Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Comparisons between the Terrorism of 9/11 in NY and 18/05 in Bangkok

CNN has got the reporting of the terrorist attacks on Bangkok wrong!

Shame on you CNN!!!



by Anonymous Farang who loves the King of Thailand



This is unbelievable as the terrorist attacks inflicted on Bangkok funded and planned by Thaksin Shinwatra and the terrorist attacks on New York organized by Osama Bin Ladin are very similar. As Americans and media of the US also experienced enormous terror attacks they should be able to understand the enormous grief and terror currently being experienced by Thais all around the globe!!



Thaksin and Osama Bin Ladin


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Both of these men have similar psychological makeups. They have had enormous falls from grace. They have grievances between themselves and past states with which they were involved. How would you feel if you were once the Prime Minister of Thailand? Would you feel the same as Osama Bin Ladin who used to work for the US (CIA) in Afghanistan against the Russians? He came from one of the richest Saudi families who were in fact so rich that his family members where meeting with George Bush Senior in the US when the 9/11 attacks occurred.



Thaksin has legally become a Montenegrin because his legal advisors know that it is impossible for Thailand to extradite him under his new nationality. After he has inflicted such enormous terrorist atrocities on his homeland, he needs to be punished but he will now never be able to return home.



Terrorism is the same the whole world over



Terrorism is, in the most general sense, the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. At present, the International community has been unable to formulate a universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).



Thaksin is a Fascist like Mussolini and the acts which he supported to be carried out in Bangkok were aimed at the systematic use of terror to make fear (terror) so that he can pursue his own personal political and ideological goals. He was aiming his terrorist acts to make Thai civilians feel unsafe so he is be able to get more political support for his cause. This issue will definitely be further explored when the Thai Government legally develops its legal case against Thaksin on Terrorist charges.



Terrorist funding



State funding is the largest form of terrorist funding for example, PLO, DFLP and some other terrorist groups were funded by the Soviet Union. Many international banks now do not deal with PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) because they know that most of their money was illegally acquired from the state through corruption. Thaksin knows this and he has many offshore bank accounts, where his identify is safeguarded, which are an excellent means for funding terrorism in Thailand. All Thaksin needs to do is call his private bankers and order them to transfer the money he illegally acquired to Thailand. Al Qaeda used similar methods to finance their terrorist attacks in the USA through anonymous offshore companies. The USA took steps to cut off Al Qaeda funding sources to stop their terrorist attacks. Will the US help Thailand do the same to Thaksin?



There are reports of large fund transfers of up to 7 thousand million bahts by Thaksin at the height of the terrorist attacks in Bangkok. This terrorist financing is currently being investigated by the Thai government. It is believed that there are many political/military organizations which were the recipients of these terrorist funds but the largest was Phak Puea Thai and other red shirt related political organisations.



The Red Shirts and Al Qaeda



Thaksin has highjacked the Red Shirts for his own personal political agenda. This is very similar to other terrorists like Osama Bin Ladin who used Al Qaeda and his stupid followers who agreed with his political agenda. He has also brainwashed a lot of his followers who are very uneducated and are anti-foreigner, against gays and very bigoted. He has brainwashed them to think that if they fight for democracy with him then their lives will be much better, but the reality is that the economic situation globally is terrible and Thaksin cannot save them. The only person Thaksin will save is himself - he does not care about the red-shirt followers!!



[ Ronayos added: HM the King Bhumipol of Thailand has reigned for sixty years. He has served Thailand as he promised with "Dharma" (Legitimacy or Righteousness) by advising the nation as a whole through difficult times and good times. He guided the nation through the fall of communism dominoes and through the sweep of capitalism collapse. He does not rule but shows examples of sufficient modest living. ]



The only very simple question to ask these Thai followers of Thaksin, the international terrorist: Do you love the King or Thaksin? If you answer is Thaksin then you are also a terrorist, but if you truly love your King and country you should not have anything to do with Thaksin!!! Lets build a future for Thailand together.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Thaksin Shinawatra's Triple Standads

Triple Standards Coward Red Family



Thaksin Shinawatra always wants to express himself successful, smart and competent. His supporters even claims to be a Thai-version of Mahatama Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Ongsan. In fact, he is nothing but a cheap habitual liar and a boastful coward. His famous accusation of Thai justice system is that he receives undue double standard treatment for his convictions and equates them to those poor followers of him to reason a rise up and all-out civil war in order that he will be able to come back to nurture the poors again.




