Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters In Front Of Parliament

[Plus]

I thought Baht & Sold's post was spot on.

It IS about Thaksin.....among other things, but Thakisn's situation was one of the five questions that the PAD wanted answered by Somchai.

ie...what was he gonna do about him.....and as I said in a previous post...ther is NO WAY he is gonna bring his siister back to face prison....its not the Thai way

I agree with your both of your posts, but just wanted to clarify something.

Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is married to the exquisitely beautiful Yaowapa :

Yaowapa is the younger sister of ex-Prime Minister Thaksin :

The equally seductive temptress Potjaman is the wife of ex-Prime Minister and is a criminal fugitive with 3 outstanding arrest warrants :

Potjaman is the sister-in-law to the PM Somchai... but I agree there is no way that Somchai will actively seek her return either.

Here's a photo of the brood together... with Somchai and his lovely wife on either end and Shinawatras filling the void between them :

I fully acknowledge that following this extensive family tree can often be confusing...

And our Thaigene sincerely believes that it is the Democrats who represent Chinese family style politics, not this clan that owns the government and bankrolls the parliament. The government side in politics is filled with wives, cousins and other assorted relatives to ther brim, starting with Prime Minister and House Speaker and down to "Happy Crapper" son of Chalerm. Ok, that one's gone, but they quickly replaced him with equally disgusting Watana's boy.

[sriracha john]

Two dead, hundreds injured in violent clashes in Thai capital

BANGKOK, Oct 7 (TNA) - At least two people are dead and about 300 injured after a day of violent clashes between anti-government demonstrators and anti-riot police on Tuesday as troops have been deployed across the Thai capital after police failed to disperse anti-government protesters.

According to the medical authorities 381 casualties have been treated at eight hospitals in the capital and many are hospitalised.

Meanwhile, Army Spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd said unarmed troops had been deployed across the capital to assist the police in curbing the turmoil. He declined to reveal the number of troops, saying only they were from the army, navy, and air force.

Ramathibodi Hospital director Than Supattaraphan said one female protester was killed during Tuesday's clashes, but official announcement of the cause of death was awaiting completion of an autopsy.

The victim later identified as Angkana Radabphanyawut, 20, who reportedly died of a chest wound.

Public Health Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung announced that Narenthorn Emergency Medical Service centre reported one man was killed in a car bombing near the protest site, and 208 demonstrators were injured when the police fired tear gas canisters to disperse a crowd of several thousand protesters.

The injured are being treated in eight hospitals, with most victims experiencing wounds from the exploded teargas canisters.

A protester identified as Thanya Khunkaew, 30, nearly lost his left leg, which was almost ripped off, while a radio reporter was knocked unconscious and his back was seriously injured when he was hit from behind by a tear gas canister.

About ten police personnel were wounded in the incident. One was pierced by the pointed-tip of a flag pole in his stomach, and underwent emergency surgery at a military hospital. He is now in stable condition but is in intensive care.

In the latest development late Tuesday evening, police fired fresh rounds of tear gas to disperse protesters in front of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters. There was a brief clash between both sides, before the demonstrators retreated from the area, only to return shortly afterwards with gas masks. The number of casualties was not immediately known.

Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat meanwhile announced his government was doing its best to solve escalating the problems, adding he would make a decision on whether to resign in due course but until then vowed to work and remain at his post.

"As long as I still have the duty, I will keep doing my job. I'll decide on further actions when it is the proper time," said the premier.

The premier earlier left Parliament after delivering the government's policy statement by first climbing over the wall separating Parliament from the adjacent Vimarkmek Palace, where he flew out by helicopter to a meeting with military top brass at the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters on the outskirts of Bangkok to confer on further action to curb the situation.

The premier said it would be the police's duty to handle the situation. He insisted he would not impose a state of emergency in the capital.

[Plus]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

[Seizhin]

I think I will stop reading this topic now. Just wondering, what makes many foreigners think, that PAD is the evil? Maybe many mates are married to Girls from the NE, but does this automatically mean to lose one's brain?

Sorry, I cannot understand it.

PAD isnt evil, the leaders are.

Blocking road to airports, causing tons of problems.

Blocking the road to airports are already illegal in other countries, disabling and the people are stuck in there, which means you had infiltrated other's privacy.

There's many other illegal acts from the PADs, and I can never understand of how the PADs and the supporters are telling me that it's an act of righteous when it obviously contradicts the law. Let's not forget the act of hiring some mobbers as well.

