Thaksin spokesman Jakrapob gives his own version of Thai history from Sukhothai to Ayuttaya and then up to the present day at the FCCT ?????????????????????????????? ??? ?????? ?????? In other words, there was not there was no better idea on how a kingdom could be run so that it was the best system at the time. Later on in Ayuthaya period, that was the capital city of a land for 400 and some years, the God like idea of monarch had been introduced with the Khmer civilization’s influence. The idea of a King as a Demi-God as a representative from the Hindu Gods and the Gods beyond these Hindu Gods had arrived in our land at that time. So the Patronage system of helping people or being dependable for people had been changed into the state of protection. If you have loyalty to the King, unquestionable loyalty to the King, you would be protected, in order to show this protection more clearly, people who do otherwise must be punished. So the very system in Ayuthaya period shows or showed that there was an evolution of the system, some people might call it regressive, some people would call it progressive. Whatever it might be in your opinion, it was a combination between the benevolence of the Great Fathers model and the Great Leaders model. In other words, the Kings of Ayuthaya were powerful and the concept of power were realized at the time that if people in power could be benevolent, you could benefit from that power as well. In other words Ayuthaya period taught Thai people …

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