May 14, 2010 evening, the outbound passport control office found Potjaman Na Pompetch (ex-wife of Thaksin), Panthongtae and Pinthongtha Shinawatra, children of Thaksin the officially-proclaimed fugitve criminal international terrorist at Suwanapoom International Airport, leaving for Singapore on SQ981.

Praethongthan Shinawatra, another daughter of the fugitive took AF169 two hours later for France. General Chawalit Yongjaiyudth, the President of Pua Thai puppet party of Thaksin took TG 612 to Kunming earlier in the morning of the same day while Jaturon Chaisaeng, former interim head of the disbanded Thai Rak Thai, original Thaksin's party took a-day after to the same destination in China.



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It is always the same full-house fleeing as before for the family of the cowards. Ominal signs before actual conspired havocs that Thaksin always inform his close associates before he orders the strike. This is a kind of standard of the Shinawatras and his ex.


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With his hidden billions of dollars on offshore island, Thaksin himself is safe in his new several nationalities on his private jet to wherever he can bribe the local authorities in. That is another standard for himself, despite of his frequent claims to international media of his victorious democratic leadership and a Thai version of the April 2009's pledge in front of his video link screen to red-shirts that he will immediately return to lead the red-shirt march as soon as the first shot erupted.


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For the so-called "grass roots", "the peasants", or "Prai" , claimed by Thaksin and the red-shirts themselves, the standard is much different. They either already get paid enough for their protester roles and their statuses on the street and depending on their local headmen, the puppet politicians. Some protesters join without pay because they are just too stupid to fall in love with Thaksin populism and his day-dream propaganda. They only deserve free food amidst the strong urine and foul smell heat in the humidity of the tropical summer plus possible Thaksin's terrorist's shots on their heads.


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An English Explanation To Thaksin's Struggle

Below are comments on the Times Online of the U.K. by one of its reader, Richard Vine, on the Thai protest situation.

I, Sainarong, feel that it is an excellent comment, tailored for the westerners who does not know much about Thailand, and who think in term of black and white.

In future, if one of your western friends should tell you that he/she fully supports the protest of the Thai poors against a tyrannical Thai government which was not elected by the people, send him/her the piece below which is not written by a Thai elite.
Sainarong

PS Of course, matters are actually very complicated, much more complicated than this little piece. Which is why there are so many viewpoints, all of which are probably correct, to a certain degree.


Richard Vine wrote:May 15, 2010 7:30 AM in times online

Imagine that Labour supporters were upset that the Lib Dems changed sides enabling Cameron to become PM and removing the Labour Party from power.

So, financed by a shadowy ex PM convicted of massive fraud, they set up a fortified camp at Marble Arch, armed themselves with firebombs, grenades, guns and spears and indulged in sporadic sorties to take over the TV stations and government offices.

The presence of these protesters has completely shut down Oxford Street and is playing havoc with traffic across the centre of London.

An attempt by the government to clear the protesters is met with massive resistance and more than 20 people die.

Cameron agrees to meet the protesters leaders and in an attempt to end the stand off agrees to bring forward the elections and to dissolve Parliament in 4 months (1 year before necessary).

The protesters then refuse to disperse and continue their lockdown of the centre of London demanding the arrest of Nick Clegg.

Ask yourselves how long a UK government would tolerate this disruption. This has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with greed and ambition - on both sides.

The only difference between Bangkok and other major cities is the massive display of tolerance hitherto shown in the face of quite preposterous demands to dissolve a legitimate government. We hope and believe that when this is over that this same tolerance continues to be displayed.
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

An Interview with Rotten Rat Thaksin April 2009


SPIEGEL's INTERVIEW WITH EXILED FORMER THAI LEADER THAKSIN April 20, 2009


'I'm Like a Rat'
[ Yes, you really are a smelly rotten rat. ]


In a SPIEGEL interview, former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, 59, discusses the uprising of his supporters against the government in Bangkok and the role the king should play in resolving the lasting conflict in the tumultuous southeast Asian nation.


SPIEGEL: Dr.Thaksin, the news emerged from Bangkok on Friday that Sonhi Limthongkul, the leader of the government loyal Yellow Shirts, barely survived an assassination attempt. He has always been one of your most dogged opponents.