I cant help but think that all those PAD leaders has their hidden intention and all that the PAD cares, are their personal interest.

New Politic sounds like a new Communism, why not just seize the country and be the PM so everything would end?

Just take a look at Mr.Chamleong's cheerful face after his plan works. Thamak indeed!

Edited October 8, 2008 by Seizhin

[animatic]

Look,

How many of you on this forum have a say on what happens in this country then?

I say about 5% or less.

Alot of the rest is just nonsense.

If you can vote then vote and speak.

If you can't vote then shut up and dont say what you can not do or help.

Who are you to decide those that can or cannot pass comment on a reasonably open forum?

There are many foreigners that live in thailand and are very concerned about what happens in the country , none of them can vote , but i am sure many have wives and family that can vote . What happens here has a great deal to do with their lives and future here ,so i feel sure they are as equally concerned as a 'PURE'(?) Thai that can vote , perhaps if you paid attention to some of the comments , you may learn something of value instead of being critical in a place your nose may well be out of place .

'PURE'

So all the people on here who are foreigners to my country,also WHERE MY WIFE AND CHILD LIVE.

Think they have the right to say this and that about the country. If its so bad why not go back to there own country and look at there own government.

Maybe you should stop sticking your nose into places it should not be.

Your country? What about these topics of yours then? They would suggest it isn't your country - let's not forget you also previously overstayed for two & half years in your country!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Qualificatio...ed-t210653.html

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Live-t214757.html

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Advice-Pig-F...ng-t216352.html

Ditto.

I live here, have a family, own property, I see no reason I must then be totally silent.

I can find something incongruous or illogical in ANY country, and see no reason not to

make an effort to see things change for the better. I may not have all the answers,

but at least I am participating in the ongoing dialog.

I don't buy this be ONLY an utterly silent / stupid guest BS.

[Plus]

PAD does not recognise this government. It's a people's revolution.

Blockades show that the government is not in control and people have taken over large parts of the country.

What happens next is an enigma. PAD is studying the possibilities of disrupting the parliament's work indefnitely, but the casualties rate is unacceptable unless they reach an agreement with the police.

Lots of people declared the govt as illigitimate yesterday, beginning with Democrats. Let's see if they change their minds and decide to give it another chance.

That would be a three thousand nine hundred ninety ninth attempt. But nevermind, perseverance is a sign of evolution, next step would be realisation that something is not working and the methods must changed.

[animatic]

Aren't we getting a bit carried away with the legitamacy of the PADs actions ? Not content with taking over the Parliament buildings they then try to stop the parliament from actually meeting and issuing their policy statement. Look, Thai politics in my opinion stinks. It is an old boys club run by misfits and corrupt people. A case of who you know not what you know. They hoodwink a vast number of people to vote for them by handing out money.

However they are elected by the great unwashed and therefore lay claim to be the legitimate government. If some people are not happy so be it. However taking over buildings and screaming at police will not do it. Thaksin has fled the scene and Samak is gone. Time now for the PAD to push reforms in a legitimate way, through legislation. Convince members to put up the aims of the PAD to a vote, even if it is only in the Senate. Make noise, but do it peacefully and within the law. Not like a rabble.

very good post this one.....

they the PAD.. made there point with the protest...

former PM ousted....OK..When will they be happy???

now they must obey the laws of thier country....

peacefully and not putting women and children in harms way... IMHO

The one problem is that Thaksin may have fled the geographical country,

but he is STILL behind the scenes pulling big money strings.

That is the BASIC problem with Thailand at the moment,

he won't conceed defeat, he wants his 76 Billion back tax free.

PAD was trying to block one more moved in his quest.

No doubt their attitude was changed by the arrest,

against a standing agreement, inspite of negociations, of two of their leaders.

Some one has been playing PAD this week and got what they wanted.

Dr. T. definitely comes to mind. He doesn't want negociations, he wants to WIN...

PAD may be on the move now,

but it's the PARENTS who are putting their children in harms way.

Since yesterday morning, I have seen NO pictures of children involved.

'Women and children first.' is the classic paternailist thing;

Modern women prefer to choose for themselves.

[jayjayjayjay]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

Instead of acting like an expert, let's wait for the real forensic analysis. I have a haunting suspicion this was PAD's own device.

Edited October 8, 2008 by jayjayjayjay

[h90]

Tragic that the PAD has these untrained civilians handling their deadly explosives!

