The naysayers don't seem to see what the alternative was going

to be if the army had not taken control of the country,civil war it

was heading quickly in that direction,so what we have today is

the better of the two evils.

Thaksin will just have to pick another member of the family to

be PM, and try to push for amnesty for him and return of his

money,thats the kind of Democracy they want.

regards Worgeordie

If the army didnt take control but did what they supposed to do ,Suthep and friends would sit in prison,and Yingluk would be still PM until next election,

I think u r getting it now. It was less of a conspiracy Imo than Suthep creating such a mess that if they did not take his side the shins would hv ended up in a stronger position than before.

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

I don't know what planet you live on but down here in Thailand its the same old scams day after day....absolutely nothing has changed. I could list all the scams but then again you already think the country of Thailand is bright and wonderful because the general told you so.

The naysayers don't seem to see what the alternative was going

to be if the army had not taken control of the country,civil war it

was heading quickly in that direction,so what we have today is

the better of the two evils.

Thaksin will just have to pick another member of the family to

be PM, and try to push for amnesty for him and return of his

money,thats the kind of Democracy they want.

regards Worgeordie

If the army didnt take control but did what they supposed to do ,Suthep and friends would sit in prison,and Yingluk would be still PM until next election,

I think u r getting it now. It was less of a conspiracy Imo than Suthep creating such a mess that if they did not take his side the shins would hv ended up in a stronger position than before.

you are wrong the mess had been created by the shin government and their politics and Suthep was the one who tried to make an end of this

'Democracy has died in Thailand today': Thai ex-PM Yingluck

that was actually May 22...

NCPO tells Yingluck not to hold press conference

and basic rights like freedom of speech went with it.

What on earth makes you think that freedom of speech is a basic right..... freedom of speech has to be earned and the Thais certainly have NOT earned that... the way they sell their votes to the highest offer denies them that right... Nothing in life is free... grow-up....

NCPO should have authorised it, on the condition she would restrict herself only to answer questions, by herself, not using papers, a prompter, an earpiece, and nobody authorised to stand (jump?) in for her or give complementary comments. There would not have been any press conference IMO, or it would have been an exceptional moment marking the end of a puppet, and maybe of the, muted, ventriloquists around her too...

The naysayers don't seem to see what the alternative was going

to be if the army had not taken control of the country,civil war it

was heading quickly in that direction,so what we have today is

the better of the two evils.

Thaksin will just have to pick another member of the family to

be PM, and try to push for amnesty for him and return of his

money,thats the kind of Democracy they want.

regards Worgeordie

If the army didnt take control but did what they supposed to do ,Suthep and friends would sit in prison,and Yingluk would be still PM until next election,

I think u r getting it now. It was less of a conspiracy Imo than Suthep creating such a mess that if they did not take his side the shins would hv ended up in a stronger position than before.

you are wrong the mess had been created by the shin government and their politics and Suthep was the one who tried to make an end of this

Well Suthep could not created the mess without thaksin being vile sh**e he is.

junta cheerleaders out in force.

have fun. enjoy the news.

And remember...

if you do nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear...

Obviously leading an illegal coup is a far less serious crime than winning the mandate of the voters. This place gets more like animal farm all the time, Prayuth is like Napoleon and any election winner Snowball, to be persecuted with a trumped up charge and hopefully chased off the farm. What happened to 'reconciliation'? or was that just for some of the pigs

Thai wife tells me the men in her Issan village back in Udon, are all happy

The word around is

Never Trust a woman to do a Mans Job

Maybe she not have the full support she used to have

"Never Trust a woman to do a Mans Job"

Well, that's just plain neanderthal misogyny and ignorance.

Has nothing to do with Yingluck.

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junta cheerleaders out in force.

have fun. enjoy the news.

And remember...

if you do nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear...

Obviously leading an illegal coup is a far less serious crime than winning the mandate of the voters. This place gets more like animal farm all the time, Prayuth is like Napoleon and any election winner Snowball, to be persecuted with a trumped up charge and hopefully chased off the farm. What happened to 'reconciliation'? or was that just for some of the pigs alt=biggrin.png>

Thai wife tells me the men in her Issan village back in Udon, are all happy

The word around is

Never Trust a woman to do a Mans Job

Maybe she not have the full support she used to have

more sexism? tell that to Thatcher, ASSK, Indira Ghandi can't come with something better than misogyny? vast majority I have spoken to are very, very sad and will 'wait' as they have all the other times coups have appeared

You are the mother of all boring posters.

90% of your posts are way off topic and just twists and spins.

You never post anything constructive.

Get a life.

And, are you the reborn fabie?

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

any disrespect for Thai citizens comes straight from YOU and your disrespect for the millions who voted, since 2001, for the government THEY wanted

tranquility by the gun? unelected appointees impeaching the ex-PM?

you, Sir, are mad or bad and I can't decide which

You obviously don't take corruption very serious, sir!

junta cheerleaders out in force.

have fun. enjoy the news.

