Prachai, FCCT, Part

This is part 2 (part 1 is here) about Prachai Leophairatana former CEO of Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI) and now leader of Matchima speaking at the FCCT.

Money quote from absolutelyBangkok.com:

Prachai sees himself as a Thai prime minister in waiting. Others call him a dangerously intelligent, shrewed snake. Asia’s most infamous businessman.

And there he went, Prachai, in front of the honorable FCCT, to call Thaksin “worse than Saddam Hussein, even worse than Hitler. If Thaksin would have stayed on,” Prachai later told absolutelyBangkok.com, “I may have been killed.”

We all know Prachai is not only an adversary of Thaksin, as he accused the former premier of being the force behind his ouster of giant TPI. But the logic of how Prachai explains that Thaksin was not only worse than Hitler, but more intelligent, that logic is already a classic:

“Thaksin killed many people, over 2,000, and did not get a penalty,” said Prachai. “Remember his massacres at Krue Se and Tak Bai. At Tak Bai, he was even more clever than Hitler. Hitler used gas to kill the Jews. Thaksin, he just packed together those young men. They produced their own gas. And died. Thaksin didn’t even have to add gas.” (emphasis added)

COMMENT: Argh, and you think Samak as PM would be bad. Given that almost 1,000 people have died in the Deep South since the coup by Prachai's logic the blood is on Surayud's hands. Then again, according to Prachai's twisted logic Surayud is a "nominee of Thaksin. Surayud did everything to promote Thaksin" so Thaksin is responsible again. I guess Prachai has forgotten about the military's role in Kru Se and Tak Bai, particularly as it is on the record that the Deputy PM specifically ordered the military commander not to storm the Kru Se Mosque. Then again, for the 2,000 people killed, we wouldn't want to blame the terrorists now, would we? You know the people who behead elderly men and women and set their bodies on fire. Thaksin is to blame of course.

Perhaps, Prachai needs a history update on Saddam and Hitler as he doesn't appear to be that good with facts. Then again, facts were never Prachai's strong point. Nevertheless, Prachai would fit in perfectly with the Democrats. Ong-art Klampaibul in February 2006:

“Dictator Saddam, though a brutal tyrant, still fought the superpower for the Iraqi motherland. But PM Thaksin is less conscionable than Saddam. For 73 billion baht to his personal pocket, the PM gave both economic and security sovereignty and communication rights entirely to foreigners,” said the Democrat spokesman. (emphasis added)

COMMENT: It is not the only Hitler comparison as well - there have been others see here and here.

The problem for any coalition government is where would you put Prachai. He would have to be made a Minister in exchange for becoming a coalition member. Minister to Regain Control of IRPC (TPIs new name) does not exist either. It won't be long before he is not happy as there is no way he can get his company back. I may feel frustrated with the Democrats at times, but they are not stupid - well not totally stupid at least on matters like this. Someone needs to tell Prachai, he ain't getting it back unless he pays market price which he won't have the money to do so.

Finally, Prachai is angry at the Singaporeans as they control the banks in Thailand - it seems the Jews were unavailable to be the scapegoat and given the Shin sale the Singaporeans are an easy bogeyman. Oddly, though though they are the bogeyman when it suits him then, but it is the Singapore model which he wants to follow to make Thailand a better country.

Prachai then went on to say:

And Prachai, that nemesis of Thaksin, goes on to explain how Thaksin as a former deputy prime minister had set up a clever system in collaboration with the former financial authorities “to shut down the financial system”.

Prachai pretends to know “how much money Thaksin made by selling out the country”.

And therefore it goes without, Prachai says, Thaksin wanted TPI.

COMMENT: Apparently, according to Prachai, when Robert Rubin was Treasury Secretary and "CEO" of Goldman Sachs he personally invited Prachai to exploit the baht prior to the baht being floated in July1997. Prachai being a faithful Thai did not, but Thaksin did and made billions. Nevertheless, there is not a single shred of evidence to back up his allegations. This is aside from (1) Rubin had already resigned from Goldman Sachs to become Treasury Secretary, and (2) why on earth would Rubin contact Prachai or Thaksin - the implication was that Rubin also contacted Thaksin, but Prachai jumps all over the place that it is never clear. Then again those folks at the Manager lap up this kind of crap. Svl, are you really Prachai in disguise?