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You can say what you want to bout Thaksin, but he had a way of handeling things like this and the drug problem too.

You have to be kidding, he did do some good things but those two examples were not any of them! unless of course, you think it's ok to give the police carte blanche to roam around settling old scores in the name of the war on drugs or the army carte blanche to rape and murder thai citizens because they wanted to practice their own religion, speak their own language and practice their own culture. Tak Bai pretty much kicked off the latest unrest in the south.

Dumbest post this year!

Court rejects photographic evidence.

You got to be kidding.

Is the gunman some rich guy's son or something?

What do they want? A signed statement from the gunman saying it was him?

Court rejects arrest warrants for suspects, citing lack of evidence

Yep... The police were obviously attempting to frame someone from the PDRC. I would bet my ass on it.

Seriously? Suthep himself admitted that the gunmen in the photos were PDRC members. There's a whole thread on this here on ThaiVisa.

Apparently not even that is enough evidence for the courts.

This is protection of the innocent.

Thai judges are very civilized, unlike many other countries.

You crack me up!

Will they issue arrest warrants for those guys too?!!!

Arrest police officers for holding weapons?

Do pink elephants walk around in your dream world, too?

If there is an armed militia shooting at civilians on the streets, I would sure hope that the police have their weapons drawn, because it is their job.

You mean Ms. Yingluck was lying when she said the police would be unarmed?

Oh give it a rest, she said police facing protesters are not armed, not ordinary police, you really do like twisting things about to suit your fascist ideals.

This court should be the first thing to be reformed.

On what grounds are you basing this on?

On the.grounds it was set up to veto democratic decisions using a constitution written to keep power with the elites.

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What, so trying to remove transparency to make it easier to get away with corruption and avoiding parliamentary scrutiny are democratic????

Attempting to pass an amnesty bill by ram rodding it through in the early hours of the morning (very early actually) and which benefits one person in particular is democratic?

Your idea as to what democracy is and stands for is highly peculiar to say the least!!

Why do you think that it was put there in the first place? to stop abuse of so called democratic power by a corrupt government perhaps!!!

Good to see that it is providing the necessary checks and balances to maintain democracy.

" What, so trying to remove transparency to make it easier to get away with corruption and avoiding parliamentary scrutiny are democratic????"

When?

"Attempting to pass an amnesty bill by ram rodding it through in the early hours of the morning (very early actually) and which benefits one person in particular is democratic?"

Yes! if the dems(sic) choose to go to beddy boes whilst a bill is being debated, that's their problem, (not that they could have stopped it). Incidentally, why is everyone scared of square face coming home? Let's face it, he would be painted with laser sights the moment he steps off the plane.

My idea of democracy is one man one vote and the government gets to govern without constant veto's by unelected courts.

I don't always agree with the outcome of elections, some times they stink but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I come from the UK where at the moment, an unelected government with no mandate is tearing the heart out of our great social services to pay the rich and you don't see my leftie comrades spitting their dummies and blockading half of london, killing policemen and beating up anyone who disagrees with them. We just have to suck it up and wait for the next election when hopefully the filthy uncaring right wing scum will get their comeuppance

Long live democracy! Down with the fascist Suthep and his ilk..

This court should be the first thing to be reformed.

On what grounds are you basing this on?

On the.grounds it was set up to veto democratic decisions using a constitution written to keep power with the elites.

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This court should be the first thing to be reformed.

In a nutshell, the elites will have a veto over all walks of governmental life!

Easy solution: Pilipino Muslims that speak English and Arabic. Chinese Muslims that speak Mandarin and Arabic. Saudi Muslims that Speak English and Arabic. Not much danger for them. Danger is mainly for Christian and Buddhist.

Not at all, many many Muslims have been targeted. If you work for the government, you die!

Didn't take long for the infighting to start.

Fascists always turn on their own eventully. Slightest disagreement and its beatings.

How long before they beat up some rich BKKians for trying to get into Siam Paragon for their whitener.

Way to go boys

at least they didnt hire people with AK47's to shoot him up like the reds did recently to the load mouth red leader, doesnt pay to throw too many stones

What are you wittering on about? He was shot by a guy hired by soldiers, please try and keep up.

Didn't take long for the infighting to start.

Fascists always turn on their own eventully. Slightest disagreement and its beatings.

How long before they beat up some rich BKKians for trying to get into Siam Paragon for their whitener.

Way to go boys

Broken record, broken record, broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record,broken record, broken record, broken record,broken record,broken record, broken record, broken record, broken record,

Better than your right wing vitriol!

First bike i owned was a BSA starfire ,, but I lusted after a Norton commando and got on at 19 eventually owned 5 all lovely ,2 were750 other 2 were 850 and one with 920 kit ,

these days i own 3 Ducatis , have ridden more tha 70 differnt bikes and owned 35 over last 40 years , prefer twins over 4s and like some triples

prefer 360 degree twins or V twins rather than 180 or 270 , dont love bland bikes

As a kid I worked at AMC making Norton, AJS and Matchless............

