Muirton

The ruling military junta warned that Redshirt leaders will be held responsible if their supporters go ahead with a plan to wear red shirts simultaneously all across the country Sunday.

Gosh I hadn't heard about this! Thanks Junta for spreading the word to every village and hamlet. Now Junta please arrest yourself for spreading this information.

Besides Man U, is Liverpool playing?

Besides Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are also playing on Saturday 31st, so no red shirts for you on Sunday.

However if you like red and white stripes, Sunderland and Southampton are on the field on Sunday..

Surely one of these teams is playing that Sunday: Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica ----and ---- how could anyone overlook Nottingham Forest?

Sorry Muirton none of them play Sunday Nov 1st.

Thanks for the bitter truth. How about the Lamphun Warriors?

A Thai problem for Thais to work out. My petty squeaks make no difference except to add to the droning, background noise.

Then don't type. Duh.

This place is so medieval at times.

Once again, if they were even vaguely serious about any of this they would put all their efforts into reforming the police and the courts. That they have done nothing of the sort speaks volumes. Then, when your whole regime is completely illegitimate I guess it's hard to shout loudly about the rule of law.

Illegitimate - not according to the ultimate authority. Certainly no more so than a government who handed power to a corrupt criminal fugitive who even paid them all a salary, awarded positions and shuffled regularly to get all the noses in the trough. His government left the police alone to do as they pleases in return for "support" for it's followers when required. Shins and the rule of law - Only have time for the law when it serves their purpose, otherwise couldn't give a shit.

Until the entire judicial system and law enforcement process is reformed this will simply continue.

Maybe this will be more successful than Yingluck's much vaunted fight against corruption - although she did say there was no corruption in "her" government. 555

Talk about living in the past! Could we pse get shut of this "But but Thaksin" blx and stick to the current thread which is about THIS govt.

Amazing - TVF Shin fan club. Any thread about the Shins attracting comments they don't like, divert with "but the Junta, the general, the Dems, Suthep, Abhisit, or the amart / elites. But make sure no one compares any criticism of the current government to the past multiple Thaksin puppet governments.

Thaksin and his puppet regimes have held power for the vast majority of this century. During which, they have completely ignored all corruption within law enforcement; and even used that corruption to their advantage when necessary.

So yes, they and their unique style of governance are relevant to this thread.

You are entitled to your opinion. It's a free country. Thailand's future is Taksin. No Taksin, no future.

"the government was considering introducing a law to prohibit the carrying of weapons"

So carrying of weapons in Thailand is allowed?

Yes, when the Thai army kills students.

But how is the country going to operate without a police force ?

How did you come up with the idea that the LOS "operates"?

Anything the head of the current administration says about anything is fishy. As usual, he's floundering,

Getting arrested for wearing a shirt. Ridiculous. There are laws that can prosecute wearing a shirt?

Are you a graduate of the LT school?

Looks like you graduated for twist and confuse and write things which are in fact lacking in truth, very lacking truthful reporting and quoting.

Please write English.

The ruling military junta warned that Redshirt leaders will be held responsible if their supporters go ahead with a plan to wear red shirts simultaneously all across the country Sunday.

Gosh I hadn't heard about this! Thanks Junta for spreading the word to every village and hamlet. Now Junta please arrest yourself for spreading this information.

Besides Man U, is Liverpool playing?

Besides Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are also playing on Saturday 31st, so no red shirts for you on Sunday.

However if you like red and white stripes, Sunderland and Southampton are on the field on Sunday..

Surely one of these teams is playing that Sunday: Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica ----and ---- how could anyone overlook Nottingham Forest?

I guess it is a courtesy to give them all a warning well in advance.

"Won't you give me three steps

Gimme three steps Mister

Gimme three steps towards the door?

Gimme three steps

Gimme three steps Mister

You'll never see me no more"

© Universal Music Publishing Group

Getting arrested for wearing a shirt. Ridiculous. There are laws that can prosecute wearing a shirt?

That is not what he said (read it again)

Most people are fully aware of how stuff kicks off in this country, it can get out of hand very quickly

It is what he said. Read it again.

I don't know who advise this government but if they were trying to create a Thailand Aung San Suu Kyi, that would be the most efficient way.

Aung San Suu Kyi has class

Yingluck has...cellulitis

A cheap stupid and vulgar remark that does not further the OP.

If the Transport Minister is confident, that is a start. 1 down, 70,000,000 to go.

Since the BIB have the ability to issue arrest warrants regarding the [totally unsolved] Erawan incident without any names, then they can do the same with the hackers -- print out dozens of arrest warrants without a name on any of them.

Dear Junta Leader, Please be aware that hackers can be located in China, Paraguay, Switzerland or Feroe Islands.

You'd hope that he would have at least a grasp of this simple concept but it's fairly obvious it's beyond him.

What is not beyond him?

I don't know who advise this government but if they were trying to create a Thailand Aung San Suu Kyi, that would be the most efficient way.

Ha ha - that made me laugh. Oh wait, you're serious ?.

