Chalerm Vows To Get Rid Of Mafia In Thai Tourism Businesses Within 3 Month

[TheCure]

For once Chalerm masters the topic at stake

[LuckyLew]

To use a quote from Winston Churchill

every time he speaks he decreases the sum total of human knowledge

[fstarbkk]

you will never get rid of them in 90 days, the maths doesn't add up, that means you need to get rid of 500,000 a day haha

There is a higher probability that the mafia will get rid of all the tourists in that space of time.

[MEL1]

If you are really believing you can achieve this, then here's a piece of advice for you, Khun Chalerm:

1. Sack the tourist Minister.

2. Sack all of your immediate staff and reporting officers.

3. SACK YOURSELF!!

-mel.

[FOODLOVER]

I could do it in two.

[Jessi]

I cant wait to see this happen.

Just hope i live long enough to see it.

[noahvail]

I cant wait to see this happen.

Just hope i live long enough to see it.

Me too... but the doc has only given me 30 years to live, so I don't know...

[steveromagnino]

He probably has no intention of clamping down on the mafia directly; that isn't the end game.

He is taking on the political might of Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket and other locations, and will lean on the workers in those locations, to foster discord and also to try to open up a way to encourage a better working relationship with Peua Thai for the voting minions at the bottom of the chain; it has nothing to do with the end tourists other than to appear to do something is always better than to appear to do nothing. Obviously, actually doing something is better than appearances, but actually doing something doesn't matter here.

Phuket is the main target because it is not pro PT. Pattaya is a soft target just to keep the Palungchon guys in line.

It is the same as the war on drugs, not a single major king pin caught, no real change it is a shake down of the little fish to help the big fish.

If he was serious about addressing crime, maybe re-opening up the case where the son of a prominent politician alledgedly gunned down a police man in cold blood in front of eye witnesses after a series of similar altercations with others, and then the senior politician helped him evade the law for several months (I don't use the words allegedly because he openly has explained how he did it switching phones, visiting abroad, etc) until all eye witnesses disappeared or became unwilling or unable to recall what had happened...perhaps that would prove a more interesting and newsworthy use of our time.

Now I realise double jeopardy applies, but if constitution law can be changed solely as a result of a popularity contest, I think a referendum on the popularity of reprosecuting the son might prove useful in order to use the PT approach to justice where 'I am more popular than you' means 'I am more right than you' and also 'I am more innocent than you'

It's all good times these days.

Edited June 22, 2012 by steveromagnino

[Skywalker69]

Khun Chalerm run out of medicin again?

[coma]

Good idea. How do they plan to do it ? They would have to look into investigating alot of the BIB and other local government officials.

[Moruya]

4 billion "ha"s

The wife just peeled me off the floor with a fish slice

Now that's a fight I want to see. Paint Chalerm Farang colour and have him take a songteaw in Patong, a jet ski in Pattaya, and a tuk ruk in Bangkok

How about a hotline direct from tourists to Chalerm?

[JoeLing]

Just wonder if this is some kind of a Thai copy of some Nigerian Scam?

Just wonder how much he will be able to scum out of the government before

he goes in to "voluntarily exile" and then asks for reconciliation?

I believe he already sorted out his retirement home far away from government control

" He said local officials would have to crack down on these gangs or

he would visit the provinces himself to deal with the problem."

Watch out Chalerm, you might get robbed, scammed and stabbed down here

[Yunla]

File under 'zero songkran deaths this year'.

[JoeLing]

Just wonder if this is some kind of a Thai copy of some Nigerian Scam?

Just wonder how much he will be able to scum out of the government before

he goes in to "voluntarily exile" and then asks for reconciliation?

I believe he already sorted out his retirement home far away from government control

" He said local officials would have to crack down on these gangs or

he would visit the provinces himself to deal with the problem."

Watch out Chalerm, you might get robbed, scammed and stabbed down here

Just thinking, Chalerm might have a point in

".... visit the province himself to deal with the problem"

the mafia sees him, listen to him then fall over from laughing and die

[Thaddeus]

4 billion "ha"s

The wife just peeled me off the floor with a fish slice

Now that's a fight I want to see. Paint Chalerm Farang colour and have him take a songteaw in Patong, a jet ski in Pattaya, and a tuk ruk in Bangkok

How about a hotline direct from tourists to Chalerm?

That'll be 1-666.

[Crushdepth]

Thai politicians must really be cynical about the intelligence of their electorate, that's all I can conclude.

[uranuss]

File under 'zero songkran deaths this year'.

next to "the end of trouble in the south" and "no floods this year"

[Rancid]

Let's see, first visted Thailand in 1987, all the scams were running then, 26 years later they are still running. Call me a cynic if you will, but would seem that the Thais have their reasons for allowing it all as TPTB are well aware of it. Presumably it would be due to the trickle up effect that fattens so many pockets, that and regardless of how many tourists get ripped off or worse the planes keep coming.

So this is a nice story for domestic consumption and a for a few foreigners unaware of how things run. They will squeeze and screw the tourists beyond the next ice age, numbers falling won't stop it, murders won't, travel warnings won't, tsunamis won't, the money must flow.

[phl]

So does that mean all police force would be dismissed and replaced? Because from what i know it is police who are the mafia. I am not aware of any other mafia gangs operating in tourist zones.

Even people like jet ski's operate under police umbrella, so who exactly is he going to get rid off??

[Bluespunk]

……and he's back.

[jackspratt]

My understanding is that Chalerm will promote his youngest son to sort the problems out.

If people don't step into line, Duang Yubamrung will just shoot them. Various military honours and further public service sinecures will follow as a matter of course.

[surangw]

He wants his share?

[pipo1000]

I guess he gonne make them an offer they can't refuse.

Edited June 22, 2012 by pipo1000

[sandgroper2]

About 4 months ago, the army chief said he was going to end the killings in the south within 12 months. Thailand, your a joke.

Edited June 22, 2012 by sandgroper2

[phl]

About 4 months ago, the army chief said he was going to end the killings in the south. Thailand, your a joke.

Thailand the new HUB OF VOWS

[Mosha]

An old Chemistry teacher at Grammar School was famous for his quotes. Guess which suits Chalerm.

A. Watch the board while I go through it.

B Get out boy you're in (detention)

C Every time I open my mouth, some fool speaks

[swillowbee]

... awww, c'mon! ... there's no mafia ... they are just ... well ... just being Thai!

[ginjag]

Chalerm will call a meeting and summon AOT-BIB-TAT-Jet ski-taxis-tuk tuk-King power-resort city councils-His own cabinet-government-local goverment contracts-Phuket admin-Samui airport monopoly- anymore ??? come on posters, bashing again I am but a statement like this, and gamble/drug crackdowns again PEWK. Welcome any genuine concerted effort --sure.

[lensta]

"Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung Friday has vowed to get rid of the mafia groups in the tourism business within three months".

Maybe he will move them to inactive posts!

[espinoza]

"He said local officials would have to crack down on these gangs or he would visit the provinces himself to deal with the problem." If he don`t se improvments and has to visit them, somebody will be transfered.

I think expensive taxis is a minor problem versus all the tourists that cant return home because they are dead by some kind of poisioning, it be by dirty food or premediated acting.