From today’s Bangkok Post:
“Prem: Disasters will befall the ill-intentioned
WASSANA NANUAM
Disasters always befall people with ill intentions of exploiting the nation for their own benefit, Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda said yesterday. He made the remarks to conclude a 40-minute lecture at the Air Force Academy attended by a 640-strong audience including senior air force officers. ”The nation is sacred. People who think about using it for personal benefit or group benefits will be met with misfortune,” said the elder statesman. ”Phra Sayam Thewathirat (the nation’s guardian spirit) always protects good people and condemns bad people to a life of suffering,” Gen Prem said.
This guy clearly has very good connections!
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1 pricha // Sep 21, 2006 at 2:14 pm
well, well, well oddly enough as a freelance writer and a Thai person, i feel more at ease and secured with “new military junta” than with “thaksin’s democratic rule”. me? an urban middle class? i live in a village in the south, sir.
many foreigners talked about “rural people”. and the south? no rural people in the south?
u know that Thaksin is not the child of his “official parents”? an adopted child exploited by his hakka chinese parents. hard life, sir.
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