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Mangoboy
29-05-07, 06:59 PM
The Post's story (http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=119057) Massive security for Judgment Day starts innocuously enough. Then this curious quote:
A psychiatrist also advised people to avoid unnecessary stress by distancing themselves from news reports about the intensifying political dispute.

and finally this total non-sequiter: "No incident is perfect and satisfactory for everybody.

"There are ways out and solutions to all problems," she said.

Almost 25 per cent of people with health problems suffered from mental illness of some form, she said.

But only 2 per cent of those with a mental illness sought medical treatment.

In an article ostensibly about the movement of 13,000 military personel into the city, are they for real?!

Did an article from the science section get mixed up with a front-pager? Or does this come from the same stable as advice to make merit in order to avoid road death at Songkran? It all seems a bit 'last ditch' to me.:eek: