Appointed senator urges government to check if Aung San Su Kyi has been paid to defame Thailand
Unhappy with Aung San Su Kyi’s criticism of Thailand’s constitution and politics, PAD-affiliated senator Prasong Nurak has urged the government to track her financial records to find whether she has received money and from whom.
During a Senate meeting on 26 April, Prasong said that Aung San Su Kyi’s remarks had damaged Thailand’s reputation in the eyes of the international community, likening her to a drowning person making noises in teaching others to swim.
‘I’m so disappointed, as Aung San Su Kyi should have had a better understanding about Thailand. I’m asking [the government] to try to track her financial records to find out who she has received money from.’
Prasong is from Chumphon, and was a leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy in Iowa, Kansas and Illinois during the protests against Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006. He ran for a Senate seat in Chumphon in 2000, but failed. Under the 2007 Constitution, he was appointed a Senator after nomination by the State Enterprise Labour Union of the Expressway Authority of Thailand.
He joined the group of 40 senators in supporting the PAD protests in 2008. On 28 Aug 2008, two days after the PAD had occupied Government House, he and other senators, including Rosana Tositrakul, Somchai Sawangkan, Prasan Maruekapithak, Khamnoon Sitthisaman, etc., showed up at the government compound to give moral support to the yellow shirts.
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Mr. Prasong who couldn't see
Mr. Prasong who couldn't see a problem with towing boat people out to sea to die now wants an investigation on the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. This guy should be impeached he's not worthy to sit in the senate and he's sure not worthy to lecture her.
Hopefully when there is a new election and the 97 constitution is reinstated they can root out all these useless cronies and lackeys.
Can you impeach appointed
Can you impeach appointed senators?
I think that'd be found to an act of lèse–majesté... somehow.
I share your hopes for life after the new election. Mr. Prasong can return home to Iowa, Kansas, or Illinois and PM Abhisit can return home to Oxford.
Then the Thai people can get to work on the 1997 Constitution, which itself needs some emendation. Thais unable to buy tertiary degrees must be able to serve in their own Parliament, for a start.
The problem is that in
The problem is that in Thailand, the over-riding motivator for expression of opinion is money and personal aggrandisement. As a consequence, people like this clown sincerely have no idea at all that there are people who actually have integrity, they assume they have also been paid to say what they say.
And how is any Thai going to 'check if [she] was paid to 'defame' Thailand anyway?
In a way, this is as good a metaphors one could wish for for the state of Thailand and Thais in the final stages of the Rama IX era.
Som nam na. More's the pity.
[Dear คนพม่า The book you
[Dear คนพม่า
The book you have referred to has been banned by the Thai government. - Prachatai]