“For two solid years they had demonstrated bravely and selflessly against all odds to get rid of Thaksin’s parliamentary dictatorship.”

No interest in democracy – no interest in the plights of the less fortunate – and some say this is a Buddhist country – far from it (at least at the top).

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“Meanwhile PM Abhisit continued to walk the tight rope, trying to keep the public cool and calm while making sure national security would not be compromised in the worst case scenario. In his weekly Sunday TV program, PM Abhisit held impromptu Q&A sessions with TV anchors and radio news commentators on current state of affairs, trying to reach out to both the mass media and the public to help the government promote peace and prevent violence.”

Hmmmm … “cool and calm,” “promote peace”? Rather ignores the fact that his personal spokesmen and Suthep and numerous other ministers spent all of January and half of February cranking up the fear message daily … As usual with Abhisit, he does the silk-tongued version while others beat the drum for him.

“When the GT200 bomb detector scandal broke, PM Abhisit gave a strong warning against their faulty and ineffective use, much to the embarrassment of the Thai military who stood firm about using this highly questionable (and expensive) instrument in the deep south.”

Looked at another (arguably more logical) way, just how embarrassed could the Thai military be when they actually chose to spend three hours en masse defending the GT200 at a televised press conference. Certainly embarrassing that they used a slide of the nVidia GT200 computer graphics chip in the proceedings, but what was the whole event if not a full-on rebuff to the PM?

“This historical case did not only punish the former prime minister but also send out a strong message that the people of Thailand have wised up to those sinister political crimes and that they would no longer tolerate corrupt practices among politicians and government officials.”

An attractive notion. So perhaps the good representatives of “the people of Thailand” will shortly be turning their attention to the current crop of “corrupt practices among politicians”? ( http://siamreport.blogspot.com/2010/03/conflict-of-interest-selective-scrutiny.html ). Oh, but that’s BJT – lynch-pin to this government’s survival … and thus doesn’t appear on this lady’s radar.

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Rob the guy that was previously in office and trash him in the local press. Condemn the international press for stating the truth.

Block websites and arrest anybody that says anything about the yellow team leader.

Don’t hold elections and let the military spend the country blind.

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“For two solid years they had demonstrated bravely and selflessly against all odds to get rid of Thaksin’s parliamentary dictatorship and his corrupt regime. These honest-to-goodness citizens had come out day after day to march, to stand, to sit and even to sleep on the streets in the scorching sun and pouring rain, against deadly teargas and hails of M79 grenades.”

I think I’m going to be sick. AB, why does this shit even get air time? I thought you were a blogger with integrity.

(BD: We’ve been there why we publish the letters. Look for older discussions, the majority of readers wants to understand the other side as well.)

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“… peace and harmony that we have taken for granted in the last six decades …”

She should consider a second career in stand-up.

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BTW, I am surprised she did not mention the siege of BBL main office in Silom Road the other day and subsequent bombings. Perhaps she pretends she does not see the rowdy red shirts?

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