Palang Pracharath Party member sues Thanathorn, others over rally

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Palang Pracharath Party member sues Thanathorn, others over rally

By THE NATION

 

 

Sonthiya Sawasdee, a member of Palang Pracharath Party filed a lawsuit at Pathumwan Police Station today (December 16) against Future Forward Party (FWP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and three others (FWP secretary Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, FWP spokesperson Pannika Wanich, and FWP party listed MP Pita Limjaroenrat) for posting on facebook an invitation to Saturday's rally on the skywalk of the Pathumwan intersection on Rama I Road in Bangkok.

 

Sonthiya claimed that Thanathorn and his alleged accomplices violated 3 laws: 1) Organising a rally without notifying authorities, blocking public entrance-exit, and in less than 150 metres from royal residence (Sa Pathum Palace); 2) Violation of Criminal Law article 116, causing public disobedience to the law; and 3) Violation of royal institution according to Article 6 of Thai Constitution.

 

 

“I am on board with political rally as long it doesn’t cause problems to the public,” said Sonthiya “I want to use this case as a standard for political parties to follow and to remind supporters joining the rally that they still have to follow the law.”

 

Sonthiya also added that ‘suing the rally organisers’ is what he has done for decades based on personal belief that all political rally must be lawful, and that his filing of the case today was not done on behalf of Palang Pracharath Party.

 

Related Story: [Gallery] FWP rally is underway at Pathumwan skywalk

Related Story: Thanathorn sets the stage for 'real rally against dictatorship'

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379493

 

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[Thaiwrath]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sonthiya claimed that Thanathorn and his alleged accomplices violated 3 laws:

How many laws did Mr P violate with his illegal military coup, which started this whole <deleted> mess ?

Didn't see you file any lawsuits then !

[otherstuff1957]

So, which PPR MP is this one?  The convicted heroin dealer?  The one who is a fugitive and still shows up to vote?  The one who owns forest land that only poor people are supposed to use?

[keith101]

PATHETIC child mindset

 

[Eindhoven]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/pm-called-on-to-resign-for-failing-the-people/

 

 

[Oziex1]

If Thanathorn broke the law then the police can deal with it, not some thin skinned offended pratt from an illegal government.

[GarryP]

1 minute ago, Oziex1 said:

If Thanathorn broke the law then the police can deal with it, not some not some thin skinned offended pratt from an illegal government.

Now, now. Tone it down a bit. If some someone from the bastion of democracy wants to file a complaint against that popular personification of evil, they should be free to do so.   

[Why Me]

Man, these bootlickers never miss an opportunity do they?

[poohy]

He looks very grumpy!

[seajae]

another dummy spit by the govt lackies, they are that scared of losing the next election they are clutching at straws to remove the FF party before they can get all the support to take govt. This has become a farce and anyone with half a brain can see through what they are doing, truly pathetic

 

[Oziex1]

2 minutes ago, seajae said:

another dummy spit by the govt lackies, they are that scared of losing the next election they are clutching at straws to remove the FF party before they can get all the support to take govt. This has become a farce and anyone with half a brain can see through what they are doing, truly pathetic

 

You think they cant rig the next election like they just have.

[Creasy]

Hypocrites are the worst people, and in Thailand they sure do have a lot of A grade hypocrites

[DavisH]

18 minutes ago, seajae said:

another dummy spit by the govt lackies, they are that scared of losing the next election they are clutching at straws to remove the FF party before they can get all the support to take govt. This has become a farce and anyone with half a brain can see through what they are doing, truly pathetic

 

Thanathorn has the young vote, and if the survive to the next election, may well win it, as the majority of newly registered young voters will vote for FFP.....and that policy of ending compulsory conscription will be hugely popular. 

[madmitch]

Interesting that if you Google Sonthiya Sawasdee you will find that he filed a petition against the formation of the Future Forward Party a couple of years ago. I'm not allowed to link to the site where I saw this.

 

Despite his name, he doesn't look the most welcoming of chaps, does he?

 

[Odysseus123]

They use this system of sueing very effectively to destroy any form of intellectual,academic,political or individual freedom in Thailand and they have been doing it for a very long time.

 

The population is effectively reduced to a mass of nodding donkeys due to the very grave risk of financial ruin.

