<p>Harrison George unpacks the talk/rant delivered by&nbsp;Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong on 11 October 2019.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This week in Alien Thoughts, Harrison George imagines what a government press release on the reported conviction and incarceration of Deputy&nbsp;Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Thamanat Prompow in 1993-1997 in Australia and the allegations that he falsified his education might be like.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Sumaiya Minka had to spend the night in great anxiety after her husband, Abdullah Isomuso, was detained as a suspect by the security forces on 21 July 2019 after he finished the Maghrib prayer (the prayer after the sunset). He was taken for interrogation to Ingkhayutthaborihan Fort, the largest military installation in the southern border provinces of Thailand. She was later informed that her husband was found unconscious in his cell and was admitted to the ICU.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Dear Mr Natthaporn Sir,</p><p>No one can misunderestimate the tremendous service you have rendered to the nation by exposing the link between the Future Forward Party and the insidious subversive international secret society known as the Illuminati and by petitioning the Constitutional Court to have the party dissolved on these grounds. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Due to her financial situation, Daranee didn&rsquo;t get a health check-up on release. A malignant tumour, something she found while in her last years of imprisonment, was not diagnosed. It cannot be denied that this, coupled with poor prison conditions, stress and long-term consumption of painkillers, all contributed to her worsening health. Now, 3 years later, the symptoms of cancer have become apparent.</p>