July 6, 2010

   
HOW I ENDED UP IN THAILAND

Re. your articles about 'escaping from Amerika.' last feb.   My story is somewhat different in that I have, like many others, escaped from the UK.
   
 Sixteen years ago during an extended stay in Thailand I met and married my current wife.  After spending almost 2 years in Thailand with my wife, who was by this time pregnant with triplets, we decided to return to the UK.  The UK was still recognizable at this time and it seemed like a good idea considering all.

    Easier said than done.  On application my wife was refused an entry visa.  The British Embassy in Bangkok refused on the grounds that they thought my wife had married me in order to gain passage to the 'land of plenty' and getting pregnant was part of her ploy.

     To cut a story, after attending an appeal hearing at the Immigration court of Appeals in Leeds she was eventually granted a visa.  The presiding judge commented that she was 'disgusted with the treatment we had received as a result of deliberate distortion of facts.'

    Our triplet babies - 3 girls - were still born at 6 months largely due to the unnecessary stress my wife was forced to endure by these heartless spiritless beings!

  Eighteen months later my wife gave birth to our son who is now 13 years old.  However, he was unfortunately diagnosed with autism after a 5 year battle with the UK system.

    We quickly became aware of a schizophrenic system that fought all attempts we made for help with schooling and special needs etc., whilst attempting to punish us for what they said was our lack of compliance with the system.  It was totally schizoid; they would tell us they understood our son's condition whilst the school would continually expel him for his behavior which they blamed on us!

    Anyhow, the final straw came when my wife called me at work in a panic to tell me to return home immediately.  She had received a call from the CPS and they were on their way to visit us - no reason given.  I arrived home - or son was still at school - within minutes of a knock on the door.  Before us stood 2 butch looking females who showed us their ID and marched on in.  They were very aggressive and informed us that a fellow pupil at our son's school had reported to their mother who had in return contacted the CPS that our son had been smacked whilst on holiday.
 
    They went on to inform us that we were lucky that the police were not in attendance, and they made it clear that we had no rights.

    We booked a one way ticket to Thailand that night - to leave the UK 3 months later and have been here ever since.  We make our own decisions.  Our son has improved greatly as we home school - not allowed in the UK, for us anyhow.  We get no help from the Thai government.  However most importantly we get no interference!

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Alan comments:

Just like JB, I escaped to Thailand ten years ago.  I was feeling that there was something very wrong with life in the UK and decided to take a couple of years of work to look for a better place to live.  I ended up staying here in Thailand as I realized that even for the poorest Thai life was a damn sight happier than my privileged life in the UK.

People are happier because everything is community based and the government does things for the good of the people (most of the time).  No government is perfect or free of corruption but when unpopular laws are passed the populace just ignores them until they are no longer enforced.  In the west we could learn a lot from this way of life as we just allow our police to ride roughshod over us with these ever increasing attacks on our personal freedoms.