One Thousand Red Villages Open In Isaan: Thailand

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Thailand: One thousand Red Villages open in Isaan

By The Isaan Record

UDON THANI – From a stage outside Udon Thani’s Provincial Hall, the Red Village movement grew rapidly Sunday evening as it welcomed 1,000 new Isaan villages as official Red Villages for Democracy. The Federation of Red Villages, a branch of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, now boasts a total of 10,260 Red Villages in Thailand.

The Red Village movement garnered media attention last July when just a few hundred villages celebrated Red inauguration ceremonies in Isaan. Now, the Federation of Red Villages is aiming to expand its reach nationwide to 30,000 Red Villages within the next couple of years. [more...]

Full story: http://asiancorrespo...-open-in-isaan/

-- asiancorrespondent.com 2012-02-24

[Moruya]

Baaa baaa red sheep have you any wool?

We sold our souls to Nattawoot,

A 3 baht fool

One for the master and one for the dame

An Android for the little boy who lives down the lane

[BookMan]

Perhaps, once there is enough Red Villages on board, they can all secede from The Kingdom and form a breakaway state, 'The People's Village of Issan'?

[Reasonableman]

Perhaps, once there is enough Red Villages on board, they can all secede from The Kingdom and form a breakaway state, 'The People's Village of Issan'?

And the southern provinces can do likewise, resulting in a totally fragmented Thai society and a failed state.

[AleG]

Reconciliation: they are doing it wrong.

[sparebox2]

Soon there will be more Red shirt villages than 7-11.

[lovetotravel]

I thouht the UDD was FOR democracy and AGAINST dictatorship. Seems they are for dictatorship. From Wiki:

A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator. It has three possible meanings that are used.

• A government controlled by one person, or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests entirely on the person or group of people, and can be obtained by force or by inheritance. The dictator(s) may also take away much of its peoples' freedom.
  
• In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.
  

In the 20th century and early 21st century hereditary dictatorship remained a relatively common phenomenon.

For some scholars, a dictatorship is a form of government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed (similar to authoritarianism), while totalitarianism describes a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior of the people. In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power (where the power comes from) and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power (what is the government).

In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) is a contrast to democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (government controls every aspect of people's life) opposes pluralism (government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions).

Other scholars stress the omnipotence of the State (with its consequent suspension of rights) as the key element of a dictatorship and argue that such concentration of power can be legitimate or not depending on the circumstances, objectives and methods employed.^[1]

[Pib]

I wonder what kind of tattoo every Red Shirt village member will get to mark their membership...maybe just a bar code for easy scanning into the Red Shirt inventory database.

[bigbamboo]

Next it will be Red Thailand! BTW, what happens if you live in a village that becomes a Red village but you aren't a red? Do you opt out of this...erm... democracy... or stay yellow, or try to mix in and turn a kind of orange, or go multicoloured or try to preserve your village life and go green. The Thai political spectrum is truly amazing.

Edited February 24, 2012 by bigbamboo

[gemini81]

Welcome back dark ages! We return to feudalism and listening to what the local lord dictates, along with his oligarchy based on BKK and Montenegro.

[theseahorse]

If I didn't know better I'd be looking for the big red Satire at the bottom of the article.

The whole concept of villages where everyone must be a Red supporter goes against everything Democracy means.

If PT ever do give out the Tablet computers will the word Democracy be in the dictionary on them? Half hour online and their suppots might realise how much they've been taken a fool of. Maybe this is the why there's such a delay on the tablets, they have to make sure the Thought Police have deleted anythng that might show the PT for what they really are.

[hmj]

Red flags and red billboards showing a photo of Mr Taksin Shinawatra with a message text have appeared in many Chiang Rai villages lately.

The number of villages with these billboards is increasing continuously. Are they red shirt villages or are they Taksin villages?

[whybother]

Red flags and red billboards showing a photo of Mr Taksin Shinawatra with a message text have appeared in many Chiang Rai villages lately.

The number of villages with these billboards is increasing continuously. Are they red shirt villages or are they Taksin villages?

"Are they red shirt villages or are they Taksin villages?"

Same, Same.

[Jangot]

The red rose, the white rose, the civil war in England

The blue uniform, the grey uniform, the civil war in USA.

The red villages...........

[lungmi]

It's the maoist roadmap. Conquer the rural areas and then storm and burn the big cities.

The SA in Germany had the same strategy.

But don't worry, the new and old ammats of the PTT never will permet it. They will create their SS of Police and Army renegades to control.

History never repeats, but parallelisms are obviously at work.

[maeab]

Red flags and red billboards showing a photo of Mr Taksin Shinawatra with a message text have appeared in many Chiang Rai villages lately.

The number of villages with these billboards is increasing continuously. Are they red shirt villages or are they Taksin villages?

The billboard reads he will come back and make all villages rich!

[givenall]

Baaa baaa red sheep have you any wool?

We sold our souls to Nattawoot,

A 3 baht fool

One for the master and one for the dame

An Android for the little boy who lives down the lane

This is actually not a joke. These villages are most security risk to Thailand than any other foreign countries.

