If shamelessness has a face … it is Korn Chatikavanij’s face

Posted on May 19, 2012 by jfl
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Democrats including deputy leader Korn Chatikavanij remember May 19, 2010 as the day peace returned to Ratchaprasong

50,000 reds to remember crackdown

Deputy party leader Korn Chatikavanij led a group of Democrat MPs to release 500 white balloons and make merits at Wat Pathum Wanaram.

Democrats including deputy leader Korn Chatikavanij remember May 19, 2010 as the day peace returned to Ratchaprasong

Auferre, trucidare, rapere … atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
They rob, kill and plunder … They make a desert and call it peace.
– Tacitus, De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae

In Tacitus’s time people believed in empire. No one believes in the Bangkok Empire.

Everyone, including these vile fools, knows that two years ago today the Royal Thai Army with the support of Abhisit, Suthep, Korn and the other demon Democrats murdered in cold-blood, among many others, nurses and caregivers working in a Buddhist Wat previously declared a sanctury from the rape and murder of the Royal Thai Army Legions.

Korn is a shameless fraud, indecently trying to spin black into white before the world’s wary eyes.

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He can accomplish nothing but his own and his party’s further debasement.

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How far from Red Villages to Red Drums?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by jfl
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How long before Prayuth switches from burning villages to burning villagers ... again?

Prayuth tells UDD not to set up villages

Gen Prayuth said yesterday that people had to be careful of the unrest in the region, He said building these villages would increase the violence there.

On May 5, the red-shirt United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) held a ceremony to open 14 red shirt villages in Cho Airong district of Narathiwat province.

In Songkhla province, a red shirt village was opened in Chana district on Monday. One day later the main pavilion of the village was burned down.

Of course it’s the Butcher of Bangkok himself and his droogies who are always and ever in charge of any and every occasion of “increasing the violence” in Thailand.

How long before The Brute Prayuth turns from burning villages to burning villagers … just as joyfully as the good ole boys, the Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police, used to do in the good ole days?

Ordinary Thais, young Thai men especially, have to ask themselves on this second anniversary of the latest massacre of ordinary Thais by the Royalist Thai ‘elite’ why they would ever allow themselves to be associated with the greatest historical force for evil Thailand has ever known : the Royal Thai Army.

How can ordinary, wholesome Thais allow themselves to obey orders to commit such heinous crimes against their own brothers and sisters? Not once or twice, but habitually and historically?

It is certainly time for some traditional practices to be abandoned in Thailand.

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We must do something.

Posted on May 11, 2012 by jfl
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Dresden 135,000 - Tokyo 83,793 - Hiroshima 71,379 - Nagasaki 73,884

Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley’s Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “A Counter-Jihad Op Design Model” (pdf)

This model presumes Geneva Convention IV 1949 standards of armed conflict and the pursuant UN endorsements of it are now … no longer relevant or respected globally. This would leave open the option once again of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable to the Mecca and Medina destruction in Phase III).

– LTC Matthew A. Dooley

This is what the pentagon is teaching its officers. The option of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary … is being undertaken right now via Barack the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate slash War Criminal Obama’s drone strikes in Afghanstan, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan … Syria and Iran?

Our USA is securely in the hands of War Criminals.

War Crimes are undertaken by our USA daily. The situation is no different than in, say 1942 … except our USA is now playing the role of the German Third Reich … and our war is ‘undeclared’ – meaning that we may officially not ‘notice’ it’s going on … and only the American underclass is dying on our side in our war … and arrangements have been made to murder civilians robotically, by remote control – very popular, I’m told, caught the imagination of the American public.

This can’t be happenning … but it is. We must do something, or be as damned as LTC Matthew A Dooley. A fine Roman Catholic, I’m sure. As is, without doubt, John Brennan.

I feel sure when we who profess to be repulsed by the collapse of our USA simply write-in the names of the candidates we personally support for the offices of US Representative, Senator, President and Vice on 6 November that we will in that instant begin to take control of our nation.

If 33% of the ballots cast nationally, the ballots of every third one of us among the 99% are write-ins we will ensure that both of the duopols in every contest are far, far short of a majority of the votes cast.

And then we will point out the transparent invalidity of the election.

And then we will continue our balloting, until a candidate in each constituency does achieve a majority of votes cast.

This will not be a picnic. This will be the Occupation of the 2012 election.

There will be huge opposition from the duopol controlled state.

We must do it! We must do something.

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Have they killed these guys already?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by jfl
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Narathiwat

Between the lines of the court’s death penalty verdict

Without any media publicity, the Narathiwat provincial court on March 16 sentenced to death five men after they were found guilty of terrorism, illegal assembly to commit crimes and illegal possession of firearms and explosive materials. The six defendant was given 27 years jailterm.