Also from the Bangkok Post this morning,

"...A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

Deputy Metropolitan Police chief Pol Maj-Gen Jakthip Chaijinda said the loss of limbs was unlikely to have been caused by police tear gas canisters, but rather by explosive devices.

The first death yesterday was a man whose dismembered body was found thrown from a white Jeep Cherokee that had exploded. The jeep had been parked in front of the Chart Thai party headquarters on Sukhothai road, Dusit police said.

his pocket was UNDER his knee?? The Police told the protesters falled over each other and that's the reason why his leg fall off......

The more probable answer is that the police used home made explosives.

Also there were NO explosives thrown at the polices direction.

[Loaded]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

well, I know quite a few Thais with deep pockets and short arms

[canuckamuck]

PAD does not recognise this government. It's a people's revolution.

Blockades show that the government is not in control and people have taken over large parts of the country.

What happens next is an enigma. PAD is studying the possibilities of disrupting the parliament's work indefnitely, but the casualties rate is unacceptable unless they reach an agreement with the police.

Lots of people declared the govt as illigitimate yesterday, beginning with Democrats. Let's see if they change their minds and decide to give it another chance.

That would be a three thousand nine hundred ninety ninth attempt. But nevermind, perseverance is a sign of evolution, next step would be realisation that something is not working and the methods must changed.

Large parts of the country or a small portion of Bangkok?

Tell the citizens of northern Thailand that this is their revolution.

What this is is a power vacuum and a fight for power.

There is whole lot of ugly out there and no one is in control.

Imagine PAD gets their wishes, then you will see a people's revolution.

[h90]

I think I will stop reading this topic now. Just wondering, what makes many foreigners think, that PAD is the evil? Maybe many mates are married to Girls from the NE, but does this automatically mean to lose one's brain?

Sorry, I cannot understand it.

That are paid poster. hired, From all the foreigners I know, every single one is pro PAD.

[animatic]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

Simple it can't.

Kunying Porntip the Forensics expert says it was not a teargas unit.

Besides the fact :

PAD has NO HISTORY of BOMB USE.

Plenty of shotguns on site,

and one grenade launcher used from a building top

could lob in small explosive charges and reek havoc,

JUST so the PR department can say PAD now has bombs,

and to scare PAD people off the field with more extreme violence.

Little forethought for this, a pissed off enemy is one thing to deal with,

an justifiably enraged one is much more difficult to get back to normal.

[AlKing]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

Instead of acting like an expert, let's wait for the real forensic analysis. I have a haunting suspicion this was PAD's own device.

Mee too.

[jumnien]

I highly recommend Seth Mydans article in the IHT this morning. Peruse it over morning coffee! Keep and open mind and an open heart!

And take a break for 90 minutes and watch the Obama - McCain debate on CNN. OBAMA, all the way!

[Ricardo]

DAAD will kick the SHlT out of PAD if they dare to invade Sanam Luang. That's for sure.

That sort of open-war, on the streets of Thailand, is what we fear, not welcome. It would not be some reason for triumphalist rhetoric like this.

The new PM decided to send in the police, armed with tear-gas & rubber-bullets or worse, ordinary citizens are now being maimed & killed in Bangkok, while at the same time he claimed to be seeking a negotiated reconciliation, no wonder even Deputy-PM Chavalit quit !

He is truly showing himself to be his brother-in-law's man.

[jayjayjayjay]

I think I will stop reading this topic now. Just wondering, what makes many foreigners think, that PAD is the evil? Maybe many mates are married to Girls from the NE, but does this automatically mean to lose one's brain?

Sorry, I cannot understand it.

That are paid poster. hired, From all the foreigners I know, every single one is pro PAD.

your so full of it, I dont hide behind a veil, everyone can see my face in my profile. more than you can claim with BS statement like this.

Sunrise........ do you have a link pls

Edited October 8, 2008 by jayjayjayjay

[Johpa]

My wife "Fought" in the 92 demonstrations, I have had a hard time keeping her in the USA when this started. She is extremely anti Thaskin and his family. We know a group of about 20 successful Thai's in California that traveled together to protest and donate money a month ago. We donated as well.

While many on this board keep complaining about PAD and using the words "legitimate" government. Let me pose a question:

What "legitimate" government would issue diplomatic passports to fugitives from justice, refuse to enforce arrest warrents, and be under judicial review for corruption themselves????

