Northern farmers to blockade Asian Highway

[Lite Beer]

Northern farmers to blockade Asian Highway

BANGKOK: -- Farmers from five northern provinces will blockade the Asian Highway and heighten their protest to oust the caretaker government after the government failed to pay them as promised today.

Farmer leader Kittisak Ratanawaraha, president of the Network for Northern Farmers, said now farmers from Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Kamphaengpet and Phitsanulok are prepared for the next move to block the highway after they did not receive money from the bank as they were earlier promised.

He said instead of calling for money, now farmers will press for the ouster of the caretaker government.

He said farmers will block the Asian Highway from Phitsanulok to Nakhon Sawan at Yaek Po-ngam intersectin in Bung Narang district on Friday.

Some farmers from Phichit were paid but many were not after they were told that the bank has been allocated merely180 million baht.

Meanwhile farmers in some northeastern provinces were also paid for their rice today.

A total of 40,000 farmers in Maha Sarakham province in the Northeast sold rice to the government under the rice-pledging scheme. Now 10,000 of them were paid but the rest were not paid yet.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/northern-farmers-blockade-asian-highway/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=northern-farmers-blockade-asian-highway

-- Thai PBS 2014-01-15

[Tatsujin]

Those chickens are coming home to roost ...

[arthurwait]

Typical of the people that vote for Taksin and family. Only do something when they want money for nothing.

[arthurwait]

Those chickens are coming home to roost ...

Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

[Cuchulainn]

About time they wised up to the lying, cheating, corrupt, parasitical scum they elected in the first place. But will history repeat itself in the next election?

Of course it will.

[tomacht8]

Just a thought beside from the criminal code.

§ 385

Any person who, without lawful authorisation and without necessity, obstructs a public way by placing or leaving any object on it or by any other act to such an extent that the traffic safety or convenience is likely to be disturbed shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred baht.

So you can block a highway: 15 Dollar (500 Baht) fine max (no joke, real law).

Anyway,
I can understand the farmers,
Same same, i do not like, if people not pay there debs on time as promised.
And some farmers waiting still 5 months!
May Suthep can take a break, and let the farmers come to Bangkok with their pitchforks.

Edited January 15, 2014 by tomacht8

[djjamie]

No surprises from a populist demagogue riddiled government. Academics and "pro 15 principle of democracy" farangs predicted this 2.5 years ago, BUT the PTP said the academics were wrong! The pro "1 principle of democracy" supporters said the farangs where wrong too. I can see why the PT are pushing for high speed trains now. All the roads will be blocked.

[kurtgruen]

Too much rice, not enough protein!

[Crushdepth]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

[h90]

About time they wised up to the lying, cheating, corrupt, parasitical scum they elected in the first place. But will history repeat itself in the next election?

Of course it will.

no this time PTP will have to pay 1000 Baht to secure the vote or maybe not as there is no opposition.

[Bluespunk]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

Agree with just about everything you say here except for one thing. This idiotic scheme hasn't undermined Thailand's rice export industry. It has completely destroyed it.

[ratcatcher]

Those chickens are coming home to roost ...

Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

Well, there can be absolutely no doubt now that the CT Government of Yingluck is in Dire Straits.

[djjamie]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

Here is a victim of a non payment.

Pichit farmer commits suicide because rice mortgage payment worth 200,000 baht from Yingluck government is 4 months overdue.

1st it was Thaksin ordering the murder of drug dealers with no proof. Then it was his policies making farmers kill themselves.

AND Jurapong wants human rights because he can't turn his HD TV on!

Edited January 15, 2014 by djjamie

[englishoak]

Thats the problem with making promises you cant keep, I would say this is far more a problem for PTP than the mob in BKK, if you betray the electorate you will pay the price, if not sooner then certainly later. The north is ripe for a party to spring up with real policies and integrity, it dosn't need PTP like it needs them and when the people realise that itll be game over for PTP and its powerbase:)

[icare999]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

serves them right They wanted this lot and so they have to live with it

I have no sympathy whatever for total fools who keep getting tricked time and again as they have by their savour

Well let them go and ask their saviour now

its pathetic around where I live they worship him and IMO most of them don't have 2 brain cells

They will believe BS that its all Dems fault and elite and then get even more of what they deserve until they are really total slaves and have lost all their land to Taksin and his clan cronies etc

Sorry maybe i feel a bit of pity for them but really I've seen them boasting they will be rich soon now their hero is in charge and even now no one hear would dare to voice anything against Taksin

Its all a hiso plot and fault of Dems who stole all money long ago and Taksin can't help because he used all his money to pay from his own funds the IMF and clear Thailands debts

[culicine]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

I wonder if ALL government workers now get a minimum 15K a month, and if all first car buyers will get their money. PT really have outdone themselves. There's seeming no money left in the kitty. Anyone could see this coming yet millions still voted for them. And millions will again vote for them, driving Thailand into a hole that will be very difficult to climb out of. I hope northern voters are starting to wise up.

