<p>Harrison George unpacks the talk/rant delivered by&nbsp;Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong on 11 October 2019.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This week in Alien Thoughts, Harrison George imagines what a government press release on the reported conviction and incarceration of Deputy&nbsp;Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Thamanat Prompow in 1993-1997 in Australia and the allegations that he falsified his education might be like.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Dear Mr Natthaporn Sir,</p><p>No one can misunderestimate the tremendous service you have rendered to the nation by exposing the link between the Future Forward Party and the insidious subversive international secret society known as the Illuminati and by petitioning the Constitutional Court to have the party dissolved on these grounds. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The recent unexpected death of former Prime Minister Gen Prem Tinsulanonda &ndash; What?&nbsp; Yes I know he was 98 but I would have put folding money on him reaching his century, wouldn&rsquo;t you?&nbsp; As I was saying, the death of Gen Prem has had us reviewing the 1980s when he presided over a series of fractious coalitions in a system of semi-democracy or semi-dictatorship, take your pick.</p>