Then I read the footy wrap up for the Premier League on Mondays from all the action on the weekend. And of course I read the two major Thai newspapers in English that are mostly rubbish but there are some very good articles featured here and there that I can use at school with my classes.
The Bangkok Post and The Nation, reporting the news leaves a lot to be desired at times and most articles they both cover but the information is hardly ever the same.
The stories are usually the same, corruption, bribery, murder, more political shenanigans and so on.
I have written about “Technical or Vocational Students”, I don’t like to pigeon hole these kids but they are drop outs from schools, usually the low of the low (There are decent kids amongst them, plenty as I have met them).
In Bangkok these idiots are at war with each other, Vocational colleges and schools against each other, using knives, guns, and even bombs now.
Not so long ago, a 9 year old boy was the innocent victim of these feuding fools. Master Thian was riding the bus to school with his elder brother when he was shot twice in the neck, once in the face and shoulder. The shooter a 16 year old was shooting into the bus trying to hit rival students.
Then today, the 17th of November 2010 another innocent victim of these students. A bomb, what police think may have been a ping-pong bomb was thrown threw the window of the moving bus and landed in the lap of the victim, not a student but a young mechanic at Nissan, he was on the way to the market with his girlfriend, his
The bomb exploded with such force that his intestines were exposed from his stomach it was reported. Also a 15 year old boy, a Minburi Technical School student, one of the intended victims had suffered bleeding from both ears.
In the Bangkok Post the victim died on the scene because of the terrible wounds, but in The Nation they print a picture of the victim lying on the floor of the bus under a sheet and then say that he succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital. (This sort of reporting between the papers happens all the time).
I have said before and will again. These vocational and technical schools need to be held responsible, for too long they have just washed the blood from their hands, time and time again as innocent people become victims in this senseless war these schools are waging.
Start with huge fines for these institutions, loss of their certification so that their institutions are closed and I could go on.
Make these places have their own bus lines, only for the vocational students, then if they start killing each other, who would really care, as long as innocent people aren’t harmed. Make the schools have students only wear their uniforms at the school; they cannot be worn off campus. If a student is caught of campus they are arrested and so forth.
Make these schools pay for a special operational force, be it police, army or a private force. Their sole job is to keep these students in line, unrestricted search powers of these students and also engagement of force.
The courts have special sentencing laws for these students, say double of normal terms, if a person was arrested for fighting with rivals and the sentence would normally be a monetary fine, and make it a month’s jail and so forth.
The Thai government has to get real with this, they, the ministers in this country seem to forget about their constituents, they are only worried about their next graft payment, or job for their brother, cousin or distant relative, or illegal shares they hold will being minister of a portfolio. The safety of innocent people, for a long standing problem, that seems too hard to fix.
Also the reporting of one story, The Bangkok Post reported “Dozens of Bagged Baby Bodies at Wat (Temple) and The Nation reported “Undertaker Arrested for Hiding some 200 Foetuses in Temple”.
Now these are two totally different headings for the one story. How the reporters report two such different stories is hard to understand unless one went and gathered facts and the other just used a telephone and took whatever was told to them.
The Bangkok Post article said that police had been called after the bodies had been found in the morgue area of the temple and they were investigating.
The Nation printed that the Undertaker had been arrested for the 200 odd foetuses as he had admitted guilt. He had been working for 5 abortion clinics to dispose of the bodies. This is better than them throwing them into the canals in Bangkok as has happened before.
Abortion is illegal in Thailand but there are clinics everywhere, here in Ubon I know of two prominent and permanent ones, they aren’t hidden in some dark alley, in a filthy dirty backwater house with crude materials that get around in Bangkok, I am sure that these are available also here in Ubon for sure.
I think there should be clinics, and it should be legalised, I cannot believe that in some states of Australia abortion is illegal, governed by strict laws on why abortions can take place.
I also don’t like the idea of a life being terminated, but in some cases people are not ready for the step of parenting. And the arguments of them using protection and so on and so on can be argued until all are blue in the face, it won’t help.
If a person or couple do not want to have a baby, they should not be forced. And making a mother carry it to term and then putting up for adoption also seems very wrong to me.
But again these are my views, and maybe your views are completely different.
Brunty
2 comments:
He was on his way to the market with his wife AND girlfriend. On the same bus? He is either very lucky or very stupid!
I should proof read better :)
She he would have been pushing it indeed. No I meant his soon to be wife as they had planned to marry early in the new year but this dream is now shattered.
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