Makha Bucha Day is a national Thai Holiday commenmorating the day that Lord Buddha announced to his gathered discilples the prinicpals of Buddhism with its core plea for man to love other men in order to achieve Nirvana. Banks, schools, and public offices are closed today, however the Samak government showed love means not taking a day off with the surprise appointment of two well-heeled bad boys to government posts.
Public dismay at these postings was ignored in favor of forgiveness for past sins of nightlife fighter Wan Yubamrung and Chonsawat Asavahame, who currently facing charges stemming from a 2007 drunken brawl with a policeman. PM Samak admitted their addition to the government lists was perhaps in poor taste, but what the heck, “Boys will be boys.”
To err is human. To forgive is divine.
Mr Wan will be working for the Deputy Public Health Minister and use his personal knowledge of bad behavior to assist the government in its fight against teenage drinking and smoking. His brawls in pubs, two year ban for nigthclubs, and subsequent parole violation in 2007 for entering such an establishment give the son of Interior Minister Chalerm needed insight into the temptations facing the youth of today. His brother is even more qualified with a similar history of hot-headed actions culminating in the young amn being accused of murdering a policeman in a bangkok bar. Witnesses later recanted their testimony freeing Duang, then Duangchalerm to pursue a better path to Nirvana than beer, guns, and brawls.
The Samut Prakan mayor, Chonsawat, has been invited into the ministry of the Interior, having survived a scandal besmirching the family name son of province political powerhouse Mr Vatana. His feist fisticuffs with a policeman earned him the right to defend the rights of the oppressed. He refused a breathalyzer test an denied the polie any access to the three women in his car, claining they were famous models, whose careers could be hurt by the bad publicity.
He risked arrest for friends.
No greater love has a man who sacrifices his life to save another.
If that doesn’t exemplify his devotion to the peace and love exemplified by Makha Bucha Day then call me a baptist minister.
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