Four Chiang Mai Policemen Receive Death Sentences

[Buchholz]

The other paper is reporting that four senior policemen (1 Senior Sargent-Major assigned to Doi Saket police station in Chiang Mai and 3 Sargent-Majors assigned to Mae Rim district) were all given death sentences today by the Criminal Court stemming from drug dealing charges in 2007.

Additional information when quotable sources are published.

*grrr... please excuse typo in title, should read Chiang Mai

Edited February 23, 2011 by Buchholz

[Gonzo the Face]

W O W ! !

[Buchholz]

The four convicted senior policemen receiving death sentences:

Thai Rath - Feb. 23, 2011

Article in Thai:

http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/151110

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

Being police officers then they should have known about the laws and penalties.

[Buchholz]

From the Thai Rath article, the four were caught out in a sting operation in Ayuthhaya when they attempted to sell 150,000 amphetamine tablets for 11,250,000 baht.

They were also convicted of various firearm and fraudulent documents charges.

[garyh]

The four convicted senior policemen receiving death sentences:

Thai Rath - Feb. 23, 2011

Article in Thai:

http://www.thairath....t/region/151110

What's with the "Your country can only view this image by logging into ImageShack"????

[Buchholz]

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

Edited February 23, 2011 by Buchholz

[jayjay0]

Well it would seem the justice system is not as corrupt as many would have one believe.

It is a good start. Now for the one in Pai. He is already serving a sentence for one murder. One down and one to go.

[Raindancer]

What a totally naive comment...They are all at it...This is Thailand. Corruption rules and the addage "that power corrupts" applies even to our western world.

Being police officers then they should have known about the laws and penalties.

[Raindancer]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

[garyh]

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

Chiang Mai, Thailand.

[Mario2008]

Title corrected

[garyh]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

I think he was reply to my comment about not being able to see the photo as all I see is a frog in an ice cube and a message saying I can't view from this country.

[ianf]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

I think he was reply to my comment about not being able to see the photo as all I see is a frog in an ice cube and a message saying I can't view from this country.

I am against death sentences. Period.

Edited February 23, 2011 by metisdead
Repaired a misquoted reply.

[garyh]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

I am against death sentences. Period.

I think he was reply to my comment about not being able to see the photo as all I see is a frog in an ice cube and a message saying I can't view from this country.

IanF Although I do not disagree with you please do not edit my post when you quote to make it appear as though I made the statement. You need to type outside the quote area.

[Wallaby]

Well stone the bloody crows. wonders will never cease.

Edited February 23, 2011 by Wallaby

[transam]

Theres going to be a few where l am shitting themselves.

[Buchholz]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

I think he was reply to my comment about not being able to see the photo as all I see is a frog in an ice cube and a message saying I can't view from this country.

exactly I was. I was wondering what he was going on about, but I sorry it wasn't clearer, as i did use the " ^ " marker to indicate above post reply. Still, it was an intriguing reply given that it was under a different context.

Anyway, to get back to the photo... now that is perplexing that you get that registration notice in Thailand.

Are other people in Thailand getting it or is the photo of the 4 bad cops visible?

.

Edited February 23, 2011 by Buchholz

[gotlost]

I think you make this too personal.

It does not matter which country you originate from...It is a question of upbringing,personal standards and morality. Get out a bit more in different countries and you will observe many types of corruption and double standards. It is also the same in western countries, but veiled under being a politician or a person who thinks that the law is beyond them....Take a look at the middle east, America, UK and other appointed persons wordlwide, who think that their position protects them from being indicted!!!!

What a sad world!!!!

^ I'm not sure.

I've never seen or heard of it being a problem before for Thailand or anywhere else.

I'm seeing without any difficulty.

If it's not overly personal, might I ask what country you're accessing from?

I think he was reply to my comment about not being able to see the photo as all I see is a frog in an ice cube and a message saying I can't view from this country.

exactly I was. I was wondering what he was going on about, but I sorry it wasn't clearer, as i did use the " ^ " marker to indicate above post reply. Still, it was an intriguing reply given that it was under a different context.

Anyway, to get back to the photo... now that is perplexing that you get that registration notice in Thailand.

