Yesterday a small apartment building was nearly brought down by an Earth shattering ka-boom. After sorting through the bits and pieces of building, furniture and former occupants it was established that the explosion was likely a bomb going off during assembly by a Red Shirt (a “political” movement responsible for a bit of mayhem as of late here in Thailand) wanted in relation to, IIRC, a grenade attack.
Now let me pause here to state that I fully endorse bomb making terrorists to blow themselves up, but please try to do it in some isolated area to avoid collateral damage; you know, Ted Kaczinsky style, a log cabin somewhere way out in the bunnies.
So, this butter fingered sub human finds out that he can’t take what he dishes, nearly demolishes the tenement, kills at least three other people and is implicated with 3 or 4 other bombings with, IIRC again, 1 or 2 fatalities.
In view of all this the government steps out and anounces that it’s going to give compensation to the family of the bomber since he was a casualty of civil unrest…
Some days I really wonder what the heck I’m doing here.
I do see the point that they are following a stupidly redacted law that says that anybody gets compensation, but didn’t for a fraction of a second entertained the idea of adding the caveat that perhaps, maybe, per chance the perpetrators of an attack should be exempted from such niceties? :smack:
I don’t know if this should be in the Pit or what, I’m not really angry (although if I get myself started on thinking how my tax money… no, let’s not get there), I’m just more mind boggled than usual with the daily news today.
I don’t see the quoted portion in the linked article – here’s hoping it was removed after fact-checkers determined that its source was actually just a fever-dream.
The article mentions that a camera recorded a man leaving the room right before the explosion, and although the id was found in the person’s pocket, the face and any other identifying charactaristics were wiped away by the bomb.
Perhaps there is an unknown dead person here, and the wife is just trying to get a payoff?
Punish, no, of course not. But paying compensation because the man scored an own goal with one of his bombs seems a bit stupid to me. I mean, do you think the US should give anything to the families of the terrorists that crashed the planes on 9/11? They also lost a father, husband or son after all. :dubious:
To be fair, they did lose a loved one, and if he was supporting them, they are probably going to need some help. I don’t think the terrorist is sympathetic but if the family wasn’t involved, they did lose a loved one in civil unrest.
The law does seem like it could encourage people to kill themselves knowing that their families might be taken care of. Still, the idea of this family getting some money doesn’t really bother me.
Not according to my records. You are damned for entirely different reasons. I would explain them but it is still possible for you to redeem yourself, and why would I wish to encourage that?