ปัจจัยสามอย่างที่ทำให้เกิดเหตุการณ์ด้งกล่าว
1. การดูถูกเหยียดหยาม
2. การไม่เคารพกฎหมายของฝ่ายตรงข้าม การตัดสินแบบสองมาตรฐาน ฝ่ายหนึ่งไม่เคยผิด อีกฝ่ายใช้กฎกูสร้างความผิดให้มาตลอด
3. ความทะเยอทะยานในการได้อำนาจของ กปปส. ในวิถีทางที่ไม่ใช่ประชาธิปไตย
Republic of Lanna
March 2, 2014
by Political prisoners of thailand
In our previous post, we emphasized some of the fears felt in elite circles regarding the direction of the politics: violence, inertia, economic downturn, and so on. We didn’t mention either republicanism or separatism, and we probably should have.
There’s a clutch of commentators who put all the events of Thailand’s post-2000 politics to a succession struggle. While that seems to be going too far, no one should ignore the impending demise of the current monarch and the panic this causes some who have built lives, fortunes and identities around a manufactured reverence for the monarchy and the current incumbent.
Fear of the future and a “disliked” king as opposed to the current one bothers this lot, as does the idea that politicians might somehow be involving themselves in the succession issue. The usual claim is that Thaksin Shinawatra is engaging in the succession issue supporting the crown prince. Given that the prince is the nominated heir to the throne, this is a worry for those who hate Thaksin. This is one of the reasons why the fear a monarchy that is truly a constitutional monarchy, under the authority of parliament.
Then, of course, there are the largely self-inflicted wounds to the monarchy’s “charisma” and “status” from its continual intervention in politics, whether highly visible as in the 2006 military-palace coup, the shady, backroom variety of political meddling that is the stock-in-trade of the aged privy councilors, or the use of the lese majeste law to “protect” royalist interests. The “eye-opening” events since the coup have damaged the monarchy considerably.
Separate ThailandsSeparatism has always bothered the royalists and nationalists. In earlier times they always worried about northeastern political troublemakers and there lurked a notion of separatism in that fear. In the south, separatism has long been an issue that the Bangkok-based elite never wanted on the table, considering Thailand one, indivisible nation. The recent verbalization of ideas about separating Bangkok and the Democrat Party-controlled south from the pro-Thaksin parts of the country were heard amongst both anti-democrats and their pro-Thaksin opponents. This must have been very scary for the old elite.
A report at the Nation, which may have been overtaken by events, must have added to royalist misgivings in proclaiming that the “idea of setting up a People’s Democratic Republic of Lanna (PDRL) has been under discussion for six months…”.
A leader of the so-called Love Chiang Mai group, Petchawat Wattanapongsirikul seemed to be “reassuring” when he stated that this was just a “split from Bangkok, and not [creating] an independent state.” His reference was to China’s Hong Kong model of one country, two systems. We doubt that is very conforting for the old elite who will imagine bits of “colonial” Thailand clamoring for similar treatment.
Petchawat identified “three factors” that motivated republican separatism:
Firstly, people in the North were looked down upon by others, with the PDRC often referring to red shirts as “red water buffaloes”. Secondly, the opposing group did not respect the law and there were double standards in the judicial system. The third reason, he said, was the undemocratic aspirations of the PDRC.
Looking down on red shirts as ‘red-water buffaloes’ was a severe form of discrimination against human dignity, Petchawat noted.
Clearly trying to rattle the royalist political cage, Petchawat was confused on what a modern republic is, for he “insisted [the Lanna Republic] would continue to respect HM the King as head of state.” Perhaps he was simply trying to avoid accusations of lese majeste or avoid claims he had violated the consitution.
Source
http://politicalprisonersofthailand.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/republic-of-lanna/
Republic of Lanna
ปัจจัยสามอย่างที่ทำให้เกิดเหตุการณ์ด้งกล่าว
1. การดูถูกเหยียดหยาม
2. การไม่เคารพกฎหมายของฝ่ายตรงข้าม การตัดสินแบบสองมาตรฐาน ฝ่ายหนึ่งไม่เคยผิด อีกฝ่ายใช้กฎกูสร้างความผิดให้มาตลอด
3. ความทะเยอทะยานในการได้อำนาจของ กปปส. ในวิถีทางที่ไม่ใช่ประชาธิปไตย
Republic of Lanna
March 2, 2014
by Political prisoners of thailand
In our previous post, we emphasized some of the fears felt in elite circles regarding the direction of the politics: violence, inertia, economic downturn, and so on. We didn’t mention either republicanism or separatism, and we probably should have.
There’s a clutch of commentators who put all the events of Thailand’s post-2000 politics to a succession struggle. While that seems to be going too far, no one should ignore the impending demise of the current monarch and the panic this causes some who have built lives, fortunes and identities around a manufactured reverence for the monarchy and the current incumbent.
Fear of the future and a “disliked” king as opposed to the current one bothers this lot, as does the idea that politicians might somehow be involving themselves in the succession issue. The usual claim is that Thaksin Shinawatra is engaging in the succession issue supporting the crown prince. Given that the prince is the nominated heir to the throne, this is a worry for those who hate Thaksin. This is one of the reasons why the fear a monarchy that is truly a constitutional monarchy, under the authority of parliament.
Then, of course, there are the largely self-inflicted wounds to the monarchy’s “charisma” and “status” from its continual intervention in politics, whether highly visible as in the 2006 military-palace coup, the shady, backroom variety of political meddling that is the stock-in-trade of the aged privy councilors, or the use of the lese majeste law to “protect” royalist interests. The “eye-opening” events since the coup have damaged the monarchy considerably.
Separate ThailandsSeparatism has always bothered the royalists and nationalists. In earlier times they always worried about northeastern political troublemakers and there lurked a notion of separatism in that fear. In the south, separatism has long been an issue that the Bangkok-based elite never wanted on the table, considering Thailand one, indivisible nation. The recent verbalization of ideas about separating Bangkok and the Democrat Party-controlled south from the pro-Thaksin parts of the country were heard amongst both anti-democrats and their pro-Thaksin opponents. This must have been very scary for the old elite.
A report at the Nation, which may have been overtaken by events, must have added to royalist misgivings in proclaiming that the “idea of setting up a People’s Democratic Republic of Lanna (PDRL) has been under discussion for six months…”.
A leader of the so-called Love Chiang Mai group, Petchawat Wattanapongsirikul seemed to be “reassuring” when he stated that this was just a “split from Bangkok, and not [creating] an independent state.” His reference was to China’s Hong Kong model of one country, two systems. We doubt that is very conforting for the old elite who will imagine bits of “colonial” Thailand clamoring for similar treatment.
Petchawat identified “three factors” that motivated republican separatism:
Firstly, people in the North were looked down upon by others, with the PDRC often referring to red shirts as “red water buffaloes”. Secondly, the opposing group did not respect the law and there were double standards in the judicial system. The third reason, he said, was the undemocratic aspirations of the PDRC.
Looking down on red shirts as ‘red-water buffaloes’ was a severe form of discrimination against human dignity, Petchawat noted.
Clearly trying to rattle the royalist political cage, Petchawat was confused on what a modern republic is, for he “insisted [the Lanna Republic] would continue to respect HM the King as head of state.” Perhaps he was simply trying to avoid accusations of lese majeste or avoid claims he had violated the consitution.
Source http://politicalprisonersofthailand.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/republic-of-lanna/