Protests update

We will know the junta is serious about anti-corruption when we start seeing stories like this one from Australia http://m.smh.com.au/national/australian ... ztwb2.html

[lego]

Fascists always fall out with each other once they've grabbed power.

Wow, so they're just the same like communist revolutionaries! Who WOULD have thought...

Fascists always fall out with each other once they've grabbed power.

Wow, so they're just the same like communist revolutionaries! Who WOULD have thought...

Oliver's assertion is true for politicians generally, both democratic and non-democratic, and whether they've grabbed power or merely hope to do so.

On a slightly different point I read recently that General Tasty has got his underlings working on how they can prevent future governments from implementing "populist" policies.

[Oliver]

They will have to restrict the vote to those considered trustworthy....that is by class. This was always Suthep's aim. He couldn't do it with his pathetic little gang in Bangkok and so the fascists took over. As planned, the South American banana republic was imported to Thailand. El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatamala most recently (thanks Hillary!) Honduras. The only element missing was the CIA torturers in their dark glasses....probably.

They will have to restrict the vote to those considered trustworthy....that is by class. This was always Suthep's aim. He couldn't do it with his pathetic little gang in Bangkok and so the fascists took over. As planned, the South American banana republic was imported to Thailand. El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatamala most recently (thanks Hillary!) Honduras. The only element missing was the CIA torturers in their dark glasses....probably.

Come along Oliver, join the real world. You obviously don't know your Mao - "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Stop whining! General Tasty and his merry men are here to restore the status quo ante and make sure that if anyone's going to benefit from corruption it will be the right people, not jumped up nouveau riche like Thaksin. Thailand doesn't need to import the banana republic model (banana kingdom, surely?), it's not going to be more than a tin-pot Third World country in our lifetime, and always has been a banana something. (Cue for Thai pun on banana vs. penis by modulating the tone, a favourite with every Thai boy).

[Oliver]

Yes.
Thailand desperately needs its own Hugo Chavez to depose the generals and begin a massive redistribution of wealth....decent hospitals and schools for the poor, criminal law applied to the rich as well as the poor, no more posh kids in BMWs allowed to mow down peasants with immunity....

Thailand desperately needs its own Hugo Chavez to depose the generals and begin a massive redistribution of wealth....decent hospitals and schools for the poor, criminal law applied to the rich as well as the poor, no more posh kids in BMWs allowed to mow down peasants with immunity....

Chavez at least had Argentina's oil revenues to rely on. What's Thailand got? Sex tourists?

[lego]

Yes.
Thailand desperately needs its own Hugo Chavez

In his current form, I wouldn't mind.

[Smiles]

Yes. Thailand desperately needs its own Hugo Chavez to depose the generals and begin a massive redistribution of wealth....decent hospitals and schools for the poor, criminal law applied to the rich as well as the poor, no more posh kids in BMWs allowed to mow down peasants with immunity....

Absolute nonsense:

Corruption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Venezuela
Murder rate: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/2 ... 06363.html
Economy: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... d/follows/
How Venezuelans see their own country: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167663/venez ... tests.aspx
The general state of Venezuela: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/moises-na ... 74523.html

These few links speak for themselves. But there's lots more, most of which carry the same basic theme: Mr. Chavez was a disaster for the country. Him croaking relatively early in life (he was 58) was perhaps a godsend . . . now hopefully there is some wriggle room to fix things up.
Chavez's new crowned prince is the same kind of paranoid incompetent as his boss, but somewhat more free of the bloated bombast.

The dictatorship of the proletariat dreamworld Oliver lives in carries on apace ... getting dreamier as he ages. Next thing we'll hear from him is his favourite list of hosannas regarding Mr. Mugabe's little thug-run fiefdom, Zimbabwe.

[Oliver]

Argentina? No; Venezuela has its own oil reserves; which is why the US industrial/military complex has always been so determined to reinstate the neo-con establishment who can return to their favourite past-time of screwing and disenfranchising the poor. It's money in the bank for them.....and US tycoons and their friends in Washington.