All Yellow Red And Blue Shirts Should Be Arrested.......

[AsiaMB]

Who really cares about the colour of the shirts, all we can see know is Bangkok is a GHOST TOWN.........Tourism is down again, another 200, 000 thai people will lose their jobs.....

Can someone explain to the THAI people that when their is violence in the street, people stop coming to Thailand and the Thai people lose their jobs....... Looks like they have NO <deleted> IDEA >>>>>>>>>

[DragonQuest]

Agreed! lol

[wolfmanjack]

I agree that any color shirt protester that blocked streets or acted in a violent manner in any way should be arrested.

the ones that peacefully protested should not.

[Orac]

Who really cares about the colour of the shirts, all we can see know is Bangkok is a GHOST TOWN.........Tourism is down again, another 200, 000 thai people will lose their jobs.....

Can someone explain to the THAI people that when their is violence in the street, people stop coming to Thailand and the Thai people lose their jobs....... Looks like they have NO <deleted> IDEA >>>>>>>>>

Brilliant idea - the 200,000 people who lose their jobs can replace the ones that have been arrested (I asume by arrest you don't just mean arrest them, tell them off and let them go again). Since overall there were more protesters than 200,000 it will actually increase the numbers of jobs available and thus boost the economy, not to mention the extra employment involved in providing the infrastructure and detaining all these people.

I would be fascinated to see the wording of the new law that outlaws coloured shirts - in fact if you were to make yellow shirts illegal you could pretty much empty Bangkok of locals on a Monday

[Boater]

agree, but it just would never ever happen.........

[phaethon]

Hey, I've been wearing a yellow shirt all day

We need martial law on Mondays.

[phetaroi]

Who really cares about the colour of the shirts, all we can see know is Bangkok is a GHOST TOWN.........Tourism is down again, another 200, 000 thai people will lose their jobs.....

Can someone explain to the THAI people that when their is violence in the street, people stop coming to Thailand and the Thai people lose their jobs....... Looks like they have NO <deleted> IDEA >>>>>>>>>

I was talking on the phone with a Thai friend yesterday. Although he lives in Bangkok, his family lives in Issan. He's not a yellow-shirt, although I would guess he pretty much votes along Democrat lines. As I suspected, his family WAS somewhat sympathetic to the red-shirt views, though they were not red-shirts. Their views are evolving to more centrist after the recent confrontations in Bangkok.

Where I disagree with your post is that you say, "Who really cares"? Well, all those who are red or yellow or blue shirts apparently really care, and that's not just a handful of people.

Should they care?

Well, that depends on WHY they care.

What IF they really care because of a desire for a certain type of democracy? Is that more important than tourism dollars?

What IF they really care because it personally benefits their bottom line? Is that more important than tourism dollars?

I think it's not as easy as you make it sound.

[wasabi]

What should and will be done is what separates Thailand from much of the rest of the world. I agree all illegal protesters from both sides should have been arrested. Many protests should have been stopped dead in their tracks by police but that is not what did happen and fair and just arrests across all spectrums of Thai society is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.

[phetaroi]

What should and will be done is what separates Thailand from much of the rest of the world.

I think you're a little off base in this sentence.

For example, in many cases in Africa (for example), I rather suspect there would have been mass killing of protesters.

On the other hand, in many western countries there would have probably been orderly arrests of key protesters.

The Thai version this time around was on the mild side of possible reactions.

Edited April 20, 2009 by phetaroi