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Their brief will be to officially exonerate the military.

once they've done their prison time surely they are banned from public office?

Political reform in Thailand is a dream at this point in time, it's like turkeys voting for christmas. Until the rule of law is applied equally across all of society it isn't going to happen and unrest will escalate. The military has to be neutral and the judiciary above politics, then have a transparant election. After this let the government govern, if they mess up then vote them out.

Is it that simple?

Taxin may not be a saint but the fact that he still has very strong support in the villages is down to his social policies that gave the poor hope, something that is now in very short supply since the yellow shirt coup. The country has to accept one person one vote and stop appointing unelected oligarchs!

Feeedom of the press is west of BANGKOK, something this guy will learn the hard way!

National reconciliation is a long way off wilst Thailand lives in the shadow of the military. A government should be able to govern and the ballot box is their watchdog. The fact is that the current constitution was written to make the new government appear legitimate by a mutinous military who seem to always get away with. All they have to do is say they are defending the monarchy and flood the streets with soldiers, something that was sadly missing when the country was recently held to ransom with the illegal occupation of the airports and parliament!

I think it will get worse before it gets better as the poor are now unwilling to suffer the yoke of surfdom anymore; and the old elite cannot accept loosing their autocracy.

Remember politeness is a two way thing, we were not there and some of the THAI Officials can be pretty touchy. This guy may have got pissed off knowing his passport was real and reacted in a manner that he would have got away with in the UK. Seeing his mate dissapearing into departure and feeling stranded could have distressed him and maybe a few fairwell beers were to blame. One thing I do Know is that if the Official was made to loose face in front of her superior then he would be in the brown stuff!

YOU CAN GET DIVORCED IN ENGLAND WITHOUT GOING TO COURT, HE GAVE HER A QUICKIE!

Anybody who thinks someone should be jailed for being rude is truly stupid, there isn't enough room in jail for all the checkout girl's for a start.

Tailand has a judiciary that has backed the military with rulings that have outlawed the countries own electorial watchdog's because they didn't like the outcome of the election. They olso outlawed MP's of parties they don't like until the elected goverment couldn't function and now, through a thinly disguised coup; have installed thier man as prime minister! Until there is a radical overhall of the constitution to create a level playing field and the ousting of these politically motivated judges Thailand will continue from crisis to crisis.

Sometimes a joke is how people deal with very stressfull situation, u should hear how the military deal with it. The sicker the quip the more u laugh off your mate getting exitted.

As far as I can see the red shirt's support what was a legally elected government overthrown by a movement backed by the judicery, who overturned election result after result until they could install their guy. The new government then places some of the yellow shirt's in power. Some democracy!! Now the government is are screeming foul when the red shirt's reciprecate their very own behaviour.

It's funny to read some of the posts from the T camp. Before, they were crying that their puppet government was democratically elected. Now that the Dems has won Parliament vote BY THE SAME ELECTED MP's, they cry something else. Would it please you more if PTP won? A party that NEVER contended the election. Where is the one person one vote arguments now? You are arguing a lost case. Get over it...or better, move. We don't really need the Farang Thaksin camp in this country.

Oh, you think we will miss your $? Why is it that foreign companies still pours $ into our country? Does it have to do with the fact that Thailand is one of the high potential country for investment in Asia? Undervalued price of estate, cheap skilled labor, strategically located, cheap alcohol, nice beaches, never a boring day AND you get treated like Tom Cruise here. Feel free to miss the train.

The low wages in manufacturing will always attract gready companies, the problem is that countries poorer than Thailand are now attracting these same companies and jobs are going fast. Thaksin realised that Thailand is competing in a global market and investment from outside helps the econamy to grow thus helping the low paid. He also realised that lots of money comes from ex-pats and tourism benefiting the Thai economy.

To think Thailand will prosper or even just survive by herself is wishful in the very least. Those days are long gone.

Even if you wished it to go the other way,

it would be in everyones best interest to wish

the New PM, and his government Chok dee krab.

Yes we can expect a likely violent Red Shirt negative reaction.

They don't seem to deal with defeat too well.

And a measured positive response fropm PAD, who will stay cloistered

and go back to talking mode.

The wild card is how Dr. T. takes this,

where will he put his cash and to what end.

He remains the 800lb gorilla in the corner....

what IS his quotient of desperation today?

One way or another

Thailand abides!

I have watched the reaction of the yellow shirted PAD supporters to a democratic government over the last few months and note that their reaction to any defeat they have suffered to government decisions were not legal. So as to not being able to take defeat very well, kettle calling the frying pan I think!

I hate to be melodramatic but if the army does not get involved soon there could be a real problem country wide. There are reports filtering through that the red shirts have been to Udon Airport threatening unrest.

A coup is looking better every day

In any democracy the army is controlled by the government. Sorry, I should have said in any normal democracy!

The old guard just want it all their own way and stuff democracy!! This is a centuries old problem when rich landowners find out that in a democratic system they only have one vote!!!

all you guys are just still upset about that little airport closing

if you read the list of demands they are reasonable. they simply want a transparent and non-corrupt government. is it too much to ask?

As long as it agrees with us mien furer!

After reading most your comments, I wonder who's fascists and whose not.

These demands, made by a group of protesters!!!, all point in the same direction: NO MORE CORRUPTION!

Well, tell me.. what's so fascist about that?

This country has been, and still is, controled by a goverment-mafia; an organisation that is structurally stealing from its people.

Thailand is not unique though, as Haliburton comes to mind! But the Thais, the PAD have the balls to close an international airport!

Corruption is a disease and needs to be fought, no matter what the price! If not, than democracy is just a nine-letter word without meaning!

Wake up!

PAD are unelected who want governers and MPs appointed, sounds very sinister to me and any other fair minded person I would think. Their leaders should be arrested for the occupation of the airports (by supporters who were paid) but the rule of law appears to go out the window once you don a yellow shirt!

Happy Days Are Here Again! May the Junta RIP!

I can't believe the military will keep quiet, they must accept that a legally elected government can & should control the military. Sadly the general's see themselves as elite, far above elected polaticians!