Comments on: Handley on the Thai coup and succession http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:46:18 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: New Mandala » Siam Rumoured: The Thongchai Lecture in London http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/comment-page-1/#comment-12807 New Mandala » Siam Rumoured: The Thongchai Lecture in London Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:24:30 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/#comment-12807 [...] In Thongchai’s historical overview, Series 3 describes the power relations among what he rather playfully called “M/P3”. This is the series that focuses on the interactions between “Politicians (elected)/Money; People/Mass; Palace/Monarchists, Monarchy”. He sees this series, which begins in 1973, as heralding “the revival of the monarchy”. Speaking of the bloody events of October 1976, Thongchai argued that nobody mentions that “the King’s intervention is part of the massacre”. This is all part of Series 3. In this scheme, “Royalists now talk democracy” and have, very cunningly, created an “upper floor of politics”. This is a “second floor [that] provides the moral authority”. On this point, and as a digression, Thongchai briefly noted that Paul Handley’s widely debated book, The King Never Smiles, is, in his view, “not academic but worth listening to”. [...]

]]> By: Frustrated http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/comment-page-1/#comment-5892 Frustrated Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:48:30 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/#comment-5892 I think guess or suspect is OK in this case, the case which everything is suspiciously behaved, suspiciously existed. You have no chance to know the truth, the whole truth. They won’t tell you or even if they tell you it will never the full story that you can use against them. Guess is the best thing you can do unless our people have a strong mandate and strong request for transparency from every institution in the country, including the monarch. I think guess or suspect is OK in this case, the case which everything is suspiciously behaved, suspiciously existed. You have no chance to know the truth, the whole truth. They won’t tell you or even if they tell you it will never the full story that you can use against them. Guess is the best thing you can do unless our people have a strong mandate and strong request for transparency from every institution in the country, including the monarch.

]]> By: polo http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/comment-page-1/#comment-5853 polo Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:35:43 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/#comment-5853 Handley doesn't offer any evidence for what he says. Even if it sounds reasonable, how do we know if this is true? Anyway, he also has a letter regarding Grant Evans (I think discussed here earlier) in the new Far Eastern Economic Review. http://www.feer.com/articles1/2006/0611/free/p006.html Handley doesn’t offer any evidence for what he says. Even if it sounds reasonable, how do we know if this is true?

Anyway, he also has a letter regarding Grant Evans (I think discussed here earlier) in the new Far Eastern Economic Review.

http://www.feer.com/articles1/2006/0611/free/p006.html

]]> By: Pum http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/comment-page-1/#comment-5832 Pum Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:36:45 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/07/handley-on-the-thai-coup-and-succession/#comment-5832 It's one of the rumors I've heard from this coup. I have no comment on the validity or truth of it. It’s one of the rumors I’ve heard from this coup. I have no comment on the validity or truth of it.

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