Yingluck and Suthep urged to nominate 10 mediators

[LevelHead]

Why is anyone giving any credence to Suthep ?

Why should be be asked to name people ? He is a criminal, who has broken the law many times in the past months as had the PDRC itself.

You do not reward law breakers by asking them to be involved in any way at all. The PDRC should be arrested as per their arrest warrants.

Asking them to be involved is utter lunacy by people who are proving to be complete idiots and plain stupid.

All in my opinion of course.

[HKChris]

"Mr Suthep said the PDRC will not propose any names as it would be impossible to find neutral persons to mediate the political conflicts".

So, having admitted that, how does he imagine he will find 300+ people to run his 'Reform Committee'? And some people still believe him!!!

[khunken]

Why is anyone giving any credence to Suthep ?

Why should be be asked to name people ? He is a criminal, who has broken the law many times in the past months as had the PDRC itself.

You do not reward law breakers by asking them to be involved in any way at all. The PDRC should be arrested as per their arrest warrants.

Asking them to be involved is utter lunacy by people who are proving to be complete idiots and plain stupid.

All in my opinion of course.

Ah the self-appointed judge, jury and hangman post.

Suthep has been accused, repeat accused, and charged with anything from being anti-Thaksin to local WWIII by the stooges of CMPO. He also has to report to the court to answer for a charge of murder from the 2010 riots.

But he hasn't been convicted of anything - yet. Unlike his nemesis who has been convicted and run away, he is still around and can be arrested any time if the CMPO stooges had the guts to do so.

The 10 nominees suggestion is unworkable. Too many and it looks very likely neither side is willing to negotiate without pre-conditions. Unfortunately for the country this is likely to drag on for quite a while until the independent agencies decide on all the accusations of anti-democratic actions by the PTP. (provided the oh so peaceful red shirts allow).

[NeilSA1]

Why is anyone giving any credence to Suthep ?

Why should be be asked to name people ? He is a criminal, who has broken the law many times in the past months as had the PDRC itself.

You do not reward law breakers by asking them to be involved in any way at all. The PDRC should be arrested as per their arrest warrants.

Asking them to be involved is utter lunacy by people who are proving to be complete idiots and plain stupid.

All in my opinion of course.

Ah the self-appointed judge, jury and hangman post.

Suthep has been accused, repeat accused, and charged with anything from being anti-Thaksin to local WWIII by the stooges of CMPO. He also has to report to the court to answer for a charge of murder from the 2010 riots.

But he hasn't been convicted of anything - yet. Unlike his nemesis who has been convicted and run away, he is still around and can be arrested any time if the CMPO stooges had the guts to do so.

• Agreed.

  Criminal law involves prosecution by the government of a person for an act that has been classified as a crime.

[northernjohn]

There was an article some time back from a UN mediator whose suggestions seem to have been lifted from a game theory textbook.

10 people is way too optimistic and will just be chaos. Each side picks one person to be their representative. Their job is not to negotiate but to form a 'negotiation committee' that is acceptable to both sides. The easiest way is that each side nominates a person to represent their opposite side. I'd say 3 from each side for a total of 6 people. Any statement made must be acceptable to a majority of the six.

Anyway, all far too sensible as the two parties are still playing a different game. Tit-for-tat is a perfectly good strategy but it can lead to escalation until talks are the only way of avoiding further bloodshed.

A very tortured intellectual exercise, trying to get around a representational Parliament.

Only a Parliament comprised of representatives of the population, has the validity to do what this 'gang of six agencies' suggests.

To suggest that a few select people sideline all of Thailand's voters, and make decisions regarding issues of governance for all those voters is preposterous.

They are true to form however. They have done everything in their power to enable the Opposition minority to avoid Parliament. Positioning themselves as proxies for conducting Parliamentary opposition to the Govt.

So true to their 'illusions of grandeur', they now embark on this nonsense, attempting to ride roughshod over electoral and Parliamentary Democratic practices.

But for anti-democrats, this is not nonsense. They see this as perfectly reasonable.

Good to see people are still willing to haggle over technical points in the law and in the mean time say f____ the public that is not what Government is about it is about power and money people don't count.

You are true humanitarians. NOT

If a law stands in the way of the prosperity and over all well being of the public it should be removed. but in the mean time some are willing to keep on sh__ing on the people because the law allows it.

To top it all of the first thing the government said was it was unacceptable to them. It would appear that disrobing Thaksin is not on the table from the PTP side and him not being disrobed is not on the side of the people.