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Whatever people feel about NACC's indictment, everyone seems undisturbed about the complete lack of specific evidence that NACC is relying upon to reach their decision. Even during its investigation the NACC seemed to withhold any details of evidence that it gathered. Yingluck seemd frustrated trying to provide evidence of innocence when there seemed to be no solid evidence of guilt. The most "solid" evidence pointed to after the fact information on market prices falling below government expectations and the opposition warning her about the precited failure of the program.

Should not the NACC be subjected to the same degree of transparency and accountabillity as the Government, if not more so as it decides whether criminal acts have occured? I would expect the news media to be publishing the details of evidence and if not offered by the NACC, demanding it. International news media has almost nothing to offer as to details of the evidence against Yingluck other than to state the allegations against her.

How many of these judges were installed by the Military coup makers?

I am not sure, but I think none.

Yesterday on CNN they were saying all were, I am trying confirm.

Of the nine original judges originating from the 2007 Constitution, eight remain:

Jaran Pukditanakul

Charoon Intachan

Chalermpon Ake-uru

Chut Chonlavorn

Nurak Marpraneet

Boonsong Kulbupar

Suphot Khaimuk

Udomsak Nitimontree

Wasan Soypisudh (resigned 2013); replaced by Taweekiat Meenakanit

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_Thailand#Appointment_of_the_first_Constitutional_Court

(for what it's worth)

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Suthep will make all things better now, There will be perfection now. All will be well. The evil Shins created everything that was evil. Now all is safe. Forever. Amen,

Yes, and let's make Phra Issara the new CAPO chief.

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Suthep will make all things better now, There will be perfection now. All will be well. The evil Shins created everything that was evil. Now all is safe. Forever. Amen,

Yes, and let's make Phra Issara the new CAPO chief.

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Wonder what portfolio Pu Luang will get? Minister of Defense? Maybe the head of the National Security Council?

Thawil Pliensri is the undisputed Chief of NSC and he has stated he reports to no one. Therefore, the interim government cannot replace him.

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They showing their real colors... Nothing more that a power-hungry movement...

I hoped Abhisit could be the one trying to cool down the situation, but he failed too.

Dark times ahead for our dear Thailand.

No, PDRC/Democrats have always shown their colors - yellow down the middle of the back - when it comes to an elected government.

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Pretty damn rediculouse, removing a PM like that..one swift kick in the balls for democracy . In Thailand

Give me one good example of true democracy practiced anywhere...

As a single example:

United States of America. Over 230 years of continued democracy without any military coups, without any interim governments, with peaceful succession of political power from one administration to another, with effective congressional and government oversight of political abuses and conflicts of interests, with effective Supreme Court that evolves with the maturity of a democractic society. Albeit the country has had its shortcomings to completely eradicate political cheating, influence peddling, inequality, and redistribution of wealth.

Continued continuity of the Interim Prime Minister will give the EC no excuse to delay finalizing the election decree. And should the NACC find Yingluck criminal in the government rice program, it will have zero impact on scheduling the next election other than Yingluck will be banned from running - another zero impact politically. So unfortunately for the EC, it will still have to carrying out its duty to assure elections proceed according to the Constitution, albeit kicking and yelling it isn't ready yet.

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Perhaps, after the initial shock, he realized that so many establishments have been built around the temple and depend on tourist traffic to the temple. Yes it is a lot of work to rebuild the temple and restore it back to its original form. But then one must persevere and push on even when it is an uphill battle...

Those "establishments" are souvenir and food stands. I find they cheapen the experience of the wat but at least they are located somewhat removed from the wat site.

The CAPO makes an astoundingly ignorant statement, "Samak’s case and Ms Yingluck’s case are similar, the ruling by the charter court on the latter’s case should be in the same direction."

CAPO is referring to CASE LAW as precedent for the Court's rulings. But the Thai legal system follows COMMON LAW that follows societal customs and practices and may legally result in rulings that are contrary to any prior court decisions. CAPO needs to consult an attorney before telling the Court how to make decisions. Personally, I am opposed to common law as it encourages arbitrary decisions that allow inequality and discrimination in the decision making process and that may explain why common law is found in many country legal systems that allow double jeapordy against a defendent, such as Thailand and Italy.

Of course with regard to the date-rape drugs worth Bt42 million, that is the illegal street value. But unlike the cars and gold, it does not convert to any real value, ie., to finance customs enforcement, because it must be destroyed. But by its destruction, Bt42 million doesn't get used to further finance criminal activities.