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, How much did you pay for it? you Thaksin, the IDIOT ]

Thaksin: It was the government that declared a state of emergency. Even though there was an election, the government used its power in an even worse way than a putsch government. It controls every place, it can seize and search without any warrants, and they don't care about human rights.
It's a government that has been given the license to kill. And I have the impression that the phase of "cut-off killings" has begun -- in other words, they are eliminating anyone who knows too much about the conspiracy of those in power against me. [Thaksin's proxy governments in 2008 under Samak and Somchai declared States of Emergency twice

Samak, Emergency Hoax : CLICK

Somchai PM, the Prime Murderer : CLICK

to conspire to kill unarmed peaceful rallying PAD with red-shirts mobs and police teargas explosives. It was Thaksin regime who wants to kill all people, particularly PAD, who are enlightened and no longer comply with them. Lately, it was Thaksin who hired the assasins to kill Sondhi. It is not the violence by this current democratic and transparent government of PM Abhisit.]


SPIEGEL: Officially, two people died in the latest riots and 123 were injured. Do you dispute these figures?


Thaksin: It is an absolute lie [ which from now, I, Thaksin, is about to make up for you ...]


SPIEGEL: Do you have proof of that?

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, you are lying and I am calling you a bluff, you Thaksin, the IDIOT ]


Thaksin:
[ Certainly. I have lied a lot. I am lying now. And I will be lying again. I am definitely the worst international habitual liar, the world has ever seen. ]
After they said there were only two dead, we found two Red Shirts who had been tied with their hands behind their backs and were found in the Chao Praya River. We are still looking for others.
[ Morgues, hospitals, cremation facilities we search everywhere except in Dubai. However, one of us, the one who we and him have not been so sure about his own gender, disappeared right from the stage. Jakrapop Penkae, the red core leader disappeared. Another one killed right here, was me, with Sep-Pu-Ku (Harakiri) sword. It was Thaksin, me, I stabbed my own throat by myself.
Watch my last scene alive. (CLICK)
]


SPIEGEL: The world is very alarmed by the developments in your country. What is the reason for the lasting crisis?


Thaksin: The political elite
[ Who are "THEY" and why are "THEY so powerful, so much that the poor innocent decent Thaksin were ousted." ]
are very worried because I and my associates have remained popular and powerful
[financially]
, as they were before. They would like to shift the power to the the other camp, the Democrats, but they cannot do it through democratic means. Now they are using all kinds of other means. They unsuccessfully tried to assassinate me. They also sparked protests, which were not successful -- but it was still enough for them to use it as an excuse to conduct the coup d'etat.
[ It was the most peaceful coup and very welcome by Thais. ]
After the coup, they politicized the justice system
[ to undo what I did for my cronies' promotion in the police office ]
and convicted me and my family. Then they created an illegal constitution.
[ the best scapegoat for me ]

Despite all that, [ my price was right and better, that's why ] the people still vote for my camp
[ which I admit here, that both Samak and Somchai were my puppet PMs, through my money-backed electoral frauds ]
. This really upsets Bangkok. That's why the latest uprising happened.


SPIEGEL: How can Thailand pull itself out of this plight?


Thaksin: As long as the power struggle
[ of mine ]
is not transparent and is not conducted by democratic means
[ in other words, if I am not jailed on earth or in hell ]
, everything will remain stuck. We will not be able to move [ my frozen billions USD worth of corrupted assets out of the legal freezer ]. The justice system has been used to shore up a double standard [ previously because of my bribery ] -- it is lenient to one side and brutal to the other [ Two deaths for peaceful PAD's yellow-shirts, ten limbs and a brain plus an eye blasted away by police's teargas explosives on October 7, 2008 and zero death to Thaksin's violent red-shirts so far]. Reconciliation is the only solution.
[ And all the criminals, including Thaksin must be jailed ]


SPIEGEL: You have urged [ forced ] King Bhumibol to intervene and stop the crisis. Why hasn't he done anything yet?


Thaksin: I don't know. I cannot say anything about the royal monarchy.


SPIEGEL: But the word of the king is clearly decisive.

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, you do not deserve a Royal pardon, you Thaksin, the IDIOT ]


Thaksin: I would say that he is the only person who can reconcile. I don't think other people can. I have been watching [ abusing and undermining ] my country from the outside for three years already. Nothing has improved.
[ for me. I can no longer bribe justice system. I cannot get my military pal to stage coup. That's why, I have to pay red-shirts and puppet politicians to stage violent riots to force negotiation.]


SPIEGEL: Is Thailand's crisis also a crisis of the monarchy?


