so much.

[simon43]

45 minutes ago, saakura said:

Look at the good side. At least he reformed himself using religion as a crutch. Better than turning into a hardened criminal after so many years inside.

I think many using religion ARE hardened criminals.....

[RichardColeman]

A Columbian drug dealer ? That's a novelty

[BigStar]

2 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

A Columbian drug dealer ? That's a novelty

But ignorance of spelling and geography isn't.

[Misterwhisper]

So previously he was luring people into drugs... and now he's trying to lure them into religion? Where's the redemption part? 

[tonray]

"Moskel said he was charged with the death penalty and a life sentence for manufacturing and dealing drugs, a crime to which he admits"

 

Sounds about right....what does he have to complain about....

[holy cow cm]

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

Maybe if you converted you could stop worrying about money so much.

Sounds as if you are a missionary from your inane post to me. Weak people are like that.

[zydeco]

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But he said instead of turning towards illegal activity like many of his fellow prisoners, he turned to God and books

And you can probably add crusading against plastic bags to that list. Fanatic for one thing, fanatic for all things.

[metempsychotic]

11 minutes ago, zydeco said:

And you can probably add crusading against plastic bags to that list. Fanatic for one thing, fanatic for all things.

Seems the whole plastic bag thing has hit people on thaivisa almost as hard as tm 30 or mandatory insurance. 

 

How do you fellows manage to cope in the face of such adversity?

Edited January 5, 2020 by metempsychotic

[pmh2009]

3 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Halleluja, another missionary is all we need in this world, especially one that comes back to Thailand and converts. Bet he won't make any money off of it.

Wow you are a real negative person!!!! 

[metempsychotic]

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He said learning Thai was one of his saving graces. He wrote letters in Thai to the Thai consulate that went unanswered for three years. Until one day, Moskel said the Thai consulate paid him a visit with Moskel’s letters in tow.

“It was entirely unexpected,” Moskel said. “The embassy just doesn’t visit prisoners in Thailand. But this guy came down without his entourage and he was actually smiling and it was covered in red ink on both sides.”

The consulate told Moskel he was going home, and after five years, Moskel made his way back to the U.S. where he served time and was released from prison after a few months later.

Though I understand few have actually read the whole story,  this makes absolutely no sense. 

 

Why would he write to the thai consulate, and if he wrote to his own consulate, why would he write in thai?

 

As for the rest, hes just another newly reformed  god botherer seeking attention.

[Nyezhov]

17 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Sounds as if you are a missionary from your inane post to me. Weak people are like that

I dont know dude, missionaries are pretty tough, like how would you like being flayed alive by howling Iroquios?

[Gillyflower]

I can't read the full story, because it 'is unavailable in my area'.

[holy cow cm]

16 minutes ago, pmh2009 said:

Wow you are a real negative person!!!! 

Thank you. How is that for being nice.

[scubascuba3]

We can only hope no movie will follow

[holy cow cm]

9 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

I dont know dude, missionaries are pretty tough, like how would you like being flayed alive by howling Iroquios?

Yes Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me. About as much as being headhunted. Well besides the companies that already do.

[Nyezhov]

1 minute ago, holy cow cm said:

Yes Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me. About as much as being headhunted. Well besides the companies that already do.

Im not talking about Jesus, Im talking about faith. 

 

Faith makes folks strong. You can have faith in anyhting you want, but folks without faith just aint as strong as those who got it.

[NancyL]

34 minutes ago, metempsychotic said:

Though I understand few have actually read the whole story,  this makes absolutely no sense. 

 

Why would he write to the thai consulate, and if he wrote to his own consulate, why would he write in thai?

 

As for the rest, hes just another newly reformed  god botherer seeking attention.

I agree, this part of the story jumped out at me.  He would have written to the U.S. Embassy/Consulate, with no need to write in Thai.  And they do visit prisoners from time-to-time, especially if family members from the U.S. request.  Also, English-speaking members of church groups visit some prisons regularly.  I find it hard to believe that he didn't have any contact with people on the outside.

[Tropposurfer]

10 to 1 this guys a born again Pentecostalism. Mad the whole lot of em’ 

Mass hypnosis and hysteria is the way they congregate and brainwash each other.

Go take a listen to the perverse stuff they teach and offer to those who join their ranks: righteousness beyond all other people, select privilege and arrogance beyond belief because you have a direct communication line with Jesus, rationalising said righteous privilege to rip others off in business while at the same time patronising non Pentecostals because they’re not saved and therefore ignorant and blinded because your church tells you you have a right to riches because your one with god. Make no mistake this form of Christianity is plain evil, a cult that stretches across the globe and has the ear of some of the worlds most powerful politicians.

[Andrew65]

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

And you can probably add crusading against plastic bags to that list. Fanatic for one thing, fanatic for all things.

New converts to anything tend to be the most zealous.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

That is, until he found another prisoner who spoke English, who delivered some devastating news.

Your my new bitch?

[maxcorrigan]

If you are using a vpn turn it off and try again, worked for me! (In answer to Gillyflower's post)

Edited January 5, 2020 by maxcorrigan

[holy cow cm]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Im not talking about Jesus, Im talking about faith. 

 

Faith makes folks strong. You can have faith in anyhting you want, but folks without faith just aint as strong as those who got it.

Yes I have faith but not with any organized God religions and it’s in and on my own terms. I prefer temples and to think of God as I see him if that is close to what you are thinking. Also think of my passed away mom and dad for strength. Faith is the infinity force? Faith is something of good that keeps you going? Something to live for? But guys like this are sort of off the edge and then go too far into the god card thus trying to convert everyone as he said he did in THAI jail and would again as you can think to all. He is nothing more than it looks as to be a Newly born god scammer who got lucky to have his life back. I would think I am more holy and real than him. One thing I currently do not have faith in is an immigration policy that will get better for us here. Enough blabbered.  
 

 

[DrTuner]

5 hours ago, saakura said:

Look at the good side. At least he reformed himself using religion as a crutch. Better than turning into a hardened criminal after so many years inside.

Depends. If he starts a cult many more lives will be spoilt. Religions are poisonous.

[Nyezhov]

2 hours ago, DrTuner said:

. Religions are poisonous.

As is secularism.