Some months ago there was a gruesome crime here in Thailand, two young British tourists were murdered on the island of Koh Tao. Long story short, two Myanmar immigrant workers were arrested after a mostly Keyston Cops style chase and are now facing trial.
And boy, did that piss some people off…
You see, at the very start of the investigation, the son of a local big fish (or a rather small fish in a small bowl, but never mind) was named as a suspect (among other unrelated people), he turned out to be in Bangkok at the time of the crimes but it was too late, Thailand, rich dad’s kid getting away with murder thanks to a vast network of corruption, that’s a juicy narrative; Burmese staff… meh, so off they went.
Of course it was all a stitch up, the Burmese are scapegoats to protect the Rich Dad’s Boy, the police is in it, the hospitals that did the DNA testing (in Thailand and Singapore) are in it, the UK police that came to review the case are in it, everyone that is not pointing a finger at Rich Dad’s Boy is in it, even me! Yay!
Without not one single shred of evidence the most fantastic scenarios unfold, like the Thai Military Junta and the UK government colluding in the conspiracy, 10 million dollars in payoffs, a reign of terror on a superficially relaxed island and amazing feats of evidence tampering, like replacing the semen from one of the victim’s body with the “scapegoat’s” one two weeks* after* the body had already been shipped to the UK.
To hear this people talking you get the feeling that Rich Dad lives in a Bond style island fortress subjugating the population into a complicit silence and blackmailing/bribing people in the highest places.
It’s like being cast away in Bizarro World, you can practically hear the hissing when asking for citations, logic, evidence, anything at all. I had this thrown at me as “proof” that Rich Dad’s Boy is the killer, because, you see, the one on top (Rich Dad’s Boy in Bangkok a few hours after the murders, too soon to possibly had been on the island) “walks just like the suspect caught on CCTV near the crime scene”, I presume they refer about that newfangled bipedal locomotion kids are doing this days, knuckle dragging being, apparently, the conspiracists preferred gait. Of course that CCTV of the guy in Bangkok was “photoshopped” too, you know?
I’m now in the employ of Rich Dad’s shielding the family, it must be so because I’m the suspicious guy that keep telling people to try and stick to the known facts and wait to see how the play a part in the trial and of course that means I have ulterior motives. I wonder if Rich Dad is going to let me look around the islands secret lair submarine pen?
In any case I hope the minions in charge of security are good shots because the calls for collecting names of “conspirators” and meting out vigilante justice are already out.
Anyway, last round of idiocy has me arguing with a guy that claimed that a pair of pants, owned by the male victim, stained not with blood, that the police, after examining his room, put in his luggage is proof that they were planting evidence to frame up a friend of the victim.
Asking repeatedly how can anyone be found guilty of a brutal double murder by producing as evidence the victim’s dirty pants from his own luggage I’m met with the usual insults, evasions and an elaborate plan that was thwarted by the DNA evidence coming from the other framing operation contradicting the first framing operation… or something like that.
All that following two guys that were “pretty sure” the police had planted the bloody pants that belonged to the suspect in the suspect’s luggage, after asking them, repeatedly to offer a citation, one of the muppets offered a cite were it clearly stated that, as I mentioned previously, it was the victim’s own pants, stained not with blood that were placed in the victim’s own luggage, that was supposed to be the Muppet B “Aha! Busted!” moment and when I pointed out that his own cite clearly disproved his assertion… well, of course not, and of he goes to talk about some other “facts”.
All this in a thread about the families of the victims releasing a statement pleading people in social media to put aside speculative theories and let the evidence in court decide the case. This was received by most, of course, with derision; it wasn’t really the parents statement, you see they are
I’m gaining some knowledge in the psychology of lynching mobs though; it’s enough to make one lose faith in humanity, but as I said to one of the conspiracists wanting to shut me up (Paraphrasing Edmund Burke) All that is necessary for the triumph of bullshit is that good men say nothing
Do you get this when wondering off the SDMB into the World of “normal” forums? This is a rather unique environment, isn’t it? *Pets the forum header affectingly. *
Sweet mother of mercy, Pants for Brains is back at it now…
