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Just another pathetic ploy?

Thaksin Shinawatra's first public comments after the Rajprasong arson and looting were to 'speculate' that the Red Shirt protests should continue underground, and after many weeks of keeping a defensive posture, these new bombings in the very same area just a day after Thaksin's recent birthday celebrations seem more likely, to me at least, to be a signal from the birthday boy to begin a new offensive, albeit perhaps merely another pathetic ploy to keep his name in the news.

   The Red Shirt movement needs to collectively awake from Thaksin's spell and stop simply denying, complaining and blaming, find a credible leader able to present a coherent policy program alternative and make a public commitment that their protest methods will never again extend beyond civil disobedience into arson, looting and murder.

   Of course, for that to happen, the Red Shirt movement would first have to reject Thaksin's twisted leadership and tainted money as well as his long history of unbending efforts to usurp state power largely for his own ends. Indeed, the events of this year strongly suggest that credible leaders with a coherent vision of comprehensive state reform are probably the only way for the Red Shirts to convince the Thai middle class that there really is a 'new deal' out there and that it is therefore in their best interest to support the Red Shirts as a credible political alternative.

Intellectuals are at best tolerated in the anti-intellectual Thai education industry.  Intellectuals are all ' trouble-makers' :  " Four Legs Good - Two Legs Bad ".
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elkangorito, on 2010-04-25 12:24:45, said: