Prayut calls for calm

[huangnon]

2 hours ago, TheTightArseTraveller said:

Those supporting the Move Forward party should do a fair bit of research about how and who they are backed and created.  They are puppets for the US.  
 

Interesting. Do you have a link?

[Henryford]

12 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

His statement sounds very much like a prelude to a coup. 
Uncle Tu wants his place in history as repeat coupist.

 

They don't need another coup. They have stiched up the election to stay in power.

[sambum]

8 hours ago, pomchop said:

Stay calm......you mean like rolling tanks and  leading a coup like you did to install a military junta and fix all the rules to insure that your unelected pals are able to vote to overturn the voters choice?  Got it.

 

Prayut served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army from 2010 to 2014^[3][4] and led the 2014 Thai coup d'état which installed the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the military junta which governed Thailand between 22 May 2014 and 10 July 2019.^[5]

When I used to complain to my father about something he'd done that he criticised me for doing, he used to say,  "Do as I say -  not as I do!"

 

Also, an expression from the past that seems very apt, as Thailand's leaders  seem to want to stay there - "Children should be seen and not heard" (For "Children", substitute "The Thai people") 

[Chongalulu]

 

In a certain light you can see the likeness….?

Edited July 21, 2023 by nchuckle

[sambum]

3 hours ago, moe666 said:

Even though I like Pitta he tprpedoed himself by not getting rid of those shares. The same thing happened what 5 years ago and he thought he was above it all, who knows what he was thinking or not thinking

Naive - he thought he could act like "The Watchman" and  talk his way out of it. 

[sambum]

3 hours ago, nikmar said:

Proper procedures? yeh, right!!

 

I wonder how calm the folk on the Titanic were when it hit the iceberg.

So taking power by guns and tanks, and installing 250 of your cronies in the Senate is "Proper procedures"? "yeh,right!"

 

3 hours ago, TheTightArseTraveller said:

Those supporting the Move Forward party should do a fair bit of research about how and who they are backed and created.  They are puppets for the US.  
Im not saying the previous government were great, but I am saying that the US backed puppets aim was to spread more Western obedience and ‘democracy’ to Thailand to curb Chinas influence in the region.

They look nice and shiny, but western influence is the LAST thing Thailand wants.

We all move here to escape that.

And if you want to talk about government corruption, at least in Thailand it benefits everyone from the top down to the street level cop… in the west it only favours the powerful.

So you're advocating corruption as a good thing for the country?

[Cabradelmar]

49 minutes ago, proton said:

How do you get rid of shares you cannot sell or give away?

You abandon them

[tmd5855]

13 hours ago, mark131v said:

Oh I reckon his time will come, I don't think treason has a statute of limitations...

Just remember that Oliver Cromwell were dead when tried for treason by Charles II for cutting his Daddies head off (Charles I).

Dug up, tried, found guilty and hung in chains.  Plenty time left.....

[Nickcage49]

Calm? You just overwhelmingly elected a prime minister, only to be told that because the elites and the military (you happen to be both) that the landslide victor can't have the job he was elected to? And you want calm? This is ridiculous.

[Cabradelmar]

Truth is, Thai people at-large are incredibly docile and apathetic (particularly to politics), which has allowed them to be effectively controlled by 90 years of faux democracy constantly undermined by 12 successful military led coup d'etats. Their anger usually only manifest itself into violence when intimate betrayal or financial loss is involved (or they are drunk). Any coordinated sustained objected-based social unrest would quickly wither. The only people in ASEAN who have it worse is Myanmar and Cambodia (with one-party socialist/communist Laos and Vietnam not far behind).

[Enzian]

Life is a beach! Let's go! Serfs up!

Edited July 21, 2023 by Enzian

[pomchop]

3 hours ago, TheTightArseTraveller said:

Those supporting the Move Forward party should do a fair bit of research about how and who they are backed and created.  They are puppets for the US.  
Im not saying the previous government were great, but I am saying that the US backed puppets aim was to spread more Western obedience and ‘democracy’ to Thailand to curb Chinas influence in the region.

They look nice and shiny, but western influence is the LAST thing Thailand wants.

We all move here to escape that.

And if you want to talk about government corruption, at least in Thailand it benefits everyone from the top down to the street level cop… in the west it only favours the powerful.

Oh no....USA puppets....i don't see USA running coups in Thailand to install generals....maybe you can share your "research" with the rest of us so we can be privy to all that secret info you apparently have access to...  Impressive that you know that "we ALL moved here blah blah blah"...i don't recall being surveyed to be included in ALL.

[fulhamster]

PM ??? I thought he said last week that he had retired from politics.

[bamnutsak]

3 hours ago, TheTightArseTraveller said:

Those supporting the Move Forward party should do a fair bit of research about how and who they are backed and created.  They are puppets for the US.  

 

Newbie spouting conspiracy theories.

