Samak: Rabies or Tertiary Syphilis?
The lunatic Samak has once again blessed us with his wisdom, although it's hard to imagine how he could trump his bravura performances on CNN and al-Jazeera he has managed to do so. The Beelzebub-faced porker has decided to renew the war on drugs and this time it will be no ordinary war on drugs but a MEGAPROJECT war on drugs designed to turn Thailand into the South-East Asian hub of extra-judicial killings. This time, Samak promises, there will be NO limit on the number of people who can be killed, unlike his mentor Thaksin Shinawatra whose war on drugs, with a mere 2,500 dead, barely made a blip on the international despotism circuit Samak has stated
"Government officials must implement this policy 24 hours a day, but I will not set a target for how many people should die."
In response to allegations that innocent people may have been killed as a result of the previous war on drugs Samak has said
"If they were innocent, why were they killed?"
This is neither irony nor satire.
(BangkokPost.com, Agencies) - Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said the government will revive the war on drug campaign, which the first time around allegedly caused around 2,500 extra-judicial killings.
The campaign was initiated by the Thaksin Shinawatra administration to stop the spread of narcotics. Police investigators, the media and human rights groups have estimated that at least 2,500 people died as police cracked down on small-time drug dealers in villages in 2003 and 2004.
"My government will decisively implement a policy against drug trafficking," he said. "Government officials must implement this policy 24 hours a day, but I will not set a target for how many people should die."
He defended Mr Thaksin's campaign, saying the figures were alarming because drug traffickers were killing each others so authorities would not be able to track down their big bosses.
"I have no doubt that 2,500 people were killed. It could even be 5,000, but what can the government do when they are killing each other?," he asked.
"If police killed someone, then we would call that an extra-judicial killing. There are only 59 such cases, and the police are standing trial for those deaths," he added.
He also denied that innocent people were killed. "If they were innocent, why were they killed?," he asked.
An independent inquiry set up by the military appointed government last year reported it was unable to bring any legal charges over the killings.
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