Koo82

I support the reds in Thailand and I am one of them. I did not watch politics previously because all Prime Ministers did not make any difference. Coup, election, coup, election... Until they started to corner Khun Thaksin and don't do anything to those who blocked airports, I find politics interesting.

We still have classes here. Many hi-class people don't like poor black smelly rural Thais. They say those low-class especially in Isan can be maids and labors only. Hi-class children study in best schools overseas and have good jobs. Low-class sons are border soldiers who can lose their lives any time. Many if not most top leaders in police, army and ministries are from rich families within those 200 famous family names. They please people in their group and don't see poor Thais in their eyes. They must be the leading class in Thai society. They make us think we can't be good without their leadership. Even in Parliament, they look down upon Peua Thai's sor sor by saying things like "I can't remember your family name".

We often do what people do as we don't want to stand out like a sore thumb. In politics, we respect the Prime Minister. But one PM after finishing his 8 years seems to think he is above other PMs. Everyone pleases this Ex-PM who is Prem due to his important position. Many people misunderstood that if they criticize Prem, they criticize the whole structure.

A party won majority votes and did what they promised during election campaigns. We now know democracy works. We have the choice to vote for the party bringing benefits to us. We are not disappointed. They improved every Thai's life especially the poor who did not receive much in the past, no matter how many PMs we had before. Their target is to move Thailand forward together with countries next to us and to have peace with them.

Every politician says they "serve people" but we know who do and who only say. Again our party won for the 2nd time with 377 votes.

Democrat Party is on the hi-class side, known to have politicians saying polite language. Hi-class business, Army and some more people gain when Democrat Party is in power but poor people don't.

Hi-class side knows if they leave things like this, they will lose their power.

So we heard the news of the car bomb trying to kill Khun Thaksin and later, a coup in 2549.

In the past we had coups, elections, coups and elections. We couldn't care less. But this time things got different. They changed Constitution Law and have many ridiculous clauses.

- They judged things happened in the past. The whole party was dissolved. Top members were banned from politics for 5 years. Where on earth do we have retroactive laws? How does it sound that if my brother does wrong, he, my sisters and I are forced to leave our house?

- Khun Thaksin must be in jail 2 years. His wife bought a land. No fault what so ever. He was wrong as he signed ok for her to buy. Why did he sign? Law said so.

- Khun Samak went down from PM position after his cooking shows. What funny is he could be a candidate to be PM again if he liked.

- Party dissolved again. 37 members banned.

This law helps cut excellent members out from the competitor so the party now remains about 180 members from 377.

Now Army helped by instructing politicians to vote for Abhisit. He can't say he came in nicely. When Khun Thaksin, Khun Samak and Khun Somchai became Prime Minister, no army helped them.

Chief Army did not obey our PMs to clear yellow protestors although law says he's under PM. Army is with the ruling class. To protest is legal but to occupy public venues with weapons are illegal. All of us were shocked watching PAD shoot people at day time and injure policemen. What is funnier is these Policemen and Former Prime Minister Somchai were accused of killing and no PAD is punished until today.

Party for the rich is here and seems cannot decide anything. They don't dare to upset PAD, Chief Army, Newin group and coalition parties. No matter what they did, they can never be dissolved.

Where on earth can a man who joined the blocking of airports for 8 days become Foreign Minister? He is the one to promote Thailand image and to have good relations with other countries but he called PM Hun Sen ai cui, nak laeng (gangster), bor bor bar bar (mad) and heng suay (I can't know how to translate). I don't talk about the case Cambodia made a road 150 meters into disputed area as I don't have a source yet. Abhisit said on tv that, if Kasit name is on the arrest list, he will let Kasit go. This was why police brought the 7th October 2008 case to consider because Kasit was not there that day. PAD occupied Government House since August 2008 until December 2008. The time buying process as per Jatupon is for people to withdraw the terrorist accusation against PAD.

I guess that problems with Cambodia and 3 provinces in the South will never end. I guess Army needs reasons to ask for budget to buy weapons. How much do they buy? Which kinds? How have the biddings done? No one knows.

I wonder

Why can our parties never stay? We did not vote for Democrat Party.

Why could a small group wearing yellow do all these things and are still free?

Why did they catch and judge the reds who threw stones and eggs within a few days?

Why does Army back an army runaway man?

Why could a PM go down because he cooked on tv?

How could a man live on top of Yai Thaeng Mountain when people at the mountain base were arrested?

How could a new PM announce his policies in Ministry of Foreign Affairs when law says must be done in Parliament House only?

How could they keep those cases with Democrat Party in file until cases expire and we can't know if they were right or wrong?

How could they dissolve political parties that easily?

How could they write new Constitution Law allowing coups?

Why were policemen hit, injured, run over by a pick up by PAD and no one protects these policemen?

Why do soldiers from poor families still die at borders?

Why are top people in the Army involved in politics when their duty is not?

In the past, we did not dare to criticize Army Chief and Prem, because they made us think we are not allowed to do so and they are super seniors in our country.

A lot more forces us to think whether we want to live in this double standard society or we want to have democracy?

So, the reds come to the conclusion that Prem is on top of the ruling class because no one else can have such a power to control all of these people.

The fight is between:

- A group wearing red who needs their right to live like human beings, to have justice and to have people respect their votes as majority. Many of them are poor rural Thais so people misunderstand they are paid protesters. Other countries have had fights for democracy. How much did they pay for people to do that? In Thailand many years ago including year 2535, how much did a protester receive to protest, to be beaten by soldiers and to die? After the Songkran in Blood 13th April 2552 (2009), the reds have reported their people are missing.

- And a group who thinks they are better than others and they must use, control, force and threaten people forever because these people are low class, poor, stupid, uneducated, black and can be bought for 200 Baht to vote when election time comes.