Arrest warrant issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra over court no show, trial delayed to 27 September

[realenglish1]

Just now, rijb said:

Rich kids, rich monks, and rich politicians fleeing the country.  Money rules again.  Time for the junta to change their mindset? 

Looks like you support the Junta Time for the Junta to call elections 

[Dogmatix]

You can imagine her team of highly paid lawyers consulting a team of highly paid doctors to come up with a disease that is rather hard to diagnose (or refute) but causes bouts of sudden, incapacitating dizziness - Ménière’s disease.   Quite unusual at 50 years old but possible. 

[stephen tracy]

2 hours ago, robblok said:

Your right about the red bull guy, but seems YL got some traits of her brother still. 

 

If she does do a runner its either an egg on the face of the junta or they deliberately let her go. Like you said she was watched a lot. 

I've always been under the impression - perhaps falsely  - that the junta have always wanted her to go. 

[cumgranosalus]

I can't see how the government can come out of this with anything but egg on their faces.

[Tchooptip]

Not sure 100% about this arrest warrant ?

They said on Thai medias she could not come because she had water in her ears... ...this very second I just read she went to Singapore yesterday 24 so right now she is in Singapore! ... If no fake news :-)

[Bluespunk]

Interesting article about this in today's guardian which has a quote from the DP saying she's left the country. 

 

More interestingly, they talked to a yingluck supporter, who reacted negatively to any suggestion she's done a runner. 

 

Refused to believe she would leave them...

[aslimversgwm]

2 hours ago, gummy said:

Well that will show the world what these judicial scrotes with Junta backing are really about, if they did not know already !!

 

Just think that these morons have now emboldened most of Issan ( at least those that were sitting on the fence previously)  and many of the conscripts in the very army that is telling the judges what to do.  

Quite! Yes and certain regiments up here are full of these. Interesting to see what happens next.

[Dogmatix]

Possibly she has already been allowed to flee the country, which is clearly what the junta wants prior to a prison sentence. Then she is out of the picture completely and isn't made a martyr to the red shirt cause. 

 

More likely though it is a ploy from her legal team.  Boonsong and the other other defendants in the G-to-G rice exports scam case did show up at the court.  Knowing the verdict in that case would be helpful to Yingluck.  If they get convicted, which seems rather likely to me, it is more likely that she will be convicted, even though the cases are not perfectly correlated.  That might indicate trying to cut and run without waiting to hear her own verdict and vice versa.    

[LannaGuy]

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

Interesting article about this in today's guardian which has a quote from the DP saying she's left the country. 

 

More interestingly, they talked to a yingluck supporter, who reacted negatively to any suggestion she's done a runner. 

 

Refused to believe she would leave them...

She had to and they will understand that after the initial shock.

[sandrabbit]

My wife just old me she flew to Singapore yesterday evening so maybe the rumours are true.

[Artisi]

12 minutes ago, rijb said:

Rich kids, rich monks, and rich politicians fleeing the country.  Money rules again.  Time for the junta to change their mindset? 

Can a leopard change its spots? 

[stephen tracy]

2 hours ago, seajae said:

smart?, she is showing just how little she cares for Thailand like her brother, she like him thinks she is above the law and can do as she pleases. This has been her plan all along, she told her supporters not to show up today because she knew she would not be there, she will only be a martyr to those that lack the intelligence to be able to think for themselves like all her supporters do. The only people that like her are those that want to get into her pants and those that want money for nothing which is all the ptp/reds and her apologists.

If TV gave out awards for moronic comments, this would be a contender for first prize.

[Dogmatix]

4 minutes ago, stephen tracy said:

I've always been under the impression - perhaps falsely  - that the junta have always wanted her to go. 

 If they don't, they should.  In prison, she would become a rallying point for PT and the red shirts that could enhance their electoral chances significantly, if and when there is another election.  The best for them would be that she cowardly left to join her brother in luxurious jet setting exile and, like him, was later sentenced to prison in absentia, so she could never come back and she and the family and party are discredited.

 

If she is acquitted, they will face some very angry yellow shirts.  Suspended sentence would be the second best outcome for the junta, particularly if she is convicted in absentia. 

