Thailand Heads For Straitjacket Elections

[bingobongo]

it is official!! democracy is dead in the LOJ (land of junta) but who cares as long as there is som tham, bar girls, beer chang, and sunshine

Thailand heads for straitjacket elections

Yet in the months since their takeover, the space for a free and open political environment has come under threat by laws, verdicts and rules imposed by supposedly independent institutions, including the EC.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ31Ae01.html

Edited October 30, 2007 by bingobongo

[jayjayjayjay]

it is official!! democracy is dead in the LOJ (land of junta) but who cares as long as there is som tham, bar girls, beer chang, and sunshine

Thailand heads for straitjacket elections

Yet in the months since their takeover, the space for a free and open political environment has come under threat by laws, verdicts and rules imposed by supposedly independent institutions, including the EC.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ31Ae01.html

The majority of vote making Thai's are getting what they deserve. Appathy rules in this country of 70,000,000 sheep!

Let me guess, the election result is decided by the EC already.

We have:

Prime Minister: Mr. Square Head the 2nd................. Sonthi (Major Gen Retired) know for his love of democracy

Deputy 1: Mr. Trucker himself..........................Sanoth Tiangthong, know for his 30,000 rai in SaKaew and 300 gravel trucks.

Deputy 2: Mr. Barnhan....................................the best of the lot, bit short, will swing his bat for any team.

Deputy 3: Mr. Prachai........................doesn't care what happens to anybody, as long as he gets Thai Petro Industries back.

Deputy 4: Mr. Vattana Asavahame.......Samut Prakarn up for sale, submit bits to No.1 Bangna-Trad, no later than Jan 1,2008.

Deputy 5: Mr. Suriyasai Katasila...........or is he just the smartest guy on the planet!!!!

[LaoPo]

it is official!! democracy is dead in the LOJ (land of junta) but who cares as long as there is som tham, bar girls, beer chang, and sunshine

Thailand heads for straitjacket elections

Yet in the months since their takeover, the space for a free and open political environment has come under threat by laws, verdicts and rules imposed by supposedly independent institutions, including the EC.

<a href="http://"http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ31Ae01.html"" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ31Ae01.html" target="_blank">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ31Ae01.html</a></a>

Poor Thailand...

Excerpts:

"Notably, Thailand was not invited for the first time to an international meeting of the world's democracies, to be held this year in mid-November in the African nation of Mali. Thailand had enjoyed a seat at the Community of Democracies, a global group of the world's oldest and newest democracies, at the ministerial meetings in 2000 in Poland, 2002 in South Korea, and 2005 in Chile.

Thailand's exclusion from the international community of democracies was not what the country's military leaders had in mind when they mounted their putsch and drove from power the twice-elected former premier Thaksin. The country's 18th coup was justified by the junta as an attempt to help restore the democratic culture that they said Thaksin and his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) party had undermined during over five years in government."

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""The thinking behind the election commission's decisions is the same as the junta: they do not want the Thai Rak Thai or the party representing it to return to power," said the academic Giles. "What they fail to realize is that the coup which overthrew an elected government destroyed Thai democracy in the first place."

LaoPo