Asking the foxes to guard you against the wolves?  The dude needs a couple of private bodyguards. 

It is the duty of the police to protect and serve and it is corrupt and asking for bribery when making this duty dependent on conditions! Everyone has a RIGHT to protection, unconditionally!

It is the duty of the police to protect and serve and it is corrupt and asking for bribery when making this duty dependent on conditions! Everyone has a RIGHT to protection, unconditionally!

But yet that is the system as it stands

Will it change, that is the people's choice whether we as foreigners like it or not.......



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6 hours ago, webfact said:

ought police protection but was told he would get none unless he gave up his activism.

There you have the truth..... freedom of speech is a thing of the past !!!

There you have the truth..... freedom of speech is a thing of the past !!!

Was it ever truly available?.....

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In other words. 

Get your shit together or you could be visiting lulu land never to return.

Hmmm. 

Some offer.

After 10 years of Thailand being my home base I've decided to move to Vietnam 

46 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

So in other words, if you keep protesting we won't protect you. Nice.

No.In other words if you keep protesting we will keep beating the crap out of you!

The other question, of course, is why on earth would he need police protection if he gave up his activism?

2 minutes ago, Blue Water Sailor said:

After 10 years of Thailand being my home base I've decided to move to Vietnam 

Bye.

22 minutes ago, connda said:

Asking the foxes to guard you against the wolves?  The dude needs a couple of private bodyguards. 

Dude needs a country to stand beside him instead of leaving him out to dry.

18 minutes ago, Charlie1 said:

Everyone has a RIGHT to protection, unconditionally!

No they don't.Ja New has just played a brilliant chess move to show us that.

1 hour ago, justin case said:

who is doing the attacking or paying for it...mhhhhh

hahahahahahaha

Go figure !

Time for a new name. "The Democratic Republic of Thailand"

29 minutes ago, Odisan said:

The other question, of course, is why on earth would he need police protection if he gave up his activism?

A brilliant plan by the RTP, ensuring they can continue to do what they enjoy most.

Doing nothing at all.

Thailand's  government shows how democracy is working in Thailand.

Oposition: only if they do how we want it!

Thais can still legally own firearms and thereby defend themselves from deadly thugs.

 

Don’t expect others to protect you if you are unwilling to do so for yourself.

Basically 

Listen old chap 

Give up this nasty  activism ....then you have "protection" which really means We dont kill you like we did to few of the others

Thais can still legally own firearms and thereby defend themselves from deadly thugs.
 
Don’t expect others to protect you if you are unwilling to do so for yourself.

Dear oh dear, that is a sad statement.......

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Absolutely disgraceful

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50 minutes ago, Blue Water Sailor said:

After 10 years of Thailand being my home base I've decided to move to Vietnam 

I'm thinking of doing the same. There's lots of places I can go to be ripped-off and looked down upon.

Thailand is getting quite a strange place to live now. I wish the Western media published more articles on this stuff.  

 

A basic human right in any developed (using that word loosely) country should allow its citizens to have an opinion and the right to free speech. The police here have offered him protection, which he should receive anyway, ONLY if he shuts up. Incredible. 

 

A feel of North Korea is slowly creeping in here. 

 

Well that's about as grubby as it gets

 

Protection ONLY if he shuts up!

 

So much for a dirty grubby bpolice force and who they are to protect.

 

This needs getting out into the international media.  Thailand is nothing but an embarrassment.

 

Every one has a right to be protected that is the idea of having a police force.

I saw this on the Sopranos. Can't Thailand do anything original?

2 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Dude needs a country to stand beside him instead of leaving him out to dry.

There are nearly 70 million Thais in Thailand.

This chap, Ja New, goes out largely alone, it seems.

Where is the mass (million-fold) support for this brave young man? And I don't mean on social media. The junta can just ignore that (words without backup action do not really frighten the junta).

 

Thailand has reached a stage now (actually, it reached it some time ago - as many of us kept saying then, and are still saying now) where there is no 'legal' way for the Thais to regain their freedom. All avenues that they might 'legally' pursue ultimately lead to the tanks and guns.

 

So: what to do?

 

It is a tragedy that the poor Thais are placed, quite literally, in a life-or-death struggle for their liberty.

I see nothing changing - not without great, GREAT popular, peaceful non-conformity. The only hope lies with the young. But they are the mobile-phone generation. Easy for them to post messages on Facebook or Twitter. They are more than willing to do that - and good on them for at least registering their disapprobation in this way.

But will they do what some very, very, VERY brave Thais have done in the past - but do it now in their MILLIONS (mere thousands is no-way adequate)?

I know the answer - and I think you do too. Certainly the Authorities do. And that is what they are counting on - knowing the way the Thais (in their MILLIONS) are likely to act (or rather:  NOT act).

It is easy to rule a nation when that nation stays forever on its knees. It is sad to witness - especially by those of us who hate injustice and bullying and who generally like the ordinary Thai people.

However, there comes a time when a nation of people must take some momentous decisions. 

I think the Thais have basically taken theirs. It is their right and their decision (whether or not outsiders might agree with it). It is the same decision that the Thais have very visibly taken over the past five long years ...

 

 

When the Thai's figure out how to liberate themselves from their oppression, please tell the rest of us how it is done.

 

As the chains of totalitarianism tighten on the so called free West, disguised as national or in some places Homeland Security, and the punchline is we vote for it!

 

As often said on this forum"You couldn't make this up"

3 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Did you even read the article?

Yes I did, obviously you didn't though. 

4 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Please don't whatever you do tell me the Junta has the support of the global democratic community.By their silence and inaction they are complicit in this FARCE(Failure At Rigging Current Election).They slither and grovel snivelling at the feet of their idols POWER and the almighty DOLLAR.Gone are the days of justice and freedom in the western world.With too few to stand against the tide of hate speech and ignorance we race to the bottom destined to revert to the sub human form of yesteryear! 

As you put it "The global democratic community" showed their true colours recently at the G20 by their courteous greetings and engagement of the killer prince from the house of Saud.

 

Money is king.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

This was the second violent assault on Sirawath in the space of a month but police have been unable to identify or catch the attackers in either case.

I think the above statement answers it fully of who is responsible, there are only

two names there, Sirawath and Police, and im sure Sirawath didnt attack himself.