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Whining Abhisit got the government he wanted

Whining Abhisit got the government he wanted

Re: “Abhisit, academics criticise ‘risky’ new election delay”, The Nation, yesterday.

All those people who wouldn’t support the election three years ago need to have a good, long look in the mirror; this is what you caused.
How long will Thailand be smothered by an increasingly entrenched military government? How long will there be “20 year plans”? How many more rights will be curtailed? How long until people can speak freely again?
Who knows?
Samui Bodoh
Poor Abhisit got the government he wanted. And now he regrets there’s no place for him in the new power structure.
Funny thing about crocodiles, they don’t care about the colour of chickens that they eat.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” – Winston Churchill
Abhisit seems to be losing that hope.
Srikcir
The population here is oppressed. You don’t have to wait for extremes to occur before you recognise that people’s rights have already disappeared, which ultimately leads to civil unrest, freedom of speech, the press and public gatherings. The junta having a military spending spree is also not looked on favourably by the general population.
Tigermoth
I think the general consensus here at the moment is that the junta aren’t going to go away. With Abhisit, it might be that this time he is talking genuinely. The trouble is, will anyone believe him? 
The PM probably now feels he has the right to stay where he is, and who can blame him? He hasn’t had any real serious signals either from abroad or domestically to really challenge him or the regime. From what I hear locally, there isn’t likely to be a challenge “en masse” any time soon. I think civil war is a non-starter, and so it should be, and I think the last war close to that definition was around the mid-15th century when the northern and southern kingdoms went to war. However, there does appear to be continued unrest with farmers and others (not to mention the academics quoted in the Nation report) and the question is, will that continue to grow or simply be forgotten tomorrow if the PM spouts a few words about Thai patriotism?
TKDfella
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