I'm not a Thaksin lover, but feel tempted to say that he perhaps would be like pneumonia in comparison to what we have now (brain cancer)... However, a simple question: If even a Thai person can have her Thai passport revoked, where's the point for a foreigner in fighting and paying dearly for residency and eventually Thai citizenship? It can be stripped from you at any given moment anyway, so why bother???

Freedom of movement or travel is a constitutional right in most countries. However, to hold or bear a passport is merely a privilege which can be rescinded if there are compelling reasons for cancellation or revocation of that privilege, a telling reminder of which is that disclaimer "this passport is the property of the government of..."

Acquired citizenship is permanent unless the manner of acquisition was fundamentally flawed or wrong by law (such as using fraudulent documents to gain citizenship unlawfully) or if a country's laws specifically legislates that citizenship may be revoked or stripped if the naturalized citizen commits certain offenses, often those classed as a threat to national security or serious felonies or if one joins and serves the armed forces of another country and other reasons unique to certain countries.

Citizenship is a right. A passport is a privilege. Most countries use this basic principle to ensure extradition of their law-mocking citizens. Cancel that privilege and a chain of events restrict that right to travel--- invalid passport, therefore no visa, therefore in trouble with immigration. Only option? That one-way travel document to that place yonder where the long arm of the law awaits. Unless one is blessed with a second, third or fourth passport.

I'm not a Thaksin lover, but feel tempted to say that he perhaps would be like pneumonia in comparison to what we have now (brain cancer)... However, a simple question: If even a Thai person can have her Thai passport revoked, where's the point for a foreigner in fighting and paying dearly for residency and eventually Thai citizenship? It can be stripped from you at any given moment anyway, so why bother???

"However, a simple question: If even a Thai person can have her Thai passport revoked, where's the point for a foreigner in fighting and paying dearly for residency and eventually Thai citizenship? It can be stripped from you at any given moment anyway, so why bother???"

This is a good reason for anybody that has Thai citizenship not to order the murder of 3,000 men, women and children. Gunned down in cold blood on the streets by balaclava clad thugs. Don't do it, you might lose your citizenship. Also a good reason not to get the bent head of telecommunications to grant you the lifetime monopoly on telecoms and then go ahead and sell it to another nation. Fomenting civil war - another no no I'm afraid.

Most expats will not find it a problem to live a normal life and avoid terrorist activities(which may cause your citizenship to be revoked).

I'm not a Thaksin lover, but feel tempted to say that he perhaps would be like pneumonia in comparison to what we have now (brain cancer)... However, a simple question: If even a Thai person can have her Thai passport revoked, where's the point for a foreigner in fighting and paying dearly for residency and eventually Thai citizenship? It can be stripped from you at any given moment anyway, so why bother???

................."I'm not a Thaksin lover, but"......................

That's as far as I got.

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Taksin my brother, if you want a passport I can send you mine for a price and you can have it altered in your home country.

Please send me a PM if you are interested.

So make your mind up is it yes or no? The gov. and media is like a chines fire drill.

I think we have to settle for a maybe. Be interesting know what passports he holds.

I wonder if he got a UK one when he dabbled in owning Man city, if he did then he can travel to pretty much anywhere, plus him and his family are millionaires anyhoo, so could pretty much get hold of anything

he will need a visa to come to Thailand now,like the rest of us do.the only difference is we do not go straight to goal

"....we do not go straight to goal ".

But Lionel Messi usually does.

Was one of the passports that have been revoked the one that was hand delivered to him a couple of years ago by his cousin in law ( or whatever relation it was)? The one that he got around the time of the floods?