Red-Shirt Leaders Demand Transfer Of Political Prisoners

[OzMick]

Being the peace-loving arbiter of political frictions that you are on these pages, I'm surprised you wouldn't welcome Chalerm's softly-softly approach on this issue.

Do you think that amending the clause would not lead to a certain amount of strife from, say, the army, who are the proclaimed protectors of the royals' dignity and quite possibly the driving force behind the government's inertia on the issue of LM?

It seems pretty straightforward to me. Change the clause and get the army's backs up. Who would want them to do that, apart from one-trick-pony government bashers?

Given how much they complained about the use of Article 112 prior to the election, it's surprising Chalerm isn't using his "We said we would change it, so we're going to change it" lines. In this case it's "We complained about it a lot, but now we're going to spend lots of money to keep doing it".

The present government may not be acting on ammending or scrapping Article 112 at the moment but at least they're not using it as a way to silence the opposition as we have seen to often in the past.

Or could it just be that nobody in the current opposition are making statements that qualify?