Dear Melissa, many thanks for writing this, the best sort of scholarly tribute. I’m also very saddened by this news. Very few academics have worked on Southeast Asian law, and no others with AH’s combination of scholarship, humanism, and real writing skills. Lawyers and legal historians are rarely a joy to read.
AH wrote mostly in articles, which are scattered all over the place. I hope someone will collect them together somewhere, on web or paper.
Thank you khun Kannikar for giving the voice to these heroic freedom and democracy lovers. These people not only have to struggle abroad they have to worry about their loved ones left behind. The royalist thugs will use the usual filthy tactics by harassing their relatives and friends.
we can’t rely on Thai justice system as well as the investigation. As long as there are big brothers in Thai society, there will be no clear, fair and rational justice.
Since you seem so convinced the DNA evidence, even before admissibility has been ruled, is contaminated, switched, planted, corrupted, and for all you would have us believe, maybe not even human DNA at all, I wonder how you became so intimately knowledgeable about the DNA evidence. Other than you seem to think no trial in Thailand can ever be forensically objective, it sounds to me like maybe you have the DNA evidence yourself.
I am sure when you collected the DNA evidence you made sure its chemical chemical integrity was maintained, as you make reference to Locard’s Exchange Principle above. See you at the trial, Dr Krajongpa.
You have had plenty of chances. Obnoxious sock puppetry and all this aggression will see you, and your other identities, yet again blocked from commenting on New Mandala. We are patient, even forgiving, but you are straining our tolerance.
Are we allowed to say the four letter word “class” interests here?
Not seeing the wood for the trees has worked ever so well so far in favour of the “elites”, dare I say ruling classes, some more blatant than others or lacking finesse like Ohn said. Chinese materialism/greed is rather transparent alright.
So which is worse. Communist Red China or nominally communist and in reality totalitarian capitalist China?
Which one is the evil you know, China or the West? Open and ruthless greed of the Asiatic Johnny Xi-Come-Lately with no gunboats or advanced “international” capitalist exploitation with finesse but never ruling out the old faithful gunboat as and when?
We can skip over the obvious facts that don’t require a doctorate to discuss such as how Pornthip’s previous yellow shirt sychophantry ruins her credibility and how thin skinned you are.
But let’s discuss the single contention that I made regarding DNA and forensic analysis. Do you deny that procedural problems in the colection and analysis of DNA samples can render irrelevant any investigation of them after that point?
I suspect you are the one who should be defining chain of custody.
Since Putrajaya has repeatedly abridged the Malaysia Agreement of 1963, by interfering in the internal cultural and religious affairs of both Sarawak and Sabah, breaking the Constitution in the process, it is indeed a legitimate question whether Malaysia is capable at all of managing its own “internal matters”.
Krajongpa puts the rice scheme in much needed perspective. History will remember the Democrats’ breathless exaggeration of the ills of the scheme. So much for the party’s alleged sophistication . . . On the other hand, Petchkaew’s piece could also benefit from a bit of comparative perspective. Its melodramatic quality serves it poorly. Revolutions are, after all, not tea parties.
I’m not a forensic scientist either but I know an empty metal box with a coat hanger stuck out of the top isn’t a bomb detector.
Ultimately she can join whatever professional organization she wishes – no one is disputing her qualifications. Neither should anyone doubt her partisanship. She has already been discredited for her ‘work’ with the yellow shirts. Can’t turn back time no matter how much forensic jargon you spout.
Funniest thing. Poor little so, so backward Myanmar!
No one has a clue which way the wind blow there, not Xi Hitler (currently busy shooting modern slow motion grey and white Chinese version of “Nacht der langen Messer”, nor Soros who together with Medaline Albright (real boss of Susan Rice- did you see her in Burma?) of Bilderberg.
Nothing nationalistic about it. Chinese being ruthless blood suckers all around he world and the “west” leading them by good example is nothing whatsoever to do with any nationalism or any -ism.
In a totally unexpected way, currently ongoing rush of the “Rape of Burma” starring just about everyone earth may yet change the course of of the way the decadent world is rushing along.
Incidentally there is no need for any one to immigrate to Burma, already have enough lice raising the rental prices. Rangoon is full of carpetbaggers, racketeers and cockroaches of not animal kind.
I still haven’t seen any evidence that anyone stole billions of dollars under the rice scheme – or that actual thefts were any different than in previous years.
It was a badly designed program that failed to reach its goals and ceratainly damaged the country to some degree. But what you refer to a theft was primarily a transfer of wealth from the government to farmers – which may well have been in the billions of dollars.
In my opinion, the government taking on price risk on behalf of farmers and gambling on their ability to control global prices by acting unilaterally form a cartel was extremely foolish.
