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Army: Tanks Are For Children's Day, Not Coup

...if you really think about it- this actually says more about the state of Thailand, than many, many other things

does it really Our kids have always enjoyed their school trips to army or air force. The soldiers always made sure kids had a great day out. Is it any better in west where you have toy guns bought for kids all time and internet war games.

Call me old fashioned, but I think it is better, kids learn, that conflicts can be solved without violence (weapons, army, guns, tanks)!

But that is just me, ol' leftwinger that i am!

I grew up without tanks, army and guns- and at least I think, I grew up to be a kind'a good human being!

Meanwhile "the people" will win....

Ahhhhh...good to see business as usual on TV: she should,'t have gone there...she shouldn't get drunk...she shouldn't talk to guys....

What about HE shouldn't pick up clearly drunk girls and have sex with them, as they are by no means able to give clear consent?

(I am not even talking about the drug-accusations)

Start with simply teaching them respect for every other human being: rich or poor, Thai or foreigner...that would be an excellent start!

Born and raised a true Hamburger!

Came here in 2007.

Living in Bangkok- not my first choice, but I am doing okay!

The Station Condo Charoen Khrung 65)

As much as I am totally in line with the sentiment of the article: life in Thailand is cheap!

See: road fatalities, gun violence, student clashes and hazing accidents, machete- or gun wielding taxi drivers etc.

Mai pen rai

Crime will go up as the police will be preoccupied

The list goes on

If police are pre-occupied, crime will go down.

Exactly.

So we have posters raving away about a madman who is going to rule the country, target Farangs & 'Farang' businesses, bring the country down and ban elections. The only thing missing is the end of the world.

It appears that none of the worst rhetorical posters have even stopped to see what Suthep has actually said but make up all sorts of bogeyman-like things that they 'know' that Suthep wants.

Here are a few items that he has actually said:

Get rid of the Shin and associated clans - unachievable without a total purge.

Reform Council followed by elections - I would insert a referendum in the middle there.

Elections of Provincial governors - a very good suggestion.

Election of the police chief - another good suggestion.

Reform of the police - absolutely, including the DSI.

All except the first are achievable if the will is there, but it's not on the PTP side.

Some seem to think that another farcial election will solve everything. Moronic.

Yes, Suthep is not clean, but he has made a case for reform which, however it is done, is desperately needed. No real suggestions have come from PTP or their red friends.

We have had arguments that Suthep won't change dirty politics for the future. Maybe not but he has put the issue squarely in the public domain. It seems that the 'no change' brigade are happy to see Thailand continue on a downward path - being left behind by its neighbours. Some future.

So, okay...what has he actually said?

Except for "I want it all and I want it now!", there is a lot of "I will tell you later!"

He wants a lot- but fails to tell us HOW he will achieve that!

Thaksin is a populistic criminal- so is Suthep.

We may argue back and forth who is worse, but pretending that one is evil and the other one is pure as snow on the pines , is simply crazy (note, please: I said "One" and "the other", without mentioning names, because it is crazy from both sides)

Never give up. Fight on. No surrender!!

Never give up. Fight on. No surrender!!

Flight till victory or death.

It is worth it.

Bridge or cave?

...but I guess, all the anti-corruption-champions will- in the future- obey laws on speeding, drunk driving and wearing helmets and not look for the easy way out and hand over 100 Baht to the cop who stops them...

THAT is a detailed strategy?

...and I am a warrior- princess from the planet Nebulon!

I think we both know I am referring to your

"they are afraid to get shot to death by violent fascist yellowshirts, like what indeed happen that day."

Line

Still not a conspiracy. A conspiracy involves two or more people. I never claimed that a group of people conspired to kill that police officer. It wouldn't surprise me if true however, but I never claimed it.

My personal thoughts.

These police were there to incite a violent confrontation. The police were wearing bullet proof vests, the unlucky officer was shot in the side with no protection. So could have been a provocateur situation by Chalerm on Thaksin's orders that went horribly wrong. If this government gets ousted (which they certainly will) I suspect Chalerm won't be hanging around.

Chalerm wont be hanging around, is he not supposed to be headless by now..

I heard, he got his treatment, just when Suthep turned himself in, like he promised!

Clowns, the lot of them!

Am I the only one who thinks, what this clown wants, will be much closer to actually "closing down Bangkok" than what the other clown wants?!

Interesting times indeed!

Okay...so what we know is, that there have been police, stationed on rooftops and that people have been shot from high vantage points.

Is there a connection?

Possibly!

Is there any prove?

No- at least not yet!

....soooooooo....

And how fast was it for the protestors to get blamed for his death? Soooooo

By me?

Nope!

So, please stop annoying me with your cra...highly intelligent coments!

Thank you

Okay...so what we know is, that there have been police, stationed on rooftops and that people have been shot from high vantage points.

Is there a connection?

Possibly!

Is there any prove?

No- at least not yet!

....soooooooo....

Just so I get this right: someone is actually saying that life as we know it, stops in all of Bangkok on the 13th...and no one is going to do something about it?!

I mean...even if you are pro- Suthep, that must seem a little crazy, right?

And by the way: what will happen until then?

...and after that?

Oh...mai pen rai "we tell you later"!

Still no explanation -and no question- about the goals and their definition.

Nothing about what will happen when the "great mass of people" actually "win"...whatever that may mean...

It never was.

Except to the conspiracy theorists.

So...care to explain what Thailand is, if not "feudal"?

Why don't you tell us why you think it's 'feudal'? Please add in evidence, not just your opinions.

Cop out much?!

And some posters here still doubt, that the feudal system led by Amart exists??

This is exactly the system Suthep and his supporters want to keep in place, so even in the future theThais will continue to kiss up and kick down!!

High time for a change, but Suthep is not the man to do it with his undemocratic nonsense rhetoric!!

PTP, without the Shins, may be the long time solution??

So the caretaker PM makes a courtesy call to the head of His Majesty's privy council and suddenly we're have a feudal system!

Suddenly?

What are you doing here? Did your homeplanet blow up?

So first they lost their marbles...and now they dropped the ball??