Security Concerns After Woman Gets Onstage With PM Abhisit

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Security concerns after woman gets onstage with PM

By Atapoom Ongkulna

The Nation

A 46-year-old woman yesterday morning forced her way onstage with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (Bitec) to plead for help with her deafness.

Security teams were called to an urgent meeting after the incident.

Abhisit had been speaking to about 1,000 officials on the Social Development and Human Security Ministry's strategy to prevent teenage pregnancies. The woman, later identified as food vendor Kesarin Wutthiwong from Bangkok's Klong Toei district, got close to the prime minister, handed him a card and urged him to read it.

The card, in Thai and English, outlined how she had been made deaf by gnathostomiasis, an infection of roundworm larvae. Astonished, Abhisit told her he would read the information she had given him and see what could be done.

When security officials tried to remove the woman, she resisted, saying she did not want to harm anyone but only to ask for the prime minister's help.

Kesarin later explained that she became deaf after the gnathostomiasis reached her brain in 2008, and she needed a cochlea implant, which she could not afford. After getting no help from the National Council on Social Welfare, she said, she wrote to Abhisit once at his residence and eight times at Government House but got no reply, so she came to appeal to him in person yesterday.

The incident raised concerns over the security provided to the prime minister, and security officials held an urgent meeting at Government House.

-- The Nation 2011-02-22

[Gonzo the Face]

What Security ????? :blink

Where was the mottledfaced security guy that is always seen in all the news report video clips of the PM. On camera the guy is less than a foot away from the PM???

Edited February 22, 2011 by Gonzo the Face

[dick turpin]

I go toilet

[TheWalkingMan]

Time to get rid of the current crop and hire a new group.

TheWalkingMan

[Colabamumbai]

Good for her and more power to the people of Thailand, yes the tall ugly prick was probably in the toilet playing with himself or his gun.

[Nisa]

Wow, even after the Reds made an attempt on his life it would appear they still don't take his security seriously.

[onnut]

Not much is taken seriously in Thailand.

[Buchholz]

Wow, even after the Reds made an attempt on his life it would appear they still don't take his security seriously.

Indeed, one would think that after the unbelievable incident in April 2009:

that "security concerns" would have been corrected

[keestha]

Security in Thailand? I have to think of a public meeting in Khao Lak, in 2005 briefly after the tsunami hit. I was waiting in the entry hall for the speeches to begin, and the then prime minister (Thaksin) passed by me at a distance of less than three meters. There was no control whatsoever of people going into the building and what they could be carrying.

[Nisa]

I didn't even see that one before ... I was talking about http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/21409/Protesters_Attack_Thai_Prime_Minister_s_Limo/

[Buchholz]

I didn't even see that one before ... I was talking about http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/21409/Protesters_Attack_Thai_Prime_Minister_s_Limo/

ah yes, that was the other occurrence... this one happened earlier than the Bangkok attack... it's becoming an annual Red Shirt event:

Red Shirt Protesters Attack Prime Minister’s car in Central Pattaya

In the afternoon of 7th April 2009, a car driving Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, was attacked by a group of red-shirted anti-government protesters, whilst waiting at a red traffic light in the middle of Pattaya. The protesters managed to smash the rear window before the car continued on its journey. The Prime ministers driver was injured in the attack.

The prime minister was on his way back to Bangkok from a weekly cabinet meeting at the Royal Cliff Hotel. He was also checking on preparations at the hotel which is the venue for this weekend’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit with its Plus Three and Plus Six dialogue partners.

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2009/04/07/red-shirt-protesters-attack-prime-minister%E2%80%99s-car-in-central-pattaya/

[Payboy]

After all this is the country where a domestic airport was allowed to operate for one day without a metal detector, because the detector was borrowed by a local university for their graduation ceremony.

Read story here.

[robertson468]

I go toilet

Yes but why and did poor unfortunate woman get to PM before someone else??

[transam]

ALL security is laughable, nobody seems to be trained in anything except polishing medals and looking cool, and how they got the medals is beyond me.

[Gonzo the Face]

ALL security is laughable, nobody seems to be trained in anything except polishing medals and looking cool, and how they got the medals is beyond me.

Perhaps self made as part of the occupational therapy sessions at the 'home'

[hyperdimension]

Did the food vendor get infected by eating her own food?

[ToffeEFCpower]

What Security ????? :blink

Where was the mottledfaced security guy that is always seen in all the news report video clips of the PM. On camera the guy is less than a foot away from the PM???

He was at the Acne clinic

[bangon04]

Maybe they should take a lesson from Berlusconi's security team, and learn to "select" the women they allow onto the stage....

[jimbeam1]

Great Social Welfare turn her down, she writes ti him 9 times, I take it all letters filed away in the shredder. She manages to confront him on stage. Says he will look into it. Good on her.

jb1

[asiawatcher]

Great Social Welfare turn her down, she writes ti him 9 times, I take it all letters filed away in the shredder. She manages to confront him on stage. Says he will look into it. Good on her.

jb1

Agree - go for it girl... screw the security. Never give up!

[yesdavy]

Wow, even after the Reds made an attempt on his life it would appear they still don't take his security seriously.

Must have fallen behind on the tea money.

[atyclb]

If you google the event behind this story, the woman also complained to PM Abhisit that she had to sell sexual services. The sign she is holding stated this in thai and bottom had english. you can see the more complete info at bkk post dot com

Edited February 23, 2011 by metisdead
Corrected misspelling of Abhisit's name.