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You are wasting your time. You should have seen the threads when Phuket got hit by the tsunami. They were literally celebrating.

One thing you will find is that virtually none of these people have ever been to Thailand. Next they will accuse you of being a pedophile.

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ROFL. You're about right.

I think I completely misunderestimated this forum.

In my simplistic view of the world, FR = patriotic freedom loving Americans, many of whom come from a military background.

Probably accurate.

My fundamental mistake was in concluding this meant freedom from strictly enforced helmet laws, freedom from strictly enforced seatbelt laws, freedom from money-grubbing lawyer driven meddlesome nanny state goverment, freedom to live how one chooses, and (horror of horrors) freedom to have fun.

You know, as in "R & R".

Hello?...

Nowhere did I even HINT at any excusing of pedophilia.

I oppose that 100%, as does any reasonable person.

So, my point was, do Thais.

What I find so intriguing about Thailand is they've managed to thrive as a society for so much longer than America has even existed, and have somehow resisted the spiral into ever more regulations and laws - which threatens to digest what used to be our freedoms, from the inside. Like some societal Ebola virus. All for the sickeningly dishonest mantra "if even one life could be saved".

WE ARE LOSING OUR FREEDOMS.

Nobody really seems to give a hoot - as long as the freedoms we lose are the ones their side wants to eliminate.

So it goes. For eight years one side governs, and systematically eliminates one set of freedoms.

The following eight years, the other side governs. Of course we don't get any of the freedoms we lost the previous eight years back. But sure as the sun rises every morning in the east - we lose a new bunch, a little more every day.

This continues, without pause.

We have who, elected, representing our interests in Washington?

"Lawmakers".

Great. A bunch of know-it-alls, paid by us, who spend their days making more rules telling us what we CANNOT DO.

It's stupid.