Thai Army warns elements who attempt to cause public disorder or confusion

[chainarong]

YES SIR!!!!!!..............................

[tbthailand]

Well, I'm confused.

Clampdown on corruption? Look no further than the park scams misinformation and rank-closing.

Run the economy better? They can't even sort their national airline out, the fishing industry slaving issue or air safety standards. Also they've embraced the last lot's populist policies and and dished out amnesties all round.

Reconciliation? Two guys arrested going to a park, whilst an unruly mob protests outside a major embassy with zero consequences.

I wonder when enough will be enough.

Its quite strange, but the think that i find most difficult to swallow is the hypocrisy.

The things you mention above in isolation are really nothing events, but it just seems everything they do they seem to have two standards for. Gathering to protest against the US comments, seemingly no problem, two political agitators doing something fairly innocuous but obviously planned are detained. If things Jat & Natt do are deemed political, it would seem to most people anything the monk does should also seemingly be linked to politics, but no.

Clampdown on corruption, lots of rhetoric etc, but in the one major incident they have, they simply do everything wrong. Try to avoid it, try and deflect it etc etc. Just complete failure.

They are just making a mess of handling so many isolated issues, it just magnifies the hypocrisy and selective enforcement of laws/regulations.

Everything they 'claimed' they wanted to fix, just seems to be getting exacerbated and worse.

Criticize politicians for trying to involve the highest Institution in politics, when they are simply the worst for this.

The list goes on and on.

guys, this is a military junta in Thailand.

They came to power for their own goals.

NONE of the excuses for taking power were real - stopping a 'civil war', fixing corruption, unnamed 'reforms' - ALL just smoke and mirrors.

Eventually smoke drifts away and then it's time to look in the mirror. 20 months after the coup... we just have a mirror and desperate attempts at generating more smoke...

Poor Thailand...

Yes, YES, and yes.

Well said.

The sad thing is that I said the same thing on May 22nd...

[Dap]

Orwellian...an adjective describing the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

Somebody get Red Adair on the phone, it looks like he'll be needed.

[tuanku]

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter