Thai Court Defers Key Ruling On PM Party

[Moruya]

All I can say to the Red symapthisers on here is...

"Get your Cambodian visas quickly."

[scorecard]

Vote buying = advertising. What's the difference. As long as both sides can advertise or buy votes then the process is democratic. Get used to it. The other side won. Sorry about that.

Have you ever been for an IQ test?

It's a bit like saying 'if nothing changes then everything will remain the same', true but nonsense.

[Moruya]

Vote buying = advertising. What's the difference. As long as both sides can advertise or buy votes then the process is democratic. Get used to it. The other side won. Sorry about that.

Have you ever been for an IQ test?

It's a bit like saying 'if nothing changes then everything will remain the same', true but nonsense.

Indeed. The second law of thermodynamics will see to that.

[ginjag]

See the other thread---news breaking re court thowing out the ammendment change--BBC 11-10am

[MunterHunter]

I'm not seeing anything on the news about it right now - do you have any links?

[ginjag]

BBC world-news--newscaster Martine Dennis 11-10 am. Hope I saw right-(heard)

[tlansford]

"Anyway off topic as the current government wasn't democratic elected."

??

One year ago as I recall.

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__5476900

?? what does that link mean??

On the last elections were massive vote buying, almost everywhere. That makes an election invalid.

It can be discussed how the people might have voted without, but still this government wasn't elected by democratic means.

That link is to information from the election observers who noted that the election 'reflects the will of the people' which would seem to indicate that this government was indeed democratically elected and just repeating that they were not will not make your statement true.

An election with everywhere vote buying isn't democratic, almost per definition. No matter what some obscure observer tell. How can they know the will of the people. Or maybe we save the costs for elections next time and just ask your observers about the will of the people?

Or from the other side: why would Thaksin spend billions for vote buying if he could win the election without it?

Very reasonable approach. I'll remember to just take your word for it that the elections were not democratic and ignore the report of the Asian Network for Free Elections.

But for those interested in the opinions outside of TVF, http://anfrel.org/anfrel-preliminary-report-july-5th-thailand/