Thaksin: His majesty is 81 years old. We wish him a long life. And we also wish that he will continue to enjoy the respect of all Thais.
[ Above the ground, I have to leave this dirty works of undermining the Monarchy to my communist accomplices, Jakrapop, the ambivalent, Giles Ung, the ambi-racial Sino-Brit, Suchart Nakbangsai, Da torpedo, the locked-jaw grunter. ]

As a Thai, it is difficult for me to say more. Thais don't have much freedom of speech.
[ Speech and media repression was absolutely true only during Thaksin's administration 2001 to 2006. The freedom of speech and the media has been very much improved after Thaksin left. ]


SPIEGEL: But you are sitting here in Dubai, not Thailand, and you are completely free to say whatever you want.


[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, you are lying again, IDIOT ]


Thaksin: But I have to be very, very careful, as a Thai and a former prime minister. I really respect his majesty.


SPIEGEL: You were once considered to be a close confidant of the king.


[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, Are you really that good?, you IDIOT Thaksin ]


Thaksin: Yes, but I have been hated by the people who surround him. The president of the Privy Council (eds: a panel of appointed advisors to the monarchy) and the former prime minister under the military junta tried to topple me through the coup d'etat.


SPIEGEL: And you now hold these men responsible for the current crisis?


[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, you are lying again, you IDIOT Thaksin ]


Thaksin: My government was democratically elected and won by a landslide [ vote buying and electoral frauds ] . Now I am like a rat who stays in the house. They want to catch me so badly that they would dare to burn down the whole house to do so.
[ Actually, I, Thaksin, am a bastard smelly rat, who is burning down the house to find my own way out. However, I am being choked up by my own lying words of rotten smell.] .


SPIEGEL: Your opponents claim that it was you who caused the latest conflagration by calling for the protests from abroad.

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, you are really a rotten rodent, you IDIOT Thaksin ]


Thaksin: I have to give the people moral [, financial, food, alcohol, and hatred instigation to ] support. But when we say that we want a revolution, we mean that we want it through peaceful means [ just amend the laws to white wash me and my cronies, and give me back the power and frozen assets ]. We in Thailand have long suffered under a democracy that is valid only for a few [ of my family who can afford to effectively bribe not the poor jerks]: the political elite in Bangkok.


SPIEGEL: In broad swaths of the population, you still enjoy great popularity. That means you also carry responsibility. Couldn't you be doing more to calm the current situation?


Thaksin: No way.
[ So, These two sentences are the proof of I, Thaksin am the only decision-maker behind the red-shirts. ] The only choice is a broad reconciliation

[ To be precise, my assets have to be returned and my cronies have also to be laundered. On the surface,]. We use peaceful means. The violence in Thailand comes from [my hired private army of violent and armed red-shirts to overthrow the legitimate, ] the government-supported armed forces. These are people [ secretly hired by me. ]
who mix in with the protesters, kill people
[ two innocent civillian men at Nang Lerng ]
and create chaos.

SPIEGEL: What are you personally planning to do now?

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, having committed Harakiri, where are you hiding your rotten smelly body, you Thaksin, the IDIOT ]



Thaksin: I travel a lot and I don't normally stay in a place for longer than two weeks. I have business to take care of [ That is my actual safety priority, to keep running away as an international fugitive hiding from the interpol.] . The Red Shirt Committees work independently and make their own decisions. [ I have paid them for all the expenses why should I have to stay back to cover their asses, especially when they fail to get what I want.] .

Sometimes they call me for advice [ it is always only when they are short and most of the time it is about cash ], but they don't have to believe in me [ They just have to believe in cash. However,]. I don't [ just only ] support them financially because my assets in Thailand have been frozen and I don't have much money [ Therefore, I have to help provoking them to fight to some Thai's deaths and over any Thais' dead bodies to substantiate the claims of my frozen money. ].


SPIEGEL: The government has stripped you of your passport -- how do you travel now?

[ SPIEGEL means you, Where the hell in the world would you be able to go, you fugitive Thaksin, the IDIOT ]


Thaksin: I have [ purchased on-sale ] passports from other countries. [ Crook ] Friends and [ corrupt ] leaders from many [ undemocratic and under developed ] countries have offered me honorary [ criminals fugitive ] citizenship, a passport or travel documents. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is strongly behind me [ whereas Nicaraguans are condemning Ortega about this ] and his country has given me a diplomatic passport [ at a competitive price ].

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SPIEGEL: How can lasting peace be achieved in Thailand?