The five convicts condemned to death are Manasae Ya, Wae Asming Waema, Mohamad Sorheemee Ya, Mafaree Bueraheng and Arong Bakoh. Ruslee Doloh was jailed for 27 years. The seventh defendant, Mama Koiree Luemae, was bailed out during the trial and has since escaped.

Legal experts and security officers have hailed the court’s verdict as a good example of a legal case which was meticulously prepared and investigated in a systematic manner.

The conviction was based on incriminating evidences, including forensic tests, against the defendants. None of them were caught in the act of planting or setting off a bomb. They were not tortured or forced to make confessions.

Their arrest was attributable to a complaint about a bomb explosion at a rubber plantation in Muang district of Narathiwat by the owner of the plantation on the night of July 2, 2007. A police force was rushed to the scene the next morning. They found a bomb crater and traces of blood indicating that one of the bombers might have been wounded after he accidentally set off the bomb. Police traced the blood trail to the Burapha Islamic school about two kilometers away.

Reinforcements were called in to raid the school. Thorough searches led to the arrest of seven men and the discovery of some firearms which included two pistols and one shotgun and several bomb-making materials, including gun power, ammonium nitrate fertilizer, cans filled with petrol and mobile phone SIM cards.

One significant find from the hard disc of a computer destop was the copy of a letter addressed to the Narathiwat federation of teachers apologizing for the murder of three teachers namely Mrs Thippaporn Tassanopas, Ms Yupa Sengwat and Sommai Laocharoensuk on June 11, 2007. The letter was signed by a group called the Islamic Warriors of Pattani.

Forensic tests found traces of explosives in the towel of one of the defendants, in the driving wheel and console of a sedan parked in front of a lodging in the school compound. Explosives traces were also found in the trousers of the other defendants.

Tests also showed DNA of the defendants on several items in the lodging – a sign that they had been living in the lodging for some time and not just for a short visit as claimed by the defendants.

The Burapha Islamic school is a boarding school and is therefore constantly monitored by teachers to prevent unauthorized outsiders to get in. Authorities believed that only with the consent of the school director, the defendants were able to live in the compound. The defendants claimed that they merely visited the school and did not stay there.

Have they killed these guys already?!

They had no hard evidence. What they had was weak! The ‘letter on the hard drive’ is a Thai police specialty. Remember the DSI’s smear of Phra Supoj Suvacanno … planting porn on his hard drive after he’d been murdered in an attempt to make him seem other than the saintly man he was? No one’s been held responsible for his butal murder, seven long years ago next month.

We leave DNA everywhere we go it makes no difference how long we stay. Traces of ‘explosives’ are probably fertilizer. A shotgun and a couple of pistols .. some cans of gas … and SIM cards. I’ll bet these guys were framed.

This is unbelievable! I hope they haven’t killed these guys already. This ‘case’ is crap!

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Will Amphon be the last victim of the 2006 coup?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by jfl

14 May

No, he won’t be. In a surreal exercise of full-spectrum dominance of the Thai ‘hinterlands’ the criminal, exploitative Royalist Bangkok ‘elite’ are now beating environmentalists and human rights advocates … even the milquetoasts appointed by the junta itself … with their ‘sacred’ talisman, their unholy fetish : HM the King.

Lèse majesté complaint lodged against NHRC members

On 11 May, Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn, head of the National Park in Phetchaburi in upper southern Thailand, filed a lèse majesté complaint with local police against Niran and members of the NHRC subcommittee on the rights of ethnic minority groups and migrants. He reportedly went to the police station with over 100 supporters including National Park officials and villagers.

National Human Rights Commissioner Niran Phithakwatchara and members of an NHRC subcommittee have been accused of lèse majesté by the head of Kaeng Krachan National Park after they intervened in a project, which the park claims was implemented in honour of the King.

Chaiwat, implicated in the murder … [ of ] Phetchaburi local activist and former Pheu Thai candidate Thatkamon Ob-om, 55, [ who ] was shot dead in his home province on 10 Sept 2011 … turned himself in to local police and was granted bail by the court in Oct 2011 with a guarantee of 1.1 million baht worth of assets.

Amphon and Somyot and all the rest could not, cannot get bail to defend themselves against charges of lèse majesté … but thugs charged with murder are bailed to ‘level’ charges of lèse majesté against anyone who stands in the way of their personal enrichment at the cost of the commonweal. And the Thai courts back them up 100%, the courts remain pledged to their campaign of terror agasint the Thai people.

The slippery slope just got a lot steeper and a lot more slippery. Thailand is sinking fast.

