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I think the summary of this thread is: While unfortunately you are not save from trouble by law enforcement in Thailand even if you strictly abide by the law - the risk is much higher when you don't - for instance by using loopholes and use the service of "loophole people".

exactly.

Not everyone will go to jail or deported. But there is a real risk, because they make themselves open to attack by the law

I don't believe this. If this officer goes down for taking bribes or for whatever reason they might very well render illegal all the document that he stamped. And when it is your visa - you are out. I will stay away from this kind of visa.

so should the policemen

what amount on a daily basis do you talk of. Any numbers? I guess it is a very small amount and probably not on a daily basis

What is that? Does anybody know?

but not a tourist visa

Thailand could easily counter this by telling that those people had not the correct visa and were trying to cheat and make clear what a tourist visa is for and wha not.

You'r right. But: The other visas like retirement visas, marriage visas are made more and more difficult. First the money in the bank that you cannot touch for months. Then the new plans of compusory health insurance. The hassle with TM 30 ... And more hassle to be expected

While the monotheist religions say so others do not. They assume a law instead, the law of Karma for instance. I think that idea of a judging god ridiculous. Would only show his/her incomptence to create perfect humans. What about another Hypothesis: There is no god apart from us. Everything and everybody is god because if god is the ultimate then this God was the only presence in the beginning (if there was one). There was only God no space no matter. So God would be only consciousness which creates out of itself - and human consciousness is God's consciousness having purposefully forgotten its origin and playing God's game for some time. It is a mistake to think of god as a being outside ourselves or outside the universe.

Seems they are desperate.