Some 30 Pheu Thai MPs Pay Homage To Thaksin In Vientiane

[Lite Beer]

Some 30 Pheu Thai MPs pay homage to Thaksin in Vientiane

Vientiane, Laos - Some 30 Pheu Thai MPs paid Songkran homage to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Vientianne Friday morning.

They also had breakfast with the former prime minister at the Green Par Boutique Hotel in the Laotian capital.

At lot of red-shirt supporters also turned up outside the hotel waiting to pour water on Thaksin's hands to show their respect for him as part of the Songkran festival.

Former People Party deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat had to organize a group of 20 supporters to enter the hotel at a time to meet Thaksin and take photos with him.

The Pheu Thai MPs who had breakfast with Thaksin included Deputy Commerce Minister Phum Saraphol, Chaiya Promma, Pitsanu Hattasongkroah, and Yutthapong Jarassathien.

-- The Nation 2012-04-13

[rubl]

A photo with k. Thaksin and hopefully even signed by him. None stupid enough to 'cuf the fugitive and try to drag him over the border I guess.

MP's from the Pheu Thai "it's not about Thaksin" party. Looks like the slogan "Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai accts" is more accurate

[lovetotravel]

A photo with k. Thaksin and hopefully even signed by him. None stupid enough to 'cuf the fugitive and try to drag him over the border I guess.

MP's from the Pheu Thai "it's not about Thaksin" party. Looks like the slogan "Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai accts" is more accurate

Those photos could come back to haunt them if the political winds here change, right? He's a fugitive and they are government representatives. Amazed nothing has happened yet!

[jaidam]

Yongyuth Tiyapairat, the name sounds familiar.

This can't be the same guy that led a gang of gunman to that old couples home and shot hundreds of bullets at the house at random. I believe the elderly couple survived by hiding behind a refrigerator?

[pimay11]

Some 30 Pheu Thai MPs pay homage to Thaksin in Vientiane

homage: a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord.

And remember according to the PTP "it's not about Thaksin".

Edited April 13, 2012 by pimay11

[Thaddeus]

At lot of red-shirt supporters also turned up outside the hotel waiting to pour water on Thaksin's hands to show their respect for him as part of the Songkran festival.

Former People Party deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat had to organize a group of 20 supporters to enter the hotel at a time to meet Thaksin and take photos with him.

Probably had to make two or three trips then.

[rubl]

At lot of red-shirt supporters also turned up outside the hotel waiting to pour water on Thaksin's hands to show their respect for him as part of the Songkran festival.

Former People Party deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat had to organize a group of 20 supporters to enter the hotel at a time to meet Thaksin and take photos with him.

Probably had to make two or three trips then.

Plus of course the red-shirt plepssupporters probably had to wait till dear leader Thaksin had had his breakfast with the 30-odd MPs.

[pimay11]

At lot of red-shirt supporters also turned up outside the hotel waiting to pour water on Thaksin's hands to show their respect for him as part of the Songkran festival.

Former People Party deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat had to organize a group of 20 supporters to enter the hotel at a time to meet Thaksin and take photos with him.

Probably had to make two or three trips then.

Plus of course the red-shirt plepssupporters probably had to wait till dear leader Thaksin had had his breakfast with the 30-odd MPs.

Bottom of the food chain.

[krading]

With all those rubber Taksin masks that they had had made up maybe they set up a few 'Department Store Santa' type Taksins to get through the backlog of supporters.

"Yo Ho Ho, what would like for Christmas little red shirt?"

[Misterwhisper]

Who paid for their trips? Did they officially take leave from their daily duties as MPs or were they visiting the Messiah in their MP capacities?

[Skywalker69]

Some 30 Pheu Thai MPs pay homage to Thaksin in Vientiane

homage: a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord.

And remember according to the PTP "it's not about Thaksin".

Mabye they went there to arrest the fugutive.

[MAJIC]

Who paid for their trips? Did they officially take leave from their daily duties as MPs or were they visiting the Messiah in their MP capacities?

That's a difficult question,I wouldn't think that meetings with Criminals and wanted men,would be acceptable to draw from the Petty crook Cash Expenses.

[surangw]

did they return with noses browner than when they started out?

[Thaddeus]

did they return with noses browner than when they started out?

More likely brown rings around their necks as that is how far their heads are buried.

[americaninbangkok]

Those photos could come back to haunt them if the political winds here change, right? He's a fugitive and they are government representatives. Amazed nothing has happened yet!

Haven't you learned? Nothing ever comes back to "haunt" anybody in Thai politics.

That's why they call it Amazing Thailand!

[americaninbangkok]

Who paid for their trips? Did they officially take leave from their daily duties as MPs or were they visiting the Messiah in their MP capacities?

Is Parliament in recess, anyways? At least this could make this appalling behavior by sitting MPs a little less appalling.

Still, it would be a welcome change for a politician to publicly state where the funds for these trips are coming from and even invite inquiry into the matter... you know... just to demonstrate a little transparency. I would imagine the taxpayers would be interested in requesting a financial disclosure filing?

[americaninbangkok]

did they return with noses browner than when they started out?

Nope... they used whitening cream.

[americaninbangkok]

More likely brown rings around their necks as that is how far their heads are buried.

OK... a LOT of whitening cream!

[americaninbangkok]

Cambodia deploys 4,500 police for Thaksin’s safety: Red Shirt leader

http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/352961.html

UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan, also a Pheu Thai party-list MP, said the Cambodian government will step up security measures at venues where the ex-Thai premier will visit during the Songkran Festival with 4,000 police officers and 500 plainclothes police being deployed.

Mr Jatuporn added that a number of Red Shirt guards will also join the security operations with the Cambodian officers.

He said that the Red Shirt supporters will cross the border into Cambodia beginning Saturday April 14 to join the water-pouring ceremony to ask a blessing from Mr Thaksin on the Thai New Year. He asked the red-clad festival-goers to enter the neighbouring country legally.

The venue of the water-pouring ceremony will be under tightened security, said Mr Jatuporn, adding that Cambodian officials will maintain highest security at all its entrances and exits.

Mr Thaksin, who is now in the neighbouring country Laos, earlier claimed that he had been under threat of his life four times.

On Wednesday, his arrival destination was changed without prior notice from Vientiane’s Wattay International Airport where a number of his supporters gathered to an army airport elsewhere for security concerns.

The fugitive ex-premier is scheduled to leave Pakse in the Lao PDR’s Champasak province for Siem Riep, Cambodia, on Saturday.

On Thursday, a 40 bus UDD caravan left Nong Khai across the Friendship Bridge for Vientiane for a water-pouring ceremony with their leader.

It is reported that the Lao authorities asked the UDD supporters not to wear red outfits and that only one thousand were allowed to meet with Mr Thaksin at Phra That Luang in Vientiane due to security concerns.

[Colin Yai]

Yongyuth Tiyapairat, the name sounds familiar.

This can't be the same guy that led a gang of gunman to that old couples home and shot hundreds of bullets at the house at random. I believe the elderly couple survived by hiding behind a refrigerator?

Yep quite correct "Yongyuth the fridge" was his handle, I believe the old Couple never did get real justice nor was Yongyuth and his henchmen ever punished, nothing new in Thailand eh. Edited April 14, 2012 by Colin Yai

[OzMick]

Yongyuth Tiyapairat, the name sounds familiar.

This can't be the same guy that led a gang of gunman to that old couples home and shot hundreds of bullets at the house at random. I believe the elderly couple survived by hiding behind a refrigerator?

Its hard being a Democrat supporter in a Red Village

[OzMick]

Cambodia deploys 4,500 police for Thaksin’s safety: Red Shirt leader

http://www.mcot.net/...age/352961.html

UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan, also a Pheu Thai party-list MP, said the Cambodian government will step up security measures at venues where the ex-Thai premier will visit during the Songkran Festival with 4,000 police officers and 500 plainclothes police being deployed.

