Chalerm: Isan to be drug-free area

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Chalerm: Isan to be drug-free area

Published: 21/02/2012 at 07:23 PM
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The government has set a new target, to make 20 provinces in the Northeast drug-free areas, begining with Udon Thani, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Tuesday.

All cabinet members were in Udon Thani on Tuesday for the start of the two-day mobile cabinet meeting in capital of the northeastern province.

The deputy prime minister visited Udon Thani’s Phen district to hear local people outline their problems and to brief officials and volunteers on the government's drugs suppression policies at a meeting hall on the campus of the Business Management and Tourism College.

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moruya
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Discussion 16 : 22/02/2012 at 08:46 AM16
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Chalerm has a better chance of arranging for Santa Claus to visit every "Isaan" household on 1st July than he does of making this happen.

What will he do when families still complain that their sons can still buy ya baa at will? Admit he was wrong?
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Discussion 15 : 22/02/2012 at 02:13 AM15
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The parrot has drawn a lot of flak because of her not so secret meeting at a BKK hotel and up pops Chalerm with something to divert the attention. Don't take this,his latest stunt,seriously. Nothing will happen except perhaps a few petty drug addicts/dealers arrested or killed.
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Discussion 14 : 21/02/2012 at 11:50 PM14
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I live in Isaan and I have never ever heard the locals complain about drugs. Never! Now low pay, getting ripped off selling rice and sugar cane, poor education system, corruption, no money for local government are all issues, never an issue with drugs. So why is this govt making drug dealers it's number 1 issue? PS Mr. Charlerm, most of my neighbors are so poor they do not even have running water. Do you really think there is a market for drug dealers where there is absolutely no money?
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Discussion 13 : 21/02/2012 at 10:54 PM13
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It's another effective attention diverting tactic.

Isaan free of drugs? The 7Eleven's sell alcohol for god's sake!
It's absurd to talk of anywhere in Thailand being free of drugs when so many Thai citizens, at every level of society, love them so much.

I can just see the reaction when Chalerm starts busting all those alcohol dealers and producers and putting them behind bars for dealing their deadly drugs to the masses. Perhaps he'll put them all on the fast lane to execution?

What is it that Chalerm doesn't want the masses thinking about as he stirs up this reliable populist policy of evil to repeat a known failure promising a different outcome ... yet again.
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Discussion 12 : 21/02/2012 at 10:48 PM12
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Chalerm should be a man and resign after the iranian fisco instead of whining about drugs in Isaan. If Chalerm was real he would fight against corruption!
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Discussion 11 : 21/02/2012 at 10:05 PM11
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Why the target on Isan. Do they have a bigger problem than Bangkok ? Don't know anything about how the drugs are distributed throughout Thailand, but think that the main action is in BKK. Even though Isan has a huge voting population, for most of the year, the adults are in BKK, Chonburi, etc., so there is little income for drug suppliers there. Chalerm would have been better targeting BKK & Pattaya. Oh, this would not have been the easy option.
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Discussion 10 : 21/02/2012 at 09:28 PM10
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It is so easy to be a Thai politician. Just make outrageous claims knowing that people don't believe you from the start and expect nothing to be accomplished. There will never be any follow through or accountability when nothing is done. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, is the same one that promised an end to gambling casinos within 1 month in Bangkok. I’m pretty sure they are still there. Sometimes Thai politics seems like an episode from ‘Twilight Zone” in which the country in stuck in a constant repeat of the same old story with an occasional new player. What a sad, sad state.
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Discussion 9 : 21/02/2012 at 08:50 PM9
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For once I wish Chalerm will succeed – as long as this war on drugs is within the legal limits. Did then mention until when they will make the 20 provinces drug free?
Just in case they don’t succeed: Will the government, or at least Chalerm, resign?
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Discussion 8 : 21/02/2012 at 08:35 PM8
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I can not wait untill it hits korat.
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Discussion 7 : 21/02/2012 at 08:34 PM7
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I agree with what he is doing. But one quick way also is with the co-operation of the banks.
cashiers etc and banks could report to the police people who have large amounts of money in accounts, and the people have no visable means of making that money.people drive flash cars etc and they do not work.I wish him lots of good luck in this project, i only wish i could help.
As for the burmah border, well its big an area to cover. over lots of different terrain. It is near impossible to stop drugs from burmah. same as combodia,laos etc.
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