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  1. awang says:

    and the reality check is found here: http://theonlinecitizen.com/

    and here: http://alfian.diaryland.com/propaganda.html

    … time for katong laksa, blur like sotong and kiasu like canberrans at a saturday garage sale ;0

  2. plan B says:

    More shameless adoration on obviously incompetent and deeply flawed simple person continue.

    If a person is to be judged by the effect of his/her actions Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stands alone.

    It will be hard to find anyone who claim to love the country and yet totally destroyed the citizenry well beings through her singular advocacy.

    Unrepentant up to this very day.

    Before the day of reckoning let us hope that this person realize the gravity of what she has had wrought, redemption through her present course. A course taken 20 years too late.

  3. JohnH says:

    We donno how we’ve escaped the speech-smothering tentacles of the state, but we suspect it’s got a lot to do with you Singaporeans and your tremendous (and very touching) support for us since we began.

    TalkingCock is committed to preserving and advancing the authentic voice of Singaporeans and we hope to press forward with our cause for years to come.

    http://www.talkingcock.com/

    Love it.

  4. Somsak Jeamteerasakul says:

    Jim Taylor #16

    No. The decision to lay charge and issue summons is with the police, not the court. This is a matter of law. Only if the police want to issue arrest warrant, do they have to ask for one from the court, merely to lay charge and issue summons, they don’t. So in the three cases I’m talking here, they definitely didn’t.

    Further update on “Thaiwat” #14 + 15

    “Thaiwat” was released home after spending sometimes at the DSI. I haven’t heard yet whether any formal charge was made against him, or just “questioning”.

  5. SRossi says:

    kaizen, your question is a good one.

    Malaysia CLAIMS to have religion ( therefore high values of kindness, justice etc) but of conduct they are otheriwse. thus the country is dysfunctional.

    Norway in your example claims to be non religious yet by conduct apply higher values of justice, equality, the Rule of Law, kindness etc.

    So my question is which one is actually, in fact, demonstrating “faith capital values”? certainly not those nations who claim to be religous but are in utter chaos ( that would be the whole “moslem” world) but it looks to me the evidence is pointing to those who claim nothing but by conduct show everything ie using their “faith vcapital values” and result in a hgiher productive and healthy functinal nation. Would you not agree?

    Thus it is one thing claiming to be something but quite another to actuall being it.

  6. tom hoy says:

    Patrick Jory

    Movements for change have often started with just a few people. But sometimes lots of few people all over the place.

    Did anyone predict the French Revolution?

    Could anyone even have discussed the possibility of it until it had happened?

  7. tom hoy says:

    The latest and most popularly supported victim of lese majeste and Article 112 legislation has been Ah Kong.

    He should be freed. Because the law and the application of the law are manifestly unjust.

    Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul should be freed. Because the law and the application of the law are manifestly unjust.

    Free Da Torpedo (and free all those who are in jail for expressing their ideas).

  8. leeyiankun says:

    To change LM, we need the help of many, or may be just one man. But it’ll be hard to do in both ways. Though the one man route is certainly MUCH, MUCH harder.

    Just a thought.

  9. Simon says:

    The regime that’s running the place now is ramping up lese majeste not tearing it down. For their own selfish ends, of course. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this will be abused:

    B400m for lese majeste web taps

  10. panmoria says:

    The regime, currently on the back foot since its Democrat Party-military program failed at the last election, is intensifying attack through its judicial system.

    Many believe it is only a matter of time when they will bring PTP down through the courts.

    That’s the biggest nonsense written I’ve read in a long time.

    What about more-catholic-than-the-pope Chalerm and his LM hunt?

    Blaming a regime when reds turn out to be freedom of speech’s worst enemy?

    Gosh, what a nonsense conclusion of this article.

  11. R. N. England says:

    Good one, Johninbkk (27)! Compare the saintly Darwin with the Thai royalists. We all know their favourite term for rural Thais: “buffaloes”, the sub-human slaves of the rice paddies. The reason why the royalists think that way is clear. Slavery is the historical tap-root of the Thai militarist/monarchist state.

  12. SRossi says:

    Those countries that you are thinkiing off kaizen that dont have religion but are successful would still be adhereing to a higher thought processess of fairness , justice equality, education for all , no discrimination of opportunities and thus the effect is a healthy and successful ( in the majority) country.

  13. SRossi says:

    kaizen, whilst religiosity doesnt create jobs, the values we CLAIM to adhere too in malaysia should create a support or system to ensure that people have the same opportunites, justice, observence of the Rule of law .

    All these will help create an strong and stable country which will in turn create a strong economy. Thus is the indirect connection that is subtle yet imperative which is profundly missing in our nation.

  14. Jim Taylor says:

    Somsak noted: “But, the final decision to lay charge and issue summons was made definitely during this government…”, in fact it is the court not the government: the latter cannot tell the court what to do (unlike the relationship between DP and their judicial elite mates = amaat decison-making). Police never drop cases on LM because too dangerous for them and then let it go every step to the court…They have to act on complaints filed
    /I think we need to remember that any Thai govt has NO real POWER— / it is the regime. Everyone needs to join forces against LM to change it and I believe it is not a small group of anti112’ers, (Patrick #13) but the majority but they are still shaking from the past two years. The fear of 112- given its interpretative ambiguity for those “out front” -is very real.

  15. CLee says:

    Ah Beng, what is the point of this post ar? if buay song all the foreign talents make sure you donch pray pray during GE like the 60.1% who voted for PAP.

  16. johninbkk says:

    The author argues ‘Farang cannot understand Thai-ness.’ But does he, a Thai, understand Farang-ness?

    Also, I thought Darwin was an abolitionist?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html?pagewanted=all

    Darwin and Wedgwood shared a hatred of the slave trade, contributing money and propaganda – in the form of anti-slavery verse and ceramic curios – to the “sacred cause” of abolition. Wedgwood’s cameo medallion of a chained slave, with the caption “Am I not a Man and a Brother?,” was “a must-have solidarity accessory.”

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    Can anyone provide a translated version of this post?
    I can not find any help from http://www.talkingcock.com

  18. Somsak Jeamteerasakul says:

    The blogger’s real name is Kritthi Raruk-luedet (р╕Бр╕др╕Хр╕Шр╕╡ р╕гр╕░р╕ер╕╢р╕Бр╕др╕▓р╣Ар╕Фр╕К); but he is more well-know under his on-line name of “Thai-wat Srithandorn-samut (р╣Др╕Чр╕вр╕зр╕гр╕гр╕й р╕кр╕╡р╕Чр╕▒р╕Щр╕Фр╕гр╕кр╕бр╕╕р╕Чр╕г). I don’t know him personally, but he used to be a regular poster at Faw Diew Kan webboard where I used to write. I post his photo (together with samples of his online posting) here, taken from one of his friend:

    http://upic.me/show/31222957

    According to Anon Nampha, Akong’s lawyer, Chalerm Yubamrung sent the same police team that arrested Akong to Kritthi’s house and took him into custody at DSI.

  19. Somsak Jeamteerasakul says:

    UPDATE:

    The blogger I mentioned above who was visited by the police with search warrant yesterday, is now taken to the DSI headquarters. Details are still not available, but his lawyer had been informed and is now trying to make contact with him at DSI.

  20. Abid Bahar says: