Sunday, April 5, 2009

How to Distract the Public From a Political Crisis in Thailand

I was going to photoshop a control panel with these lables but then I remembered that I'm not very good at Photoshop and the time could be better spent mast...ering other languages.

[ ] Cambodians are stealing our temple!
[ ] White people are corrupting the youth!
[ ] People are insulting the monarchy!
[ ] White people are stealing our jobs/land/money!
[ ] Illegal immigrants
[ ] Gambling
[ ] Terrorism
[ ] Drugs

Any of these hot-button issues can be used to distract the Thai public from an inconvenient political crisis. Example:

"Minister, it appears most of the people who voted for you have been dead over 20 years."
"How can you say such a thing when my cousin goes hungry because filthy Burmese migrants have stolen his job?"

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