It was not that long ago that the people of rural northeast Thailand felt that the political happenings in Bangkok were worlds away and really made no difference in their simple but poor lifestyle. That was then, but now those simple but poor Thai people have learned the hard way of what happens when you embrace highly corrupt politicians as saviors. [Read more →]
In Thailand you read about violent attacks on peaceful protesters and bombs being thrown at the court. You hear about anti graft agencies being attacked and protests against other protesters being launched. Then when you think of how a cornered animal acts, you start to see the comparison in behavior. [Read more →]
In Thailand the Red Shirts have a fairly bad record when it comes to staying inside the law as well as ethical behavior. From time to time the mob mentality gets the best of them and they end up breaking major laws. Some of the laws that they break even come with the death penalty, and that seems to be the case once again. [Read more →]
Political reform in Thailand is desperately needed and is front and center in Thailand’s political unrest. Needing to tailor the reforms to deal specifically with Thai corrupt politician’s behavior is a must. So just putting some thought into what that may entail is actually a bit of a fun project. [Read more →]
Arrogance, lack of empathy, self serving behavior, failure to learn from past mistakes, these are all the qualities of Thaksin’s proxy Government. It was these behaviors and more that turned the people against them, and now the Government has redoubled their efforts to continue the same behaviors. [Read more →]
It seems both the present Thai Government and the previous Thai Government are facing nearly identical murder charges for deaths during protest dispersal. There is one significant difference and that is one action was court endorsed, and the other went against a court ruling. [Read more →]
With Thaksin Shinawatra, people regularly take a fall for him while he manages to stay clear and free of direct involvement. It does not matter who it is as Thaksin just uses them for his own personal gain. Once they are used up, he simply finds someone new and it does not matter if it is a sibling or not. [Read more →]
Typically people will respond to more subtle signs that they have crossed the line, but that is not the case with Thaksin. With Thaksin, he needs to be physically removed as he ignores the wishes and desires of everyone else as those wishes and desires reflect common sense morals and ethics. [Read more →]
In order to force their way back into office with a potentially fatally wounded election, Thaksin’s proxy Government is selectively ignoring and selectively enforcing constitutional laws to make that happen. However this is nothing new as that simply is another one of Thaksin’s signatures. [Read more →]
The psychology of the behavior of the attacks on Anti-Thaksin protesters is all too predictable to anyone that has the most basic understanding of psychology. Because the level of attacks is directly related to Government attack through the State of Emergency, it simply says the attack orders are coming from the same source. [Read more →]
Thaksin’s proxy Government is showing increasing signs of concern about getting reelected if the February 2, 2014 elections are nullified. The situation and their popularity is deteriorating so quickly in their voter base, the chances of winning a majority are increasingly unlikely. [Read more →]
So as we have seen thus far, anyone who is openly Anti-Thaksin is attacked. It does not matter if it is just one person or a mob of millions, the attacks come be they legal or physical. [Read more →]
After Thaksin’s private Coup attempt was ended by the Thai Military, things got more or less quiet for the rest of 2009. But there were still personal attacks on people that did not support Thaksin in the parts of Thailand that had significant Red Shirt populations. [Read more →]
Things were quiet and the people of Thailand welcomed the September 2006 Coup with open arms. That quiet lasted about 90 days and then bombs started going off in and around Bangkok. It first was implied to be terrorist related, but after careful examination it was established the bombings were political. [Read more →]
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