- By Ranger, Thai Intel’s political journalist
Thai Intel likes Taksin-as the journalist here often says, Taksin is just so “Positive” about everything.
Think about it, Taksin is a self-made billionaire who worked had for about 20 years to build up his empire, then became one of the most popular Thai prime minister-in the history of Thai politics.
- Then, one day, everything was taken away from him, in the 2006 coup, leaving him exile from Thailand-have to start making another fortune and seldom seeing his children and family-being from a family that is very warm and loving.
Taksin, according to Forbes, is still a very rich person, having US$100s of million.
- I do not know about Taksin, but really, most people, who had to go through and suffer what Taksin had to suffer-would be very angry and bitter. What does people who are very bitter and angry often do? They obviously, think of “revenge.” By now, if Taksin is not just so “Positive” there would be “Contracts” out on the head of a few people-like already.
But what does Taksin says? He says he has no ill feelings towards those who did all those very nasty things to him.
- “Lets think of the future and move Thailand forward,” says Taksin, just like so very often.
Why do some Thai people hate Taksin just so much? Well, Taksin is not perfect, and you do not get to be a billionaire and the prime minister of a back-ward developing country, filled with a lot of back-ward people, like Thailand, without making enemies on the way up and being there.
- But Thai Intel subscribe to the most credible theory on the reason some hate-Taksin-and that is, Taksin is just a victim-being the tool, like a fall guy, used for the the rise of some people in Thai establishment.
The Following is from Political Prisoner Thailand Blog:
A reader tells PPT that a new book by U.S. journalist Tom Plate is not being stocked by two of the major bookshops in Bangkok. What is the book? Thaksin in the series “Giants of Asia.” The reader tells us the other “Giants” are Lee Kuan Yew, Mahathir, and Ban Ki-Moon.
It seems remarkable that major bookshops should refuse to carry a book, effectively being censored by some invisible force or self-censoring their stock and what readers can see. Or is it a reflection of the fear and loathing of the man amongst the royalist business class?
PPT hasn’t read the book that is claimed to present an “inside look” at Thaksin and his ideas and thinking, apparently “warts and all.” The book is available for order in Singapore.
Update: A reader writes to observe that Asia Books and Kinokunya Bangkok – the major distributors of English-language books – have long been weak-kneed about books seen as potentially controversial. The reader believes a Thai-language version is in the works and that it will sell like hot cakes.
Wait for the claims that the book is propaganda, paid-for, nothing we didn’t know before, and so on.
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