I agree Toxin was a crook and as corrupt as the rest of them, but what it seems he has achieved is to raise peoples expectations and again I agree with Steve's views above (sorry). A new way needs to be found other than making sure people simply know their place.STEVE G wrote:Conversely the people who really rule Thailand should start making some changes now instead of thinking they can just carry on running the country for then own benefit.
If the people in the countryside had been given any consideration over the last couple of years they wouldn’t be so desperate to join the Red-shirt movement.
Changes are inevitable and it would be better to have some sort of gradual change than a revolutionary one.
Relatively small things can make a difference to peoples live and Toxin did that. Forget all the criticisms, but roads being sealed, Health centres built and the like meant something and after he left, those things stopped.
At the heart of everything I think this is what this is about and eventually someone is going to have to wake up to the fact that such demands won't go away and deal with it. I have read elsewhere of industrialists asking that meetings take place between the Govt. and the leaders of the redshirts - to negotiate - I wonder if that's a first?
SM, I can't see how the Govt. can create a show trial in the way you want without heaping huge amounts of ridicule on themselves and protests from elsewhere - simply because of how they rode to power. Interested to know where you get your detailed information from though?