However, it might have actually worked, and certainly would have been less severe, has Indian rice exports not doubled in twice in back-to-back years during 2009-2011 – something that was unpredictable and out of control of the Thai government.
What does it matter if Rose wrote this piece or not? She’s not a saint; the arguments advanced in the piece above stand or fall on their own, not on account of any supposed authority she possesses.
And how on earth are you so confident that she didn’t write it? It reads to me exactly as I would expect: the English is OK and grammatically correct, but it has occasional awkward expressions that show that the author hasn’t fully mastered formal English prose. If it were ghost-written it wouldn’t read like that.
Anyway, if you’re so concerned about it, why don’t you find out? Send Rose a message via her Facebook page and ask her if she wrote it or not. Or at least attempt some intelligent criticism of the claims and arguments made in the piece rather than concocting absurd conspiracy theories.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Pornthip is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is widely respected around the world, including in UK, Australia, US, Canada and everywhere else. She is hardly partisan and her adjudication during the phoney Kangaroo trials of Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia demonstrate that. You are just
blowing smoke, because you lack scientific knowledge.
You are NOT a Forensic Scientist, you do not even know what DNA and PCR are. And I am sure you have no clue who Locard was.
Please do not jabber at the mouth about things of which you do not have the faintest notion, unless you are prepared to define allele, 12-point match, Locard’s Principle, Chain of Custody, DNA homology and polynucleotides. Otherwise, just keep quiet.
Go phluck yourself notdisappointed. Did you not see that your boy just announced “four more short-term measures to arrest plummeting rubber prices ahead of a planned protest by farmers on Tuesday.”
Isn’t this the sort of thing you are criticizing as corruption. Oh the humanity, oh the humaity.
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Tough audience here these days. I am glad for news of these folks, a glimpse of how people impacted by the coup are fairing. Kannikar, thank you.
Remembering the work of Professor Andrew Huxley
Dear Melissa, many thanks for writing this, the best sort of scholarly tribute. I’m also very saddened by this news. Very few academics have worked on Southeast Asian law, and no others with AH’s combination of scholarship, humanism, and real writing skills. Lawyers and legal historians are rarely a joy to read.
AH wrote mostly in articles, which are scattered all over the place. I hope someone will collect them together somewhere, on web or paper.
Thais in exile
Thank you khun Kannikar for giving the voice to these heroic freedom and democracy lovers. These people not only have to struggle abroad they have to worry about their loved ones left behind. The royalist thugs will use the usual filthy tactics by harassing their relatives and friends.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
we can’t rely on Thai justice system as well as the investigation. As long as there are big brothers in Thai society, there will be no clear, fair and rational justice.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
Krajonpga,
Since you seem so convinced the DNA evidence, even before admissibility has been ruled, is contaminated, switched, planted, corrupted, and for all you would have us believe, maybe not even human DNA at all, I wonder how you became so intimately knowledgeable about the DNA evidence. Other than you seem to think no trial in Thailand can ever be forensically objective, it sounds to me like maybe you have the DNA evidence yourself.
I am sure when you collected the DNA evidence you made sure its chemical chemical integrity was maintained, as you make reference to Locard’s Exchange Principle above. See you at the trial, Dr Krajongpa.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
Just a heads up, “Hang Tuah”,
You have had plenty of chances. Obnoxious sock puppetry and all this aggression will see you, and your other identities, yet again blocked from commenting on New Mandala. We are patient, even forgiving, but you are straining our tolerance.
Best wishes to all,
Nich
Myanmar Special Economic Zones, Part I
Are we allowed to say the four letter word “class” interests here?
Not seeing the wood for the trees has worked ever so well so far in favour of the “elites”, dare I say ruling classes, some more blatant than others or lacking finesse like Ohn said. Chinese materialism/greed is rather transparent alright.
So which is worse. Communist Red China or nominally communist and in reality totalitarian capitalist China?
Which one is the evil you know, China or the West? Open and ruthless greed of the Asiatic Johnny Xi-Come-Lately with no gunboats or advanced “international” capitalist exploitation with finesse but never ruling out the old faithful gunboat as and when?
A Spanish lesson for Indonesia’s 1965
Franco’s removal was “slow and bitterly fought”? Maybe. But officially he died of an old age.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
Hang Tuah,
We can skip over the obvious facts that don’t require a doctorate to discuss such as how Pornthip’s previous yellow shirt sychophantry ruins her credibility and how thin skinned you are.
But let’s discuss the single contention that I made regarding DNA and forensic analysis. Do you deny that procedural problems in the colection and analysis of DNA samples can render irrelevant any investigation of them after that point?
I suspect you are the one who should be defining chain of custody.