Typical Thailand : they took someone else's idea then made an absolutely terrible copy which misses all the good points of the original.

Funny how all the reds seem to start their 'protests' when it looks like the Shinwatra's might lose some money eh ?

Jump Fido, jump.

You do know Suu Kyi is not a soap start right ?.

"You do know Suu Kyi is not a soap start right ?." ESL, English as a Shaky Language. A short incoherent meaningless string of words that are not English.

A practical solution would be for the reds to campaign in support of all thieves, not just the Shinawatra thieves. Fair enough?

They campaign to support their own thieves, not all thieves. They call it electioneering.

Your bitterness at the direction the LOS is going has no end. If only you ddn't share it with us because your Comments never inform us readers on this thread or any other

Totally deserved. Surprised it was not much lower.

Deserved?

Worldwide economic slow down. Debts from the Yingluck government, poor education for the last 30 year. Yes deserved, but who? Prayuth? The voter who vote one corrupt after the other? The population?

Whatever your point of view is, please write coherent sentences in English.

This is what will happen when you treat the national budget like a military budget.

The economy tanks.

Sorry to get technical on the BIB, but has any one person been named and charged as the bomber? "Remaining suspects" is not the stuff of police professionalism. it's been over two months and the BIB are totally ignorant. Am I correct in saying that?

Thailand once was one of the world's biggest rice-exporters. That's over now....

The top 5 rice export nations are: Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, India and Cambodia.

"The Thai pavilion focuses on agricultural development and sustainable energy which has become a national agenda and expresses confidence to the extent that this country has the potentials to become the "World's Kitchen" with respect to food safety and qualities."

Every country beats their own drum, that I understand but the following ' has the potentials to become the "World's Kitchen" with respect to food safety and qualities'.

From the amount of fungicide, herbicide and pesticide being sprayed around the place.....I find that hard to believe!

Banned in Europe, controlled in the US, sloshed around the LOS, Paraquat.

This headline is a Classic, so very LOS. We are presented with a "fact". Thailand's pavilion got lots of attention. Then there is the classic clarification as to who presents this "fact". "Speaking from his apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis today said Thailand's pavilion got lots of attention". "Speaking in her annual Speech from the Throne, Queen Elizabeth said Thailand's pavilion got lots of attention". Hélas, it was a lesser source, the Thai Minister for Agriculture. We see this every day of our lives in the LOS. I'm waiting for "Thailand's Space Hub at Hua Hin the envy of the US and China". Said Somchat Ngamsan, the security guard at the entrance to the Space Centre's 3-rai parking lot.

TAT will always be our favourite government agency for lies and absurdity. The phrase coined by Schopenhauer from Aristophanes, used later by Nietzsche, Hitler and Margaret Thatcher, "cloud cuckoo land" refers to a place that only deranged people believe in. And what TAT believes is, for sure and for always, 'wolkenkuckucksheim". "Temporary" lacks precision. One can say truthfully that the existence of Planet Earth is temporary. Surely the folks at T.A.T. don't believe what they produce. and yet, and yet, this is the LOS.

@ Muirton, You asked billd766 what the connection was between his comment and the OP......................the same question could be asked of you -

Struggle on they will, every day a fiasco larger than the day before.

It's time for three high-speed submarines from China to Bangkok.

The topic is freedom for Thais. Let's stick to it.

You tell the head of the current administration.

I ain't gonna walk into days of attitude adjustment by informing him.

Be TV's guest on this.

The previous governments were elected. And, please, no more "Taksin bought elections".

You didn't finish the sentence. If you did, you're boring us to death with you banalité.

"Thaksin did buy elections ..." Poodle in the microwave.

And who, pray tell, is interested that you are not?

From the OP -

The prime minister said he didn’t know what was the real motive for the submission of the open letter by Ms Yingluck. As the prime minister, he said he was duty-bound to demand compensation for the loss but, at the same time, he must make sure that the action to be taken should not be seen as a bully against Ms Yingluck.

The actions taken will always be looked at as being "a bully" against Yingluck, especially by the Shins, what supporters she has left, and her TVF fan club.

Her lawyers will not care less what it is seen as, they will be milking it for all it is worth.

Pray share with us how you know that "her lawyers will not care less what it is seen as, ..." To make this statement accurate or contain meaning, you surely have been in communication with her attorneys/solicitors.

Lol he's not leaving in 2017. The master of incompetence won't leave until there's a recession so deep the elites pry him out. Thailand will never get a trade agreement with a western country with der fuhrer at the head. Manufacturing will move to Vietnam most likely after TPP and Thailand will only have the Chinese teet to suckle. Oh the humanity. Hopefully this period is studied by future children as a reason not to have a military strong enough to hold its own country hostage.

OMG another near unknown with OTT remarks not even wanting to also recognise the good being done. It is there if you want to see.

Pray list, in under 5 words or less, three "goods" and remove our blindness.

I enquired more than 3 days ago for instances of the "good" done that we, the blind, cannot see. Still waiting.