Help Needed: Bail Money for Lance Whitmore in Thai Prison

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2x 50 year sentences? ouch!
does make me laugh when courts dish out such long sentences, id rather just get given the death penalty
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there is that option as well in the land of smiles
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Jamie_Lambo wrote:2x 50 year sentences? ouch!
does make me laugh when courts dish out such long sentences, id rather just get given the death penalty
I think it's human nature to hang on as long as you can. It even seems like the less chances you have of survival, the more you want to live.
And as long as you're alive there's always the possibility of a royal pardon - or a revolution...
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Anchor Moy wrote:
Jamie_Lambo wrote:2x 50 year sentences? ouch!
does make me laugh when courts dish out such long sentences, id rather just get given the death penalty
I think it's human nature to hang on as long as you can. It even seems like the less chances you have of survival, the more you want to live.
And as long as you're alive there's always the possibility of a royal pardon - or a revolution...
of coarse but those conditions there are pretty grim, and 50 years of that? thats the whole 28 years of my life id have to re live + 22 years more... my mind struggles spendinging a couple of nights in a police cell let alone that length
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It's all a matter of perspective. I can't even imagine 50 years in a Thai jail, but I think that most people who have the choice would choose life over death. Think of all those political prisoners who are disappeared, tortured, who survive for years in solitary confinement. Somehow we are wired to survive.
I can't imagine being completely paralysed either and from my present perspective of a valid person, I would choose death. However, if I became paralysed, I might prefer to fight for whatever life I can get; this is not something that you can judge until you are in this position; or something that you can judge for someone else.

In the present case, I think I'd be hoping for that revolution. (Think, storming of the bastille.)
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Anchor Moy wrote:
Jamie_Lambo wrote:2x 50 year sentences? ouch!
does make me laugh when courts dish out such long sentences, id rather just get given the death penalty
I think it's human nature to hang on as long as you can. It even seems like the less chances you have of survival, the more you want to live.
And as long as you're alive there's always the possibility of a royal pardon - or a revolution...
The regular coups and revolutions in Thailand don't seem to affect sentences too much. The regular Royal pardons have never been granted for drug cases.
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The worst of it is that Thailand doesn't do prisoner exchanges... there's no hope of them going home to serve their sentences in a less brutal environment... and sadly, for all of them, Thai prisons and South East Asian prisons in general are among the worst in the world. With sentences like that, they'll be wearing shackles for years (until they've left permanent scarring), they'll get to enjoy pretty much every disease available in the prison (TB, Typhoid, Cholera, etc.), etc.

I'd say their lives are going to be much worse than death. But death is permanent and cannot be undone and we are programmed to fight for life as a biological necessity - it takes an awful lot of inner strength to overcome the desire NOT to kill yourself.
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TheGrinchSR wrote:................. there's no hope of them going home to serve their sentences in a less brutal environment... .........f.
Forecasts vary, but all being well about 7 years before they can apply.
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Are Thai prisons worse than Cambodian prisons ? Just thinking about the Kiwi (forget the name) who was released recently after 11 ? years and deported.
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^^ Cleghorn.
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