johntren Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Normally I just laugh & shrug when I read these outlandish claims, but this one .... it's annoying. Really annoying. I hope the Governor has good private protection. Most of Bangkok's police generals and colonels will now be too busy rearranging their pension plans to give much thought to drive-by shootings, bombings, etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamypoko Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Just copy the American "war on drugs".....that has been such a success....for the prison operators, drug cartels, lawyers, etc who have made billions while drug use has soared. We're/they're 1 for 2...we did fix the war on alcohol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungmi Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 It's irony. You can believe really that this post is on the level of human thinking? Sorry, we had aberration in the Nazi-past. Sacrifice some Jewishs to save the pure race of the blond, blue eyed imbecilic. ---------- Quote ----------- Thats precisely why we need the man back, his attitude to drugs are utterly ruthless. a lot of innocents went missing you say? the big question is would you sacrifice 1000 to save one million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alfalfa19 Posted August 22, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2013 The fact that somebody makes a statement like this shows that they know nothing about the nature of addiction. As long as their are humans, there will be drug addiction. You can lock up a bunch of them, as has been done in thailand and elsewhere, you can even murder thousands of them, as has been done in thailand. The problem will not go away. This is just more ass clown pomposity, combined with ignorance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Oh please, stop it your killing me A drug free city in 15 months, come down out of the clouds and check yourselves into rehab. Why not just start small with something like "We will make a serious attempt to reduce the amounts of drugs on the street." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Clowns! The whole lot of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeycountry Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) Why make pledges that are very obviously impossible to fulfil? If all your colleagues tell the boss (and voters) they can fix a given problem completely in 3 months, and you then tell the boss (and voters) that you can reduce a problem by 15% in 3 years, then you are going to look incompetent! Edited August 22, 2013 by monkeycountry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerangutang Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 By all measurements, alcoholic beverages are drugs. Is the sage politician planning to eradicate liquor beer and wine from Bangkok also? Oh silly me, of course not. Particularly when whiskey and beer are the drugs of choice for most politicians and jurists, even if one of them coyly calls it his 'ear medicine.' Legalize it, tax it and control it. That way users and abusers can come forward. The mafia business behind it will suffer massive losses, and will slowly disappear. Police can focus on more important issues. Drug abuse is a social problem, not a criminal one. Putting drug offenders in jail just escalates their problems. what I and others have been saying/writing for years - but it needs to be said over and over (even if it falls on deaf ears), because the ridiculous drug laws currently in place are profoundly harmful for society. If talking sensibly about drugs can be termed 'pearls of wisdom', then getting the word out to today's leaders is like 'casting pearls before swine.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimShortz Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 By the end of this month I vow to also eradicate all traffic problems. Everyone will travel on purple flying pigs pulled by unicorns. I may fail, but I have as much chance as this guy with no real pretence that I will succeed! ;-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thhMan Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) I think Thailand should make the minimum Politician IQ level at least above imbecile.... Why arent Thais ashamed of the Politicians... Shouldn't saving face in front of the world take precedence here? Edited August 22, 2013 by thhMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MESmith Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I think Thailand should make the minimum Politician IQ level at least above imbecile.... Don't you have to be a "graduate" to become a politician? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Funny, but it's not April Fools Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESCAPIS Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I think Thailand should make the minimum Politician IQ level at least above imbecile.... Don't you have to be a "graduate" to become a politician? No, there should only be some history of sanity in the family, however remote it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyposty Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Why are these people so obsessed with making such outlandish, impossible to keep 'promises'? Not a week goes by without some kind of major drug bust - from many parts of the country - hitting the news. And yet, the drugs keep on coming, and coming and coming... Why and how? Yeah, yeah, I know... Thai officialdom just love the sound of their own voices and I'm sure they don't realise just how stupid they sound as long as they get a headline and in 15 months no one will remember what they said plus the media will never remind them After Mr. T's war on drugs when 2,000 odd dealers " shot each other " the Governor of Kalasin declared the province dug free, yes right. in 15 months no one will remember what they said plus the media will never remind them more like 15 days not months.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijer Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 5555 So the USA has spent billions and the last 40 years trying to make the USA drug free and we haven't made ANY impact, but the BMA is going to do it in 15 months. Ya and bush cheney said the USA was going to make Iraq a democratic country in one year too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijer Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Just copy the American "war on drugs".....that has been such a success....for the prison operators, drug cartels, lawyers, etc who have made billions while drug use has soared. We're/they're 1 for 2...we did fix the war on alcohol. Bull, we didn't win any war on alcohol, we only stopped people from drinking and driving, they still drink. Nothing won. Same would happen with drugs. Let people have their drugs and then make the punishment for operating any equipment that could be life threatening while impaired a heavy penalty, that is all they did with alcohol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker69 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Why make pledges that are very obviously impossible to fulfil? Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Wednesday declared that his country was free of drugs. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200312/03/eng20031203_129617.shtml I knew that man wasen´t to be trusted. He lied to the whole World. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nami Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Will they start killing again ir what? That guy asking for Thaksin and murders need to get his head fixed. If you don't want to take drugs that's fine, but let the rest of the people to make their own choice. I've been doings drugs all my life and never stole, killed or anything else. If you want to punish crimes that's fine, but don't associate them to drugs because this is not the case for most users. And if I got sick or die from drugs, that's my problem and no one else. You live your life and let others live theirs the way they want. No victim = no crime 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawker9000 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Gotta love politicians. The same the world over. Well, I agree with the world over part. But why do we gotta' love 'em? Aren't there other things we could do, or even should be doing, with 'em? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamypoko Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) Just copy the American "war on drugs".....that has been such a success....for the prison operators, drug cartels, lawyers, etc who have made billions while drug use has soared. We're/they're 1 for 2...we did fix the war on alcohol. Bull, we didn't win any war on alcohol, we only stopped people from drinking and driving, they still drink. Nothing won. Same would happen with drugs. Let people have their drugs and then make the punishment for operating any equipment that could be life threatening while impaired a heavy penalty, that is all they did with alcohol. I'm afraid you'll have to go back a bit further to get my joke...sorta kinda around, say, (hint) post-prohibition era... added a moment later: I just noticed the quote you use at the bottom of each of your TV pages...I'm slow to get irony, but I'm laughing now. You're funny! Edited August 22, 2013 by mamypoko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawker9000 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Just copy the American "war on drugs".....that has been such a success....for the prison operators, drug cartels, lawyers, etc who have made billions while drug use has soared. You know, murder has "soared" in Mexico. 'Guess they might as well legalize it, huh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Maybe what the BMA really meant to say was, to make Bangkok drug free in 15 months, all drugs are free, just nip to your nearest 7/11 and get free drugs, no prescription required. Maybe that just might work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemac Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Within 15 seconds of making this lame announcement the BMA had forgotten it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nowisee Posted August 22, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2013 Legalize it, tax it and control it. That way users and abusers can come forward. The mafia business behind it will suffer massive losses, and will slowly disappear. Police can focus on more important issues. Drug abuse is a social problem, not a criminal one. Putting drug offenders in jail just escalates their problems. Finally, someone with sense. The whole world should be watching Seattle, Washington and end the stupid war on drugs. It's destroying our world, creating drug cartels and costing tax payers ridiculous amounts of money and robbing us of proper use of law enforcement. The drug wars proclamation of protecting us from ourselves is the most hypocritical and abused trust of legislation. Why not tobacco, why not alcohol as they kill more people than all illegal drugs combined, not too mention prescription drugs. It would actually be less costly to provide free drug rehabilitation than incarceration. But, as with most things, this will take much time for most people to wrap their heads around this and figure it out, meanwhile many people will be tagged as criminals when they aren't and we the tax payers and law enforcement will be burdened even further. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomerangutang Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Few politicians know the effects of the recreational drugs they're criminalizing, except possibly what they heard around the schoolyard when they're kids. Or, at best, they read a study written by someone, probably subjective and/or with an agenda. Perhaps it's a study funded by a booze peddling company, which has a vested interest in maintaining alcohol as the only legal recreational drug. In sum: the people making the laws - don't know shit from Shinola about the subject. It would be like someone writing rules for submarine maintenance, who never got closer to a sub than bathtub rubber duckie. The first anti-drug laws were written by, among others, a man who was himself was needle-user addicted to morphine. I'm referring to Mr. Anslinger, who was bosom buddies with J.Edgar Hoover. Many of those same laws are still gospel, not just for the US but for all countries which copy US drug laws, including Thailand. One hold-over is the criminalization of hemp, which never got anyone stoned. Of course, booze never got criminalized, because many of the men making/enforcing the laws are heavy drinkers, like Chalerm and his hard-drinking buddies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawker9000 Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Few politicians know the effects of the recreational drugs they're criminalizing, except possibly what they heard around the schoolyard when they're kids. Or, at best, they read a study written by someone, probably subjective and/or with an agenda. Perhaps it's a study funded by a booze peddling company, which has a vested interest in maintaining alcohol as the only legal recreational drug. In sum: the people making the laws - don't know shit from Shinola about the subject. It would be like someone writing rules for submarine maintenance, who never got closer to a sub than bathtub rubber duckie. The first anti-drug laws were written by, among others, a man who was himself was needle-user addicted to morphine. I'm referring to Mr. Anslinger, who was bosom buddies with J.Edgar Hoover. Many of those same laws are still gospel, not just for the US but for all countries which copy US drug laws, including Thailand. One hold-over is the criminalization of hemp, which never got anyone stoned. Of course, booze never got criminalized, because many of the men making/enforcing the laws are heavy drinkers, like Chalerm and his hard-drinking buddies. Booze never got criminalized?! Not in Thailand maybe... You say few politicians know the effects of the drugs they're criminalizing, and that it's like someone writing sub maintenance manuals who was never anywhere near a sub, and then proceed to give an example of a morphine addict who wrote the first US drug laws (which all other countries copy...). Then you say booze never got criminalized because lawmakers are heavy drinkers, and here in the US booze was outlawed - by lawmakers - for 13 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I think Thailand should make the minimum Politician IQ level at least above imbecile.... Why arent Thais ashamed of the Politicians... Shouldn't saving face in front of the world take precedence here? They actually think that the world admires them and believes this can be done. The world is just waiting to adopt Thailand's drug eradication program. Just trying to negotiate a licence fee for the use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullstop Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 I love how these Thai political brain farts pop up like mushrooms overnight ... then die off the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullstop Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 (edited) ..double post... Edited August 23, 2013 by Fullstop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Oh good. Did I read that right? Drugs are going to be free in Bangkok? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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