If you really want to do something different, forget the armed struggle nonsense of #8. It will take you back to even darker ages. The first thing you have to do is wrest control of the struggle from those who have hijacked it for their own sinister misuse. Does anyone here seriously believe that the likes of General Chaiyasit, Khunying Pojaman, Pathongtae, Jaturon, Jakkrapob and the Man from the Mirror Group are ever going to deliver on anything other than the higher status for themselves that they have always believed is theirs by divine right. Democracy will not be acheived by hitching onto the shirt-tails of these succession contenders.
All reflecting the idiocy of the power that be! But one consolation: no Thai obeys a sign any way. It is a well-known fact Thai motorists shoot right through the red traffic light.
This is the darkest moment in the Thai history. I have never seen anything like this in my life, not even the time when the country was governed by military dictatorship. Something is really wrong and need to be fixed immediately. If this crazy system drag on, Thailand will be finished within a few years. Thailand needs a big change.
While other countries around the world are making progress toward promoting freedom and democracy and protecting human rights, the current Thai regime governs the country with oppressive measures in the form of authoritarian and totalitarian. The Thai monarchy and the Thai military have spent unlimited budget (thus far 1 billion baths) on the Internal Security Operation against the Red Shirts democratic movement.
It is time international community stands up in support of those persons who long to live in freedom and under democratic government that protects universally accepted human rights. It is time to consider economic sanctions against the current oppressive regime in Thailand
Khin Nyunt’s white elephants have fallen from grace along with their patron and I last saw the pair of them in their pavilion accompanied only by their attendants. People evidently no longer want to be seen visiting them. The pagoda he built nearby enshrining a great marble image however still attracts devotees probably more than the one Ne Win built presumably to atone for his mulititudinous sins near the Shwedagon.
The regime is irredeemably stuck in a vicious circle of voodoo politics alternating with gunslinger politics. Plus ├зa change.
“Because there isn’t nearly enough control over the Internet, the cabinet approved setting up a new office to “prevent and suppress” anything on the Internet that is aimed at or might be aimed at the monarchy; with some help from Mr Orwell, the government decided the office should be called the Bureau of Prevention and Eradication of Computer Crime; Juti Krairiksh, the new MICT (Minister of Internet Censorship of Thailand) explained that any Internet provider who did not instantly comply with his “request” to block a website would lose its licence.
…. one new tactic is to censor any site that mentions actual names such as former PM’s office minister Jak***ob Pe***ir or the Marxist professor G***s Ung***orn – two of 200 such blacklisted names that are to be wiped from Thai memory like a Russian encyclopaedia on Josef Stalin.”
-from (wait for it, wait for it ; you’ll NEVER guess): http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/techscoop/39224/a-dubious-distinction%5D
what next for the reconciliation plan?
ban selling of tomatoes, ban ‘moo deng’ in restaurants, ban strawberry ice cream, ban red bean dessert, kill the beetles, eradicate red roses, ask coca cola to redesign their cans for the thai market (make them yellow, it’ll sell like hot cakes), rename ‘red bull’ to ‘yellow bull’.
Democracy is now far, far away for Thailand. I now believe it will take a new generation to make the next try, so see you in 20 years, and better bring weapons this time because an unarmed crowd never succeeds in getting anything from an armed junta.
New Mandala readers may remember Burmese historian Dr. Than Tun‘s comments regarding the obsession of the country’s generals with white elephants: “They are animals, whether they are white or black.”
C’mon when are we all going to stop the finger pointing at others, see the double standards on both sides, admit fault and then work together to build a better place for the future generations?
Thanks to Somsak for his work in posting on Suwicha’s case and providing background. Very useful and enlightening indeed.
I, too, sympathize with Suwicha and his family. He got 20 years, halved for “cooperating” – that essentially means pleading guilty – and then had to await a pardon. Obviously there has been some well-placed advice on what needed to be done. Once you fawn enough, you have a chance of a pardon.
This is deliberately aimed at making the “criminal” lose a tremendous amount of face. It is a public humiliation.
That’s the nature of the “system” and those at the top.
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Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
If you really want to do something different, forget the armed struggle nonsense of #8. It will take you back to even darker ages. The first thing you have to do is wrest control of the struggle from those who have hijacked it for their own sinister misuse. Does anyone here seriously believe that the likes of General Chaiyasit, Khunying Pojaman, Pathongtae, Jaturon, Jakkrapob and the Man from the Mirror Group are ever going to deliver on anything other than the higher status for themselves that they have always believed is theirs by divine right. Democracy will not be acheived by hitching onto the shirt-tails of these succession contenders.
“Opposing the atrocious Thailand Reform Plan”
The one person who needs reform badly is Prime Minister Abhisit.
New Thai street signs
All reflecting the idiocy of the power that be! But one consolation: no Thai obeys a sign any way. It is a well-known fact Thai motorists shoot right through the red traffic light.
