Oops, But Thaksin Just Got A Boost
No live-blogging and updating today. It was the probably busiest day of my life. And sorry for the good-hearted Southerners who tried to do good deeds and were therefore commanded by PAD chief demagogue Sondhi Limthongkul today for having “temporarily left their jobs, farms and homes to help support the PAD movement.”
Without those Southerners not much would have happened this week, as Bangkokians have deserted the PAD already in large numbers. But there in the South they found some good-hearted people and trucked them in; mostly elderly, always smiling and constantly hand-clapping people – maybe they’re about to realize what they’re manipulated into.
Sorry for this beautiful country to having become a tragic laughing stock in the eyes of the world. We all here know there must be a reason that the army and police let the escalation happen. We all know that it borders on the supernatural that the PAD is allowed to do whatever they want to do without its core leaders fearing any harm nor being arrested for a, well, longer list of misdeeds.
But you doubters and political die-hards out there: Right, the end justifies the means. Still defending the mayhem in the name of democracy. But realize this one thing: I’m not an admirer of the great absentee. He’s a demagogue on the same level as the PAD’s leaders. But with what is happening right now in the kingdom, be assured that support for Thaksin Shinawatra becomes stronger and stronger.
Everyone’s trapped right now, everyone in Thailand is suddenly involved in this unspeakable mess. So did Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat do the right thing by assuring the kingdom tonight that his position is unimportant? That the nation and democracy are important? That he will neither resign nor dissolve the house?
Your’s the understudy. Somchai fights. For now, as Thailand crashes & burns. If the powers that be overthrow him, then better have mercy with Thailand because there will be war for sure, Reuters quotes a senior member of the government-loyal Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship.
We’ll soon see! Expect some collateral damage. Ending a “peaceful” protest … Some more collateral damage doesn’t really matter anymore, does it. Time for some clean-up.
“Trapped” is the key word in this whole story.
I’ve used several times another one on my blog, fashionable okay, but nevertheless appropriate I believe: “conundrum”!
We are all trapped. They are trapped.
Govt, PAD and army. Cornered, trapped.
Only one solution could … save some time: a direct intervention of the King of course.
The problem is: it would be temporary. Because after his succession, the circus would resume (bloodier and dirtier).
I don’t know if we can talk about “war.” But an endless crisis, yes certainly.
Other words come to my mind: “Philippinization” for the best if I may say.
And “Burmanization” for the worst …
ThaiCrisis, you summed it up perfectly.
OUCH!! I bet that hurt.
Thailand shoots itself in the foot again and again..
No tourists need apply to come here.
Thaksin received a boost? Hardly. Every news report around the world traces this current mess back to him.
Thailand is a great place but they are slowly on the road to ruin I feel.
I read on a news feed that there going to take away the vote for Thais in Isaan – can that really be true? Please tell me I am very wrong.
Don’t know if that is true or not, but the FACT remains that Isaan people sold their country out to a certain ThaI-Chinese dictator for 100 Baht and a loan to buy a cell phone.
Without the Isaan people selling out their country nobody would have blocked the airport or died.
It is ALL on them.
So now is payback time, KR? Take away their vote and keep them prostrated, where they belong? Some PAD supporters are posting on the wrong forum …
To take away their vote would be wrong and do much more harm to the whole country. I just don’t see that it’s possible.