Editor;
Almost every day we hear about Pattaya police behaving badly. This would never happen in a squeaky clean Democracy like Australia. I read today where 1 in 40 serving police officers in Australia are on criminal charges, a total of 437. The article doesn’t state if this is a state total or is country wide. So let’s be a bit easy on the local bill as they have a rough row to hoe.
A country where a state Premier can rip off billions of $’s and is still regarded as an elite business man. Where an MP with an area of land he wants to mine pays millions of $’s to the relevant minister to change its classifications. The same man has a ski lodge he rents out at $7000 a week but allows sitting MPs to use free of charge, even picking up their meal tabs. (No favors asked?) A country where an MP can fly interstate to watch a football game or attend a friend’s wedding then charge it all up to the tax payer. Where a MP can use an air force VIP jet to fly him interstate so he can watch his daughter play netball.
In this day and age of the computer MP continues to travel the world on so called “fact finding missions”. Take the wife or girlfriend along also, no charge. Where a pensioner has his pension reduced if he takes on part time work, but a MP after serving 7 years will be given a lifetime 6 figure pension and is not affected if he works. Plus free air travel & other perks. I am not naive enough to think the UK or USA are any different.
Several years ago a Thai MP was castigated for performing on a TV cooking show. Is this the democracy the Thai People want?
Aussie Bill
