Worsening Crisis Pushes Thailand Towards Anarchy

[Publicus]

^hmmm so you are advocating Civil War?

Sorry if anything was going to happen, it would have been done so by now.

Hey, as we have Thai-style democracy and Thai-style everything else, the past 4-6 weeks we've been in a Thai style civil war, and 20,000 posts of one-liners doesn't change that.

Nor does 1378 posts of <deleted> change it either.

Just face the facts that this isn't ending anytime soon whether you like it or not.

Yes, this isn't ending soon as a Thai-style civil war will go on forever, as does Thai-style everything else to include especially corruption - Thaksin brazenly and shamelessly declared that it's Thai culture to be corrupt, something common to Thai PM's of the past but which no previously corrupt PM had ever been so full of hubris and himself to conceive to do or to the unprecedented extent to which Thaksin believed he could bamboozle Thais to accept as inherent to Himself and his government. This Thaksin hubris (face) is at the core of why, after having been deposed, rather than pick himself up, brush himself off and get on with his life, he hasn't any life and as with the jealous murderer of the wife's lover, is thus compelled to destroy that which he has lost.

Gimme another one-liner response if you would, please thx.

[elcent]

any May 1 gatherings should be called off and red leaders as as well as the yellow cake should be tightly put in the same place together and watch the show. :D Don't forget to import Thaksin for this event and let him be amongst them.

This would be a real gift for Thailand and the world.

[brahmburgers]

A third party has to take over: the sooner the better, for cleaning the situation, rewriting the rules and proceed to fair elections

"Fair" elections will most likely lead to the same result - A coalition government that a minority will not accept.

Third party / shmird party, won't matter. There will still be griping and dirty tricks and messy demonstrations that hurt Thailand. If the Reds get their way in the current imbroglio, the precendent of mob rule gets more fixed. In a way, it's similar to politics in the US: The Republicans lost the election, so all their political efforts since then have been to cast aspersions at Obama and his administration - regardless of the merits of any legislature proposed. The Republican mantra is: if it comes from Obama, oppose it.

maybe Abhisit is legally elected but it is the result of manglings which are no more acceptable, (even if in the past it was like that), so you can claim his legitimacy but others can state the opposite: this is not a sane situation: Statemen with a high vision return the power to People in such circumstances.

For the future, the Elections Rules have to be modified in depth,

It is obvious that we need Elections as soon as possible with the new rules, the current rules are conducting to a serie of disorders,manglings: the Modern Thailand needs better.

It's a flawed system, but it's what Thailand has to work with. Abhisit's administration just squeaked in with barely a coalition, but it's more than his opponents could muster. A new election, whenever it happens, might clear things up a bit, but there will still be political grappling going on, there will still be bitterness by many over the results, and there will certainly be follow-up demonstrations (and claims of unfairness, etc) from those who didn't get what they wanted.

[brahmburgers]

....and anyone who believes the Red shirt leaders will all turn themselves in to authorities on May 15th - might also believe that I'm the secret voice singing all of Elvis' greatest hits.

[RussellHantz]

Yes, this isn't ending soon as a Thai-style civil war will go on forever, as does Thai-style everything else to include especially corruption - Thaksin brazenly and shamelessly declared that it's Thai culture to be corrupt, something common to Thai PM's of the past but which no previously corrupt PM had ever been so full of hubris and himself to conceive to do or to the unprecedented extent to which Thaksin believed he could bamboozle Thais to accept as inherent to Himself and his government. This Thaksin hubris (face) is at the core of why, after having been deposed, rather than pick himself up, brush himself off and get on with his life, he hasn't any life and as with the jealous murderer of the wife's lover, is thus compelled to destroy that which he has lost.

Gimme another one-liner response if you would, please thx.

There you go blabbering on about Thaksin again. Please mr sensitive can you go just one post without mentioning his good name ?

Edited April 30, 2010 by RussellHantz

[brahmburgers]

There you go blabbering on about Thaksin again. Please mr sensitive can you go just one post without mentioning his good name ?

Please, Russell, it's too early in the morning for that much joking.

Incidentally, T is gearing up to slap another 'defamation of character' suit. If he was still in power, Thailand would be the hub of defamation suits. The big question is: does he still have any modicum of decent character left to defame? It's like putting molten lava in a toaster in order to heat up the lava.