I think what Thaksin misses most about Thailand is that he can purchase "thought pieces" like this for millions of dollars less than what he has to pay Robert Amsterdam and his vast array of other PR firms.

Avudh is not a pro-Thaksin hack. What he writes is usually accurate in power game analysis. When he says Thaksin is coming back it shouldnt be lightly dismissed as he is not serving up pro-Thaksin propaganda. He speaks for another different group.

Right, he has no bias, just a little forgetful. Hence the line "..........the coup was equally wrong for overthrowing the elected government" without mentioning that the government's mandate had expired, the PM had resigned to the head of state, unilaterally re-instated himself, and was refusing to call an election - his only duty as caretaker PM.

Of course making that clear would not be a "popular" move, could even occasion a visit from "da boys."

Once again you are correct. Thaskin was and is still trying to engineer total power and to scrap the parliamentarian system.

I really don't like this word "plethora" -- reminds me of something a schoolkid would find when using the thesaurus after he couldn't come up with a two-bit word for the mid-term essay.

It also sounds vaguely like some unwanted emission from the inner workings of an aging woman.

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Once again you are correct. Thaskin was and is still trying to engineer total power and to scrap the parliamentarian system.

Why would he want to scrap a system which consistently votes in parties aligned to him?

Once again you are correct. Thaskin was and is still trying to engineer total power and to scrap the parliamentarian system.

Why would he want to scrap a system which consistently votes in parties aligned to him?

Semantics. The system doesn't vote! The system allows a party to create a situation where an election can result in certain party/parties to be voted in with sufficient direct or cooperative majority to further adjust and manipulate that very same system to ensure that we can rule for twenty years.

Once again you are correct. Thaskin was and is still trying to engineer total power and to scrap the parliamentarian system.

Why would he want to scrap a system which consistently votes in parties aligned to him?

Semantics. The system doesn't vote! The system allows a party to create a situation where an election can result in certain party/parties to be voted in with sufficient direct or cooperative majority to further adjust and manipulate that very same system to ensure that we can rule for twenty years.

Oh dear.Sometimes one is simply embarrassed.

I will just add one little bit more (in bold) and you have it spot on.

Let me get this straight...

In Thailand, someone can break almost every law, kill thousands of people, etc etc, then go into self imposed exile. If they're rich enough, they can then hire a PR company, fund some civil unrest, and their convictions will then be overturned on grounds of 'National unity'.

The slate clean, they're free to carry on where they left off to build the Shinwatra dynasty, at the expense of everyone else

What a shining example Thailand is to the rest of the world.

Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is definitely coming home and his opponents and supporters should put aside their differences in order to avoid driving a deeper wedge in an already-divided society.

How about he not come home "to avoid driving a deeper wedge in an already divided society"?

Yeah "Nice one" WB!! :lol:

It also sounds vaguely like some unwanted emission from the inner workings of an aging woman.

An apt description of the P.T.P. elected and non elected M.P.s