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Clinton was and still is a dirty bag sorry ass liar.

And a twice elected POTUS for whom the American people would be proud to re-election for a third term if they could. I am sure POTUS Clinton is not bothered by your slander, much less aware of your existence than you are of his.

Aside from this unintelligent press release, the EC waits until the day it was to send a draft royal decree to the PM, then doesn't with a nonsense reason - "differences on legal technicalities related to the new decree and election..."? The EC was created more than 10 years ago and it still has legal technicalities? The EC has demonstrated nothing but incompetence at best and political obstruction at worse. Let's see some reform on this organization. Its independence as an organization that can violate the constitution at will with impunity to dictate IF and WHEN elections take place is unwelcomed within a democratic electoral process.

Reading the title in the TVF forum menu for a second I genuinely thought that an old thread had been posted by accident

By Chutima Sidasathian

People's Army to Overthrow the Thaksin Regime?

How is an armed civilian militia created to overthrow an elected government not seditious and treasonous? It would seem it is not when it's in Bangkok and supports the Suthep/PDRC/Democrat efforts to seat an unelected council to takeover the government. Yet, in Northern Thailand PTP supporter's "talk" about providing armed support for the current administration to protect its from violent overthrow grabs the attention of the Thailand Army who threatens an armed crackdown on such Northern dissidents as being seditious and treasonous. And it's a wonder that people have the perception that is a de facto existence of two states in Thailand?

"Wife, why does little Mohammed look like a Jew?" You think maybe the Israeli's know about sperm smuggling to do a little substitution of their own at the clinic.

We need to be serious, let's stop to consider these proposals as acceptable in a democratic country.

The English newspapers from abroad did not react yet but, if you read French, have a look at this article.

http://www.lepetitjournal.com/bangkok/accueil/actualite/184212-crise-politique-thailande-abhisit-et-son-plan-de-sortie-de-crise-font-long-feu

Clearly Abisith's proposal is just another form of coup d'état. We should even not speak about that.

French have an interesting viewpoint (partial Google translation):

Abhisit, whose party did not win any national election since more than twenty years, made wholesale demands that his opponents drop the reins of government to let him and his friends to change the rules to their advantage before reshuffling cards to play again. A scenario reminiscent broadly of the overthrow of the government of Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup in 2006 which was followed by the appointment of a provisional government - indeed anti-Shinawatra - to oversee the writing - a Constituent Assembly anti-Shinawatra - and the implementation of the 2007 Constitution giving more power to judges and bureaucrats, which was validated by a referendum supervised by the military coup.

The article notes the quote by The Nation newspaper of Somsak Prisananantakul, one of the leading members of the Chart Thai Pattana Party, who suggested Abhisit to keep his feet on the ground, saying its unrealistic and unconstitutional proposals. An opinion echoed by several members of the majority party, Puea Thai, which still feel "cheeky dare" suggest that the Prime Minister, elected resigns to let members of the protest movement - most of which are within the scope of warrants judgment for charges such as the call for insurrection, inciting violence etc.. - make proposals for reform.

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I still don't understand how any party expects to achieve reform without subverting the constitution and the law.

How.about this for a novel idea. Some person write out a list of what they want to reform and make it a manifesto and see if the people will vote for it?

Been there, done it : The Communist Party Manifesto 1848, Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1947, and Hitler's Mein Kampf 1925.

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Sounds like a joint Italian-Thai operation but I was very surprised to see that the biggest shareholder is British (Polunin Capital Partners) followed by Vanguard Group, Inc. from the U.S. SCB seems to be the largest Thai stake holder but miniscule compared to the other two.

These days its a Thai run company.

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=ITHVF

Good link.

ITHVF has 22 million shares outstanding and 100% owned by six financial institutions / investment funds as cited with SCB owning only about 12%.

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If you did not sign and send in the yearly form to S.S. they will withhold your check. This happened to me and after they receive the form it took 2 months to start receiving my check again.

My experience is similar to krabbyken's. But rather than call the Philippines, I called Philadelphi and asked what happened. The nice lady said we didn't get your form back. Aha, I never received it, lost in the post. She told me what form to download, fill out, and fax to her. Two days later, the deposit was made.

It's been my unfortunate experience that the Philippines office never answers their phone, and when you leave a message, they don't call you back. The lady in Philadelphia said everyone knows that, feel free to call home instead.

And, if you use Skype to make the call, the 1-800 number is a free call from anywhere that Skype works.

Best of luck to you.