Are other people in Thailand getting it or is the photo of the 4 bad cops visible?

.

OK I just clicked on a big ice cube with a frog and the photo came up. This was new to me and I'm sure to other posters. I thank the problem is there is nothing to indicate that this is a legit link.

[Buchholz]

Title corrected

Thank you for that.

And now that we have a quotable source to link it, please consider moving to thailand news forum given the scope of the news:

Police officers get death over drugs

Four border patrol policemen were given a death sentence Wednesday for possessing a large number of methamphetamine tablets with the intent to sell.

They were arrested in a sting operation three years ago.

The Criminal Court handed down the maximum penalty to the four Chiang Mai-based officers, overruling a legal condition that subjects convicts to a threefold sentence.

The convictions over the use and forgery of documents, and the unauthorised possession of firearms were also overruled by the death sentence.

The four convicts are Senior Sgt-Major Phoomiphiphat Thammasuhiran, Senior Sgt-Major Wiroj Moolphrao, Sgt-Major Tawan Kosutho and Sgt-Major Suthas Saipanya. In the sting operation, they sold 150,000 tablets to an undercover agent for Bt11.25 billion. (* I beleve that's a typo by The Nation. All other sources say 11.25 million baht)

The court dismissed their claim that they were investigating a drug-related case and that they had been tortured into making a confession.

-- The Nation 2011-02-23

[DP25]

Are other people in Thailand getting it or is the photo of the 4 bad cops visible?

.

Not visible. Get the picture of a frog inside an ice cube and 'unregistered domain. Go to imageshack.us to register'. Get it in pictures you posted in other threads as well.

[Buchholz]

That's the first time I've had any problems with that site, but whatever caused the glitch (and I'm not having difficulty seeing it personally), I've made the photo public so it should now be visible to all.

Edited February 23, 2011 by Buchholz

[ianf]

IanF Although I do not disagree with you please do not edit my post when you quote to make it appear as though I made the statement. You need to type outside the quote area.

Apologies. My error!

Edited February 23, 2011 by thaiphoon
Quote repaired

[orang37]

... snip ... I am against death sentences. Period.

Sawasdee Khrup Khun IanF,

We are in complete agreement with you: the use of a single, small, dot, the 'period,' to fatally terminate a sentence, while customary, is a relic of our savage and bestial nature.

Even though a more humane alternative exists, the use of ellipses: how very few can be bothered to type three dots in a row in our current culture of slack, apathy, and lascivious indifference !

And the insidious propaganda campaign against ellipses, denigrating them as "run-on sentences:" well, we know where the big money comes from that keeps that in motion, don't we: yes, the same oligarchs whose bloated fortunes are built on legislating schoolchildren's lunches to include genetically modified fast-foods; the same cabal of "big-pharma" that has ten percent of American schoolchildren on psychotropic drugs, and that invent some new neurological illness whose name always uses more than one of the following buzzwords: "attention," "deficit," "hyper," "hypo," "disorder," "social," ... often preceding ... one or more ... of the use of these individual words, in their new permutation, by the prefixes "dys," "anti," or "pro."

On a metaphysical level, we cannot help but believe that the use of the "period" via a small dot, rather than an extra-large one, is an attempt to repress the innate horror of it: by denying that it is a form of "capital punishment:" the equivalent of the special chemicals used to make a "Happy Meal" edible.

Beyond this superficial analysis, into the deeper existential meaning of humanity's addiction to "specific thoughts," the atomistic cartesian linearity which is a by-product of the invasion of the bi-cameral mind by the virus of language ... we dare not travel: for in that direction, perhaps, lies the "death sentence" for sanity, itself.

As for those four allegedly "bent" cops: well, to slightly mis-quote Dirty Harry: "Go ahead and make my daze, punks," with the caveat that a picture of a frog inside ice may be much more relevant.

best ~o:37;

Edited February 24, 2011 by orang37

[lungmi]

Thailand a Buddhist Country? With Death Penalty?. But not alone in Asia.

Only Kampuchea abolished it, when EU officials ( in the Constitution 1989 helped to make a step towards human civilization.

[transam]

Read a fiction novel with amazing facts in it called '' Bangkok 8 '' by John Burdett. Eye opener.