rooster59 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Top Anti-Booze Crusader Removed From Post By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter Samarn Futrakul inspects a case of popsicles made from beer (seen in smaller picture) during a March 11, 2016, booze raid on a market near Lumpini Park. Photo: Matichon BANGKOK — The official whose name is synonymous with stringent enforcement of anti-alcohol laws lost his job in a surprise ministry shuffling announced Friday night. After ten years at helm of the Alcohol Control Board, during which he introduced series of sweeping measures designed to cut alcohol sales and consumption, Samarn Futrakul was transferred to head a bureau dealing with sexually-transmitted diseases. His transfer followed a week of allegation that authorities were pressured by beer monopolies to silence Samarn. Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2017/02/18/top-anti-booze-crusader-removed-post/ -- © Copyright Khaosod English 2017-02-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Next to go will be the anti-nicotine crusader...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisY1 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Just another "good samaritan" that got lost in the Bhat scheme of things...........a greedy prick in other words! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomacht8 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 From alcohol to sexually-transmitted diseases. It is a completely new field for him. What a career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Will he be missed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaltsc Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) “…a week of allegation that authorities were pressured by beer monopolies to silence Samarn… Samarn’s new post is heading the Bureau of AIDS, TB and STIs.” Can it be any more obvious how much influence big money has over the government? Public safety and health will always take a backseat to corporate profits. If Samarn is successful at his new post, he will most likely be fired..er....transferred to a new post, by way of pressure from the pharmaceutical companies, due to lower sales of drugs, owing to fewer STDs within the population. Edited February 18, 2017 by jaltsc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 OK, so that's why ThaiBev pays the police chief 50,000 baht per month; to help move "obstacles". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psimbo Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 5 minutes ago, mtls2005 said: OK, so that's why ThaiBev pays the police chief 50,000 baht per month; to help move "obstacles". Looks like he earned it this month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I'm not going to offer an opinion about whether this guy's crusade was good or bad. But I will say: -- the much publicized supposed ban on alcohol sales within 300 or whatever meters of schools never became a reality. --there are still beer and other alcohol beverage buffets. --there are still beer brand advertising, signage and such used around alcoholic beverage establishments. --Thais (and farangs) still drink and drive excessively, and police and court enforcement of penalties is woefully lacking. --and there are still beer gardens, including the annual festival out in front of CentralWorld each year (except for the King's passing). So other than grabbing headlines, exactly what did this guy accomplish??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtls2005 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 So other than grabbing headlines, exactly what did this guy accomplish??? No clue, but clearly he must have ruffled the "wrong" feathers? On the plus he's still alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaidDown Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Expect a new rule to be promulgated in the near future... "Sex selling times 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to Midnight only." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiwrath Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Great news ! I'm off on the p*ss to celebrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djayz Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Good bye and good riddance. Maybe next year I can have a beer on Makhabucha Day ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomacht8 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) His replacement will be Nipon Chinanonwait, who was transferred from a department that handles bug-borne diseases. So the next expert is in line. Edited February 18, 2017 by tomacht8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thai3 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 will they stop blurring out bottles and glasses in films and lakorn?, that's really patheic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 In the grand scheme of things, his War on Booze was rather ineffective. Better luck with the War on Chlamydia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGareth2 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 wonder if it had anything to do with the 50k per month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegman Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 51 minutes ago, AGareth2 said: wonder if it had anything to do with the 50k per month? Could be, but I have a feeling the new big guy who was brought in from Germany will be loosening things up from here on out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGareth2 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 ^ can you expand on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candide Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 1 hour ago, mtls2005 said: OK, so that's why ThaiBev pays the police chief 50,000 baht per month; to help move "obstacles". Looks like he was not the only one on the payroll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamNoone88 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Next to go will the restriction on alcohol selling times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Maybe they moved him as they found he was "drunk with power"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bino Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Futrakul was transferred to head a bureau dealing with sexually-transmitted diseases Is that a subtle way of telling him that his career is <deleted>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Could be, but I have a feeling the new big guy who was brought in from Germany will be loosening things up from here on out.we can only hope but I'm doubtful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essaybloke Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Seems Thailand's leaders are learning quickly from the West. I'm surprised it even made the news.... yawn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prbkk Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Rather than a crazy scheme (s) to restrict sales perhaps the focus might now shift to education about alcohol , even some attempt to modernise and enforce drink driving laws. No one likes a zealot but is a victory for the beer cartels something to celebrate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, tomacht8 said: From alcohol to sexually-transmitted diseases. It is a completely new field for him. What a career. Proof perhaps that someone in the postings branch of the civil service has a wicked sense of humour? Edited February 18, 2017 by metisdead Please do not modify someone else's post in your quoted reply, either with font or color changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryinTH Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 This is EPIC.. Just when you think you heard it all and it can't get any better. Anti-corruption campaign in full swing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatawonderfulday Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) 45 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said: Next to go will the restriction on alcohol selling times. Lets hope so. This stupidity must end. Also lets end the stupidity of bars closing at 12/1 pm, the stupidity of 90 day reporting and of course the stupidity of elected officials being honest. Edited February 18, 2017 by whatawonderfulday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhonKaenKowboy Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 They need the revenue from the tax as much as the corporations need the sales. I recall back in the US how some States were dismayed by the success of the anti smoking campaign s....hurt their treasuries a lot...and of course nothing is more important than jobs for bureaucrats. Good riddance of this prick...many of us operate on way different time zones. Their stupid laws only make me start earlier and binge drink from 11 pm to midnight, if I am at a bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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