Scepticism remains over government's ability to achieve national recon

[cavanami]

..ad the Yellow Shirt will change their name to...

[Flashermac]

Commode Heads?

 

Meanwhile, from Famous Grouch's blog, if you missed it - 24 May.

 

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I’m sorry. I interrupt this blog for an important announcement.

 

 

Certain events have overtaken this blog to render it quite obsolete.

 

[color:red]Thaksin Shinawatra has essentially accused the present government of human rights and of burning down Central World. As an ex policeman he knows all this, he has told ABC Australia, adding that no soldiers were killed![/color]

 

And secondly the South East Asia Editor of the Times was held at gunpoint in ‘five star’ hotel but it was no big deal.

 

I chuckled at headline. It sort of sounds like ‘Don’t worry I’ll be alright’.

 

The 'Times' also claimed that the ‘Nation’ reported that red-shirt leaders were crying with joy on their way home is a rare breach of the government clampdown on the media. (Geddit? Neither did I)

 

My only take on the situation here is that one person I consider honest, and the other I consider not.

 

We’ve yet to see if the unblemished one can made some radical changes to the status quo here. And that cannot be done without a massive revamp to the justice system. He will also need to remove the immunity of MPs from prosecution, so Parliament is not filled with crooks.

 

Either way we could be heading for either a dictatorship of socialist state, neither of which allow freedom of expression or much else for that matter. Actually we have been told we have a dictatorship and a tyrant already. Boy will these people be surprised when they actually get one.

 

I had originally written a blog pointing out what I thought the international media had missed or how people had been misled. But then I thought, well how patently ridiculous. Now matter how the international media is regarded at them moment, when its wrong things tend to come around full circle again anyway. I mean the Daily Mail once thought Adolf Hitler was a good guy.

 

Actually the press always backs the underdog in a social revolution. But this has always been a country of blatent hyprocracies where behind every truth there is an equal and opposite lie. So nobody gets it.

 

I thought, well, those complaining about the international media here should look at the Thai media. We have for instance a story about the public hue and cry for Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges on the front of both English language papers.

 

But neither newspaper has actually yet, from what I can see, sent someone actually into the court to look at the depositions/ statements or listen to see what evidence was presented against Thaksin. It may have been rock solid. It may not. Its a bit silly arguing about whether Interpol will accept the warrants without this info.

 

His speech to the Red Shirts saying he would be with them as they went to Bangkok with their tractors etc looked like he was was heading in that direction.

 

But he has a water tight alibi for last Wednesday: He was shopping in Louis Vuitton in Paris with his daughter. And that’s where the leader of the people’s revolution ought to be, its a lot safer. :-)

 

But singing to ‘my Red Shirts’: “Asking me to stop loving you, is like asking me to stop breathing’ is not a terrorist act - even though some people may have leapt off a few high rises when they heard it.

 

Best sit tight and see how this develops.

 

Meanwhile I see Time magazine is advising Abhisit Vejjajiva as to what not to do. They are linking the recent demonstrations with Tak Bai. Geddit? No, I don’t either.

 

 

Whatever ...

 

[Lord Toad]

Interesting and relevant

 

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