Re: "What Forbes can ask Thaksin next time", Opinion, November 7.
Of course there won't be a next time, because in Thaksin's world the issue is not about continuity but about spin. So the cancellation of Thaksin's meeting with his red-shirt followers in Tachilek is not about his visa, or his status as a convicted fugitive, or his interference in Thai politics from abroad, but about the news that's much hotter than mere facts - the whiff of an assassination plot! So you watch and see: The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other Western media outlets close to Robert Amsterdam will cover the "assassination plot", not the distasteful Tachilek event itself. And the implication will be that the selfish, unaccountable, royalist "elite" in Thailand are so jealous of Thaksin that they will go to any lengths to stop him - even by abusing an ally, even endangering the lives of its own citizens!
And of course First Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobumrung has got the facts on this assassination plot, just as he knew the identity of the man who killed that police officer at the Twenty Pub in 2001. He even provided the name of the murderer to the press too. And didn't the prime minister at the time, Thaksin Shinawatra, promise that the culprit would be brought to justice because nobody was above the law in Thailand, that he personally would see to it that justice was done? And was it?
Lung Kip,
Chiang Mai
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