Här är lite mer om Kasit och jag hoppas verkligen att forumets gula läser den för då kommer dom aldrig mer att kunna säga att Kasit var oskyldig och passiv vid flygplatsockupationerna, han njöt av att vara där och var nöjd med det som skedde och han hymlar inte med sitt engagemang i PAD http://notthenation.com/2011/02/tearful-kasit-throws-pad-scrapbook-off-bridge/ .
PINKLAO BRIDGE – In a symbolic gesture that he hopes will “bring closure,” a teary-eyed Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya threw his PAD scrapbook into the Chao Praya River today.
The scrapbook, which contained 72 pages of photographs, newspaper clippings, hand-written notes, and small personal mementos, documented the tumultuous five-year relationship Kasit had with the People’s Alliance For Democracy from 2005-2010.
“I’ll never forget the PAD,” said a solemn Kasit as he stood on the Pinklao Bridge at 6am this morning, his greying hair and trenchcoat tails waving in the cold morning breeze. “But it’s time to move on. For both of us.”
Kasit’s association with the yellow-shirted, monarchist conservative group started during the pre-coup days of the Thaksin Shinawatra administration, when he was serving as ambassador to the US. Despite officially representing the government that the PAD was protesting against, Kasit says he found the PAD immediately attractive.
“They were the bad boys of the political scene,” he said. “Rebels with their own rules. Even as I was assuring Washington that they were a minor movement, my heart was out there on Rajdamnoen, yelling into the night sky.”
After the September 2006 coup, Kasit spent a few months unattached, doing some advisory work with the Senate. But when the pro-Thaksin party won subsequent elections, Kasit knew that he couldn’t go back to civil service with his former partners. “Every day I’d watch the PAD on TV,” he said. “And when they took over the airport in 2008, something in me snapped. I pulled off my tie, put on a yellow shirt, and just ran into their arms.”
The Foreign Minister’s weeks with the PAD at Suvarnabhumi has been given much press attention, but Kasit insists no one really understands how special they were. “The passionate speeches, the physical unity, endless days turning into endless nights…I felt alive for the first time,” he recalls. “I really thought the PAD was the One.”
The relationship took a seemingly auspicious turn in 2009 when the Democrat Party took power in a military-backed coalition. Kasit, a long-time registered Democrat, was assigned the Foreign Minister job despite protests from the opposition regarding his participation in the airport incident. “We felt like it was finally our time,” he said. “After months of having nothing to offer the PAD but my love, now I could finally be the man they desired.”
According to Kasit, the first year was “heavenly,” acting as a spokesperson for the Thai government in condemning Thaksin and his followers, and an apologist for the PAD’s actions. Although officially no longer a PAD member, Kasit was seen as their most important advocate.
