Elderly Activists Resume Anti-Thaksin Protest Outside Government House

[webfact]

 

DOZENS OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS yesterday (Feb.2) resumed a street protest against de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra outside Government House where they have planned to hang around for a month.

 

Pichit Chaimongkol, leader of the anti-Thaksin demonstrators, mostly being elderly persons, said the protesters have returned to a corner of the street outside Government House where they have planned to spend days and nights until March 3 in anticipation of a response from Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to questions about the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict.

 

Thaksin, alleged to have surreptitiously played a part in the power play over the setup of a Pheu Thai-led coalition government and the allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners, has never spent a single day behind bars despite his having been earlier sentenced in absentia to a curtailed, one-year jail term for a few counts of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership.

 

Pichit said the peaceful protesters are expecting the prime minister as well as Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong to respond to the yet-unanswered question of whether Thaksin’s prolonged stay at Police Hospital due to mystery-shrouded “illnesses” may have been justified by law or whether the law may have been practically compromised and privileges may have been excessively provided for him, albeit unprovided for other convicts.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

TOP: The anti-Thaksin protesters outside Government House. Photo: Thai Rath

 

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[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pichit Chaimongkol, leader of the anti-Thaksin demonstrators, mostly being elderly persons, said the protesters have returned to a corner of the street outside Government House where they have planned to spend days and nights until March 3 in anticipation of a response from Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to questions about the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict.

It's a done deal... 

[Burma Bill]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

where they have planned to hang around for a month.

 Have they also planned for toilets, showers and laundry facilities to avoid this????

 

 

[Burma Bill]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

they have planned to hang around for a month.

 

A month. I hope they have plans for their personal hygiene!

[Red Forever]

Wow, "dozens of protesters"! Protests ain't what they used to be. 

[bokningar]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

Pichit said the peaceful protesters are expecting the prime minister as well as Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong to respond to the yet-unanswered question of whether Thaksin’s prolonged stay at Police Hospital due to mystery-shrouded “illnesses” may have been justified by law or whether the law may have been practically compromised and privileges may have been excessively provided for him, albeit unprovided for other convicts.

Everyone know the answer to that question. Thailand is more corrupt then ever.

[impulse]

I always wonder how much the protesters are getting paid, and who's paying them?

 

 

[Denim]

11 minutes ago, impulse said:

I always wonder how much the protesters are getting paid, and who's paying them?

 

 

Nobody. They are there for the hot sex they enjoy when it's late at night and the media have gone to bed. Then it's party time. It's the only way these old folk can get away from protective family and let their hair down.

[herfiehandbag]

22 minutes ago, impulse said:

I always wonder how much the protesters are getting paid, and who's paying them?

 

 

If that is the case, and all they can afford is a few old folk to hang around for a month, then perhaps funds are low!

 

Perhaps Suthep's ruthless fund raising marches of a few years ago are affecting donations? You will remember, he rampaged around Bangkok whilst his acolytes "encouraged" traders to empty their tills into black plastic bags? Memories can be long where money is involved, and there was never any coherent explanation as to where the cash went. I suspect it may have put the mockers on the anti-Thaksin fund raising campaigns!