It is also possible that Islamic militants in the South of Thailand were complicit in a coordinated effort with the Reds to carve off 4 Southern provinces and creating an Islamic republic.\u00a0 The police and army investigators are still finding weapon caches in various parts of Thailand, including the South.\u00a0 A recent find was sacks of weapons and ammunition apparently abandoned behind bushes in Nonthaburi , across the Chao Praya River from Bangkok.<\/p>\n
The people of Thailand are generally happy with the way things have turned out.\u00a0 Here are some excerpts from a very recent article in the Bangkok Post<\/em>, an English language newspaper published in Thailand.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The article is entitled People give thumbs up to NCPO, Prayuth[2]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe National Council for Peace and Order’s performance in its first month of governing Thailand has received an approval rate of 8.82 out of 10 in an opinion survey conducted by Suan Dusit Poll.\u201d This does not mean that all is now heavenly in Thailand.\u00a0 There are still many social ills to overcome and deal with.\u00a0 There are still development issues and a large gap between income levels of the very rich and the very poor.\u00a0 But the former Thaksin puppet sister Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is gone (impeached for corruption before the coup) and known criminals are no longer in cabinet positions (One man who held several cabinet posts was a famous owner of massage parlors and kingpin of prostitution rings in Bangkok.)<\/p>\n Things are looking up in Thailand.\u00a0 Until next time,<\/p>\n Leon Sexton<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> Bangkok Post Online<\/strong>, 22 Jun 2014 : http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/local\/416756\/people-give-thumbs-up-to-ncpo-prayuth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To most Westerners, \u201ccoup\u201d is a bad word. As a Westerner living and working in Thailand for the past 13 years, I feel a whole lot safer now than I did before the Thai military took over the country. Thank you, General Prayuth and other members of the NCPO…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-generalnews","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cMeanwhile, another opinion survey conducted by the National Institute for Development Administration (Nida) shows a large proportion of respondents want the NCPO to nominate Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha for prime minister.\u201d..
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\nWhat this article demonstrates is that the people of Thailand are relatively happy with the army takeover and approve of the army\u2019s performance so far.\u00a0 The farmers are very happy since the army is seeing they get paid for their rice.\u00a0 The former government of Yingluck Shinawatra had promised them payment pledged for rice they produced under an ill-conceived and corruption ridden government rice scheme.\u00a0 Bangkokians are thrilled they can move about in the capital city unhindered by mobs taking over major intersections.\u00a0 Highrise shopping malls are ecstatic they need not fear gangs looting and burning shops as happened in past Red Shirt riots.<\/p>\n![\"Leon](\"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/signature-copy-150x135.jpg\" "\\"Leon")
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[1]<\/a> See article http:\/\/www.thaivisa.com\/forum\/topic\/700672-red-shirts-in-chiang-mai-in-favour-of-new-capital-in-case-of-coup\/page-2<\/a><\/p>\n