You get the leaders you deserve

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2011
You get the leaders you deserve

Democracy versus corruption raises a troubled conundrum, for they are strange bedfellows in Thailand.

 

Consider three families associated with the highest-profile corruption cases of this era – the Shinawatras, the Kunplumes and the Asavahames. The head of each family is a fugitive from corruption verdicts, and all three families are currently in this government and their leaders running our country by proxy. Democracy put them there; the people chose this arrangement.
Banana Republican
Chiang Mai