More Child Sexual Abuse In Thailand And Pattaya

I mentioned the other day how there is an anti-foreigner vibe growing in Thailand. I suppose it would make sense to start looking for a reason for that. The first place I would start is here ("8 Year Old Boy abducted and sold to Foreigners for sex in South Pattaya") and here ("Another Canadian wanted in Thailand on pedophilia charges") and here ("Foreign Teacher Arrested for Selling Child Porn On Internet"), which all appeared in the news one week after this ("Police Arrest Foreign Guy Abuses Fourteen Year Old Boy In Pattaya") and this ("Suspected Canadian Paedophile Arrested in Northeast Thailand") made headline news around the world.

Now seriously: Imagine if every pedophile arrested in your country was an Asian tourist? How long would it take for everyone in your country to be up in arms about chasing out all the Asians? Probably a lot sooner than Thailand regarding Westerners, to be honest.

Well, obviously it's not my fault... it's not your fault either. It's the sick bastards among us who come to Southeast Asia to do this stuff to children, and the equally sick bastards who provide the children for these foreigners to rape.

Still though: To the average Thai person, we are all suspect, we are all dangerous, we are all potentially one of these monsters. No wonder visa runners are being forced out; no wonder foreign retirees are facing ever-higher hurdles; no wonder that famous Thai smile isn't as quick to flash on the faces of the locals anymore; no wonder that pessimism, a cool indifference, and a mercenary attitude seems to have replaced the warm, friendly, accommodating people that used to host us 20 years ago. The Thai people, after 40 years, have finally grown tired of drunken, violent, ill-behaved, and predatory foreigners coming to their country. I suppose you can't really blame them.