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Amphon in custody in 2011

Amphon had been imprisoned since 18 Jan 2011 … 477 days, 309 days prior to his ‘conviction’, and 168 days after – up until 8 May 2012 when he died. In the most outrageous burlesque of justice to date Amphon had been convicted of being unable to prove his innocence and sentenced to 20 years’ hard time. His sentence has become the life sentence that many had forecast it would be.

Free Amphon Tangnoppakul! we said. Utterly without benefit or effect for poor Amphon. Amphon is ‘free’ now, as we all will be free of the ‘bonds’ of life at our deaths. Amphon was murdered by the Royalist Thai ‘elite’.

Repeal the lèse majesté law. Let their majesties rely upon the same slander and defamation laws as everyone else, they will be well served. The Royal Thai Army will not feel it is ‘well-served’, relying as it does on lèse majesté persecution …

International Federation for Human Rights and Union for Civil Liberty

The number of lèse majesté cases that have reached the Court of First Instance has increased alarmingly since the military coup in 2006; whereas 30 charges were sent for prosecution in 2006, that number skyrocketed to 478 in 2010, according to government statistics.

… and bogus claims of ‘national security’ to terrorize the Thai public and enforce its ‘right’ to act above the law.

But that’s exactly why this government, ‘Shinawatra II’, was elected … to end the extra-legal ‘rights’ of the Royal Thai Army … and it is now long past time for this government to stand up on its hind legs and to see to the interests of all the people, not just one of them. The intent of the people of Thailand was for this government to be more … much more … than just ‘Shinawatra II’.

Amphon’s death is one more too many … let Amphon be the last sacrificed to the Royal Thai Army’s Inquisition.

Let Amphon’s bell toll the end of the Royal Thai Army’s ‘right’ to coup, to act above the law.

Let Amphon’s bell toll the long delayed return to sanity in Thailand, and so to signal too the wholesale release of all the Royal Thai Army’s political prisoners, held on the charges of lèse majesté.

Let Amphon be the last victim of the Royal Thai Army’s 2006 coup and its subsequent massacres and inquisitions, and let that coup and those subsequent massacres and inquisitions be the last to be endured by the long-suffering Thais at the hands of the Royal Thai Army and the Royalist Thai ‘elite’.

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Vote for Barack Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Obama and you’re a murderer too

Posted on May 9, 2012 by jfl
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The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at one scene of his War Crimes

US bombings kill dozens of Afghan civilians

US and NATO spokesmen acknowledged Monday the accuracy of a report from Afghan officials in southern Helmand province that a US helicopter had dropped bombs on a house in the Fatih Mohammad Pech area of Sangin district, killing a mother and her five children, three girls and two boys.

Meanwhile, in Badghis province in Afghanistan’s northwest, a US airstrike destroyed homes in the village of Nawboor, killing 15 civilians, including women and children, the district’s provincial member of parliament told the AFP news agency.

Civilian casualties were also reported in bombings conducted in Logar and Kapisa provinces, east of Kabul.

In reality, the “Enduring Strategic Partnership” pact signed by Obama and Karzai in Kabul on May 2 set the framework for an open-ended occupation of the country by thousands of US troops, including special operations units that would conduct precisely the kind of murderous raids that took place over the weekend, as well as units assigned to train and “advise” the Afghan puppet security forces.

Under the cover of “counter-terrorism” operations, Washington is determined to continue seeking the original strategic aim of the more than decade-old Afghanistan war, which is the securing of a US beachhead in the energy rich-region of Central Asia. This will inevitably involve continued atrocities.

… [A]n Afghan uniformed as a military policeman shot and killed a US Marine in southern Afghanistan. This killing brought to 19 the number of foreign occupation troops who have been slain in so-called “green-on-blue” attacks since the year began …

While the Pentagon did not immediately identify the slain Marine, Deborah Huling of West Chester Township, Ohio confirmed to local media that she was informed by Marines Sunday that her 25-year-old son, Sgt. J.P. Huling, had been fatally wounded in such an incident.

She told the Cincinnati Enquirer that her son did not believe that US troops should be in Afghanistan. “Many of his fellow marines had been killed, and other soldiers, and he just thought it was senseless,” she said. “He didn’t think we should be over there.”

She said that her son, a bomb disposal specialist, had not been due to deploy to Afghanistan until October, but had been sent six months early because of losses in his unit.

The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of “Operation Enduring Freedom” now stands at 1,961. Over 1,100 of them have died since Obama took office in 2009.

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Amphon Tangnoppakul, aged 62 years, died today in shackles and chains in a Bangkok Prison

Posted on May 8, 2012 by jfl

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Amphon Tangnoppakul, aged 62 years, died today, a victim of the ongoing Royal Thai Inquisition.



