Red Shirt Sympathizers, Has Your Support Diminished?

[Jingthing]

THIS POLL IS FOR FORMER/CURRENT RED SYMPATHIZERS ONLY!

Well, red sympathizers, current and previous, have the recent events during the Battle of Bangkok changed your views? I have seen some former red posters do a 180 online here, so I assume there must be others.

Remember, this is not about support for social reforms and easing of poverty and injustice in Thailand. Most ALL of us are for fixing those things.

This is about the specific red shirt movement as it has been revealed to be in REALITY.

Needless to say, I won't be voting in this poll as I have never been a red shirt sympathizer.

Edited May 27, 2010 by Jingthing

[Who, me ?]

Some red supporters have been quite tough in their comments about the other TV members. They will now claim that they did not know, or that they have been mislead, or whatever.....

Anyway, if they made a 180 turn, it shows how weak they are, or how coward they become when they realize they chose the wrong side.

[Jingthing]

I disagree. Changing your mind based on new evidence is the sign of a person with great integrity.

[Who, me ?]

I disagree. Changing your mind based on new evidence is the sign of a person with great integrity.

I would agree with you if.....the evidences had not been readily available from very early in the rally....

[maccaroni man]

well we know there are 2 white red shirts supporters resting jail, wonder how they are feel about their choice now.

[Jingthing]

I disagree. Changing your mind based on new evidence is the sign of a person with great integrity.

I would agree with you if.....the evidences had not been readily available from very early in the rally....

I get your point. It was obvious at Black Songkran. However, remember that we had a lot of people who weren't aware of the history and also got carried away with their idealistic emotions of an underdog "fighting for the poor" type of movement. People who thought the reds were like the people power movement in the Philippines against Marcos, etc.

[sanook2me]

According to my family and friends back home in the UK... who only know about the red shirts from BBC news broadcasts.

It was poor people fighting for true democracy... nothing but almost famed freedom fighters! the terrorists that the West find okay to support...

I just wonder how many farang red shirts were not in Thailand at the time of their posts and only watching lazy reporting?

[Who, me ?]

According to my family and friends back home in the UK... who only know about the red shirts from BBC news broadcasts.

It was poor people fighting for true democracy... nothing but almost famed freedom fighters! the terrorists that the West find okay to support...

I just wonder how many farang red shirts were not in Thailand at the time of their posts and only watching lazy reporting?

Good point....

I will soften my initial comment then.

[rixalex]

Anyway, if they made a 180 turn, it shows how weak they are, or how coward they become when they realize they chose the wrong side.

Surely it's better to revise one's opinion than to thrust one's head into the sand and continue doggedly with the same view?

I am only aware of one poster though who was known to be a red-sympathiser and who has noticeably changed their standpoint since the events of the last few weeks. That one poster in my opinion deserves a lot more credit than all the others who have simply continued in the same tact as if recent events didn't happen / don't matter / weren't commited by their side - take your pick of denial / excuse.

Edited May 27, 2010 by rixalex

[barky]

I originally had some sympathy for the movement. I could see the basis of their fundamental argument.

BUT then they lost me totally. Even though there may have been merit in their grievence, they lost me.

The point at which they lost me was when they entered the hospital on their witch hunt.

From then on it only got worse and worse and worse.

In the end I dispise them and hope all their wrong doings will come back to them in really black kama. A pox on the lot of them and on Taksin for his encouragement that led to 80 plus killings, the use of children as shields, terrorising patients, nurses, doctors etc at a hospital, involving innocent non-involved people, 1.5 bil + in damages, 3 bil + losses in revenue, tens of thousands of jobs lost (of working class people).

The list I could write might be endless.

They're are now all scum sucking maggots.

I hope they are all happy with their result.

If they think they are treated like animals by the so called elite, it might just be because they act like animals.

To hel_l with the lot of them.

[rixalex]

The point at which they lost me was when they entered the hospital on their witch hunt.

Just out of interest, did the events of Songkran 2009 not cause you a rethink?

[Scott]

Political threads not allowed, to the best of my knowledge in the general forum.

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