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King Pumipon of Thailand | Uglytruth-Thailand
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King Pumipon of Thailand was a weak and characterless monarch who spent his useless and privileged life in a bubble, surrounded by fawning, grovelling, toadies who claimed that he was a “god”. He was a pathetic creature who should not in any way be pitied. His life’s work was in self-enrichment, support for military regimes and the defence of inequality. He played a significant role in preventing democratic rights, the development of social justice and the fair and unbiased use of the law. He did this by legitimising all the worst government policies and atrocities committed by Thai rulers. In recent years he remained silent while more and more dissidents were jailed, under the draconian lèse majesté law, for merely speaking out against the destruction of democracy. He always remained silent about the killing of innocent civilians by the military.

Pumipon was a willing tool of the military, who constantly staged coups and obstructed democracy and the economic development of the Thai people. For Pumipon this resulted in great rewards. He amassed so much wealth from the work of others during his reign, that he became the richest man in Thailand and the richest monarch in the world. Yet he preached, through the “Sufficiency Economy Ideology” that his “subjects” should be happy in their poverty and he always opposed any redistribution of wealth. Thailand is one of the most unequal countries in Asia.

His toadies had to constantly project a photo of him with a drop of sweat falling from his nose. The photo was always the same one, since Pumipon seldom did anything to work up a real sweat. Unbelievably, his followers wept when the Palace released a photo of him tying his own shoe-laces without help from any servants. He allowed the use of crawling and special royal language in his presence without any sense of shame and he passed on his warped and elitist view of the world to his dysfunctional children.

Why does Thailand need an army ? | Uglytruth-Thailand
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Quand on enlève les références à la Thailande et les dates précises on obtient une définition de ce que sont les armées sous le capitalisme et ses prédécesseurs.

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what is the purpose of the Thai military?

The short answer is that it has two main functions.

The first function is to protect ruling class rule from challenges by mass movements to expand the democratic space. All the weapons, tanks and other military equipment used by the military have been used in anger against citizens. In Bangkok they shot down demonstrators in 1973, 1976, 1992 and 2010. They have waged a civil war against the communists who sought a more egalitarian society and they are currently engaged in a vicious war in the Patani to prevent Malay Muslim self-determination. They have also occasionally staged military coups in order to “hold the line” against civilian political threats. But more often than not military coups have been about military self-interest, which brings me to the military’s second purpose.

The second purpose of the Thai military is to satisfy the sheer greed of the officer corps. Even when not in political power, the military provides rich and corrupt pickings for those in the top ranks. Corruption from weapons purchases, excess state funds for military activities and the chance to sit on the executive boards of state enterprises, all go to lining their pockets. Add to this the illegal trade in narcotics, human trafficking and other mafia type activities. And when they are in political power like now, the opportunities for enrichment are unlimited.

The effect of this nasty parasitic organisation is to act as a barrier to political progress and to divert important resources from the health, education and general well-being of most citizens.

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Mirabeau disait que « La Prusse n’est pas un État qui possède une armée, c’est une armée ayant conquis la nation. »
Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti de Mirabeau, De la monarchie prussienne sous Frédéric le Grand, vol. 1, Londres,‎ 1788

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Giles Ji Ungpakorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Giles Ji Ungpakorn (Thai: ใจ อึ๊งภากรณ์; rtgs: Chai Uengphakon; IPA: [tɕāj ʔɯ́ŋ.pʰāː.kɔ̄ːn]; born 25 October 1953) is a Thai-British academic and political activist. He formerly worked as an associate professor at Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, before he fled to the United Kingdom after facing a lèse majesté charge in Thailand.
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Giles Ungpakorn was formally charged with lese majeste in Bangkok on January 20, 2009. He had 20 days to respond to the charges, after which the Thai authorities would decide whether his case would be given to the Thai courts for prosecution. Ungpakorn said he was being charged because of the contents of his book A Coup for the Rich, which points out the main reasons the coup in Thailand two years prior took place. He fled Thailand in February 2009, returning to the United Kingdom. He stated, “I did not believe I would receive a fair trial.”

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Thai middle classes are violently opposed to democracy | Uglytruth-Thailand
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Lak Si is where the fascist monk Buddha Isara blocked the polling station, refusing to allow people to exercise their right to vote. Fascist Isara made a statement after the popcorn gunman was sentenced to jail, stating that he had helped pay for his defence and would always support him.

This obnoxious monk and Sutep Teuksuban, who led the various anti-election mobs, should be put in jail on the basis of being the master-minders and funders of these violent actions. But do not hold your breath. Fascist Buddha Isara is generalissimo Prayut’s favourite monk and has been given a free hand to organise reactionary demonstrations and spread his filth. We should not forget either that the junta head and the two-faced Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva are guilty of mass murder on the streets when they organised the shooting of pro-democracy demonstrators in 2010.

The middle classes in Thailand hate and despise the majority of ordinary working people and the poor. They hate the fact that rich tycoon Taksin won the hearts and minds of most ordinary people with his universal health care and pro-poor policies. The middle classes loathe democracy because they are out-voted by the majority. They want to turn the clock back to a time when workers and small farmers knew their place and suffered their poverty in silence. They want to hang on to their ill-gotten privileges by maintaining social and economic inequalities. They are cowardly because they fawn on the rich and powerful and grovel to the monarchy. They also hide behind the men of the military. The violent disruption of the elections was designed to cause a crisis which could be used as an excuse to stage yet another military coup.

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But as a staring point I offer the following ideas, the ideas of one red-shirted citizen.

We must have freedom of expression and the freedom to choose our own government without repression and fear.
We must have equality.
We have to abolish the mentality of ’big people\\little people’.
We must abolish the practice of crawling to the royal family.
Politicians must be accountable to the electorate, not to shadowy conniving figures beyond popular control.
We need to build a culture where citizens respect each other.
We must have freedom and equality of the sexes and among different ethnicities.
We must respect women, gays and lesbians.
We must respect Burmese, Laotians, Cambodians and the Muslim Malay people in the south.
Women must have the right to chose safe abortions.
Refugees should be treated with friendship and dignity as any civilised society would do.
Our country must be a Welfare State. Taxes must be levied on the rich. The poor are not a burden, but are partners in developing the country. People should have dignity. The present exploitative society stifles individuals and destroys personal creativity.
In our country the king should honour his constitutional role and stop intervening in politics. But the ruling class in Thailand gain much from using the Monarchy and they will not easily stop doing this. Therefore the best way to solve this problem is to build a republic where all public positions are elected and accountable.
For too long Thai society has been under the iron heels of the generals. We must cut the military budget and abolish the influence of the army in society ensuring that it can no long be an obstacle to democracy.
We must have justice. The judges should not claim power from the Crown in order to stop people criticising their decisions. We must change the way that ’Contempt of Court’ laws are used to prevent accountability. We need to reform the justice system root and branch. We need a jury system. The police must serve the population, not extract bribes from the poor.
Citizens in towns and communities must take part in the management of all public institutions such as state enterprises, the media, schools and hospitals.
Our country must modernise. We need to develop the education system, transport and housing. We should create energy from wind and solar power to protect the environment.
Our country must be peace-loving, not start disputes with neighbouring countries or support wars.

The dinosaurs of Thai society, the Yellow Shirted royalists, will froth at the mouth in anger at this manifesto, but that is merely the symptoms of people who carry superstitious beliefs from the past, seeking to cling to their privileges at all costs. Their time is finished. We, the pro-democracy Redshirts will move forward to build a new society.

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