By selectively picking on Gen Surayud Chulanont, a privy councillor and former premier, in its campaign against what it sees as the government's use of double standards, the UDD appears set on discrediting the Privy Council, not just attacking the government.
The Khao Yai Thiang land controversy represents just a tip of the iceberg of the extensive forest land encroachment problem in this country, which involves as many as 400,000 families nationwide.
Without the high social standing of Gen Surayud it would have received scant attention.
But the dramatic targeting of Gen Surayud by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in its weekend protest over his alleged illegal land ownership on the Khao Yai Thiang mountain in Sikhieu district of Nakhon Ratchasima puts it in a different context and appears to be intended to discredit the Privy Council.
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