Ireland built a business forging documents -- passports, driver licenses, visas.
He defended his choice by saying it not only made him a decent living, but also allowed him to help others.
"I was allowing people -- citizens of Earth -- to go where they wanted, allowing a person to reunite with their family, a poor person to find work abroad, a mother to visit her children, a family to escape religious persecution, a wronged man a chance to start over," Ireland said.
Bangkok, he said, was the perfect place for his kind of business.
"One can do business with the Russians at 9 a.m., the Tamil Tigers at noon and the Chinese around 5 p.m.," Ireland said.
Ireland went to Pattaya in June 2002 to deliver forged passports to a group of men he had done business with before. The two Pakistani men he met there asked Ireland to cash several thousand dollars worth of stolen and fraudulent traveler's checks.
He is a common, less-than ordinary crim, this dropkick.
Jailed for passport forgery!
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