Let's make a vow and elect real leaders
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Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung vows to push for legal amendments to ensure that people sentenced to death for drug offences are executed as quickly as possible, and Chalerm, who heads the government's drug suppression centre, says the convicts s
How about without a trial? Just put them to death when you, Chalerm, first suspect they might be drug offenders. Wouldn’t that save the overworked court system?
I’m becoming very appreciative of Thailand’s leaders and their vows – vow to end the violence in the South, vow to end drug problems in six months, vow to propose that there will be no flooding problems in 2012 and all the other past vows. Must be nice to be able to vow this and that and when it doesn’t happen the leaders just re-vow up some new schemes.
Thailand being a Buddhist country, what happened to respect for life? Anyone or anything’s life? I guess we forgot about that! I think it is time for new leaders and a new way of thinking about problems. I suppose this will not happen because people all over the world keep electing the same old crumbs.
John Stall
Bangkok
