There has been veritable plethora of videos posted on YouTube about the recent situation in Thailand... some raw and uncensored street scenes... some slickly produced compilations complete with soundtracks.

I have posted this topic so we can share and discuss some of the more controversial ones... the videos that cannot be posted on the general forum.

As usual however, the Forum Rules do apply.... but as we're more relaxed and adult in here with regards to language etc, feel free to post anything you found and we can talk about them.

I'll start...

I was some what intrigued as to how the OTB people had tip toed around the current civil unrest issues.

I've followed it closely on a couple of other forums, even contributed, and I've noticed with some amusement, people who have figuratively come to blows on every other political and social issue getting into bed together to defend or condemn their Thai flag wavers of choice.

I'll do a poll, no need to announce your allegiance, just vote anonymously. (OK, you can if you like).

Sorry, no poll.

My choices would have been:

What side do you support/sympathise with

1 Red shirts.

2 Government.

3 My views are more complex than that.

4 Don't care.

Maybe the Mods can put it up.

I know that there's been one in General/Thai News but this will restrict it to long term members as opposed to those who seem to have joined recently to get into the fray.

You're right that there are numerous posters in General and News Clippings that seem to have joined just to enter the fray.

With regard to the OP....I think that vid was just another of the very proffessionally produced pro-yellow vids that have appeared. I am probably pro yellow, but I can see that these vids are very well done propaganda.

I don't claim to know what's going on in Thai politics (not really interested) but I don't like the red shirts. I guess in general I don't like protesters that like to disrupt everyone else because they are unhappy with something. Whether closing an airport in BKK or marching through downtown Washington DC on workdays when there are plenty of wide open spaces on the Mall to protest.

I saw one video on YouTube of some farang up in Chang Mai joining in on the vandalism. THey should lock his azz up for a long time.

I suspect that many of the reds are not pro-Thaksin per se, or anti-monarchy per se but are actually worried about something that they are loathe to talk about, and which I am constrained to not mention here.....all I will say is that a certain pending heir to a particular seat is not very popular.

The issues are too complex for many farang to understand. Try telling that to someone whose been here for twenty years and you can lose a friend very quickly.

I make no pretence of being able to follow the reasoning behind a lot of the issues at federal level, my wife's cousin is the local kamnan and local government politics can be hard enough.

Throw into the pot that one of the driving causes of the way Thais think cannot be discussed on expat message boards and it gets all too silly too often.

The issues are too complex for many farang to understand. Try telling that to someone whose been here for twenty years and you can lose a friend very quickly.

I make no pretence of being able to follow the reasoning behind a lot of the issues at federal level, my wife's cousin is the local kamnan and local government politics can be hard enough.

Throw into the pot that one of the driving causes of the way Thais think cannot be discussed on expat message boards and it gets all too silly too often.

I actually agree with what you are saying about how COMPLEX many of the issues are & it would be also fair to say that alot of thais don't understand what is exactly going on, most farang irregardless of how long they have lived in Thailand have even less chance of working out exactly what has happened, what is happening and what is going to happen.

i was not too surprised that the demo did not make it to ob but i was tempted to post something on amnisty inter. as they managed to put their opinion out to the general public. as for the f y vid i got a great laugh.

I was bored, and felt like wearing my tin foil hat tonight.

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