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How about the guy ( westerner who admitting murdering a Thai hooker in 2005 ) charged with murder....then aquited ( after his family sold their home in Europe ) and bribes to all and sundry were paid not least of which her peasant up country family.
Even after he admitted killing her.
The " new evidence" was she attacked him on Ya Ba and it was self defence
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:21 pm on May 26, 2012
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magnum
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... I witnessed a Thai man in an up-country court negotiate a settlememt with the family of a man he was charged with murdering... the price was about USD 10,000.
... amongst forum members, I wonder what the going rate would be to be bought off by a murderer of their brother, or wife?.. sister, mother, or father?.. maybe their young child?.. rather than see a murderer go to prison, the common Thai practice is to get something out of the deal... money.
... we can only hope Thais will someday develop a greater appreciation for the sanctity of life, and disdain for soulless murderers who now commonly go free... especially the privileged ammart murderers.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 2:58 am on May 27, 2012
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dirty guru
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This might get back to feudalism and class structure and embedded self worth of farmers vs the elite.
I have seen Thais mistreat other Thais and the passive way the poorer allows it.
I have seen a Thai cop beating a helpless old man viciously and was so inflamed I smashed a Chang long neck and thought about killing him briefly.
But then decided "" this place is f***ed"
And stayed out of it.
The Thais often talk about "" them being high"" when they refer to say royals or officials....
You can never suggest all men are equal according to popular western religious teachings and political great men who fought for black rights.
Least not in the land of smiles.....
Thaksin might Magnum represent more than an opportunity to return to concentrated Rorts of power and death squads in the guise of authorities policing drugs.....
He may shift the centralised power from the elites to those who control the forces.....this in the short term could be argued to be more crippling to enlightened growth, but in the longer term who knows.?
If revolution is provoked to such an extent that authorities may be questioned by the masses once more....
This is healthy to Thailands long term future...
If it takes an egocentric power hungry ex prime minister with his sisters help as leader to bring this circus back to town...maybe it's in. Some f***ed up way Thailand destiny?
To learn by suffering ?
As the age of the Internet vanish the illusions of world and the young craves goods and futures and free thoughts....like a tree that withers so might the foundations of such puerile conservative thoughts?
.""We are equal more than them and they believe it too""
Thais need some radical change to acceptances.
While peasants sit on their knees in hot sun as a car passes...questions will always beg to be asked.....but until it's them that have the courage to ask them...Thaksin might be their medicine that at least will stir something
Ironically Thaksin might just well be good for Thailand if he does return home as toxic as he is for now...if it means a crushing shift away from the color yellow....to RED
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:58 am on May 27, 2012
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Don't be completely misled in his choosing of color. Red has a very prominent significance to him, and what it represents politically.
All his close friends are alligned with Red governments, and his intention is to create a Red government in Thailand. It always has been.
Don't ever think his motives do not involve him running the country for as long as he lives, uncontested. He has no qualms in killing those that disagree with him, none. There is only one person standing in his way presently.
He is now pushing through laws, and bills in the name of Democracy that has nothing in the slightest to do with Democracy, but are very significant in a one party government.
He is attempting to eliminate 2 levels of the judiciary system, resulting in only one branch left that he has complete control over, and that will have no power to bring anything he does, or has done to trial.
The only thing standing in his way of creating his dictatorship is H.M.the King still being alive. When he passes on then Thaksin takes over completely, and for as long as he lives. Think of North Korea, and how long the original dictator lives, even though he died 100 years ago.
None of Thaksin's close friends were ever Democratically elected in its true sense with multiple parties, and candidates to choose from. He needs a country to again be completely accepted by his peer group. As it is now he is only seen as a fugitive running a country.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 9:48 am on May 27, 2012
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dirty guru
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What's shocking about this story is a guy caught with the human remains might face just a 2000 baht fine.....never mind the ghost story the feeble minded Thais attached to it all
The following is an article that was sent from Bangkokpost.com.
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Cops open suitcase, world of black magic
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:02 pm on May 27, 2012
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magnum
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Quote: from dirty guru on 5:02 am on May 28, 2012
... yeah, well, when you really need a suitaase of dead human foetuses, where else are you gonna' go, other than Thailand?
