Thailand: Migrant Workers Face Killings, Extortion, Labor Rights Abuses

[opebo]

You fellows are absolutely mad if you think this isn't also the way illegals are treated in the US.

[opebo]

Police in American shoot men dead and then take turns raping his wife if they are illegals?  With nothing to come of it?  I know it's pointless, but cite?

Cite?  How can you cite what happens secretly - by definition it is not flaunted openly.  But you really think that police don't rape and kill poors, and particularly 'illegal' poors, with impunity?  

[opebo]

Yes, I truly believe they don't but I'm not surprised at all that you do.  But out of curiosity, what lead you to this conclusion?

I know of no mechanism to stop it, and I think there are lots of police who would enjoy these sorts of behaviors, so yes, I think it is likely to occur at times.  Of course there is always some risk of exposure, so its not happening every day.

[opebo]

I have no way of knowing, deadman, if the police are more or less abusive in the US or Thailand.

[opebo]

That's not what you said in your post here, but ok.

I said one would have to be naive to believe that this doesn't occur in the US. 

[opebo]

You said "treated the same".  You, I and everybody else knows what you implied.  It is ok to admit when wrong.  In fact, it makes you a better man.

Ah, I see,  you thought I meant they were treated in exactly the same way, every time.  Interesting, but obviously not what I meant.