SUFFICIENCY AND CORRUPTION It is understood that one of the junta head’s younger brothers is said to work at the Crown Property Bureau. Also, that the Prime Minister’s Office deputy spokesperson is the now promoted Major-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd. The latter was the spokesman for the Thai Army, who went about fabricating and concocting information throughout the life of the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime’s Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situations. We mention these two links because at The Nation newspaper, Sansern is reported as announcing that General Prayuth Chan-ocha will be at the Crown Property Bureau to “discuss strategies to promote development based on the King’s sufficiency philosophy … with 18,594 villages targeted for various activities.” That is apparently about a quarter of Thailand’s villages. The “meeting would be held in accordance with government’s policy to implement sufficiency measures up until 2017.” Yes, the sufficiency economy is back on the agenda for the poor, because the military dictatorship believes that the “promotion of a sufficiency economy went hand in hand with the inculcation of moral ethics.” Of course, the military junta believes that villagers need morals and ethics because they vote for populist politicians. The military and police brass now inhabiting the higher (appointed) positions don’t need morals or sufficiency, because they are corruptly rich and prefer a coup to an election. Sansern said that villages near the hugely expensive royal projects would be “targeted.” This royalist nonsense is being recycled by yet another military government because of the belief that it is a rhetorical device that demands loyalty to the monarchy and the royalist regime. In other words, it is a political project. Because of this, Sansern said the sufficiency economy will be forced on “the education sector, in business administration, public relations and the security sector.” Sufficient funds for this sufficiency project are THB 8.7 billion. No doubt some of those unusually wealthy generals, admirals and air chief marshals will get their hands into this pot as well.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:05:47 +0000
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