[ SPIEGEL means you, Thaksin, When are you going to either jail or hell?, you Thaksin, the IDIOT ]


Thaksin: Both sides have committed wrong doings [ Thaksin and his cronies, are the worst ]. It's time to reconcile by forgiving each other, forgetting the past [ all crimes of mine ] and looking forward [ to my future crimes, you just wait for those ] . We should become one nation and one people [ under my authoritarian feet ]. But I will not recognize the current prime minister and the other side will not accept me. [ With my violent red-shirts army, and Thailand as a hostage, ] The king must help. He must draw up a democratic constitution [ leaving me and my cronies clean ] and then we need new elections. [ in which I must be able to commit electoral frauds with my wealth again. ]


Interview conducted by Bernhard Zand of Spiegel.

The navy and red phrases are comments for factual understanding by www.antithaksin.com





SPIEGEL's A DIVIDED NATION April 20, 2009


'In Thailand, the Law of the Jungle Prevails'

At first, Yes, under the dark red force of Thaksin. Then, The Light of Wisdom and Peace take Over


In a SPIEGEL interview, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, the governor of Bangkok and a cousin of the king, condemns former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and criticizes the Thai Army. He says he is deeply concerned about the state of Thailand and the future of the monarchy.


SPIEGEL: Thailand doesn't seem to be able to return to normal, as the latest uprising in Bangkok proves. The riots we saw last week were the worst ones witnessed in years.


Sukhumbhand: In terms of how widespread it was geographically, it was the worst the city has ever experienced. During the unrest of 1973, 1976 and 1992, there were more deaths …


SPIEGEL: … but in 1973 and 1976 we were primarily dealing with student protests.


Sukhumbhand: This time there was senseless violence in many parts of the city. People set fires and attacked each other.


SPIEGEL: Everything began the weekend before last (April 9 to 14, 2009), when the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship -- as the supporters of deposed ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra call themselves -- succeeded in halting the Asia summit in the coastal resort of Pattaya(April 11, 2009). Doesn't that indicate a total failure of your military and police forces?


Sukhumbhand: We have to admit that. The conference hotel is located on a hill and only three narrow roads lead to it. They should never have permitted this venue to be stormed. The police leadership downright refused to intervene and the armed forces only came to help at the last minute. By then Prime Minister Abhisit was trapped.


SPIEGEL: His car was attacked and his driver was hit. In other countries, bodyguards would have reached for their weapons. Why didn't they in Thailand?


Sukhumbhand: The instructions were not there to shoot. There was a vacuum, which allowed the protesters to do what we saw.


SPIEGEL: Earlier, Thailand was considered the epitome of a Buddhist tropical paradise. But today the country is mentioned in the same breath as civil war and chaos. How do you explain the polarization of your society?


Sukhumbhand: There has always been a division between the rich and the poor in Thai society, and there always was an extreme gap between the urban and the rural masses. But that has always been kept under control by an unstated consensus on the part of all political leaders that certain things should not be touched. There was a consensus that political leaders may quarrel among themselves, but they may not take their quarrel to the extent that it would have any impact on the monarchy or to the extent that it would aggravate these fractions in society.


SPIEGEL: But Thaksin suddenly did not play to the rules of the old political elites.


Sukhumbhand: What happened during the Thaksin period was that he didn't play according to that rule anymore. In fact, he tried to impose his own rules. That might have been for good reasons, I don't doubt that. But there was a rule that there are certain things that you don't do. It might partially be due to his personality and partially due to the extent of his three election victories. The consensus in our society broke down and there is no mechanism to put it back in place right now. This is also because the king is no longer as active as he was before.


SPIEGEL: The Red Shirts complain that there is no democracy and no justice in Thailand because their leaders have been arrested, but the Yellow Shirt leaders who blockaded Bangkok's international airport last year go free.


Sukhumbhand: The facts are obvious. There has always been injustice in Thai society. But under Thaksin, was there justice? This is one of the problems in Thailand -- there has been always the law of the jungle. Between 2002 and 2005, when Thaksin ruled, thousands of alleged drug traffickers and terrorists were killed. I don't say that Thaksin ordered that killings. But thousands were murdered. They disappeared and the media was silenced. What is better, that people who blocked an airport are not punished or that innocent people are murdered? I cannot condone any act of injustice. The sad truth is that in Thailand the law of the jungle prevails. It's also a fact that Thaksin's followers are no angels, and we Democrats aren't either.


SPIEGEL: In retrospect, was the military putsch that toppled Thaksin on Sept. 19, 2006 a failure?


Sukhumbhand: I don't condone military coups, and I was not in favor of that coup, either. But if the coup leader felt there has to be a coup, they should have carried it to its logical conclusion.


