Security tightened at Thai Parliament as Yingluck arrives

[winstonc]

"She remained adamantly that her rice pledging scheme is beneficial to the farmers, and will enable them to have a quality of life.

In the 50-minute defence of her innocence, she said she has done nothing wrong and still hoped the scheme could be of great benefit to the country to the poor farmers if it is continued."

Wow, talk about being in denial.

no talk about being utterly retarded i think you mean....(well i do at least)

[mango66]

she done nothing to stop the scam !

thats the correct answer !!

guilty !!

[Halion]

I feel rather sorry for this demented little imbecile who truly does not think she did any wrong as she and her ilk believe that they are totally entitled to carve up this country as they see fit.

When are the current Government going to stop with this charade and hang her out to dry where so so truly deserves to be. A ten year jail term along with asset seizures for the whole bloody lot would be a good start

[Jimbolai]

Oh boy, the last pretense of a civilized nation.

Attack like rabid dogs, a graceful PM duly elected by the people.

[Jimbolai]

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" She remained adamantly that her rice pledging scheme is beneficial to the farmers, and will enable them to have a quality of life."

Beneficial to the farmers ???? That's obviously why some of them committed suicide ??

Give her 500 whips and then throw her in jail for the rest of her miserable life !!! alt=coffee1.gif width=32 height=24>

Sure, you know so much better than the many that elected her. Give you one thousand whips and throw you overboard.

[chooka]

A guilty verdict would bring an automatic five-year ban from politics and risks enraging her family's 'Red Shirt' supporters, who have laid low not been paid since the coup.

Get ready to eat lead, you red vermin. Yeee haaaa

Given that a significant proportion of the people of this country support and voted for Pheu Thai, do you really look forward to wholesale slaughter?

Do you regard them as vermin?

Do your "likers" have the same bloodlust?

*yes

*yes

*How do I know?

sick sick person if you want to see people slaughtered in the streets. A very very sad individual if you crave blood and slaughter of humans or even animals. You desperately need help.

[Cuchulainn]

Yes. I saw in all in Belfast.

Next question.

[ThaiFelix]

"Dolly did it, I'm innocent!"

[NeilSA1]

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" She remained adamantly that her rice pledging scheme is beneficial to the farmers, and will enable them to have a quality of life."

Beneficial to the farmers ???? That's obviously why some of them committed suicide ??

Give her 500 whips and then throw her in jail for the rest of her miserable life !!! alt=coffee1.gif width=32 height=24>

Sure, you know so much better than the many that elected her. Give you one thousand whips and throw you overboard.

why all this talk of whips?

A whip is a tool traditionally used by humans to exert control over animals or other people, through pain compliance or fear of pain.

One whip is usually sufficient

[Basil B]

Why is she worried about being banned from being not able to stand for election for 5 years...

With any luck there will be no elections for more than five years as it is going to take the good general more than five years to sort out the mess that the country is in in due to the poor and corrupt leadership of the Shinawatera's and their cronies.

[surangw]

checking the audience for rotten tomatoes and other projectiles ?

[Fat Haggis]

 

Yes. I saw in all in Belfast.

Next question.

 

when's the last time you saw this in Belfast?

Going by your flag, you're an orange man, so you'd go along the lines then that all kafflix should be eradicated as they were vermin due to the action and atrocities of the PIRA and INLA?

All Republicans should have been given lead sandwiches then?

Or if you're a Republican, then all proddies should have met the same fate?

You're an Ulsterman with a very nasty bigoted view of the reds, there's a surprise indeed!!

[halloween]

Oh boy, the last pretense of a civilized nation.

Attack like rabid dogs, a graceful PM duly elected by the people.

So tell me, does graceful over-ride corrupt? Or inept? Or truthful? Just what are the essential attributes of a PM in a developing democracy, and how many of these could be associated with Yingluk?

[JAG]

Yes. I saw in all in Belfast.

Next question.

So did I, and much of it was down to the sort of atavistic bigoted response to other peoples beliefs that you seem to endorse.

Funnily enough your sort where always the first to run snivelling for protection when anyone had a pop at you.

Edited January 23, 2015 by JAG

[PilotEd]

This is a rigged impeachment by the Abhisit forces known as the yellow shirts. They just don't want to give the poorer people a bone ever. Instead like all the wealthy folks around the world they are not content with owning 99% of the wealth - they want it all. Greedy bastards!

[Manbing]

This is a rigged impeachment by the Abhisit forces known as the yellow shirts. They just don't want to give the poorer people a bone ever. Instead like all the wealthy folks around the world they are not content with owning 99% of the wealth - they want it all. Greedy bastards!

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The truth is out now, abhasit is our new pm, not prayuth?

The rice farmers didn't get robbed by Yingsy and her mob?

The Shins just want to give money to the poor?

PilotEd is living in a river in Egypt.

[beowolf2012]

Yingluck says she’s done nothing wrong



BANGKOK: -- Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today defended accusation of negligence of duties in the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) that resulted in huge loss and rampant corruption, claiming that they were unfounded and imagination.

She remained adamantly that her rice pledging scheme is beneficial to the farmers, and will enable them to have a quality of life.

In the 50-minute defence of her innocence, she said she has done nothing wrong and still hoped the scheme could be of great benefit to the country to the poor farmers if it is continued.

