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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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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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:40:16 +1000, Henry Briggs <HJBriggs@gmail.com>
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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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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On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:48:40 +1000, Henry Briggs <HJBriggs@gmail.com>
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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