scorecard Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Her tactic of having representatives answer questions was also employed twice in the last year by the power brokers aligned with her political rivals. alt=blink.png> I think it is hilarious that the General at the witch hunt demanded she appear, even though a direct relative of his used the same tactic to send representatives just before the coup. alt=cheesy.gif width=32 height=20> You don't have to love either side to see the front men and women of both sides are just... new puppets on very old strings. alt=sick.gif> Sorry your a little late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomacht8 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 A farce, brash and sassy.If YL as the responsible driver make an accident with her car and she must make statements about the accident,She will send then her gas station attendant and her car mechanic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 ...and the nonsense begins...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Bet her next move will be to....................Dubai!!! I am sure Sheikh Al Shinawat will manage to find comfortable quarters, if required, in his desert palace for his younger sister Yingluck. The shopping is world class as are most things there. If he can't be with her in Thailand, she can at least be with him in Dubai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empireboy Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 The Law and Justice are sometimes on opposite sides. The Law generally favours those with the deepest pockets and the most cunning. Just expect an outcome, not a 'Just' outcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snottgoblin Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Anthony5 post #17 You not gonna claim she didn't really graduate at an All Blacks university in the states, do you ? Kentucky State University was established in 1886 as a public institution. Kentucky State University follows a semester-based academic calendar and its admissions are considered less selective. Reckon she would,much as she is now her family slave owning brother has sold her down the river.Rather poetic when you realise that she attended a university founded for the descendants of slaves must have been somewhat of a lone figure there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_State_University Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini81 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Anthony5 post #17 You not gonna claim she didn't really graduate at an All Blacks university in the states, do you ? Kentucky State University was established in 1886 as a public institution. Kentucky State University follows a semester-based academic calendar and its admissions are considered less selective. Reckon she would,much as she is now her family slave owning brother has sold her down the river.Rather poetic when you realise that she attended a university founded for the descendants of slaves must have been somewhat of a lone figure there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_State_University Its made her as articulate and easy to understand as her fellow classmates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Deerhunter Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 "... she insisted strongly she would come ..." Did anybody believe it? I didn't! She's nothing more than a criminal liar! "... she was advised ... no knowledge ..." Advised by the old T.? Still no knowledge? How surprising. She never had! Probably she bought her degree. You not gonna claim she didn't really graduate at an All Blacks university in the states, do you ? Wow! I'm impressed. A degree in Rugby? Not just American football, RUGBY! 555 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 (edited) Yingluck skips NLA grilling Perhaps she might have been more willing to attend had she known she was in for a gentle poaching and basting with warm butter? Edited January 16, 2015 by ratcatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thai at Heart Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 Who the hell writes the rules that a minister or prime minister isn't forced to answer questions in their own empeachment. They can of course say that they are unsure of the answers and defer to others with more direct knowledge, but how can she flatly refuse to pitch and do so legally? What a complete and utter farce of a law 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Haggis Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Bet her next move will be to....................Dubai!!! I am sure Sheikh Al Shinawat will manage to find comfortable quarters, if required, in his desert palace for his younger sister Yingluck. The shopping is world class as are most things there. If he can't be with her in Thailand, she can at least be with him in Dubai. It's an overexpensive shythole, like many other overexpensive places in the Middle East, I also believe that TS spends more time in the Far East these days, Dubai is over rated, it has a couple of Good Malls, which she would be bored with after a couple of weeks. I doubt she will go anywhere, if anything she will stay put. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Deerhunter Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 Well, Eric Loh will be disappointed. He was sure she was going to attend and dazzle them with constitutional questions (or something like that.) They should have said they were giving away fashion coupons. Then she would have turned up. Wait, no she wouldn't. Brother would have told her not to. Be Skype conference mode (if it has one) was busy yesterday & last night. They say "It is better to keep quite & have people think you are an idiot, than to open your mouth & remove all doubt." Probably applies equally to criminal culpability in this case. She is not doing well. PS. Which YL lover will try to tell me my quote apples to me? Probably the usual one!! It is his only weapon since the "but but Suthep" riposte got stale. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Aleman Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 She was with me ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Does it stand that to defy parliament is to break the law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Is that what they call 'grilling without meat'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Does it stand that to defy parliament is to break the law? I suppose that depends on whether one regards a "legislative assembly" appointed by a military junta who seized power during a constitutionally mandated election process, (one which they and their backers were trying their hardest to impede), could be regarded as a parliament, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 "D-Day nears for Thai PM" I thought article would be about the dear general. Someone needs to take these folks aside and gently remind them that since they coup'ed her out, she is no longer the PM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gemini81 Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 Is that what they call 'grilling without meat'? Seems a lot of posters wanna give her a drilling more than a grilling. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 A lawyers game, disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 A lawyer's game ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbthailand Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 If she eventually complains about the process, her complaint will lack credibility, because she failed to personally participate. she actually did already participate, and then there is this little detail The lawyer cited a rule of the NLA meeting that allows relevant persons or representatives to answer on her behalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil B Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 (edited) Who the hell writes the rules that a minister or prime minister isn't forced to answer questions in their own empeachment. They can of course say that they are unsure of the answers and defer to others with more direct knowledge, but how can she flatly refuse to pitch and do so legally? What a complete and utter farce of a law Possibly more to the point is that it is not that the law intentionally excuses them, but it was not ever written into law as it was never thought that some Thai politician would ever stoop so low... Pitty she did not attend it would have been a good advert for Kleenex Edited January 16, 2015 by Basil B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 So what's the bottom line for today? Did her lawyers actually front the meeting? Did they answer questions? Anybody got an update on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabothai Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 An additional impeachement on failing to nail and arrest criminal #1 (fbi) police general, Wouldn't that be nice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trainman34014 Posted January 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2015 Change the law and bring her in with a full set of chains. It's time the people of this country saw her and her family for what they really are.....thieving criminals ! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I hope the NLA don't get too miffed as they are in good company, look how long she ignored the ombudsman over her brother's passport It was not her who ignored the ombudsman, but her uncle ET, who till today didn't give answer about the passport(s)... Must be in the genes... What a bunch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Impeachment calls crescendo as D-Day nears for Thai PM Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | BANGKOK: -- A Thai anti-graft official said ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra must face a "political punishment" for a costly rice subsidy scheme, as calls for her impeachment gathered steam Friday. Yingluck, the kingdom's first female premier and the sister of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, was toppled from office by a controversial court ruling shortly before the army staged a coup in May. She faces impeachment by the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly over her administration's loss-making rice programme, which funnelled cash to her rural base, but cost billions of dollars and was a driving force behind protests that felled her government. The former businesswoman did not appear at her second hearing on Friday -- sparking indignation among anti-Shinawatra assembly members who refused to hear from former ministers sent to represent her. Experts say the impeachment move is the latest attempt by Thailand's royalist elite, and its army backers, to nullify the political influence of the Shinawatras, whose parties have won every election since 2001. A guilty verdict next Friday (January 23) would bring an automatic five-year ban from politics, but also risks enraging her family's 'Red Shirt' supporters who have laid low since the coup. "Although she is no longer in her position she still has to face a political punishment," said Vicha Mahakhun, NACC commissioner. His body led the probe into the rice scheme which paid farmers up to twice the market rate for their grain but left Thailand with a mountain of unsold rice. A successful impeachment needs three-fifths of the 250-strong assembly to vote in favour when they meet next Friday. "We warned the government twice (over the rice scheme) but the government ignored us," Vicha