Reflections

Lets be as brief and concise as possible this is the truth of Thai history. Factual. Not based on all those lies told by the Indians, the Malays, the Khmers, Europeans, even falsified Thai architecture and archeological sites put there by Thaksin. This is the truth.

Back a long time ago, even before the days of vinyl records, a marvelous place and people existed called Suvarnabhumi and Tais. It was called the golden kingdom. It was not in Sumatra and Lower Burma but near present day Sukhothai. In this land the wine rice-wine flowed like water and every man had 194 virgins to pleasure him at a moment’s whim. It was a land where white elephants ran their lords bidding and everyone was happy, even the slaves.

However the forces of Mordor Burma and Cambodia saw the Tais golden massage wonderland and looked at it with green eyes of envy. They used agents to infiltrate and corrupt paradise.

After years of corruption Suvarnabhumi destroyed itself internally and dissapeared without a trace.

The descendants of the original Tais would go on to find the Sukhothai kingdom which ruled with peace and stability. The reports of constant infighting and coups and counter coups by princes and royals is merely a made up lie by the Western Powers who would instill their ideas into our blood stream. Others Tais would go on to find other great empires like the Roman, Mughal, Ottoman etc. Even the Mongol Leader Genghis Khan was of Tai origin. In fact Aryans are descendants of Suvarnabhumi.

It was here in Sukhothai that BodhijasvatirashdaloolawtfpwnedRajayanamakara was achieved. Through the great Kings of Sukhothai the finest in world literature was written, The Bhagavad Gita, The Mahabarata, The Bible, The Torah, all the goosebump series and many more. In addition the most important epic the Ramayana was written here telling the story of an island (Jungceylon) or Phuket not (Ceylon) or Sri Lanka.

Many important princes of Sukhothai would go on to do great things including various incarnations of Vishnu and Ganesh who would defend the empire against the encroachment of western barbarians. Many of the important battles that were won in history emulated the success of these campaigns. In fact the DDAY landings in Normandy was based on the invasion of Yavin IV Sumatra.

However over time various impure bloodlines sullied Sukhothai and it too fell from grace.

The Tais eventually resettled this time in Ayuthaya. Others who went other directions once again influenced the course of history including Keynes, Newton and Malthus. Corpernicus was also reported to be half tai on his mother’s side.

In Ayuthaya peace was the status quo. All reports of mass beheadings and slaverys are true, but the beheded were Khmer and the slaves were happy. Fact.  While other countries struggled internally the kingdoms of ayuthaya only had to deal with renegade princes and succession crisis. Other countries were COLONIZED!

In the end though the corruption of christianity and western ideas led to the downfall of Ayuthaya in 1767.

TAI HISTORY FUN FACTS!

• Tais descendent from a race once known as ‘xenu’
  
• Buddha had much Tai blood
  
• The pyramids had many problems resulting in the bent pyramid and steppe pyramid. Only with the help of Tai architects did it get built. In fact look at the other 6 wonders all gone. Tai influence? Still there.
  
• God was probably Tai if he existed.
  
• Jesus Christ was not born in Palestine this is a lie, he was born near present day Udon Thani, his mother’s name was not Mary but Malee.
  
• Ganesh was originally an elephant of Suvarnabhumi before he attained Godlike powers.
  

Recently some people have claimed that Thailand needs to revert to our classical way of living, that it was a classical utopia of sorts. A “Sukhothai” (Insert Shangri La, Nirvana, Timbuktoo, El Dorado) utopia that was in balance and a center of self sufficiency. That is simply not true. While there are undoubted aspects of pre Chakri Thailand that was beneficial it was far from the Utopia that certain persons claims it to be. Examples below.

First some positive in the rule leading up and including Narai:

I do not believe there is a country in the world where there are more religioins and where their practice is more freely permitted than in Siam. The Gentiles, Christians, Mahometans, who are all divided into different sects, have complete liberty to follow whichever cult they think best…[The Siamese] say that heaven is like a great palace to which several paths lead, some shorter, some more frequented, some more difficult, but that all in the end arrive at the place of bliss which men seek. – Jacques de Bourges 1666.

From Relations du voyage de Monseigneur l’Eveque de Beryte

But it was hardly the Utopia some make it out to be. The following describes the events that followed after the cremation of the King’s elephant.

…two men, former servants or attendants of the elephant, presented themselves before the king. They told him since the elephant, their master was dead, they wished to go and serve him in the after life. The King thanked them, drew his sword, cut them in two, and had them cremated. – Jacques de Coutre 1640.

From Vida de Iaqves de Covttre, Natural de la Civdad de Brugas.

It was also a land that had serf labourers (in addition to slaves.)

One only sees women working, the men being more often employed in the King’s Service which they perform like slaves. The same honours were afforded me as were those given to the King… Everyone was in barges, prostrate, Their hands joined together in front of their forehead.

