Police, Protesters Blame The Other For Violence

[Meetoo]

"General Boonlert Kaewprasit, leader of the anti-government rally, vowed to fight to the death to oust the Yingluck government "

I think he means to say, that he will lead his underlings to their death!

He is actually a lot like Thaksin in a way ...

[ttelise]

Quoted from:ttellise:

Oh, are you a lawyer now. I am.

If some said that over a loud speaker at a protest to overthrow US president, they would be spending some time in solitary confinement. Not sure how you can rationalize or defend "Yingluck must die" absent serious denial and deep seeded prejudice.

I am sorry, but you did not get your law degree in US. No one in the US would be sent to jail for saying "let's overthrow the President". This is just not factual. Ever hear of "free speech". You wouldn't even get into law school without knowing this.

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Saying pres must die during an anti government rally calling for a coup would like lead to terrorism and treason charges in US. Both charges can result in solitary.

Slow down, think through the process and research is your friend. Not huge logical leaps there so I did not think stating obvious was necessary.

[MAJIC]

I have to say that for once the police seem to have done a good job. I think that PT and Thaksin are doing everything they can to divide the country and ruin the economy, but this protest was not the right way to remove them from power.

Done a good job at what. They never have tried to stop any demonstrations before. Just sat around and watched them no barb wire no tear gas just let them do as they wanted.

Now all of a sudden they change the way they handle demonstrations. they come prepared for conflict. Yes they did a good job at what they started out to do instigate conflict.

They fooled a lot of Thai's because of the low education they have received where they were never learned how to think or reason things out.

Well, I for one say, it is about time the the Police or the Army or someone in authority put a stop of these rally's and protests. In all and all the both color coded protests need to stop and lets get on to a forward means of putting the country back together. One has to start somewhere to go forward instead of the 7 or 8 years of bullshit protests and by stating they did it first.That attitude is what my children did when they were 5 or 6 years old.

And if you don't like the Government vote them out next time, and if you can't because of vote buying, (both sides do it), then just live with it because if they (the people) want the 500 baht to sell their souls, then they get what they deserve, And at the day, it's up to them and not us, it's not our country.

Perhaps we should be grateful for that!

[metisdead]

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[Singlebarrel]

Refreshing

Nobody's blaming the falang or Obama (yet).

It was Obama fault, why did he have to come to Thailand what a shame...

[Baerboxer]

Well that is a surprise. Lets ee, once group was law enforcement charged with protecting the government and the public at large. The other was a group of thugs cutting through barb wire, trying to over take cops' position and participating in a plan to remove or kill the PM. Any rational or reasonable person should be able to see whose actions were illegal and whose actions were within their discretion and authority. Excessive force was not used, but could have been used based on what I saw. The cops acted appropriately and in a very level headed manner.

You were actually there?

[asiawatcher]

participating in a plan to remove or kill the PM. Any rational or reasonable person should be able to see whose actions were illegal

Threatening to kill someone is illegal. Did they arrest that person? If not, is it because they didn't say to kill the PM?

Haven't gotten through all the news, but the only thing I saw posted thus far was a tweet quoting a speaker on stage

http://www.thaivisa....ost__p__5873838

, but the quote didn't say to kill the PM.

Really. Stating "Yingluck must die" at an event desinged to overthrow government or spark a coup is a death threat. Clearly inciting someone to do the chore. Substance over form.

As the accompanying Tweet in that link poignantly points out, we all "must die".

While provocative, it's not the declarative statement necessary to pursue prosecution.

The law looks at things clearly.

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... and let's not forget it's okay to call for the burning of a city - they won't prosecute that so that must be okay!