Suthep displays ideas of supreme sovereignty

[kieran2698]

This is a good article. Well written, and the argument is sound. From any standpoint, Suthep went over the top. Virtually everyone recognizes this - probably even him. His words - already over the top and fanciful, and really too silly to be taken seriously - were also subject to the wildest extemporization and treatment on the part of a particularly ludicrous publication that is notoriously known for that. But that notwithstanding, Suthep has managed to take the focus off of Thaksin, taken the focus off the Yingluck administration, taken the focus off of the UDD's intimation of the Constitutional Court and the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and even managed to take off the focus off of all the controversial statements of Ko Tee, Jatuporn, Nattawut and Charapong concerning their campaign against the checks and balances and endorsement of a UDD platform that included secession. Incredibly, Suthep has managed to take the focus off of all of that. And so these very same people who have rallied against the judicial system of checks and balances now have the effrontery and hypocrisy of pretending to the outside world that they are the protectors of democracy, even though the judicial process is the foundation stone of a any democracy. Suthep has managed to undo the whole narrative and has subsequently and foolishly played into Thaksin and Pheu Thai's hands. Both Thaksin and Pheu Thai are simply elated at Suthep's remarks, because he has managed in one foolish moment to deflect all the attention from what Pheu Thai has done in the last two and a half years - that entailed activities positively steeped in criminal activity. Even Nattawut is relieved, as no one is asking him about that UDD rally he attended in February that so inconveniently and so embarrassingly haunts his recent " Tuesday stance ".

Suthep needed to do one of three things. He needed either to clarify his remarks, or to distance himself from them, or to step down from the movement. Or all three. CAPO, Surapong, Pheu Thai, Thaksin, both his Thai and foreign lawyers, the UDD - they are all going to town on this. Not only that, but they are now using it as a weapon against all the PDRC leaders - none of whom echoed these remarks, while one in fact - Thaworn - publicly distanced himself from them. They are now even trying to tie this with the Democratic party, and are even taking the opportunity to go after one who has stayed laudably out of the limelight - Abhisit.

For the PDRC to remain on message, Suthep needs to take a back seat. The PDRC needs to get back on message - which is the protection and respect for the judicial process of the constitution. When the Constitutional Court and the National Anti-Corruption Commission deliver their verdicts, the PDRC needs to rally support for the courts. Because - to be sure - Pheu Thai, Thaksin, and the UDD will not. And if that happens, the true colours of Pheu Thai will be laid bare.

It is probably too late. Suthep has, in one series of outbursts , on done everything that he, and those who have given their lives, gained. As far as I can ascertain, he cannot find a legal right to do what he is promising. If this is so, he then will be showing the same disdain for the legal system that we think the PTP has shown.

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It doesn't seem to matter what each side says or does. The society is deeply polarized by Thaksin. People who hate him are not going to stop supporting Suthep just because of some slightly incoherent ramblings which were anyway intended as an attack against disrespect shown by PT and the red shirts for the courts and independent agencies. The call to arms and separatism by the red shirts and the interior minister and the deputy commerce minister didn't make much difference either but drew attention to them which is what Suthep is doing. Even flagrant use of weapons by either side and atrocities like the red shirt attacks on children at Trat and Big C don't diminish the two sides' support.

So what will be the effect of a few ill chosen and distorted words be. Do Suthep's supporters just abandon him and surrender the country to Shinawatra kleptocracy for ever?

The only thing that will end this situation permanently will be the removal of the root cause in the form of the demise of Thaksin.

Or alternatively they could try coming up with some politics that actually win an election rather than continuing to further distance themselves from the voters with incessant bigotry.

[harada]

Of course there is a third little mentioned coup.

Coup d'Argent or the Power Of Silver Coin to take over a country,

and wrest it's ACTUAL control from the sovereignty of the people.

The facade of Democracy remains, but the reality it nothing of the sort.

Affectively the current government has used this last coup, Coup d'Argent,

to rape the national coffers and use those ill gotten gains to maintain their hold.

Robin Hood?

Yeah, in reverse.