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| Thailand Tells Thugs to "Shape up or ship out" (to the Penal battalions) |
| 2004-01-22 |
| EFL Hot-headed students who love to fight should join the military and serve in the troubled deep South, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday. He made the remark during a meeting with 160 representatives of vocational school students to discuss the problem of rising student violence. He said authorities must turn a crisis into an opportunity by encouraging young people to use their latent force positively and creatively, instead of just watching them grow into criminals. ``Any children wanting to do wrong can come to me. I will change all such wrong deeds into good ones,’’ Mr Thaksin told the gathering at Government House. ``Those making bombs to hurt other people will be sent to work at the army’s Ordnance Department. Those prone to using force will be sent to help with patrol operations in the three southern border provinces. Those who like shooting will be sent for training with the Arintharat [police commando] unit or trained to become national sport marksmen. Those who like fighting will be sent to boxing camps." He also threatened to permanently shut down schools that neglect their duty to help keep young people on the right path. ’Nothing like sending every hoodlum in Thailand down to the south with "licenses to kill". ’Sorta like a home grown "foreign legion" of expendables. Taksin’s dream outcome: The two problem populations attrit one another down to nothing. Not a bad formula! |
| Posted by:Lone Ranger |