Sickening and ridiculous, its a loan written down as a loan. How else can you start a new party. I understand that they don't want single people to control a party. But this is just a farce to keep him away. He was clean and is the biggest treat to this corrupt mob and also to the PTP. 

12 minutes ago, robblok said:

How else can you start a new party.

 

Friends with watches?

 

Palang Pracharath party leadership says thay can tell you but then they'll have to kill you.

 

 

 An epidemic of lead poisoning is on its way.

55 minutes ago, robblok said:

Sickening and ridiculous, its a loan written down as a loan. How else can you start a new party. I understand that they don't want single people to control a party. But this is just a farce to keep him away. He was clean and is the biggest treat to this corrupt mob and also to the PTP. 

Yes but as a business man he should have done a better job concealing the whole thing. You should know that if you want to go against the flow that you should be as clean as possible as everything you say and do will be used against you. It is not fair but he should have been better prepared before attacking the ruling power. Look at Singapore, they are the masters in silencing the opposition legally but nobody over there and the rest of the world seems to notice it. 

14 minutes ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Yes but as a business man he should have done a better job concealing the whole thing. You should know that if you want to go against the flow that you should be as clean as possible as everything you say and do will be used against you. It is not fair but he should have been better prepared before attacking the ruling power. Look at Singapore, they are the masters in silencing the opposition legally but nobody over there and the rest of the world seems to notice it. 

Point taken, but also true, he/his party didn't break any laws at all so why should he/they try to conceal anything? 

 

 

18 minutes ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Yes but as a business man he should have done a better job concealing the whole thing. You should know that if you want to go against the flow that you should be as clean as possible as everything you say and do will be used against you. It is not fair but he should have been better prepared before attacking the ruling power. Look at Singapore, they are the masters in silencing the opposition legally but nobody over there and the rest of the world seems to notice it. 

Other parties were found to have taken loans too. The excuse for ignoring their transactions? The loans were "small" (obviously excused for self preservation). 

 

It didn't matter how careful the FFP were. The establishment were always going to find something.

 

There is no winning when the powers that be rule by law.

This gentle effort at mediation should quieten the protesters (NOT!!!).    

The brainiacs in BKK can't draw the parallel between suppressing an opposition of the youth and disfranchised of Thailand of which this guy is the figurehead and leader, and the flood of people on the streets calling for drastic and immediate reform of the a system that came to power at the end of a gun and which retains power through  unelected appointments and commissions whose purpose are the maintain the status quo by any means necessary. 
Forecast?
Double-down.  The top knows they can always send guns to the streets to take care of the commoner riff-raff.
 

A cunning scheme by Prayut and his cronies?? Increase the protests and then a COUP!

Duplicate post..
 

Utter desperation on the part of brain dead dinosaur nitwits, who cannot adapt, cannot think on their feet, cannot lead the nation forward and cannot comprehend the sentiment of the nation, nor why they are so stunningly unpopular, and despised. 

 

This is just another nail in the coffin. Hopefully, it will encourage the older folks to shake off their inertia, and get involved, finally. The army must go. Prayuth must go, if Thailand has any hope of moving forward, from this self created abyss. 

Just now, spidermike007 said:

Utter desperation on the part of brain dead dinosaur nitwits, who cannot adapt, cannot think on their feet, cannot lead the nation forward and cannot comprehend the sentiment of the nation, nor why they are so stunningly unpopular, and despised. They are so afraid, so gripped by panic, they will try anything, without giving a moments thought to the consequences. 

 

This is just another nail in the coffin. Hopefully, it will encourage the older folks to shake off their inertia, and get involved, finally. The army must go. Prayuth must go, if Thailand has any hope of moving forward, from this self created abyss. 

 

    I'm sure these crooked members of the Election Commission will get their come uppence, when they eventually lose their military backing. Corrption charges are already looming, for all their past antic's I'm sure.

Bang to rights I'm afraid. See you later. 

6 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Ah, this must be what Prayut meant when he said both sides should take a step back:

 

I see satire isn't lost on all Thais.  My guess is the youth are a little more savvy.
"Okey, okey.  We take a step back." 
Classic.

31 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

 

Hopefully, it will encourage the older folks to shake off their inertia, and get involved, finally.

