Red-shirts will keep protests & ralley for Mr Thanksin again..Perhaps good to keep in mind for vistors of BKK comming weekend..Police will step up the "security" & be on alert march 11-21..
Trips to airports etc. might be delayed & disrupt..
We all know how "hot" it can be in the capital during these events.. :evil:
Thanksin ralleys comming weekend!
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Posted 10 March 2010 - 11:16 PM
Live in the real world,its the only one that matters..
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Posted 16 March 2010 - 06:56 PM
I am so bored about mob in Thailand. It is only conflict between two main parties in Thailand. Almost Thai people hate mob.
Although the red shirt mob is 10,000 or 100,000 people, It is less than 1% of Thai people.
In face, my mother in the country told me that people who join the red shirt mob obtain 500 baht/day + free breakfast, lunch and dinner.
No moving if no money.
Although the red shirt mob is 10,000 or 100,000 people, It is less than 1% of Thai people.
In face, my mother in the country told me that people who join the red shirt mob obtain 500 baht/day + free breakfast, lunch and dinner.
No moving if no money.
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 08:45 AM
It seems the worst is over - well for now.
It was all a little confusing. Originally the Red Shirts claimed 1,000,000 would attend the rally - the actual number was probably closer to 100,000. It was a fairly emotive rally and certainly some speakers were very blunt in their claims - demanding the death of the PM!
It appears from Thais that I speak to that Issan is the major Red Shirt support region - Issan represents over 50% of the population and is the less well off region due to dependency on agriculture.
It does Thailand no favors - you cannot claim a democracy if an appointed government does not see out its term in office. Certainly it will adversely affect tourism - again.
There were no signs of civil unrest in Pattaya unless you include abusive LBs
It was all a little confusing. Originally the Red Shirts claimed 1,000,000 would attend the rally - the actual number was probably closer to 100,000. It was a fairly emotive rally and certainly some speakers were very blunt in their claims - demanding the death of the PM!
It appears from Thais that I speak to that Issan is the major Red Shirt support region - Issan represents over 50% of the population and is the less well off region due to dependency on agriculture.
It does Thailand no favors - you cannot claim a democracy if an appointed government does not see out its term in office. Certainly it will adversely affect tourism - again.
There were no signs of civil unrest in Pattaya unless you include abusive LBs
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 11:02 AM
Rossco wrote:
APPOINTED being the key operative word - as opposed to "elected".
I'm no expert on Thai "democracy" but obviously the coalition of urban elites, the military, and bureaucratic mandarins that make up the "royalist" Yellow Shirts are in power precisely because of the success of their far more disruptive, violent, and economically damaging protests of late 2008. Say what you will about Thaksin and his allies, but if Thailand goes to a vote it's Red Shirts in, Yellow Shirts out. Class warfare basically.
you cannot claim a democracy if an appointed government does not see out its term in office.
APPOINTED being the key operative word - as opposed to "elected".
I'm no expert on Thai "democracy" but obviously the coalition of urban elites, the military, and bureaucratic mandarins that make up the "royalist" Yellow Shirts are in power precisely because of the success of their far more disruptive, violent, and economically damaging protests of late 2008. Say what you will about Thaksin and his allies, but if Thailand goes to a vote it's Red Shirts in, Yellow Shirts out. Class warfare basically.
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 11:34 AM
i just hopes that this could have an effect on the thai baht, and the pound ect becomes a wee bit stronger against it
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 12:12 PM
In my personally opinion, the different between the red shirt mob and the yellow shirt mob are the following
Red shirt mob
1. Poor people
2. Fight for Taksin only
They fight for Taksin because, his policies only bring money from Tax of all Thai people to the poor. He don't really develop my country.
Yellow shirt mob
1. Wealth people and literate people.
2. Against Taksin and someone fight for themselves.
Taksin change many laws in order to get advantage for himself and disadvantage for others. Some business is only own for government, but they change law , and he buy it cheaply, and then they sell to the foreigner, expensively.
Red shirt mob
1. Poor people
2. Fight for Taksin only
They fight for Taksin because, his policies only bring money from Tax of all Thai people to the poor. He don't really develop my country.
Yellow shirt mob
1. Wealth people and literate people.
2. Against Taksin and someone fight for themselves.
Taksin change many laws in order to get advantage for himself and disadvantage for others. Some business is only own for government, but they change law , and he buy it cheaply, and then they sell to the foreigner, expensively.
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 01:14 PM
Thanksin ralleys comming weekend!
English teacher, are you?
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 09:31 PM
Crackerjax - well observed! I did choose my words carefully.
Appointed not Elected. It appears the 'elected' PM was a TV Chef host and not appropriate to be PM!!
The current PM seems a well educated and fairly astute guy - does not encourage public outbreaks etc.
Thailand is not a real democracy and has not been so since the dawn of time - they had a passive revolution, in 1932, that tried to dispense with Monarchy. In 1958 they then had a new PM (educated in USA) that decried Democracy as not suitable but supported a titular monarchy.
Watch the space
Appointed not Elected. It appears the 'elected' PM was a TV Chef host and not appropriate to be PM!!
The current PM seems a well educated and fairly astute guy - does not encourage public outbreaks etc.
Thailand is not a real democracy and has not been so since the dawn of time - they had a passive revolution, in 1932, that tried to dispense with Monarchy. In 1958 they then had a new PM (educated in USA) that decried Democracy as not suitable but supported a titular monarchy.
Watch the space
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Posted 17 March 2010 - 10:44 PM
Rossco, are you Thai?
You know very much about Thailand politic history.
You know very much about Thailand politic history.
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Posted 18 March 2010 - 12:13 PM
It appears the 'elected' PM was a TV Chef host and not appropriate to be PM!!
Hey, credit for "winning" the Cold War goes to a guy who used to play second fiddle to a chimp - certainly nothing wrong with serving up some good food in the palace.
Besides Bonzo, we've elected professional wrestlers, a guy who played a numskull on "Love Boat", and innumerable "family values" politicians who give blow jobs in airport rest rooms. Our biggest state is currently led by a steroid abusing, former gay porn star. The long time mayor of Wash DC was filmed smoking crack with a prostitute in a sleazy hotel - resulting in one of the classic lines in American political history - "BITCH set me UP".
(He was re-elected in a landslide after his release from Federal prison. ) With entertainers like this available who could ever again settle for merely "well educated and fairly astute"?
Power to the People!
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 08:50 AM
Live in the real world,its the only one that matters..
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