Red shirts in Bangkok file complaint after attack by anti-govt students

[hellodolly]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

Yes but unfortunately the law is still using the same principals in matters of civic unrest. If you are a red shirt it is OK to treat others this way. If you are not a red shirt and you treat a red shirt this way you run the risk of prosecution.

Has a red shirt been indited yet for invading a hospital?

[ramrod711]

While waiting at the traffic light near Lumpini Park, the group of 50-70 vocational students emerged from the park and pelted rocks, bottles, and other objects at the Redshirts convoy.

They have to know that their own thuggery would eventually be imitated because it worked. The difference is of course, that the police won't tolerate it because they are owned lock, stock and barrel. I would absolutely love it if one of these rich PAD or Democrats offered to pay people to hit the streets. If one hair on a protesters head was harmed Yigluck would be responsible and all thisamnesty talk would go out the window.

[geriatrickid]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

Hardly. A bunch of hired thugs is hardly frontier justice. Rather, it speaks to the continued use of devious means by the opponents of the legally elected government.

[Pimay1]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

Hardly. A bunch of hired thugs is hardly frontier justice. Rather, it speaks to the continued use of devious means by the opponents of the legally elected government.

Congrats GK you have finally described in your own words the reds. I thought I would never hear you admit it.

[tingtongteesood]

If the reds cause enough trouble at Anti Taksin protests then violence will start ( caused by the actions of the reds ) then the government will try and spin it to make the Anti Taksin's look bad and discredit them. Personally I believe any reds who do such things deserve to be stoned to death, but the Anti Taksin protestors should try to avoid violence at all costs or else they WILL be made to look bad regardless of the truth...

[Thait Spot]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

 

Hardly. A bunch of  hired thugs  is hardly frontier justice. Rather, it speaks to the continued use of  devious means by the opponents of the legally elected government.

The red shirts came to intimidate like football thugs. They got a thick lip.

Next.

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[Thaddeus]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

Hardly. A bunch of hired thugs is hardly frontier justice. Rather, it speaks to the continued use of devious means by the opponents of the legally elected government.

Are you using the term 'legally elected government' to try and add a hint of credibility to them.

They were elected on the back of making a host of promises that they either had no intention of keeping or were too dumb to work out that they couldn't be kept without damaging the entire country.

[LuckyLew]

If you give it ... you had better be prepared to take it

Good for the students ... hope they plan more rallies and protests

[NongKhaiKid]

What goes around comes around. The hunters are now becoming the hunted.

This sort of thing is what makes Thai politics the sick joke that it is.

Since PTP won the election the reds have made it clear they can, and will, do exactly what they want be it disrupting other parties rallies to ordering the " capture " of constitutional judges BUT if anyone dares to respond against them !

I'm sure the BIB will exercise due diligence to try and identify the students involved as that's what is wanted from on high.

Right on cue the IN Channel lunchtime news has reported the BIB have applied for arrest warrants for some of the students.

I'm not excusing what the students are alleged to have done, violence is wrong irrespective of who conducts it BUT isn't it amazing how fast the BIB can respond when it's opposition supporters involved and the exact opposite if it's red shirts.

[NongKhaiKid]

If you give it ... you had better be prepared to take it

Good for the students ... hope they plan more rallies and protests

Like all bullies the reds can dish it out but can't take it and also have the insurance that government controlled institutions like the BIB will back them to the hilt.

Double standards doesn't even scratch the surface of what's happening

[patjem]

So, that will be the same CCTV cameras which the red shirts covered/ deactivated at the start of their rallying in 2010, then.

[blackman]

poor souls

i feel their pain

i laughed so much my stomach hurt!

[Pimay1]

Mommie he hit me comes to mind.

[lemonjelly]

I think the photo in the OP says everything that needs to be said about the red shirts.

yes...have to agree... one has to presume the photo was taken by Kermit the Frog as I can't see him in it.

[gemini81]

I hope round two features vocational students laying down even more of a severe ass kicking.

[Moruya]

Mommie he hit me comes to mind.