She said accusations that the disappearance of million tons of rice and the G-to-G rice deal with China were also misleading the public that they were true.

She produced documents shown with PowerPoint on the screen saying she had many committees to supervise and monitor rice sales to ensure no corruption, and transparency.

She also said the accusations were based on those who were hostile to her government but were kept as witnesses by the NACC.

She identified opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, and Dr Warong Dejkijwikrom as her political foes but questioned why the graft buster called them to give information.

She also questioned the short 21-day time taken by the NACC to conclude its probe and accused her, saying it had hidden agenda.

Her defence of the rice-pledging scheme in the closing statement today came after the National Anti-Corruption Commission member Vicha Mahakun verbally presented summary of the accusations in the closing statement.

She denied all accusations and pleaded for justices from the NLA, saying she never has any thought to corrupt, to neglect, but would merely want a chance for the poor farmers to have better living, to stand on their own feet, and live happily.

In one stage, she said should she were to be removed by the NLA under unfounded, doubtful, and vague accusations, it would be tantamount to deprive her of the basic right of freedom as she would lose her political rights for five years.

Mr Vicha said in the closing statement calling NLA members to decide without bias the guilts of the former premier who he described should have more conscience and responsibility than ordinary people to sit in the top position in the country but neglected such responsibility.

He said person with no intellectuality but commits serious wrongdoings deserves pardon if he has morality as he could be remedied and can be beneficial to the country.

But a person with intelligence, knowledge but lacks of conscience, morality will merely cause enormous damage to the country that could never be seen again of such enormous amount in this century, he said.

Mr Vicha described how the pledging scheme of the accused was a total failure, saying “the farmers pawn their lives while the country pawns the debts.”

Every step of the scheme was corrupted, and caused serious damages to the country, he said.

He said the damage of almost 700 billion baht incurred by Ms Yingluck’s negligence of duties now poses heavy burden for this government to slowly release 17 million tons of the pledged rice in the stocks, so as not to affect the rice price.

Now the farmers are suffering from such remaining huge stocks, he said.

He called on all NLA members to make history to punish and remove irresponsible politicians.

The NLA will vote tomorrow whether to remove her or not.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yingluck-says-shes-done-nothing-wrong


-- Thai PBS 2015-01-22

good for her! but the die is cast and the long knives are out and they do not care about the truth

Yingluck Sinawatra is guilty of the charge. Even though she is not directly concerned with the case to make.
Yingluck Shinawatra was Prime Minister and is accountable to all her officials in her government even if some of them are corrupt.
If she does not know what her right hand and left hand do ..
Should she not worked as prime minister.

[mike324]

Yingluck said it herself during her term that there was corruption and rice millers were involved, yet her party refuse to continue the investigation. Its straight from the horses mouth, how much more proof do people really need. Unbelievable, throw her in jail.

[FangFerang]

A die hard Yellow Shirt supporter told me "The corruption was always there, and always will be there. Thaksin just went too far." I said okay, I agree, and it's your country, but what about the impeachment? Do you think it will make things better or worse? He said, "Better they will be gone. Worse, those that supported them will never forget it." I can handle that version of the truth...but only to a point becuase it is blatantly counter-productive.

In the name of some non-existent moral high ground, elusive at best and bombastic at least, the appointed government who overthrew the previous government is now putting select members they overthrew on trial, to somehow claim it will prove their coup was justified...when the impetus for the coup came from illegal protests and occupations of public and private land and buildings...and whose Suthep leader claimed he had worked all of it out months before the coup with the leaders of the coup (which they summarily denied, of course), and just before Suthurd summarily ran off to be a monk and subsequently was reminded by the junta to keep his mouth shut. Yes, it is a run on sentence they will deliver.

Yawn. Nobody saw this coming....

The idiots are making a martyr, in the name of...reconciliation? No. of course not. This indictment of the opposing leadership is a coincidence, the 21 days is always the time required to evaluate a case and bring it to trial (and such cases always restrict witnesses). People have been told "This impeachment is about corruption. Reconciliation is a completely separate issue."

Sorry -- no voter in the country is buying that bovine fecal matter.

[FangFerang]

good for her! but the die is cast and the long knives are out and they do not care about the truth

Yingluck Sinawatra is guilty of the charge. Even though she is not directly concerned with the case to make.

Yingluck Shinawatra was Prime Minister and is accountable to all her officials in her government even if some of them are corrupt.

If she does not know what her right hand and left hand do ..

Should she not worked as prime minister.

Um, dereliction is seeking to prove some one did not do something. Unfortunately, your definition of dereliction, and being "guilty of the charge" includes Abhisit for the 2010 killing field in a temple, and Suthep and his co-conspirators for allowing their guards to put a man in a coma in front of his pregnant wife because he refused top stop for non-police and bumped their illegal traffic cones, and other "peace loving guards" who detained and tortured a man at Lumpini park for over three days without food or water.....

I hate it when Thais post here and are convinced no one remembers last year's news.

[maidee]

the country lost 800 billion baht with this scam

but the leader has done nothing wrong

the millions of tonnes of rice missing, or never excisted, no problem ... the farmers got peanuts , the middlemen got richer