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3,500 police gather to guard cabinet

Uttaradit meet to discuss B130m worth of projects

Published: 19 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

UTTARADIT : About 3,500 policemen will be deployed to secure the cabinet meeting in Uttaradit province tomorrow and Monday.

The cabinet will receive several budgetary requests from the province and its vicinities during the meeting.

Pol Maj Gen Pichet Watanalak, chief of Uttaradit police, said protection personnel would include bomb experts, police with sniffer dogs, aviation police, six companies of riot police, and officers with two armoured vehicles.

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CMfarang
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Discussion 7 : 19 Jan 2013 at 13.207
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A photo-op for the government - an inconvenience for most people.
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Discussion 6 : 19 Jan 2013 at 12.506
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dogs and cats to be removed. Red Setters will be allowed to stay
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Discussion 5 : 19 Jan 2013 at 11.295
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The Chiang Mai elite and the red aristocracy didn't bother to explain the common public why such an overwhelming show of force is needed?
Maybe to keep nosy reporters from observing the transfer of public funds into private accounts?
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Discussion 4 : 19 Jan 2013 at 10.194
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Just like in the days of Thaksin S. Reward those who vote for you and deprive those who don't.

It was this approach that stoked up so much resentment in the Deep South and why the impoverishment and violence continue to this day.
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Discussion 3 : 19 Jan 2013 at 09.083
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The university was told: remove all dogs and cats from the meeting area. (these animals will die to make sure the soles of MP shoes remain clean. )

3500 to protect 36 and they still have to eliminate the dogs and cats.

Disgusting exhibition of selfishness. The old adage says; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Eliminating animals is the modern day equivalent of having roses strewn in their paths.

I bet if the kids of these public servants knew their parents were killing animals they would make them feel ashamed , don't Thai adults feel the same.
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Discussion 2 : 19 Jan 2013 at 09.032
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I never realised Uttaradit was such a dangerous place. It seemed so peaceful when I used to go there. Maybe the cabinet should meet in Pattani instead.
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Discussion 1 : 19 Jan 2013 at 06.061
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Is there any good reason for the enormous extravaganza of a cabinet meeting in Uttaradit at a seeming massive waste both of money and police resources?

Doesn't the cabinet have a decent meeting place of its own?

Does it really need quite so many police officers, who might otherwise have been using their time preventing and investigating actual crimes against Thai citizens instead of being used to decorate a PR stunt of dubious value?
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