Mr Jatuporn added that a number of Red Shirt guards will also join the security operations with the Cambodian officers.

He said that the Red Shirt supporters will cross the border into Cambodia beginning Saturday April 14 to join the water-pouring ceremony to ask a blessing from Mr Thaksin on the Thai New Year. He asked the red-clad festival-goers to enter the neighbouring country legally.

The venue of the water-pouring ceremony will be under tightened security, said Mr Jatuporn, adding that Cambodian officials will maintain highest security at all its entrances and exits.

Mr Thaksin, who is now in the neighbouring country Laos, earlier claimed that he had been under threat of his life four times.

On Wednesday, his arrival destination was changed without prior notice from Vientiane’s Wattay International Airport where a number of his supporters gathered to an army airport elsewhere for security concerns.

The fugitive ex-premier is scheduled to leave Pakse in the Lao PDR’s Champasak province for Siem Riep, Cambodia, on Saturday.

On Thursday, a 40 bus UDD caravan left Nong Khai across the Friendship Bridge for Vientiane for a water-pouring ceremony with their leader.

It is reported that the Lao authorities asked the UDD supporters not to wear red outfits and that only one thousand were allowed to meet with Mr Thaksin at Phra That Luang in Vientiane due to security concerns.

Re last paragraph - the lies begin.

Don't wear red outfits and we can count any locals/hawkers as well.

Are red shirt guards allowed to cross the border with weapons? A bit of border security on their way back could reduce the number of illegal weapons by a nice percentage.

[Siam Simon]

Cambodia deploys 4,500 police for Thaksin’s safety: Red Shirt leader

http://www.mcot.net/...age/352961.html

UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan, also a Pheu Thai party-list MP, said the Cambodian government will step up security measures at venues where the ex-Thai premier will visit during the Songkran Festival with 4,000 police officers and 500 plainclothes police being deployed.

Mr Jatuporn added that a number of Red Shirt guards will also join the security operations with the Cambodian officers.

He said that the Red Shirt supporters will cross the border into Cambodia beginning Saturday April 14 to join the water-pouring ceremony to ask a blessing from Mr Thaksin on the Thai New Year. He asked the red-clad festival-goers to enter the neighbouring country legally.

The venue of the water-pouring ceremony will be under tightened security, said Mr Jatuporn, adding that Cambodian officials will maintain highest security at all its entrances and exits.

Mr Thaksin, who is now in the neighbouring country Laos, earlier claimed that he had been under threat of his life four times.

On Wednesday, his arrival destination was changed without prior notice from Vientiane’s Wattay International Airport where a number of his supporters gathered to an army airport elsewhere for security concerns.

The fugitive ex-premier is scheduled to leave Pakse in the Lao PDR’s Champasak province for Siem Riep, Cambodia, on Saturday.

On Thursday, a 40 bus UDD caravan left Nong Khai across the Friendship Bridge for Vientiane for a water-pouring ceremony with their leader.

It is reported that the Lao authorities asked the UDD supporters not to wear red outfits and that only one thousand were allowed to meet with Mr Thaksin at Phra That Luang in Vientiane due to security concerns.

Re last paragraph - the lies begin.

Don't wear red outfits and we can count any locals/hawkers as well.

Are red shirt guards allowed to cross the border with weapons? A bit of border security on their way back could reduce the number of illegal weapons by a nice percentage.

Do you have any evidence to back up your allegations, Mick? We were warned yesterday by Soundman that posting allegations without evidence is against the Forum Rules.

[OzMick]

Re last paragraph - the lies begin.

Don't wear red outfits and we can count any locals/hawkers as well.

Are red shirt guards allowed to cross the border with weapons? A bit of border security on their way back could reduce the number of illegal weapons by a nice percentage.

Do you have any evidence to back up your allegations, Mick? We were warned yesterday by Soundman that posting allegations without evidence is against the Forum Rules.

