IT IS A FACT SIR, THAT PARDONS ONLY SUCCEED WHERE A PRISONER'S COUNTRY IS 
WILLING TO SUPPORT THAT PARDON. THIS IS NOT THE POLICY OF OUR COUNTRY.

THIS LEAVES US WITH NO CHOICE BUT TO PETITION OUR GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN PROCEEDING 
IN THE NEGOTIATING OF A PRISONER EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER TREATY WITH THAILAND.

WE GIVE THE FOLLOWING REASONS WHY IT WOULD BE EXPEDIENT FOR THEM TO DO SO:

1) MANY COUNTRIES [ A SAD BUT FACTUAL INDICTMENT IS THAT MOST OF THEM ARE FROM 
   THE WESTERN WORLD -  AND MEMBERS OF OECD ] HAVE SIGNED AND RATIFIED A PRISONER 
   TRANSFER  AND EXCHANGE TREATY WITH THAILAND, BECAUSE THEY RECOGNISE THE FACT 
   THAT LONG AND PUNITIVE SENTENCES [ ONCE A  PERIOD OF TIME HAS BEEN 
   SERVED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THE TIME WAS COMMITTED -
   - 4 YEARS / 8 YEARS FOR LIFERS ] THAT IT IS BENEFICIAL FOR ALL CONCERNED 
   THAT A PRISONER SERVE OUT THE REMAINDER OF THE SENTENCE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.

2) THE LONG TERM PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS ARE EXACERBATED BY SEPARATION FFROM
   LOVED ONES, WHO ARE IN FACT PUNISHED ALONG WITH THE GUILTY,  
   BECAUSE THEY MUST [ IN SOME CASES BANK-RUPT THEMSELVES ] TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL
   ASSISTANCE TO PRISONERS.  

   NOTHING IN THESE PRISONS IS FREE.

   POLITICALLY, THAILAND GRACIOUSLY RECOGNISES THESE PROBLEMS AND HAS SHOWN
   IT'S WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE PRISONER TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE TREATIES WITH ]
   MANY COUNTRIES OF LIKE MIND OR WILL.

   ALSO THEIR OWN PRISONERS ARE OVER-CROWDED.

3) RETURNING PRISONERS TO SERVE OUT THEIR SENTENCE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES
   IS A HUMANE ACT.  IT RE-UNITES FAMILIES AND ENHANCES THE PROSPECTS
   OF A PRISONER ATTAINING FULL REHABILITATION.

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