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100,000 baht bail, why bother

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He also thinks he is the PM

Posted Today, 16:17

RT@Saksith: Thaksin tweeted again, saying ”as an elected PM,” he is ”saddened” by ”tragic events caused by another coup”: twitter.com/ThaksinLive/st…

And he is going to set up his own "government in exile". Except last time I checked he wasn't exiled and wasn't elected either.

About frigging time.

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Comedy gold

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Love the photo. Prayuth's saying "and that'll be your cell over there".

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It was foreseeable that a combination of the coup and the curfew would bring the genuine nutters online but so many on one thread? Wow..

What took you so long?

Wow, the guy is really showing his colors, ain't he? A dictator of his ilk won't stand much longer for a free flow of information on the internet. I'm afraid our days are numbered.

They didn't cut it last time. Too much stuff depends on it these days, I suppose.

This coup has few similarities to "last time."

People, good or bas, operate by a certain pattern, modus operandi.

Look at what the illuminati killers do all the time. Same pattern.

Comparing the coup now with the one in 2006 is just not on....this is a dramatically different affair..... And that's just in the first few days.

I don't agree at all. This coup is if anything more reluctant than the last. It's going to be make changes, handover to civilian government, call elections and get the hell out just like last time. The only people that can expect harsher treatment are the Shinawatras, who should be looking for new day jobs if they have any sense.

No. Yingluck's mistake was believing that the EC would act ethically and permit the farmers to be paid..as per their legal entitlement under the elected govt's program.

wrong..as you well know 7 months they waited she should..have paid them on the due date...dont spread dis-information..lies.lies ..lies ..

No, it's not wrong. Yingluck and the govt tried every measure to secure the release of funds to pay the farmers. They were blocked at every turn by forces opposed to the payment. That included Suthep who tried to bully and browbeat the banks into non-cooperation. Either you are ignorant of the facts or your memory is faulty...you choose

No YOU are completely wrong - selective memory I think - if you recall, the government had not paid the farmers when the payment was due - which was before the protests even started.

One of the reasons for the protest was that the rice pledging scheme was not paying the farmers.

The payments to the farmers were due MONTHS before the protests, not after - so how did the protesters block the payments before they started protesting?

I hate to contradict but you sir, are wrong and have selective memory. PM Ying Luck did try everything in her power to pay the farmers and as the previous poster stated, Suthep blocked her at every step of the way.ignorant

Give it a rest. The government had many months to pay the farmers but did nothing. They could also have set the money aside before declaring an election and entering caretaker mode, but did not. Why?

What they *did* do was pump out a lot of propaganda.

Jatuporn ans Suthep hand in hand, now that would be quite a sight.

Photo or it didn't happen.

Well, let's hope this time its really going to happen. Actually, paying out isn't good enough, they need some compensation as well.

Wow, the guy is really showing his colors, ain't he? A dictator of his ilk won't stand much longer for a free flow of information on the internet. I'm afraid our days are numbered.

They didn't cut it last time. Too much stuff depends on it these days, I suppose.

Well it didn't take long.

No hesitation on this one.

The squeeze has begun. It won't happen overnight, nor will the United States do it alone and anyway won't have to do it alone. There will be lots of help from both inside and outside of Thailand.

US Cuts Military Aid To Thailand Following Coup

Although the U.S. provides other forms of aid to Thailand, including $1.3 million for narcotics and law-enforcement, there was around $3.5 million requested for specifically military assistance in 2014. Today's announcement wipes out nearly all of it

Yesterday, Joshua Kulantzick, a senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, explained to Business Insider that the U.S. has little to gain from the military's moves and every reason to want to isolate the coup's organizers. He says that military rule following the ouster of an elected government will likely erode existing civil institutions and could destabilize a significant southeast Asian country.

"The military is incapable of actually running the country in terms of the policymaking we would need to see with a pretty complex and high-powered economy," he said, adding that "the potential for violence is now higher because the military has intervened." In 2010, 90 protestors were killed in Bangkok during a rash of political violence.

Read more: http://www.businessi...5#ixzz32aqOl98p

I hardly think the former government was capable of sane policy making. The US isn't going to dump a friendly Asian ally and most of the "aid" it has cut off is capacity building it wants Thailand to have for its own selfish reasons. Kulantzick needs to get a clue.

Wouldn't it be better if they left?

I'd be amazed if they hadn't left before the coup was announced. They certainly won't be here now. Crying in Dubai mist likely

Hey Jatuporn, beware of the coup

What a numpty.

hope they are proud to bring all this to this lovely country... a disgrace they should be ashamed

Anyone sticking it to a despotic regime deserves a medal IMHO. It's the scum in Dubai that should be ashamed.

The hell they agreed. They had no choice.

Are you complaining? You wanted them gone, they're gone.

After the last coup most of media were so happy and support it for about the first two weeks, then all they did was complain when reality set in and censure was daily. Short memories I guess.

They're already posting 'hands off the media' stories

Ah yessss!

9:05 pm

Former head of the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order Chalerm Yoobamrung and his sons were arrested by soldiers and escorted to the First Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards.

What do you call Suthep, Chalerm + sons, Jatuporn, Nattawut and Thida sharing a cell?

AN AWESOME START! THROW AWAY THAT KEY!

Thailand must hold the record for most constitutions of any country?

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On yer bike, Thaksin

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How many suspended sentences is that?

Janathana owns up to the weapons, but denies any knowledge of UDD membership cards? .... Monty Python could have gone to town and back with a sketch on that one

She keeps an M79 grenade launcher for "self defence"???