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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing, well we are discussing, as the title suggests, foreign female pearl clutching in the aftermath of a really tragic murder here in Thailand; I can't stress it enough. I'm not making this video to in any way belittle what happened to that young woman or to in any way make light of the tragedy all around that occurred here. It is a really grizzly case. It's just sad; it's just very, very sad. 

But meanwhile, and I have seen this across Twitter in so many contexts, I have noticed every time I replied; there was somebody that put something up and, I don't know quote tweeted it, said about what I am going to say here which is "yeah you're not helping anybody with all of this Beyond even that, it's a complete misnomer that we are seeing, it's just a lot of "oh everybody that comes to Thailand is just trying to go over there to engage in inappropriate relations with underaged people or is just over there because they are some old white guy that can't get a girl back where they are from”. Look, I mean at the end of the day, people are people. Women tend to date man that are older than them; there tend to me certain sort of parameters of that sort of phenomenon depending on the country you are from. In Thailand it is not a big deal for an older person, especially an older male, to date a younger woman; it's not uncommon. 

Now in the case of this criminal case, that that girl was 17. Just to begin with, me on a personal level, I have huge problems with that. I kind of like Thailand; 20 is the age of majority. Effectively 18 is if you will, the age of consent, but again I kind of like the clear cut off at 20 personally. Being at 44, I don't understand anybody that is over 40 that's got a problem with, "well why is it 20, and not 18?" I've actually heard people over the years say that, and I've sort of turned to them a bit like "hey man, you were in 'Nam, what are you talking about?” But that said, and all joking aside, I'm not kidding, people know how I feel about matters pertaining to children and innocence and the protection of that innocence. That said, people get older; people don't make the smartest decisions in their youth even when they are over the age of consent. However in this situation, yeah, this person is, this needs to be made clear, an obvious anomaly, both from the standpoint of anybody engaging with an underage person which notwithstanding the sort of conventional wisdom of the West, that's not something that goes over well here. As I've discussed in other videos, you are lucky to make it to a Police Station on those charges because if you are found on the street and certain elements get a hold of you and it involves having inappropriate relations with a child, you are not making it to the Police Station; you are probably not making it out of Thailand. They may never find you. Thais are very serious about this kind of stuff. 

Meanwhile, no, not everybody's coming over here like, I don't know it's the West world of American psycho, to kill people either. And when I see things like this post over on X from Nat Factor and it's @StuddertNatalie. Quoting directly: "I think we should stop these single men and check their metadata before boarding flights to Asia." Well guess what sweetie, it's called due process. You can't just check people's information because they want to go to Asia. "Preventing them from going to Asia to commit sex crimes." Hey news flash. 99.9999% of folks that come to Asia or Thailand, are not coming here to engage in sex crimes. You can look at the stats on that. Quoting further: "Australian man charged with murder after Thai teenager found inside a suitcase." and then they put up the link to the Daily Mail on there. 

But I'm just tired of this. I'm really sick and tired of every time something happens in Thailand, Thailand is then just painted as this like Mecca of iniquity. We have plenty of cases back in Kansas. I have been a member of the Kansas Bar for years. Every time I go home - my old man is a Trial Judge back home - we'll occasionally talk about what has been on his docket and things. There is myriad more cases of this stuff that have gone down in that jurisdiction than we see over here in any of the major, even tourist areas, on a yearly basis. So I don't want to hear that, and I'm also sick of this tyranny from a bunch of twits, basically for lack of a better term, of just being like, "well somebody got killed in Thailand. For that reason, now every Caucasian male over the age of 30 has to have their metadata checked when coming to Asia?” This is the way totalitarianism sprouts up. It's from this kind of talk. This is how COVID started. I talked about this going back, I don't know, years ago, that at the end of the day, the momentum that caused COVID to finally sort of click over to where a feedback loop kicked in where they were able to basically pull off the lockdown in the United States, it occurred when they closed the schools - basically at the behest of a bunch of hysterical women - and then women who were in the workplace had to start taking care of their kids, they had to go home, it caused workplaces to shut down; there was a cascading effect and we got COVID. 

At the end of the day there was a tragedy here in Thailand. It involved an underage girl allegedly killed by a foreign man. There is going to be an adjudication, and if it is found that that person did indeed kill that young lady, there is going to be punishment. It's going to be multi decades I presume at the minimum, in a Thai prison. Believe me, not a place you want to go, especially on this kind of rap. Meanwhile it could even end up being a death penalty case, and Thais are not taking this matter lightly. But to put this stuff out there - and I have seen multiple, this isn't just the one, I am not picking this person particularly, but it was all over my Twitter feed for like 3 days, of just a bunch of women that know nothing about Asia, know nothing about Thailand, talking about how terrible it is over here. It's like some sort of den of thieves or something that we are all over here just committing crimes. Nothing can be further from the truth. This was a tragic situation, and I hate seeing it used by a bunch of foreign pearl clutchers for their own political ends.