Truly amazing Thailand

Editor;

Congratulations on your Pattaya Mail wins ‘Outstanding Mass Media of the Year’ award. I read with great interest the article headed ‘Mayor declares war on scamming Pattaya jet ski vendors.’ The read get’s more and more interesting, ‘Itthiphol’s intent is to keep police out of the disputes as both national and tourist police officers have been caught on video(s) and photos helping jet ski vendors extorting as much as 300,000 baht a week.’

So City Hall has video and photographic evidence, is anyone going to be prosecuted? Fat chance!

Blurb under one of the pictures reads, ‘During recent escapades whilst trying to gather information, volunteers obstructed Pattaya Mail reporters, much to the astonishment of tourists and Thais.’ Who are these ‘Volunteers’? I hope your reporters managed to get photographs of them.

Will they be prosecuted? Fat chance!

How many years has this scam been going on with the full knowledge of City Hall, and how many tourists will never return to Pattaya as a result of these shameful scams?

What has happened to The Land of Smiles? Is there no shame felt that it has turned into The Land of Scams?

RW

Slaughter of the Innocent

Dear Editor;

Hans Reusch is not an “obscure expert”, since Reusch was an extremely famous writer who specialized in writing about medical issues. In his book: “Slaughter of the Innocent”, he notes that not one of 38 scientists who appeared on television and radio to debate this issue could explain why the rate of polio went down just as rapidly in areas of America where people were rarely vaccinated as it did in other parts of the country where vaccinations were common. Or why was polio eradicated in Europe despite the fact most Europeans were not vaccinated?

In any case, I didn’t say no one was ever saved by the polio shot. But my point is that often many health epidemics go away by themselves and the vivisectors unjustly take full credit for it. Polio was already on the decline before the vaccination was discovered.

Eric Bahrt

Missing postcards

Dear Editor;

Two fellow travellers and I mailed over 30 postcards from Pattaya in mid to late January. None of the cards was received. Postcards were mailed at a reputable hotel and a letter box on Second Road to different addresses in Canada and USA. My cards had typed address labels affixed to them; therefore, legibility is not an issue.

I understand in some countries workers remove the stamps and resell them. Has anybody encountered a similar problem with friends not receiving the postcards?

What can be done to rectify this problem?

Norm C,
Canada

Accident waiting to happen

Editor;

I have lived on Soi Wat Boon in Jomtien for 9 years and now that 2nd Rd crosses through Soi Wat Boon, very close to where I live and drive everyday, I have been seeing near misses and some accidents.

I honestly feel if there is not a stop sign installed now, before they finish working on 2nd Rd, that people will die at this intersection. I hope they even put in a traffic light, as it is a shame to wait for deaths before we make a move.

Others that also realize the need for this, please write Pattaya City Hall, call 1337 or write the local papers.

Thank you very much,
Gerry Rasmus

More cons than pros

Editor;

UNCLEAR is an anagram for NUCLEAR, which has increasingly become the source of more problems than solutions. Nuclear power is neither renewable nor sustainable and can be a contaminating influence, devastating to human beings, nature and the eco-environment. The consequences of an accident are disastrous and harmful to the local populace’s health, often causing cancer.

It is impossible to stop global warming. It is only possible to mitigate its effects through a drastic reduction of the emission of carbon dioxide. A green response to climate change must consider limiting our consumption of dwindling resources to such an amount which does not curtail future generations or other beings on Earth. Demand has to follow supply, not vice-versa.

Our global focus should be on promoting energy efficiency rather than nuclear power, with its related disadvantages: long-term radioactive waste disposal safety/security issues; dangerous risk of nuclear catastrophes; limited availability of dwindling resources; plutonium’s vulnerability to potential terrorist attacks; responsibly monitoring nuclear weapon proliferation and storage containment. Each year, every nuclear reactor is capable of making enough plutonium to build 30 nuclear bombs.

Earth’s energy needs can be met through a mix of solar thermal power plants and solar electricity stations, wind farms, hydroelectric power stations along with the various uses of biomass. EMIT is an anagram for TIME to reconsider mindset changes, primarily switching priorities to favor Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), increasing the use of fossil energy and furthering the generation and application of renewable energy, all of which make pragmatic common sense.

Dr. Charles Frederickson
Bangkok

Congratulations

Dear Pattaya Mail Media Group,

Congratulations for wining for the 13th consecutive year the award “Most Outstanding Mass Media of the Year”!

I’ve read Pattaya Mail since 1996 and I can just say that you fully deserve it!

Keep on doing your outstanding job!

Dr Olivier Meyer

Truly amazing Thailand

Slaughter of the Innocent

Missing postcards

Accident waiting to happen

More cons than pros

Congratulations