Talking the Talk, But Unlikely to Walk the Walk

“Lumpini police are being investigated for alleged dereliction of duty following a crackdown by outside officers on the illegal sale of child pornography in their district,” reports the Bangkok Post.

“The Metropolitan Police Division 5 on Tuesday night raided street stalls in the Sukhumvit area selling child pornographic material, arresting a Thai woman and two Burmese men,” the Post continued.

Three people, arrested? Some crackdown. And it only happened after a continued campaign by the newspaper, sundry protests by ambassadors and a call by UNICEF to do something about it.

That, probably, will be about all the action that there will be. The porn will go underground (but still be available) for a while, yet as the heat diminishes it will become more obvious. And despite a promised investigation for ‘dereliction of duty,’ expect little or nothing to come of that.

And of course those at the top of the child-porn-peddling chain will remain untouched.

Bangkok Police Bribes Continue

Disgusting Child pornography continues to be on sale in Bangkok’s busiest tourist strip, Sukhumvit Road.

Apparently keeping a straight face whilst lying through his teeth, chief of Lumpini police station, Saravuth Chindakham, claimed that they were attempting a crackdown on the repugnant pornography peddlers. It’s difficult to catch them; the Police Colonel would try and have us believed because the vendors scarpered before the police arrived.

In other words they are tipped off.

The best the hopeless Saravuth could offer was that: “... pressure from police will make it difficult for them to do business.” This doesn’t seem to be true as Bangkok Post reporters found that at most the Sukhumvit sellers of filth merely folded up their tents at the first sign of trouble only to return after a few hours.

Two things are obvious here:

1. The Bangkok bobbies aren’t just bumbling, they are horribly corrupt; they allow child pornography to be sold on the streets so that they can grasp as much baht as they can. Horrible, disgusting, evil people. Time spent rotting in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang Central prison would be too good for them.

2. There wouldn’t be any child pornography on Sukhumvit Road if there wasn’t the demand. And if you aren’t familiar with Sukhumvit Road, it’s popular with tourists from around the world; with Asians, Europeans, Russians, and Australasians, and ever-increasing numbers from the Middle East. It doesn't matter where they come, the buyers of this stuff are too, horrible, disgusting, evil people. Time spent rotting in Bangkok’s notorious Bang Kwang Central prison would be too good for them.

Child Pornography Openly On Offer

''It is a quite easy case; you don't have to do much investigation because it is there on display. The policeman or any other authorized person can just take it from the stall and arrest the vendor. That's all. But someone has to go there and do it. This is the problem.''


- An anonymous and senior Bangkok Policeman

What’s he talking about- fake Gucci bags or knock offs of Rolex watches? No. Far worse than that. He’s talking about his hopeless and hopelessly corrupt Bangkok forces refusal to arrest vendors openly selling child pornography DVDs on Bangkok’s busiest tourist strip, Sukhumvit Road.

The covers of the DVDs show children from around the world-some as young as seven- involved in explicit sex acts. Yet those buffoons- the Bangkok bobbies- do nothing. Needless to say this disgusting trade is run by ‘influential people,’ whose bribes ensure that they are untouchable.

The DVDs sell for less than US$3.