SPIEGEL: What do you mean?


Sukhumbhand: They weren't forceful enough. Ironically, first the coup leaders broke the most important law of the land, the constitution, and then they didn't dare to break the little laws. If the generals had smashed Thaksin's network right at the beginning, and if they would have confiscated his properties straightaway, we wouldn't be confronted with the chaos that we have today.


SPIEGEL: Why did the generals mess it up?


Sukhumbhand: Stupid, they are stupid. Thaksin's popularity was on the way down, anyway.


SPIEGEL: Thaksin's passport was only recently revoked. What would his supporters do if he were extradited to Bangkok to stand trial for corruption and inciting the uprising?


Sukhumbhand: They would go completely berserk.


SPIEGEL: Wouldn't new elections be the best solution for restoring peace?


Sukhumbhand: No. The outcome would be the same as before. We will be confronted with equally large blocs opposing each other. I think it will be better if the government stays in power to the end of this term. Then the voters should decide, but not on the streets. But no one has any magical solutions right now.


SPIEGEL: In times of crisis, His Majesty, the King of Thailand, has often spoken out as the moral authority of your country. Does that not indicate that Thailand's politicians are too immature to lead the country on their own?


Sukhumbhand: Actually, the king has not come out so often. He has only intervened in a few cases. But when he did, it was always important. But, clearly, we political leaders have proven to be immature in solving differences among ourselves. So the king is needed. But the fact that the king is there to help out in times of trouble allows us to be immature.


SPIEGEL: At some point, the king will no longer be there. Will Thailand then slip into chaos when he dies? Are you afraid of that?


Sukhumbhand: Of course I am afraid. I was not afraid before. But now, after a few years of political polarization, I think that this political polarization will become even more violent.


SPIEGEL: The king is 81 now. Normally, on his birthday he reads a speech to the nation each year. But last year was the first time he didn't read it himself. That might indicate that he is ill. Is there reason to worry and are you afraid?


Sukhumbhand: Everybody worries about the king. Even if he goes for a checkup, people panic. Yes, of course we are worried.


SPIEGEL: Is he seriously ill?


Sukhumbhand: Let me formulate it this way: He's not doing as well as he was 10 years ago.


SPIEGEL: Then isn't it time for him to reproach Thaksin before it's too late?


Sukhumbhand: The king has never failed, so his success has built up a myth around him that he could never do anything wrong. But it's not even certain that Thaksin would listen to him. If he didn't, then what? That's why he has to think very carefully about when and what he says.


SPIEGEL: Some say that the whole root cause of the problems in Thailand is based on the fact that Thaksin wants to become president and that he plans to get rid of the monarchy. How do you comment on that?


Sukhumbhand: I do not listen to things like that.


SPIEGEL: You are a cousin of the king. So you know the royal court's rules very well. How is the successor to the king actually selected?


Sukhumbhand: There are generally two possibilities. The king can pick his own successor ...


SPIEGEL: ... which King Bhumibol Adulyadej has not done yet ...


Sukhumbhand: As far as we know. If that hasn't happened, then a successor must be found according to the palace law of 1926. But that is subject to approval by the parliament.


SPIEGEL: So his son, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, or one of his daughters would become the successor?


Sukhumbhand: No, the palace law doesn't permit a female successor to the throne.


SPIEGEL: So the only choice would be Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn?


Sukhumbhand: That we know of, yes.


ABOUT SUKHUMBHAND PARIBATRA

Sukhumbhand Paribatra, 56, is a cousin (MR) of Thailand's King Bumibol Adulyadej and the elected governor of Bangkok from January 2009. He studied in Oxford and is a member of the Democratic Party of Thailand. He became Bangkok MP in the Democratic Party for several terms and used to serve in Foreign Minister Position. During 2008, he was a shadow Minister of Foreign Affair while the Democrat was an opposition party.


Interview conducted by SPIEGEL Asia correspondent Jürgen Kremb.
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Friday, May 14, 2010

An American View On The Red-Shirts' Protest May 2010

A message from an American expat who worked and stayed in Thailand



An excerpt from a recent post I made on The Daily Beast: I'm an American and live and work in Bangkok for an international company. I have lived here for 6 years and have been in and out of Thailand since the early 90s.



The international press has not understood the situation here nor reported on it with any kind of real comprehension. The real situation is that the Red Shirts are a very small group of uneducated bumpkins with an obsequious desire to return the ousted PM Thaksin to power. Thaksin's money is paying each of them 2000 THB (60USD) a day to keep the protests up. What's so ridiculous is that most Thais are against this because bringing Thaksinocracy back is to bring back gross corruption to the politics here.