I think most of the old folk are royalists and have no problem with a Government that maintains the status quo. If they get involved thet'll mostly be wearing yellow shirts.

Maybe the powers that be want an escalation, in order to achieve that some of the peaceful protesters lose their patience and become violent. Guys in yellow shirts will reply with more violence and escalate the situation furthermore, and then this all will be used as an excuse for a though crackdown.

3 hours ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Yes but Mr Taksin was Clean, right? He just forgot about 600 million and he had the luck he could appoint the last judge just before they reached a verdict ????  He is the root course of all this political instability for the lats 20 + years.

Wrong.

 

The root cause is as I described earlier, that the elite are simply not interested in reconciliation, reform or the wants and needs of the Thai people. They never have been. 

 

Thaksin was the catalyst for change because he was the first to recognise the importance of populist policy in winning over the electorate. Thus the poorest in the country were actually receiving something from the government for a change. 
 

Of course the whole campaign against Thaksin started not because there was any conclusive evidence against him, but rather because Sondhi was irked that the CEO of KTB had been removed from his post, due to non-performing loans to his mates and having been instrumental in forgiving Sondhi's personal and business debt of over a billion Baht. 

 

The politicisation of the Deleted and the misinformation campaign came soon after, culminating in a border conflict with Cambodia where people were killed and a takeover of the country's international airports that cost Thailand billions. 

 

Now Sondhi is saying much the same things, but he's regarded as a conspiracy theorist and a bit of a sad joke. He's also a convicted criminal. 

 

You keep on going though, it might dawn on you eventually. 

 

 

29 minutes ago, madmitch said:

I think most of the old folk are royalists and have no problem with a Government that maintains the status quo. If they get involved thet'll mostly be wearing yellow shirts.

I wonder if this comment has partly changed / now 'out of date', if you catch my drift. It certainly is in my family.

This is so typical and dirty of the regime. So Sad! Good luck to Thanathorn, but this does feed the fire.

How to stoke the already blazing fire!!  

How dare this upstart get so many votes and want to end conscription and make the country a far better place, best make an example of him before anyone else gets any ideas of opposing the army and it's very, very rich backers.

Excellent timing, should draw another 50k out ot the streets. Next time, maybe use a katana to dig blood from your noses.

This old boys club needs to move on. 

 

Young voters are disillusioned of this Mob, that relies on nepotism.

 

Some young people are the leaders of tomorrow. Hopefully they will bring the word * govern * back to its original meaning.

Currently the country is in a deadlock with the daily demonstrations and the stubbern government not moving anywhere. And - most importantly - this government will do everything to protect the political systems as it is. The generals MUST do this in their very personal interest, to protect their wealth and safety. 

 

Think about this:

 

Any compromise which brings the country closer to democracy and a rule of law is a big no-no for them, given how criminal and corrupt they are. It simply is much too dangerous for them to risk that one day a fair court in a Thai democracy prosecutes them for all their crimes.

 

Therefore, to avoid any reform towards democracy and rule of law and to get rid of the deadlock, they need an escalation now. They need a decisive battle. That might be a reason why they want an escalation now by prosecuting Thanathorn, to ingnite violence and real riots, and to have an excuse for a tough crackdown then. Yellow thugs will be ordered to support this well engineered agenda of escalation. 

 

As I pointed out before already, after such a provoced crackdown, I predict that the army will give the power to some civil friends (I guess Anutin will appointed as the next PM), in order to appease the people and the international community, and to create a "government of national unity", whose duty only will be to protect the system for another decade, till the circle will start again. 

 

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

I wonder if this comment has partly changed / now 'out of date', if you catch my drift. It certainly is in my family.

It doesnt appear to be the case here in Phuket, where many believe anyone not military or monarchist is a Thaksin supporter (even after all these years his legacy prevails!) but I'd like to think that you're right.

So they deem it illegal for him, but allow an army officer to stack a senate 

with dogbodies?

How dare he start up an opposition party !  Lashings will continue until subservience improves ????

Thaksin is still revered up here out in the sticks.  If he was to return there would but a white horse with a golden saddle and the road would be covered with orchids.  Prayuth....no such luck! 

Pathetic.  But, all the ridiculous actions like this just make him stronger.