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It's all over, Prime Minister Thaksin
Time for the super CEO to call it a day - for the sake of the company
This is not the time to debate whether you should have paid taxes. Or what you set up Ample Rich for. Or whether the election boycott is right or wrong. Or whether you have given the country more or less than what you have taken from her. We've gone way past such matters. With the nation on the brink of violent confrontation, this is the time to think, with a clear conscience and true patriotism, about what you should do next and now.It's over, Mr Prime Minister. If you insist it is not, there will only be dire consequences, and not for any particular individual but our whole country. "Thak-sinomics" and Thailand have gone as far as they can. There are some good legacies after five years, but the fact that two major social forces are set to collide is the best testimony that your system does not suit the entire nation. You were a great CEO, so you should know better than anyone what should be done if a firm's employees are split and at each other's throat. Yes, it's bottom-line time. A good CEO wouldn't dwell on which side he is on, but only how to save the company. And if the CEO knew it was him who caused the detrimental divide, what would he do? Should he persist on proving that he's right and set both camps on a war-path, and endanger the entire firm? Or should he make the biggest sacrifice by stepping aside and seeing how things go without him? The nation is in turmoil, and this is totally because one group believes you are a liability, and the other thinks you are an asset. We don't need to list here who are on which side, but it's so obvious that those who are against you are not a one-dimensional movement driven by malicious political purposes. It consists of several social spheres which are unanimous, solid, sophisticated and believe they have good reasons to reject your rule. And until they see the end of your era these forces won't stop their campaign. What will Thailand's CEO do? The bottom line is no longer his own survival. The country faces a serious threat of political violence that could severely hamper progress. Major policies are now in limbo because the other side does not trust you. Urgent reform is impossible while the other side considers you the root cause of the present political crisis. The economy will be held hostage by never-ending trouble. It's time you made that ultimate sacrifice, the one every leader who loves his country is supposed to make. Never mind that you have been accused of thinking about yourself and serving just yourself. There's still time for you to show that you are a leader who really cares - and be remembered that way.
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