PM Yingluck to chair CAPO meeting to ponder state of emergency

[webfact]

PM to chair Capo meet to ponder state of emergency

BANGKOK: -- Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will chair a security meeting of the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (Capo) today to discuss whether it is necessary now for the declaration of a state of emergency in Bangkok.

The discussion which will involve the military follows a spate of violent incidents against protesters, especially the broad daylight grenade attacks at Banthad Thong road last Friday in which one protester was killed and over 20 injured and on Sunday at the Victory Monument when scores, including a reporter of Post Today newspaper, were injured.

The military earlier opposed to the invocation of the Emergency Decree claiming that the violent incidents were perpetrated by a small group of troublemakers.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-chair-capo-meet-ponder-state-emergency/


-- Thai PBS 2014-01-21

[webfact]

RT @ChadapornLin: PM chairs Cabinet meeting at Air Force base at 1.30pm

[trainman34014]

Why not ? Pondering is her favourite hobby. Pondering over the latest fashions in Handbags in particular, and of course she's been pondering over how to run the bloody country ever since she got the job !

[noikrit]

And The Puppet Master just keeps pulling those strings .....

[EricBerg]

Declaring the state of emergency would be one thing. But who would enforce it? Imported Cambodians? CAPO? The ricefarmers that have been paid? I can't imagine the army will.

Chalerm and Jatuporn are being quiet lately. Are they in training for enforcing the state of emergency? Or preparing their exit?

It all sounds a bit like the last days of an empire.

[slapout]

Is she going to relieve her chosen family memeber as head of CAPO or just take the big chair for a recap of the instructions, she has been tasked with?

Do they, Thai politicians draw extra pay/bonus, for chairing a government enity, in additional to their job/title pay? If the PM is going to take over the CAPO, she may be spending more time travelling to and from departments she heads than basking in the spot light of fame.

[Local Drunk]

Why not ? Pondering is her favourite hobby. Pondering over the latest fashions in Handbags in particular, and of course she's been pondering over how to run the bloody country ever since she got the job !

Did you mean to say plunder?

[Prbkk]

She has this well in hand ..and with the support of the military and police will soon have these fanatics off the streets for good. the decent people have abandoned the protests already

[poisonus]

Declaring the state of emergency would be one thing. But who would enforce it? Imported Cambodians? CAPO? The ricefarmers that have been paid? I can't imagine the army will.

Chalerm and Jatuporn are being quiet lately. Are they in training for enforcing the state of emergency? Or preparing their exit?

It all sounds a bit like the last days of an empire.

Perhaps these who were being amassed at police HQ last night.

Not very good pics, but are of hundreds of riot police getting ready for something.

Add this to the report of 100 police minivans and 15 police buses being mobilized.

One can assume that this is not a discussion about whether to enforce a state of emergency, but more like 'how' they will enforce it and how hard it will be.

But ultimately we all know who will come off the worst.

[NongKhaiKid]

i love it, YL to chair a meeting and just how many meetings in the past has she ' chaired ' by not turning up ?

[Local Drunk]

i love it, YL to chair a meeting and just how many meetings in the past has she ' chaired ' by not turning up ?

Even where she's there... She's somewhere else.

[Prbkk]

and I would suggest that one of YL's key strategies is presenting as someone who can be underestimated...

[bigbamboo]

I thought her cousin in law was the chairman of CAPO or has her brother made his cousin in law defer to his sister on this?

Jeez, Thai politics can be so confusing unless you're a Shinawat.

[NongKhaiKid]

Declaring the state of emergency would be one thing. But who would enforce it? Imported Cambodians? CAPO? The ricefarmers that have been paid? I can't imagine the army will.

Chalerm and Jatuporn are being quiet lately. Are they in training for enforcing the state of emergency? Or preparing their exit?

It all sounds a bit like the last days of an empire.

I wonder how many in government, the leadership of PTP and the reds have their passport, bank books and ATM cards readily to hand ?

[Scamper]

The Yingluck administration - now that these atrocious acts against the protest movement have taken place - now proceeds to their Plan B where that becomes the rationale for what they have really wanted to do all along - to involve the military, to suspend human rights, and most importantly of all - to crush the resistance to their Thaksin-inspired administration. The question is - will the army get in ? Those who have been keeping an eye on the statements of the army, as well as their actions - know that they do not wish to. They are highly suspicious of the administration for much the same reasons everyone else is. Of all the decisions that Prayuth has to make, the decision he makes today will be the most important of his career. If he has the sense I think he has, he will resist this naked and transparent call by the Yingluck administration to in effect squash the resistance to her administration. Two weeks ago, in an interview that did not get much coverage, Prayuth referred to a Thai analogy. This is the gist of what he said - when a cow has a wound on its back, the crows come to rest on it. When there is no wound, the crows stay away. This analogy has even more meaning now that it did then. This administration has been wounded. Everyone knows that. Prayuth knows that. He is - if anything - a very prudent and shrewd man. He is not given to be coerced into anything against his better judgement. Two weeks from now the election will have taken place. It will spark a constitutional crisis, as it will fail to achieve a parliamentary quorum. There will be no legislative recourse for this unprecedented situation. Because of that, the time to quietly step in would be then. There would be no alternative. Yingluck's administration would be truly frozen. Reform talks between the parties could then take place, peacefully, productively. A referendum could ensure, and a new national election after that. It would cool the temperature, and bring the country back from the brink. To act now would be a calamitous decision - and given the inevitable results of the election - the army would in effect be propping up an administration that has no legislative future. It would be a state of paralysis.