And remember...

if you do nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear...

Obviously leading an illegal coup is a far less serious crime than winning the mandate of the voters. This place gets more like animal farm all the time, Prayuth is like Napoleon and any election winner Snowball, to be persecuted with a trumped up charge and hopefully chased off the farm. What happened to 'reconciliation'? or was that just for some of the pigs

PTP GOOD governance ??? JOKE Trumped up charge what is the loss 700 billion ???? JOKE.

Suppose the Yingluck cheer leaders Want her back to repeat the same sort of governing...JOKE. don't blame me--you posted what you did.

do you write random texts after selecting a random post to reply to?

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She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

I'm quite satisfied with the current state of affairs. Thanks!

who cares you are not Thai and obviously a right wing supporter of an unelected junta - hope you are proud of yourself because God knows you should be ashamed

And U shouldn't be? People who think and speak from the wrong end of their body should be ashamed!!

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

any disrespect for Thai citizens comes straight from YOU and your disrespect for the millions who voted, since 2001, for the government THEY wanted

tranquility by the gun? unelected appointees impeaching the ex-PM?

you, Sir, are mad or bad and I can't decide which

You obviously don't take corruption very serious, sir!

He takes freedom seriously.

Some poster made the fake strawman argument that Thailand has a choice between freedom or cleaning up corruption.

The truth is that they aren't linked at all. Democracies have corruption. Democratic governments need to address corruption.

My country is an example. The USA has corrupt politicians - today. And we aren't calling the generals to come and clean it up for us - check out this clip from yesterday...

on.msnbc.com/1yVvbAT

What happens in Thailand is that the military is called on to fulfil their part in the alliance... Either the traditional elite maintain an acceptable level of control, or a situation is fabricated allowing the military to hit the reset button and give the country back to its feudal lords. Corrupt politicians is the excuse - it's a smoke screen to mask reality.

"Democracy has died in Thailand today, along with the rule of law.

Wrong, democracy died the first time the PTP cabinet accepted Skype calls from a fugitive crook. Democracy died when a government minister, a relative, illegally issued a passport to the fugitive crook. To hear this woman talk about the rule of law makes me want to vomit.

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

any disrespect for Thai citizens comes straight from YOU and your disrespect for the millions who voted, since 2001, for the government THEY wanted

tranquility by the gun? unelected appointees impeaching the ex-PM?

you, Sir, are mad or bad and I can't decide which

You obviously don't take corruption very serious, sir!

He takes freedom seriously.

Some poster made the fake strawman argument that Thailand has a choice between freedom or cleaning up corruption.

The truth is that they aren't linked at all. Democracies have corruption. Democratic governments need to address corruption.

My country is an example. The USA has corrupt politicians - today. And we aren't calling the generals to come and clean it up for us - check out this clip from yesterday...

on.msnbc.com/1yVvbAT

What happens in Thailand is that the military is called on to fulfil their part in the alliance... Either the traditional elite maintain an acceptable level of control, or a situation is fabricated allowing the military to hit the reset button and give the country back to its feudal lords. Corrupt politicians is the excuse - it's a smoke screen to mask reality.

Reality is that corruption was destroying Thailand and the elected governments were doing nothing about it. The democratically elected top politicians all became billionaire the last decade or so. Is your country's corruption as rampant as in Thailand?

Yeah all democracies have corruption. Thaksin loves this attitude.

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

any disrespect for Thai citizens comes straight from YOU and your disrespect for the millions who voted, since 2001, for the government THEY wanted

tranquility by the gun? unelected appointees impeaching the ex-PM?

you, Sir, are mad or bad and I can't decide which

You obviously don't take corruption very serious, sir!

He takes freedom seriously.

Some poster made the fake strawman argument that Thailand has a choice between freedom or cleaning up corruption.

The truth is that they aren't linked at all. Democracies have corruption. Democratic governments need to address corruption.

My country is an example. The USA has corrupt politicians - today. And we aren't calling the generals to come and clean it up for us - check out this clip from yesterday...

on.msnbc.com/1yVvbAT

What happens in Thailand is that the military is called on to fulfil their part in the alliance... Either the traditional elite maintain an acceptable level of control, or a situation is fabricated allowing the military to hit the reset button and give the country back to its feudal lords. Corrupt politicians is the excuse - it's a smoke screen to mask reality.

Reality is that corruption was destroying Thailand and the elected governments were doing nothing about it. The democratically elected top politicians all became billionaire the last decade or so. Is your country's corruption as rampant as in Thailand?

Yeah all democracies have corruption. Thaksin loves this attitude.

to repeat, the point is that it is not a choice between democracy or corruption. Do you agree or disagree? Or do you just want to bash Thaksin?

