absolutelyBangkok archive · Politics
Originally published Aug. 21, 2008
We fondly remember the — now banned — pro-Thaksin website hi-thaksin.net and other sites praising the now-fugitive former strongman, such as thai-grassroots.com and newskythailand.com.
But those sites are solid propaganda compared to the just launched, girlie-like savethaksin.com fan site. It’s a Thaksin-sanctification spreading the mantra “Please Save Thaksin — One for All, All for One.” Urging the public to express support for Thaksin and promote his salvage.
The site urges people to support Thaksin by sending postcards with the message “Please save Thaksin” to the British Embassy to Thailand. Begging the British government to spare the man from extradition. To grant asylum to the one many others call a criminal and great demagogue.
savethaksin.com, the site says, promotes the return to real democratic power and offers pro-Thaksin pictures and web banners for downloads. That’s right, for use on other websites or to have pictures painted on shirts.
It’s a rather safe bet though that Thaksin will be a convicted man pretty soon and it remains a mystery to me how somebody who will most probably be convicted of abuses of power and systematic embezzlement dares to ask for political asylum.
Just take the Burma loan. The case looks as sure as eggs is eggs. So help you the British justice.
The man keeps on dividing the place.
But it’s quite easy, as the site proclaims: “Save Thaksin, Save Democracy.”
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