... if you have money, Thais will even go out and fill a box with dead human foetuses to get it.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:11 pm on May 27, 2012
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dirty guru
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Let's just consider the fine....the punishment...2000 baht or a year in prison?
Maybe the latter in a Thai jail would be a hard slog...
But $70 not so bad eh?
Another highlight is the thieves ( would be ones) or hotel staff can rest on the ghost story excuse to enter a room you paid for.
"Police tipped off by ghostly sounds of babies crying from suspect's hotel room"
It would we're it not such a horrendous find....in admissible evidence in another country
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:47 pm on May 27, 2012
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dirty guru
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If "Thainess" means national traits of misguided pride, oversensitivity, displaced values, untouchable traditions and territorial cultural vanguard, I'd rather just dance, and fall off the edge of glory. Thank you very much, but I seriously don't need your bad romance.
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Denial in the land of drama
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:58 pm on May 29, 2012
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magnum
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… eeyow! … Voranai is back to fighting weight this week... pretty much a clean sweep indictment of an endemically corrupted and dysfunctional society, the roots of which (their Buddhist faith) he declares is equally infected... with the inferior values practiced and taught by their spiritual leaders, Thais are destined for... well... this, I guess... the best they can do!
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“But otherwise they [Thai political parties] are all the same: hypocritical in their words, shameless with their propaganda, destructive in their deeds and selfish in their motives.”
“The Thai political institution is dysfunctional. No matter whom we vote for, no matter what reform is introduced, it all comes to naught because the institution and the characters operating in it are not only incapable, but unwilling to change for the better.”
“The Buddhist institution too is dysfunctional.”
“Looking at Thai institutions, which save for a very few seem quite dysfunctional across the board, the prospects are not encouraging.”
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/296319/a-country-damned-by-dysfunction
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Damned by dysfunction
The Democrats and the People's Alliance for Democracy once again found common cause in their fear of amnesty for the bogeyman which might set up his return. They showed a mutual willingness to discard the democratic process and use thug-like intimidation and violence to achieve their goal of stopping the controversial reconciliation bill.
Their actions perpetuate the never-ending cycle of idiocy in Thai politics, where the two sides of the political divide differ only in the colours of their shirts and their exact purposes. But otherwise they are all the same: hypocritical in their words, shameless with their propaganda, destructive in their deeds and selfish in their motives.
Polarised politics, pulled apart by extreme partisanship, acted out by too-eager cronies and driven by popular personalities out of self-interest, all legitimised by self-righteousness. Both sides would claim their causes are just, as if that excuses deeds that are unjust.
The Thai political institution is dysfunctional. No matter whom we vote for, no matter what reform is introduced, it all comes to naught because the institution and the characters operating in it are not only incapable, but unwilling to change for the better.
I am reminded of a talk I had with His Holiness Phra Paisal, one of Thailand's most revered monks, regarding greed and materialism in the Buddhist institution and the near impossibility of reform. He told me of a corrupt abbot who enriched himself with donations, but it is impossible to remove him because worshippers in the district love and revere him so much. Meanwhile his peers defend him vigorously, despite his ill deeds.
To institute reform would be too upsetting and would implicate too many important people. It would expose too many failings. It would question the system that has been in place for decades or centuries. The Buddhist institution too is dysfunctional.
For all the talk through the years of education reforms, presently the Bodindecha School, one of the Kingdom's premier secondary schools, is embroiled in a ''tea money'' controversy. Rote learning still plagues the system, no matter how much lip service is given to the need for change. Learning just to pass multiple choice exams, tutorial schools that milk parents for money and a tradition more obsessed with form and ceremonies than critical thinking and creativity are all very much still the norm.
To institute reforms would be too upsetting; too many important people would lose face; too many skeletons would be exposed. It would question the only system that all the teachers and administrators know. It would turn a deep-rooted tradition upside down. If the institutions of government, religion and education are so dysfunctional _ and throw the media into the mix too _ what chance does the rest of society have?
The theme is one and the same: organisational behaviours and practices conforming to traditional routines that are rigid, outdated and impractical, but safe, easy and rewarding in their own way.
The players defend and uphold such routines because it is all they know _ the institutional pyramid, dysfunction from top to bottom.
