Men In Republican Shirts Questioned By Police: Rights Group

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

A photo of the black T-shirt with the red and white emblem associated with the Thai republican group. Image: Thai Lawyer for Human Rights.

 

BANGKOK — Police briefly detained two men wearing T-shirts associated with a republican group in public yesterday, according to a civil rights group.

 

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said the pair were approached by police officers on Wednesday – a public holiday dedicated to King Rama IX – in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district and taken to a local police station. They were reportedly released later in the day. An officer at the Lat Phrao Police Station declined to comment.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2018/12/06/men-in-republican-shirts-questioned-by-police-rights-group/

 

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Arrested for a tshirt

4 minutes ago, Xaos said:

Arrested for a tshirt

Expect this to just get worse. The screws are tightening, usurpers are fidgety about the elections. Shouldn't be, they rigged the system already so maibpenrai.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Police briefly detained two men wearing T-shirts associated with a republican group in public

Oh, the horror, the horror...

29 minutes ago, Xaos said:

Arrested for a tshirt

 

Try wearing a shirt with a zwastika or other Nazi emblems on in Germany and see what happens.

 

 

Wear these stripes instead. You'll get acquitted as long as you insist you're an Ajax fan.

 

46 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Try wearing a shirt with a zwastika or other Nazi emblems on in Germany and see what happens.

 

 

Yea, republicans and neo nazis - that's the same thing. 

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Try wearing a shirt with a zwastika or other Nazi emblems on in Germany and see what happens.

 

 

On the other hand, wear a shirt emblazoned with a Nazi emblem in Thailand and you'll be just fine. You may even expect some police officer to pad you on the shoulder, congratulating you for your good taste. 

interesting reading som of the historical behind the colour/pattern... 

 

the group would have been extinctified

(I don't know if it is the best adverb? but it is the feeling I am trying to portray) 

extinctified if they'd used eons of history for the thinking, and had an elephant within the badging

46 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Yea, republicans and neo nazis - that's the same thing. 

If you're truly opposed to authoritarianism it's all or nothing. Your feelings on either group are subjective when we're talking about a t-shirt.

Interesting. Never knew there was one. Strange country.

Big brother is watching you.....

1 hour ago, Greyhat said:

If you're truly opposed to authoritarianism it's all or nothing. Your feelings on either group are subjective when we're talking about a t-shirt.

What? 

4 hours ago, Xaos said:

Arrested for a tshirt

Notice the location that these real criminals were apprehended?

City slickers.

 

Wouldn't be an issue, whatsoever, upcountry.

4 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Try wearing a shirt with a zwastika or other Nazi emblems on in Germany and see what happens.

 

 

    The ancient swastika...which was a symbol of good for thousands of years.. was not an evil Nazi symbol except from the early 1920's - 1945.  

              Hitler stole the swastika from us close to 100 years ago now in the early 1920's. And then he twisted it to represent his evil totalitarian politics and National Socialist German Worker's Party.

        The swastika is a symbol of good, not evil.  

   It's about time we took back the swastika away from Hitler and the Nazis. 

Republican propaganda can be seen a "lèse majesté". Apparently the police didn't see it as such. 

6 hours ago, Xaos said:

Arrested for a tshirt

Heavens no, this was a much more serious violation. They were wearing polo shirts! Surprised they were released!

The current political paranoia regarding potential political campaigning is quite remarkable. Fortunately one party has risen above the paranoia and with the all powerful Article 44 in their pocket they have campaigned without fear.

1 hour ago, Catoni said:

    The ancient swastika...which was a symbol of good for thousands of years.. was not an evil Nazi symbol except from the early 1920's - 1945.  

              Hitler stole the swastika from us close to 100 years ago now in the early 1920's. And then he twisted it to represent his evil totalitarian politics and National Socialist German Worker's Party.

        The swastika is a symbol of good, not evil.  

   It's about time we took back the swastika away from Hitler and the Nazis. 

Whether you believe it or not, Hitler did not think his movement, his ideology, or his aims were evil. He thought he was demanding hard choices to save his "people," the Nordic Aryan people, from being exterminated by the lower orders, less pure beings who were corrupt and, themselves, evil. It's good to keep these thoughts in mind lest we forget to make sure that our means are fitting to our ends and we don't become monsters in our turn.

6 minutes ago, Acharn said:

Whether you believe it or not, Hitler did not think his movement, his ideology, or his aims were evil. He thought he was demanding hard choices to save his "people," the Nordic Aryan people, from being exterminated by the lower orders, less pure beings who were corrupt and, themselves, evil. It's good to keep these thoughts in mind lest we forget to make sure that our means are fitting to our ends and we don't become monsters in our turn.

     "..lower orders.."  "...less pure beings.."  ..in other words... Hitler was a racist...   something that most of us already are aware of. 

    And of course... "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."     

Yes.. the fascists/Nazis/Socialists/Marxist-Leninists/Communists/religious extremists all believe they are only doing what they are doing in order to save us all.  

    They do it with killing freedom.....and with re-education and extermination camps.. executions.. and mass graves... 

When does one take the design or patterns on t-shirts seriously?

 

If I see a girl wearing a t-shirt that says "sleep with me and get free breakfast" or any of the other strange wordings they have, can I take her up on it ?

I think I know the answer.

 

 

That's all very well, but where can we buy those shirts?

Ignorant intolerant people all over the world become upset when someone displays a symbol of an alternative point of view... 

 

Rainbow flag bunch Vs Make America Great Again folks...despise each other equally...throw in some Mexican flags and NRA T-shirts to really get people upset... ????