Agree;angsta wrote:over the rainbow wrote:anyone else heard that Suthep's demonstration were financed by past Generals in the Army?
This coup has been extremely well planned!!!
JC -An excellent original and subsequent posts on the Thailand situation. All this 'Thaksin invented corruption' is utter bollocks and should be saved for thai pantsniffers and the Pattaya/lower Suk/Phuket dwellers.
This is all about the King and when he goes (which surely has to be soon??) then who is next in line. This is a summary/idiots guide from the ex-Reuters journalist Andrew Marshall MacGregor who has recently moved to Cambodia. I have no idea why he wouldn't be welcome in Thailand with views such as theseSuthep's demonstrations were certainly funded by people/companies with large amounts of cash but initially by members of the established Bangkok elite rather than the military or ex-military. A list of donors was released and then subsequently blocked by the media wing of the Thai junta - The Bangkok Post. All the large businesses including Singha were listed leading to the people of Issan to stop drinking Singha and instead using it to wash their feet.
The Crown Prince has long been hated by Prem Tinsulanonda, Anand Panyarachun, and indeed by the entire royalist elite. They fear his lack of Buddhist virtue, his womanising and his violent temper will destroy support for the monarchy if he becomes king. Many members of the elite were also outraged by the prince's habit of preying on their daughters in the 1970s and 1980s. And royalists who genuinely believe that pure royal blood is sacred believe Vajiralongkorn's diseases render him unfit to reign.
The prince has long been aware that he is hated by the old establishment, and he hates them back. If he becomes king, he will cast them all out of the circle of royal patronage, and anoint a new royalist elite. Nipon Promphan will probably become head of a totally new privy council.
Thaksin has long been an ally of the prince, giving him lavish gifts and funding his expensive lifestyle. The old establishment believed that if Vajiralongkorn becomes Rama X, he will give Thaksin a royal pardon and allow him to return to Thailand. Thaksin and Vajiralongkorn could potentially dominate Thailand politically and economically for decades to come, with the help of Thaksin's mass support from the rural poor and Vajiralongkorn's control of the Crown Property Bureau fortune.
It would be the eclipse of the old elite, and the rise of a new elite. This is what terrifies them and they are fighting desperately to stop it happening.
jockeying for position.
and this is from the article Andy posted which is what i said,
Its going to be a long time till u see elections again.A Reuters report in December revealed Prawit and Anupong had secretly backed the anti-government protests that undermined Yingluck's government.