With all due respect to the well known powers of the City Shrine and the whole pantheon of deities that make this country so fascinating, there is now an opportunity for the disenfranchised to seek protection from these powerful entities on their own terms. These deities are not PAD symbols, nor are they predisposed to offer any special protection or guidance to PAD politics, their talismans or their racist contempt for Khmer sacred objects. These objects are not to be misconstrued as personal favourers based on any particular ritual. What we are seeing is a further obfuscating manipulation by deceptive people who have little respect for the underclasses, or any media related object that can be manipulated at will for their own advancement.

See: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/topstory/read.php?newsid=30087963

(Source: The Nation; “Sondhi Limthongkul, a co-leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, blesses PAD supporters during a rite inside the Government House.”)

BangkokDan

http://www.bangkokpost.com/190908_News/19Sep2008_news95.php

http://www.bangkokpost.com/080908_News/08Sep2008_news23.php

All we’re trying to say ASR is that the PAD is setting quite dangerous precedents. Accusing the vicious cycle of Thailand’s democracy while showing utter disrespect for the rule of law.

If Chamlong, Sondhi & Co. would turn themselves in and fight their cause by legal means, well, it wouldn’t mean the end of their movement, would it, and set an encouraging precedent.

It all comes down to this simple fact: PAD is a misnomer. It neither represents democracy nor the people.

Read, among other voices, the Post’s recent PostBag: “Ordinary Thais have little sympathy for PAD” and “We have to accept the spirit of democracy” – and I’m quoting:

We cannot form or subscribe to a hate group to protest, lawfully or unlawfully, for the winning party to resign and we surely cannot set up rules and conditions in our favor. The rules of the game must be followed and protected from exploitation.

BangkokDan

Thaksin was the worst enemy of democracy and never made a secret out of out during his sheer 100% own dictatorship he was conducting during his six years time in office, controlling and demanding each political step by his own ideas and cronies pockets etc. Just a short 2 years now after the coup, suddenly everyone seams to have this forgotten now. Why?

Isn’t it absolutely clear that Thakin’s proxies are trying to do the same as he did:

Rob the country (by hiding behind short-minded economically, stupid even dangerous no functioning populist policies), and only themselves concentrating on mega projects, and cash in on huge commissions (illegal and under the table as just one big Japanese company recently confirmed), and also of course, securing highly paid management jobs in privatized companies Thaksin took to the stock market?

Why can’t you people understand that the PAD is right in demanding Samak’s resignation. He’s just a puppet and doing all what the people from his party = TRT = PPP = Thaksin and Newin and co are saying and trying to do: “Rob the country and trying to hide their own past illegal wrong doings and actions!”

Really not a democratic legal system (yes the elections are, but the rest is dictatorship) what we have here in Thailand, isn’t it?

Shame on those shortminded wanna-be-journalist and bloggers, who just take names and titles for the rule of law (democratically elected government here anyone? really?), instead of seeing the truth what is really going on here in Thailand and riding on the wave of shortminded/timed journalism and politics.

PS: I admit the one-day take over off NBT and some demands of the PAD are a bit over and uncoordinated. But the main claim: That we’re still having a Thaksinized full corrupt government is so true.