"Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday said he had lifted the state of emergency in six provinces with immediate effect.The six provinces are Ayutthaya, Nong Bua Lamphu, Chaiyaphum, Mukdahan, Mahasarakham and Chon Buri.The emergeny rule remains enforced in 10 provinces, including Bangkok."
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State of emergency lifted in Chonburi + 5 other provinces
Started by Sexpat, Jul 30 2010 10:12 AM
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Posted 30 July 2010 - 04:38 PM
I suspect that neither Abhisit nor his mentors at CRES give a hoot about keeping the emergency in effect anywhere in Thailand - except in the courts - where all those friendly judges have been washing their hands of the constitution under the excuse that they can't interfere with CRES under the State of Emergency.
Both Abhisit and the de facto junta they call CRES know that they can't stop terrorist acts by declaring a state of anything. Five years of this same nonsense in the deep south has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the only thing that suffers under these declarations of emergencies are human rights, not bombs.
But continuing the state of emergency in Bangkok is vital to continuing CRES' dominant control of the campaign to suppress and ultimately destroy the red shirts as a political movement. The only way the CRES can get the courts to go along with keeping everyone in jail is to give the judges cover by "deferring" to the State of Emergency. In this contrived scenario, every red shirt becomes a terrorist, "because CRES said so," which turns the presumption of innocence guaranteed the Thai Constitution on its head. What it does in the long term to the credibility of the entire judicial system is a shirt of another color.
The folks in charge of CRES, however, appear to have no compunction about destoying what remains of an independent judiciary, if that's what it take to hold onto power, while Abhisit plays the role on the compliant fig leaf to cover the operation.
Both Abhisit and the de facto junta they call CRES know that they can't stop terrorist acts by declaring a state of anything. Five years of this same nonsense in the deep south has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the only thing that suffers under these declarations of emergencies are human rights, not bombs.
But continuing the state of emergency in Bangkok is vital to continuing CRES' dominant control of the campaign to suppress and ultimately destroy the red shirts as a political movement. The only way the CRES can get the courts to go along with keeping everyone in jail is to give the judges cover by "deferring" to the State of Emergency. In this contrived scenario, every red shirt becomes a terrorist, "because CRES said so," which turns the presumption of innocence guaranteed the Thai Constitution on its head. What it does in the long term to the credibility of the entire judicial system is a shirt of another color.
The folks in charge of CRES, however, appear to have no compunction about destoying what remains of an independent judiciary, if that's what it take to hold onto power, while Abhisit plays the role on the compliant fig leaf to cover the operation.
