Re: Thai Rak Thai ordered disbanded (BKK Post)

On 30 May 2007 22:37:52 GMT, Nick <nicknomail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Judges said that disbanding a political party was a serious matter.

Thai Rak Thai won elections in 2001 and 2005, they said, and had 14
million members. Ordering the party dissolved would cause economic
problems.

But the verdict laid much of the blame for shaky Thai Rak Thai political
deals on the back of founder and then-leader Thaksin Shinawatra, still in
foreign exile. The judges said Mr Thaksin had used the party for his own
benefit, and Thai Rak Thai had no political ideology beyond its leader's
ambitions.

There you have it. At last somebody in authority has stated it out in
the open what I, and other thinking people knew all along. The TRT had
NO ideology, it was merely a vehicle for the personal ambitions of
Thaksin. The calling of the April 2 election was a last ditch attempt
by Thaksin to save his skin. When is he going to be asked to pay for
it, some 2 billion Baht or so?

He had a majority government. The opposition did not even have the
right to critisize him in parliament. One does not saddle the country
with an unnecessary election in this position. By their ruling the
judges exonerated the Democrats for boycotting it. The whole affair
was a charade with candidates who lost in one riding being allowed to
run again in another one. The election commisioners were justly thrown
out for their scandalous behaviour.



In a sense pretty amazing that these judges seem to "judge" TRT's
ideology in a case before them, where I would think such a "judgement"
should be irrelevant to the case at hand

Not so. The entire affair has to be viewed in the context of all the
other happenings. The judges have clearly seen that YThaksin was
mainly responsible. He was the leader of the party, and his ideology
is "money"

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