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jesse89

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In Topic: Thaksin Allies In Thai Election Landslide: Exit Polls

2011-07-03 15:51:49

Oberkommando, on 2011-07-03 15:14:47, said:

Shows how out of touch the Thai Visa news section regulars are with the opinions of the majority of Thai people IMO.

Great day for Thailand - putting the military and elite firmly in their places once and for all.

Agreed!

Military pressure leading to the Democrat led coalition gaining power, over 500 Burmese refugees dead in the Rohingya boat incident, increasing abuse of lese majeste laws to prosecute political enemies, abuse of the computer crimes act to restrict freedom of speech, the killing of many unarmed protesters last April and May... I cannot understand the unquestioning support of the Democrats by some of the regulars on this forum.

Good riddance.

The Thai people have voiced their will. As long as the election result is not yet again overturned by the powers that be democracy has been returned to Thailand.

In Topic: Coup Leader Willing To Join Government Of Yingluck

2011-06-11 22:03:52

animatic, on 2011-06-11 20:41:13, said:

By all appearances he was told he was not being re-instated and to submit his resignation for botching the election and dividing the nation gravely. And he than made the best of it by appearing to step down himself.

Just to clarify,

The Thai general elections of 2006 were "botched", due to the choice of the opposition parties to refrain from running in the election not through any direct action by Thaksin. Thailand was certainly divided over Thaksin's rule, however, it was the strategic choice of the Democrats, the Mahachon Party and Chat Thai to boycott the election that led to the political uncertainty in the election's aftermath.

In Topic: Yingluck Vows To Implement Mega-Projects, Dams

2011-05-29 22:02:11

janverbeem, on 2011-05-29 10:23:56, said:

lonewolf99, on 2011-05-29 08:30:42, said:

timekeeper, on 2011-05-29 07:40:28, said:

theres no mention of how these mega projects might be paid for though?
after they have given a 10,000 baht computer to 12 million students in their election promises, will there be any money left in the kitty?

Correct.....obviously Thais do not read foreign news - the 3 gorges dam project is a massive financial and ecological disaster.
Any more river dams anywhere on the planet are just going to wreck the place......more than it already is....

That's just Yingluck strongest point,most of her supporters wouldn't be able to read the news if it was written in Thai.

I don't think that will be a problem given that Thailand's literacy rate is at 95%, but do keep spouting unsubstantiated nonsense
:jap:

In Topic: Shock Over Lese-Majeste Charge Against Thammasat Historian

2011-05-23 18:01:21

Somsak has now written a second open letter to the princess. I don't think a direct link to the letter would be allowed on here due to the sensitive subject matter, but an English translation of the letter is available somewhere on New Mandala. It proves to be quite a compelling read.

In Topic: Embattled Prachatai Director Chiranuch Wins Award

2011-05-15 16:43:04

animatic, on 2011-05-15 11:40:47, said:

She has been accused of LM for not quickly enough removing LM posts on her web site put there by others.

I have had the feeling for sometime there was an organized effort to shut her openminded forum down, because it was open minded, and was a detriment to a certain persons return. So a boiler room operation was directed to overwhelm her site with LM content while pointing sympathetic police at the site at perfectly timed moments of overload. This appeared to happen twice.

It also had the desired affect of allowing spin to make the government LOOK oppressive for shutting it down. And has anyone who was posting this 'SOURCE LM content' been hung out to dry, or only some little people who comment around it?

But there is a difference between watermelon police working to silence dissenting opinions, and 'the government' directing the same for completely opposite reasons.

Glad she got the award. Embattled is the perfect phrase for this.

I believe that you are correct in saying that there was an organized effort to shut the observant Prachatai Forum down, however, Chiranuch Premchaiporn herself has stated that the threats that she received were from the military and from the state post the 2006 coup.

http://asiapacific.a...-prachatai-com/

Perhaps there is another agenda behind attempting to silence Prachatai, a news forum that has been rather critical of the 2006 coup and the questionable establishment of the Democrat led government?

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