PM vows to crack down influential figures after general election

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed that his administration will seriously crack down on influential figures if he is re-elected in the forthcoming general election on 6 February.

"If they are not suppressed, they'll always create problems. We've to wipe them out. Let's wait until after the next general election and if I were to be re-elected my administration would deal with them", he vowed.

"If the government crack them down right now, we may be criticized as abusing our power", he added.

The prime minister's remarks were in response to a journalist's question on recent assassinations of local politicians and supporters.

Mr. Thaksin also vowed to crack down on hired gunmen employed by the influential figures.

"Everybody will be under the laws, I will end their unlawful influence", he said.

It is widely expected that his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party will be re-elected in the 6 February's general election.

--TNA 2005-01-11

"If the government crack them down right now, we may be criticized as abusing our power", he added.

nobody will accuse them of doing wrong if they are indee helping the society.

so another word they are trying to say, i won't do jack-shiet and let you all rotten if you don't vote for me, how weird the system work.

How many of those "influential figures" are Thai Rak Thai Party members?

"Everybody will be under the laws, I will end their unlawful influence", he said.

You mean everyone will be under his interpretation of the law, except him and his family and friends. Who will probably remain a law unto themselves.

A nice move to warn anyone who may oppose him at the election that if they criticise him he'll be back to get them if he's re-elected. Yet another show of the man's evil.

Reminds me of a propaganda sign I saw during my first trip to Burma about 15 years ago:

"We will crush all destructive elements"

Remember that this is coming from the same man who said a few weeks ago that Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi should stay behind bars... His comments are becoming more dangerous and ridiculous...

"I'm a real Texan", "George Bush and I are good friends" etc."I will end poverty within 4 years (said that twice now), and more...

With a comment like thisnew one, he'd better get himself a bullet proof silk shirt or they'll get to him before the election...

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With a comment like this new one, he'd better get himself a bullet proof silk shirt or they'll get to him before the election...

I was thinking about the same ...

he probably won't have to crack down anything more when "they" would crack him down ...

question remains ... before or after?

francois

Considering this is the same empty rhetoric that is espoused every few months or so, I don't imagine they are any more worried this time than at any other in the past when there was to be an imminent crackdown on influential figures.

Toxic Shitiwater must be into self-flagellation.

After he buys...sorry, wins the next election and more policies are brought in which further reduces the influence of the old dinosaurs will there be a 'general' uprising?

PM vows to crack down influential figures after general election

BANGKOK: --  Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed that his administration will seriously crack down on influential figures if he is re-elected in the forthcoming general election on 6 February.

"If they are not suppressed, they'll always create problems. We've to wipe them out. Let's wait until after the next general election and if I were to be re-elected my administration would deal with them", he vowed.

"If the government crack them down right now, we may be criticized as abusing our power", he added.

The prime minister's remarks were in response to a journalist's question on recent assassinations of local politicians and supporters.

Mr. Thaksin also vowed to crack down on hired gunmen employed by the influential figures.

how catholic does he has to be reelected (George W or is it rather buddhist  in thailand?

what about his (party & family) influential figures, does this goes for them also?

"Everybody will be under the laws, I will end their unlawful influence", he said.

It is widely expected that his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party will be re-elected in the 6 February's general election.

--TNA 2005-01-11

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After he is elected??

They will all be MP's by then, and untouchable!!

"If the government crack them down right now, we may be criticized as abusing our power", he added.

That did nto seem to bother him when he killed 2,000 poor people whom he said were drug dealers, although none of them were ever brought to trial or convicted.

Yik Ki Ti Yak Ka TI.. Coak Soaker U.. rides again.. too funny

didn't he have a list of unsaivory people a year or so ago

he was going to deal with it then, maybe he'd forgotten about it

He's just saying, "What's the rush?"...or...

A veiled threat indeed...pay up now to TRT or we nail you after the election.

Same, same- but the same

Still, better than Thai TV soaps!

What exactly is Mr. Moonface's definition of "influential figures"?

Does that also include political opponents, university professors etc?

Toxic Shitiwater must be into self-flagellation.

After he buys...sorry, wins the next election and more policies are brought in which further reduces the influence of the old dinosaurs will there be a 'general' uprising?

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Probably