Thread: How are Thais going to get home?

Its been law for many a year but typical Thai police never enforced it. I can't see it being enforced here also.

^ Quite. Now that they've allowed it to be delayed until after Songkran, I think there's a good chance that the whole thing will quietly be forgotten, though it's typical of the junta to piss off millions of people and achieve exactly nothing in the process.

The take from fines will be negligible and will make no significant difference to the nation's financial situation. The problem is that, dangerous as it is for a dozen people to sit in the back of a pickup, there's just no alternative a lot of the time and forcing workers out of the back of the pickups is potentially going to cause problems for individuals on such a scale that it doesn't make a lot of sense for the junta to do it. That's not to say that the junta won't do this but the costs and benefits for the government are so lopsided that I think it's unlikely that the week after Songkran will see a mass crack-down. It's more likely to follow the same trajectory as bike helmets, the law for which has slowly, over the years, become more and more strictly enforced.

Originally Posted by mykthemin

These junta idiots do not have a clue about how the poor farmers and their workers survive, I see an uprising soon?

No uprising foreseen, as the general Thai population just ignores the Junta cvnts and their extensions for the large part - getting on with their lives as they see fit.

Indifference comes to mind.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

No uprising foreseen, as the general Thai population just ignores the Junta cvnts and their extensions for the large part - getting on with their lives as they see fit.

Does'nt seem to matter who's in charge or in the big chair they just get on with life and wait for someone to tell them otherwise. Sheep spring to mind.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by thaimeme

No uprising foreseen, as the general Thai population just ignores the Junta cvnts and their extensions for the large part - getting on with their lives as they see fit.

Does'nt seem to matter who's in charge or in the big chair they just get on with life and wait for someone to tell them otherwise. Sheep spring to mind.

Perspectives will vary.
Thailand, more or less, has been under the surface thumb of military-elitist rule for decades - yet, the everyday average population [sheepish or not] have virtually been free to live their lives independently, trade, procure business, travel to-and fro, etc, etc.

Any "suppression" is rhetorically built and highly surfacely ceremonial.
One doesn't have to dig to deep to realize or understand contemporary Thai history to know that this pompous elitist pretense has no real changing effect on the good Thai population and everyday lives.

Geopolitically and sociologically, it's all very Thai. Some might find it rather odd - the studious types, as the existence contradicts the textbook manner in which oligarchical types conduct themselves.

Not your stereotypical military/elitist rule that we are fashioned with.
People aren't that suppressed, nor have they ever been.

Yet, there are circles that convince themselves that such stifling principles exist amongst the broader population, as they haven't an understanding or knowledge of the real situation or Thai society.