Which allegationS?

[GentlemanJim]

Re last paragraph - the lies begin.

Don't wear red outfits and we can count any locals/hawkers as well.

Are red shirt guards allowed to cross the border with weapons? A bit of border security on their way back could reduce the number of illegal weapons by a nice percentage.

Do you have any evidence to back up your allegations, Mick? We were warned yesterday by Soundman that posting allegations without evidence is against the Forum Rules.

Which allegationS?

Don't rise to it OzMick!

[americaninbangkok]

Cambodia deploys 4,500 police for Thaksin’s safety: Red Shirt leader

http://www.mcot.net/...age/352961.html

UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan, also a Pheu Thai party-list MP, said the Cambodian government will step up security measures at venues where the ex-Thai premier will visit during the Songkran Festival with 4,000 police officers and 500 plainclothes police being deployed.

Mr Jatuporn added that a number of Red Shirt guards will also join the security operations with the Cambodian officers.

The venue of the water-pouring ceremony will be under tightened security, said Mr Jatuporn, adding that Cambodian officials will maintain highest security at all its entrances and exits.

What is this crap about "Red Shirt guards will also join the security operations with the Cambodian officers"?! Since when are "Red Shirt guards" a quasi-official international representative of Thailand? And doing joint security operations?

"Cambodian officials will maintain highest security at all its entrances and exits"? Is Jatuporn telling Cambodia how to do its job?!

It seems to me that Jatuporn is more focused on security procedures for a coup'd PM in another country than he was about the well being of his constituents in Thailand after the Feb 14 bombings. I don't recall hearing a peep from him expressing concern then about the Kingdom's safety. Perhaps he'll more free time to worry about Thaksin when the court finds him unfit to serve as MP (too bad it takes a court to determine this... a psychiatrist could have determined this years ago).

Edited April 14, 2012 by americaninbangkok

[GentlemanJim]

Jatuporn is a menace, who is unbelievably holding a ministerial position regardless of how junior. If the country is unable to self determine that this guy should not be allowed within a 1000 lightyears of it's governance then maybe all is lost.

[americaninbangkok]

Jatuporn is a menace, who is unbelievably holding a ministerial position regardless of how junior. If the country is unable to self determine that this guy should not be allowed within a 1000 lightyears of it's governance then maybe all is lost.

This is the most offensive part fo the whole thing... how he got in is one thing... but how he stays in and is not unsettled by the geenral population is beyond me.

[GentlemanJim]

Jatuporn is a menace, who is unbelievably holding a ministerial position regardless of how junior. If the country is unable to self determine that this guy should not be allowed within a 1000 lightyears of it's governance then maybe all is lost.

This is the most offensive part fo the whole thing... how he got in is one thing... but how he stays in and is not unsettled by the geenral population is beyond me.

Maybe it is within the culture. I was playing a youtube vid of the reds going to meet Thaksin in Laos and my wife walked by and said 'I don't want to watch it'! She will change channel, leave the room etc if anything about Thaksin comes on. She and the rest of the people here despise him, but their response is put your head in a bucket and do nothing. Maybe if people were a little more outraged they may do something, as it is they just ignore a problem that they know exists.

[h90]

Jatuporn is a menace, who is unbelievably holding a ministerial position regardless of how junior. If the country is unable to self determine that this guy should not be allowed within a 1000 lightyears of it's governance then maybe all is lost.

This is the most offensive part fo the whole thing... how he got in is one thing... but how he stays in and is not unsettled by the geenral population is beyond me.

Maybe it is within the culture. I was playing a youtube vid of the reds going to meet Thaksin in Laos and my wife walked by and said 'I don't want to watch it'! She will change channel, leave the room etc if anything about Thaksin comes on. She and the rest of the people here despise him, but their response is put your head in a bucket and do nothing. Maybe if people were a little more outraged they may do something, as it is they just ignore a problem that they know exists.

Mine is close to trash the TV when she sees Thaksin.....