When you strip away the names and personalities from Thailand’s political unrest, you are simply left with the un-flavored reality of what the unrest is all about. It all comes down to corruption bleeding away tax revenues that result in Thailand and the Thai people never having the money needed to get ahead. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Pheu Thai Party starts blame game
When someone gives you advise and you don’t take it, and an ‘I told you so’ situation is created, blaming the person who gave you the advise is totally absurd. But apparently the Pheu Thai Party (PTP) does not see it that way, and they look to place the full blame for failure on the very people that advised against proceeding. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Red Shirt’s confused logic
The Red Shirts plan another rally to show displeasure in the behavior of independent bodies who sided against the Government. But looking at it closer, the protests may just be a way for Red Shirt leaders to maintain some sort of political power in the changing winds of Thailand politics as both their popularity and numbers are in decline. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thaksin’s proxy governments are slow learners
The behavior of Pheu Thai Party (PTP) and the People Power Party (PPP) are similar in a lot of ways. Both are/were focused on helping Thaksin Shinawatra. Also both are/were arrogant. But perhaps the most important and most similar is their same disrespect or inability to stay within the law and to respect the authority given to others in the separation of powers built into the Constitution. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thailand’s evolved Red Shirts Part 5
Once the Government’s rice pledging scheme started to fall apart, the Red Shirts showed yet another side of themselves. That new side was to attack rice farmers that were once Red Shirt and Government supporters that had switched sides and became untrusting and anti Government. The reason for the switch was because they were not paid by the Government and now were flat broke and destitute. The Red Shirts did not care that the rice farmers were victims of the Government’s corruption, they simply victimized them again for abandoning support for the Government. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thailand’s evolved Red Shirts Part 4
After the pro Thaksin Pheu Thai Party (PTP) came to power, some Red Shirt leaders were rewarded with positions of power in the Government. It did not take long to see that the original political ideology the Red Shirts had at their beginning had completely morphed into cronyism. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thailand’s evolved Red Shirts Part 1
When the Red Shirts first appeared, they were fairy mainstream along one of Thailand’s political ideologies. But in the past year or so they have been drifting to the more radical to enforce their ideology and not let it ebb and flow in a democratic way with other ideologies. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Pheu Thai Party crying foul
It seems the Thaksin Proxy Pheu Thai Party (PTP) is crying foul that they are facing anti graft agencies and the Thai Court. Usually when a pro Thaksin Government gets to this stage, it means their end is not far away as pity me is being implied. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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The political educating of rural Thailand
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Violence is Thailand’s litmus test of guilt
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thailand political reform and what it may look like
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thai Government stoking anger against them
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thai Government murder charges comparison
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917
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Thaksin’s self serving arrogance in full display
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. Continue reading Post ID 14917