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Thaksin was a self-serving megalomanic who bought his two previous elections and later stole an billions of THB from Thailand and the Thai people before being ousted. The Red Shirts scream for democracy - but they don't even know what it means. It's absurd and everyone here knows it.


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The real problem now is that the police are 90% in support of Thaksin and the Reds, so they won't do anything to curb the protests and violence. The military, which is very powerful here, are on the fence because they are about 50/50 behind the Reds and the Kingdom. There has been sporadic violence but the biggest problem we face is the damage to commerce. With the two largest and most popular commercial areas being closed due to protests for 3 weeks now, retail business, hospitality and the tourism industries are losing about 1.5 billion THB per day. The Reds are doing nothing but hurting the Thai economy, the Thai people and themselves.


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Current PM Abhisit is an intelligent, respected Oxford scholar trying to find a solution through the proper channels of negotiation while trying to uphold the law.



A bit more:

One part of the whole Red Shirt's argument is that the Red's are screaming for democracy - true democracy - and yet I doubt they even know the meaning of true democracy. I've heard rumors lately that they would actually like to see an end to the Monarchy here.


A true democracy does not require the ousting of its monarchy. England is a perfect example of a parlimentary democracy with a monarchy and it works just fine. If the Red's are against the venerable HM Bumiphol and would like the monarchy to go away, I would issue them fair warning. This would be a difficult battle for them that they could never win.



HM The King has never been a threat to democracy here and has never ruled Thailand or made any demands on the Thai people. His presence is reveared and appreciated by all. He has never told the Thai people to do anything - only asked graciously. He has done nothing his entire life except love his country and try to improve the well-being of all. HM Bumiphol is more like a father who holds the Thai citizens in his arms with true love and caring. HM The King wants nothing in Thailand but peace and serenity for all.



if this is their ultimate intention, the Red Shirt's can only fail at the notion of removing such a great, gentle, intelligent and kind man from the throne. I encourage all the Thai people to stand up against the Red's in every way by showing your support online, in rallies and with your words. Take the lesson from your King - Be true and honest, fair and good. Support our highly capable and intelligent PM, Khun Abhisit, protect your King and Queen and do not let these Red buffalo destroy the land, the name or the prosperity of this great and enduring country.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Bull's Eye On The Red General's Head

An Article from New York Times May 13, 2010

By Thomas Fuller and Seth Mydans



A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday (May 13, 2010) as the military planned to encircle the barricaded encampment of antigovernment demonstrators.



Gen. Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 59, better known as Seh Daeng, was allied with the protesters.
He was struck in the head by a bullet during an interview with this reporter. The Associated Press reached an unidentified aide to the general who described his wound as “severe.”



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The general, an incendiary figure who was in charge of security for the protesters, had been called a terrorist by the prime minister, who named him as the chief obstacle to a compromise plan to end a two-month sit-in here in return for an election in November. The latest violence is the most serious since a failed crackdown in April that killed at least 25 people.



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Commanding his own paramilitary force of former Rangers, he was suspended without pay from the armed forces. A special committee was considering whether to strip him of his rank.



In an interview on Sunday, he denied being responsible for any violence. “I deny!” he cried in English, with a laugh, when asked about the dozens of bombings that have set Bangkok on edge and about the mysterious black-shirted killers who escalated the violence on April 10 that killed 25 soldiers and civilians. “No one ever saw me.”



A tentative deal had been reached between the protesters and the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, only to fall apart this week.



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Witnesses heard a loud blast followed by bursts of automatic gunfire near the heavily guarded Silom area, which is close to the protesters’ encampment, The Associated Press reported.



Nobody Wants to Die for Bloodthirsty Thaksin

by Ronayos



This (2010) Thai superheated summer's protesting of the red-shirts started in the middle of March 2010 following a
verdict of the Supreme Court for Criminals in Political Post, to confiscate Thaksin Shinawatra's asset worth of over 1.5 billion USD. On the surface, in order to regain his legitimacy and cover up his crimes, Thaksin masterminds the movements to fake democratic movements of the poors against the military support Abhisit's government and the rich aristocrats.


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Failing his tricks to call for a world condemnation to democratically elected Abhisit's government last year (April 2009's red-shirts' violence in Pattaya and Bangkok), Thaksin Shinawatra, despite attempts to act as if he had distant himself from this (fake) autonomous movements of the poors, cannot secretly help supporting both the morale and financing to the red mob. In fact, all of the core leaders have been the leading mouthpieces of Thaksin throughout, since Thaksin was ousted in September 19, 2006.



