forgive my late response, David, i always save your emails until i can devote all my time, energy & mind to them, and even more so for the news recaps such as this one, for i know there will be a lot of stories i want to dive into; even if i've heard the news items cursorily elsewhere, you always manage to extricate detailed sources & background on the news! evidently the twitter vid re warring monkey gangs in Lopburi was actually 2 years old, but from all recent accounts the problem has really further escalated out of control... no surprise elicited on my end regarding acquittal of the PAD Don Muang cadre, while further efforts are underfoot to ban & disqualify Move Forward Party; just business as usual while the dinosaurs do everything in their power to keep power and deny the voice & will of the people... i really wonder how they can stuff the cannabis Genie back into the bottle w/o huge public outcry & pushback, especially considering the role of corrupt Bhumjaithai (SIC? you know the one, Chidchobs, et al) party in its legalization & proliferation ... the Swiss man in Phuket certainly made his own situation, even w/Thai wife he shouldn't have kicked another person, especially a Thai; now he's lost everything it took him so long to build, just for a foolish display of temper & violence... the fishing industry already operates w/total abandon and has grossly overfished most of Thailand's waters, deregulation would surely be disastrous...
forgive my late response, David, i always save your emails until i can devote all my time, energy & mind to them, and even more so for the news recaps such as this one, for i know there will be a lot of stories i want to dive into; even if i've heard the news items cursorily elsewhere, you always manage to extricate detailed sources & background on the news! evidently the twitter vid re warring monkey gangs in Lopburi was actually 2 years old, but from all recent accounts the problem has really further escalated out of control... no surprise elicited on my end regarding acquittal of the PAD Don Muang cadre, while further efforts are underfoot to ban & disqualify Move Forward Party; just business as usual while the dinosaurs do everything in their power to keep power and deny the voice & will of the people... i really wonder how they can stuff the cannabis Genie back into the bottle w/o huge public outcry & pushback, especially considering the role of corrupt Bhumjaithai (SIC? you know the one, Chidchobs, et al) party in its legalization & proliferation ... the Swiss man in Phuket certainly made his own situation, even w/Thai wife he shouldn't have kicked another person, especially a Thai; now he's lost everything it took him so long to build, just for a foolish display of temper & violence... the fishing industry already operates w/total abandon and has grossly overfished most of Thailand's waters, deregulation would surely be disastrous...