Comments on: Refusing to Drink the Thaksin Kool-Aid: Why We’re Here http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/ A close look at Thaksin Shinawatra's takeover of Manchester City Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mike williams http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-13 mike williams Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:03:55 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-13 I also meant to say that i have seen and read your comments on the forums. my login name is thaimike. I also meant to say that i have seen and read your comments on the forums. my login name is thaimike.

]]> By: mike williams http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-12 mike williams Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:57:15 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-12 well done Mr williamson but i doubt if they will listen.I live in Thailand and have done for the last 3 years the minute i first saw this guy talk all his body langage suggested his insinserity in what he was saying. I have tried via the MCEN to bring attention to all of the things that you have said here but my comments just fall on deaf ears,and i had some quite abusive remarks back from some of the fans. It is my belief that Thaksin is mearly using the club to draw attention away from his critics and once they have served their purpose he will dump the club with massive overheads and no income to support those overheads.I wish the fans would wake up from their euphoria and face facts that this guy is a very nasty manipulator of people and a human rights abuser. Good luck with you efforts to inform. well done Mr williamson but i doubt if they will listen.I live in Thailand and have done for the last 3 years the minute i first saw this guy talk all his body langage suggested his insinserity in what he was saying. I have tried via the MCEN to bring attention to all of the things that you have said here but my comments just fall on deaf ears,and i had some quite abusive remarks back from some of the fans. It is my belief that Thaksin is mearly using the club to draw attention away from his critics and once they have served their purpose he will dump the club with massive overheads and no income to support those overheads.I wish the fans would wake up from their euphoria and face facts that this guy is a very nasty manipulator of people and a human rights abuser. Good luck with you efforts to inform.

]]> By: steve http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-7 steve Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:43:19 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-7 I find all the hype about Frank rather frustrating. Frankly, if he had not bought MCFC, he wouldn't have even been mentioned in the press about his past (certainly not in this country). Frank tried to buy Liverpool and it is even reported he had an interest in Fulham at some point but not a lot was wrote about him then, so why now. Can someone tell me if Tony Blair, Goerge Bush or even Putin would be suitable to run a football Club. The first 2 at the very least are responsible for the loss of life on a far greater scale than this guy. I find all the hype about Frank rather frustrating. Frankly, if he had not bought MCFC, he wouldn’t have even been mentioned in the press about his past (certainly not in this country).

Frank tried to buy Liverpool and it is even reported he had an interest in Fulham at some point but not a lot was wrote about him then, so why now.

Can someone tell me if Tony Blair, Goerge Bush or even Putin would be suitable to run a football Club. The first 2 at the very least are responsible for the loss of life on a far greater scale than this guy.

]]> By: Bangkokblue http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-5 Bangkokblue Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:01:00 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-5 Thank you so much for your excellent blog, it really is a sight for sore eyes. As a previous regular reader/posting contributor to a Man City forum I found my self becoming increasing appalled, and even angry at certain City fans who sought to excuse/deny the human rights criminality of the Thaksin regime solely because he planned to invest in football club. As a consequence,and with very heavy heart, I have resolved myself to take as little interest in football as I possibly can until Thaksin is gone. I am however very happy to become involved with any concerted campaign to expose the truth about Thaksin to as many City fans as possible in the hope that this may hasten his demise. I have to confess that I would quite like to see an agressive "Thaksin get out" type of campaign but I understand and applaud your approach here, and I am very happy to contibute in any way I can. Best of luck for the future, hopefully it won't be too long until City return to being a football club rather than a despot's political football. Thank you so much for your excellent blog, it really is a sight for sore eyes.

As a previous regular reader/posting contributor to a Man City forum I found my self becoming increasing appalled, and even angry at certain City fans who sought to excuse/deny the human rights criminality of the Thaksin regime solely because he planned to invest in football club. As a consequence,and with very heavy heart, I have resolved myself to take as little interest in football as I possibly can until Thaksin is gone. I am however very happy to become involved with any concerted campaign to expose the truth about Thaksin to as many City fans as possible in the hope that this may hasten his demise.

I have to confess that I would quite like to see an agressive “Thaksin get out” type of campaign but I understand and applaud your approach here, and I am very happy to contibute in any way I can.

Best of luck for the future, hopefully it won’t be too long until City return to being a football club rather than a despot’s political football.

]]> By: Rob Jones (NQT) http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-4 Rob Jones (NQT) Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:28:08 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-4 If Franks reason for buying a Premier League football club, was purely to enable him to return to Thailand, why did he try and buy Liverpool before the coup? Just whilst we're on Liverpool, should their supporters be protesting about their American owners? As the owners of Liverpool have backed George W Bush to the tune of millions of dollars in political party donations and Bush entered into an illegal war that has resulted in hundreds and thousands of deaths. If Franks reason for buying a Premier League football club, was purely to enable him to return to Thailand, why did he try and buy Liverpool before the coup?

Just whilst we’re on Liverpool, should their supporters be protesting about their American owners? As the owners of Liverpool have backed George W Bush to the tune of millions of dollars in political party donations and Bush entered into an illegal war that has resulted in hundreds and thousands of deaths.

]]> By: Vichai N http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-2 Vichai N Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:38:33 +0000 http://thaksinskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/refusing-to-drink-the-thaksin-kool-aid-why-were-here/#comment-2 To Manchester City people, I just read a BBC News article “A slaughterman's story”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6931324.stm And it is about the ‘foot and mouth disease’ and the nightmares endured by Mr. Gordon Nixon, the slaughterman (who culled the diseased livestock), aftermath of the slaughter. The slaughterman was haunted because he was/is a compassionate man. I pain with him . . . So it is with deep outrage that I compare the compassionate Mr. Gordon Nixon, depressed still by the animal slaughter he carried out long long ago, with my ex-Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an unrepentant aloof slaughterman not of cows or sheep, but, of fellow Thais. Thaksin Shinawatra was a slaughterman of an entirely different unfathomable kind, quick to extra-judicially kill without compassion nor hesitation . . . and was in lots of hurry to demand ‘thousands’ of kills (from his extra-judicial police) to impress, to be popular, and to be glorified as the man who can get things done! And that Manchester City is the truth why Thaksin is dangerous and had lost his legitimacy to lead anyone . . . even a lamb. To Manchester City people,

I just read a BBC News article “A slaughterman’s story”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6931324.stm
And it is about the ‘foot and mouth disease’ and the nightmares endured by Mr. Gordon Nixon, the slaughterman (who culled the diseased livestock), aftermath of the slaughter.

The slaughterman was haunted because he was/is a compassionate man. I pain with him . . .

So it is with deep outrage that I compare the compassionate Mr. Gordon Nixon, depressed still by the animal slaughter he carried out long long ago, with my ex-Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an unrepentant aloof slaughterman not of cows or sheep, but, of fellow Thais. Thaksin Shinawatra was a slaughterman of an entirely different unfathomable kind, quick to extra-judicially kill without compassion nor hesitation . . . and was in lots of hurry to demand ‘thousands’ of kills (from his extra-judicial police) to impress, to be popular, and to be glorified as the man who can get things done!

And that Manchester City is the truth why Thaksin is dangerous and had lost his legitimacy to lead anyone . . . even a lamb.

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