Just this morning, I heard on the news that the former prime minister of Thailand got arrested and sentenced to two years in prison on charges of corruption. It seems that he used his political influence to help his wife buy government property at discount rates.
Here in the wonderful, shining, happy-and-fair-for-everyone USA, our president and his executives (read Cheney) hand off supplying contracts to their biggest cronies without ever thinking twice about it or fearing any sort of punishment. Just look at the Blackwater scandal. That was only the tip of the iceberg. Now I ask you--is it right that a tiny country, onle a few years ago considered to be no threat whatsoever, should now have a political system with actual justice, while America is taken over by greedy, slimy, money-hungry, manipulating men? I think not.
Other countries have actual political systems that work, and I say that we should try to take a leaf out of their book if we want to keep America alive and running. Without a change of some sort, we'll be circling the drain in a few decades, at the most. Should we let the other countries pass us in every way?
Pakistan had a woman president for years. Why should our system be so far behind them?
Why the U.S. Just Got Beat By Thailand
By djinnazuri - Posted on October 21st, 2008
Actually Thailand is very unstable at the moment. The South is fighting with the Norh. The south is mainly composed of minorities that are muslims. The muslims are bombing Buddhist temples and other religious and political areas in the country. on the account that the muslims want self-determination.
For the past few months minorities and peasants have been riotiing the streets of Thailand on the account that of his actions. Many bombs and murders have happened because of this.
what is so civil about this? Thailand doesn't "beat' America.
Thailand is beating itself up.
Yes, it is not right what the U.S. is doing. but we are not killing people over it.
First of all, just because we haven't had a woman president yet doesn't mean we're "behind" any other country; it just means that it hasn't happened it.
Also, no one ever said that the US was "happy-and-fair-for-everyone." Blackwater was hardly the "tip of the iceberg," unless the tip is one of the worst scandals. And I'm not sure what you mean when you say Bush and his executives "hand off" supplying contracts to their biggest cronies. I'm sure our government officials do think twice and fear punishment when they do something illegal, if they ever do anything illegal (I understand that some make poor decisions, but they are not all "greedy, slimy, money-hungry, manipulating men"). I have faith in our politicians, knowing that they usually do what they do just to please us, their constituents.