Prayut hints Thais should accept charter draft
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has dropped a hint that he wanted Thais to accept the charter draft that the National Reform Council will vote on this Sunday.

If the NRC votes to support the charter daft, a public referendum would be held soon.

"I have set the rules as if I am preparing this food for you to eat but you choose not to eat. If you want new food to eat, you can find it elsewhere,'' he said.

He said the fate of the charter was not dependent on him giving an order but on Thais' vision for the country and whether they could learn to live together.

"Do you want to live amid political conflicts as before?'' he said.

"Have anyone said after an election is held, 'The country will be peaceful. There will not be protests, street massacres and bomb attacks?' Has anyone guaranteed elected governments can solve these problems,'' Prayut said.

Prayut said the public had to be assured there would not be arm-wrestling during the administration of future elected governments.

"An elected government should answer the society how it can stop such incidents from repeating and what reforms it is planing to do. Do not quarrel over whether we should reject or accept the charter draft,'' he said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Prayut-hints-Thais-should-accept-charter-draft-30268059.html


-- The Nation 2015-09-03

This just keeps getting better and better!

Hint?

The people have the nonce to decide for themselves, they don't need the elite telling them what to do , the more the pressure the more they might just suspect something smells.

"Do you want to live amid political conflicts as before?

That side of the political divide really does believe, to their core, that political diversity equals political conflict.

Eliminating one, eliminates the other, in their strongly held opinion.

And maybe people will accept such a thing.

As in Russia, historically they want a strong, dictatorial type ruler.....Putin plays to that image perfectly.

Isnt that the same as 2007. Just accept it and it can be changed / improved later.

Fooled once, I can fool them again!

How about he stops telling people what they want. If they want political turmoil that is a matter for them. It is their choice, not his.

Khaosod English

27 August 2015

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I guess it depends on who is doing the campaigning. One rule for us and our kind and one rule for everyone else. Same as it ever was........

They want the people to be sheep, but only to follow orders from certain colours of sheep dogs.

What will happen if the public do not accept the new charter?

No elections for many years to come i suppose?

Anyway the military have always considered Thais to immature to vote.

A big tidy up isnt easy - without wish wellingtons...

Perhaps if the army supported an elected premier, no matter which of the 70 parties they might come from, maybe, just maybe, there would be peace .

Look at the man in the mirror.

Even though it is a catch 22 situation, I hope the public send a strong signal & vote this atrocious constitution down. If they do, the pressure will mount on these military buffoons.

If he had upheld the law under the previous democratically elected government he would have no need to be saying this now.

Let's see him make some REAL progress and finally get rid of this horrific Lese Majeste law. Fat chance.

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The key point the unelected Prime Minister omits, of course, is that it is the elites and the military who select puppets like Sondhi and Suthep to do their bidding and stir up political trouble so that the army can move in and remove the democratically elected government. If things were on the up-and-up, the police would be able to arrest the puppets and their followers for breaking the law and disturbing the peace. But, alas and alack....

Is Prayut now Suthep's puppet?

The previous day, Suthep said that people should vote for the charter.

"If you want new food to eat" ... you can just just continue to do without your rights and liberties.

How does that taste?

When you are the Big D, what does ' hint ' mean ?

Perhaps if the army supported an elected premier, no matter which of the 70 parties they might come from, maybe, just maybe, there would be peace .

Look at the man in the mirror.

The previous premier should have condemned the violence, recognized that her brother was, in large part, responsible for the police not doing their job in 2010, and called for martial law. Perhaps if she would have, the army would have quelled the terror campaign and she could have sent them back to the barracks by now.

Lets face it he doesn't give a shit what the people want, this election is all about pacifying the West who is growing tired of asking when the election is happening. However, if this charter passes one can imagine the West not being fooled and still keeping its distance.

My guess is that if the referendum is open and fair ( which I doubt ) the charter draft will go down like a lead balloon.

I am not sure if it's just the general and his cohorts or whether this applies to all Thai people, but there seems to be a problem in differentiating between political differences of opinion and political turmoil.

If a party or a group of people come out strongly against a policy and campaign against it, that is not political turmoil that is democracy.

People allowed to have opinions and voicing those opinions.

It doesn't mean the country is in turmoil.

If the general thinks he is going to get every Thai in agreement with him he really is in cuckoo land.

Political turmoil occurs when violence or subversive persuasion is used as an opposition. That has been the case here in the last of course, but people dealing in violence should be dealt with by the law and people still allowed opinions.

The General has taken power ( not earned it) and expects everybody to think he's wonderful and agree with every utterance.

Firstly not everyone thinks, or ever will think , he is wonderful and second proper democracy is accepting people will disagree with you and respecting their opinions and their right to take up an alternative position.

He has got to learn to trust his people. Allow them the freedom to make their choices and then accept their decision without anymore military intervention,

If he is doing a good job he will be elected. If he is viewed as a poor leader he will be out.

Or maybe he cannot stand the thought of the latter.

...charter daft, a public referendum would be held soon.

Charter DAFT...so far the best description....

Sign here!

Don't ask questions!

Thailand's usurpers of power are now trying to hard sell their version in representation. Again, those who supported the junta should be ashamed. Nothing has been accomplished to date.

By any stretch of the imagination these are very threatening words. Offering peace through threats, that tells me a lot about what to expect.

By the way of translation I think he is saying "You know your place in society, get back there and listen to your masters".

"If you want new food to eat" ... you can just just continue to do without your rights and liberties.

How does that taste?

Like Yingluk old crop rice I reckon.

"If you want new food to eat" ... you can just just continue to do without your rights and liberties.

How does that taste?

Like Yingluk old crop rice I reckon.

Which is worse? The rice scheme was idiotic but this seems far worse.

Perhaps if the army supported an elected premier, no matter which of the 70 parties they might come from, maybe, just maybe, there would be peace .

Look at the man in the mirror.

The previous premier should have condemned the violence, recognized that her brother was, in large part, responsible for the police not doing their job in 2010, and called for martial law. Perhaps if she would have, the army would have quelled the terror campaign and she could have sent them back to the barracks by now.

It did not matter what the elected Prime Minister wanted, it is the higher-up elites that count. The police will not arrest anyone, and the army will not quell people like Suthep, unless they get orders from the elites to do so. But people like Suthep and Sondhi act on behalf of the elites to stir up trouble, which leads to a military coup to rid the country of the pesky elected government that does things the elites do not want. It really is not difficult to see what is going on and why.