Children will often taunt, “liar, liar, pants on fire” when they are sure someone is lying. As we read the Bangkok Post reporting The Dictator’s spokesman we could hear this chant.
In a story about The Dictator’s recent “six questions,” one the junta’s most seasoned liars, “spokesman” Lt. Gen. Sansern Kaewkamnerd said General Prayuth Chan-ocha asked his questions “merely [because he] wanted to show how the work undertaken by the regime over the past three years will benefit the nation, and that the questions aim to determine whether the public agrees.”
This is buffalo manure, plain and simple. The Dictator asked the questions because he craves power and wants to hold it for as long as possible. Sansern is lying on behalf of his lying boss.
This is patently obvious when “Lt Gen Sansern said Gen Prayut is keen to know whether the public would be disappointed if politicians who come to power after the next general election ignore all the work and measures initiated by the current regime.”
Sansern revealed that The Dictator “would definitely find it regrettable if all the work he has initiated does not pan out as planned. When he [staged the coup], he did not want all the subsequent effort to be wasted…”.
So he wants to stay on. Keep Prayuth and you keep all of the repression, oppression and corruption of the military dictatorship.
Sansern, like his boss, consider Thais fools and gullible. They think that lying is manipulation. They manipulate to maintain military dominance. Their pants are burned to a cinder.
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