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Unnecessary burden on us
News, Published on 17/03/2014
» The government claimed last week it needed time to consider lifting its proclamation of emergency in and around Bangkok. Lt Gen Paradorn Pattanatabut, due to be replaced as National Security Council chief, stated the prime minister will consider the issue this week. That was unhelpful. By law, the decree runs out on its own on Saturday, absent a decision to extend it. The question is, why the state of emergency still exists.
No double standards
News, Published on 10/03/2014
» I have no problem with Somsak Pola’s recommendation (“Back to work, Thawil”, PostBag, March 9) for PM Yingluck Shinawatra, after she reinstates Thawil Pliensri as secretary-general of the National Security Council, to tell him to arrest Suthep Thaugsuban, serve Criminal Court warrants and take command of the police. Fire him if he fails to perform after a month.
Postbag: Parties need overhaul
News, Published on 13/02/2014
» Former premier Anand Panyarachun makes some excellent points in Monday’s Bangkok Post. I wish to add a specific suggestion, something all sides may be able to agree on. Thailand is undoubtedly a democracy, and voters do have choices. But political parties in Thailand are not democracies internally. They are run more like sole proprietorships or corporations. As such they are more political machines, as we used to call them in the US, than they are political parties. Thus voters cannot choose among policy alternatives or candidates. Instead voters are forced to choose among autocracies.
Decree abuse must stop
News, Published on 13/02/2014
» The caretaker government’s decision to invoke the emergency decree in Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan’s Bang Phli district and Pathum Thani’s Lat Lum Kaeo district as of Jan 22 for 60 days is unnecessary and unwarranted.
Postbag: Sehgal deserves more
News, Published on 12/02/2014
» Re: "Ethics in question over Sehgal deportation", (BP, Feb 9).
Ethics in question over Sehgal deportation
News, Published on 09/02/2014
» The attempt by the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) to expel Indian-born businessman Satish Sehgal for his participation in the PDRC protests calls into question the legality and morality of such an order.
Postbag: Seize rice warehouses
News, Published on 07/02/2014
» Might I suggest that the rice farmers refocus their efforts on getting paid by withdrawing their road blockades and channelling their efforts towards seizing the rice storage warehouses instead?