Maybe sombody can explain this imbroglio too a poor simple person like me.

Well to begin with just about every Thai government I have had the pleasure of observing over the last 30 years has taken actions as you describe above so I guess that every legitimate government in Thailand is the short answer. And if every legitimate government acts as such than perhaps there has never been a legitimate government in Thailand.

And if your wife convinced you to donate to an extreme right wing group such as the PAD, then you, as an outsider, really had best keep away from the conversation as she is donating to more of the same old doggy doo doo.

[Colonel_Mustard]

I think I will stop reading this topic now. Just wondering, what makes many foreigners think, that PAD is the evil? Maybe many mates are married to Girls from the NE, but does this automatically mean to lose one's brain?

Sorry, I cannot understand it.

That are paid poster. hired, From all the foreigners I know, every single one is pro PAD.

You really are ridiculous. Just because someone disagrees with you it means that they are being paid to do so?

Incidentally I don't personally know any foreigners that are pro-PAD (though I do know quite a few Thais that are). I seem to remember a poll on TV some time ago which would seem to indicate that the majority of TV members that voted in the pole were not pro-PAD.

Edited October 8, 2008 by Colonel_Mustard

[h90]

A friend (uni educated) who was at the rally today took home the remnants of a "tear gas" grenade. She says it was modified to contain explosives and glass shards. That would explain the unusual casualties, considering that "tear gas" does not usually maim! As to why the police would do that I have no idea.

I had to fight with my girlfriend (engineering degree, runs her own business) today to not go, but she is set on going tomorrow to join her friend who is a nurse and came here from Chon Buri at her own expense, another who is a uni teacher in BKK, etc... Will continue to fight that battle tomorrow...

Several of my Thai colleagues at work (international corporation, many with overseas degrees and all perfect English) have friends there and are considering going.

Apparently some people are paid to go from the provinces - no doubt this is true. However there are a lot of people who hate the current (and past) government and their corruption who go at their own expense. Sure they may be fighting alongside the lesser of two evils - a non-elected government is "democracy"? i.e. Sondhi and his agenda - but they are certain what they are fighting against which I can only applaud them for.

(Just providing some more perspective... I have opinions I could add but that would be spitting in the fire so I tried to edit them all out)

We have reduced service in our company, all the smarter staff left for the PAD. Have the motorbike guy on the phone who also want to join PAD but he is afraid.

One technician who is only interested in eating and motorbikes and the sick sister of my wife......Everyone else is at PAD....

[Johpa]

I think I will stop reading this topic now. Just wondering, what makes many foreigners think, that PAD is the evil? Maybe many mates are married to Girls from the NE, but does this automatically mean to lose one's brain?

Sorry, I cannot understand it.

Yes, I might have to stop reading too! Just bewilders me that so many posters here on ThaiVisa can't see PAD for what it is, an extreme right wing organization. Maybe many are mates married to what they imagine to be their Bangkok trophy brides from imagined "good" families, but does this over active imagination automatically mean one loses ones sensibilties? Mind you, the woman I have been married to for the past 20 years is from the north, but most of her close friends are either fellow northerners, Isaan folks or Lao. As we all say, those Bangkok folks "kop kan yaak".

[geriatrickid]

As PAD sponsored an event where gullible people were sacrificed for PAD's glory, policemen shot and skewered on metal poles, other people were busy trying to improve the lives of Thailand's poor.

Members of the Four Regions Slum Network gathered at the United Nations Building in Bangkok, demanding the UN solve the existing habitation problems. The gathering coincided with World Habitat Day 2008

I am unaware that eaders of PAD, PPP and other groups that claim to have the best interests of the poor and disadvantaged attended. Interesting that the people with a real reason to be angry and even violent, behaved themselves.

[catmac]

Well we know a lot people from Koh Samui, Phuket, Pattaya, Nakhon SiThammarat. They usually pay together for the bus and if someone has no money he can come for free. Food and drinks are there for free for everyone, usually the vegetarien food from Chamlong or donated food. Many areas cook together and also sell for very low prices (their self costs, which are often nothing if everything is donated). Today my wife wanted to bring nudels but it didn't happen. But no need to sleep on the streets, everything is full of donated tends. So yes you can stay there without spending any money and for sure you get gifts. If someone looks poor for example my wife buys some toys for the kids....It is a nice each other loving community, but not a "rent a mob". We have a lot namecards from business owners there and my staff met some of our customer there and that are all people who are wealthy enough....