'Democracy has died in Thailand today': Thai ex-PM Yingluck

that was actually May 22...

NCPO tells Yingluck not to hold press conference

and basic rights like freedom of speech went with it.

What freedom of speech would that be? You can be sued for telling the truth in Thailand.

Under the PTP you could have been killed for telling the truth.

Akeyuth….yes, yes the driver did it!!!

She will emerge as the true heroine in all of this eventually. Shame on those unelected 'appointees' and shame on some TVF 'pundits' for supporting a military junta and be careful what you wish for

The only thing I wish for is better days for this country we live in.

For 7 years now I've been hearing and witnessing social unrest, killings, corruption disrespect for any law, disrespect for the Thai citizens.

For the past 6 months tranquility and enforcement of the law is taking place.

You, Sir, better take the blinkers you are wearing off and Thank the current government for what they are achieving.

Rhetorics is a cheap way to express yourself.

any disrespect for Thai citizens comes straight from YOU and your disrespect for the millions who voted, since 2001, for the government THEY wanted

tranquility by the gun? unelected appointees impeaching the ex-PM?

you, Sir, are mad or bad and I can't decide which

You obviously don't take corruption very serious, sir!

He takes freedom seriously.

Some poster made the fake strawman argument that Thailand has a choice between freedom or cleaning up corruption.

The truth is that they aren't linked at all. Democracies have corruption. Democratic governments need to address corruption.

My country is an example. The USA has corrupt politicians - today. And we aren't calling the generals to come and clean it up for us - check out this clip from yesterday...

on.msnbc.com/1yVvbAT

What happens in Thailand is that the military is called on to fulfil their part in the alliance... Either the traditional elite maintain an acceptable level of control, or a situation is fabricated allowing the military to hit the reset button and give the country back to its feudal lords. Corrupt politicians is the excuse - it's a smoke screen to mask reality.

Reality is that corruption was destroying Thailand and the elected governments were doing nothing about it. The democratically elected top politicians all became billionaire the last decade or so. Is your country's corruption as rampant as in Thailand?

Yeah all democracies have corruption. Thaksin loves this attitude.

to repeat, the point is that it is not a choice between democracy or corruption. Do you agree or disagree? Or do you just want to bash Thaksin?

You said: democratic governments need to address corruption. My point was that I prefer an unelected government over an elected government at this moment in Thailand. Democracy to get a mandate to do whatever you want and if the courts try to stop you from plundering this country you start preaching: democracy is dead? I was just focusing on another part of your post.

Her and her brother are the ones who Destroyed Democracy....

As I said in another thread, this will probably result in a severe blow back later on.

You are too late

This is the blow back after the shins conquered politics

It's not going to end like this. There are two sides and no real reconciliation between them. No matter what the yellows (for want of any other kind of description) will do, the reds (for want of any other kind of description) will eventually react, one way or another and vice versa.

This is not the death of democracy, nor a new dawn, it's merely another rocking of the boat until a bigger storm hits.

Sadly, there's still no end in sight.

If sentencing was up to me, she would get life, with no chance of parole, at hard labor planting rice by hand.

If you don't realise that the rice scheme was manufactured and managed to fail and impeach Yingluck by the ammart and conceived long ago in order to crush any opposition to the military/yellow rule . . well, you are dafter than Suthep and Prayuth together

Yingluck's version of democracy: 'we win the election, we get to do as we please with no censure until someone else wins the election. The end'.

How this women ever got this far in life amazes me, luckily her brother gave her a job.

At least she won an election,I don't remember Prayuth won an election

She didn't win an election. PT won, she was fast tracked to become an MP and the PT MPs appointed her PM. I remember it well.

Prior to that she was the family business rubber stamper.

Electoralism died in thailand today, and a jolly good thing too.

Yingluck had plenty of opportunity to speak - to debate - to answer questions - to attend meetings.

She didn't do any of these things.

She does not care about democracy.

Facebook AGAIN. Stupid n-ego.

What did she ever do for Democracy?

Did a lot of shopping - abroad ... Oops, sorry, went on a lot of 'fact-finding' trips abroad ...

who cares you are not Thai and obviously a right wing supporter of an unelected junta - hope you are proud of yourself because God knows you should be ashamed

Ashamed for what? Telling the truth?

Yinglack is on a slippery slope and she will do time, be sure of it ...

Whatever happened to Thai democracy, one thing I know. Yingluck's narcissism will live forever.

And that of her big brother - obviously mental illness runs in the family ...

who cares you are not Thai and obviously a right wing supporter of an unelected junta - hope you are proud of yourself because God knows you should be ashamed

Ashamed for what? Telling the truth?

Yinglack is on a slippery slope and she will do time, be sure of it ...

Slippery slope maybe, but as some keep telling here 'elite' seldom go to jail, even when guilty and convicted.

Like her or hate her, she was ELECTED by the people.