Thanathorn vows to continue fight for democracy outside Parliament

[webfact]

Thanathorn vows to continue fight for democracy outside Parliament

By The Nation

 

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

 

In a farewell message as leader of the now-dissolved Future Forward Party, posted a message of hope, exhorting the people and elected representatives to stay true to their mission of “fighting the dictatorship and bringing back democracy”.

 

“I believe we showed people that we made every effort to bravely challenge the injustice as we had promised to do.

 

“It was my honour to work with every debater who was very professional. The period of six months was so fun and full of challenges.

 

“Today, I cannot continue my journey with you, but I’ll watch your success from the distance without any interference.

 

“This is the most exciting political situation. This is the moment of dream and ambition. Today, students and people have sacrificed so much since they must lose a big part of their life, same as the representatives.

 

“They are ordinary people. They have no status or fame. Some of them argued with their friends. Some fight with their parents. Some have no income. Yet they all stood up for what they believed in.

 

“Therefore, just the loyalty of Future Forward MPs to the people is not enough. I have to ask my MP  friends to work harder, support the people and fight alongside them.” He told the representatives to not be chained up by their positions and instead use it to serve the people.

 

Thanathorn said he will work on political campaigns outside the House and fight the coup with the people as hard as he could. He promised to run campaigns for the people and said he hoped that “one day, when you become the government, you will use your power for our people to change Thailand, push a new boundary and make our dream come true”.

 

He said Thailand needed parties with vision, courage and brains. “To fight the dictatorship and bring back democracy, the representatives are important. It’s a job that no one can do but you (at least this time).

 

“Don’t give up on the best chance for democracy and changes. History has given it to you and if you don’t fight for it, how could you look in the eyes of our next generation.”

 

In parting, he urged people to “stay strong in justice and equality and believe in possibilities. The new world is in our hands”.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383122

 

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[smedly]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thanathorn vows to continue fight for democracy outside Parliament

They are going to lock you up

 

your 6 million voters will not allow it

 

simple

[hotchilli]

The powers to be will hound him for years, if he offers any support, even verbal to anyone they'll nail him for inciting the public, he'll be set up for something and will end up in exile along with all the others!

[legend49]

Good luck I am sure the silent voters will be in support of you.

[Happy Grumpy]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“fighting the dictatorship and bringing back democracy”.

In Thailand?

 

 

Yeah, good luck with that. 

[Thaiwrath]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

“Therefore, just the loyalty of Future Forward MPs to the people"

Unfortunately, some of them showed their true loyalty to the people, when 23 million baht was wafted in front of their noses, soon after the party was dissolved.

[spiekerjozef]

Good man. Don't give up.

[colinneil]

Thanathorn keep going, you have the support of millions of people here.

Just be very careful, watch your back, the geriatric bunch will stop at nothing to stay in power.

[bluesofa]

8 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Thanathorn keep going, you have the support of millions of people here.

Just be very careful, watch your back, the geriatric bunch will stop at nothing to stay in power.

if they run out of support, Thanathorn could be hit from behind with multiple Zimmer frames by those senile delinquents.

[Happy Grumpy]

Exiled from the country or die in a car crash?

[holy cow cm]

Unfortunately he will be subject to the next level of being tried, guilty and put in prison for committing illegal crimes, and then when he keeps on doing it outside before the trail has ended and given verdict, it will become a National Security issue and he will be tried and committed to more years for that. He will become a martyr at best. And this just might work to overturn this country and get these fatheads out and the military downgraded with the elite high to do do's lowered to not so special I am better than everyone to where my kids and all Thai kids and the younger generation have a better life.. Good Luck. He has 6 million reasons to be proud.

[soalbundy]

This is going to be big, bigger than the government has yet realized

[Baerboxer]

The lesson he should've learned, and probably hasn't, is he and anyone like him, must be and keep squeaky clean. He's got the resources to pay enough qualified people to make sure that happens. 

 

If he doesn't then the slightest thing could come back to bite him in the future. 

 

 

[ChipButty]

Might be a good time to invest in some property in Dubai

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

The powers to be will hound him for years, if he offers any support, even verbal to anyone they'll nail him for inciting the public, he'll be set up for something and will end up in exile along with all the others!

On the other hand maybe (I hope) his support will eventually generate enough broad community power to stop the misuse of the law and force real and ethical change. 

[Eric Loh]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

I believe we showed people that we made every effort to bravely challenge the injustice as we had promised to do.