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The King of siam has a great number of Malays in his states…The Penguans (Mons) are almost as numerous as the Siamese. The laos are very numerous especially in the north…The Cochin Chinese number about 100 families, mostly CHristians. Among the Tonkinese are seven or eight Christian families (Read Vietnamese).

The Malays are quite numerous, but most are slaves and consequently not bodyguards…In this great kingdom are many Peguans who were taken as prisoners of war…. – Chevalier de Chaumond  1686.

From Relation de L’ambassade de Mr Le Chevalier de Chaumont a la Cour du Roi de Siam.

More on the public service required of every subject and how Siam was not really self sufficient.

Six Months service of everyone of his subjects per annum: a service which he or his officers frequently extend much further…This service is sometimes esteemed and aid in ready money; and it is for the ready money that the rich are exempted.

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His other revenues do arise from the commerce, which he exercises with his subjects and foreigners. He has carried it to such a degree, that merchandize is now no more the trade of particular persons at Siam. His is not contented with selling by wholesale, he has some shops in the bazaars and markets, to sell by retail.

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The natural Siameses, ruin’d as they are by impositions and services, cannot carry on a great trade though they should have all the liberty imaginable. The trade is manag’d only with superfluous money, and in the places where the impositions are very great, there is scarcely found money necessary for life. The vast summ levied on the people returns slowly to the people, and especially in the remote provinces; the whole does not return because that a great part thereof remains in the hands of [the princes] (fuedal lords). – Simon de La Loubere, 1693.

From A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam.

Lastly on the dealings inside the court and the betrayal of King Narai by Pitracha

Pitracha replied that since ill health had prevented his majesty from attending to affairs of the state, he, Pitracha had been obliged to assume control upon advice of the court, until such time as his majesty’s health be restored. That PRa Pi and Oya Vichaiyen were found guilty of death by the privy council. - Father de Beze 1688
(Pra Pri and Oya Vichaiyen were trusted advisors and rivals to Pitracha in the court. Pitracha would also find an excuse to have the King’s brother executed on charges of treason)

From Revolution in Siam: The Memoir of Father de Beze

Of course none of these infringes on freedoms mattered since freedom and human rights are poisonous anyways

Photo Credits go to Myself and Florian Witulski (@vaitor)

In response to http://www.somtow.org/2010/05/open-letter-to-red-shirts.html

Dear Mr Somtow,
I have had the chance to read your letter and its benevolent and kind terms to the people whose lives a few days prior you had argued were forfeit. How noble and kind you are to afford them such mellifluous and didactic words ascertaining their guaranteed eventual emancipation. Since we are all the same race let us call yours, ‘the rich man’s burden’.

While we are not in disagreement about certain things, the common red has been misled, they are guilty of violence and arson and destruction of public and private property, can you truly sit there in your smugness and afford them the one line of acknowledgement that the most blood was shed by those wearing red?

As for your mountain analogy, while beautiful and no doubt heartfelt, it is people like you who have cause the divisions deep within this country. For example the democrats pride themselves on being the oldest political organization in the country so my question is for the entirety of its existence where has there been the effort to reach out the ‘uneducated’ that everyone seems to be complaining about now.  How can you expect a people to readily accept reconciliation when moments before it was words of contempt and vitriol? How can people accept a message that is forced down their throats. You do not build a peaceful society on violent foundations.

Perhaps you should write a letter to your own supporters and the people who hang onto your every word, perhaps you should set the record straight on the people who call for the massacre of the so called buffaloes. The problems with this country are not the undereducated who would be misled, but the elite who continually mislead them. How do you expect emancipation and knowledge when the press is restricted, the information is distorted and the government can play god when it comes to media deciding what is right what is wrong?

An independent inquiry is needed I agree, but how independent and fair do you think it will be? It remains to be seen but as a student of history (and not music) I remain skeptical. Might I remind you of the Mahmudiyah Killings where AMERICAN were tried and found guilty because for the death of civilians in Iraq.  There are enough eyewitnesses, and many who are not Dan River or CNN, who have seen soldiers used unrestrained force. Let me be the first to say that there was much restraint on the 9^th but much does not translate to enough. We should not be found wanting when it comes to humanism and civil liberties. There is no justification for using deadly force en masse.

Finally, for this country to move on, the rules of a democratically elected government must be respected. Abhisit’s government in legality is legal, but when the next election comes and what will surely be an opposition victory, can you honestly guarantee the same clowns (not terrorists) who closed down the airport wont come out again claiming proxy rules et cetera. If you can then I will bite the bullet and shake your hand, if there is no independent inquiry and no guarantee that the next election will be respected, reconciliation will be a hard road indeed.

Sincerely,

Cod Satrusayang