Free Market News on Don Muang and gem scams

[jpatokal]

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analys...d=67&nid=3621:

Indeed, all seems well to the tourist in Thailand, apart from the very Third World-looking airport. We enjoyed buying a few inexpensive aquamarines, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. You can hardly go wrong acquiring some quality loose stones for under $100!

What we do not need to do is follow the path of greater interventionism as Thailand is doing, along with the associated perils of corruption and debauchery.

Interventionism!?

[ncr]

I also wondered what the author has been smoking. Too many howlers to highlight. Not sure what to make of this, but I think all in all he just comes across as the stereotypical ignorant American (no offence to Americans, Ron! )

Note the link to the feedback section under the article (There are readers who agree with him, or at least don't find anything funny in his article! Others gently criticise him, especially his narrow-minded views on other religions.)

More by the same guy. And his bio.

Dr. John Cobin is an author, columnist, businessman and international lecturer. He holds a Ph.D.degree in Public Policy, M.A. degrees in Economics and in Business Economics, and is a graduate of Reformed Bible College. An outspoken critic of public schools, government regulation, the IRS, paper money, welfare, and abortion, John is an Evangelical Christian and the father of six homeschooled children.

(At first I read "homosexual children", not kidding...)

Stay tuned for the second part of his free-market Christian analysis!

P.S.

We also saw many establishments with male prostitutes, but were never approached by any of them.

Well, lucky you, John!

[jpatokal]

Hey, now I remember why this fruitcake seems familiar -- he also wrote a couple of equally loopy articles on Singapore:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analys...id=67&nid=3353
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analys...id=67&nid=3365

I wrote some polite feedback correcting a few of the more egregious errors though:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analys...=1&wid=67#2844

[ncr]

Originally Posted by jpatokal

Hey, now I remember why this fruitcake seems familiar -- he also wrote a couple of equally loopy articles on Singapore

Well, those articles might have contained factual errors; but the piece about Thailand is just plain BS in its entirety.

Ph.D. or not, with a mindset / views like this, maybe he should better stay home in South Carolina, where everything is like he's used to. And good luck with the separatist movement for the Southern States (a topic that was so ingeniously merged into the totally unrelated Thailand article)....!

By the way, still I'd really like to know what exactly is so third-worldish about Don Muang!

[PaulinBkk]

Originally Posted by ncr

By the way, still I'd really like to know what exactly is so third-worldish about Don Muang!

Surely it's obvious - it was full of patently non-Christian foreigners.



Paul

[Wisarut]

When I read the articles by that rednecks (Derachan) from the South Carolina, I feel very OUTRAGE that such thoughts of tyhat rednecks have ONLY CONFIRMED the CONSPIRACY Theory about American Involvement of Southern Insurgencies.

This would ONLY force Thai people to sharpen Machetes as well as and Bamboo sticks (with or without Steel Crowbars inside) to KILL such rednecks and put hte severed heads in front of US Embassy at Wireless Road.

Insult the local faiths is bad enough ... but it would be like puring Gasolene into the sea of fire if their insults have reached toward His Majesty -> to the level for askign US Marines to Overthrow HM andinstalla thegreat leader into theFirst President of Thailand.

[ncr]

jai yen-yen, Khun Wisarut, please don't get paranoid......

"Redneck" is not a bad description for him, though.

Dr. Redneck, actually.

[Wisarut]

In stead of Choppign the head, we better have an alternative treatemtn for that Doc ....

[madgix]

Most conmen and liars like to emphasize truth in their stories. Noticed lot of bullshits in his website yet he had a heading "Driven By Truth". Must be a conman and a liar.

[ncr]

An accidental find (through a Google image search) that's pretty much in the same vein as John the Jerk's effusions:

24-7 Prayer: Operation World

See this section for a dose of incomprehensible gibberish ("people worship the golden image of the the spirit who they believe has protected them and kept them free.") and dubious "facts" about Thailand and Bangkok....

"Goddamn, how dare they be Buddhists? Why don't they recognize the one and only saviour?"

Please give me a break from those missionaries.......

[j.j. havellas]

hi all, this is my first post


it's hard not to chuckle at articles like this one. If you wrote an essay like this one that is so factually incorrect at school, I think you'd get a lot of red pen on it from the teacher, if not detention

[ncr]

Originally Posted by Baton Rouge

Got a feeling the site twigged John was getting them a bad rep. I now get this from the original link in this thread. [...]

No, I experienced the same before. Seems they just seem to change the links on a regular basis or something. However, the article is still there. Try the search function on the main page ("Editorials & Analysis", "Search by Author"), type "Cobin", and it will list all his tragicomic pamphlets.

[christao17]

Originally Posted by ncr

(At first I read "homosexual children", not kidding...)

Funny - that's how I read it at first glance, too. Guess as I figured him to be a right-wing bible-thumping wacko (no offense to bible-thumpers out there, just don't start too early in the morning; I may be asleep), I expected to read him bashing the gays, too.

I left a reply thanking him for perpetuating the ignorant American stereotype, and noticed that after submitting it there is a message saying "your comment has been submitted for approval."

Glad that in the quest for a free exchange of ideas, someone will be able to approve or not approve my comment!

NCR - are you on airliners.net, too?

[sathirakoses]

When you mix a relatively free market and Buddhist principles you evidently get more strip clubs and sex shows in the beach city of Pattaya than Las Vegas, New York, and San Francisco combined.

Manila has more prostitutes per capita than Bangkok...and Manilla is 92% Christian.

[ncr]

Originally Posted by christao17

NCR - are you on airliners.net, too?

No; why do you ask?