recycled Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man You really need to change hands boy young man, before you do yourself a permanent injury. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xircal Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Gambling.. drug use.. I don't care as long as people don't bother / harm others. Are you kidding me? You don't see the harm in drug use? Are you aware of how many people are killed annually on Thailand's roads due to drivers being doped up on ya-ba and similar narcotics? And yes, they do harm others by mugging innocent citizens to fund their habit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lawrence Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Sounds like a great story. Why are these army guys so on the ball, capturing all these dishonest police? The last round went very high up the chain, which caused one good family to break up? Even the overseas friend was shunted? Is this a continuation of this type of clearing the decks, or is there some new juicy story yet to be told that can't be told? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigPig Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check. But executing wrong and stupid laws instead of making a framework of laws that make sense isn't the big step ahead. Gambling will always exist so make laws for legal gambling. I fail to see the big leap forward if some corrupt Thais that own casinos at the border to Cambodia (Police and Military people) make the profit with gambling and not paying any tax instead of some corrupt Thais in Bangkok. No change beside bigger CO2 footprint. Legalize casinos and than public tell that after a grace period of 3 month there will be a crack down on the illegal casinos with real punishment (not inactive post) would be the right thing to do. If they really do elections 2016 than we can tell 2019 that the coup was complete pointless because nothing really changed (non of the changes are visible anymore). Some one told me they banned pin ball machines here long back because the Thais where addicted to them. Can you imagine a casino. If they did have a casino i think they should have minimum 50 baht chips so the young poor and vulnerable people would not afford to get hooked. Plus some serious vetting for entry. Yeah took an ex back to Aus once you should have seen her go through the money on a poker machine !!! Only happened once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkgooner Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check. Yep of course there are no illegal casinos being run by army officers These army guys aren't on the ball, if they really wanted to they could shutdown 90% of casinos in one night since they know where they all are but they can't be arsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigPig Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What does one do at a inactive post? VERY little, but the tea money is sorely affected 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigPig Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Legalize and regulate gambling and these dens would be obsolete. Thailand would gain so much by having some casino's and all those that like gambling would not have to leave Thailand to enrich other countries. As I said before, if they were legal then there would be no tea money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker69 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man No comments needed! Edited February 14, 2015 by Skywalker69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What does one do at a inactive post? Growing fingernails for good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yimlitnoy Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 It is autumn for the bad apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surangw Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 in china it would have been a real ax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rametindallas Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The police use all their investigative powers to find the criminals and then... cut themselves in for a piece of the action. In Thailand, if you pay taxes to the government, you are a legal business; if you pay bribes to the police, you are a legal business. The police seem to arrest only those who fall outside those two categories. This is why reforming the RTP is number one with the current non-elected PM. If he were elected, he would be needing the help of the unnamed local politician, who the OP said operated the casino, and would just look the other way. I am so happy the current government is giving Thailand a much-needed enema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rametindallas Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check.Yes but this is really only the tip of the corrupt iceberg. Too many othere are escaping the spotlight Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey. It comes from the days of British colonialism when many far eastern countries were under British rule. Soldiers posted there used to try to catch monkeys to keep as pets and despite all their efforts were not very successful. Many natives spoke 'Pidgin English' which was a simplified form of English. They showed the soldiers how to do it by demonstrating a simple but effective method. This was to place a basket containing fruit in a clearing in the jungle where the monkeys lived. The basket would have a narrow opening and be tied to the ground. Monkeys would come along and stick their arms inside the basket to get at the fruit. The opening was just wide enough to allow for this but as the fruit was grasped the fist was too big to get out of the basket. The monkeys were so greedy that even when soldiers approached they would not release the fruit and thus be easily caught. Naturally this took patience on the part of the captor who would have to wait quietly until the monkey was snared. Thus the slow approach proved to be more effective hence the phrase. This is now used to describe that a slow and patient approach to a problem with careful thought is often better than rushing in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumu Ali Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 hey rammedindallas how can a nation have an enema????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noitom Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Thais perceive that "being axed" is analogous to "transferred to an inactive post." It is not. The criminal Thai police should be arrested, jailed and indicted. Put on trial and if/when found guilty, jailed for long terms, fined, and stripped of all pay and benefits. The current Thai process and procedure of dealing with corrupt/criminal police is a joke. Everyone knows this. Thai enforcement of police criminality can't be taken seriously until Thais start really enforcing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beetlejuice Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check.Yes but this is really only the tip of the corrupt iceberg. Too many othere are escaping the spotlight The army themselves are knee deep in illegal casinos & prostitution in the deep south .,betcha these places are never raided etc I`ll give you 10 to 1 odds that they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rametindallas Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 hey rammedindallas how can a nation have an enema????? Since English is not the first language for many TVF members, I will explain. It's a metaphor: a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar : an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else The Thai term is: Khikam, from the northern Thai dialect language meaning something like “shit stuck inside the butt.” To elucidate, the Junta is getting rid of some of the crap that has been stuck in Thailand for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post geriatrickid Posted February 14, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check. How exactly has the military kept the police in check? Let's look at the facts as stated in the article; - 3 senior police officials were transferred to INACTIVE posts. - A local politician was alleged to have been the operator - Complaints were made by local residents to the military If the military was intent on dealing with this matter, the police officers and politician would have been ARRESTED and CHARGED. Local politicians tend to be tied up in the local power structure of Bangkok. The Bangkok political class were /are supporters of the current military regime. Citizens with complaints against the police go to the DSI. However, the DSI is for all intents and purposes, disbanded and replaced by the military. Do you think it is possible that the local politician ran afoul of someone higher up in the food chain and suffered the consequences? The casino operation would not have been a new operation and most likely would have been in place for some time as the local gambling is well entrenched and protected. Yes. it is a good thing that there was a raid. However, until there are actual charges and convictions, nothing much has changed. Someone else will move in to provide the casino services, and people in the long line of corrupt officials and police will move up to replace these peons who have been indisposed. There are hundreds if not thousands of illegal gambling dens in Bangkok. I will be impressed when large raids are carried out to close them and multiple officials who have profited from these exploitive operations are charged and convicted. One isolated event, which is most likely a settling of local political accounts does not make a break through event. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar God Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I wonder what the senior police officials who are taking money under the table to allow illegal activities to go on in their territories are thinking? Do they think they're too smart or too well-connected to get caught? Are they crossing their fingers and hoping the army never finds out? Or at least the army doesn't find out until after the elections and the coup is over? Are they making so much money that they just keep doing it anyway and socking the cash away in a safe buried in their backyard and hoping when they do eventually do get found out that they'll have enough money that they don't care if they're fired and their pension is taken away? An illegal casino or whorehouse or umbrella rental business in your territory is hard to disavow knowledge of if they people busted say they were allowed to do it because they were paying off the local police. It's like having a meth lab or counterfeiting setup in your house, a chop shop in your garage or a pot farm in your yard, it's difficult to claim it's not yours and that you knew nothing about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geriatrickid Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Rome was not build in a day....litle by little....first the head...Superintendent...!!...it's a good start....although they started a while ago....it's a good continuation....!!! Nor did Rome collapse in a day. Your reference is apt as it parallels what we are now observing in Thailand, although that wasn't your intent. The Roman Emperors built coliseums and temples to occupy the citizens of Rome. With each and every crisis the response was to impose more control over the people while building a new temple and offering more idols for the citizens to worship. The coliseum games grew grander and more violent with displays of cruelty more perverted than the previous events. Can you see the parallels to what is occurring now? In parts of Thailand, the grip over local communities is more forceful than before. My friend's region up north is still under a 9pm curfew and the locals are still subject to random searches without a warrant. We now see a more pronounced effort to target the former legally elected representatives of the electorate who are affiliated with groups who do not share the military's views. More people are being sent for "attitude adjustment", all done without due process or a respect for the most basic of human rights. And yet, you are distracted by an isolated event in which a casino was visited by the army. You celebrate the event much as the ancient Romans cheered when a prisoner was hacked to pieces by a gladiator in the coliseum, despite the country rotting slowly from within because the core issues have yet to be addressed. The only thing missing from the scenario is a leader playing his fiddle while the country burns. Edited February 14, 2015 by geriatrickid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker69 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man And please tell us how he has become a billionaire on a soldiers wages. I know that he says its none of our business, but the question needs to be asked. Is he a billionaire??? Is it to much to ask you to put forward some proof of that??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct99q Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check. But executing wrong and stupid laws instead of making a framework of laws that make sense isn't the big step ahead. Gambling will always exist so make laws for legal gambling. I fail to see the big leap forward if some corrupt Thais that own casinos at the border to Cambodia (Police and Military people) make the profit with gambling and not paying any tax instead of some corrupt Thais in Bangkok. No change beside bigger CO2 footprint. Legalize casinos and than public tell that after a grace period of 3 month there will be a crack down on the illegal casinos with real punishment (not inactive post) would be the right thing to do. If they really do elections 2016 than we can tell 2019 that the coup was complete pointless because nothing really changed (non of the changes are visible anymore). It was a bit tongue in cheeck.. i mean it just shows how corrupt it is and how the police is not to be trusted. I have nothing against legalized gambling, we got that in the Netherlands. I myself don't gable but I don't see much of a problem. I am not a moralist that tells others what to do. Gambling.. drug use.. I don't care as long as people don't bother / harm others If you think it does not harm you or others look again. Gambling affects everyone through higher taxes, periphal crime, and more. In Canada it is also legal but comes with problems. I do not have any answers but there are issues in this country, Thailand, that will never be resolved. However with education, slow exposure to other outside influences, and chipping away at the entrenched rot in this country my grandchildren may see some real change. I will be dead but all I can do is hope the future is brighter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargeezr Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Good job! I am glad the military caught these 3 police officers. Maybe Inactive post in Thailand means the same as fired in other countries! Did any of you think of that?, and think of the loss of face these people are facing, that is a big deal in Thailand. It may be only the tip of the iceberg, but none the less it is a start. Just saying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check.Yes but this is really only the tip of the corrupt iceberg. Too many othere are escaping the spotlight Yes, you're correct, but you must admit there is progress being made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man And please tell us how he has become a billionaire on a soldiers wages. I know that he says its none of our business, but the question needs to be asked. Is he a billionaire??? Is it to much to ask you to put forward some proof of that???Skywalker69 don't hold your breath for an answer. Edited February 14, 2015 by Pimay1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Axed or transfered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Viking Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man Do I read some irony between the lines, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Viking Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Axed means fired, no longer employed, out of a job....not moved to an inactive post! Sent home to his wife, unemployed. He is going to an inactive post, if you know what I mean. Shit happen to him, now the tea money source is gone, can not afford the mia noi's any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Viking Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 The military are to have a monopoly on all illegal casinos, go-go bars, foresting, smuggling, drugs and political corruption from here on in. Democracy meant the spoils had to be shared with the Police and Politicians and so it will be tolerated no more. Interesting theory, not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Viking Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Prayut is like a knight in shining armour Prayut has come to save Thailand Prayut is taking out all these corrupt police and cleaning Thailand like a real super hero Prayut is the man And please tell us how he has become a billionaire on a soldiers wages. I know that he says its none of our business, but the question needs to be asked. Inherited from his father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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