Ah yes, I know that there are free transport for some people who wants to help but cant afford to go.

I've watched ASTV for quite a few time, and I've seen tons of donations from the people around, which shows nice 'arms-to-arms' demonstrations of people to hold hand with.

I for one, would love to have the chance to enter the Parliament area or where the PAD's are mobbing in Bangkok, it's probably a once in lifetime opportunity!

Still, after personally hearing from my friends who fully supported PAD and have no reasons to lie that they were being paid, I can only believe that some of the people are paid, while others came with a pure heart to purge Thaksin forever.

I (actually my wife) knows a lot people there and absolute no evidence of systematic payment. I know from business owner who come with their staff and the salary is of course still paid. When my wife goes she usually shares a Taxi with our staff and if she goes back to a different time, she gives them 500-1000 Baht to get a taxi back home, as she knows that they have absolute no money. The taxi would cost approx. 200 Baht. You can see that as paying. I can imagine that there are cases that a hard working guy want to go there, but he has a wife and 3 kids, so a richer guy tells "OK go, I take care of it and pay you the 500 Baht per day (even he might only earn 200 per day)". But there is no evidence that the PAD just hire people. All I know is a helping each other.

Oh dear, h90, you just can't see the truth when it stares you in the face! You clearly state that YOU PAY YOUR STAFF approx 800 Baht a day (the 1000 for the taxi, less the 200 estimated cost), you also state that that you know "richer guys" who pay others 500 Baht to attend the protest. And yet you still bleat the PAD mantra "nobody pays anybody! It's all a lie!"

Do grow up and talk to some of the peasants there, not just your rich chums. You'll soon find out that there is systematic payment to bus in the required numbers!

[billaaa777]

Th

e new PM decided to send in the police, armed with tear-gas & rubber-bullets or worse, ordinary citizens are now being maimed & killed in Bangkok, while at the same time he claimed to be seeking a negotiated reconciliation, no wonder even Deputy-PM Chavalit quit !

They should of been sent a long time ago to put down these "anti democracy demonstrators" That what BBC calls them anyway. I call them very close to being like Hitler was in the beginning, preaching racism and stating he is the only one that should lead the country. If they do come to power, that is the end to Thailand as we know it. It will become like Burma, and I just wonder if they will start killing the uneducated stupid people they so hate that they should not even be allowed to vote because they are so stupid.

And one more thing. Since they think the congress should be appointed. I have a question, who is going to do the appointing? I mean exactly how do the people who appoint the MPs get appointed to do the appointed? Should there be an election for the people who do the appointing of the MPs? If there was then the PAD would lose, so of course the PAD does not want an election of the people who appoint the MPs. Well who exactly appoints the people who appoint the MPs then. Of course those would be appointed by the PAD, since they are the only ones smart enough to appoint the appointees, who appoint the MP's. Sounds a little confusing? It is not, the PAD is looking to over throw the government and rule the country themselves as some form of dictatorship. SO SAD

[billaaa777]

So all the people on here who are foreigners to my country,also WHERE MY WIFE AND CHILD LIVE.

Think they have the right to say this and that about the country. If its so bad why not go back to there own country and look at there own government.

Maybe you should stop sticking your nose into places it should not be.

And maybe we ought to take our money with us. If that was the case, then you would be broke like everybody in Burma and Cambodia in which case you would be one of the "DUMB UNEDUCATED PEOPLE" that should not be allowed to VOTE and should be ruled by a dictatorship named the PAD. Is that OK with you.

[ThaiEye]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

Instead of acting like an expert, let's wait for the real forensic analysis. I have a haunting suspicion this was PAD's own device.

Oh really! Here's a couple of pics from yesterday. First is a cop with a flamethrower and the second with a hand grenade.

