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[marshbags]

General news >> Friday August 01, 2008

COMMENTARY

Blood in the streets

ATIYA ACHAKULWISUT

Isn't it gratifying, phi nong? Does it give us a thrill to hit people whose views we don't share, hard and square in the face? Hit them until they fall down and become unconscious. Hit them again and again, with a nail-studded wooden stick. Make sure the nails make their nasty contact with the soft flesh, that they tear deep and wide.

Academics are so worried about social division, aren't they? Well, they need not now. The Udon Thani model has been tried and proven true. Hammers, iron bars and nail-spiked wooden sticks - these are the perfect tools for social harmony and the long-wanted national reconciliation.

No more argument, phi nong. No more wasting time to convince others of our opinions. It's much faster, more effective and not to say personally fulfilling to beat them up. Hit them until they plead to agree with us. Pound them with the sharp nails until their wrong views are drained along with their own blood.

Prominent scholar Acharn Thirayuth Boonmi has come out and warned that the confrontation between the pro-government group and anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy could escalate into social unrest more violent than the Oct 14 and Oct 6 events if nothing is done to calm it down.

He should know. Acharn Thirayuth was one among scores of university students who had to flee into the jungle after frenzied mobs were unleashed to maul, murder and burn many of them on Oct 6, 1976. A lot of people were killed. A lot of those who survived would describe the massacre as brutal beyond words, the very worst killing that has ever occurred in this country.

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Ref url for the full article :- http://www.bangkokpost.com/010808_News/01Aug2008_news24.php

A very disturbing situation indeed.

Taking on board the recent conviction of Thaksins wife ect., just maybe some sort of anti Pad protest to try and intimidate and stop the extended participation to go until 18th of August 2008 ( at least ), the thuggery and intimidation could be / is about be stepped up a gear.

This on the face of it is one of the last ditch attempts they would use to enforce the proposed PPP,s rewrite onto the agenda and get the law breakers UNLAWFULLY off the hook.

marshbags

Edited August 1, 2008 by marshbags

[frodo]

Very disturbing indeed and not out of the question. This current "government" and whom they proxy love violence as a means for an attempt at absolute control and power. I fear it will only get worse with those like Samak who condone and instigate the flow of blood on the streets.