Anutin defends amnesty bill, says necessary to protect doctors

[webfact]

 

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul came out on Monday to defend proposed legislation that would grant amnesty to doctors and policy makers in charge of the country’s vaccination plan by saying it was necessary to give doctors ease-of-mind as they deal with the pandemic.

 

According to a leaked document secured by the Move Forward Party and released on Sunday night, the government aims on passing legislation that would exempt from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits those that decided the country’s vaccination plan.

 

In essence that would mean that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul, as well as the doctors that advised them, would be exempt from any future prosecution.

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/31014/anutin-defends-amnesty-bill-says-necessary-to-protect-doctors/

 

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[pegman]

Why are they so nervous? 

[jerrymahoney]

4 minutes ago, pegman said:

Why are they so nervous? 

Because win them or not, they may expect lots of suits to be filed, as are being filed all around the world ...  And they maybe don't want to spend years in court defending suits that may be eventually be thrown out as meritless.

[Somtamnication]

Is anyone surprised?

[Saddic]

They should model after what their new master's are doing...

 

China punishes dozens of officials as Delta outbreaks spread

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-09/china-punishes-local-officials-as-its-delta-outbreaks-expands

[rabas]

 

I am all for amnesty to protect doctors and medical people, right construction engineer Anutin?

 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, pegman said:

Why are they so nervous? 

Because it will certainly get worse before it gets better......

[CANSIAM]

Protests could intensify.............

[jerrymahoney]

The Bloomberg article linked above links to a Global Times article which cannot be posted here. Several (30) provincial level and district/city level hospital and health commission people were relieved of their posts. That's as high up as it got.

Edited August 9, 2021 by jerrymahoney

[sammieuk1]

Forget passing any meaningless bills just worry about the gallows when this is over ????

[tonray]

2 hours ago, pegman said:

Why are they so nervous? 

The escape plan "Chinese Submarines" are not yet in place...starting to sweat

[Hayduke]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul came out on Monday to defend proposed legislation that would grant amnesty to doctors and policy makers in charge of the country’s vaccination plan

 

Certainly they can fabricate enough false evidence to hang the whole tragic fiasco on some designated scapegoats. Make it look like the PM and his merry gang were merely innocent dupes of disloyal troublemakers….then send the lot of treasonous evildoers to prison for ten thousand years. Let the games begin!

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2021 by Hayduke

[SmartyMarty]

Cowards, traitors, despots.

[herfiehandbag]

They really are pathetic.

[BE88]

This night I had a bad dream of a gang of gangsters ruling Thailand

[jerrymahoney]

General consensus TV/AseanNow vox populi: The big shots should be tied to and burned at the stake.

Noted.

[dinsdale]

It's an old tactic and completly transparent. Make it so it's said to protect others whilst it actually protects us. Doctors working in the state system are ulimately under the duristiction of the state and that is where any blame lays.

[jerrymahoney]

Blame and legal culpability are not the same thing.

[head bender]

Of course he is only thinking of other people! Doctors and such...... His own culpability never entered his pirty head. Me I had nothing t do with it it,

was all the other people around me, I'm just the boss.... I'm not in charge you understand it's not my job.....

[TheFishman1]

How pathetic are they they done the worst job ever in the rollout and now they’re worrying about their own asses TIT

[jerrymahoney]

A lot of folks on here maybe got their legal chops assisting Vern Unsworth's taking Elon Musk to the cleaners.

[lolalol]

How about giving amnesty to all foreigners in LOS???, to give us ease-of-mind??? Why complicate things for us? huh?

Edited August 10, 2021 by lolalol

[jacko45k]

Just now, lolalol said:

How about giving amnesty to all foreigners in LOS???, to give us ease-of-mind??? 

What a heinous suggestion....you know we are the guilty party whatever the scenario. Apparently we all arrived at Swampy with suitcases full of plastic trays and empty drinks containers, to dump on the beaches, is an example!

[suestra29]

2 hours ago, rabas said:

 

I am all for amnesty to protect doctors and medical people, right construction engineer Anutin?

 

Agree but should exclude Anutin and Prayut. They should be charged with gross mishandling causing unnecessary deaths and ruining the economy

[Tarteso]

No see any face mask in pic..????

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

According to a leaked document secured by the Move Forward Party and released on Sunday night, the government aims on passing legislation that would exempt from criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits those that decided the country’s vaccination plan.

I would share my thoughts but I'd be suspended, so just let it be known I'm not a fan of this.

[jerrymahoney]

THAILND CRIMINAL CODE --  Chapter 4: Criminal Liability
 

Section 59. Intention or Negligence

A person shall be criminally liable only when such person commits an act intentionally, except in case of the law provides that such person must be liable when such person commits an act by negligence, or except in case of the law clearly provides that such person must be liable even though such person commits an act unintentionally.

 

To commit an act intentionally is to do an act consciously and at the same time the doer desired or could have foreseen the effect of such doing.

 

If the doer does not know the facts constituting the elements of the offence, it cannot be deemed that the doer desired or could have foreseen the effect of such doing.

 

https://library.siam-legal.com/thai-law/criminal-code-criminal-liability-sections-59-65/

 

(Siam Legal International does not claim any rights over the republication of Thai laws within this website.)

Edited August 10, 2021 by jerrymahoney

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Is anyone surprised?

Only that it took the 3rd wave to do it.

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

No see any face mask in pic..????

Good point. If it's a file photo it must be stated as such. If it's not a file photo the should be fined.

[mikebell]

15 minutes ago, suestra29 said:

Agree but should exclude Anutin and Prayut. They should be charged with gross mishandling causing unnecessary deaths and ruining the economy

I thought they (& all MPs) had already altered the Constitution to grant themselves immunity?