Comments on: Paul Handley on Thailand’s Privy Council http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/03/27/paul-handley-on-thailands-privy-council/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:10:35 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ChrisIPS http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/03/27/paul-handley-on-thailands-privy-council/comment-page-1/#comment-402525 ChrisIPS Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:57:39 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/03/27/paul-handley-on-thailands-privy-council/#comment-402525 ............thank you to Paul Handley and to New Mandala for providing an access point to this very informative history of the Privy Council and its various roles and interests....I think it is quite useful and beneficial to have an open dialogue on the Privy Council's role and by inference, the role of the King......whether one agrees or disagrees with the Council's policies and efforts, I think it is normal to assume and accept that the King and his Council have an understandable and essential role in the Thai situation and the idea that an open discussion and knowledge of this role should not be allowed makes no sense at all as well as casting a more negative aspect on the Privy Council and King's role than would be cast in a more open and straightforward discussion and atmosphere........ …………thank you to Paul Handley and to New Mandala for providing an access point to this very informative history of the Privy Council and its various roles and interests….I think it is quite useful and beneficial to have an open dialogue on the Privy Council’s role and by inference, the role of the King……whether one agrees or disagrees with the Council’s policies and efforts, I think it is normal to assume and accept that the King and his Council have an understandable and essential role in the Thai situation and the idea that an open discussion and knowledge of this role should not be allowed makes no sense at all as well as casting a more negative aspect on the Privy Council and King’s role than would be cast in a more open and straightforward discussion and atmosphere……..

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