Real impact of Udon govt buildings destroyed

Apologize for the long title,,,,,,,,,, It occured to me that a real concern and impact upon locals and expats alike would be the destruction of official records/documents in the destroyed buildings there. Thailand is such a bureacratic nightmare with requirements for documents and official stamps on everything that it seemed to me that would be the real disaster. Records of land transactions/deeds, marriages, etc.etc.

Sorry if this has already been covered but just thought I'd ask,,,,,,,,, has it already been addressed?
LL

Just addressing the paperwork you mentioned: landpaper records are maintained at the land office (not affected). Plus the owner maintains an original copy of the land document. Likewise with marriage certificates....the affected party gets their own original copy. So, at least on those two counts, there's no impact for foreigners/locals.

The real impact of the burning for me is the reality of living in a country with a police force that can choose to police when it chooses to do so.

Bldgs which suffered will NOT affect anyone in reality, however the historical loss is something else;

KhunPaul and Parrot,,,,,, you both sound pretty sure that no one will be affected by the govt offices and buildings destruction,,,,, ,, surely something of importance was located in those structures? LL

parrot wrote:Just addressing the paperwork you mentioned: landpaper records are maintained at the land office (not affected). Plus the owner maintains an original copy of the land document. Likewise with marriage certificates....the affected party gets their own original copy. So, at least on those two counts, there's no impact for foreigners/locals.

The real impact of the burning for me is the reality of living in a country with a police force that can choose to police when it chooses to do so.

In my opinion, being of libertarian bias, it is laudable that the Thai state police can choose not to use force against what was clearly a demonstration of the general will of the majority of the Issan people.

In the U.S. the police tactics used against rowdy or peaceful political demonstrations is disturbing. The U.S. has acquired all the trappings of a despotic police state.

Yes historically it was important to the locals as it was a building used for decades and in fact was still being used.

Thai Govt buildings sem to run on paper, we all know that copies of this and that in numerous quantities held by god knows how many departments, if there wasn't any paper the Thai's would have to invent it.
The real important stuff is safe and in some cases held in fireproof structures hence the danger to the workings of the province.
Note also that as in so many cases there is a depository of information held in Bangkok from Immigration to the Inland revenue dept, where I do not know but everything you submit to a Govt dept here is also sent to Bangkok, Thai Government has yet to de-centralise its workings.

So in real terms nothing will affect us, just the gnawing feeling we all get when something happens and deep down we all know the end is not in sight. To quote a famous person : It is not the end nor is it the beginning, BUT it is the beginning of the end . That is my perception of the current political turmoil , hopefully.

"surely something of importance was located in those structures?"

Maybe so. But of the things you mentioned in your original post - land papers, marriage papers, even the etc. etc. - there's no impact for the foreigners here, that I can see. My wife and I have never had a need to do business in those offices.

just saw one of the buildings today, leaves an affect even if people don't care about them