Indeed. Bunch of red thugs rush in to intimidate then complain when they're given a warm welcome. They should all sit in the corner and contemplate what thaksin ever did for them and how come his whole family is so rich

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[mikemac]

This is pure gold !

I was not having the best of days, until I read this story, have been rolling around on the floor laughing for half an hour. It reminds me of the time the school bully at my high school got jumped by 3 former wimps this big gorilla used to pick on, they belted crap out of him, and not one pupil in that school of 700 felt the least bit sorry for him.

The redshirts really are like security guards and safety officers, they go out of their way to be pains in the arse trying to justify their existence.

Pretty soon they will be of no use to anyone and will become another rotten, distant memory.

And they were lucky they only got what they did from those students. Lucky they were not treated the way Bangkok was treated back in 2010, held to ransom and then set fire to !

Looking forward to reading the responses from the pathetic red sympathisers, should make interesting reading.

[scorecard]

Mommie he hit me comes to mind.

Indeed. Bunch of red thugs rush in to intimidate then complain when they're given a warm welcome. They should all sit in the corner and contemplate what thaksin ever did for them and how come his whole family is so rich

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Indeed, in the last couple of years I've had several taxi drivers ask me (English and Thai) what I think about the paymaster.

My initial response is always to say something nebulous to avoid any chance of confrontation, but then their comments about all the specific promises to taxi drivers 5 or 6 years back, not a thing delivered.

Edited August 27, 2013 by scorecard

[ianf]

How did the Kwais know that those who supposedly attacked them were students?

[siampolee]

The seedS that Thaksin sowed by sponsoring his Red Shirt pawns has matured and flowered and the resultant seeds have been spread by the wind to other fertile gardens and minds. Perhaps a bit of cross pollination occurred or possibly some form of genetic engineering.

The result is now being seen by virtue of the fact that the newer more advanced plants are starting to fight for their place in the garden,

The old plants do not like it and have it seems complained to the gardeners boys.

One is led to wonder who is going to administer the weedkiller n what strength and to who.

I do hope that the gardeners boys heed the comments of Yingluck and treat these fragile shoots of plants that are beginning to flourish with the care and comfort and no heavy handedness as per her request, or does that particular method apply to but one specific weed in the political garden?

Indeed very poignant reminder of that children's T.V. show of my childhood in England ''The Flowerpot Men."

Bill and Ben live and Weed still speaks from the Red Shirt ranks,

[ginjag]

The seedS that Thaksin sowed by sponsoring his Red Shirt pawns has matured and flowered and the resultant seeds have been spread by the wind to other fertile gardens and minds. Perhaps a bit of cross pollination occurred or possibly some form of genetic engineering.

The result is now being seen by virtue of the fact that the newer more advanced plants are starting to fight for their place in the garden,

The old plants do not like it and have it seems complained to the gardeners boys.

One is led to wonder who is going to administer the weedkiller n what strength and to who.

I do hope that the gardeners boys heed the comments of Yingluck and treat these fragile shoots of plants that are beginning to flourish with the care and comfort and no heavy handedness as per her request, or does that particular method apply to but one specific weed in the political garden?

Indeed very poignant reminder of that children's T.V. show of my childhood in England ''The Flowerpot Men."

Bill and Ben live and Weed still speaks from the Red Shirt ranks,

I could put all the M.P.s that attend sessions into the garden shed with Bill,Ben and of course the weed.

[backtonormal]

C'mon vocational kids, you could have beat them up a lot harder than that.

Give them a taste of their own medicine.

A bus full of Millwall fans could have kicked 7 bags of turd out of these oiks (students) Please no bullets but please please launch into these with the truncheon. Kill two birds with one stone and let them know their organised fighting (regardless if they or the people army organise it) will not be tolerated.

Like the riots of the 80s in Britian, a person known to me was clubbed with a truncheon (for bystanding) and as blood gushed from his head wound, the perpertrator ( a member of the Manchester Constabulary) bent over and said "if you want some more, by all means come back tomorrow...now eff off home" Described by the Home Secretary of the day as...minimum force. Quite acceptable to dish out beatings to Thai Vocational students if its acceptable in a more civilised country

[CUNJU]

Is that one of the gov. tablets on the table?

