Maybe you know who Pleum is. He is a member of the royal family (mom luang) and a very interesting person. He went to school in the U.S., Georgetown University I believe, and is quite outspoken on many things in Thailand but with a more international point of view.
A while ago when the election of a new mayor of Bangkok was coming up Pleum said he might run and he started talking about his platform. One of the things he said is that he would shut down Soi Cowboy, Nana and Patpong. That got my vote, but sadly he ended up not running. I don’t think it would matter anyway because Thai people elected Chuwit as a member of parliament and he had one of the biggest massage parlor empires in the country, prostituting more women than any other Thai person in history I bet. And because he was such a well known pimp he couldn’t even get a visa to go to the U.S. What a national embarrassment. But that’s another story.
It’s kind of interesting that Pleum is so pro-WikiLeaks because, in case you didn’t know, the big leak of cables includes some interesting ones about Thailand. You have to go searching for them yourself since most of the sources are blocked in Thailand and I couldn’t link to them anyway or risk going to jail. If you do read about them you will notice that there are some revelations about some members of Pleum’s extended family.
If you follow him at http://twitter.com/KhunPleum you can get the idea that although he comes from the establishment he is really against it a lot of times. He is currently asking why there is absolutely no coverage at all in the Thai media even though this is one of the biggest stories of the year. He even gives a link to a source for the leaks. I guess he can get away with it.
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December 16th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Hilarious! What “God” is he on about? Lucifer?
Wikileaks is just another, newer tool of disinformation. It’s startling how many morons out there, like this guy, believe this manipulated insidious nonsense is as true as the word of God! Simply lies shrouded in half-truth … like all good disinformation. What’s different is it’s just a new false ‘front’ doing the disseminating with some convuluted sham story about the fey so-called ‘founder’ as a cover (so the morons will go … “Look, they’re setting this guy up! So it all must be true!” D’Ohhhh!!)
Of course the masonite so-called ‘News Networks” let it all go unquestioned!
December 16th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Love this guy’s duplicitious so-called ‘platform’ for his nonsense election campaign! Pick the easy target again!
The premise here, as always, is … “The evil bad bad farang are bringing hookerdom to the saintly kingdom and forcing a few of our (peasant) girls into evil bad bad things! Let’s raze these evil bad bad farang places to the ground and saintly Thailand will be clean and pure again!”
What about closing the hundred of P4P establishments that cater for Thais? (usually with the so-called “whiter-skinned” skins rather than their Isaan sisters!) Those numbers are just in BKK … take the whole country and there are countless thousands such places catering for Thais!
The farang P4P activity is but a drop in the ocean – an ocean of paid ‘boom-boom’ that’s been here in Thailand for numerous centuries before the first farang ever set foot here! … Just like the endemic corruption, injustice and social exploitation!
December 16th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I don’t personally know if it is real information or not. But the U.S. gov’t considers it real information. Members of congress calling WikiLeaks terrorists, U.S. State Dept. demanding PayPal shut down their account, etc, etc. So it’s a big disinformation campaign coordinated by all the branches of U.S. gov’t? Seems very, very unlikely.
But on topic – the cables about Thailand are a very sensitive subject here and almost nobody can talk about them, but seems like Pleum can.
December 16th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Ms. AS, the subject you’re writing about here has been covered in the last few days at least in the Thai English language news media in BKK, and also on various of the English language bulletin boards for Thailand… I read online stories in The Nation and wire service AFP, at least, about it…. I’d say you broached the subject very diplomatically here….considering the nature of the leaked info….
December 17th, 2010 at 5:10 am
I agree with you wide eyes open. Why only shut down the farang areas? They make up for less than 10% of the whole prostitution in the country.
Plus the girls who work there earn better money and the conditions that they work in are way better than the 500 baht short time places you find catering to the rural thais.
December 17th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I’ve been looking for some news in the Thai language media, like on TV. I know it’s one of the top stories on the evening news in America almost every day. Nothing here in Thailand, except I guess in one of the English language newspapers. I didn’t see it – no details about the cables I’m sure.