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In August of 2013, businessman and outspoken Thaksin opponent  Ekkayuth Anchanbutr  was abducted and murdered . This does not include more recent events, which also includes attempted and successful assassinations  targeting Thaksin Shinawatra’s enemies, and a campaign of increasing terrorism  being employed against growing dissent in the streets railing against his regime symbolically led by his own sister, Yingluck Shinawatra. It is easy to see why the West, despite the unraveling of the regime in recent months, is still stalwartly defending it, particularly in the editorials and columns of their newspapers – the West has invested a decade propping it up and is unlikely to find another political machine as effective and as willing to divide, destroy, and attempt to wholesale handover the resources and sovereignty of Thailand to foreign interests. It is this that brings us articles like the New York Times’ recent piece titled, " Protesters Say They’ll End Blockades in Bangkok ," by the biased and wholly inaccurate Thomas Fuller. He claimed in the article that: In what appeared to be a major retreat by the movement to overthrow the Thai government, protesters on Friday said they were abandoning their campaign to shut down Bangkok and would dismantle their blockades of major intersections set up in January
Continued here: Thailand: The People Have Spoken – No Confidence in Regime or System
February 2, 2014  ( ATN ) – In Thomas Fuller’s New York Times piece titled, " Gun Battle in Bangkok Escalates Election Protest ," he claims: At least six people were injured Saturday in a prolonged daylight gun battle between protesters seeking to block the distribution of ballots in Bangkok and would-be voters demanding that protesters cease their attempts to obstruct national elections on Sunday. After three months of a provocative campaign by protesters to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the clash on Saturday appeared to crystallize the power struggle that has been playing out on the streets of Bangkok. Ignoring pleas by the United States and the European Union to respect the democratic process — and stoking the anger of many Thais eager to vote — the protesters have blocked the distribution of ballots in parts of Bangkok and southern Thailand, a stronghold of the opposition. Fuller would go on to repeat many other tired distortions and intentional omissions  regarding the ongoing Thai political crisis, never mentioning the 3 main facts that have truly led to it. 1.Both the Regime and Elections are Illegitimate : Featuring only one main party with opposition parties boycotting it, and carried out under an open campaign of terror  aimed at regime opponents as well as under a "state of emergency " granting the regime authoritarian powers in and around the capital of Bangkok – the elections could not be any further from "the democracy process" even if they were unfolding in Saddam’s Iraq , or Kim Jong Ill’s North Korea . The fact that Thaksin Shinawatra, an accused mass murderer, a convicted criminal, and a fugitive hiding abroad, is openly running the current ruling party ( according to Fuller himself ) ram-rodding through these elections alone makes both them and the regime itself illegal and illegitimate.
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The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges. The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say.
Links Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic" Protesters are fighting against a loud, violent, and well connected minority led by Thaksin Shinawatra and backed by Wall Street. January 14, 2014  (ATN) – Even at face value, Eric Sommer’s (under the pen name David Marx) op-ed on Russia’s RT is full of factual errors that call into question both his premise and his conclusion.
The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges. The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say. The NYT piece would also report:  “He’s the one who formulates the Pheu Thai policies,†said Noppadon Pattama, a senior official in Mr.
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