[rockingrobin]

5 minutes ago, cumgranosalus said:

I can't see how the government can come out of this with anything but egg on their faces.

They will use section 44 to ban eggs

[smutcakes]

3 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Interesting article about this in today's guardian which has a quote from the DP saying she's left the country. 

 

More interestingly, they talked to a yingluck supporter, who reacted negatively to any suggestion she's done a runner. 

 

Refused to believe she would leave them...

The guardian quotes the DP saying it 'is possible' she has left.

 

And your "refused to believe she would leave them" is just entirely made up.  Why make that up when anyone can simply go on the article.

[khunpa]

1 hour ago, NCC1701A said:

the word on the street is she left yesterday.

 

 

Damn! She is CUTE!!! 

Whats wrong with her brothers head? Its huge!

Edited August 25, 2017 by khunpa

[Artisi]

33 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

Sadly, I think you genuinely believe what you wrote.

 

At 30m for sacrificing bail I would call that 'egg on face'.

30m, loose change in the pocket for some folk. 

[Becker]

31 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Just your typical rubbish.

Man, your hard hitting arguments have won me over!!

[rijb]

1 minute ago, khunpa said:

Damn! She is just so much more cute than her brother...

Some Thais believe he is her father.

[CNXBKKMAN]

47 minutes ago, JAG said:

 

There again he is alive. I rather doubt that had he entered the jail system he would have come out alive.

Much the same applies to his sister...

 

The "jail system" for him would be a private cell/residence, comfortable bed, maybe aircon, good food, everything he needed except freedom to leave. The governors of the jail and the prison officers would automatically "wai" and be polite and apologetic for his inconvenience whilst in jail.

[Bluespunk]

4 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

The guardian quotes the DP saying it 'is possible' she has left.

 

And your "refused to believe she would leave them" is just entirely made up.  Why make that up when anyone can simply go on the article.

From the article...

 

“What?” said a 75-year-0ld woman when told the court considered Yingluck to be a fugitive. “She won’t flee because she fights hard. She’s a working woman and a strong woman.”

 

The paragraph that followed it was equally interesting, but for a very different reason. 

Edited August 25, 2017 by Bluespunk

[ThaiWai]

Maybe they can get one diamond encrusted...

 

[smutcakes]

Just now, Bluespunk said:

From the article...

 

“What?” said a 75-year-0ld woman when told the court considered Yingluck to be a fugitive. “She won’t flee because she fights hard. She’s a working woman and a strong woman.”

So you draw that means she refused to believe she would leave THEM?

[binjalin]

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

From the article...

 

“What?” said a 75-year-0ld woman when told the court considered Yingluck to be a fugitive. “She won’t flee because she fights hard. She’s a working woman and a strong woman.”

 

Yingluck is a fugitive but not a fugitive from Justice.

[choff56]

17 minutes ago, Pattaya28 said:

My money says she's out the country already having a laugh with her brother and the Red Bull killer.

They're ordering a round of Singapore (avoid the) Slings right now.

[dbrenn]

Pretty much everyone who has publicly disagreed with the government ends up in hiding, fleeing, or in the slammer.

 

[Bluespunk]

7 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

So you draw that means she refused to believe she would leave THEM?

Who else is she supposed to represent?

 

Now, regarding your slur that I am making things up...

Edited August 25, 2017 by Bluespunk

[Bluespunk]

9 minutes ago, binjalin said:

 

Yingluck is a fugitive but not a fugitive from Justice.

To paraphrase Mr Spock {or was it Dr McCoy?}

 

Its justice Jim, but not justice as we know it...

Edited August 25, 2017 by Bluespunk

[jesimps]

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

Arrest her before she meets her brother somewhere on a deserted island.

You couldn't make this stuff up ...... 

 

Amazing Thailand .....    we love you    !!!!!!!!!!!!

She won't scarper, she has too much class and loves the normal Thai people. She also happens to be the latest elected PM.

 

[fullcave]

3 hours ago, smutcakes said:

Funny they could never issue an arrest warant with anh urgency for Red Bull guy.

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Red Bull guy is not seen as a threat to the military junta.