New Pro-Thaksin Website: Postcards & Banners To “Please Save Thaksin”

We fondly remember the – now banned – pro-Thaksin website hi-thaksin.net and other sites praising the now-fugitive former strongman, such as thai-grassroots.com and newskythailand.com.

But those sites are solid propaganda compared to the just launched, girlie-like savethaksin.com fan site. It’s a Thaksin-sanctification spreading the mantra “Please Save Thaksin – One for All, All for One.” Urging the public to express support for Thaksin and promote his salvage.

The site urges people to support Thaksin by sending postcards with the message “Please save Thaksin” to the British Embassy to Thailand. Begging the British government to spare the man from extradition. To grant asylum to the one many others call a criminal and great demagogue.

savethaksin.com, the site says, promotes the return to real democratic power and offers pro-Thaksin pictures and web banners for downloads. That’s right, for use on other websites or to have pictures painted on shirts.

It’s a rather safe bet though that Thaksin will be a convicted man pretty soon and it remains a mystery to me how somebody who will most probably be convicted of abuses of power and systematic embezzlement dares to ask for political asylum.

Just take the Burma loan. The case looks as sure as eggs is eggs. So help you the British justice.

The man keeps on dividing the place.

But it’s quite easy, as the site proclaims: “Save Thaksin, Save Democracy.”




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9 Responses to “New Pro-Thaksin Website: Postcards & Banners To “Please Save Thaksin””

  1. fdl on August 21st, 2008 4:56 pm

    “Save Thaksin” – that slogan does sound as if Thaksin is an endangered species, which of course is false.

    There are still lots of crocodiles and lizards flourishing in Thailand and surely one Thaksin or Vatana out of commission would not make a serious dent in their population.

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  2. Alex on November 6th, 2008 9:45 pm

    Save Thailand and save Justice. Bring the dog back to face the music. He is a convicted felow and is not better than the rest of thiefs!

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  3. David Higgs on January 12th, 2009 11:51 pm

    How do I contact and register my support. Khun Thaksin needs to come home to save Thailand.

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  4. Mark on August 29th, 2009 7:12 am

    Thaksin … When I think about it, I feel sad that a man who has given his life for the betterment of his country has been treated as such by power mongering idiots who wouldn’t know how to run the country properly at all. In the end, Thais will remember the time when all was going well and selfish vultures took over, may it never happen again. A lesson to all Thais.. Bring back democracy please. Justice does not necessarily mean Thaksin as PM again, but it certainly does not mean that the current illegitimate government stays in power. There can be a million re-elections, Thai people will vote Thaksin. And no, the vote is not corrupt. All you have to do is walk the streets of Thailand, speak to the Thai people and you will realize that opposition to Thaksin is a minority, all be it a powerful rich minority.

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  5. BangkokDan on August 29th, 2009 11:33 am

    If it would be that easy Mark.

    Thaksin’s later rule was a rule of lies and suppression, just to mention all the denials (bird flu, cracks in Suvarnabhumi’s runways), the resulting systematic intimidation of any critic, his open challenging of the institution, etc.

    Not to mention the war on drugs, Krue Se and Tak Bai. Massacres.

    Time’s on his side now. People forget too easily. But he, reformed?

    BangkokDan

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  6. i am from thailand on March 16th, 2010 3:51 pm

    hi fucker…i hab comment u in tuksin live and here….u are the betrayer of our country…u are not suppose to live in our country cus u cheat everything…u tell ur son to cheat in exam becus he had a low “IQ”u nv pay any tax as for us we had to pay even more…u give money to those all uneducated person to be ur body guard as they are called “red shirt”i wonder how long can u continue to make wars wif our country….now u had made our country not popular cus no one dares to come..pls to all educated person..don u know u had being cheat all the time..when he not in thailand everyone was so happy and delight..now the square mother fucker no cock face come bak to thailand made our country worst…why don we choose other prime minister..cant we change this stupid tuksin ?if u are educated i think u shuld know wat i mean…he come to our country is not to save our country is to save himself allright?plsplspls don get trick by this square dog face..

    pls..if who wanna tell me wat i had said worng do tell me

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  7. No Red on April 6th, 2010 3:50 pm

    Save Thanksin???? Please that man has enough money to save himself. He’s not risking his own life … now you see. Migrate family to Montenegro – the land of people who avoids taxation – while buying the lower class people 500 baht a day to fight for him. It’s a shame how pride here is so cheap. If you were educated enough, Mark, you would know that Thaksin is ***king corrupted too. He called himself a slave … and yet try to call himself a king. Another second he called himself a victim of injustice. How ironic.

    (BD: Like that “he’s not risking his own life.”)

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  8. Hobby on April 7th, 2010 8:21 am

    “… he’s not risking his own life.”

    Looked at from another perspective one could say Thaksin IS a risk taker and has much bigger balls than any previously deposed PMs.

    That’s actually the big difference with Thaksin from the usual Thai corrupt politician – he made things happen, and he’s got balls.

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  9. Kit on April 9th, 2010 5:43 am

    Mark, please, feeling sorry for Thaksin? BangkokDan is right. I would like to add, that after Thaksin was in power for a while the news media was suppressed heavily. It was to the point that if a newpaper article did come out putting Thaksin in a bad light, those newpapers never got delivered to the stands in Chiang Mai.

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