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"...massive "show of strength" for the embattled government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Anti-government protesters have been calling for her resignation, and urging the military and the courts to depose her"

Again, some corrections are in order to this historical contextualization statement, obviously written by a PAD-Dem writer:

• The Yingluck Govt. is not 'embattled"...Her majority electorate is solidly in place, and grown since her election....The shenanigans of Suthep's street people can be thanked for that....The next election will demonstrate this growth and curtail the illusions of grandeur of coup-intentioned people, thinking their minority can make an elected Govt."embattled".....
• Any judicial or Independent Organization being used by the Ammart to unseat an elected Govt. due to their own electoral deficiencies, will be instantly discreditted more than they are already.
• Coup-intentioned people, not anti-Govt. people, have been agitating. Their form of agitation can more aptly be termed "coup advocacy', not protesting. Trying to use issue protests as cover for coup intentions doesn't fool anyone.

Oh for god's sake wake up. Her government is absolutely embattled on multiple fronts, eg. the incredible rice scheme incompetence, corruption indictments, negligence charges and looming impeachment of the PM and possibly entire cabinet; the torpedoing of the 2 trillion baht mega project loan that mysteriously did not need Parliamentary oversight; the axing of proposed constitutional amendments that would remove Parliamentary oversight of international treaties concerning natural resource access rights; the appalling amnesty debacle and accompanying protests and violence; the bleeding voter base and - did you not notice - annulled election. The government is completely paralysed and at high risk of being flushed down the toilet.

If this does not constitute "embattled" I would just love to hear your explanation of what is. I suggest you drop the word "ammart" from your vocabulary as it just makes you look like one of the cranks that post loony stuff about "Lanna" on New Mandala.

I would like to challenge you, can you produce one iota of evidence that YL is corrupt??? cause if you can, better you go n tell them boy's you have all the answers, good luck with that, cheers

The investigation is in process, as you well know. Would you like to make a bet on the outcome?

I seriously wonder how some people can still see the rice scheme in a rosy light. Or the failed amnesty bid. Or the incredible attempt to remove Parliamentary oversight of a 2 trillion baht loan and also of international treaties governing resource access rights (that's the worst of all IMHO although it was overshadowed by the amnesty bill).

I suppose you could overlook individual items as aberrations but when you consider them together the trend is obvious. They are trying to strap the country down and gang rape it.

This will go on until the next election , most likely in May. If PM Yingluck falls on her sword, there are several candidates that stand ready to take her place, with the most likely her sister. However, the big issue is the impeachment. As much as the current government can be criticized over the rice pledging program, in a functioning democracy, punishment would be meted out at the ballot box if merited and not by a judiciary legislating from the bench. If the corruption commission can show the PM was directly implicated in corruption, then fine, impeach the PM, and put her in jail. However, to date, there hasn't been any tangible evidence of her corruption and that's why the NACC had better be able to make a good case. If not, then a popular uprising against the judiciary and its puppet masters would be expected.

A functioning democracy would not be run by an criminal fugitive and his family. In a real democracy a PM this useless would have been eaten alive by the media and sacked by her own party long ago. Probably wouldn't have been replaced by a relative, either.

Thailand cannot become a functioning democracy until rule of law is sorted out and that's got to start at the top.

Just demonstrates the general knowledge that these so called Independent agencies are politically aligned...Why else would there be political stuff like this going on there.... If they were legitimately corruption oriented as their reason-for-being implies, it wouldn't generate political confrontation.

The Red Shirts here are miniscule and representative of millions behind them nation-wide, who know tools of Ammart coup-mongers when they see them.

In any event, from what I can see, the UDD/Red Shirts are ready...Prepared for which ever agency or judicial entity the Ammart coup intentioned forces will use, as their vehicle to pull the coup-trigger.

Right now it appears that the NACC is the chosen instrument, but we will see.....I am sure there is a master-plan with someone out there.

BTW, this has nothing to do with 'anti-govt.' or with 'protesters' as this article's title suggests........Coup-mongers are not anti-Govt, they are pro-coup....and those agitating for a coup are not 'protesters'. They are not protesting. They are coup-mongering...............However, they try to hide that.....pretending to be self-righteously indignant about this issue or that as cover for other intentions and pretending to be protesters.

Obviously the red shirts are trying to intimidate NACC while it considers negligence and possibly impeachment of their puppet PM. The multiple grenade attacks against NACC offices and red shirt threats to 'hunt down' the 'fake commissioners' make it bloody obvious what their intentions are.

You don't seriously think the negligence charge for the rice scheme is unwarranted, do you?