Banyan on the Latest Situation

‘ But Mr Abhisit… said in a speech on May 23rd that his commitment to an election date no longer applies… Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents. ‘

And the “realistic assessment of the risks” is what… the “insight” that the de facto regime could not be elected, have not been elected, dogcatchers in Thailand for a decade past and at least a decade to come?

There is NO legitimate excuse to put off elections… there never has been. And the parliament must be dissolved and elections held as soon as is physically possible, not in November.

As far as likening “the sight to the September 11th 2001 attacks in New York on the World Trade Centre”, I must admit that the first thing that went through my mind was, and remains, “this was an inside job”.

I don’t know who “burned the city”. I do know that

1. the arson was very professionally carried out,
2. the arson occurred right under the noses of tens of thousands of Thai military ostensibly “protecting Thai civilization” from the “red hordes”,
3. the arson burned many buildings slated for renewal, and some legally hard to remove like the Siam Theater,
4. the BMA is pressing now for razing the burned buildings, before they are properly investigated for arson,
5. the Thai SLORC met with ‘major players’ in Consumerland before its ethnic cleansing and promised to pay any damages incurred by the crackdown,
6. Central World, for one, is said to have had three billion in insurance.

If I were investigating, I would surely have a look at the Thai SLORC itself, and the ‘major players’ in Consumerland as arsonists.

I bet there will be NO investigations of any acts by the Thai SLORC during the period between say, April Fool’s and Bastille Days.

If there were, and if the Thai SLORC were proved guilty on all counts, then the courts would give them a walk anyway : nothing can be done.

They have absolution in advance for any acts carried out during their berserker rage.

Thanks to Thaksin’s patented Civilian Coup Enablement Act of 2005 : the Emergency Decree.

According to the upside down laws here, Through the Looking Glass, in Thailand.

the behaviour of Chulalongkorn Hospital in:

- harbouring military snipers (see Porntips rapidly suppressed report about evidence found on the 7/8th floors) and
- enabling the public outcry of interference in their operations and
the Thai Red Cross
- who refused to assist redshirt casualties

was despicable and even more horrifying when we look at the (…) and high prestige elite figures that are the patrons, board and executive members of the Red Cross organisation. (…)

this of course at the same time as the military were positioning their snipers along the overhead rail and tall buildings including at the hospital for the purpose of “taking out terrorists” as announced by Abhisit.

I am waiting for the CRES or the government to explain what information or rules of engagement they provided their snipers so they could identify the “terrorists” that they were supposed to take out.

Were they told to avoid the medicos, journalists and unarmed red and non-red civilians many of whom that they shot and killed.

Are the CRES and government guilty of giving faulty rules of engagement or were the snipers incompetent or perhaps encouraged during early morning visits by (…) or other elites to be excessively brutal in their targeting.

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