Bangkok Police Prepares for Upcoming Red-Shirt Rally

BANGKOK: -- The Metropolitan Police Bureau has planned to deploy more than 3,000 officers at a political rally to be organized this upcoming Sunday by a red shirt affiliated group.

Acting Commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, Police Lieutenant General Jaktip Chaijinda has called for a meeting with the commanders and the deputy commanders of Regions 1 to 9 of the Bangkok police force, to plan for the political rally organized by a red shirt affiliated group.

The event will take place Sunday at the Victory Monument and Sala Daeng areas.

Jaktip said that preparation for the rally will be discussed at the meeting.

Initially, the bureau planned to deploy 15 police groups, consisting of more than 3,000 officers.

Five groups will oversee security and order of the red shirt gathering, while the other ten groups will be placed on standby.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau commander has expressed confidence that the police will be able to control the situation.

When asked about the recent report made by the Department of Special Investigation or the DSI that more attacks are being planned from October to the end of the year, Jaktip responded that he has not yet been informed of the full details by the DSI.

However, he assured citizens that police forces are fully prepared to control the situation to prevent it from turning violent.

-- Tan Network 2010-10-08

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

Wrong assumption. If applied for and agreed upon with the police peaceful gatherings are tolerated as long as conditions set are met. All in good co-operation with the police like on the 19th of Sept. This applies to all colors, co-ordination keeps groups separated if more than one gathering in a single day.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is Thailand

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

Yes. I think they are planning to have 2000 groups of 4 people there.

Just wait for the Liverpool v Man U game and a giant jumbotron screen and they can claim they are watching the game in their "red shirts".

Sala daeng! <deleted> another shitty weekend of slow business! I'm starting to want Taksin to come back just so it will all end.

Just wait for the Liverpool v Man U game and a giant jumbotron screen and they can claim they are watching the game in their "red shirts".

Wasn't that game on September 19? Bit of a coincidence I think.

Sala daeng! <deleted> another shitty weekend of slow business! I'm starting to want Taksin to come back just so it will all end.

That will just make it change colours.

Sala daeng! <deleted> another shitty weekend of slow business! I'm starting to want Taksin to come back just so it will all end.

That will just make it change colours.

Yeah, true. I don't really want him back but I do want this to stop.

Sala daeng! <deleted> another shitty weekend of slow business! I'm starting to want Taksin to come back just so it will all end.

A girl in PP2 told me the same the other day. Mind you even k. Thaksin would have had problems with the global economical crisis which still greatly hampers Western countries and effects the mood of tourists.

Sala daeng! <deleted> another shitty weekend of slow business! I'm starting to want Taksin to come back just so it will all end.

Get some sleep you will feel better in the morning. :jap:

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

Wrong assumption. If applied for and agreed upon with the police peaceful gatherings are tolerated as long as conditions set are met. All in good co-operation with the police like on the 19th of Sept. This applies to all colors, co-ordination keeps groups separated if more than one gathering in a single day.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is Thailand

I think they blew all the original conditions during their last rally...right?

They should be required to pay for the police protection if they want to do a rally like this. I am sure they would have second thoughts about whether or not to break the rules...or maybe not!

Same as before, they will break every rule in the book - park three lanes (or more) in and interrupt traffic, loud speakers not loud hailers and the whole thing will turn to the usual law breaking rabble and the Police will turn a blind eye as always.

Perhaps now is the time for the new army chief to step up to the plate and prove his authority. Let's see.

So, am I correct in assuming that launching a massive blood drive and then pouring the collected blood on various locations throughout the city does meet the conditions? Oh, the memories...

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

Wrong assumption. If applied for and agreed upon with the police peaceful gatherings are tolerated as long as conditions set are met. All in good co-operation with the police like on the 19th of Sept. This applies to all colors, co-ordination keeps groups separated if more than one gathering in a single day.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is Thailand

I assume this rally must be a gathering of less than 5 people to comply with the emergency law?

Wrong assumption. If applied for and agreed upon with the police peaceful gatherings are tolerated as long as conditions set are met. All in good co-operation with the police like on the 19th of Sept. This applies to all colors, co-ordination keeps groups separated if more than one gathering in a single day.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is Thailand

You should try living in the UK. No gatherings are allowed unless they have police permission beforehand.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is the UK.

Edited October 8, 201015 yr by w11guy

I remember their last peaceful protest. They're really good people. Peaceful people. I can't imagine why the police are concerned about violence.

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

The best people.

Just gathering to hang out and that. Man, I hope the police don't violently suppress them if they peacefully chill out like this for two months.

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

NIMBY syndrome.

It's ok for them to protest, just "Not In My Back Yard".

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

w11guy, you arrived after they tried to burn down Bangkok. So you could be forgiven for being oblivious to reality. But you could educate yourself before you embarrass yourself with posts like this one. I mean, if not wanting to embarrass yourself was a concern of yours...I'm merely working on that assumption.

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

w11guy, you arrived after they tried to burn down Bangkok. So you could be forgiven for being oblivious to reality. But you could educate yourself before you embarrass yourself with posts like this one. I mean, if not wanting to embarrass yourself was a concern of yours...I'm merely working on that assumption.