These villages are training solders and manufacturing weapons, all the cost is from the existing government. present government earmark a lot of money for public project, but a lot goes to these places and getting themselves ready for anything that stand against them

“United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship” to these Red Shirt Villages mean anything but Democracy for Thailand. There must be something in the constitution that does not allow people to create military, other than the Military branch of the government

[Nickymaster]

Perhaps, once there is enough Red Villages on board, they can all secede from The Kingdom and form a breakaway state, 'The People's Village of Issan'?

Yes you are right.

Looking at the map of who voted which party we can see that Thailand is cut in half (by region). North and South. This country is completely divided and it wouldn't suprise me if one day we would have North Thailand and South Thailand. 2 Countries.

Seriously!

Edited February 24, 2012 by Nickymaster

[Briggsy]

Isn't that an oxymoron "Official Red Villages for Democracy"?

"But I don't want to be red." "No, you must be red in this village. There is no choice."

[AleG]

I thouht the UDD was FOR democracy and AGAINST dictatorship. Seems they are for dictatorship.

...

That's quite obvious if you see how much the Red Shirts and their leaders love Hun Sen in Cambodia.

[Roj]

Villages normally have their token idiot but it seems like some are full of them. I think the red faction leadership is deliberately agitating among its uneducated followers with the goal being formation of a one party state; a form of champagne communism with the leaders living a privileged lifestyle. The only bulwark against them is the army.

[Kvwielink]

Baaa baaa red sheep have you any wool?

We sold our souls to Nattawoot,

A 3 baht fool

One for the master and one for the dame

An Android for the little boy who lives down the lane

This is actually not a joke. These villages are most security risk to Thailand than any other foreign countries.

These villages are training solders and manufacturing weapons, all the cost is from the existing government. present government earmark a lot of money for public project, but a lot goes to these places and getting themselves ready for anything that stand against them

“United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship” to these Red Shirt Villages mean anything but Democracy for Thailand. There must be something in the constitution that does not allow people to create military, other than the Military branch of the government

You're kidding right? Any evidence for these rather far fetched claims?

[ratcatcher]

The red rose, the white rose, the civil war in England

The blue uniform, the grey uniform, the civil war in USA.

The red villages...........

Lancaster & York locked in the Wars of the Roses over the throne of England.

Roundheads (Parliamentarians) versus Cavaliers (Royalists) in the English Civil Wars.

The North & The South locked in the American Civil War over slavery and its proposed abolition.

and coming soon to a theater near you...............

......................

The Red Villages of Thaksin (the Pretender) versus the Thai 'Amart" and all they represent.

Further discussion, of course, is banned by TV forum rules.

Edited February 24, 2012 by ratcatcher

[bigbamboo]

Perhaps, once there is enough Red Villages on board, they can all secede from The Kingdom and form a breakaway state, 'The People's Village of Issan'?

Yes you are right.

Looking at the map of who voted which party we can see that Thailand is cut in half (by region). North and South. This country is completely divided and it wouldn't suprise me if one day we would have North Thailand and South Thailand. 2 Countries.

Seriously!

The Islamic Republic of Pattani might make it three..

[bigbamboo]

Baaa baaa red sheep have you any wool?

We sold our souls to Nattawoot,

A 3 baht fool

One for the master and one for the dame

An Android for the little boy who lives down the lane

This is actually not a joke. These villages are most security risk to Thailand than any other foreign countries.

These villages are training solders and manufacturing weapons, all the cost is from the existing government. present government earmark a lot of money for public project, but a lot goes to these places and getting themselves ready for anything that stand against them

“United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship” to these Red Shirt Villages mean anything but Democracy for Thailand. There must be something in the constitution that does not allow people to create military, other than the Military branch of the government

You're kidding right? Any evidence for these rather far fetched claims?

The new OTOP? One tambon one pistol.

[OzMick]

Baaa baaa red sheep have you any wool?

We sold our souls to Nattawoot,

A 3 baht fool

One for the master and one for the dame

An Android for the little boy who lives down the lane

This is actually not a joke. These villages are most security risk to Thailand than any other foreign countries.

These villages are training solders and manufacturing weapons, all the cost is from the existing government. present government earmark a lot of money for public project, but a lot goes to these places and getting themselves ready for anything that stand against them

“United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship” to these Red Shirt Villages mean anything but Democracy for Thailand. There must be something in the constitution that does not allow people to create military, other than the Military branch of the government

You're kidding right? Any evidence for these rather far fetched claims?

The new OTOP? One tambon one pistol.

Platoon might be more apt

[pimay11]

Reconciliation: they are doing it wrong.

It's reconcilliation only on the red thugs terms!

[LuckyLew]

Is there any way people can build a wall aound the villages and not let them out?

[CalgaryII]

Red flags and red billboards showing a photo of Mr Taksin Shinawatra with a message text have appeared in many Chiang Rai villages lately.

The number of villages with these billboards is increasing continuously. Are they red shirt villages or are they Taksin villages?

Anti-monarchy and commie villages.... send in the Apaches.... I love the smell of Napalm in the mornings......

Be careful with accusations, that cannot be responded to meaningfully.

[PaulHamon]

Soon there will be more Red shirt villages than 7-11.

already... think they is only 8,000 7-11in Thailand for my internet searchs.