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[Wolfie]

Ulysses G., on 2008-12-01 19:23:18, said:

His party was legally elected. Why should he step down for an illegal mob?
Someone has a loose screw!  

Explain that to the courts, i believe they are meeting tomorrow...

[grandpops]

Wolfie, on 2008-12-01 19:28:51, said:

Ulysses G., on 2008-12-01 19:23:18, said:

His party was legally elected. Why should he step down for an illegal mob?
Someone has a loose screw!

Explain that to the courts, i believe they are meeting tomorrow...

The verdict came not without criticisms. Although conducted independently, the trial was made in a time when the military junta, understandably hostile to the Thai Rak Thai, was staying in power. Furthermore, the constitutional judges, although consisting of high-profile judges renowned for their autonomy, were arbitrarily hand-picked by the military soon after they came to power.

The introduction of Announcement No. 27 (Section 3) by the Council for Democratic Reform dated 30 September B.E. 2549 (2006), was also a spot of criticism. Whether or not the Announcement can be applied retroactively to charges committed before the Announcement was enacted and enforced is controversial.^[4] On the one hand, it can be argued that the CDR's Announcement earned a law status at the time it was announced. On the other hand, however, making an act punishable as a crime when such an act was not an offense when committed--so-called ex post facto law--is, some argued, unjustifiable. This was reflected by the non-unanimous 6-3 vote in favour of the application of the Announcement. Chief Judge Panya Thanomrod, voting against the use of Announcement No. 27 (Section 3), held that barring individuals from politics is a serious charge and that individuals have the right to know in advance any possible punishment they will receive as a result of conducting a particular action.
http://en.wikipedia...._politics,_2006

And, sheep, even though they were hand picked by the Junta to do their bidding they still couldn't agree.

Baaaaa humbug if you don't understand a link beween a Biased Court and a shady verdit. baaaaaa

[barryjohnson]

A coup is quite likely. However, if it happen now, it will be bloody.

I hope that people remains peaceful. I would rather the PAD taking the airport, than seeing the UDD fighting with the army. LaPaz.

[geriatrickid]

I think the military has hesitated staging a coup because they don't know how the EU and USA would react. Loss of favoured nation trading status would put a dent in any junta's pocket book and they do love their EU and USA manufactured weapons so. With Obama set to take over as US President, gone will be the days where any despot can claim to be anti terrorist or anti commie and be able to count on Uncle Sam to turn a blind eye. The people in power in France, the UK, Germany and now the USA have no use for military dictatorships and would speak up. As the economic pain increases the longer the airport fiasco continues, the less likely Thailand could handle an embargo on its agricultural and manufactured goods exports to North America and the EU. Thailand could once count on China and India to fill any void, but China is in no financial position to play white night and India has some economic and political problems of its own brewing. As it is, there is alot of ill will created by the Thai military for failing to support the Thai government thereby causing problems for Indian and Chinese nationals.

Edited by geriatrickid, 2008-12-02 09:51:15.

[geriatrickid]

As was kindly pointed out, I should have written white knight, not night.