Black-clad Yingluck cuts a relaxed figure at Supreme Court

If every former government minister or prime minister were held accountable for these kinds of debacles, the prisons would overflow.
MrJohnson

So would that be a good thing or not? Should politicians be held accountable for the funds they are entrusted to manage, or should they have the right to foolishly, negligently and 
corruptly squander taxpayers money?
halloween

It’s really strange that; lets say after 1932... out of the numerous so called “POLITICIANS” in Thailand, she would be the one to picked for...??? whatever charge!!
pmh2009

People are free to follow whoever they like even though it seems the height of stupidity to others
There are still some that don’t believe in the moon landings; the world is full of crazies.
smedly

There’s a huge circus going on in the USA and there’s one in Thailand. It involves certain people who think they are always above the local law regardless what critics are saying. So the laughable sad circus will keep on going and going till new likewise influencial clowns appear on the horizon and continue this charade!!
GaryAdriaenssens

In fact it helped farmers to have some standard income, also food productions was increased at a peak level in Thailand, helped the economy to grow multiple fold.
The present government is run out of options to generate the tax revenues, and chasing the street vendors out of business.
In my soi, a couple running a food business for years closed down. They used to sell 20 different curries in their shop, starting from Bt30.
Hunger is most dangerous weapon of the people's power. 
People really hungry, sorry General.
NextStationBangkok

Personally I don’t care whether Yingluck goes to jail or not.  I think she was guilty of dereliction of duty because she was warned about the widespread fraud in the scheme and did nothing to try to stop it.  However, she was only a patsy for the real criminals. 
I don’t think putting her in prison will do much to reduce corruption because most can see that she is a just symbol and that nothing is being done to bring the real criminals to justice or even to prosecute cases that are handed to the government on a plate like the Rolls-Royce bribes paid to THAI and PTT.  
No one who aspires to have power in Thailand wants to take away the gravy train. I have come across Thais who quite readily admit to having US$100 million plus stashed in offshore accounts as a result of corruption by fathers, grandfathers etc. 
Dogmatix

One should put this in context where the losses from the rice scheme exceeded Bt500 billion. The whole nation is up in arms for a Bt13-billion submarine which is a drop in the bucket to Yingluck’s rice losses. She may not have been part of it but as prime minister she certainly knew who was doing what and to whom. Guilty as charged.
garvon

As much as her and her brother had 
failures, they were and are better for Thailand than the current regime. 
Many people in Thailand feel that way, so unless they can find somebody who is as graceful as Yingluck,  nothing will change. The whole point of the coup and these trials are to marginalise the Shinawartes.  It does not look like it is working at all.
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