Suthep says plundering rice warehouse is next step

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Suthep says plundering rice warehouse is next step



BANGKOK: -- People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) leader Suthep Thaugsuban says a plan to plunder rice warehouses is underway and will be the next step to increase pressure on the caretaker prime minister to step down.
He revealed the plan during his noon address to anti-government protesters at Silom protest site.

He expressed regret for farmers who were cheated and have to come to Bangkok to demand for the payment of their money though many of them have no money to pay for traveling cost, while others have to burrow to come here.

He then vowed to relieve their plight by calling the caretaker government to open all rice warehouses and bring all the 18 million tons of rice inside out for auction.

This would be the best and possible choice to do now, he said. But he said if this proposal was not considered, then the PDRC would have to intervene.

He came up with the idea of plundering the rice warehouses and bring out all the pledged rice for sales.
Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions, saying that through this channel farmers would get paid within seven days while normal auction called would take two years.

Suthep then said the PDRC will consider this choice as the next step to increase pressure on the caretaker prime minister and force her resignation.

He said a longer jail term of 10 years on plundering warehouse charge made no difference to life imprison on resurrection charge if he lost in the protest and was arrested.

But at least farmers would get their money back quicker than normal procedure.

He added that plundering rice warehouse would be the PDRC’s next move.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/suthep-says-plundering-rice-warehouse-next-step/


-- Thai PBS 2014-02-06

[Costas2008]

"Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions"

Yingluck tried that and nobody appeared.

Why does he think he will succeed?

[bkkrox]

Who edits this reporting? Farmers are having to burrow their way to Bangkok and Suthep may face a resurrection charge...I lol'd.

[EyesWideOpen]

I bet the ride brokers in China literally pissing themselves with laughter over Thailand's

rice scam. I can see them smiling on their way to the airport to fly here and buy rice

at fire sale prices..... It would appear at this point the longer they wait the cheaper

the rice will be.

Edited February 6, 2014 by EyesWideOpen

[Snig27]

"Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions"

Yingluck tried that and nobody appeared.

Why does he think he will succeed?

Because - as has been long obvious - the man is barking mad.

Edited February 6, 2014 by Snig27

[Skint]

They would of had their money by now if he did not protest and make things worse.

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[Gweiloman]

Finally, a concrete plan from Khun S and Co.Doubt it will work but at least he is outlining part of his masterplan.

[Katipo]

"Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions"

Yingluck tried that and nobody appeared.

Why does he think he will succeed?

If you hadn't noticed, sometimes rhetoric is all you need.

These are politicians, remember

[EyesWideOpen]

If they start " plundering" ( love that pirate talk) the rice warehouses, at least they will be

able to confirm a long standing rumor here on TV, that there is not a whole lot of rice

there....... That will be a great photo op, Suthep with his plundering team standing

inside an empty warehouse.

[Errol Flynn]

The plan is !!! make it up as we go along

[Thait Spot]

He's a poor, misunderstood lad is Suthep.

His heart is in the rice place (and I know there are many that might opine that his brain isn't)

Not for him the billions extorted from a time in politics

I now have a vision of Suthep running around the country under cover of darkness and returning the millions of tonnes of paddy to the cheated and violated rice farmers with Chalerm, disguised as leprechaun hot on his heels with black clad cohorts in a van marked "Keystone"

[petedk]

A modern day Robin Hood.

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[JRSoul]

Be warned Suthep. Go anywhere near a rice warehouse and it will be claimed it held at least a million tonnes of this season's A-grade jasmine rice.

DO NOT give these mongrels a chance to explain their losses.

[rocky3]

i see the peaceful law abiding Suthep has missed another court appearance on his murder charge. Very soon now he will be detained for many years without trial or bail for missing his date with the judges. When will he stand up like a man and defend himself just as all other Thai's are expected to do. He has escaped prosicution on many charges in the past.

The land deal in the south, where his rich friens got the land that was destined for the poor, the cooking oil shortage, where he made a lot of money from his warehouses. this one stinks or price fixing.

i am sorry he would not do these things for personnel gain, he loves his rich friends and would not make the poor suffer.

maybe we are all worried that he will take control of his "peoples council" for no reason at all. he could solve this problem if he would present his reforms and the names of his appointed members for all to see, and was willing to negotiate. oh iam sorry again Democrates do not negotiate because they can not win. put something on the table you big mouth, and maybe you will get something in return. keep going the way you are and the Democratic Party will fall further from the hearts of all Thai's.

[bkkfaranguy]

"Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions"

Yingluck tried that and nobody appeared.

Why does he think he will succeed?

Because the elites who have done everything they can to make it fail would now allow him to succeed, just like Yingluk he is just a puppet!

Edited February 6, 2014 by bkkfaranguy

[MunterHunter]

Very soon now he will be detained for many years without trial or bail for missing his date with the judges.

So you are advocating an unlawful imrisonment? To be held 'for many years without trial or bail' sounds very North Korea like to me... certainly in violation of Human Rights, but then again, thats not something the Shinawatra's shy away from

[djjamie]

They would of had their money by now if he did not protest and make things worse.

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They would have had there money by now if the PTP had paid them when they said they would. 4 months ago!! This is a true indication of the contempt the PTP actually have for the poor. Actions usually speak loader than words unless of course your a UDD supporter in which case rhetoric speaks loader than actions.

What saddens me is that lessons won't be learnt by the PTP and they will in fact blame others for their failings meaning they will make the same mistakes again if given the opportunity.

Hopefully the Mandela of the East can rectify this so "post elections" allow a party to practice democracy instead of abuse it.

Good luck farmers - Mandela of the East is on your side.

Edited February 6, 2014 by djjamie

[Suriya4]

Why not just plunder Bank of Thailand (in Bangkok), and use the cash to pay the farmers same day.

Don't have to wait 1 week.

Edited February 6, 2014 by Suriya4

[stubuzz]

many of them have no money to pay for traveling cost, while others have to burrow to come here.

They dug a tunnel underground?

[rocky3]

munterhunter,

i am just saying that the courts will have enough reason to hold him until his trial is over, thats all. seeing as he has so much pressing work to do and is above the law.

[Scamper]

Five years of rice sitting idly in silos that no one will buy, farmers forced to sell their tractors, administrators and officials rich from the scheme feigning innocence, a rice industry utterly destroyed, a country's GDP gone, investment disappeared.

If that's the " sanity " people wish to cling to, then I suspect many farmers might indeed embrace the " insanity " of Suthep's idea - of getting this rice bought and placed on the tables of families, and try to exact some measure of recompense for the rice they harvested that was never paid for by an administration that has more excuses than morals.

Edited February 6, 2014 by Scamper

[tim armstrong]

I think the rice is still in storage. You can't easily move a commodity of millions of tonnes without being noticed. But if they do try to get the rice back, th government will blame them for stuffing up a deal that they 'only just now' agreed with China or someone else. It's going to get worse.

[MunterHunter]

i see the peaceful law abiding Suthep has missed another court appearance on his murder charge. Very soon now he will be detained for many years without trial or bail for missing his date with the judges. When will he stand up like a man and defend himself just as all other Thai's are expected to do. He has escaped prosicution on many charges in the past.

The land deal in the south, where his rich friens got the land that was destined for the poor, the cooking oil shortage, where he made a lot of money from his warehouses. this one stinks or price fixing.

i am sorry he would not do these things for personnel gain, he loves his rich friends and would not make the poor suffer.

maybe we are all worried that he will take control of his "peoples council" for no reason at all. he could solve this problem if he would present his reforms and the names of his appointed members for all to see, and was willing to negotiate. oh iam sorry again Democrates do not negotiate because they can not win. put something on the table you big mouth, and maybe you will get something in return. keep going the way you are and the Democratic Party will fall further from the hearts of all Thai's.

Suthep has asked the people to come up with who they want to see in the 'peoples council' - to my knowledge this hasnt happened yet...

[Crushdepth]

Suthep says plundering rice warehouse is next step

Mate...you are waaaay behind the eight ball here. You seriously believe we didn't think of that?

[david555]

So begging on the streetprotest marches does not bring enough , so now go sell the poor farmers rice to sponser his protests ..... and nobody take this lunitic to the asyl really AMAZING Thailand

[ianf]

They would of had their money by now if he did not protest and make things worse.

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Absolutely no way. They were struggling with payments pre-demonstration. This is how the rice scam worked:

1. Buy all the rice from the farmers at an artificially high price.

2. Withdraw the rice from the world market, thus creating a shortage.

3. Because of this artificial shortage the world price increases to above the amount paid by the Government to the farmers.

4. Sell the rice on the world market and rake in the profits.

5. These profits are then shared between Thaksin and his cohorts as payment for their part in this scam.

6. The idea was to benefit Thaksin financially and politically (ie winning the support of the farmers) but, happily, it back fired.

Very clever, but it didn't work because instead of the price going up as Thaksin thought, other countries increased their exports.

There was no budget for this scheme and no 'what if' scenarios which means that when Thaksin's plot failed there was no money to pay the farmers.

To blame Suthep for this is conveniently stupid and far from reality.

[ianf]

"Rice traders, exporters would be invited to rice auctions"

Yingluck tried that and nobody appeared.

Why does he think he will succeed?

Because the elites who have done everything they can to make it fail would now allow him to succeed, just like Yingluk he is just a puppet!

Elites = wealthy people.

Yingluck has 10x the wealth of Abhisit.

Thaksin has XXXX times the wealth of many so-called elites

Suthep is in debt.

Elites = wealthy people who shop at Louis Vuitton in Paris, whilst their people carry out arson attacks in Bangkok!

Yeah .... Right!!!!

[newcomer71]

Hopefully he will not steal it and resell to South distributors...

[Thait Spot]

I think the rice is still in storage. You can't easily move a commodity of millions of tonnes without being noticed. But if they do try to get the rice back, th government will blame them for stuffing up a deal that they 'only just now' agreed with China or someone else. It's going to get worse.

This government managed to lose millions of tonnes without it being noticed.

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[ramrod711]

There is a flaw in the wily Sutheps plan, plundering suggests gaining something of value. Thanks to PTP there is very little value left in the warehouses.