A new website has been launched, Thai Spring, where people can voice their opposition to the Yingluck Shinawatra government, retired police officer Vasit Dejkunjorn and former senator Kaewsun Atibodhi said on Thursday.
The new website, Thai Spring, is launched by Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn and Kaewsun Atibodhi on Thursday to voice opposition to the government.
Pol Gen Vasit, the former deputy police chief, made the revelation at a press conference. He was accompanied by Mr Kaewsun.
Describing himself as a person who adheres strongly to the principle of a democratic administration under the monarchy, and who has experienced many political eras in Thailand, Pol Gen Vasit said he was aware there are groups people trying relentlessly to undermine the highest institution in the country.
Those people have a plan to take over Thailand and change its administrative system, and he would not stand by and allow this to happen, he said.
"In the past, we've had many weapons to fight them. Today, we have another weapon where the people can express their dissatisfaction through social media.
"It is a website, <http://www.change.org/users/thaispring>, where they can sign in and express disapproval of the prime minister's speech in Ulan Bator.
"More than 10,000 people have signed on to the website so far to express their opinion that in delivering that speech the prime minister acted wrongly.
"A show of force in this manner is more effective than calling for the people to go out to Sanam Luang," he said.
Pol Gen Vasit called for the government to review its role, otherwise the "Thai Spring" movement would develop, in the same way that the "Arab Spring" phenomenon had led to anti-government protests by huge numbers of people.
Mr Kaewsun said he believes the present government lacks the legitimacy to administer the country.
Ms Yingluck, although properly appointed under a royal command, had served as a puppet for a defacto prime minister, he said, referring to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Mr Kaewsun said the government was trying to use the dictatorship of a majority to amend the present constitution and to pass laws to clear a group politicians and their families of all wrongdoing.
Ms Yingluck's speech in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, had isolated democratically minded Thai people from the rest of the world, he said.