 

If you effectively control the courts as well as the Praetorian guard then you have

an almost unassailable stranglehold on the country.

[Yinn]

1 hour ago, otherstuff1957 said:

So, which PPR MP is this one?  The convicted heroin dealer?  The one who is a fugitive and still shows up to vote?  The one who owns forest land that only poor people are supposed to use?

He the one who want the US ambassador go to jail...

 

https://prachatai.com/english/node/5667

[Yinn]

35 minutes ago, seajae said:

another dummy spit by the govt lackies, they are that scared of losing the next election

Election? Will delay, delay, delay.

 

35 minutes ago, seajae said:

 

 

they are clutching at straws to remove the FF party before they can get all the support to take govt. This has become a farce and anyone with half a brain can see through what they are doing, truly pathetic

 

Yes.

[FarFlungFalang]

11 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

They use this system of sueing very effectively to destroy any form of intellectual,academic,political or individual freedom in Thailand and they have been doing it for a very long time.

 

The population is effectively reduced to a mass of nodding donkeys due to the very grave risk of financial ruin.

 

If you effectively control the courts as well as the Praetorian guard then you have

an almost unassailable stranglehold on the country.

I agree in the past it has been effective but I think that it might just well have the opposite effect and going against the complainants and might well be part of Thanathorn's strategy to expose their reliance on a corrupted legal system.   

[Golden Triangle]

As Kenny Everett would have said " What a Cupid Stunt " ???? 

[Mavideol]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Sonthiya Sawasdee, a member of Palang Pracharath Party filed a lawsuit

ones has to wonder how many of his party (gang) members broke the law over the past 4 years and how many times did it himself ..... he who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones

[GarryP]

1 hour ago, poohy said:

He looks very grumpy!

No, Grumpy is Prayuth. Prawit is Sleepy. Parina is Dopey. Wisanu is Doc. So this must be Bashful. 

[Donutz]

Pathetic bunch the lot of them, all these Phalang Pracharat Mps seem to be the lowest of the lowest. Committing various crimes, then coming up with some nonsense versus Thanathorn (112, communism, Soros, country haters, any other silly thing one can think of).  Laughable.

[BobbyL]

Totalitarianism is rife. 

[Okis]

4 hours ago, Yinn said:

He the one who want the US ambassador go to jail...

 

https://prachatai.com/english/node/5667

He seems to reported Thanatorn for le majeste now too.

 

Also the police are blantanly lying and charging Thanatorn for resistence against police and they are claiming protesters and police clashed during the protest. 

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/12/16/thanathorn-accused-of-insulting-monarchy-for-skywalk-rally/

 

 

" A pro-government activist on Monday urged police to prosecute Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit on suspicions that he defamed the monarchy.

For holding a mass anti-government protest on Saturday, Sonthiya Sawasdi from Phalang Pracharath Party accused Thanathorn of breaching Section 6 of the constitution, which states that the monarchy must be revered and cannot be violated. "

 

 

" Thairath newspaper also reported that Pathumwan Police has filed three criminal charges against Thanathorn related to Saturday’s rally. They include organizing a protest without notifying local authorities, using a loudspeaker without permission, and resisting law enforcement officers.

The latter charge was filed in connection with a scuffle between the protesters and police officers at the rally."

[BobbyL]

A pro-government activist on Monday urged police to prosecute Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit on suspicions that he defamed the monarchy

 

Incredible if that is true. 

[sammieuk1]

That Kaiser Chiefs song will now be on 78rpm I predict???? 

[holy cow cm]

Wow and in CM they had a rally same day same time and they are going after those organizers as well. Looks like martial law coming for the new year.  

[Inn Between]

This young man seems to really have the "old guard" rattled and worried. I just hope they don't approach his efforts to improve Thailand too rabidly and become successful in completely destroying his political career. 

 

I laugh when people ask how anyone could live in Vietnam with its Communist gov't, but it seems Thailand has become one of the more oppressive countries in the world under the power of Prayut's strong-arm military gov't.  

[Chazar]

The  size of his  face alone tells me how  deep  into the trough he is

[Chazar]

6 hours ago, Okis said:

which states that the monarchy must be revered and cannot be violated. "

Herein lies  one of Thailand  biggest hurdles, one  that decades of propganda had  taught them.