You must be blind and handy with a sledgehammer after bashing all those bikes together down in Plumstead .

AJS = All Junk Spares

Matchless = er with what ???? a dead dog .

BSA =Best Scrap Available or Bits Stuck Anywhere

Triumph = defeat ,,

Lucas electrics = Lord of Darkness

Oh the joys of old british iron

Just read your post, you are obviously a s___ h________ who knows nothing. At the time I was working at AMC all the effort was put into the Norton P1 for export to the USA.

BSA or Triumph had nothing to do with AMC..

What was the P1?

Is it just me or are these old bikes 1,000 times more desirable than the new stuff?

Can't image kids lusting after a Wave, or a scoopy doo, or even a CBR.

Says more about your lack of imagination really!

Kids not lusting after a blade? Yeah right!

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This is the legacy of 50 years of government interference and control combined with union mismanagement!

A sad day for Australia,... just another nail in the coffin for a once great nation and land of milk and honey

"just another nail in the coffin for a once great nation"

When was that then?

This series of attack rise question about the implication of the CMPO and gov .

Chalerm said "attack likely continue against protester"

Why he do nothing ? Why he let attacker continue their job ? Why I continue to blame protester then there are evidences about participation of "third party" ?

Why he not stop UDD to provoke PRDC at LAKSI ?

Why not go home?

What a completely fatuous remark. The reason why Chalerm has stated that the attacks are likely to continue is because he knows who is organising them - the Thai Police under the orders of the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Chief. No wonder most Thais have absolutely no respect for them. Most of the RTP are utter garbage and it goes right down to the lower levels.

An example: I was in my car one evening recently after leaving my office and waiting to turn left into Suriwongse Road on my way home. Heavy traffic of course. The policeman in the booth on the corner of Rama IV and Suriwongse stopped a motorcycle taxi drive with a pretty young girl on the back not wearing a helmet, obviously on her way to her evening job by the look of her attire. When the policeman took the keys of the motorcycle, the expression on the girl's face was one of utter contempt. Her lip just curled up and the look on her face was one of hatred. I must say, I cannot blame her. I have exactly the same opinion.

There are some really good people in the RTP but they are completely hidden by the crass corruption of a very large number of very bad ones. Unfortunately, under Thaksin, only the very bad ones get promoted while the good ones are left to languish in obscurity.

"What a completely fatuous remark"

And yet all you can do is whine on about all Thais not respecting the police, which is of course borne of their total lack of regard for law and order.

Talking about fatuous, how about using an example of a girl breaking the law to make your point!

This series of attack rise question about the implication of the CMPO and gov .

Chalerm said "attack likely continue against protester"

Why he do nothing ? Why he let attacker continue their job ? Why I continue to blame protester then there are evidences about participation of "third party" ?

Why he not stop UDD to provoke PRDC at LAKSI ?

Why not go home?

Isn't it a bit sickening that the only people who snigger about injury and death are Thaksin supporters?

They must have been very unloved as children.

Maybe Suthep can do another couple of days marching to get them therapy

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Totally Agree !!! .... Sure are some sick posters on TV ....

There certainly are! Imagine supporting the fascist overthrow of a democratically elected government.

Sickening!

To tie up Russian cruise liners?

Aerial Arrow.

The police station was under siege from anti government protesters?

The police REALLY are a totally useless lot in this country!

welcome to our country, you are welcome to spend all your money, use it to build up a business, live here for the rest of your life, marry a thai person but you are not allowed to have an opinion different from ours.

"but you are not allowed to have an opinion different from ours."

Please stop spreading your lies!

You can have any opinion you like, but you can't break the law.

English man speak with forked tongue.

I do support free, unhindered democratic elections but this guy does test ones resolve!

does this include rampant election vote-buying by the shins Mr Ban Ki-moon?

Oh Please! not that old chestnut, only the criminally insane believe that crock of sh**!

The article actually says:

["In the latest election, the Yingluck administration took its case to the voters by dissolving parliament, a move that took place amid overwhelming support from farmers and poor people—a group of supporters Yingluck inherited from Thaksin Shinawatra, her brother and former premier, who now is in self-imposed exile.

Meanwhile, Thaksin’s opponents, comprising the wealthy and urban-based middle-class, have called for an unelected council to govern as an interim government, as they are overwhelmed by Thaksin’s supporters in terms of number."]

Surely, this bit of writing is true ?? Okay then, Thaksin's opponents also include a SMALL number of people who are not 'the wealthy and urban-based middle-class'.

No it is not true. PTP may have SOME support from farmers but certainly not all. And you might think that "overwhelming support" would lead to both higher voter turn-out and far more votes.

Are the 55% of Thais who didn't bother to vote all 'the wealthy and urban-based middle-class" and a SMALL number of others?

"Are the 55% of Thais who didn't bother to vote all 'the wealthy and urban-based middle-class" and a SMALL number of others?"

A fair proportion will be the poor souls who were beaten and even shot while trying to exercise their democratic right, or like my g/f, too scared to even try.