Statelessness and child rights in Sabah
Since Putrajaya has repeatedly abridged the Malaysia Agreement of 1963, by interfering in the internal cultural and religious affairs of both Sarawak and Sabah, breaking the Constitution in the process, it is indeed a legitimate question whether Malaysia is capable at all of managing its own “internal matters”.
Thais in exile
To be fair, the junta might not have much choice about supporting rubber prices. They aren’t the only people in Thailand with tanks.
Thais in exile
Krajongpa puts the rice scheme in much needed perspective. History will remember the Democrats’ breathless exaggeration of the ills of the scheme. So much for the party’s alleged sophistication . . . On the other hand, Petchkaew’s piece could also benefit from a bit of comparative perspective. Its melodramatic quality serves it poorly. Revolutions are, after all, not tea parties.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
I’m not a forensic scientist either but I know an empty metal box with a coat hanger stuck out of the top isn’t a bomb detector.
Ultimately she can join whatever professional organization she wishes – no one is disputing her qualifications. Neither should anyone doubt her partisanship. She has already been discredited for her ‘work’ with the yellow shirts. Can’t turn back time no matter how much forensic jargon you spout.
Myanmar Special Economic Zones, Part I
Funniest thing. Poor little so, so backward Myanmar!
No one has a clue which way the wind blow there, not Xi Hitler (currently busy shooting modern slow motion grey and white Chinese version of “Nacht der langen Messer”, nor Soros who together with Medaline Albright (real boss of Susan Rice- did you see her in Burma?) of Bilderberg.
Pity!
Myanmar Special Economic Zones, Part I
Nothing nationalistic about it. Chinese being ruthless blood suckers all around he world and the “west” leading them by good example is nothing whatsoever to do with any nationalism or any -ism.
In a totally unexpected way, currently ongoing rush of the “Rape of Burma” starring just about everyone earth may yet change the course of of the way the decadent world is rushing along.
Incidentally there is no need for any one to immigrate to Burma, already have enough lice raising the rental prices. Rangoon is full of carpetbaggers, racketeers and cockroaches of not animal kind.
Statelessness and child rights in Sabah
Hi Sabahan,
You have an interesting view.
Are you suggesting that Malaysia is not capable of managing its own internal matters?
Thais in exile
I still haven’t seen any evidence that anyone stole billions of dollars under the rice scheme – or that actual thefts were any different than in previous years.
It was a badly designed program that failed to reach its goals and ceratainly damaged the country to some degree. But what you refer to a theft was primarily a transfer of wealth from the government to farmers – which may well have been in the billions of dollars.
In my opinion, the government taking on price risk on behalf of farmers and gambling on their ability to control global prices by acting unilaterally form a cartel was extremely foolish.
However, it might have actually worked, and certainly would have been less severe, has Indian rice exports not doubled in twice in back-to-back years during 2009-2011 – something that was unpredictable and out of control of the Thai government.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/indias-triumph-in-rice/article4231844.ece
I am not justifying or defending was was a misguided and unsuccessful program, just trying to put it in perspective.
Thai Coup: A normal way of life
What does it matter if Rose wrote this piece or not? She’s not a saint; the arguments advanced in the piece above stand or fall on their own, not on account of any supposed authority she possesses.
And how on earth are you so confident that she didn’t write it? It reads to me exactly as I would expect: the English is OK and grammatically correct, but it has occasional awkward expressions that show that the author hasn’t fully mastered formal English prose. If it were ghost-written it wouldn’t read like that.
Anyway, if you’re so concerned about it, why don’t you find out? Send Rose a message via her Facebook page and ask her if she wrote it or not. Or at least attempt some intelligent criticism of the claims and arguments made in the piece rather than concocting absurd conspiracy theories.
Koh Tao trial another litmus test
Krajongpa,
You have no idea what you are talking about. Pornthip is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is widely respected around the world, including in UK, Australia, US, Canada and everywhere else. She is hardly partisan and her adjudication during the phoney Kangaroo trials of Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia demonstrate that. You are just
blowing smoke, because you lack scientific knowledge.
You are NOT a Forensic Scientist, you do not even know what DNA and PCR are. And I am sure you have no clue who Locard was.
Please do not jabber at the mouth about things of which you do not have the faintest notion, unless you are prepared to define allele, 12-point match, Locard’s Principle, Chain of Custody, DNA homology and polynucleotides. Otherwise, just keep quiet.
Thais in exile
Go phluck yourself notdisappointed. Did you not see that your boy just announced “four more short-term measures to arrest plummeting rubber prices ahead of a planned protest by farmers on Tuesday.”
Isn’t this the sort of thing you are criticizing as corruption. Oh the humanity, oh the humaity.