[Mampara]

Why not ? Pondering is her favourite hobby. Pondering over the latest fashions in Handbags in particular, and of course she's been pondering over how to run the bloody country ever since she got the job !

Bangkok is falling down, falling down, my fair lady. no words can fix it now, fix it now, my fair lady.

[poisonus]

CAPO condemns protester intrusion at DSI office, threatening officials; considering invoking emergency decree if violence intensifies /MCOT

They consider a peaceful 'visit' as violence?

They are lucky that the protesters have been instructed to remain peaceful. If they were sent to be 'violent' then the DSI would be raised to the ground.

The DSI have no power to invoke anything apart from scapegoating.

They will be the first on the run when the protesters win.

Note to Tarrit & Surapong..... You know you are on borrowed time. I suggest you start packing the suitcase and applying for a Dubai visa. Your end is coming and it is coming fast.

Edited January 21, 2014 by poisonus

[taony]

i love it, YL to chair a meeting and just how many meetings in the past has she ' chaired ' by not turning up ?

Even where she's there... She's somewhere else.

[kamahele]

Finally I find out that CAPO stands for Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order. I was thinking it had something to do with The Godfather.

[Thai at Heart]

Why not ? Pondering is her favourite hobby. Pondering over the latest fashions in Handbags in particular, and of course she's been pondering over how to run the bloody country ever since she got the job !

Normally its a mull and an urge

[saltandpepper]

So she gonna sit, let other participants to do the talking, pretend to understand, and at the end meet the medias and read with difficulty the script that dear brother has prepared!

[RubbaJohnny]

takes my broth away

[Baerboxer]

and I would suggest that one of YL's key strategies is presenting as someone who can be underestimated...

Suggest all you want Jimmie if that's what you really believe.

You see her as a sort of Zoro - pretending to be a hopeless fop, uninterested and weak minded, whist underneath dynamic, sharp as a razor and really in total control? You think she pulls the strings of her caddy in Dubai, Montenegro, China or wherever?

Interesting suggestion - anything to back it up?

[Thait Spot]

I took the headline to mean that the dear lady was going to clomp Surapong with a chair.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[Baerboxer]

She has this well in hand ..and with the support of the military and police will soon have these fanatics off the streets for good. the decent people have abandoned the protests already

Yes, she really has the support of the military. And, who is the caretaker Defense Minister?

Hoping to provoke a state of emergency so the military will be on the streets. Then the election can proceed unhindered.

Oh dear, that might suggest a reason for the grenade throwers and shooters wanting to provoke trouble - an excuse for declaring a state of emergency. That won't fit well with all your PTP supporting mates and their insistence it's all Suthep's plan to bring the army into the conflict by bombing and shooting himself.

[webfact]

Govt Mulling State Of Emergency Declaration
By Khaosod English

BANGKOK: -- The Thai government is reportedly considering whether to declare the State of Emergency following the increasingly violent political protests in Bangkok.

Pol.Gen. Adul Saengsingkaew, Chief of the Royal Thai Police, said the Cabinet will study the possibility of the emergency decree today.

Much of the deliberation will involve predicting the possibility of further violence in the capital city, Pol.Gen. Adul said.

His comment came a few days after a grenade was thrown at supporters of People′s Committee for Absolute Democracy With the King As Head of State (PCAD) at their rally site around Victory Monument on Sunday, injuring 28 people.

Last week another grenade attack on PCAD demonstrators also killed one protester and wounded dozens.

Emergency decree will grant the authorities a sweeping power to contain the protests, such as imposing curfews, censoring the media, and searching properties and individuals arbitrarily.

Governmental officials have previously stated that the government will not impose State of Emergency over Bangkok, and military chiefs have likewise opposed the idea.

Nevertheless, Pol.Gen. Adul said the Centre for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) has been attempting to ensure public security even without State of Emergency. He added that CAPO will also be involved in the decision concerning the emergency decree declaration.

Source: http://www.khaosod.co.th/en/view_newsonline.php?newsid=TVRNNU1ESTVOakUxTnc9PQ==


-- Khaosod English 2014-01-21

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

Govt Mulling State Of Emergency Declaration

By Khaosod English

Emergency decree will grant the authorities a sweeping power to contain the protests, such as imposing curfews, censoring the media, and searching properties and individuals arbitrarily.

-- Khaosod English 2014-01-21

As far as I can tell, Thailand's authorities already exercise all of these powers.

[MILT]

and I would suggest that one of YL's key strategies is presenting as someone who can be underestimated...

You seem to have have a real knack as a science fiction writer

Edited January 21, 2014 by MILT

[LadPhrao123]

and I would suggest that one of YL's key strategies is presenting as someone who can be underestimated...

You seem to have have a real knack as a science fiction writer

We'll see who the science fiction writer is shortly I suspect and my bet is it's not Prbkk...

Eating your own words is never a pleasant snack...

[LadPhrao123]

Excellent. Time to clear the trash off the highways, restore order, protect the public and guarantee an open and fair election.

Order in the popcorn...