Thaksin says amnesty bill unfairly distorted by his political opponents

[tingtongteesood]

My ultimate wish is to see Thais have a better life and a strong future

If this is true Mr. criminal then why don't you offer to return ALL the money you swindled out of the country back to the country on top of your already seized assets ? What's that ? Thought not.....

[JRSoul]

I'm not going to get further drawn into the argument of Thaksins status. The important point here is that the army denied the Thai electorate the chance to vote a new party in (could've been the democrat party) at a royally endorsed election. How much more illegal do you need it to be.

The October 2006 elections were not "denied", they were delayed until December 2007. Part of that delay was inevitable because of the EC problems.

While considering the illegality of that, take into account that the last legal election was in Feb 2005, so that the 2007 election was in fact one year BEFORE elections were due, and that this whole sorry state of affairs was caused by a PM calling a snap election almost 3 years early in an attempt to distract attention from corruption accusations aimed at himself and his family.

Edited November 6, 2013 by JRSoul

[EricBerg]

It seems the missunderstood fugitive is not only a philantropist but a martyr as well. Must be a side-effect from living in Dubai.

The martyr-thing is popular in the arab world. Let's hope he doesn't accidentally blow up.

[Thait Spot]

Mister Thaksin,

Please explain how, exactly, you were PM when the tanks rollled?

Thanks in anticipation

Please explain how you think the status of the caretaker PM affects the fact that the Army stopped the entire Thai electorate from voting in a royally endorsed election due to be held on October 15th 2006? As head of his political party and in between elections he was caretaker PM. There was no political "vacuum".

Thaksin resigned as PM and went on holiday.

He subsequently complains that he was hard done by by the coup

I ask how he thinks he was PM at the time

You go off an a complete tangent

Keep on track!!!

[angsta]

100% from the heart I am sure.

[siampolee]

5 x "brown nosing acolyte" namedrops, one enslavement of the people into debt bondage reference one despotic (this time, N.Korean) regime, 2 x new (repressive) political dynasty, a confused and wrong understanding of the parliamentary voting system and to finish it all off, another enslavement of the people into debt bondage reference.

Truth bothering you fab4.

Again do you have any family here in Thailand like a wife, sons, daughters etc, do you actually live among and work and mix with Thai's, do you have business and property here, how long have you been here or are you no more than a transient resident of Thailand with but a scanty knowledge of the truth ?

I've been here 22 years so perhaps I like a good many others have seen the roads that Thaksin has taken over the years and guess what all of those roads have led to a Thaksin only destination.

I can answer all those questions in a positive manner. can you?

The buying of elections the sponsoring of terrorism the buying of a government the manipulation of laws to suit his own and his family's and their brown nosing acolytes purposes, nepotism cronyism and blatant corruption that puts the old '' Buffet Cabinet '' run by Chatchai Choonhaven in the shade indeed the list concerning Thaksins dubious self serving practices is endless

Thaksin see's Thailand and its people as one big happy family with him as the patriarch of that family.. that is why Thaksin views any form of constitution in all its parts as unnecessary.

His multiple mindsets think that any mechanism to ensure an even balance between freedom and obedience is not necessary in the family of Thai people he aspires to head.

Of course any comments if they go against Thaksin are viewed as unfair by Thaksin as we long term residents here have seen and heard in his whining comments over the years.

Edited November 7, 2013 by siampolee

[Arkady]

He seems to be scaling new heights of insincerity. The bill was knowingly designed, almost certainly with input from him, to absolve himself and several friends from corruption prosecutions. Freeing red shirt cannon fodder is just a byproduct and may now not happen because of the expansion of the scope of the bill.

[h90]

He seems to be scaling new heights of insincerity. The bill was knowingly designed, almost certainly with input from him, to absolve himself and several friends from corruption prosecutions. Freeing red shirt cannon fodder is just a byproduct and may now not happen because of the expansion of the scope of the bill.

But why couldn't they just let the time frame end just short of the 2010 incident.

Than Thaksin could go free and they can still but Abhisit and Suthep at the court. The red shirts wouldn't be angry and the PTP could use them to scare some demonstrators.

And it wouldn't make the law more crazy than it is already.

[hawker9000]

He still loves and cares about the future of thai children. Isn't that just the sweetest thing?! Now how can anyone possibly find any fault with such a sensitive and gentle person? What a guy!

Geez. No shame in the man at all.