Comments on: Fallout from Thailand’s dysfunctional ruling party goes international http://preapism.com/2008/07/21/fallout-from-thailand%e2%80%99s-dysfunctional-ruling-party-goes-international/ Hidden in plain sight Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:32:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: crocodile http://preapism.com/2008/07/21/fallout-from-thailand%e2%80%99s-dysfunctional-ruling-party-goes-international/comment-page-1/#comment-112 crocodile Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:09:14 +0000 http://preapism.com/?p=165#comment-112 Well written article, but it does bug me that the author never mentioned one minor fact about the Thai Constitution that he is referring to. This is not a venerable, long-standing legal document as the U.S. constitution. It was written by the military in 2007 and approved in a take-it-or-have-military-junta-stay-indefinitely referendum. Let's not even get into the impartiality of Thai court system... PPP is seriously flawed, but "not playing by the rules" is not always a scathing accusation in a country where rules are rewritten daily by those in power at the moment, and broken regularly by anyone with connections. At least PPP does have the clear popular mandate, and support for Phra Vihear being listed as World Heritage was not so clearly a wrong move. Well written article, but it does bug me that the author never mentioned one minor fact about the Thai Constitution that he is referring to. This is not a venerable, long-standing legal document as the U.S. constitution. It was written by the military in 2007 and approved in a take-it-or-have-military-junta-stay-indefinitely referendum.

Let’s not even get into the impartiality of Thai court system… PPP is seriously flawed, but “not playing by the rules” is not always a scathing accusation in a country where rules are rewritten daily by those in power at the moment, and broken regularly by anyone with connections. At least PPP does have the clear popular mandate, and support for Phra Vihear being listed as World Heritage was not so clearly a wrong move.

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