Isaan farmers threaten to blockade Friendship Highway today, Jan 27

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Northeast farmers threaten to blockade Friendship Highway today



BANGKOK: -- Rice farmers from 20 northeastern provinces are gathering at Lamtakong dam in Si Kiew district of Nakhon Ratchasima today in their threat to blockade the Friendship Highway today if the caretaker government could not pay them today.

At the same time rice farmers from the central provinces also threatened to completely blockade the Asian Highway if the government could not assure them that they would get money at the end of this month.

“All rice farmers from the central region will join force to blockade the highway completely if we’re not yet paid by January 31,” said the Network for the Central Region Farmers Winai Lamsing this morning.

He said farmers no longer have trust in this government but when it assured fathers again that all farmers would be paid by the end of this month, they agreed to wait.

He cautioned that if this final promise was betrayed again, all farmers from the central region would join force to blockade the highway completely both

He asked for sympathy from the people who has to travel on the highway to turn to other routes as farmers were in real trouble because the majority of farmers have no other revenues but from rice sales.

Some have not been paid for nine months, he said, while they still have to spend to lead their normal life.

Meanwhile farmers from 20 northeastern provinces are gathering at Lamtakong dam in Si Kiew but have not yet blockade the highway.

They wanted assurance of their payment from the government by today, their leader said.

They also said that most farmers in the region are supporters of the government but if they were not paid, they also wound join anti-government protests in the capital.

At present farmers are blocking the road from Lampraimas to Huey Thalaeng province and are to intensify protest if they are not paid by end of the month.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/northeast-farmers-threaten-blockade-friendship-highway-today/

-- Thai PBS 2014-01-27

[Costas2008]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

Edited January 27, 2014 by metisdead
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[taony]

If its a threat and they haven't done it yet, why is the article accompanied by a picture of a blocked road? At least put a caption under it explaining what it is.

It's just like Thai TV, when the picture says "Live" but its file footage and not always even at the same place they are talking from/about.

[JesseFrank]

BANGKOK: -- Rice farmers from 20 northeastern provinces are gathering at Lamtakong dam in Si Kiew district of Nakhon Ratchasima today in their threat to blockade the Friendship Highway today if the caretaker government could not pay them today.

So I assume that as usual soon someone from the liar government will make a statement that they will be paid next week, and the farmers will go back home.

[rogerdee123]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

Yes they will be happy to be part of the PTP landslide victory .... probably their votes already counted.

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

[Melyn]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

I believe there were 800 PDRC there yesterday and 200 red shirts

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[patjem]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

I believe there were 800 PDRC there yesterday and 200 red shirts

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You seem to have missed 'armed with intent' from your sentence containing red shirts

[ChrisY1]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

Yes they will be happy to be part of the PTP landslide victory .... probably their votes already counted.

I'm sure that ways of highjacking the election are being investigated....PTP will be trying everything they can to avoid a defeat.....

[AleG]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

The EC and PCAD must have access to time traveling technology since the farmers haven't been paid for 9 months.

Please, stop treating the farmers as if they are idiots.

Edited January 27, 2014 by AleG

[JRSoul]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

Teach an inefficient farmer how to grow rice more efficiently and he will struggle to make a decent income.

Teach an inefficient farmer to depend on a subsidy and you have bought his vote forever. At least until the money runs out.

[winstonc]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

well done brains e.c. blocked there payment mmmm you mean the one in october...when it was due...stop lying and keep to the real facts

[soi41]

They should go and vote for the reds again on the 2nd......nobody will disturb their voting rights in Nakhon Ratsasima

Yes they will be happy to be part of the PTP landslide victory .... probably their votes already counted.

I'm sure that ways of highjacking the election are being investigated....PTP will be trying everything they can to avoid a defeat.....

Excuse me Sir. Who is the ones trying to hijack the election by preventing the voting by the average Somchai??

The answer to that is: PAD, the ultranationalist rightwing party, under the leadership of the neo-faci Suthep!

And sure, the "peoples council" appointed by the elite, is going to care a lot about the rural farmers. NOT

[Gweiloman]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

well done brains e.c. blocked there payment mmmm you mean the one in october...when it was due...stop lying and keep to the real facts

Fact of the matter is that the EC is NOW blocking the payments. Regardless of who is right or wrong, good or bad, the farmers must be paid. I wish the powers that are / that want to be / to be will stop playing games and pay the farmers their dues.

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

The EC and PCAD must have access to time traveling technology since the farmers haven't been paid for 9 months.

Please, stop treating the farmers as if they are idiots.

Please read careful. The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid for 9 months or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment that is an ongoing payments which are late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

[spirit47]

Sorry, but you get what you vote...and loose all, your land and your work...Realy sad, but that is what going on. Thanks Taksin

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

Teach an inefficient farmer how to grow rice more efficiently and he will struggle to make a decent income.

Teach an inefficient farmer to depend on a subsidy and you have bought his vote forever. At least until the money runs out.

Have you study the existence, background and the ongoing progressive development of the rice farming and related industries?

[tsnyder]

At the same time rice farmers from the central provinces also threatened to completely blockade the Asian Highway

That will bring things to a screeching halt nation-wide.

It's certainly a do-able blockade as all legs of the Asian Highway pass through the central Thailand.

Good luck with this one, Yingluck.

Best to come up with some cash...and FAST.

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Edited January 27, 2014 by tsnyder

[WilliamCave]

(((He said farmers no longer have trust in this government but when it assured fathers again that all farmers would be paid by the end of this month, they agreed to wait.))))

Really I am not sure how many times a statement like this has come from the govt, they will be payed by a certain date , month,,,,really ?

Are farmers that brain washed that they keep believing the govt?

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

well done brains e.c. blocked there payment mmmm you mean the one in october...when it was due...stop lying and keep to the real facts

The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid since October (another poster claimed 9 months) or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment on an ongoing payments which were late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

[rogerdee123]

I believe the EC said making the payment now is "illegal"

The Govt is already threatening the EC with criminal charges .... why is the Govt letting criminals block them ?

So .... what's stopping the Govt if they think it's right ?

One big reason is because they ain't got the money.

has there ever been such a cluster-f__k of a Thai Govt before?

Edited January 27, 2014 by rogerdee123

[spirit47]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

well done brains e.c. blocked there payment mmmm you mean the one in october...when it was due...stop lying and keep to the real facts

Fact of the matter is that the EC is NOW blocking the payments. Regardless of who is right or wrong, good or bad, the farmers must be paid. I wish the powers that are / that want to be / to be will stop playing games and pay the farmers their dues.

Thats not right, the Government failed to sell rice, the EC only says that they cant take it from another account. And this is normal for Democracys I know...

[Puyai]

They blocked the Asian Highway on Saturday, and I didn't feel any sympathy for them as I was taking my 20 km detour along dirt tracks moving at 20 km per hour.

[AleG]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

The EC and PCAD must have access to time traveling technology since the farmers haven't been paid for 9 months.

Please, stop treating the farmers as if they are idiots.

Please read careful. The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid for 9 months or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment that is an ongoing payments which are late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

Could anyone translate this from Spin to English for me?

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

well done brains e.c. blocked there payment mmmm you mean the one in october...when it was due...stop lying and keep to the real facts

Fact of the matter is that the EC is NOW blocking the payments. Regardless of who is right or wrong, good or bad, the farmers must be paid. I wish the powers that are / that want to be / to be will stop playing games and pay the farmers their dues.

Thats not right, the Government failed to sell rice, the EC only says that they cant take it from another account. And this is normal for Democracys I know...

EC said they can't take it from another account??? Which account???

[icommunity]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

The EC and PCAD must have access to time traveling technology since the farmers haven't been paid for 9 months.

Please, stop treating the farmers as if they are idiots.

Please read careful. The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid for 9 months or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment that is an ongoing payments which are late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

Could anyone translate this from Spin to English for me?

I think this is the best you can do and accuse.

[Spartakos]

Yingluck must have sleepless nights worrying sick about poor wretches. She might come crying and Pointing fingers at cruel amart for doing this.

[Robby nz]

Farmers who do not agree to using streets protest, know the sabotaging activities of the rice scheme and that EC had blocked their payments on an ongoing scheme.

You continue with your stupidity even though you must know by now that what you write is not true.

The EC have told the Govt that it can go ahead with borrowing and selling rice but that they (the Govt ) must take all responsibility as borrowing and selling may be against the law.

So far the caretaker ministers have done nothing, it is entirely up to the caretaker Govt as to where they go from here.

The farmers are not buying the BS that various ministers and you keep spouting they know very well who is responsible for the non payment and have said so.

[96tehtarp]

The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid since October (another poster claimed 9 months) or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment on an ongoing payments which were late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

The farmers know precisely who has been sabotaging the rice pledging scheme, and blocking the payments. They talk about it openly and name names.

The yellows must kill the rice pledging scheme if they are to erode the red's voter base.

Yingluck cannot finalize the credit for the farmers payment's, not because there isn't enough money, and not because Thailand is bankrupt, but rather because she dare not risk jeopardizing the next PTP government should her party win ... that is even if there is an election. If she finalizes the credits now and goes on to form the next government the EC and CC will cry foul and tear the new government to shreds. The farmers know this well. They also know what ANFO is,and how to make efficient use of it.

Think of the farmers. They have worked so very hard from harvest to harvest, They know who is preventing them from being paid and who has been and continues to sabotage the scheme.

[AleG]

The issue is not whether farmers haven't been paid since October (another poster claimed 9 months) or not. It is the perception and the opinion of the farmers who do not believe streets protest and road block will solve their problems on a scheme that they believed was facing sabotaging and now when all mechanism is ready to pay them, EC block a payment on an ongoing payments which were late. What if there is no late payment? Ongoing payment on an ongoing scheme should still be made. EC has abused their power and guilty of conflict of interest.

The farmers know precisely who has been sabotaging the rice pledging scheme, and blocking the payments. They talk about it openly and name names.

The yellows must kill the rice pledging scheme if they are to erode the red's voter base.

Yingluck cannot finalize the credit for the farmers payment's, not because there isn't enough money, and not because Thailand is bankrupt, but rather because she dare not risk jeopardizing the next PTP government should her party win ... that is even if there is an election. If she finalizes the credits now and goes on to form the next government the EC and CC will cry foul and tear the new government to shreds. The farmers know this well. They also know what ANFO is,and how to make efficient use of it.

Think of the farmers. They have worked so very hard from harvest to harvest, They know who is preventing them from being paid and who has been and continues to sabotage the scheme.

There was no money to pay the farmers before the EC had any say on this. If you love the farmers so very much please do stop trying to fool them with lies, it's not polite.