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Blog
Archive February 2011
| The Official Killers Handbook |
A Guide to Staying
in Power
This book is not available on
Amazon. There is no ebook version to download. The authors don’t put their names
on the spine or the cover. Yet as events in the Middle East and elsewhere have
demonstrated, the Official Killers Handbook surfaces behind the news stories on
the Internet, newspapers and TV. Take the case of the CIA operative in Pakistan
who, turning to Chapter 8: How to Shoot People You’ve Identified as Bad Guys
When You Are Driving a Car. Raymond Davis, the operative, shot and killed two
men with a Glock handgun.
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 2/24/2011 10:18:22 PM |
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| The Fear Factor inside a Thai Restaurant: Corporate Culture Bias and Criminal Conduct |
A Thai living in Boulder, Colorado
was sent to jail for one year and a day for various criminal violations
connected with his restaurant business. He was released on one million dollar
bail and told to report to prison in 15 days.
It wasn’t one law that he broke in
the United States. He managed to break a bunch of laws. And looking at the
charges, knowing how things work in Thailand, I have a feeling this guy may not
have seen all this bad news train coming at him. He may have suffered from a
corporate cultural bias that blinkered him to the reality of the new culture
where he was doing business.
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 2/17/2011 6:53:44 PM |
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| Rule of Law and the Patronage System: Where are you going? Who are you going to see? |
Last time I was pulled over
at the elevated highway tollbooth on my way to Chon Buri province outside of
Bangkok, I was asked two questions: where was I going and who was I going to
see? First he checked the make, model and age of my car. And the important scan
of the windscreen to see if the necessary stickers have expired. Also, the
windscreen will display—for the well-connected—a status signal: it might be
military, police, an elite club, etc. Decals, small bronze fender icons, and
other artistic displays of power connections are important visual cues as to the
relationship of power to the person seated behind the wheel. These details are
digested at the point of contact with the police officer who wants to know whom
he’s dealing with before getting to the issue of law.
Read more:
http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 2/10/2011 9:48:52 PM |
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| THE ART OF READING THAI CRIME NEWS |
Every country with newspapers
and magazines and television knows that crime attracts an audience. There is an
insatiable hunger for the drama created by a bloody crime. Grief stricken
relatives and neighbours. The inevitable questions arise as to motives,
relationships, connections and history of the people involved. Thailand is no
different. You learn a great deal about a culture by reading about their crime
stories. We process the ideas and attitudes in a culture by understanding what
they decide are crimes and what kinds of punishments befit those
crimes.
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 2/3/2011 10:09:51 PM |
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