You were forced to go to the rally if you lived nearby and it wasnt pleasant

Wrong assumption. If applied for and agreed upon with the police peaceful gatherings are tolerated as long as conditions set are met. All in good co-operation with the police like on the 19th of Sept. This applies to all colors, co-ordination keeps groups separated if more than one gathering in a single day.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is Thailand

You should try living in the UK. No gatherings are allowed unless they have police permission beforehand.

Do you need to understand this ? No, not at all, this is the UK.

Same thing is true in the US. You have to obtain a permit in advance AND pay for the security...usually off duty police officers. And if anything happens, you pay for the cleanup.

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

The last rally was kinda hard to avoid. The entire city was a mess, MRT closed everything...oh, forgot the best part...commuters were shot at and killed.

Kinda hard to agree to them protesting again...wouldn't you agree????

man I am in Thailand now, so is this going to turn into a nasty fight? or just peaceful demonstration? I don't want airport to get shut down or those emergency curfews and shit....what do you guys think?

man I am in Thailand now, so is this going to turn into a nasty fight? or just peaceful demonstration? I don't want airport to get shut down or those emergency curfews and shit....what do you guys think?

It'll be a quiet gathering. It will cause a few traffic jams (like when it rains). It'll be over by midnight.

Avoid where they're protesting and you won't even know it happened.

.... probably.

Edited October 8, 201015 yr by whybother

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

While in most western and specially USAmerican and European governments can do what ever they want to do, in Thailand at least there are some ppl going on demos!

If I read here the other day that child porn is publically sold in Sukhumvit and Police seems to be corupt more like ever before ITS TIME TO CHANGE something.

GO ON REDS

....and to every Farang who is concerned about its business in LoS, take a long holidy at YOUR country and stop complaining about something u dont have a clue of TIT

and my often repeated question: WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE ABHISIT? ....just the faces of corruption or something for the masses?

Empty vessels make the most noise and you sure are loud TheyCallMeScooter.

And the US and UK are hardly bastions of human rights goodness or great examples the peoples rights to protest without having the living crap beat out of them doing so.

Get over it, get a life. The same people who lashed out at Connor Purcell for "getting involved in Thai politics" are doing the exact same with their comments here.

If Purcell was so wrong to to speak his mind and get involved then the same is true for armchair hang-em high, shoot-em dead TV brigade - you have no right to comment on Thai politics. It's none of your business what the redshirts do.

Take a valium and pretend it's not happening... because it's none of your business anyway and you're just a visitor here. I'm sure I could drag out some more hackneyed chestnuts from a few months ago and from the posts criticizing Purcell but the point is clear

man I am in Thailand now, so is this going to turn into a nasty fight? or just peaceful demonstration? I don't want airport to get shut down or those emergency curfews and shit....what do you guys think?

I have grave concerns. Illegitimately obtained billions wired offshore and stashed away for a rainy day buys you all kinds of wet weather gear.

It buys you the 'peaceful' protesters....

It buys you the charismatic leaders who incite them to violence and arson...

It buys you filthy shills to spin your terrorism as 'peaceful protests suppressed by killer soldiers'...

http://robertamsterdam.com/thailand

It even pays for Australian academics employed at the Australian National University (taxpayer-subsidised, of course) to publish your lies and censor all voices of reason from commenting....

http://asiapacific.a...u.au/newmandala

...and pays for Western liberal portals like The Huffington Post to publish your vitriol and give you censor powers over pesky comments which threaten to spoil your expensive fantasy soup with annoying realities...

http://bannedfromhuf...-amsterdam.html

...and pays for your employees - who happen to be leaders of large political parties - to demand you be granted 'amnesty' (read: "or we'll riot again" whilst spinning your refusal to negotiate with terrorists as "unwilling to reconcile")...

http://www.bangkokpo...-for-mr-thaksin

...pays for your campaign to terrorise the capital with bombings which distract the government into, you know, dealing with terrorism; whilst you surreptitiously attempt to pull the wool over the gullible global media eyes with idiotic rhetoric...

http://www.atimes.co...a/LD02Ae02.html

Before you know it, you have a Thai Deputy PM talking reconciliation and willing to meet an animal Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have described as "a human rights abuser of the worst kind"...in his Dubai luxury hotel fleeing prison sentence for nauseating corruption....to discuss his 'terms' and reconcile. And mainstream media sources start getting hella nervous so they start hedging their bets and giving you and your employees more and more favourable coverage.

And then all that is left to do is....? A 'peaceful' rally or two? I'm not the one writing the script; merely watching in horror as the unthinkable becomes disturbingly thinkable.

I have grave concerns.

Because this world is full of morans. Who bounce to the sound of clinking coins. Dark days ahead for Thailand....

<deleted> it.  Shoot them all.

W11guy did not embarrass himself at all.

Regards,

Tom

Here we go again, another "shitty" day in Paradise.

Why is it a shitty day. No-one is forcing you to go to the rally? People have the right to demonstrate. It's called democracy. Would you rather that no-one had the right to demonstrate. Perhaps you should move to some hardline dictatorship country. There are demonstrations in many countries, and some much worse than here.

w11guy, you arrived after they tried to burn down Bangkok. So you could be forgiven for being oblivious to reality. But you could educate yourself before you embarrass yourself with posts like this one. I mean, if not wanting to embarrass yourself was a concern of yours...I'm merely working on that assumption.