Flashermac Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 An anti-Thaksin Facebook campaign which uses the image of a Guy Fawkes mask and has gone viral overnight has infuriated the Pheu Thai Party. The campaign is to counter what has been branded the "Thaksin regime". Many Facebook pages now carry a slogan reading, "The people's army has risen and it will root out the Thaksin regime from the country". They have also posted the message on the Facebook page of the Pheu Thai Party and those associated with the ruling party. One of the targets is the Facebook page of Panthongtae Shinawatra, son of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. On Facebook, posters are invited to "like" the page and to post comments. This is a double-edged sword, as those who dislike the page can also post comments. Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit Sunday said the online campaign is "unethical" and "psychologically disturbed". He threatened to take legal action against Facebook users who post the messages, and said he would meet the party's legal team Monday to discuss if such acts were in violation of the computer crime law. He called on the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry to investigate. However, ICT Minister Anudith Nakornthap said the ministry could not take any action if the campaigners do not break the law. Mr Prompong believes the movement is politically motivated and is likely to be linked to the people who recently hacked and defaced the website of the Office of the Prime Minister. "This kind of political comment is an act of mentally disturbed people," he said. Asked about a message posted on the party's Facebook page by a user with the name "Thaksin Shinawatra" who was angered by the campaign, Mr Prompong said the person was not Thaksin. The message has been deleted. Appointed senator Khamnoon Sitthisamarn Sunday described the campaign as a powerful innovation against the Thaksin regime. "It is powerful. It doesn't target an individual but the system. It intends to bring down a parliamentary dictatorship which is disguised as democracy," said Mr Khamnoon on his Facebook page. The visage of Guy Fawkes has become popular among protesters after the 2005 Hollywood film V for Vendetta showed thousands marching on parliament wearing them. It is used by protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement and a key element in the Arab Spring. Guy Fawkes was an early-17th century British figure who was executed following a foiled plot to assassinate King James I. Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said the mask campaign is a reaction to the government's failure to stop red shirts harassing its critics. He warned the campaign will escalate if the government fails to ensure unbiased law enforcement. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/351932/pheu-thai-infuriated-at-guy-fawkes-mask-campaign/page-2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 I think using Bonfire Night is rather appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneSoup Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Well, someone is evidently making a bundle selling Guy Fawkes masks. Maybe this can give some work to the neighborhood shops along Phetkasem Road that used to crank out red and yellow shirts by the truckload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 Govt threatens action against masked FB users The Nation BANGKOK: -- Pheu Thai Party threatened yesterday to trace and take legal action against Facebook users with profile photos of the Guy Fawkes white mask for attacking the government and former prime minister and de-facto party leader Thaksin Shinawatra. Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said he and party legal experts would meet today to discuss legal action against the Facebook users, who use the white mask from the Hollywood movie 'V for Vendetta' as their profile photo. However, an information technology legal expert, Paiboon Amornpinyokiat, said expressing one's political view or stance through a statement or posting symbolic photos were not in violation of either criminal laws or the Computer Crimes Act - as long as the statement or images were not false, contrary to others' interests, or slandered others. Prompong said the government believed the group belonged to the same team that defaced the PM's Office website recently with derogatory messages. On Saturday, the FB users posted a message that said: "The people's army has awakened. We pronounce here that we will bring down and eradicate the Thaksin regime from Thailand." This message was posted repeatedly on websites of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the Facebook pages of Thaksin, his sister PM Yingluck Shinawatra, his son Panthongtae "Oak" Shinawatra, and the Government House website Thai Khu Fah. The "V mask" photo was widely used by Facebook users to protest against Channel 3's move to block the final episode of its Nuamek TV drama series early this year. Not long after the message was posted on the Pheu Thai website, a user with the title of Thaksin and his photo in the profile, posted a message attacking party members for being "idiots" to allow the derogatory messages to be posted. But the post by "Thaksin" was later removed. -- The Nation 2013-05-27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 If I was " Paiboon Amornpinyokiat" I would go and hide now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiRai Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 "Not long after the message was posted on the Pheu Thai website, a user with the title of Thaksin and his photo in the profile, posted a message attacking party members for being "idiots" to allow the derogatory messages to be posted." Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 remind me again,why all this anti Thaksin stuff going around?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 Because this government has its number one priority as bringing the Big Boss back into power. The government spends more time on creating amnesty bills to bring him back than it does on solving the problems of the nation as a whole. Thaksin is a sociopath who thinks he is above everyone and clearly pulls the strings. For him everything is me, me and me! Many Thais are getting sick of the fixation on Thaksin above all else. He can actually return any time he wants, but he is facing a prison term and has other charges pending. The Big Boss never goes to jail. Only others do. p.s. From a confidential report by the US Ambassador before the coup, courtesy of Bradley Manning: << 4. On the one hand, Thaksin Shinawatra represents a modern political and economic order. He is decisive, not risk-averse, confident about himself and about Thailand’s place in the world. He is the CEO of Thailand, Inc. His Thailand is best symbolized by Bangkok’s many luxury shopping malls — it’s big! it’s modern! everything here is imported and expensive! He advocates a mixture of capitalism (red in tooth and claw) with populism. He tells the rural people to do what he did — borrow money, think big, leave behind your rural roots, play the system, and strike it rich. I did, and so can you. People don’t put up his photos, but his Shin Corp. products are everywhere — its cell phones in every shopping center and many pockets, its TV station beamed to every TV set. 5. On the other hand, to some people Thaksin represents everything that is wrong with development in southeast Asia. He is greedy, corrupt, inherently undemocratic under his facade, (did we mention corrupt?), conceited and self–promoting. In his heart, he defers to no one — not to age, not to Buddhist hierarchy, and not to the King. He introduced many positive aspects to Thai politics: his party had a platform that attracted rural voters, and he kept many of his promises to them, introducing the 30 baht health scheme and cheap credit for farmers. But the cost was high – a Prime Minister who, in the end, disdains many of the key features of a democracy, such as a free press and civil society, and was eager to grasp power more openly and greedily than any civilian PM before him. > > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 'Thaksin is a sociopath who thinks he is above everyone and clearly pulls the strings. For him everything is me, me and me!' so actually not a lot different from a LOT of people,does it make him a bad person Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Ask the circa 2,000 killed without trial during his drug war. Ask the newspapers he tried to shut down for not supporting him. And obviously you weren't here when Abhisit's government and the red shirt leaders reached an agreement to call elections and end the red shirt protest. We all thought the danger had passed. Then Thaksin called in and rejected the terms, since there was nothing for him in it. That made the government send in the troops to clear out Fort Red and round of the protestors, with the resulting deaths and the red attempts to burn the city. Many died because of that. Mr Nice Guy he ain't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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