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  • OPINION

    Will there be blood?

    News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 05/02/2012

    » In 2012, the question most often put to me is not "Voranai, how are you?" Or, "Hey there, may I have your pin number?" Nope, it's "Will there be violence?" I'm not clairvoyant but I do know that fate is inexorable, so let's consider this.

  • OPINION

    Hard ball hovers

    News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 12/02/2012

    » There's democracy and then there's Thai-style democracy. The former involves, at least in theory, human rights, freedom, equality and the rule of law. The latter means we like all that wonderful stuff well enough, but there are more important matters that define who we are.

  • OPINION

    Liberty and justice for who?

    News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 08/04/2012

    » So when it is a societal norm for one man to crawl to serve another, how can there be freedom and justice in such a society?

  • OPINION

    Two field marshals and a billionaire

    News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 15/07/2012

    » A plot to overthrow the monarchy _ that is what the PAD has been calling any move initiated by Thaksin Shinawatra from the time the yellow shirts took to the streets in 2005 up until the Constitution Court ruling on Friday. Where does this fear, hysteria even, come from? Perhaps it's because there have already been two successful plots against the monarchy.

  • OPINION

    Jatuporn makes a point

    Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 15/11/2012

    » In a world where leaders take responsibility and make sacrifices for the people and the nation, the leadership on both sides of our political divide would be standing in front of the judges. Whether any are guilty of anything, is up to the judicial system to decide.

  • OPINION

    Father of the nation

    Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 05/12/2012

    » A flight attendant working for Cathay Pacific posted on her facebook page othat she refused to serve Paethongtan Shinawatra on a Bangkok-Hong Kong flight on Nov 25, because she is Thaksin’s daughter. She said she wanted to throw coffee in the face of the youngest daughter of her "enemy".

  • OPINION

    Just reflections of ourselves

    Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 16/05/2013

    » The wonderful thing about representative democracy is that, not only do we get exactly what we vote for, but the people sitting in government also represent exactly the people walking in the streets. It’s like a reflection in the mirror.

  • OPINION

    Diary of a mad prai

    Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 01/08/2013

    » For every single person you put onto the streets, we can put ten. Every time that you march in the streets, we can shake the concrete pavement with our rubber sandals tenfold. We will hound you. We will intimidate you. We will push, shove and knock you down. You people wearing masks like little kids. You think you are legion? No, we are legion.

  • OPINION

    The land of smiles, or something else?

    News, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 11/08/2013

    » Thailand is currently known as the Land of Smiles, because supposedly we are a happy people. In the future, Thailand may still be known as the Land of Smiles, but for different reasons. Perhaps because when we are clueless about something, we just smile.

  • OPINION

    When democracy meets capitalism

    Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 05/09/2013

    » There’s a reason why the Department of Special Investigation filed charges only against Abhisit Vejjajiva and Suthep Thaugsuban, while leaving the military out of the equation – a deal may have already been made.

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