said, adding he hoped the Attorney-General would "agree" to also pursue a criminal charge against her over the scheme. Last week Yingluck defended the scheme as a well-intentioned attempt to support Thailand's rural poor, who historically receive a disproportionately small slice of government cash. "I ran the government with honesty and in accordance with all laws," she told the assembly. But her failure to attend on Friday sparked sharp criticism from members known for their loathing of the Shinawatra clan, who bitterly divide opinion in Thailand. "All of our questions are clearly and directly put to Yingluck... she should come to answer," said assembly member and renowned anti-Thaksin figure Somchai Saweangkarn. The assembly ruled that Yingluck would have to answer their questions next week ahead of the vote. Since Thaksin swept to power in 2001, Shinawatra governments have been floored by two coups and bloodied by the removal of three other premiers by the kingdom's interventionist courts. The Shinawatras' rise has coincided with the declining health of Thailand's revered 87-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej. -- (c) Copyright AFP 2015-01-16 I say again, what's the process to get AFP banned? Why? just because they don't see things the way you do, you call for them to be banned? Isn't that the beauty of having a degree of free speach? If you dislike their style of reporting, don't read it, doesn't get any simpler than that mate. 'The former businesswoman...' cut it there, stop reading, all the rest can only be BS, how is it possible for AFP to fall so low, Robert Amsterdam? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Haggis Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Impeachment calls crescendo as D-Day nears for Thai PM Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | BANGKOK: -- A Thai anti-graft official said ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra must face a "political punishment" for a costly rice subsidy scheme, as calls for her impeachment gathered steam Friday. Yingluck, the kingdom's first female premier and the sister of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, was toppled from office by a controversial court ruling shortly before the army staged a coup in May. She faces impeachment by the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly over her administration's loss-making rice programme, which funnelled cash to her rural base, but cost billions of dollars and was a driving force behind protests that felled her government. The former businesswoman did not appear at her second hearing on Friday -- sparking indignation among anti-Shinawatra assembly members who refused to hear from former ministers sent to represent her. Experts say the impeachment move is the latest attempt by Thailand's royalist elite, and its army backers, to nullify the political influence of the Shinawatras, whose parties have won every election since 2001. A guilty verdict next Friday (January 23) would bring an automatic five-year ban from politics, but also risks enraging her family's 'Red Shirt' supporters who have laid low since the coup. "Although she is no longer in her position she still has to face a political punishment," said Vicha Mahakhun, NACC commissioner. His body led the probe into the rice scheme which paid farmers up to twice the market rate for their grain but left Thailand with a mountain of unsold rice. A successful impeachment needs three-fifths of the 250-strong assembly to vote in favour when they meet next Friday. "We warned the government twice (over the rice scheme) but the government ignored us," Vicha said, adding he hoped the Attorney-General would "agree" to also pursue a criminal charge against her over the scheme. Last week Yingluck defended the scheme as a well-intentioned attempt to support Thailand's rural poor, who historically receive a disproportionately small slice of government cash. "I ran the government with honesty and in accordance with all laws," she told the assembly. But her failure to attend on Friday sparked sharp criticism from members known for their loathing of the Shinawatra clan, who bitterly divide opinion in Thailand. "All of our questions are clearly and directly put to Yingluck... she should come to answer," said assembly member and renowned anti-Thaksin figure Somchai Saweangkarn. The assembly ruled that Yingluck would have to answer their questions next week ahead of the vote. Since Thaksin swept to power in 2001, Shinawatra governments have been floored by two coups and bloodied by the removal of three other premiers by the kingdom's interventionist courts. The Shinawatras' rise has coincided with the declining health of Thailand's revered 87-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej. -- (c) Copyright AFP 2015-01-16 I say again, what's the process to get AFP banned? Why? just because they don't see things the way you do, you call for them to be banned? Isn't that the beauty of having a degree of free speach? If you dislike their style of reporting, don't read it, doesn't get any simpler than that mate. 'The former businesswoman...' cut it there, stop reading, all the rest can only be BS, how is it possible for AFP to fall so low, Robert Amsterdam? See, there you go too, basing all things Thai, from your own experiences, I know plenty of CEO's who were kin of the company founder, who had about as much business accumen as I have in quantum physics, doesn't change the facts they're still seen as business "people" to the General Public, and board members alike. Again, you may not like it, but that's just the way the media works, if it galls you so much, why not go and ask to be the Editor in Chief of the AFP, and run the stories you see fit!! Geeze man, there's some highly strung farang here who seem to think their opinions have any clout within Thai society, just roll with what the media say, and maintain your own opinions, isn't it great you can actually go against the grain, and not be told what to think, and it doesn't stress you out, or wind you up when articles like this and many others goes against your own personal opinions. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Impeachment calls crescendo as D-Day nears for Thai PM Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | BANGKOK: -- A Thai anti-graft official said ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra must face a "political punishment" for a costly rice subsidy scheme, as calls for her impeachment gathered steam Friday. Yingluck, the kingdom's first female premier and the sister of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, was toppled from office by a controversial court ruling shortly before the army staged a coup in May. She faces impeachment by the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly over her administration's loss-making rice programme, which funnelled cash to her rural base, but cost billions of dollars and was a driving force behind protests that felled her government. The former businesswoman did not appear at her second hearing on Friday -- sparking indignation among anti-Shinawatra assembly members who refused to hear from former ministers sent to represent her. Experts say the impeachment move is the latest attempt by Thailand's royalist elite, and its army backers, to nullify the political influence of the Shinawatras, whose parties have won every election since 2001. A guilty verdict next Friday (January 23) would bring an automatic five-year ban from politics, but also risks enraging her family's 'Red Shirt' supporters who have laid low since the coup. "Although she is no longer in her position she still has to face a political punishment," said Vicha Mahakhun, NACC commissioner. His body led the probe into the rice scheme which paid farmers up to twice the market rate for their grain but left Thailand with a mountain of unsold rice. A successful impeachment needs three-fifths of the 250-strong assembly to vote in favour when they meet next Friday. "We warned the government twice (over the rice scheme) but the government ignored us," Vicha said, adding he hoped the Attorney-General would "agree" to also pursue a criminal charge against her over the scheme. Last week Yingluck defended the scheme as a well-intentioned attempt to support Thailand's rural poor, who historically receive a disproportionately small slice of government cash. "I ran the government with honesty and in accordance with all laws," she told the assembly. But her failure to attend on Friday sparked sharp criticism from members known for their loathing of the Shinawatra clan, who bitterly divide opinion in Thailand. "All of our questions are clearly and directly put to Yingluck... she should come to answer," said assembly member and renowned anti-Thaksin figure Somchai Saweangkarn. The assembly ruled that Yingluck would have to answer their questions next week ahead of the vote. Since Thaksin swept to power in 2001, Shinawatra governments have been floored by two coups and bloodied by the removal of three other premiers by the kingdom's interventionist courts. The Shinawatras' rise has coincided with the declining health of Thailand's revered 87-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej. -- (c) Copyright AFP 2015-01-16 I say again, what's the process to get AFP banned? Why? just because they don't see things the way you do, you call for them to be banned? Isn't that the beauty of having a degree of free speach? If you dislike their style of reporting, don't read it, doesn't get any simpler than that mate. 'The former businesswoman...' cut it there, stop reading, all the rest can only be BS, how is it possible for AFP to fall so low, Robert Amsterdam? Why? just because they don't see things the way you do, you call for them to be banned? Isn't that the beauty of having a degree of free speach? If you dislike their style of reporting, don't read it, doesn't get any simpler than that mate. I freely admit I have no time for the scaly shin clan. My point is the less than truthful / obviously distorted / lack of important salient points omitted to spin the scenario. Sure I respect freedom of speech but I expect newspapers to be honest and balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smedly Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ms Yingluck's lawyers advised her to appoint the ministers responsible in the rice-pledging scheme to answer the charges on her behalf, he added. She obviously doesn't quite understand that it is her role as being PM had the ultimate responsibility for everything that the government did, it is not her ministers that were the PM so this hearing has absolutely nothing to do with them, maybe at a later date criminal charges can be brought against them all and efforts made to recover the huge loses Yingluc not turning up for the PM investigative committee hearing is a no show and these other ministers should have been removed from the building Again going back to the Phone tap scandal in the UK - those called for questioning in front of a parliamentary committee did not have an option not to appear in person and answer questions pertaining to their involvement - they couldn't just simply pass the buck for someone to testify on their behalf - which is exactly what YL has done, like I said these people should have been removed and YL arrested and forced to appear, if she chose not to answer questions or comply with the committee then presume guilt as no defence was given - end of 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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