Thaksin to return home on August 10, Paetongtarn says

[Red Forever]

I don't recall Mr T giving a definite date to return. Yes, he said that he wanted to return this month but no date was mentioned.

Welcome home on August 10th Mr Thaksin. 

[ross163103]

A billionaire in Thailand will face twelve years in prison......yeah right! 5555!

[pomchop]

So if Taksin is expected to go to jail for his crimes then what about the illegal coup plotters who took over the country with tanks, then rewrote the constitution and placed 250 unelected cronies into the senate  making it near impossible for the will of the voters to be followed.  I guess overthrowing the government is not a crime?

[jacko45k]

Just now, pomchop said:

I guess overthrowing the government is not a crime?

Just a different one....

[pomchop]

5 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Just a different one....

and then there is mr red bull ....seems no shortage of crimes that enough brown envelopes can not make go poof...

[Lucky Bones]

18 hours ago, Brickleberry said:

How many times has he announced his 'return' to Thailand? I've lost count.

I think it is one time less than the Who's Farewell World Tour.

Difference being (luckily), the Who follow through on their promise.????????

[SoilSpoil]

12 minutes ago, pomchop said:

So if Taksin is expected to go to jail for his crimes then what about the illegal coup plotters who took over the country with tanks, then rewrote the constitution and placed 250 unelected cronies into the senate  making it near impossible for the will of the voters to be followed.  I guess overthrowing the government is not a crime?

2 wrongs dont make a right. Thaksin is a corrupt crook who robbed the country blind. Given his very serious human rights delicts, 12 years in the slammer is very mild.

[Venom]

She looks just like her father. 

[pomchop]

9 minutes ago, SoilSpoil said:

2 wrongs dont make a right. Thaksin is a corrupt crook who robbed the country blind. Given his very serious human rights delicts, 12 years in the slammer is very mild.

so put all the coup crew in jail ...or do you think that all the generals have done very well financially by taking over the government and robbed thai people of a basic human right called voting?

[d2b2]

His smiling daughter is happy, she threw the Thai voters under the bus to get Daddy back in Thailand. 
pretty sure that is he will do anything t daddy tells her to do, regardless of the moral or ethical implications 

[Ginner]

17 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Yes. Both should be given re-trials. The treachery of the junta has been exposed by the egregious treatment of Thanathorn and Pita and there will be sympathy for the them to come home. 

HE may have lined his pockets while PM, but he also made the farmers and lower income workers better off, too. He built apartments that the lower paid could afford. He showed the farmers how make the rich profiters in Bangkok to pay more for their rice and other crops. His sister was set up with the rice scandal and the floods were due to the dams being opened without her knowledge ( some say the military was behind it) Both got more than 80% of the vote. same as MFP.

[thailandsgreat]

The politicians seem to have united to support Pita. If Thaksin just says he supports Pita, all accusations will be wiped.

[thailand49]

Speculation?  

Get your tickets for this day.  If true will the place be a mad house with his supporters his guards. 

Will Big Joke be at this event what resources will show up to arrest him or will he already be home,  slippers feet up lazy boy watching the drama with those against him wondering how he got in the same way he and his sister left? ????

[Mickmouse1]

So what?

Another One but not in uniform.

It is their country ,enjoy it.

Those who do not like IT  ,well, u know what 2 do!

[ThaiFelix]

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

Difficult to believe he would leave his life of luxury and return to live in a Thai jail for 12 years.

 

Sure he misses Thai food etc., but why would he give up his life of luxury?

 

Wants to be with / play with his grandchildren. He can't do that if he's in jail. And they will all be late  teenagers or older when he gets out, and there's cases not yet heard so the length of time he's locked up locked up could be even longer.

 

Why would he give up his life of luxury and his family regularly visiting his abroad? 

 

Or is he broke, can't afford the rent in Dubai any more? Or is he under pressure from the Dubai leaders to move out?

 

Strange...

 

 

Maybe he will do a Pablo Escobar and offer to build his own luxury prison complete with secret underground access to the BTS and its own TV station.

[Dcheech]

 

He is not coming, he never was coming,  but it does keep the pressure on ganggreen with what ifs. This time, as they dismantle latest election results. Assume the 6 day holiday is as much to get their minions in lock step installing one of their own as PM, while playing benevolent overlords. As usual the T man is pretty clued in to the games they play.

 

 

 

  

[Hunz Kittisak]

1 hour ago, SoilSpoil said:

2 wrongs dont make a right. Thaksin is a corrupt crook who robbed the country blind. Given his very serious human rights delicts, 12 years in the slammer is very mild.

You mean the rest of them aren’t corrupt? I dun see any of them going to jail……they even wrote in their own amnesty! 

[Ironmike]

Let's hope there cleaning out a nice prison cell for this guy,,, Oh wait I forgot he rich and will pay off everyone to set him free 2 minutes after he arrives I wonder if Red bull boy is coming with him

[bendejo]

AP has picked it up

https://apnews.com/article/thailand-thaksin-prime-minister-return-1beaec2725eed1a01d8bb33d5adb0a3e

 

When he left in 2008 he said he was going to the Beijing Olympics.  Has been sitting in the stadium this whole time?

