NLA grants itself open-ended impeachment power

[chongtak]

Why isn't she already in a jail cell?

[Eric Loh]

Why isn't she already in a jail cell?

As rhetorical as saying why she isn't still the Prime Minister and let the people be judge if she and her party deserve another term.

[airconsult]

NLA grant itself........ So true as the saying goes "absolute power corrupts".

sarc on/ "I AM THE LAW!!!!!" /sarc off

[airconsult]

Perhaps now it will become apparent to certain posters on here that the ability for the public to make their choice by voting is actually quite important in the democratic scale of things.........

you are waaaay too optimistic.

The public can vote once the army has cleared up all the mess of corruption and eliminated undesirable politicians ffrom the political scene.

This is what every one seems to want except people like you and your red shirt pals, of course

You speak only for yourself and like minded low grade foreign reactionaries.Many intelligent and well educated Thais, who could certainly not be described as red shirt pals ( to use your idiotic expression) are deeply concerned at the authoritarianism of the ruling Junta.And once again people like you overlook that the Thai army is itself monstrously corrupt - yet on this front so far not a word.

"monstrously" - that is a.....huge.... understatement

Though you could also add many other words - but that would be in breach of the rules...

eg. as an example - 2010 they wanted to deal with a problem - does anyone except me remember they didn't actually have enough guns for the 30000 soldiers posted to BKK? As I recall they ended up restoring WW2 weapons from storage.

[JAG]

Perhaps now it will become apparent to certain posters on here that the ability for the public to make their choice by voting is actually quite important in the democratic scale of things.........

you are waaaay too optimistic.

The public can vote once the army has cleared up all the mess of corruption and eliminated undesirable politicians ffrom the political scene.

This is what every one seems to want except people like you and your red shirt pals, of course

You know I thought, rather naively perhaps, that if the electorate thought that a politician was "undesirable" then they didn't vote for him/her.

Eliminating the "undesirable"prior to an election, (by the way,who decides that they are undesirable?), rather removes the point of bothering to have an election don't you think?

[Thanet]

What a load of nonsense. With censorship the order off the day, how can you possibly know that all the steps will be documented, and that the documentation will be a representation of the truth?

You don't know.

Oh come on, Thanet. You didn't know under the previous government either and seem to have been perfectly happy with that. Democratically happy as well.

Wel, at least with the previous government we could read about their screw ups in the papers.

Not any more.

Back to my original assertion - you have no way of knowing what will or won't be documented, nor how it will be documented, so why are you pretending to know about something that you actually know nothing about?

There's a word for that in the Thai language. Do you speak it?

Well, at least we could read about 'some' of their screw-ups, as far as not suppressed. Even Dept. PM Pol. Captain Chalerm as head of CAPO ordered news outlets not to publish anything which could be deemed to put the anti-government protests in a positive light.

So, can you prove "why are you pretending to know about something that you actually know nothing about?" or are you just 'suggesting ?

BTW being a member and posting on this particular forum doesn't require one to speak Thai. To ask if I do doesn't have any relation with the topic as well.

Greetings from a Bangkok where thunder can be heard for half an hour already and a storm might break lose at any moment,

uncle rubl

You pretend to be an expert, but do you even speak the language, or is Friday Prayers your sole source of information?

You don't speak the lingo. How would you know anything?

[tbthailand]

Perhaps now it will become apparent to certain posters on here that the ability for the public to make their choice by voting is actually quite important in the democratic scale of things.........

you are waaaay too optimistic.

The public can vote once the army has cleared up all the mess of corruption and eliminated undesirable politicians ffrom the political scene.

This is what every one seems to want except people like you and your red shirt pals, of course

You know I thought, rather naively perhaps, that if the electorate thought that a politician was "undesirable" then they didn't vote for him/her.

Eliminating the "undesirable"prior to an election, (by the way,who decides that they are undesirable?), rather removes the point of bothering to have an election don't you think?

oooooooh, you have unmasked their plan.

[Denim]

Perhaps now it will become apparent to certain posters on here that the ability for the public to make their choice by voting is actually quite important in the democratic scale of things.........

you are waaaay too optimistic.

Yep, October next year at earliest if the situation is stable enough which of course it won't be since anybody who is still

' unhappy ' now is unlikely to be happy by next October.

Besides, I thought it was generally agreed that democracy doesn't work in Thailand ( because of all the coups ) so why bother at all. If they were to impeach every politician except Mark then call an election he would still manage to lose, assuming sufficient numbers even bother to vote. If they threatened everybody with a stiff fine for not coming out to vote they would just vote for whoever else was running just to keep the democrats out.

No....democracy doesn't work here so let Thailand proudly hold it's head up and claim a permanent Military dictatorship. If it's so good now, why spoil things by having an election and allowing corrupt politicians back ? No...surely the patronage system is a lot better with good paying jobs for all the top brass in every government department like the good old days. No need to be too corrupt if you are on a nice salary of a couple of million baht a year. Much better. Keep the riff raff in their place and encourage everybody to be happy with their lot in life, no need to aspire to better things for your kids....there will always be work for them on the farm.

No, we have all seen what an absolutely great job the military are doing so lets just keep things as they are forever and to hell with international opinion , after all , who really care what the world thinks ?

[JAG]

Perhaps now it will become apparent to certain posters on here that the ability for the public to make their choice by voting is actually quite important in the democratic scale of things.........

you are waaaay too optimistic.

The public can vote once the army has cleared up all the mess of corruption and eliminated undesirable politicians ffrom the political scene.

This is what every one seems to want except people like you and your red shirt pals, of course

You know I thought, rather naively perhaps, that if the electorate thought that a politician was "undesirable" then they didn't vote for him/her.

Eliminating the "undesirable"prior to an election, (by the way,who decides that they are undesirable?), rather removes the point of bothering to have an election don't you think?

oooooooh, you have unmasked their plan.

How fiendishly cunning, as cunning as a fox with two tails!

But wait, it wouldn't work, I mean surely people would notice, I mean not least because it would surely be in breach of The Principles of Democracy, wouldn't it?

[AleG]

The public can vote once the army has cleared up all the mess of corruption and eliminated undesirable politicians ffrom the political scene.

This is what every one seems to want except people like you and your red shirt pals, of course

You know I thought, rather naively perhaps, that if the electorate thought that a politician was "undesirable" then they didn't vote for him/her.

Eliminating the "undesirable"prior to an election, (by the way,who decides that they are undesirable?), rather removes the point of bothering to have an election don't you think?

So in whatever democracy you hail from there's no "undesirable" people that can't run for a position in government? People convicted of corruption, fraud, murder, rape, etc, etc.. all OK for election, right?

In the same vein, do you think someone like Chalerm (No.2 in the PTP government, at least at the beginning) is a "desirable" person to have in power? Well, I guess that since he wasn't actually voted in it's a moot point.

[JAG]

In "whatever democracy I hail from" the Army and assorted other establishment interest groups do not approve/disapprove the candidates prior to the election. That is effectively what the original poster is suggesting, and that is the aim of the Junta and its. NLA. It is not democracy.

[chongtak]

Why isn't she already in a jail cell?

As rhetorical as saying why she isn't still the Prime Minister and let the people be judge if she and her party deserve another term.

She has been found guilty, for that reason she is not the prime minister anymore. The Thai people (and you apologists) can not judge, they have to respect their laws.

[Eric Loh]

Why isn't she already in a jail cell?

As rhetorical as saying why she isn't still the Prime Minister and let the people be judge if she and her party deserve another term.

She has been found guilty, for that reason she is not the prime minister anymore. The Thai people (and you apologists) can not judge, they have to respect their laws.

Guilty of what? Care to explain? Guilty in the eyes of PDRC apologists don't count.

[chongtak]

Why isn't she already in a jail cell?

As rhetorical as saying why she isn't still the Prime Minister and let the people be judge if she and her party deserve another term.

She has been found guilty, for that reason she is not the prime minister anymore. The Thai people (and you apologists) can not judge, they have to respect their laws.

Guilty of what? Care to explain? Guilty in the eyes of PDRC apologists don't count.

You have a selective memory. Or you live in Tanzania and don't read the news.