Bangkok Police Prepares For Upcoming Red-Shirt Rally

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3,300 police to be deployed to keep order at red-shirt rally Sunday

Some, 3,300 policemen will be deployed to keep order when the red-shirt people hold demonstrations Sunday, Police Commissioner-General Pol Gen Wichien Phophosri said Saturday.

Wichien said about 5,000 to 7,000 red-shirt people are expected to rally at the Democracy Monument in the morning to remember the death of Maj Gen Khattiya Sawasdiphol.

The demonstrators are also expected to rally in front of the Lumpini Park to honor Khattiya in the afternoon.

Wichien said the organisers of the rallies wil be told to end the demonstration by 5 pm.

The 3,300 policemen will come from the Border Patrol Police Bureau and Provincial Police Bureau 1 , 2 and 7, Wichien said.

-- The Nation 2010-10-09

[rubl]

Wichien said the organisers of the rallies wil be told to end the demonstration by 5 pm.

If the weather is like today that should be no problem. Rain in Dusit area started 4:45PM

[SkyHigh]

Red shirt rally is acceptable.

Red shit (black) militant is bad.

Hopefully it'll turn out as peaceful protest.

Dont get why so much hatred here. As it seems to be a satisfied expression ??

The only way out is to stop deviding society. None of above comments make any sense so far.

[Insight]

Edited October 9, 2010 by Insight

[TheyCallmeScooter]

If you can't discuss this without throwing insults at each other than walk away from the keyboard for a bit. The name calling is getting tiresome and won't be tolerated.

Calling someone a drug dealer is pretty bad yes. So I assume you are talking directly to that old (insert insult here).

And I know that some say, "TIT, don't get involved, it's none of our business, Thais don't care what you think"... you are WRONG. Apart from the threats to our own homes, lives and welfare, it is the civic duty of anyone to address wrongs in society, your own or any other. That's why most of the Red Shirts go to these things.

Yes.

I instantly lose the respect of anyone who would advise someone else to stay quiet in the face of injustice. For any reason. It's cowardly and shameful and despicable.

All that is required for evil to succeed, is for a bunch of gutless types to say "it's none of my business".

Does this URL works? Can't access from my phone. If it does it should be "burn everything" orders given on 19th May.

It works. Do you have translation perchance?

[selftaopath]

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

LOL thanks b/c there is very very little I understand a/b Thailand. I continue racking my brain to find logic, consistency, or consequences for mis-behavior. This form of "democracy" baffles me. I guess I should have gone for that Ph.D.

[hammered]

Never understood how it came about Sombat gave up campaigning for human trafficking victims and started up with a group with some good intentions but a very dubious reputation and links to powerful local feuadal style leaders up north who dont exactly seem to fit with his ways of thinking.

[rubl]

Why do the reds just remember, and make merit for, their peers instead of all of the 91 deaths ?

Anyway 4.30PM, half an hour to go. Feel sorry for those stuck in traffic

[Robby nz]

Hope they clean up their mess when the leave.

But I doubt it.

That would be showing responsibility and a desire to see their city clean and tidy.

Has not happened yet.

[SergeiY]

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

OMFG. "scuter" banned from huffpo. hahahaha.

and evil akademiks in australia

Anyway, i went today, afternoon, to Lumpini Park. i didn't saw any Red shirts there.

[rubl]

Anyway, i went today, afternoon, to Lumpini Park. i didn't saw any Red shirts there.

You may have been too late. The reds (some reds ?) assembled there to start their tour along some 'remarkable' sites to make merit for reds who died during April - May. I hope they also gave some thoughts to all of the others who died, all 91 of them, not just those who had a red shirt.

[TheyCallmeScooter]

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

OMFG. "scuter" banned from huffpo. hahahaha.

and evil akademiks in australia

Anyway, i went today, afternoon, to Lumpini Park. i didn't saw any Red shirts there.

lolz. I'm not actually banned at HuffPost, I'm allowed to post abusive comments which are arguably against the guidelines. Amsterdam publishes those. But valid comments with links to HRW and Amnesty International reports on extra-judicial killings? Censored instantly sigh.

I suspect he allows any posts which contain no embarrassing evidence to be visible, as he's done on that page 4 times now - all 4 comments calling him a shill...to give the impression that he doesn't censor comments and is open to debate. Yet my very polite, diplomatic post with links to HRW.com and Amnesty International? Insta-deleted.

To be fair to the shill, he's arguing a pretty indefensible case in the public domain. It can't be an easy job, million-dollar remuneration notwithstanding. Whilst the Red Shirts on TV and elsewhere can just post nonsensical gibberish without consideration to restrictive crap like logic, fact or coherence, Amsterdam has his reputation to defend. It's much harder for him to post his nonsensical gibberish, without getting destroyed. He still does, of course, post nonsensical gibberish - he just has to have his finger poised on the Red delete button instead of heading out to recharge his creative juices.

I plan to wear him down. He can't stay awake for ever. And I'm hoping the fact he's apparently been awake for a week straight doesn't mean he has a team at his disposal. I don't have a team. That would be taking the fun out of the game, and a little bit unfair innit

[SergeiY]

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

OMFG. "scuter" banned from huffpo. hahahaha.

and evil akademiks in australia

Anyway, i went today, afternoon, to Lumpini Park. i didn't saw any Red shirts there.

lolz. I'm not actually banned at HuffPost, I'm allowed to post abusive comments which are arguably against the guidelines. Amsterdam publishes those. But valid comments with links to HRW and Amnesty International reports on extra-judicial killings? Censored instantly sigh.

