One Million Baht Prize Money To Get Thaksin

[samgrowth]

.. He he.. It would cost you 200,000 baht for 2 tickets on the plane (i doubt Thaksin goes in normal class), Imagine it though at Suvarnabhumi, He goes through the 'Thai Passport immigration bit' then waits for you near the luggage conveyors at the back whilst your in that 25 minute 'Non Thai passport bit' that we go through, just like my misses does!!... erm, I doubt it..

Thaksin will be refuse entry at Thai immigration because there is no Thai visa in his Nicaragua passport. He has to take the next flight out.

[321niti123]

Is this part of the previous quazi-political movement with semi-official backing or a new organization - are we going to have a new coloured shirt???

I hope not.

The GF tells me that I cannot go out wearing either red or yellow as it is at present. I just hope that the next faction won't choose "white, black or any shade of blue"

[321niti123]

Is this part of the previous quazi-political movement with semi-official backing or a new organization - are we going to have a new coloured shirt???

If there's any more colors neutral people might have to start considering going out naked.

[plachon]

I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but it is worth reflecting that somebody now considers Thaksin's worth exactly the same as one of Thaksin's much-vaunted Elite Cards, which were going to sell a million back in 2003/04 earning the Shinawatras, I mean country, a fortune as rich foreigners rushed to snap up that elite feeling with their million baht pieces of plastic, tempted by the thought of a "cheap" limousine ride, massage and round of golf to go with their hassle-free visa, plus the original carrot of the potential chance to be able to buy a slice of the Kingdom. All this genius money-making ideas exclusively from the mind of our man of the people, Mr T.

Now, as history has confined the Elite Card scheme (with it's 2.500 or so disgruntled membership, most of whom were given the card for free) and Tax-sin to the scrap heap it seems they are equally valueless million baht commodities.

Poetic.

[JetsetBkk]

Nice to see Koo back again- we all need a laugh.

I think your problem - and Thailand's - is that there are millions of Thais whose feelings for Thaksin are the same as Koo's.

[jbowman1993]

Nice to see Koo back again- we all need a laugh.

I think your problem - and Thailand's - is that there are millions of Thais whose feelings for Thaksin are the same as Koo's.

Yes, of course...millions....

Snicker...

[slapout]

I do not know about the numbers but I have a wife (1 too many) who watches the Red channel off of dish all waking hours. She believes that the only true info is coming from the blithering idiots who are speaking to the masses. I, as a farang do not understand Thai Politics and when I pointed out the news media from outside Thailand seems to disagree with the speech makers,

Quote "Thai government lie to them" the people are being brainwashed by this bunch of clowns (probably both sides) and do not recognize it.

[mc2]

How does one go about apprehending Mr. T, and bringing him back to land of smiles?

Let's see, I spot him in his favorite western-style coffee house in Dubai or HK or Nicaragua. I do a diversion tactic to divert his three body guards, uh, a smoke bomb in the bathroom perhaps?

Then I put a piece of bar soap carved in to the shape of a pistol to T's kidney and order him in to a taxi, then have the taxi drive to the Thai embassy, and duck-march T to the counter and demand my reward. Oops, almost forgot, Thai embassies and consulates won't apprehend Mr. T, ...indeed, they give him the VIP treatment he so richly doesn't deserve. On to Plan B:

I tell the taxi driver to go to the Int'l airport. By the time I force Mr. T through the lobby and up to the ticket counter, my soap pistol has melted, with its bootblack covering making a mess of my clothes and the back of Mr. T's tailored jacket. I deftly undo one of his shoelaces and wrap it around our two wrists, tying it with my teeth. Security guard asks the commotion, and I quickly jam a jelly donut in T's mouth, so he can't spill the beans. I bribe the security guard with an offer of 6% of my reward money (Bt.60,000) and he complies by grinningly escorting me and Mr. T to the airplane. We were assigned opposite seats in economy, so it's as though we're holding hands across the aisle, still shoelaced together. Stewardesses are inconvenienced by having to step over our outstretched hands. Mid flight, Thaksin realized he's due for another phone in to the Red Shirts, so I untie him, figuring he can't bolt far within a plane at 30,000 ft.

Upon arrival at SUV airport, we're whisked through VIP passport control, and the one million baht is there in a plastic bag waiting for me. No sweat.

BB

you certainly have a wild imagination.

he will never get caught. he has professionals working for him, high level overseas connetions and massive financial backup.

you can kiss your fantasies goodbye

Edited April 11, 2009 by mc2

[Koo82]

Khun Thaksin said in the video link that no one in other countries pays attention to his problems. They know what happens to a democratically elected Prime Minister who is knocked by a coup. They won't send Khun Thaksin back because they don't have the one court system like in Thailand.

