Yingluck in tears over Bt35-bn civil damages

[chainarong]

As I've mentioned before what goes around comes around Prayut is not immune and neither are his cronies, maybe 6months General if you are reading................................ 

[Lex Talionis]

Great photo. A beautiful powerful woman gets down on the level of her rice farmer people,  looks them in the eyes and listens. The elite will never again win an election in Thailand simply because they are by nature incapable of something like this. 

[Dumbastheycome]

5 hours ago, sujoop said:

Just a sample amongst 853 rice scheme corruption cases:
Faked rice deal  links a red-shirt leader and a Yingluck Pheu Thai party MP and a Thaksin crony insider:
 
Dummy firm tied to govt figures
*Guangzhou-based GSSG Import and Export Corporation, was actually represented by a Thai man called Rathanit Sojirakul, who later authorised Phichit-based Nimon Rakdi to (sign) a contract to purchase 5 million tonnes of rice on the company’s behalf. ...Rathanit was a close aide to Pheu Thai MP Rapeephan Phongruangrong, who is the wife of red-shirt leader Arisman Phongruangrong. ...Rathanit, who claimed to be the authorised representative of the Chinese firm, only has Bt64.63 in his bank account...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/politics/aec/30195106
 
Telling comment from Yingluck's (Thaksin's) Commerce minister:
“(After buying the rice) I won’t be investigating what buyers do with it,” he said.
 
Obviously Yingluck + Commerce Minister were not at all interested in investigating their own corruption laden program but some may ask, so what did happen to the rice in this supposedly 'innocent normal subsidy deal'?
 
*The G-to-G deal was a fake because no rice was exported to the Chinese firm. Instead, the huge amount of milled rice was sold locally at below market price by the Foreign Trade Department to a ghost buyer who then sold the rice at market price to the two Thai firms which have their own rice mills and later on the same amount of rice were pledged with the government at pledging prices which are about 40 percent above market price.
 
The gang, it was alleged, made double profits from the same amount of rice.
http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-yingluck-probed-connection-fake-rice-deal/
 
*Meanwhile, the poorest farmers weren't even part of the program. The program was a fraud from the outset. Yet Shin-shills on here would forgive all because as Yingluck stated 'We came from election' (therefore can do whatever they wish apparently).

However, once you have MASS CORRUPTION combined with MASS ABROGATION, SUBVERSION and MANIPULATION of CHECKS and BALANCES which form the very underpinnings of democracy, then you have made the very intent of democracy VOID. Ergo: Democracy was ceased by the Shins actions (yet again, nevermind amnesty for 'the boss').
 

The past 2 coups were an unfortunate re-set caused by the above, all brought about by the avarice and self-serving over-reach of Thaksin. Simply stating 'but we came from election' is moot once they have all but destroyed the very intent and underpinnings of democracy. But these are the low woeful standards which Shin supporters seem to 'aspire to' for the Thai people... Others reluctantly agree a re-set was sadly needed or the road to an unhindered & autocratic dynasty similar to a Marcos or Suharto or Hun Sen was assured.
 

Ultimately in the the rice scheme/fraud, unfortunately Yingluck chose to go along with 'Thaksin speaks / Yingluck does'. In fairness, she had no choice. The result is she willfully turned a blind eye to an 8+ billion USD plunder, therefore is guilty at the least of 'gross negligence of duty'  (as charged) which is specifically NOT excused under the civil liability law to protect public servants - despite Shin-shills hard 'at work'  here spinning, deflecting and ultimately defending on behalf of a despot multi-billionaire task master.

 

 

The essence of it !  The  blatancy !

[Eric Loh]

35 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

The essence of it !  The  blatancy !

 

A tunnel vision art form.

 

[halloween]

18 hours ago, JAG said:

 

The peasantry are a declining proportion. Forced off their land by the gouging of the agriculture middlemen, they are moving to become landless labourers, ripe for exploitation by the gouging of unscrupulous employers.

12 hours days, 6 days a week, ThB ThB8000 a month.

A recipe for a contended happy population which might well cause a few sleepless nights in years to come.

Heaven forbid that the Agricultural Revolution should ever come to Thailand. Luddite!

[selftaopath]

19 hours ago, smutcakes said:

 

Its stupid doing the same thing over and over again... 19 times and counting for the coups. Seems they should of learned long before PTP that they dont work. Who are the  stupid ones again?

 

Governments, military and civiian have given handouts for decades? They dont work? Who are the stupid ones?

 

 

 

 

Your reference to work posed a question re: how much work is involved in rice farming? I live in a "farming village" and don't see a lot of work e.g. daily going into growing rice. Seems more like "watch it grow" then cut it. Seriously is growing rice labor intensive?

[robblok]

10 minutes ago, hyku1147 said:

Thus begging the question: Who orchestrated this media event?

YL of course.. not bad actually.. i give her this she is far more a politician than the general. The general sucks at public appearances YL just avoid questions with elegance.. the PM... he gets rude and angry. 

[daveAustin]

I don't understand why she didn't grab her nipper and do a runner to ShinCity couple years back.

[Ocicat]

Maybe she should get her hair styled like a man's and become a monk and then all will be forgiven.

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

I don't understand why she didn't grab her nipper and do a runner to ShinCity couple years back.

 

Because the big plan is to win and take it all back.. get in power.. stall delay and find ways to recuperate the money and get big T back. They obviously feel they still have a change to turn it around. So if the really loses she only got her self to blame, she has the chance to run (and more then enough money to support herself)

[metisdead]

A number of off topic posts and replies regarding the political violence in 2010 as well as other events have been removed. 

[seedy]

Nonsense post Removed.

[Eric Loh]

"A senior junta official, deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, said today that Yingluck is free to challenge the asset seizure order".

"She can ask for an appeal or mitigation of the order," he said. 

 

This latest comment by the deputy PM is a far cry from the past agreesive tone and before the junta launched their own "yingluck"  style rice subsidies program. Wissanu  

even suggest that she appeal and a new one; mitigate. Look like the junta is relenting and perhaps regretted that they politized the rice subsidies and now have to eat humble pie. 

[elgenon]

Do you think The General is nervous about what will happen to him when he leaves office?

[Eric Loh]

Nothing will happen to him or others of his kind  in Thai history. Especially when he has cleverly aligned himself well that will protect and reward his future. He is a very proud man and all his mis-steps will just hurt his pride. If he is nervous, it will probably be an internal re-shuffle to remove him. The benefactor of all these will likely be Yingluck and PT. 

[Rimmer]

A troll post attacking another member has been removed

[Wilsonandson]

Yingluck gets her hair pulled outside the supreme court where she went to hear witnesses testomy against her rice pledging scheme. It says when I googled it. From Spring News's youtube account.

 

[tootall]

The family is one of the richest families in the world and she would consider taking money from the poor to pay for her sins. Shameful

[LatPhrao]

On 11/4/2016 at 2:19 PM, Baerboxer said:

 

You mean largest minority. 

 

Wrong. The current government, for all their ills are seemingly trying to change some things. The Shins would never have changed a system they could control and manipulate to suit themselves. And never did during their rule for most of this century.

 

Unless of course you don't mind a lying cheating crooked government that tries to ignore the law and claims it's all ok because they came from election?

 

You're referring in detail of course to the junta 'government', but oh wait they weren't elected...   Change? yeah they just change whatever they want, take over, snap people into jail, into re-education, pack the future congress with their own, and have been changing whatever they want whenever needed to meet their agenda.  The Shins might of changed things, but oh wait they got run out of office and persecuted ever since..   Enjoy the blindfolders and dereliction to the truth.

[LatPhrao]

On 11/5/2016 at 11:18 AM, Eric Loh said:

Nothing will happen to him or others of his kind  in Thai history. Especially when he has cleverly aligned himself well that will protect and reward his future. He is a very proud man and all his mis-steps will just hurt his pride. If he is nervous, it will probably be an internal re-shuffle to remove him. The benefactor of all these will likely be Yingluck and PT. 

 

As they say, 'your mouth to god's ear'   may it come true