Dear everyone, thanks for all the good work

I miss you too, buddy. Great speech in Chiang Mai, but how silly you were to give me such bold praise like that, and coming after the court ruling, as well. It touched me, anyhow.

The asylum thing is getting a bit complicated. You've done well on your part to buy me some time. The public prosecutors and Foreign Ministry are doing their best for Thailand by doing virtually nothing with regard to extradition. Good job.

I've heard that up to 100,000 people will join the Rajamangala Stadium rally. Make sure the authorities provide all necessary conveniences.

Hope the Charter amendment plan is going well. We do need to replace the 2007 junk with a real Constitution by the people for the man of the people.

Best regards,

Your brother-in-law.

PS. The baht appears to be holding against the global financial storm pretty well. So, no major government decision regarding our national currency at the moment, I guess. Keep me posted about the situation, anyway.

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Dear Veera,

Many thanks for the smooth phone-in show. What a massive gathering! How I wish I were there to rub their noses in it.

Poor Aung Saan Suu Kyi. She should be able to organise the same show of force for the world to see. If they hadn't made a big fuss out of my EXIM loan to Burma, that country's IT development could have been sophisticated enough to enable its freedom fighters to give it a shot. What a shame.

Again, very well done. The other side has been reduced to a few thousand stubborn fanatics and a dozen clueless judges. We will steam-roller them in no time.

All the best,

Your thankful interviewee.

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Dear Newin,

No problem. Come and meet me in London or Hong Kong. You will be joining many government MPs. We need to move fast but discretely on Charter amendment.

Of course, I want you back in the team. We are such a big political mechanism, so it's normal that you guys squabble sometimes. That you and Yongyuth are talking again is a good sign.

Your mass mobilisation skills are very well appreciated. It's the only way we can counter-balance the dictatorial judges. Thank Buddha for democracy, or we would never have checks and balances to keep them at bay.

All is forgiven, my boy,

Still shoulders for you to cry on.

PS. Too many square-faced mythical statues are in the news nowadays. Do you have anything to do with that? If so, be more prudent.

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Dear British asylum authorities,

That I have five countries offering me honorary citizenship doesn't mean I'm withdrawing my bid to seek your asylum. Please forgive my globetrotting activities that some people say might have compromised your political refugee regulations. I didn't know that. My honest mistake.

The political persecution that I have had to endure must have become clear to you now through the sheer scale of popular support you saw on Saturday, through comments from MPs of the ruling party, as well as the Thai prime minister himself. Only a bunch of misguided judges and a few thousand fascists stand between Thailand and a way back to democracy.

Do you think that it's fair for a man who is loved by millions and whose political party commands the majority in the Parliament and runs the government with such a strong mandate to be politically persecuted like this? Please, hands on your hearts, answer this.

Yours sincerely

Champion of the poor

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Dear Thai people,

I'm still overwhelmed by the outpouring of love that you showed on Saturday. I don't know how to thank you. All I can say is, the memory will stay in a special place inside me forever.

Without you, they would have finished me on Day One. They would have had their way with all the stock nominees that I used for purely technical reasons. Since they couldn't get me for the silly charge of share concealment, they asked my family to pay taxes that we weren't supposed to pay. When I refused to pay, they pressured me to resign. When their pressure didn't work, thanks to you, they used tanks and guns to force me out.

Now that you have voted my party back to power, they are trying to put me in jail using judicial outfits and decorative clauses in the anti-corruption laws.

Only you can help me. Only you can put this shameful mockery of democracy to the sword. Only you can maximise my potential. Like I said the other day, it saddens me when countries are lining up to present honours to me or seek my economic advice, while all I can do for Thailand is watch her sink. There is so much more I could do for my own country.

Please, Thailand, bring me back.

Your beloved son.