My opinion: 1 million Baht prize is too cheap. No one will work for such a few coins.

[ovenman]

Khun Thaksin said in the video link that no one in other countries pays attention to his problems.

Apart from the ever-growing number of countries that have denied him entry, eh?

[dave_boo]

I do not know about the numbers but I have a wife (1 too many) who watches the Red channel off of dish all waking hours. She believes that the only true info is coming from the blithering idiots who are speaking to the masses. I, as a farang do not understand Thai Politics and when I pointed out the news media from outside Thailand seems to disagree with the speech makers,

Quote "Thai government lie to them" the people are being brainwashed by this bunch of clowns (probably both sides) and do not recognize it.

I have the exact opposite situation. My wife, a plain country girl, is a royalist. In fact, on the evening of the 10th, she was down in Nakhon Sawan awaiting her sister to come back home from Pak Nam, and was cursing Khun Taskin, his offspring and parentage, and I believe threw in his dog for good measure for the strife that he and his supporters were causing in the country. The mother in law has similar feelings, in fact had a laugh for a week about the 'show off' who kissed the ground at Swampypoo last time he was in LOS.

However, she also expressed some disappointment that HRM has not stepped in yet, as he had in the past and calmed the situation.

I try and stay out of the politics, for one reason because what I think is worth less than a Cambodian Riel to the people who actually own the country and secondly because it's the same <deleted> all over the world--just much closer to the surface in Thailand and I don't like it when others point out what they think is wrong with the politics in my country so I respect the fact that the locals have to sort out their own problems.

[Artisi]

Khun Thaksin said in the video link that no one in other countries pays attention to his problems. They know what happens to a democratically elected Prime Minister who is knocked by a coup. They won't send Khun Thaksin back because they don't have the one court system like in Thailand.

My opinion: 1 million Baht prize is too cheap. No one will work for such a few coins.

Too cheap, I think it is way far too much for a convicted ex PM criminal.

[yothai]

An idiotic, undignified, 'look at me' publicity stunt from banana-land people who should be sophisticated enough to know better

a million a joke,make it at least 50 million

[Thai at Heart]

I do not know about the numbers but I have a wife (1 too many) who watches the Red channel off of dish all waking hours. She believes that the only true info is coming from the blithering idiots who are speaking to the masses. I, as a farang do not understand Thai Politics and when I pointed out the news media from outside Thailand seems to disagree with the speech makers,

Quote "Thai government lie to them" the people are being brainwashed by this bunch of clowns (probably both sides) and do not recognize it.

I have the exact opposite situation. My wife, a plain country girl, is a royalist. In fact, on the evening of the 10th, she was down in Nakhon Sawan awaiting her sister to come back home from Pak Nam, and was cursing Khun Taskin, his offspring and parentage, and I believe threw in his dog for good measure for the strife that he and his supporters were causing in the country. The mother in law has similar feelings, in fact had a laugh for a week about the 'show off' who kissed the ground at Swampypoo last time he was in LOS.

However, she also expressed some disappointment that HRM has not stepped in yet, as he had in the past and calmed the situation.

I try and stay out of the politics, for one reason because what I think is worth less than a Cambodian Riel to the people who actually own the country and secondly because it's the same <deleted> all over the world--just much closer to the surface in Thailand and I don't like it when others point out what they think is wrong with the politics in my country so I respect the fact that the locals have to sort out their own problems.

I had a lot of interesting discussions over Songkran with my wife's extended family and friends, and no one approved of what the reds were doing. Most were I would class as so called "Thai middle class". Some were pro, some were anti-Thaksin but overwhelmingly they approved of what the army did. The anti's had no understanding at all about why some reds may want an election, or the way that Democrats came into power or any issue with how the constitution was set up and why these are issues that may or may not be important. They couldn't understand why anyone could be so enthralled with Thaksin. All in all, there was very little understanding of how this situation could have come to occur and where the future may go.

People asked my opinion, and when I opined that the system was the problem and with such massive corruption in the country and such a large gap between the haves and have nots in Thailand and that I didn't believe the problem would go away overnight, it started a long and interesting discussion. Not one of them could see that having millions of farmers living on 4 or 5k per month can cause people to be unhappy and why some reds will probably continuing to protest in some form in the future. When I mentioned that whilst probably not all North Eastern rural people love Thaksin, they have even less love for Abhisit and the Dems they really didn't see the issue of rural development and poverty being of any great issue.

As for what happens next, no one had any idea, and we went back to throwing water.

Edited April 16, 2009 by Thai at Heart