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GT200: Thai agencies were suckers, but innocent suckers

GT200: Thai agencies were suckers, but innocent suckers

If you bought a tour package and it turned out to be a bogus deal, should you be punished for being gullible? Of course not.

Same goes for the GT200 fake bomb detector. The Army and other organisations were duped into buying the device, and thus do not deserve to be punished. Con man Jim McCormick is in jail and has been ordered to recompense the parties he defrauded. Case closed. The only thing the government ought to do is to compensate the families of soldiers who were killed or maimed and civilians who were wrongfully arrested because the device was useless.
One thing the incident does confirm, though, is the tenet that there’s a sucker born every minute. 
Somsak Pola
Samut Prakan
 
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