I suspect he allows any posts which contain no embarrassing evidence to be visible, as he's done on that page 4 times now - all 4 comments calling him a shill...to give the impression that he doesn't censor comments and is open to debate. Yet my very polite, diplomatic post with links to HRW.com and Amnesty International? Insta-deleted.

To be fair to the shill, he's arguing a pretty indefensible case in the public domain. It can't be an easy job, million-dollar remuneration notwithstanding. Whilst the Red Shirts on TV and elsewhere can just post nonsensical gibberish without consideration to restrictive crap like logic, fact or coherence, Amsterdam has his reputation to defend. It's much harder for him to post his nonsensical gibberish, without getting destroyed. He still does, of course, post nonsensical gibberish - he just has to have his finger poised on the Red delete button instead of heading out to recharge his creative juices.

I plan to wear him down. He can't stay awake for ever. And I'm hoping the fact he's apparently been awake for a week straight doesn't mean he has a team at his disposal. I don't have a team. That would be taking the fun out of the game, and a little bit unfair innit

Fighting windmills?

And no, some anonymous comments in a web blog, will not hurt anyones reputation except your own and makes you look silly. Nor will that bannedfromhuffpo.blogspot change something. Don't get lost in the Internet.

[TheyCallmeScooter]

Fighting windmills?

And no, some anonymous comments in a web blog, will not hurt anyones reputation except your own and makes you look silly. Nor will that bannedfromhuffpo.blogspot change something. Don't get lost in the Internet.

Most definitely lots of windmills.

But if the comments on HuffPost were not important, Amsterdam would not censor them or, and it seems unlikely that he would but possible, have one of his lackeys use his HuffPost blogger account to censor them. I should probably rephrase, they're not important - but they not completely unimportant either. Amsterdam's ruthless control of the message on his own blog (I'm not yet successful at getting one ever through to the keeper on there, I should probably try an insult) as well as HuffPost, along with the same practices at his network of propaganda portals which I'm sure are dancing to his strict orders....I dunno, either he's a mega-OCD micro-management machine....or the comments have importance. He spends too much time and exerts too much effort sifting through them, holding some in the queue indefinitely, deleting others, posting others. But I can learn a few things about him also. But at the end of the day, whomever holds the $$ is probably going to 'win' (even if my definition of a 'win' is ludicrously low lolz).

I agree that the bannedfromhuffpo blog is unlikely to do squat. But I wanted the nauseating duplicity on the record. The filthy shill is lecturing Thailand on free speech for heaven's sake. Whilst he practices 80% censorship on his own blog, and on liberal media portals like HuffPost which will one day be very embarrassed about their decision to let bloggers have carte blanche power to censor any and all content posted in response to their own articles, with no review or appeal possible.

As for getting lost, there would be worse places. At least I'll have youjixx.com

[ianbaggie]

Because the red shirts are lying cheating murderous barbarians thats why - take a look at the video above and see what happens when they are given "the right to demonstrate - maybe youre that muppet farang that was arrested waviong his bamboo stick around and shouting were gonna burn that lot at central world - democract is not a red shirt philosophy!!

Bringing back a deposed dictator for 5oo baht a day is what its about!!

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.

[ianbaggie]

Your lack of intelligence astounds me!! You claim the reds want democracy and change - the only change they want is change from the 500 baht a day their deposed dictator Thaksin will give them from the money he stole - im not suprised Farang dont have a clue about Thai politics - one thing is for certain THAIS CERTAINLY DONT!!!! One thing for certain - Abhisit Government better than Thaksin Government - they were BOTH educated in UK!!

LEARN SOME FACTS MOSKITO YOU JOKE MAN!!

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?

[ianbaggie]

a WELL PUT TOGETHER true POST - WELL DONE!!

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....

[ianbaggie]

gOD BLESS THE jUNTA - DEATH TO tHAKSIN

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.

This junta does not need any encouragement to 'step up to the plate'

[ianbaggie]

sPOT ON!!!!

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.

Not again!!!!!

Comon.. last week there was a spurt of bomb attacks and a few deaths,,,

This weekend a (peaceful protest) by the same peeps who were arrested in chiang mai as planning to bomb bangkok..

sure - in the beginning it will start as a peaceful protest to gather numbers and pretend to be civil...

but when the numbers are up and the brains are washed - the heat gets turned up and the weapons get sent in...

Thats whats coming...

Just when the peak holiday season was coming and Thailand had a chance to redeem itself and just when Central world has re-opened..

its time to smash them back down and keep the economy starving and blaming a govmnt for the damage caused...

time will tell... but its so boring now... its not democratic in any way shape or form...

[ianbaggie]

34 BUILDINGS IS A PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL CAPITAL CITY

THINK ABOUT IT - THEYRE THE ONES THAKSIN WANTED

No...what they do is a little bit my business. They want to kill me and my family and burn down my home. I'm not all that cool with that. Sorry.

Are you dealing in DRUGS? That's what it sounds like. And to correct you - there was mass killings going on here in Thailand before Thaksin took over. If I remember correctly the police had a special HIT SQUAD About 18 years ago.

Get your hearing checked. I'd ask you what you think you heard - if I thought the answer would be coherent. Are you aware they tried to burn the capital down, or are you living in 1992.

by and large I agree with your posts, but saying they tried to burn the capital down is just STUPID. It's past exaggeration. Vehicles, sure, tires, yeah, Central World and a few other spots, maybe. But the whole "capital" ??

please, that just sounds as bad as the guys you post in reply to.