This Western guy surely is playing

This Western guy surely is playing “devil’s advocate,” because surely he doesn’t think the current Thai regime is defensible. Thaksin Shinawatra openly runs Thailand, by his own, and his party’s admission. Thaksin was not on the ballot, or even in the country – because he is a convicted criminal and a fugitive! In this reporter’s home country, surely that would not be imaginable let alone acceptable and guess what? It’s not acceptable in Thailand either.

You don’t “vote” on whether or not to let a convicted criminal run the country. When crimes are committed, the process is judicial, NOT “electoral.” Sometimes the dishonesty and bias (or is it just plain ignorance?) of the Western press is just too much.

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