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Impunity for the rich and powerful undermines Thailand’s democracy


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Even among the rich and powerful, there are unequal justice. The uniformed and politically correct alignment will get you favor and blind eye from the prosecution. 

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It’s no surprise here that the corruption from the top goes all the way to the bottom look at the way they greeted the ex Prime Minister who they said was sentenced to eight years that night he slept in the lecture room in a hospital then he gets poured into one year in the hospital is going to say that he can go home and serve the one year at home because he’s healthy TIT 

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6 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

Whatever happened to the cop who used plastic bags and killed the kid in the police station? You know the guy they had millions of dollars with the cars in his garage what ever happened with him TIT

good question!!

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9 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

It seems to be no different in the UK or the US if we are honest. Look at Biden and his son or the hundreds of millions squandered on well connect UK government contracts. More often than not investigations lead to nowhere. 

There a certain amount of this in all countries.  Some more than others. 

The difference between Thailand and the examples you give is that the ones in Thailand are mostly in the past. The double standards have already taken place and unless the Red Bull one leads to justice, which I doubt, that will be the same. 

In the US it's all ongoing. Hunter Biden's case is going through the courts. There  doesn't seem to be any evidence against Joe Biden, but that might change so at this stage nothing has been dropped due to wealth or influence. Donald Trump doesn't seem to be able to avoid criminal charges either through wealth or position.

 

In the UK we had the expenses scandal and some did go to prison for their part. Without looking it up Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer both went to prison despite a certain wealth and position.  There's a list of 70s celebrities that went the same way. 

Jimmy Saville did avoid detection due to the danger of accusing him of acts without sufficient evidence, so it does happen,  but if he had gone to court and been found guilty, he wouldn't have been able to avoid prison. 

I assume you're referring to contracts for PPE during Covid. I don't know if there's any possible litigation there, either in the future or ongoing. It may be that a lot of it, whilst being unethical, wasn't illegal.

 

Let's hope that in future Thailand can change. The Thaksin story doesn't bode well, although that's not easy to talk about here.

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30 minutes ago, impulse said:

It's only a problem if you're not rich and powerful.  For them, it's working exactly as intended.

 

indeed

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