Thou Shalt Lie

We who knew all along that the prime minister and Thailand’s military leadership were boldly lying, we note with certain satisfaction that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva finally gave in and basically confessed, yes, we were not really telling the truth. The CNN interview is here.

Rohingya boat people were towed out to the sea, set adrift and if not hundreds perished. Not less disturbing though is that Abhisit talks again in beautifully accented English of justice and human rights and “who did this I will certainly bring them to account.”

Dream on, dream on. There are so many others promised to be brought to account. We’re waiting and not forgetting. Meanwhile the Democrats let the big boys buy new toys, the bureaucrats wanted to declare cooking herbs such as ginger as hazardous substances – and freedom of speech goes down the drain.

We learn that the always whiter-than-white Democrats accepted shadowy donations – with a prompt denial – and the violence in the south they promised to solve escalates. What more to expect of the Democrats’ leadership we always associated with a higher moral ground?

True, it is a courageous act of Abhisit to tell the truth. But that’s what we small people are expected to do all along and what we tell our children day in, day out. Maybe, only maybe, pangs of conscience are no strangers to Abhisit.

Can Abhisit be dropped like Samak and Somchai were dropped? We’ll see, but it’s no longer an unthinkable if Abhisit becomes too liberal and open-minded. The man he promised to be.