Military coup in Thailand
Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:06 pm
Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:15 pm
Bangkok! 
Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:54 pm
So will the prime minster get kicked out of the UN assembly since he is no longer part of a ruling party?
Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:14 pm
Too early to tell what is going on right now. Last reports I heard were that no one is sure how much control the General has over the country or the military.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:05 pm
Should we be cheering this? Or booing this? Not sure?
"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me"
--Head Murray 1984
"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me"
--Head Murray 1984
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:09 pm
I get my kicks above the waisteline sunshine.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:28 pm
Originally posted by CodeRed68
Should we be cheering this? Or booing this? Not sure?
A democratic, albeit barely so, president being deposed in favour of a military dictatorship...Gee I wonder.
Knowing you guys you will flip over on all your previous rhetoric on the absolute moral rightness of democracy and settle down to making some nice new trade agreements with the new man in the saddle.
Hell I'll give it a week before someone in the US administration says that a strong 'centralised' governement would be better for the war on terror anyway.
I'll give it 30 years before it emerges you funded the coup
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:33 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
A democratic, albeit barely so, president being deposed in favour of a military dictatorship...Gee I wonder.
Knowing you guys you will flip over on all your previous rhetoric on the absolute moral rightness of democracy and settle down to making some nice new trade agreements with the new man in the saddle.
Hell I'll give it a week before someone in the US administration says that a strong 'centralised' governement would be better for the war on terror anyway.
I'll give it 30 years before it emerges you funded the coup
Give it 40 years and we'll be fighting to topple the Thai military regime and install a democracy (of sorts)
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:40 pm
Nah they haven't got any oil...
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:50 pm
Everybody has something Parrot. Child Prostitutes perhaps?
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:59 pm
Who knows? Maybe it will just be an excuse to fight a war.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:21 pm
Military supports the king supposedly, although my money is it's being backed by more bourgeoisie interests... the PM was known to be a populist, but a corrupt one. The military has promised to return to democracy soon... I'm willing to wait and see... it does happen, sometimes, after these military coups. "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." - TJ Not knowing much about the specifics of Thai politics, I'm willing to give it a couple months and see.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:06 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
Nah they haven't got any oil...
Like that oil weren't not getting from Iraq nor at cheap price...
Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:17 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
A democratic, albeit barely so, president being deposed in favour of a military dictatorship...Gee I wonder.
Knowing you guys you will flip over on all your previous rhetoric on the absolute moral rightness of democracy and settle down to making some nice new trade agreements with the new man in the saddle.
Hell I'll give it a week before someone in the US administration says that a strong 'centralised' governement would be better for the war on terror anyway.
I'll give it 30 years before it emerges you funded the coup
Hey, well whatever's in our best interest, eh?
Maybe the US will just have to go ahead and add them to the axis.
Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:38 pm
The only thing Thailand has that interests the american govt and corporate america is the fact that you can get a little boy at a cheap price. 