Thai institutions: Police
Portman,
Where in this article does the author “endorse extrajudicial execution is a satisfactory way to plug deficiencies in the justice system”?
Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
This is the darkest moment in the Thai history. I have never seen anything like this in my life, not even the time when the country was governed by military dictatorship. Something is really wrong and need to be fixed immediately. If this crazy system drag on, Thailand will be finished within a few years. Thailand needs a big change.
New Thai street signs
This was published in the current issue of р╕нр╣Ир╕▓р╕Щ
New Thai street signs
While other countries around the world are making progress toward promoting freedom and democracy and protecting human rights, the current Thai regime governs the country with oppressive measures in the form of authoritarian and totalitarian. The Thai monarchy and the Thai military have spent unlimited budget (thus far 1 billion baths) on the Internal Security Operation against the Red Shirts democratic movement.
It is time international community stands up in support of those persons who long to live in freedom and under democratic government that protects universally accepted human rights. It is time to consider economic sanctions against the current oppressive regime in Thailand
เซ็กส์-ความรัก-และการซื
I very much enjoyed this piece and its attempts to ask good questions the right way. Glad to see it’s going to be read more widely.
An auspicious gift for the Senior General
Khin Nyunt’s white elephants have fallen from grace along with their patron and I last saw the pair of them in their pavilion accompanied only by their attendants. People evidently no longer want to be seen visiting them. The pagoda he built nearby enshrining a great marble image however still attracts devotees probably more than the one Ne Win built presumably to atone for his mulititudinous sins near the Shwedagon.
The regime is irredeemably stuck in a vicious circle of voodoo politics alternating with gunslinger politics. Plus ├зa change.
New Thai street signs
“Because there isn’t nearly enough control over the Internet, the cabinet approved setting up a new office to “prevent and suppress” anything on the Internet that is aimed at or might be aimed at the monarchy; with some help from Mr Orwell, the government decided the office should be called the Bureau of Prevention and Eradication of Computer Crime; Juti Krairiksh, the new MICT (Minister of Internet Censorship of Thailand) explained that any Internet provider who did not instantly comply with his “request” to block a website would lose its licence.
…. one new tactic is to censor any site that mentions actual names such as former PM’s office minister Jak***ob Pe***ir or the Marxist professor G***s Ung***orn – two of 200 such blacklisted names that are to be wiped from Thai memory like a Russian encyclopaedia on Josef Stalin.”
-from (wait for it, wait for it ; you’ll NEVER guess): http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/techscoop/39224/a-dubious-distinction%5D
A Chinese perspective on the damned Mekong
“argy bargy” ??? What does this mean? Clap trap?
[Argy bargy is an excellent Australian term meaning argument, conflict, tense negotiation etc. AW]
Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
what next for the reconciliation plan?
ban selling of tomatoes, ban ‘moo deng’ in restaurants, ban strawberry ice cream, ban red bean dessert, kill the beetles, eradicate red roses, ask coca cola to redesign their cans for the thai market (make them yellow, it’ll sell like hot cakes), rename ‘red bull’ to ‘yellow bull’.
Democracy is now far, far away for Thailand. I now believe it will take a new generation to make the next try, so see you in 20 years, and better bring weapons this time because an unarmed crowd never succeeds in getting anything from an armed junta.
An auspicious gift for the Senior General
New Mandala readers may remember Burmese historian Dr. Than Tun‘s comments regarding the obsession of the country’s generals with white elephants: “They are animals, whether they are white or black.”
Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
“Don’t you feel safer already?”
While Red Shirt leaders can run in politics…
C’mon when are we all going to stop the finger pointing at others, see the double standards on both sides, admit fault and then work together to build a better place for the future generations?
Suwicha Thakor still locked up
Thanks to Somsak for his work in posting on Suwicha’s case and providing background. Very useful and enlightening indeed.
I, too, sympathize with Suwicha and his family. He got 20 years, halved for “cooperating” – that essentially means pleading guilty – and then had to await a pardon. Obviously there has been some well-placed advice on what needed to be done. Once you fawn enough, you have a chance of a pardon.
This is deliberately aimed at making the “criminal” lose a tremendous amount of face. It is a public humiliation.
That’s the nature of the “system” and those at the top.
Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
Somsri, the website linked is http://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com
You can read it by going to:
http://cooloo.org/
and then typing in the address you want.
Damned Chinese: mighty Mekong a memory
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Dear Mr Cooper
Thanks for your reply.
Fran├зois
Thai institutions: Police
In a civilised state the rule of law prevails
Thailand is the same, the problem is that actual Thai laws by which the society operates and what they put on paper are two different things.
Neither is going to disappear anytime soon and compromises are needed.
Tie a red ribbon for Sombat
People who closed an international airport are allowed to walk free while people who the ribbons to polls are imprisoned– Amazing Thailand.
Don’t you feel safer already?