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The morals of thugs and gangsters
Red Thai Socialist - January 17, 2015
This is just blatant hypocrisy. Thai elite males regularly pay young women for sex and the military is well known for its parties where women are paid to parade naked in front of young men in uniform. The Crown Prince is also well known for making his women pose naked for photographs. Thai elites have no respect for women or the majority of the population.
Previously, head Coupster Prayut and his acolytes announced that they were to set up a "National Moral Forum" as part of their anti-reform process. If it were not for the expense involved and the vicious nature of the junta, it would be a joke.
Just like the so-called "reforms" which they lie about, their "morals" will be exactly the opposite of any moral principles. This is their first crime: lying. The junta and its supporters have lied about why they took power, they have lied about their intentions for democracy, they have lied about the law and the constitution, they have lied about how the majority of the population "support" the government and they have lied about being able to extradite the many Thai exiles who are charged with lese-majeste. They also lie repeatedly about the killing of unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in 2010... which brings us to their next immoral crime.
Generalissimo Prayut and his hired gunmen deliberately shot down unarmed red shirts in 2010, using special snipers. Nearly 90 civilians were killed in cold blood, some of them while sheltering in a temple. This was murder, pure and simple. But according to the so-called "National Moral Forum", cold-blooded murder like this is the peak of moral fortitude.
The use of deadly force, including military coups, in order to have your way, in opposition to the democratic wishes of the majority, is the behaviour of gangsters. But naturally, coup-making does not figure in the National Moral Forum's list of immoral acts.
The junta has given out jobs to its boys and Prayut and his fellow generals have lined their own pockets with multiple salaries; corruption, pure and simple. Yet the National Moral Forum will view corruption as a "relative" issue. It depends on who is involved. If it is the junta's opponents then it is most certainly corruption. But if it is the junta and its lackeys, then it is "justifiable reward for hard work".
Prayut has complained repeatedly about how tired he is with all his responsibilities. People need to relieve him of them all and allow him to rest for years in a prison cell.
Physical and mental torture are accepted as immoral acts by decent people. Yet the National Moral Forum will work on the idea that to criticise the ruling order or the monarchy is a heinous crime, whereas the destruction of free speech and the incarceration of innocent people in appalling conditions under the abominable lese-majeste law is "defending the morals of the nation". Threatening to kill or rape people, as part of the junta's "attitude changing activities", is torture. But the National Moral Forum will regard this activity as "bringing peace and happiness to society".
The National Moral Forum will no doubt praise "egotism" and "arrogance", special qualities shown by Thailand's Dear Leader Prayut.
But in reality, the National Moral Forum is about "obedience". It should be the National Obedience Forum because what these megalomaniacs believe is that the majority of the Thai people should bow their heads, crawl on the ground, and fix false happy smiles on their faces while being obedient and doing what the junta tells them. This is a measure of the moral degeneration of Thai society under the jack boot of the military.
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