[zydeco]

Worst part is that the delayed payment has screwed up some farmers cash flow, forcing them to borrow on very unfavourable terms and doing wonders for their indebtedness rather than lifting their standard of living.

Having introduced such a ridiculous policy which has also undermined Thailand's export trade it is intolerable that the government should fail to pay the farmers.

serves them right They wanted this lot and so they have to live with it

I have no sympathy whatever for total fools who keep getting tricked time and again as they have by their savour

Well let them go and ask their saviour now

its pathetic around where I live they worship him and IMO most of them don't have 2 brain cells

They will believe BS that its all Dems fault and elite and then get even more of what they deserve until they are really total slaves and have lost all their land to Taksin and his clan cronies etc

Sorry maybe i feel a bit of pity for them but really I've seen them boasting they will be rich soon now their hero is in charge and even now no one hear would dare to voice anything against Taksin

Its all a hiso plot and fault of Dems who stole all money long ago and Taksin can't help because he used all his money to pay from his own funds the IMF and clear Thailands debts

No need to wish ill upon people. Their lives are hard and (sometimes) hopeless enough. They made a disastrous decision in voting for the rice subsidy. But hardly unexpected. Self interest. It's just that a master political opportunist recognized the opportunity to exploit these people for his own gain. Not that the other side is all that smart or altruistic either. But these people were had, and it will effect them and impoverish them for generations. That's not good for the region or the country.

Edited January 15, 2014 by zydeco

[metisdead]

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[MacWalen]

Getting more interesting by day. Love this country.

[TVGerry]

I wonder if the red/Shinawatra apologists are going to come here and say these rice farmers were paid to protest.

[Tokay]

Thailand is a powder keg. And while the fuse is slow burning, it is burning.

[icare999]

I wonder if the red/Shinawatra apologists are going to come here and say these rice farmers were paid to protest.

I know for a fact that they are paid it comes from my wife's second cousin who is one of Taksins organisers and takes 10% for whatever votes and protestors she could get. Taksin has screwed her and not paid so she's gone to a better provider She does however have a living to make and it seems she has no choice but she's hoping Taksin will up anti so she can pay for her merc or order another

of course they were Suphet paid 500 baht per protestor and 1,000 for each farmer who says they want government out

[Misterwhisper]

Just wondering: Are these the same people who are going to vote again for the "Pheua Thaksin Party" if they're only told convincingly enough that heaven will descend onto them and there will be enough free dosh to go around to make everybody rich within 6 months?

OTOH, it's good to see that they've finally woken up. As always in Thailand, it's money - or rather the lack thereof - that makes people open their eyes and see things for what they really are.

[Noi657]

Thing is it's all me, me, me.... Now the farmers aren't getting they're money they will start to turn! Current government corrupt, Suthep corrupt! What Thailand actually needs is a fresh approach and reds and yellows coming together! This will of course never happen because there's to much self preservation.

[surangw]

typical mob mentality, screw up things for everyone to make a point.

[bigbamboo]

Thats the problem with making promises you cant keep, I would say this is far more a problem for PTP than the mob in BKK, if you betray the electorate you will pay the price, if not sooner then certainly later. The north is ripe for a party to spring up with real policies and integrity, it dosn't need PTP like it needs them and when the people realise that itll be game over for PTP and its powerbase:)

I believe that in time the redshirt movement will form the basis of a Thai socialist party but only when it breaks free of it's power broking masters.

[Scamper]

This is such a sea change to the Thaksin northern coalition, that it needs to taken special note of. These farmers no longer want to protest their missed payments. They want the ouster of the Yingluck administration. These are ( former ) Pheu Thai, Thaksin supporters. And they want them out. And it is more than possible that they will not be paid in the coming weeks. Simply put, the money is not there. And what is there, either can't be accessed because of campaign fund restrictions, or because this very programme is now under very heavy oversight scrutiny. So now the farmers and banks are rebelling against the same administration. The northern rice farmers and the national banks. Together. Now that is a coalition one doesn't see every day !

Edited January 15, 2014 by Scamper

[poisonus]

Thats the problem with making promises you cant keep, I would say this is far more a problem for PTP than the mob in BKK, if you betray the electorate you will pay the price, if not sooner then certainly later. The north is ripe for a party to spring up with real policies and integrity, it dosn't need PTP like it needs them and when the people realise that itll be game over for PTP and its powerbase:)

What is the bettingthat this new shiny party that springs up is owned and controlled by none other than.............. ???????

[Torrens54]

You Reap what you Sow.....and sometimes you also get "Stitched-up."

[55Jay]

As they say in Texas: "Didn't see this one'a'comin'.