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I originally was going to make this video specifically on Gaming Law here in Thailand, the issue associated with possible promulgation of legislation pertaining to the possibility of casinos here in Thailand. That is actually not the thrust of this video though. That was how I started thinking about this and this video kind of grew in my head until the one that I am making before you.

Ultimately, the conclusion I came to when I was thinking about all of this and why do I find this gaming issue so concerning? One, I do come from both a legal background and a background in the casino business, in the gambling business. I put my way through law school actually dealing cards, primarily poker by the end, and I've been around it. I've been around the corporate structure; I have also been around the interaction between corporate gaming and sovereign entities like the sovereign tribes of the United States. And as a person who has in their own background, sort of Cherokee background, I don't like getting into all of that; people don't really understand it if they're not from the area. You look at me and obviously I don't particularly look like what you expect a Native American to be but suffice it to say, yes there is some Native American heritage in my background. But that's neither here nor there.

My point with this video is I have seen how these folks can operate, and then on top of it, in the last like week, 10 days, I have seen nothing but what I can only describe of as sort of seemingly legislative chicanery surrounding this issue of possible casinos in Thailand. What am I talking about there? Well I made a whole video on the entire notion that Reuters - which by the way, this is not uncontested information - was once and I would argue probably still is at least to some degree, sort of the intelligence apparatus to the Rothschild Banking Network. And again, this isn't me engaging in some sort of like alternative fringe theories or whatever, I've read a number of books on the Rothschilds. They are the foundation of Western Banking in a modern sense.  There's nothing wrong with talking about that, but they have interests, they have corporate interests, whatever, as do many other elites from around the world; I'm not pointing them out specifically. But it does look like foreign interests are very much concerned with gambling here in Thailand, and I have got to be honest with you, I don't like any of their methods to this point. As I discussed in another video, they've seen the draft legislation and then somebody put in a comment to that, they said: "Well, haven't you heard of a leak?" Yeah, I have heard of a leak. A leak is when it all comes out and we all see it. Not oh this the small cadre of Reuters, again foreigners got to see the draft legislation before anybody in Thailand did, and it's not like it leaked out so we all get to see it, okay? I haven't seen any transparency in this process whatsoever, okay. 

My big question is, and the thing that has really freaked me out about this in the past week is what? Now we're going to be steamrolled by a bunch of foreigners because Parliament just says so? And how is this going to end up? What's this going to end up looking like? Because they keep talking about, "oh we're only going to have online gambling now." Oh so all of the onus, none of the bonus! We're not going to draw in any tourists, and we're not going to have any jobs out of it. Just a bunch of Tech Bros will make a bunch of money somewhere else. I mean again, these aren't great thoughts. I don't know how to put it. It lacks leadership is really what it comes down to and that is the crux of the message to the PM here. Look, I'm a naturalized Thai. I get it, I'm a lay person here. I'm a fairly young Thai, less than 7 years, whatever. That said, I love this country, and I have seen what foreign interests in gambling can do, and we also know this is a hot button issue here, okay. There are many political considerations that can happen and there are many political consequences that can occur if this comes off badly, all right. I've been here going all the way back to Samak. I remember when Samak started talking about possibly legalizing gambling and then oops, we had riots, all kinds of problems. Then again, they came back up with it a little bit under Yingluck; again riots and problems. 

The point of this video and the point of the thumbnail, okay, you're a Shinawatra, you're the Prime Minister, we get it, you're very, very important but men don't follow title, they do follow courage. And right now I think Madam, if I may say so, it might be time for you to have the courage to be the Prime Minister we need for this country right now, and in that, it means that maybe you're going to have to say NO to some people right now, maybe even some people you're closely related to because to be the Prime Minister, to govern over us, you need to rise above all of that pettiness. You have to rise above it, and you have to do what's right for this country. And what's right for this country right now I don't think is to hand over the Gambling Sector to a bunch of foreigners who are going to do God knows what with it and it's going to have God knows what consequences on this country. Ma'am, I am very hopeful if I may say so, and those who watch this channel with any regularity know I may have some leanings toward the more right of centre side of the coalition, let me put it that way. But that said, I do believe in this coalition, and I actually believe in you. I watched how you handled Blinken; I actually thought it was fairly deft frankly, just sort of from a from a distance observation. That said, maybe I'm being too optimistic. I hope not. My point I'm trying to make is we need leadership now, if only to tell people No. It's like that scene in Harry Potter at the end of the first one, where Dumbledore says to Longbottom, “sometimes you have to have the courage to tell your friends things they don't want to hear”, and right now, gambling, especially heavily foreign influenced gambling, just might not be the right choice for Thailand and we need a PM who has got the integrity to say that to the people it needs to be said to.