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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing posting of bail and arraignment in Thailand, or what we would call arraignment in the Common Law vernacular. So I had some personal experience with this here recently. Thursday, I had to go down, well, I had to be basically arraigned, make an appearance at the Courts in a matter involving one of these, what I can only describe as one of these fakes that I have discussed at length at times on this channel.  

Look, there are a bunch of unfortunately fake professionals, fake lawyers out there and I have commented pretty specifically in the past about these matters and these people, one in particular, seems to think that they are going to find some remedy in the Thai courts through the defamation proceedings of Thai Courts in coming after me. So I have discussed this in prior videos, when I discussed this at length, I view this is something akin to a civic duty; I frankly think I am probably the only person who is in a position if you will to be able to address the matter, frankly and in such a way that we can get some kind of adjudication from the court system here in Thailand that will clear this up. I really would just like to put this behind everybody that look you can't just come to Thailand and be a fake lawyer, in any capacity; that's wrong. 

That being said, the purpose of the video though is dealing with bail, dealing with arraignment. I have got to say, I went down there and the folks that were manning the information desk down at the courthouse, I didn't even, they made it about it about as painless as it could possibly be insofar as we had to go through due process; I had to sign some documentation pertaining to my future appearance in the Courts and things of that nature. Ultimately the Court decided that there was no need for bail of any amount. I was basically released if you will, RoR, released on recognizance, just sort of okay, and we don't think you are a flight risk, moving on, and the Court dealt with it and quite short order. In point of fact, I really never really dealt with anything other than the front desk. So everybody was quite efficient, tip of the half to the Thai Court System. As per usual they do their jobs as efficiently as always, but yeah these are things; yeah I'm dealing with this; I have talked about it previously; I am prepared to deal with this. I don't think the folks that think they are bringing this type of thing - I don't know what outcome they're going for - but let me just say I don't think that their posture is optimal under the circumstances - I'll put it that way. 

That being said, yeah in Thailand when you deal with even private criminal matters or private even civil functions sometimes you may have to deal with something akin to bail and making an appearance at the Court in order to deal with that. In my circumstances the Court seems to have decided that it's not necessary for me to post bail and I just had to sign that I would be reappearing on the next Court date so that's basic, or need to appear as and when the Court says I need to appear. That being said, happy to do that. As I said at the time, wouldn't miss it for the world. I view this again as something of a civic duty and it's not pleasant; nobody likes to go through something like this; I'm not really loving it, but it needs to be done. And in a lot of ways, it's sort of like when I used to deal poker. I dealt poker for like 18 months before I ever played the game in a casino; it was totally different. And I kind of liken this; I was sitting there talking to my counsel while we were waiting around for things to kind of move through as you do - you're usually in waiting rooms and things when you are dealing with court proceedings - and he was sort of asking me like "how are you feeling?" and I said, "well it's just kind of a weird feeling; I'm going through it. It's kind of like having played poker as opposed to having dealt poker and that was just kind of my feeling under the circumstances. But yeah, it was a fairly straightforward procedure. The Officers of the Court were very cordial and efficient to deal with. They were quite professional, so from that point of view it was really a rather painless endeavour. But that said, something that I had to deal with in my, I don't know, in my ongoing quest of this if you will, civic duty, here in the Kingdom of Thailand.