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Again failing the wicked plot to trap PM Abhisit on April 10, 2010 for massacre of the red-shirts at Kok Wua junction, because of the VDO and photos recording of the masked gunmen armed with rifles and M-79 grenade launchers among the red-shirts, even some red ralliers shot dead from a firing shot inside the mob, Thaksin gave a command through this Gen.Khattiya on May 11, 2010, not to conciliate with the government but to keep on protesting and to replace the weak core-leaders (Weera Musikapong, Nattawut Sai-kua) with notoriously violent hardcore ones e.g. Arisman Pongruangrong, Kwanchai Prai-pana, Suporn Attawong.



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Weera Musikapong, the president of the red-shirt leaders, an old and bankrup politician, but since turning to serve Thaksin in exile since 2006 awarded with two Thai restaurants in U.K., disappeared from the rally site since May 8, 2010. Other red leaders had (shakenly) refused Weera's resignation, saying that he had been in the hospital because of a slight illness. However, rumours that wide rifts appear among the two dozen of the core leaders, either to fight on or to give up the protest.



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It is obvious that within hours of the fatal shot on May 13, the red core leaders who had been preparing to give up the protest, announced their quits as the leaders of the red-shirts. As at 22:00 on May 13, 2010, Adisorn Piangket, PTV head, ex-TRT MP; Kokaew Pikulthong MP in Pua Thai party, Paijit Aksornarong, a lady singer; Weera Musikapong; Wisa Kanthap, an ex-communist, song writer; Dr.Weng Tojirakarn, an ex-communist, announced their resignation from leading the reds. They may be preparing to give themselves up to the police, fearing that their may be assasinated by any parties.


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Why? The answer is simple. All of the red leaders do not and never have whatsoever ideologies to fight for the poors. Most of them are just actors expensively hired by Thaksin to lure the poors to rise up for the country's devastation which would theoretically bring Royal intervention and an eventual Thaksin's amnesty. Nattawut Sai-kua was actually a comedian in a TV program called "Funny MP House". Paijit Aksornarong and Arisman Pongruangrong were famous singers.



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Most of the red leaders mysteriously become very rich within the past two years. Some of the properties they own were paid in cash and some are related to Shinawatras' real estate companies. Some former communists such as Surachai Sae-Dan, Jakrapop Penkae, or Giles Ungpakorn just love Thaksin's money and the people's rise up to achieve their communism all-out civil war and revolution to The New Thai Republique State.



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Moreover, Thaksin Shinawatra who always claims himself to be the only democratic leader for Thai poors always insists that he just cannot return, not until the poors would revolt for him. (Actually, it was Thaksin and his family who fled Thailand at his own will in August 2008 after
the criminal court of the first instance ruled that his family had committed a huge tax fraud and sentenced his wife then to two-years jail term.)




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Through frequent VDO links to various red assemblies in the begining of 2009, Thaksin furiously told his red followers to rise up for when he would come back to lead their march to Bangkok as soon as the first gunshot was heard.
In stead, he had sent his family and his ex-wife away abroad and he went shopping in Dubai when the red-shirts riotted, shot and failed. Jakrapop Penkae, ex-minister in PM Samak the Thaksin's puppet cabinet, one of the anti-royalist mouthpiece of Thaksin, fled away abroad and left his comrades citizen risk their lives on at the end of their violent rally in April 2009.


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This hot summer at Raj Prasong, the Shinawatras had gone abroad again while Somchai and Yaowapa Wongsawat, leaders of Pua Thai, another Thaksin's puppet does not show up. Thaksin proudly and solemnly announced that he had become a Montenegrin (by which Thailand does not accept dual nationalities). The politbureau reds in hiding remain safe and cool in the high-rise Shin Buildings. MPs in Pua-Thai party who have been regularly and nicely paid by Thaksin for regular support of the red-shirts rally, are comfortable in their air-conditioned homes as usual.



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All in all, the ruling class of Thaksin and cronies just cheer, provoke, pay and stay safe, whereas the peasants, the frontline core leaders and Gen.Khattiya get paid and risk their lives. That is Thaksin's ideology for the poors and equalities of the Shinawatras. Thaksin just prays, pays, and preys on for some more corpses to step over to his success in vain.



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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Facts About Thaksin Shinawatra, the Fugitive International Terrorist







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