The other nine ministers affected - Constitutional Court ruling who must step down

[WoopyDoo]

Once Thaksin wins the next election, nothing will really matter at this point aka efforts of removing a Shinawatra puppet would've been in vain.

You are deluded.

It is 2014.... NOT 2011.

[boomerangutang]

Don't underestimate the brainwashedness of the Thai electorate. T has yet another sister, and a son. Plus Yingluck isn't out of the mosh pit yet. And there's T himself. He hasn't yet played his trump card: Just showing up in Thailand. Can you imagine the crowd which would clamor to greet him? I don't know what it will take for the Issanaites to lose faith in the Shinawatres. The Issanaites and their northern brethren are a phenomenal study in sustained adulation against all reason.

[Morch]

The nine must step down, but they shall return!

Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and of the domination of the One which was Sauron's. And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. The Nazgûl were they, the Ringwraiths, the Úlairi, the Enemy's most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death. — The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age", 346

They were by far the most powerful of his servants, and the most suitable for such a mission, since they were entirely enslaved to their Nine Rings, which he now himself held . . . — Unfinished Tales, p. 338

They would have obeyed . . . any minor command of his that did not interfere with their errand — laid upon them by Sauron, who still through their nine rings (which he held) had primary control of their wills . . . — The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 246

[Scamper]

A fascinating list. It is time now to take a step back for a moment just to see how much has changed, and in a relatively quick space of time. Phue Thai have on knee-jerk rebound done something for which there will be considerable backlash. They nominated a prime minister through a cabinet - not through a parliament, as the constitution allows, and not through the Senate, that the constitution also allows in the event of a quorum-less parliament. Pheu Thai has nominated a prime minister through a cabinet. Half a cabinet in fact, because nine cabinet ministers are out, along with Yingluck. So to put our heads around this, not only has Pheu Thai extemporized with the constitution but they have nominated a caretaker prime minister out of half a caretaker cabinet, that is backed by no legislative power, no parliament, and no public mandate.