bacchanal

Since the reds are always justifying everything on the basis of "double standards", this story just popped up and I found it ironic.

The Chiang Mai court today sentenced five men to prison for the murder of the father of a key PAD member in November, 2008. The five were among about 200 members of the Rak Chiang Mai 51 red group that surrounded PADs Wihok Radio community radio station, forcing it to close. One of the five convicted murders, Niyom Lueangcharoen, the chief guard of Chiang Mai 51, addressed the red shirts yesterday at Ratchaprasong.

So here we have a convicted murderer on the red shirt stage who participated in shutting down a community radio station because it didn't subscribe to their political views. I wonder if he is helping spearhead the peaceful red shirts at Thaicom today? Imagine people like this gaining power in the government here in Thailand.

Interesting that apparently he was granted bail while facing murder charges.

Now that he's been convicted of murder, hopefully he won't be granted bail again while he appeals (which has happened).

Trying to put numbers to this protest is a fools game.

Especially when the red leaders put so much BS into their ridiculous claims. They must think all their followers are fools.

As for outside Central, I've been told by red shirters there were 1 million there

Reminiscent of Veera proclaiming that they had 3 million protesters in Bangkok on the first day this all kicked off.

Thought Police this

Watch RED's LIVE from Bangkok

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Obviously the government doesn't wish that the violence-promoting and insurrection-urging broadcast to be watched.

I hope you're not jeopardizing thaivisa by posting this circumventing link for the 4th time today.

Obviously the government would like to be a government that had control over what I say or do or what I choose to watch or what I choose to inform others about. In case you did not know many feel the attempts to ban it are considered illegal and a double standard to say the least.

WATCH if you beleive in Freedom of Speech

It's up to you whether or not you consider it a free speech issue. Advocating violence isn't, in my opinion.

However, the government has determined that it is illegal and I'm also of the opinion that promoting (in the form of the same 4 posts today) a method of circumventing what the government has decided to be illegal puts thaivisa at jeopardy of staying online.

Thought Police this

Watch RED's LIVE from Bangkok

- Link Deleted -

Obviously the government doesn't wish that the violence-promoting and insurrection-urging broadcast to be watched.

I hope you're not jeopardizing thaivisa by posting this circumventing link for the 4th time today.

However, he admitted he was not too knowledgeable about Thai politics, and mainly came in support of his Thai wife

Looking at the replies of some of the longer term residents I am sure that their mental development is severely flawed or severely damaged in some way, the lack of political knowledge and indeed any conception of the corruption involved in the Thai political spectrum indicates that either a total lobotomy has been performed or it's a case of ''what the wife tells me I believe.''

an accurate assessment

PTV resuming broadcast

PTV can resume its satellite broadcast by today's morning although its programme is frequently interrupted due to the jamming of signal, Pheu Thai MP Waipoj Apornrat said on Friday.

Wipoj said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had permitted PTV to use the satellite uplink service.

Well, his playing nice at the Mekhong summit didn't last long, did it?

More likely just PTP/UDD disinformation aka lies. There's been a lot of that coming out of them lately.

Unfortunately, Abhisit detests the discipline of social psychology and shut down the academic website.

and just exactly what might that "academic website" be?

"However, he admitted he was not too knowledgeable about Thai politics"

A good summation of the foreigners at the reds rally article.

so, rainman, what do you really have to offer?

just say it. who'll lead thailand into new century?

It would have to be someone youthful and full of ambition.

Prime Minister Oak?

A thai boxer kicked in the nuts hard would probably go down ,if he no nut guard on.

or perhaps he's had them surgically removed like "Beautiful Boxer" did.

The Undertaker tombstone pile drived Thailand:

http://www.wwe.com/schedules/events/rw/country/Thailand

Are there any children among the crowds? If so the warning should now be given they are putting their offspring in the way of potential danger.

Yes, there are children present. They are responding to the direct advice of the red leader in Dubai to bring their children to his protests.

