We took a bus from Chiang Mai to Bangkok last night and went through at least three police checkpoints. One even stopped the bus and searched it inside and out. Does anyone know why?
Illegal immigrants, smuggling (yaba, ice, meth), and because they can.
Frederick Douglass: Find out just what any people will quietly submit to
and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;
“Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask
anything of them.”
It is a new police initiative - kinda war on drugs part II (but without the hit lists this time). The new police chief has tasked his force to actually make it look like they are doing something and protecting and serving, as opposed to just being mafia gangsters and collecting money. They still do the gangster stuff but now they actually have to pretend that they are doing some law enforcement (take note, not much actual enforcement takes place, only the small fry get busted - the big fish are free to do as they please, mainly because the big fish are the politicians, generals and sen yai of Thailand).
But I am a cynic...
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Main artery for drug transport.Originally Posted by Cal Roy
Remind me to go via Loie, Udon Thani, Bangkok on my next drug run.Main artery for drug transport.
Too early for the new look New York Yingluck initiative to have kicked in. Maybe it's this parliaments hot potato all round? The new face of law and order.
it's the end of the month. tea money coffers are getting low. somchai needs a new pair of shoes.
yep. and the same reason a dog licks its balls.
Last edited by crew; 30th September 2012 at 15:20.
Thank you. I was used to the Burmese checkpoints but the outright search was unnerving. I could hear them shaking down a few customers in the back of the bus but I chose to not stare.
I've had days when I pass 3 police checkpoints when I make the 65km drive home from school.
Another Crackdown da jour.
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