Sorry I neglected it for the last week:
"Court orders Thai leader to quit office" by Thomas Fuller | New York Times May 08, 2014
BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra removed from office, a highly divisive move and a victory for a powerful opposition movement that has sought to overthrow the government for six months.
The terminology itself telling. Ukrainians don't overthrow governments.
The Constitutional Court ruled that Yingluck abused her power when she transferred a civil servant to another post more than three years ago.
The court ordered her to step down immediately, along with all members of her Cabinet who were in office at the time of the transfer.
Yingluck’s party called the decision a “new form of coup d’etat.”
Leaders of Yingluck’s party quickly announced that a deputy prime minister, Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, would become acting prime minister.
It was the third time since 2006 that a prime minister representing the political movement founded by Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, has been removed by court order. The movement, which has its power base in the provinces, has won every election since 2001 but has antagonized the Bangkok establishment, a struggle that is at the heart of Thailand’s eight years of political crisis.
That's a distortion at best, LIE at worst! Yingluck and Thaksin are the e$tabli$ment.
Thailand for decades was considered an island of pluralism, freedom, and strong economic growth — especially in contrast with its neighbors — but its economy has suffered during the recent turmoil, and leaders have warned of civil war.
It's now going a way the empire builders and those that dream of world domination don't like. That's what that means.
The court’s decision, which highlights its overtly political role, throws into question elections announced for July 20, which the governing party was expected to win because of its strong support in the northern provinces.
That is the narrative for rigged elections anyway.
Bhokin Bhalakula, a member of the governing party, Pheu Thai, told reporters at the party’s headquarters that the court decision was part of a “new form of coup d’etat in order to establish a new regime and destroy the hope of the people who want to see the country progress democratically and with rule of law.”
Niwattumrong, the commerce minister who was named acting prime minister, is a former executive in Thaksin’s corporate empire. His appointment probably will exacerbate tensions with the antigovernment movement, which wants to eradicate Thaksin’s influence from the country.
First they wanted to overthrow and now they are antigovernment (even though they have the opposition and a previously-elected government as members).
At least if it is NYT it is top-of-the-line, pure BS propaganda.
Verapat Pariyawong, a lawyer and prominent commentator, said the court’s removal of Yingluck raised the prospect of more violence. At least 20 people have been killed in political violence since the governing party set off protests in November by trying to ram through a bill giving political amnesty to Thaksin that would erase corruption cases against him and allow him to return from self-imposed exile.
The antigovernment movement, which is armed, continues to block access to the prime minister’s office and a number of other government facilities in Bangkok.
Not armed, and not antigovernment, just anti this government.
How many times is the NYT going to repeat that so you gets it throughs your heads?!!!
Progovernment “red shirts,” who in the past have also been allied with shadowy armed groups, are planning a show of force on the outskirts of Bangkok on Saturday.
Ah, yes, the infamous CIA assets that can be activated to raise hell.
Highlighting concerns about violence, the Thai news media reported Wednesday that for security reasons, the judges and staff members of the Constitutional Court would not return to work until Tuesday.
Yingluck was the country’s first female prime minister but has been loathed by the opposition and has been called a proxy for Thaksin, who has lived abroad since a 2006 military coup and a subsequent conviction for abuse of power in a highly politicized trial.
Ah, yes, the antigovernment opposition hates.
I wonder if NYT writers ever get tired of so furiously shoveling shit?
“I am so sorry that I no longer have the opportunity to serve the people,” Yingluck said on national television after the court decision, adding that she was proud that she became prime minister “through democratic means.”
That is not the apology we were looking for.
Yingluck could face further legal proceedings on charges that she mismanaged the government’s costly subsidy program for rice farmers, charges that could lead to a prison term and a ban from politics. The country’s counter-corruption commission will decide Thursday whether to press the case.
Half her support is gone because of that. Farmers didn't get paid, but debt-holding bankers did. But don't worry, them dumb farmers will vote her back in.
The court’s verdict was unanimous and was reached with unusual speed. It was delivered just one day after Yingluck gave evidence at the court.
Yeah, so?
The antigovernment movement, which is supported by some of Thailand’s wealthiest families, has called for an appointed prime minister and described Wednesday’s court verdict as a partial victory.
I'm not even going to type it (sigh followed by gritting of teeth)!
The grounds for Yingluck’s ouster were that she did not give sufficient justification when she transferred the secretary general of the National Security Council, Thawil Pliensri, to another post in 2011.
The court said Yingluck was within her rights to remove Thawil but that the move was rushed, designed to free up another job for a relative of Yingluck, and not done according to “moral principles.”
In a stark symbol of the dysfunction of the Thai government, Thawil was reinstated, on court order, last week, and he told the news media that even while in office, he would continue to support the movement to remove the government.
Even the government is antigovernment over there.
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For my part, over here in AmeriKa, I'm not antigovernment nor an anarchist, at least never have been.
What I have spent the last eight years here is trying to set the climate and conditions where we could have the kind of government I want: a government that stops serving money and Israel and one that cares for the people of the United States, once that ceases the mass-murdering wars and the torture based upon lies. That the looters, liars and war criminals would be jailed and we would have a government that truly cares for and protects its people, not one that uses that as an excuse to arm up and beat down its population.
And I failed. It's gone in the completely opposite direction.
That's why I'm rather unenthusiastic and unproductive here now. When I began I was posting 25-50 posts a day with a variety of sources and stuff mixed in. Now you are lucky if you get 5 crappy even if current posts on a given day.
Covering the $tatu$ quo, agenda-pu$hing pre$$ has run its course. It sucks and is a wa$te of time other than pointing out today's log roll of lies and distractions being peddled today.