I did find Manila SS was very prompt in answering emails. But of course they don't work weekends.

I do hope the officer fully recovers and receives whatever civil compensation and justice that he is entitled to from this criminal attack. But the real issue is not whether he should be compensated as a civil matter but that the acts of criminal assault be brought to justice.

The mother has some inkling of the criminal issues. "If Buddha Issara is a true man, he has to accept whatever wrongdoing he has done," It is understood that the guards were under the command of PCAD leader Buddha Issara. He knew his guards are armed with live ammunition as witnessed by several previous PDRC guard attacks against the public. He offers five of the ten guards to turn themselves in.

Issara has no court authority to decide who is complicit or guilty in the attack, and that includes himself as a possible suspect. He has no police authority to conduct an investigation. He has though by his on-scene presence and actions after the attacks contaminated a crime scene. Did witnesses come forward or sought out and interviewed by police? Who is to say the guards he "promises" to turn themselves in were involved or even guards at all? He identified ten guards in the group that attacked the colonel - where and who are the five remaining guards that are not turning themselves in? If the five guards do turn themselves in (and they have not), that is not an admission of guilt. The State still needs to prove their guilt and, if the guards do not confess, what is the evidence against them?

Even if Issara did not himself shoot, his negligence as leader of the protest and supervision of the guards not to provide adequate instructions and safeguards to his guards to prevent indiscriminatory, criminal acts makes him complicit in a criminal act. So if Issara is a true man, he should be the first to turn himself in to the police authorities. Let's see Issara recognize the rule of law.

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"The most serious injury Col. Witthawat has received was the wound he received from a PCAD guard who swung a wooden stick at his head, narrowly missing his eyes, Ms. Bang-onrat said."

And we were all told he was shot in the foot/feet?

The wounds to his feet were caused by shrapnel so it's entirely probable that the head injury caused by a lump of wood is more serious. In any event, what does it matter: he was attacked by hired goons in the direct employ of the maniacal monk. The sooner he's carted off to jail, the better.

How were his feet damaged by shrapnel. Did a grenade go off!

Any violence is reprehensible. But correct information is required where possible. Any link to the part about shrapnel ..I read "shot in the foot "

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His wife is a civilian. All she knows is that he was hit in the foot as a result of a gunfire. So she calls it "shrapnel." Frankly you show your own ignorance not to know that bullets can fragment on hitting hard objects, even by bones LIKE IN A FOOT, to create "shrapnel." She may have been more accurate than you realize.

CORRECTION - His mother...

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"The most serious injury Col. Witthawat has received was the wound he received from a PCAD guard who swung a wooden stick at his head, narrowly missing his eyes, Ms. Bang-onrat said."

And we were all told he was shot in the foot/feet?

The wounds to his feet were caused by shrapnel so it's entirely probable that the head injury caused by a lump of wood is more serious. In any event, what does it matter: he was attacked by hired goons in the direct employ of the maniacal monk. The sooner he's carted off to jail, the better.

How were his feet damaged by shrapnel. Did a grenade go off!

Any violence is reprehensible. But correct information is required where possible. Any link to the part about shrapnel ..I read "shot in the foot "

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His wife is a civilian. All she knows is that he was hit in the foot as a result of a gunfire. So she calls it "shrapnel." Frankly you show your own ignorance not to know that bullets can fragment on hitting hard objects, even by bones LIKE IN A FOOT, to create "shrapnel." She may have been more accurate than you realize.

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Col. Witthawat Wattanakul, a staff officer at the Royal Thai Armed Force Headquarters, was taken to hospital after he was beaten and shot by a group of "guards" working for the anti-government People's Committee for Absolute Democracy With the King As Head of State (PCAD) on Chaeng Wattana Road in the early morning of 25 April.

The ironic thing is, he was probably shot with army bullets from army guns.

His boss did nothing, the PDRC guards can shoot soldiers it seems, but I bet if the soldiers shot the guards, he's do something.

The irony may be even greater as many of the PDRC guards are active military.

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Very simple definition for the stupids: "We don't give a damn what you say, we do it our way, we do it Pheu Thai way, we're gonna win anyway and we will kill anyone who disagrees with us." alt=wai2.gif width=20 height=20> alt=wai2.gif width=20 height=20> alt=wai2.gif width=20 height=20>

Maybe the PTP learned too well from the examples set forth by the Democrat regime in 2007 and 2010. By the way when is Suthep going to turn himself in to authorities on an arrest warrants for premeditated murder?