 

Back that nonsense up, or ask the mods to delete it.

 

My guess is that you failed to do "a fair bit of research", because your mini-rant makes you look ill-informed.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2023 by bamnutsak

[Burma Bill]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Outgoing Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appealed for calm

Unbelievable - can't he and his Senator cronies get it into their thick dinosaur skulls that they are responsible for the unrest!!

For reference (google) and just about sums them up:-

 

While the dinosaurs grew bigger, their brains didn't keep up. By the time the sauropods, like brontosaurus, reached 100 tons and 110 feet long, their brains were only the size of tennis balls.Nov 4, 2020

[PETERTHEEATER]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy government spokesman Rachada Dhnadirek said Prayut has kept abreast of the developing political situation.

Really? Then he deserves a round of applause from Asia Now forum readers. ????

[harada]

I’m surprised Uncle didn’t don his silk monkey suite and croon to the masses after his pep talk. 

[Dogmatix]

18 hours ago, Felt 35 said:

Most likely 50 % of Thais nowadays live directly or indirectly from the tourist trade in one or "another" way and money or lack of it is the most effective way to praise or punish people so they follow the law.

Felt

I don't think so. Don't forget the Chinese zero dollar tours that add a lot of bulk to the numbers and huge numbers of legal and illegal foreign workers are needed to staff up the tourism industry, simply because the Thai education system is too inefficient to teach even basic English speaking and aural comprehension skills to Thai kids. Export manufacturing is more important to the Thai economy, even though it requires enormous imported inputs.

[Dogmatix]

17 minutes ago, harada said:

I’m surprised Uncle didn’t don his silk monkey suite and croon to the masses after his pep talk. 

Given another 9 years he would fulfill his broken promise to restore happiness to the Thai people.

[Denim]

Hopefully the sort of calm that comes before a storm

[herfiehandbag]

10 hours ago, nikmar said:

Proper procedures? yeh, right!!

 

I wonder how calm the folk on the Titanic were when it hit the iceberg.

By all accounts for the first few hours they were very calm.

 

You see, they believed it was unsinkable, and that everything would carry on as before; then...

[herfiehandbag]

1 hour ago, harada said:

I’m surprised Uncle didn’t don his silk monkey suite and croon to the masses after his pep talk. 

Please, don't go putting ideas out there...

[billd766]

11 hours ago, TheTightArseTraveller said:

Those supporting the Move Forward party should do a fair bit of research about how and who they are backed and created.  They are puppets for the US.  
Im not saying the previous government were great, but I am saying that the US backed puppets aim was to spread more Western obedience and ‘democracy’ to Thailand to curb Chinas influence in the region.

They look nice and shiny, but western influence is the LAST thing Thailand wants.

We all move here to escape that.

And if you want to talk about government corruption, at least in Thailand it benefits everyone from the top down to the street level cop… in the west it only favours the powerful.

Naturally you have the proof that Pita and the MFP are supported by the USA, otherwise we only have your word, which IMO is not worth a lot.

 

Talking for yourself again.

 

quote "We all move here to escape that."

 

No WE all did NOT move here to escape that.

 

Who is WE anyway?

 

You certainly are not talking for me nor I believe are you talking for many other posters.

 

So who ARE you talking about when you claim WE?

[billd766]

8 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:

Truth is, Thai people at-large are incredibly docile and apathetic (particularly to politics), which has allowed them to be effectively controlled by 90 years of faux democracy constantly undermined by 12 successful military led coup d'etats. Their anger usually only manifest itself into violence when intimate betrayal or financial loss is involved (or they are drunk). Any coordinated sustained objected-based social unrest would quickly wither. The only people in ASEAN who have it worse is Myanmar and Cambodia (with one-party socialist/communist Laos and Vietnam not far behind).

Quite a few, but not all older people may fit your theory but they are dying off and more and more younger voters are coming forward.

 

It is THEIR country and THEIR future, not yours or mine and definitely not the dinosaurs future.

[djayz]

On 7/20/2023 at 5:14 PM, snoop1130 said:

Outgoing Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appealed for calm

Are you happy with the situation you have created? 

Put a plug in it and close the door behind you. 

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

I don't think so. Don't forget the Chinese zero dollar tours that add a lot of bulk to the numbers and huge numbers of legal and illegal foreign workers are needed to staff up the tourism industry, simply because the Thai education system is too inefficient to teach even basic English speaking and aural comprehension skills to Thai kids. Export manufacturing is more important to the Thai economy, even though it requires enormous imported inputs.

How odd that you say that, My son who went to state schools in rural Kamphaeng Phet was taught English from P1 to P6 and M! to M3.

[wealthychef]

Reminds me of a quote:  "If you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable."  Not sure why it's so horrible to just let the people's vote stand... 

[bristolgeoff]

Calm is not going to happen with the thais who protested in bkk.Had a vote and now pushed aside.

[Thailand J]