Corruption is how the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor
Sad indeed it is, that the main occupation and concern of government has become the protection of profits for people and corporations of no patriotic loyalty, the businesses of whom are actively destroying any potential for human society. That is, however, exactly where we are at now.
What enemy might Cobra Gold exercises help protect anyone from? Uniformed services serve only to protect profits.
My mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-ion-law are “stateless people” despite my brother-in-law being born in Thailand, something I know absolutely as I paid for the incubation essential for his survival after his premature birth. He’s now 15, living without any essential services, not even postal services. Only relatively recently has the family been poor; when my mother-in-law was young she was the beautiful daughter of a landed woman of means. But now modern times produce increasing demands on me from relatives I don’t even know. One was recently killed and another jailed due to activity they had no reason to see as wrong.
Feeling desperate, my wife stole from me so as to gamble at a casino bordering Mae Sai’s main bridge. She quickly lost Bt100,000 then after deposit of her Thai ID card was allowed to “lose” Bt130,000 more. She’s done this before; several years ago she lost at a casino in Huay Krai, just off Highway 1, a casino sharing a wall with a police station. This morning she told me she needs Bt3,500 to pay daily loan interest, about 4 per cent per day. I told her to just never travel again across the border. She replied that the mafia that runs the casino is Thai. I reported this to a policeman friend, who says he’ll look into it but thinks nothing can be done – I must pay.
The rich “win”. My children, and your children if you have them, lose. With no justice, no law, no regulation, no matter how rich you are, children have no future worth living for, global warming or no. The rich are not just stealing from the poor, they are stealing from us all, and by now, I suspect that even the best of blinders would fail to prevent anyone, not matter how obdurate, from knowing it, deep down.
Joel Barlow
Chiang Rai
