The name of this country will have no meaning
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The government, in invoking the Internal Security Act prior to the House debate on its controversial reconciliation bill, shows it is not acting in a democratic fashion.
This bill, if passed by Parliament, will bring on the greatest division in the country because it aims at eventually helping only one person – former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra – to bypass the laws. The result: the country’s law and order will become meaningless; only outlaws will rule.
And by using the ISA as a tool to suppress opposing voices, the government is turning the country gradually into one-man rule. The result: Thailand as the “land of the free” will become irrelevant. Eventually this name will have to be changed.
Vint Chavala
Lamphun
