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    From Good Soldier Schweik@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 18 10:50:13 2019
    Let us compare corruption in Thailand and the U.S.

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1752474/tao-heads-get-50-years-in-jail
    The Region 4 Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has
    sentenced two local leaders in the northeastern province of Kalasin to
    50 years in prison for corruption in a 2015 road repair project.

    Two other TAO administrators were also sentenced to 50 years in jail.
    They were the head of the TAO's financial section, as well as the head
    of the organization's administration office, according to the court
    ruling on Tuesday.

    In comparison https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1750024/actress-jailed-in-us-college-admissions-scandal

    Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer is the only
    other person sentenced so far and received a day in prison. He
    admitted helping students get into Stanford as recruited athletes in
    exchange for $270,000...

    On the one hand 50 years in prison for corruption and on the other one
    day. Yet some would have it that Thailand is a land of corruption
    while in America everything is squeaky clean.

    -- Cheeers,

    Schweik

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  • From Henry Briggs@21:1/5 to Good Soldier Schweik on Thu Sep 19 21:40:16 2019
    On 18/9/19 1:50 pm, Good Soldier Schweik wrote:

    Let us compare corruption in Thailand and the U.S.

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1752474/tao-heads-get-50-years-in-jail
    The Region 4 Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has
    sentenced two local leaders in the northeastern province of Kalasin to
    50 years in prison for corruption in a 2015 road repair project.

    Two other TAO administrators were also sentenced to 50 years in jail.
    They were the head of the TAO's financial section, as well as the head
    of the organization's administration office, according to the court
    ruling on Tuesday.

    In comparison https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1750024/actress-jailed-in-us-college-admissions-scandal

    Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer is the only
    other person sentenced so far and received a day in prison. He
    admitted helping students get into Stanford as recruited athletes in
    exchange for $270,000...

    On the one hand 50 years in prison for corruption and on the other one
    day. Yet some would have it that Thailand is a land of corruption
    while in America everything is squeaky clean.

    -- Cheeers,

    Schweik




    The difference here being, of course, that the Thai contractors forgot
    to share the spoils?

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  • From Good Soldier Schweik@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 20 05:43:20 2019
    On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:40:16 +1000, Henry Briggs <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 18/9/19 1:50 pm, Good Soldier Schweik wrote:

    Let us compare corruption in Thailand and the U.S.

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1752474/tao-heads-get-50-years-in-jail
    The Region 4 Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has
    sentenced two local leaders in the northeastern province of Kalasin to
    50 years in prison for corruption in a 2015 road repair project.

    Two other TAO administrators were also sentenced to 50 years in jail.
    They were the head of the TAO's financial section, as well as the head
    of the organization's administration office, according to the court
    ruling on Tuesday.

    In comparison
    https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1750024/actress-jailed-in-us-college-admissions-scandal

    Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer is the only
    other person sentenced so far and received a day in prison. He
    admitted helping students get into Stanford as recruited athletes in
    exchange for $270,000...

    On the one hand 50 years in prison for corruption and on the other one
    day. Yet some would have it that Thailand is a land of corruption
    while in America everything is squeaky clean.

    -- Cheeers,

    Schweik




    The difference here being, of course, that the Thai contractors forgot
    to share the spoils?

    I see. So you actually believe that while in one country several
    people get 50 years in jail for corruption and in another an
    individual gets one day that the "50 year conviction" is the results
    of corruption while the one day conviction is ?????

    Or is this just more evidence of bigotry? "They are all bad, bad, bad
    while we are all good, good, good". Sort of like the Farang I heard
    talking about the Thai government official, "The SOB is so stupid, why
    he can't even speak English", and this from a guy that if you say
    "Sawsdee Krup" to him, he couldn't reply..

    Oh! By the way, the conviction mentioned was of government officials
    not contractors (stupid).
    -- Cheeers,

    Schweik

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  • From Henry Briggs@21:1/5 to Good Soldier Schweik on Sat Sep 21 20:48:40 2019
    On 20/9/19 8:43 am, Good Soldier Schweik wrote:
    o you actually believe that while in one country several
    people get 50 years in jail for corruption and in another an
    individual gets one day that the "50 year conviction" is the results
    of corruption while the one day conviction is ?????

    And where did I say that?

    What does it matter, contractors,Govt officials, whatever?

    If not enough dribbles to the top of the pecking order , then they must
    be punished.

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  • From Good Soldier Schweik@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 22 05:43:59 2019
    On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:48:40 +1000, Henry Briggs <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 20/9/19 8:43 am, Good Soldier Schweik wrote:
    o you actually believe that while in one country several
    people get 50 years in jail for corruption and in another an
    individual gets one day that the "50 year conviction" is the results
    of corruption while the one day conviction is ?????

    And where did I say that?

    What does it matter, contractors,Govt officials, whatever?

    If not enough dribbles to the top of the pecking order , then they must
    be punished.


    You seem to have missed the point. In the case of Thailand they were
    punished by a 50 year jail sentence and in the case of the U.S. by a
    one day jail sentence... for a $270,000 bribe.

    But perhaps that is simply the difference in the countries... where
    one day in jail is equal to a 50 year sentence.

    Or, maybe as I have suggested it is simply the rich man sneering at
    the poor man. THEY, being poor and needy must be corrupt while WE
    being rich and owning two cars, are squeaky clean even though we offer
    $500,000 as a bribe to get our kids into collage.
    -- Cheeers,

    Schweik

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