He has single handedly re-ignite the youth political activism as seen in the resurgence of student pro democracy anti coup demonstrations recently. This kind of youth activism brought significant changes in past history. While not wishing those dark events to happen again, I hope these recent student movement will be able to creat a strong voice for political changes. Tough but it’s a start. 

[meinphuket]

The only elected official with his head screwed on properly, and not groveling to the dinosaurs...

[BobBKK]

He is the hope of the next generation who will always see him as brave, decent and truthful. Prayut will not be judged kindly by history, Thanathorn will and it's not over yet. One day even Dinosaurs become extinct.

[spidermike007]

It seems nearly everyone on this forum, has been lulled into a sort of sense, that the army is there now, and will be there forever. I am a dissenter from that point of view. The army is despised at this point in time, and they will be gone sooner, rather than later. The people will rise up, led by the youth, and heroes like Thanathorn. They just need millions rather than thousands. That will happen. Prayuth is going to be help responsible for the decimation of the Thai economy, which we see happening right now. It was largely due to his feeble policies, his administrations constant racist rantings, his false proclamations, his false puritanism, and only partly due to corona. Hopefully he will eventually be brought up on charges, like a lot of ex-politicians here. He has crossed the line.

[ThaiBunny]

3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

It seems nearly everyone on this forum, has been lulled into a sort of sense, that the army is there now, and will be there forever. I am a dissenter from that point of view. The army is despised at this point in time, and they will be gone sooner, rather than later. The people will rise up, led by the youth, a...

We could have read comments like these at any point in the last 30+ years, yet here we are

[spidermike007]

9 minutes ago, ThaiBunny said:

We could have read comments like these at any point in the last 30+ years, yet here we are

There is cause for optimism. A portion of the Thai youth are activists, and they are passionate about the future of the nation. They are impressive. They need to contaminate the older folks, with their enthusiasm. Plus, the theft of the senate, and the dissolution of the FFP (a monumental miscalculation on the part of the extremely incompetent army) was a real personal blow, and the anger is there. Combine that with a horrific economy that Thailand is going to have to deal with for some time to come, a decimated tourism sector affecting millions, and you may have a perfect storm of discontent. The army really, really needs to be shown the door. The sooner, the better. 

[Caldera]

I really like this guy, such a breath of fresh air. I hope he and his followers will ultimately succeed.

 

[newnative]

   Good. Keep raising your voice in opposition and, hopefully, others will follow.

[MaxLee]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thanathorn vows to continue fight for democracy outside Parliament

By The Nation

 

If you continue to fight, you are a wanted man on the Military list.....

[neeray]

40 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

It seems nearly everyone on this forum, has been lulled into a sort of sense, that the army is there now, and will be there forever. I am a dissenter from that point of view.

I'm glad you said "nearly", otherwise, I would have considered your brush just a bit too broad.

I share your sentiments and the position of "dissenter".

 

A major shake up is coming!

[sweatalot]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

“fighting the dictatorship and bringing back democracy”.

should be “fighting the dictatorship and bringing back democracy"

[tomauasia]

10 hours ago, smedly said:

They are going to lock you up

 

your 6 million voters will not allow it

 

simple

You wish

[sawadee1947]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

The powers to be will hound him for years, if he offers any support, even verbal to anyone they'll nail him for inciting the public, he'll be set up for something and will end up in exile along with all the others!

Yes, they are waiting for the slightest attempt to political movements to jail him. 

I hope he got friends to help him. 

Or he will die as a martyr.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, scorecard said:

On the other hand maybe (I hope) his support will eventually generate enough broad community power to stop the misuse of the law and force real and ethical change. 

I'm one hundred percent behind the students, they've lost their only voice to make a change through the normal channels, this has provoked them into open protest and Prayut &Co will certainly use security measures to quell them too, as Anutin hinted at. 

Opposition may be broad across the community but so is Prayuts influence, he has the "house" sewn up, EC sewn up, constitution court sewn up, he owns most of the governors of each province, the army and the police all do his bidding!

This cannot be achieved by discussion and diplomacy via some sort of committee, Prayut has all the cards up his sleeve.... this will eventually blow up and get real !

[herwin1234]

A Thai billionaire agitating students into protests. great. lets hope they dont burn Central this time or get "inspired" by the Hong Kong protests and start destroying the whole city...

Prayut and the army did a great job, without them Thailand would now be divided chaos and far far away from any kind of democracy. 

Economy doing great the last ten years, he must be doing something good...

lastly, i lived in rural red shirt area years ago, i saw how the agitators stir up trouble and completely lie to these simple ppl. no more sympathy for them.

Edited March 2, 2020 by herwin1234