[AlKing]

http://www.manager.co.th/Politics/ViewNews...D=9510000119372

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เช้าวันนี้ (8 ต.ค.) เมื่อเวลาประมาณหกนาฬิกาสิบห้านาที เที่ยวบินที่ TG1040 ของบริษัทการบินไทยจากท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง มุ่งตรงไปยังท่าอากาศยาน จ.ขอนแก่น กัปตันของเครื่องบินได้ปิดประตูเครื่องบินปฏิเสธรับ ส.ส.ของพรรคพลังประชาชนขึ้นเครื่อง โดย ส.ส.คนดังกล่าวคือ นางฟาริดา สุไลมาน ส.ส.สุรินทร์ เขต 1 พรรคพลังประชาชน

ทั้งนี้ก่อนที่กำหนดเครื่องจะออกกัปตันคนดังกล่าวได้ตรวจสอบรายชื่อผู้โดยสาร จากนั้นเมื่อพบว่า มีชื่อ ส.ส.พลังประชาชนด้วย กัปตันในชุดเต็มยศจึงออกมายืนที่งวงทางเชื่อมเข้าเครื่อง พร้อมกับประกาศให้ทราบว่า “เที่ยวบินนี้ไม่รับทรราช เที่ยวบินนี้ไม่รับ ส.ส.พลังประชาชนและนักการเมืองที่ทำร้ายประชาชนขึ้นเครื่อง ผมจะไม่รับพวกคุณขึ้นเครื่องตลอดชีวิต”

อนึ่งหลังจากที่วานนนี้ ( 7 ต.ค.) หลังจากรัฐบาลได้สั่งการให้ตำรวจใช้ความรุนแรงในการสลายผู้ชุมนุมกลุ่มพันธมิตรประชาชนเพื่อประชาธิปไตยที่บริเวณรัฐสภา และลานพระบรมรูปทรงม้าโดยเริ่มต้นปฏิบัติการตั้งแต่เช้าตรู่ จนส่งผลให้มีผู้ชุมนุมได้รับบาดเจ็บเกือบ 400 คน และ เสียชีวิต 3 คนนนั้นก็มีรายงานข่าวว่า สหภาพแรงงานรัฐวิสาหกิจทั่วประเทศ ทั้งการรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย (ร.ฟ.ท.) การท่าเรือแห่งประเทศไทย(กทท.) และสหภาพแรงงาน บริษัท การบินไทย จำกัด (มหาชน) เตรียมนัดหยุดงานเพื่อเข้าร่วมการชุมนุมกับกลุ่มพันธมิตรประชาชนเพื่อประชาธิปไตยและมีมาตรการตอบโต้ หลังจากรัฐบาลใช้ความรุนแรงเข้าสลายการชุมนุมฯ

Can anyone translate this, my Thai is not very good. I believe it is about a TG1040 captain shut the plane door to refuse PPP Khon Kean MP. Is the plane still standing on Don Muang? Are the passengers held hostage? My girl friend could be in the plane. I hope she is fine as she is a very strong PPP supporter and advocate. If it is already in the air, I hope the captain does not decide to do crazy things to prove a political point.

Edited October 8, 2008 by AlKing

[canuckamuck]

A military forensic source said a man who lost a leg had it blown off by a ping-pong bomb in his pocket.

He lost his leg from shin down, how a bomb in his pocket can be responsible for this?

Instead of acting like an expert, let's wait for the real forensic analysis. I have a haunting suspicion this was PAD's own device.

Oh really! Here's a couple of pics from yesterday. First is a cop with a flamethrower and the second with a hand grenade.

1st pic teargas launcher being fired. (powered by gunpowder hence the bright muzzle blast)

2nd pic Teargas grenade

[phupaman]

Hi all.

777 I do not think you have to be a superbrain to appoint MP"s,The current group are proof of that . Square pegs in round holes.Anyone feeling sick, See DR Charlerm , A fine example..........NOT.

Phupaman

[coalminer]

I just saw pictures of the victims. I almost vomit.

Best thing is not to look at such pictures if you know your reactions.

My highest/best regards to these people who know what can happen but continue to fight for their country without being afraid of being beat to a cripple by the corrupt police

Corrupt police or not, they are doing their job like they would have to do in any other country.

No respect for a mob who have been responsable for the killing of many citizens now.

The people who were killed yesterday would still be alive if they would'nt have been paid to do something ILLEGAL such as occupying the parliament and keep hostage the elected government.

Most farangs would not have the balls for that in their home country.

Most farangs KNOW that occupying a Government house and keeping the government hostage is ILLEGAL and wouldn't do such an illegal thing.

I don't understand how the police can lower themself that way! Killing peaceful people to serve a corrupt illegal premier.

A policeman is bound to do HIS JOB, without questioning if the PM is corrupt or not.

If for every riot or for everything were police are needed, the police would held first a meeting to decide if the caller if corrupt or not, the task of the police would be very questionable.

Stop acting as the PAD would be bunch of boy-scouts. They are NOT.