I read this article I need to have an informed opinion about if this make sense. Thaksin's power does indeed look like it is becoming extreme. But the current situation really comparable to what preceded the bloody uprisings in 73 and 92?

From the Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/27Apr2004_news06.php

New party needed `to avert revolt'

Academics, activists liken PM to Marcos

Ampa Santimataneedol

Academics and political activists yesterday urged the public to support a third political party, other than Thai Rak Thai or the Democrats _ warning of the possibility of another bloody uprising like Oct 14, 1973 and May 1992.

They said the Thaksin Shinawatra administration had gained a stranglehold on the political, economic and business life of the country.

Police not connected to the government were left out in the cold.

This was similar to the situation when Ferdinand Marcos had an iron rule over the Philippines. Without a peaceful alternative an uprising was inevitable.
They were speaking at a seminar organised by the Sahasavas Institute.

Somkiart Pongpaibul, a lecturer at the Rajabhat Institute's Nakhon Ratchasima campus, said Prime Minister Thaksin was playing God and monopolising the decision-making power of the nation.

Society had praised Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party in its first year of government because it allocated funds to villages. Now people were wondering who was really benefiting from the policy.

Independent organisations and people's organisations were weaker than ever and could not check on the government's performance. Parliament had also lost the ability.``Society is losing its balance, so this regime must end,'' Mr Somkiart said. ``There are two ways. One is an uprising like Oct 14 or the May bloodshed.

``The other is a constitutional way, to set up a people's organisation to balance the power in the same way that Filipinos did to fight against former president Marcos.''

He said academic and people's organisations, state enterprises, government officials, teachers and monks were all under the government's influence and the people were realising that Mr Thaksin and his associates had too much power.

He placed people in three groups: 12 million political party members, 14 million mobile phone clients, and millions of people in debt as a result of government projects.

He predicted public patience would come to an end in 2006 or 2007, and result in political unrest. To avoid that, a people's party should be formed through the alliance of more than 2,000 people's organisations in the nation.
Pipop Thongchai, chairman of the Campaign for Popular Democracy, said that 10 rich families, businessmen-turned-politicians, were selling off state enterprises.

Mr Thaksin was trying to be like former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, ``but considering the increasing wealth of the prime minister's family, he is more like Marcos.''

Kanin Boonsuwan, member of the former constitution drafting assembly, predicted that people would turn to the new party a year after Mr Thaksin was returned to power. But then his popularity would have declined.

Sangsit Piriyarangsan, vice chairman of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council, said the nation was facing parliamentary dictatorship, policy corruption and unfair distribution of income. The government was blocking political reform and people had become aware of the need for a ``third political party'', he said.