Re: The fµ°&¤ PAD (Editorial of The BKK Post)
- From: Tchiowa <tchiowa2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:50:40 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 28, 2:51 am, Bl...@xxxxxxxxxx (Deckard) wrote:
It seems that both main English-written Thai newspapers, The Nation
and the BKK Post, have come back to their antagonistic views on Thai
parties, ready to throw down the gauntlet to each other! The pathetic
period of the dictatorship has certainly left indelebile marks in the
Kingdom but I think that democracy is back in LoS... in its own
inimitable way.
Sadly you're right on all counts above.
Read this editorial.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/thaksinhomecoming/thaksin.php?id=126216
Besides some good advice (telling people to cool off and let the
government work), I couldn't help but notice the following lines. They
will certainly piss a couple of people on SCT off:
"On the other hand, the Bangkok-driven anti-Thaksin columns under the
People Alliance for Democracy are in disarray, discredited and
defanged by the inept post-coup period and by the recent election
results that overwhelmingly favoured Mr Thaksin's proxy PPP. A number
of PAD leaders are seen as having benefitted from the coup by self-
aggrandisement and by contesting for power in the polls in opposition
of PPP. The PAD's fundamental mistake is that it never made a genuine
effort over the past two years to reach out to the rural grassroots
who formed the unflinching basis of Mr Thaksin's power and resilient
popularity. Instead, the PAD chose to remain a limited Bangkok-based
and middle class-oriented anti-Thaksin movement with little broad
appeal. The noises that it is now making are unlikely to reverberate
as far and wide as were seen and heard two years ago."
"Bangkok-based" "middle class-oriented" "little broad appeal" Kind of
what I (and others) have been saying.
Perhaps some better advice: http://www.bangkokpost.com/thaksinhomecoming/thaksin.php?id=126215
"To those who can't make sense of it all: Open your mind." (Open mind,
in New Jersey????)
"Mr Ukrist suggested that the public, especially the urban middle
class who formed the bulk of anti-Thaksin protests a few years ago,
take a long and realistic view of things.
"We should wake up from illusion. We, and I mean the middle class in
particular, should learn how to live with the democratically-elected
government, even if we think it is bad, under-qualified or not as full
of grace as we would like it to be." "
Wow! Learn how to live with a democratically-elected government!!!
What a concept. Do you think they read this to our southern racist?
I hope that PAD and the others leave things well enough alone. The
people of Thailand have spoken. Let them have their way. Good, bad or
otherwise. As the poet said (and as I have posted here before and
found that it just made people south of New York City angry) "they've
got the right to do it wrong if freedom's to survive".
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