The revenge of the loser of Thai general election and that is also the solace he can console himself is to become a fear-monger. That has happened to outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban. To be a good sport, he should leave quietly for now and allow the democratic process in Thailand to take its normal course, under the Pheu Thai Party government. He should remember that the people of Thailand have spoken.
Had he care about Thailand, and less about his personal interests, he would have said "the Democrat Party would be in the opposition, but it would act within the scope of the law," and that is good enough for Thailand.
His ill-sayings about Pheu Thai Party to have "set up armed elements," "organized people to harass the government;" his wild speculation that "the form of administration will be changed," because the Red Shirts have control of more than half of the country, just only days after the Democrat Party lost the election to the Pheu Thai Party, speak loud about the man who had been vested with full power to win the election for the Democrat Party.
For the past two years he had strategized by all means whether or not they are legal or not fully legal as long as they are inside the gray area between legality and illegality, with the purpose of knocking out all other contenders, especially the Pheu Thai Party.
It is damaging for Thai politics, when top politicians did not understand the meaning of "singing the Swan song," but kept on kicking and screaming to shake off their direct responsibility of losing the election to a political party "not in power," to speak ill and blame the winning Pheu Thai Party, and turn to be a fear-monger.
Suthep Thaugsuban's acrimonious remarks on "Thai-Cambodian relations" as reported by the Bangkok Post 6 July 2011 under the title Suthep makes grim prediction, saying: "He expected Thai-Cambodian relations to improve because Pheu Thai and the Hun Sen government were friends," implies beyond any doubt that he has long cast the Democrat Party and the outgoing Abhisit Vejjajiva government as the enemies of the Royal Government of Cambodia, resulting in numerous Thai armed aggression against Cambodia.
At last a surprised admission has been uttered by Suthep Thaugsuban.
I said to Mr. Suthep Thaugsuban: Learn to be a real politician, learn to sing the swan song when you had to relinquish the power, and stop being a fear-monger when you lost the general election to the Pheu Thai Party. Pen Ngoeun Member of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PRU) 9 July 2011.
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