Related: Globalists Got Their Man in Thailand
"Prosecution vowed in Thai protest
BANGKOK - New Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva vowed yesterday to take legal action against leaders of protesters whose weeklong occupation of two Bangkok airports has brought billions of dollars of losses to the economy. Abhisit, an Oxford-educated economist whose critics say his ruling Democrat Party has assumed power with help from the army and street protesters, said he had ordered police to arrest those lawbreaking protesters, though they were Democrat members.
"They have to proceed according to the law, and there will be no interference," British-born Abhisit, 44, said in an interview. "I made it very clear even before that any [party members] who joined the protest would do so in their own capacity. They would not be allowed to use their . . . immunity privileges," he told Reuters.
Several Democrats were involved in the six-month-long street protest against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and two previous governments they called Thaksin's proxies, and one of them was a top campaign leader.
Abhisit said the Thai people regretted the recent blockade of Bangkok's main airports, which left 300,000 travelers stranded and badly damaged a key sector of an economy already reeling from slowing exports as a result of the global downturn. Some officials and analysts have said the travel chaos put a million jobs at risk, when the impact of the global slowdown is forcing layoffs in export industries.
Translation: He's working for the globalists. Politics may soon be a casualty of the lies here at the MSM monitor -- same as the environment. I got better things to do than fooley with shit, double-cross, double-game lies.
Abhisit said the strict law enforcement regardless of political affiliation was part of his "grand plan of reconciliation" to heal the deep political rifts between supporters of Thaksin and his opponents. Admitting he will face opposition from voters in the countryside where Thaksin's populist policies of cheap healthcare and loans remain visible, he said he would try to prove he is everybody's prime minister.
I'm tired of THAT LIE, too!
"Former Left-Right Alliance against Globalization and America
by Thongchai Winichakul
28 July 2008
Article
Almost all Thai rightists I interviewed for my recent research perceived that the threats to Thailand today are capitalism and America. Even lifelong anti-communist ‘Phor’, an alias used for this research, who has tenaciously held the idea of national security being under threat from two strands of communism, sees that Thailand has to be cautious of the CIA interfering and agitating groups of Thai people to the point of being a threat to security. Of course, they were well aware that the threats from capitalism and America are not one and the same as the communist threat.
The rightists’ discourse of capitalist threat obviously differs from the leftists’ Maoist anti-capitalist discourse of 30 years ago. These rightists speak pretty much the same anti-neo-liberalism and anti-globalization language which Thai intellectuals and activists have adopted since after Oct 6, 1976.
Although all the interviews were done years after the 1997 economic crisis, the pain caused by the capitalist crisis was still alive in their memories. Their discourse on the cause of the crisis turned out to be nationalist and against ‘farang’ or western capitalism, pointing to western capitalist giants led by the US bullying emergent smaller capitalist nations. For the ease of digestion and propagation, it was made a story of conspiracy among a handful of global political and financial figures, often including George Soros in particular. The ‘Washington Consensus’ was understood simply as a plot by western capitalist neo-conservatives to destroy smaller states. With the calamity besetting Thai nationalist capital which had eagerly embraced globalization over a decade earlier, globalization has become undesirable. Their discourse against western capitalism was therefore not of a socialist bent, but was outright nationalist, against those ugly farangs abusing decent Thais.
Most of the interviews were done during the years of Thaksin administration which was seen as representing the evil western capitalism, subsequently labelled as ‘vicious or immoral capital’. The exasperation against Thaksin and globalization and the global anti-American sentiment fed into one another. Among the rightists I interviewed then, only one person liked the Thaksin government, and the rest were suspicious of Thaksin because he was pushing the agenda of globalization.
--MORE--"Why must the Amerikan MSM LIE ABOUT EVERY STINKING THING?