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In memory of Ah-Kong

Amphon Tangnoppakul, aged 62 years, died today in shackles and chains in Bangkok.
The 5th of May was his 44th wedding anniversary.
He leaves behind and bereft, Pa Ou, his wife and a large and loving family.
All in Thailand watched in horror as the Royalist ‘elite’ snuffed out the life of Amphon.
Amphon was cruelly and wrongly imprisoned under the ongoing Royal Thai Inquisition.
Past and present Prime Ministers Abhisit Vejjajiva and Yingluck Shinawatra bear immediate responsibility for Amphon’s death.
Abhisit Vejjajiva’s personal secretary, Somkiat Krongwattanasuk, pressed charges for four alleged SMS messages used to imprisoned Amphon.
Yingluck refused to help Amphon or others obtain pardons when they asked for her help.
We all must note that neither did HM King Bhumipol Adulyadej come to Amphon’s aid.
Amphon was abandoned by everyone in Thailand who could have helped him.
Nothing is cheaper than the lives of Thais to the those who rule Thailand.

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Wanchai Chongsutnamani recaptures Chiangrai mayor’s office

Posted on May 8, 2012 by jfl
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Ken Winkler with Mr. Wanchai Chongsuttanamanee

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What can be learned from these figures from the EC?

  1. All the votes cast were not counted.
  2. The candidate the EC declared winner did not receive a majority of the votes cast.

What can be done in future to assure a more democratic outcome to elections?

  1. Count all the votes.
  2. Require a majority of votes cast to win an election, and vote until that is the case.

Politics is not rocket science … who is Ken Winkler … the Karl Rove of Chiangrai?

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“You are what your record says you are.”

Posted on May 6, 2012 by jfl
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You are what your record says you are

“This is not who we are.”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the US massacre of 16 Afghan villagers.

“This is not who we are.”
– Secretary of State Clinton, also on troops posing with enemy body parts

“This is not who we are.”
– Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on troops posing with enemy body parts

[Torture] “is not the norm.”
– Mike Pannek, Abu Ghraib prison warden.

“This is not who we are.”
– General John Allen, commander of forces in Afghanistan, on Koran burning

Spying by the New York Police on Muslims in Newark, NJ, which the Newark Police Chief was alerted to, is “not who we are”
– Newark Mayor Cory Booker

Ripping families apart by deporting the undocumented parents of American-born children is “not who we are.”
– President Barack Obama

“You can’t say, well, we developed trade and the economic relations first and the disregard of human rights. That’s not who we are. We are the United States of America.”
– Sasha Gong, director of the China branch of Voice of America

So then Who in the Hell Are We?

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Remember Map Tha Phut? It’s just got worse … again.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by jfl

Remember Map Tha Phut? It’s just got worse.

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Twelve known dead

Industry Ministry to appeal against Map Ta Phut injunction

30 September 2009

Industry Minister Charnchai Chairungrueng said Tuesday the ministry would urgently appeal against the Central Administrative Court’s injunction on 76 projects slated for Map Ta Phut and nearby areas.

[T]he Central Administrative Court issued an injunction against proceeding with 76 projects slated for Map Ta Phut and nearby areas in Rayong with a combined investment of about Bt400 billion.

The court’s ruling in favour of villagers in and outside the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate will affect 76 projects that have passed an environmentalimpact assessment (EIA).

These projects are pending construction licences under the Constitution’s Article 67, which requires a healthimpact assessment (HIA), public consent and approval from the yettobe established independent environment body.

The court ruled that the minutes of a meeting of government agencies showed pollution problems from existing facilities in the area had intensified. That was enough to justify the injunction, as more industrial activity would increase the damage, it said.

Most Map Ta Phut projects off hook

3 September 2010

Rayong villagers react emotionally, slam govt

The Administrative Court has ordered the operating permits of only two industrial projects in the Map Ta Phut area to be terminated, allowing 74 other earlier-suspended projects to go ahead.

Shut it down. Clean it up. Jail the 1% who have poisoned the Thai Land and Thai people for so many long years at Map Ta Phut.

It’s always difficult to discover the facts from the innumerate Bangkok Post, but it seems that 9 Thais lost their lives at the site, 3 died in hospital, 30 remain in hospital, and 99 have been treated and released. The state is footing the medical bills of those wounded, sparing poor Bangkok Synthethics Co (BSC) any out-of-pocket expense. It’s bad enough that these ‘ignorant’ workers blew themselves up, costing the poor company money and causing it temporary embarassment – the very least their compradors in government can do is make sure there is no immedidate financial cost suffered by BSC shareholders.

Map Ta Phut toll: 12 killed, 129 wounded

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