But it's not just a Thai problem, is it?
Four years ago, US presidential candidate Barack Obama promised, ''Yes, we can change''. Four years hence, the US and the world has found out, ''Change? No we can't, not really''.
This isn't because President Obama hasn't tried his hardest to institute reforms. But what chance do a few individuals have against institutions deeply entrenched for decades or centuries in their routines and traditions, filled with people who from top to bottom are unrepentant and unyielding?
Presidents come and go, while institutions led by oil dealers, arms merchants, bankers and preachers shape policies and determine destinies.
In Greece, political parties outdid each other in spending and spoiling the masses with populist policies. Systematic corruption abounded until the country went bankrupt, but this isn't anything unique and exclusive to the Greeks. Other European countries are said to be heading down the same road, and Thailand is no stranger to spending and spoiling the populace for votes, as well as systematic corruption as a matter of time-honoured tradition.
One may argue that modern democracy isn't about human rights, freedom, justice or equality - it's about trading favours for votes. Hence, the democratic institution is itself dysfunctional, not just in Thailand.
Local, regional or global economic crises, one after another, every few years or so, basically boil down to borrowing money we don't need, spending money we don't have and hedging and speculating into the future in the hopes of making money on goods and services that do yet not.
But we spend this speculated future profit in the present because the credit mentality of modern capitalism dictates that value comes from spending money we don't have. It's greed, frankly, and it is dysfunctional.
The future then catches up with us and we are neck deep in non-performing loans and staring at the stark reality that bankers, brokers and fund managers are actually not oracles with the gift of foresight. Instead, their crystal balls are stamped ''Made in China'' on the bottom. So we have an economic crisis.
Yet bankers get lucrative bailout deals, because the capitalist economic system is so institutionalised in the global network that we fear entire economies would crumble if we did not prop up the very people who in fact collapse economies because of their greed and irresponsibility. Then we start the same cycle again, with laughable existential irony. One may argue that the capitalist institution itself is dysfunctional.
This past week, the World Economic Forum met in Bangkok on the theme ''Shaping the Region's Future through Connectivity''. It's a prelude to the oncoming Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.
Luxury hotels, big limousines, expensive suits and cheery talk abounded. The opening ceremony was full of smiles and the closing ceremony echoed the sound of congratulatory applause for the grand success of the gathering.
But are institutions - local, regional and global - capable, or even willing to actually see through the reforms needed to be made to achieve the goals of the AEC? Human nature favours the joy of flowery words over critical self-examination.
One Dutch businessman I talked to at an expatriate event on Wednesday said he's very excited about the AEC. But he also lamented that he's found in dealing with the Thai government on this very issue that institutionally no one is prepared or even knows what they are doing. What's more, the media has never really tried to explain what the AEC actually entails. However, he said, everybody loves talking it up.
Will the institutions that run Thailand and the nations of the AEC be willing or capable of actually making it work? Time will tell. Looking at Thai institutions, which save for a very few seem quite dysfunctional across the board, the prospects are not encouraging.
Then again, it matters little, for no doubt when leaders meet again for more forums in the coming years congratulations will be exchanged and successes boasted of. All the while tragedies like the one in Greece will happen again and again the world over, as they have through the last century - and Thailand will still be its own worst enemy.
But because those at the top of the pyramid will reap the fruits of the system, and some in the middle might get a taste - while those at the bottom seek handouts and conform to survive - we will pretend that it is all a success story, from introduction to prologue.
The plot is stale, the theme is boring, but the tale deeply rooted, with characters unrepentant and unyielding. It's tradition. It's culture.
And so institutional dysfunction is perpetuated, with congratulations all around.
The Matrix isn't just a movie starring Keanu Reeves, and woe to the bearer of bad news. That's you, Morpheus. Watch out for Mr Smith.
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Contact Voranai Vanijaka via email at voranaiv@bangkokpost.co.th.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 5:06 am on June 3, 2012
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dirty guru
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Interestingly, again Magnum...we can only wonder if our " boy" will last much longer.....?
"These truths, "
are not without punishments....in the Kingdom....when spoken, ""no matter how connected.""
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:13 am on June 3, 2012
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