Permit today, gone tomorrow

[dazdaz]

I've now read a couple of stories about the Thai government taking away work permits.  I'm starting to wonder if their is an over eagerness of watching people make a mistake or slip up, and in the first instant they'll take away the work permit without a process of a first verbal warning, second written warning etc in order to make examples.

Perhaps there is an over eagerness to act in order to display a unified government who is over competent and willing to act.

Have they adopted a first strike, your out policy??

Take the story about the guy who ran the Shark nightclub in Phuket, did he receive several warnings which he blatantly ingored, or did they just turn nasty on him, considering as I understand it, he ran the place.  If so, that's a little scary to have your business whipped from under your feet and I wonder of the legal recourse available.

This is the perspective i've been building up, would it be correct or am I misreading events?

Cheers