Of course, his own children are not present. He wouldn't want anything unsettling to happen to his own elite offspring.

His government is corrupt, there has already been many scandals.

Have not a few MP's resigned due to corruption ?

Reds sure are funny people.

They go from "many" to a "few" in the span of 12 minutes.

Cometh The Hour, Where Is The Man?

Who has the ability to lead the Red Shirt movement forward?

The red guy on the right looks well-equipped to lead the charge... but probably not in the direction most people want

"No more talks, everything is finished," a defiant Red Shirts leader Jatuporn Prompan told reporters, refusing Abhisit's offer to hold fresh discussions on Thursday.

After getting bashed around for two consecutive days, I can understand Jatuporn crying no more, no more.

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Perhaps this thread should be retitled "Where is Thaksin Now".......

I don't believe that he cancelled his trip to Australia I think that he was turned down. He wanted to get out of the country before the demonstrations started as all the other Party Leaders and Pu Yais did but as at at the Friday before the start of the demonstration the trip had not been agreed to.

Official visits are planned months before they are made and the details would have been agreed to well before two days before they were due to take place.

If I may, I'd like to borrow jdinasia's reply, because it fits yet again.

Yet again you begin with something untrue.

and particularly because your untruths were pointed out the first time you trotted them out earlier this month.

Abhisit's planned Australian trip followed an invitation extended by Australian PM last year, eg. "months before."

But if your contacts at Australia's Foreign Ministry can provide contradicting information, we're all ears.

Thaksin in Sweden

UPDATE : 30 March 2010

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revealed that Thaksin Shinawatra is now in Sweden after the United Arab Emirates reportedly asked him to leave the country. Thailand had previously sent additional informatin in trying to prove to the UAE that Thaksin was causing political unrest in Thailand and was using the UAE as a base.

http://www.thailandoutlook.tv/tan/ViewData...?DataID=1027040

I get a little tetchy when Suthep is running anything, let alone the country.

Shouldn't be any problems whatsoever as we've had very positive assurances

He (Jatuporn) affirmed that the red-shirts will protest peacefully and will not block public venues.

However, Jatuporn said that although the two meetings did not result in a resolution, it is not a dead end, and that he believes the two sides can eventually agree on a resolution to the ongoing political conflicts.

He was quite adamant about dissolution in 15 days.

Has he changed his position over-night?

He affirmed that the red-shirts will protest peacefully and will not block public venues.

So they have backed down and removed all their protesters from the previous venues they were at?

former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra made a video-link call to the red-shirt protesters, claiming that he knew beforehand that the negotiation would fail.

Can we now add clairvoyance to all his other "talents"... or does that simply solidify his pathological liar "talent"?

Yongyuth, PPP deputy leader, got a red card from the Supreme Court as recommended by the EC. his sister got only a yellow card.

yellow card means she wasn't out but could try her luck again in a by-election. and that was what she did in August 2008.

interesting was it it to see the results in that by election, how would the turn out be without any evil influence.

La-ong got a decisive victory with 170,184 votes, while the second place Democrat MP Kitipong Namwong got only 19,480 votes.

Classic TRT/PPP blundering.

Committing electoral fraud even in circumstances when they didn't need to shows them to be the pinnacle of arrogance... and stupidity.

It got both of these stupid parties and their stupid party leaders banned.

By the way, any progress in Yongyuth's charges for attempting to murder an elderly couple with hundreds of rounds of gunshots while he was in charge of a Thaksin Drug War raid?

Weng made another allegation - that soldiers shot empty-handed protesters in the crackdown in Bangkok last April. He showed Abhisit a number of pictures to try to prove his claim.

A few more photos that dropped to the floor out of Weng's folder and thus didn't get shown:

Conspicuous silence from the red cheerleading squad. A good move by Abhisit, who continues to impress.

A few feeble attempts since your post, but they seemed resolved now to knowing that Abshisit showed up their side to be nothing more than thugs and mobsters trying to get Thaksin back in power.