 

[pomchop]

1 hour ago, d2b2 said:

His smiling daughter is happy, she threw the Thai voters under the bus to get Daddy back in Thailand. 
pretty sure that is he will do anything t daddy tells her to do, regardless of the moral or ethical implications 

sort of like the coup crew then...no morals or ethics....but at least the taksins were elected and not installed by tanks....whether farangs like that or not is irrelevant as the thai people are the ones who vote for THEIR choices...sad that the generals seem to continually override those choices to install their flunkies and fatten their wallets.

[Tom H]

… not if he gets an amnesty/pardon as part of the deal, initiated by a PheuThai PM and agreed by coalition partners.

 

 

 

????

[huangnon]

19 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

I wonder what skullduggery he has cooked up with Prawit & Anutin .....!!!

Yep. Pre-arranged political soap opera.

[brianthainess]

19 hours ago, Brickleberry said:

How many times has he announced his 'return' to Thailand? I've lost count.

19 if you read the full story.

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, RT555 said:

Best PM ever............he took care of the poor people, farmers.........etc........COVID destroyed a lot of struggling people. Hope he is elected again. 

He also oversaw the war on drugs (which clearly failed, as it has failed everywhere else in the world), during which the police were seemingly able to execute with impunity anyone they considered to be a dealer. No trial or proof necessary.

It was also during his reign that one of his ministers introduced the ban on alcohol sales during the afternoon, and who wanted to close bars at 10 and nightclubs at midnight.

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, pomchop said:

and then there is mr red bull ....seems no shortage of crimes that enough brown envelopes can not make go poof...

And Thaksin has very large brown envelopes to make the prospect of any time in jail go away.

[shackleton]

Can't see him coming back to Thailand to go to jail ????

He will only come back if a deal has been agreed not to arrest him and he is allowed to fight his case in court ????

Or he is  not coming back time will tell 

[pomchop]

22 minutes ago, bendejo said:

AP has picked it up

https://apnews.com/article/thailand-thaksin-prime-minister-return-1beaec2725eed1a01d8bb33d5adb0a3e

 

When he left in 2008 he said he was going to the Beijing Olympics.  Has been sitting in the stadium this whole time?

 

Well if i remember right when he left town the generals waited til he was gone and then like a true third world country the generals took control via a coup....guess they were afraid to try it when he was actually in the country or he may well have assembled his own group of thugs to resist the takeover..

[brianthainess]

He will be out on bail, and sue everybody he can for defamation. IMO. The next PM 

[bendejo]

1 minute ago, pomchop said:

Well if i remember right when he left town the generals waited til he was gone and then like a true third world country the generals took control via a coup....guess they were afraid to try it when he was actually in the country or he may well have assembled his own group of thugs to resist the takeover..

That was when he was PM and went to the UN.  Big-time loss of face when he landed and was told his speech was cancelled because he wasn't PM anymore.

2008 he was a mere citizen, but the legal outlook was not good.  That was his last known time here.

 

[pomchop]

2 hours ago, pomchop said:

So if Taksin is expected to go to jail for his crimes then what about the illegal coup plotters who took over the country with tanks, then rewrote the constitution and placed 250 unelected cronies into the senate  making it near impossible for the will of the voters to be followed.  I guess overthrowing the government is not a crime?

A bit of history....notice how the coup crews cxld and changed constitution, dissolved parliaments, change the constitutal courts, banned parties from future elections, arrested cabinet members, etc etc....then when the voters elected ying luck just repeat it all....and it seems all of that has worked out well for them as they are still in control and seemed to have effectively blocked any/all attempts to give up their power.  Fat pigs are hard to remove from the trough in spite of what voters may want.

 

The 2006 Thai coup d'état took place on 19 September 2006, when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected caretaker government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The coup d'état, which was Thailand's first non-constitutional change of government in fifteen years since the 1991 Thai coup d'état, followed a year-long political crisis involving Thaksin, his allies, and political opponents and occurred less than a month before nationwide House elections were scheduled to be held. It has been widely reported in Thailand and elsewhere that General Prem Tinsulanonda, key person in military-monarchy nexus, Chairman of the Privy Council, was the mastermind of the coup. The military cancelled the scheduled 15 October elections, abrogated the 1997 constitution, dissolved parliament and constitutional court, banned protests and all political activities, suppressed and censored the media, declared martial law nationwide, and arrested cabinet members.

The new rulers, led by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin and organised as the Council for Democratic Reform (CDR), issued a declaration on 21 September setting out their reasons for taking power and giving a commitment to restore democratic government within one year.^[1] However, the CDR also announced that after elections and the establishment of a democratic government, the council would be transformed into a Council of National Security (CNS) whose future role in Thai politics was not explained.^[2] The CNS later drafted an interim charter and appointed retired General Surayud Chulanont as Premier. Martial law was lifted in 41 of Thailand's 76 provinces on 26 January 2007 but remained in place in another 35 provinces.^[3] Elections were held on 23 December 2007, after a military-appointed tribunal outlawed the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party of Thaksin Shinawatra and banned TRT executives from contesting in elections for five years.

The 2006 coup was named the unfinished coup after another army general Prayut Chan-o-cha staged the 2014 Thai coup d'état eight years later against the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin Shinawatra's sister, removing her government. The 2014 coup had taken over the country for five years, much longer than the 2006 coup, and drafted the junta senates to be involved in the prime minister election.^[4]