Former media mouthpiece turns on TRT?
- March 25, 2004
Wisarut reports: Even Manager
Daily, which used to be a mouthpiece of propaganda
for Thai Rak Thai, have warned Premier Thaksin and the
cabinet that:
(translated and summarized by Wisarut Bholsithi from an
editorial in Manager Daily, March 25, 2004) His
Majesty has pointed out the new forms of corruption through
the message "CEO-Style corruption" and "The
richer of the billionaire, the more corrupt they are!"
Premier Thaksin and his cronies will be expected to suffer
punishment from heaven unless they can clarify the following
issues:
1) the privatization of EGAT
2) Bird flu
3) the controversial Laem
Phak Bia Project
4) The Detroit of the East Plan while they are claiming
to expand
mass transit projects
4) The integration
of Mass Transit System through nationalization while
bullying private companies that won the concessions to
sell back to the government at very cheap prices before
offering an IPO.
The most blatant example of this kind of bullying is that
"If BTSC and BMCL refuse to sell the shares to the
government at favorable prices,
no extensions allowed!"
Thai Rak Thai have played with the sufferings of Bangkokians
from the traffic jam so that those government could come
up with alternatives in favor of their cronies (e.g. bus
rapid transit, expressways striking through communities
while the cronies prosper from the local people's sufferings).
This kind of action reveals that those cronies of premier
Thaksin want to silently kill BTSC and BMCL in the same
way they killed the Lavalin
project even though the government is supposed to
help companies to stay alive and well so that they can
make money to pay for the concessions.
[Note that 2Bangkok.com has been reporting on the
political vendettas that have halted
the Skytrain extensions since September 2002, but
the English-language press has never mentioned this at
all.]
Former media mouthpiece turns on TRT?
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