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I don't know. That's what the author stated. It could be that the Portuguese presence was not as intense. Did they call Portuguese farangs at that time?

You are right. Probably dating from the Narai reign in the 17th century. https://books.google.co.th/books?id=HzTHaIEduwYC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=origin+of+name+farang+farangse&source=bl&ots=pvKnqxAt48&sig=ACfU3U378TF2OwGWpZoaJu4bWi_OIwQH5g&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtmLewvqT3AhUnzDgGHZkLDjAQ6AF6BAhBEAI#v=onepage&q=origin of name farang farangse&f=false So no reason to feel offended to be called farang! ????

And the source of those Russian media is? ???? (probably the same source you use) Fox News! (subjected to 'Draconian' censorship ????) https://news.yahoo.com/russia-media-uses-fox-news-144924686.html

Technically, you are right. The coup only prevented her to be re-elected. However, the removal, the coup and other events which occurred during a rather short period of time were not unrelated. They were parts of a set of orchestrated events which culminated with the mil8tary coup.

Are you serious? Really?

Do you mean she could expect the courts not to be politically selective (and selected)?

I guess the audience will be as interested in his statements as usual! ????

Yhe People’s Lawyers Foundation. Have been quite active against people linked to the government. We can expect them to be in trouble soon.

Not sure he's really ultra-royalist. More like ultra-opportunist or ultra-gravy train follower.

Actually, the number may well be in the 300s. In other countries, the number of Covid deaths and the number of excess deaths are similar, in the +/- 10% range. In Thailand, the number of excess deaths has been every month around 3 times higher than the official number of Covid deaths, which raises obvious questions. For example, in March, the average number of excess deaths compared to the highest of the previous year (2020) was 209 per day.

This war on drugs was horrible! It should have been investigated and the culprits severely punished! Wait! Why did the different governments linked to the old elite and the military never finished any investigation, if the obvious culprit was Thaksin? Could it be that other people who could not be investigated were involved?

That's completely illogic. There were no red shirts in the streets when Thaksin or his party (= the only democratically elected governments since 2000) were governing the country. It would be accurate to say: I did not see any yellow-shirt in the street for years!

It's exactly what happened, and is happening, to Thanatorn and Future/Move Forward., despite them (for the time being) not corrupt. Actually these honest politicians are even more threatening for the yellow/green network that they get votes from the Bangkok middle class who used to support them. in the past. The yellow courts will find any reason, to ban o remove an opponent, corrupt or not. And some people still (pretend to) believe the fairy tale that Thaksin would have not been removed if he were not corrupt!

Of course, It's not like that with the army:! ???? My nephew officially a supplier of the army despite papa army chief, the statues in the army park, my dead friend's watches, incommensurate wealth in relation to an usual army officer salary, etc... All known but not investigated, covered up, or the witness died. And It's not particular to the current bunch. There is no element of surprise here. In the history of Thailand, nearly all coup makers have been corrupt.- Not to mention Thailand's ranking on the defense corruption index. "Thailand’s GI ranking in Band E places it in the “very high” risk category for corruption in the defence and security sector. Since the May 2014 military coup, there has been no independent scrutiny of defence policy by the legislature, a lack of budget transparency, and insufficient institutional measures concerning most aspects of the procurement cycle. While pre-coup anti-corruption organisations like the National Anti-Corruption Commission still enjoy a quasi-legal status, they lack sufficient influence to curtail military involvement with the proliferation of organized crime in southern Thailand or ghost soldiers. Taken together, these corruption risks not only pose a serious threat to the stability of the state but fundamentally undermine its accountability to the people of Thailand. We suggest the following urgent reforms of the security sector to minimize corruption risks." https://government.defenceindex.org/countries/thailand/

The fact that there are other causes than the ones commonly admitted, doesn't mean they are mutually exclusive. The coup was the outcome of a conjunction of different factors.

The red mob was protesting in order to give the Thai electorate the possibility to vote and choose its government. Of course, they expected to win elections, but that would have been eventually the choice of the Thai electorate. The yellow mob was protesting in order to impose an unelected government to the Thai electorate, and deprive the Thai electorate from the right to choose its government. You can try to twist it as much as you want, That's fact.

I have read them too from various websites while I was in Farangland. The Australian academic one, the blue one, the analysis of the cable leaks, etc... I know about tne Eastern Tigers, Prem, the succession, etc... While these publications provide more in-depth understanding, I don't see how they would fundamentally contradicts was has been posted.

What is innacurate in the post you quoted? From what I remember, the protest coup failed as Suthep's mob was spreading thin. The legal coup failed because they could only remove Yingluck and a few others. They was no way an appointed government could be put into power according to the constitution. New elections were agreed by the EC (an EC which had been appointed by Abhisit) for July. The only way to prevent Thai citizen to choose their government was a military coup. Prayut was told to make a coup as all other options had failed. PS. OK there was also the succession issue as an additional motive.

Quite nice people, these yellow protesters! ???? It's not like they would seize an airport, assault government buildings, assault voting places, attack voters and carry popcorn.

The middle and high class people from Bangkok who occasionally protested were not paid. The others, who were coming from Southern provinces and were there day after day, eating and sleeping in camps, were paid.

Come on! Yellow or red, they all got paid. Do you really believe those yellow protesters coming from the South were not paid? When protesters leave their home and occupation to protest in Bangkok, they are always paid.

So what's wrong with protesting in order to get elections and citizen choose their government? Of course, for you, It's better to protest in order to prevent elections to be held.

"Addressing the participants, Nattawut said that the holding of the commemorative event was not intended to drive a wedge between people who share different political opinions adding, however, that whoever ordered the crackdown against the red shirts has not yet been held accountable." Who could be accountable? I am wondering..... If I remember well, Abhisit was PM and Suthep deputy PM, Prawit was army chief and Prayut chief of Bangkok army. They could not possibly be held responsible.???? If I remember also well, the red shirts were protesting to get Abhisit dissolve the house quickly, so that he would not be able to nominate Prayut as army chief in September 2010. Just a mere coincidence! ????

It has been a regular pattern over time. When the yellow/green network sentenced one of its own people (or was lenient in a case involving an opponent), it was a way to pretend being balanced and fair, before hitting hard opponents. You may be right.

And we know why! ????