Mentors Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 good articles http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=409 http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Good articles, thanks, but what is going to happen? The current situation is clearly highly unacceptable...so what's next? I doubt a 'peoples uprising' is going to happen anytime soon, so the military will continue to call the shots...so to speak... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 zombie, Hard to say what will happen in the very short term, but if modern Thai history teaches anything, it seems clear that in the longer term there will be more four-year (on average) cycles of constitutions and coups! 17 constitutions and 18 coups in 74 years - we're due for a constitution within the next one-two years, and a coup in about four! (I know it seems a cynical prediction, but if you flipped a coin not once, not twice, but 18 times in a row and it came up heads every time, you'd probably bet on heads - the smart money might guess there was something about the coin... YimSiam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 I'm worried about the situation. The Junta with his old man puppet government will not give back their seats to the people and the democracy in the nearer future. The situation is much worse than before under Mr. T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carew66 Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Is it though?: And is the situation really as stated 'unacceptable'? I haven't yet read the source articles, just going on my Thai colleagues complete and utter disinterest (possibly resignation, one never can tell)andmy own reading of the English language dailies (Yep - I know) but thus far there is light being shed on the Thaksin administrations so-called 'war' on drigs and the attendant extra-judiciary killings; a fresh approach to the problems in the south. Anyway - Thaksin was a tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Disinterest seems to sum it up. It's as if Thais got bored with democracy and politics in general. Hey, they really are like people everywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Ok so where and when is this Thai economic collapse ala 1997 everyone has been calling for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 "The situation is much worse than before under Mr. T." Can you describe any situations that are worse than before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 The weather sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 < Well the street rates for laons went up, so I guess thats good news, being seeing that the girls are getting skinny again, that must be good news too, and the government iis trying to outspend thaksin in issaan, also good news. DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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