[johnnie20110]

Is that one of the gov. tablets on the table?

While it wouldn't be surprising to hear that red shirts had snatched some first grader's school tablet , the chances that it is a government-supplied tablet are very low... because its screen is on and seems to be working.

[DocN]

So let me get that straight...

Because 3 years ago, "the" Red Shirts did something, that was against the law, now no one who is ever wearing a red shirt to voice a political opinion, can expect any protection from attacks or the likes?!

From 2010 onwards you can attack any red shirt guy willy- nilly and just have to state "but they burned down Central..." and you are fine?

So when will that end?

Is it still okay to slap any Burmese in the face, because they burned down Ayuttaya?

[A1Str8]

They never complained when they attacked others. So now its time to close their mouths, bend over and take it like a..like what they are.

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[Pimay1]

So let me get that straight...

Because 3 years ago, "the" Red Shirts did something, that was against the law, now no one who is ever wearing a red shirt to voice a political opinion, can expect any protection from attacks or the likes?!

From 2010 onwards you can attack any red shirt guy willy- nilly and just have to state "but they burned down Central..." and you are fine?

So when will that end?

Is it still okay to slap any Burmese in the face, because they burned down Ayuttaya?

Well Doc if these guys and girls would cease and desist their continual rabble rousing they might get some respect. But it seems they are bent on disrupting any group that is standing for something they don't agree with and they never miss a chance. They have the same right as anyone else to express their opinion but they don't afford other groups the same rights.

I am in no way supporting violence from any group and that should not happen but it's like kicking an old dog in a corner. Sooner or later he will turn and bite you.

[DocN]

So let me get that straight...

Because 3 years ago, "the" Red Shirts did something, that was against the law, now no one who is ever wearing a red shirt to voice a political opinion, can expect any protection from attacks or the likes?!

From 2010 onwards you can attack any red shirt guy willy- nilly and just have to state "but they burned down Central..." and you are fine?

So when will that end?

Is it still okay to slap any Burmese in the face, because they burned down Ayuttaya?

Well Doc if these guys and girls would cease and desist their continual rabble rousing they might get some respect. But it seems they are bent on disrupting any group that is standing for something they don't agree with and they never miss a chance. They have the same right as anyone else to express their opinion but they don't afford other groups the same rights.

I am in no way supporting violence from any group and that should not happen but it's like kicking an old dog in a corner. Sooner or later he will turn and bite you.

Understood and agreed.

But I get the feeling that IF someone really would get attacked and would complain, it would be stated "well...you reap what you sow..." and that is not the way to go about it in any case!

[gemini81]

So let me get that straight...

Because 3 years ago, "the" Red Shirts did something, that was against the law, now no one who is ever wearing a red shirt to voice a political opinion, can expect any protection from attacks or the likes?!

From 2010 onwards you can attack any red shirt guy willy- nilly and just have to state "but they burned down Central..." and you are fine?

So when will that end?

Is it still okay to slap any Burmese in the face, because they burned down Ayuttaya?

Well Doc if these guys and girls would cease and desist their continual rabble rousing they might get some respect. But it seems they are bent on disrupting any group that is standing for something they don't agree with and they never miss a chance. They have the same right as anyone else to express their opinion but they don't afford other groups the same rights.

I am in no way supporting violence from any group and that should not happen but it's like kicking an old dog in a corner. Sooner or later he will turn and bite you.

Understood and agreed.

But I get the feeling that IF someone really would get attacked and would complain, it would be stated "well...you reap what you sow..." and that is not the way to go about it in any case!

Why isn't you reap what you sow the case? These low lives by far and large did no hard time for ludicrous crimes...and especially the higher management level ones. So a good thrashing is well deserved and maybe what they need to be put in their place.

These guys don't know when to call it quits..they're always gagging for clashes...well, when you ask for it...

Edited August 29, 2013 by gemini81

[DocN]

So let me get that straight...

Because 3 years ago, "the" Red Shirts did something, that was against the law, now no one who is ever wearing a red shirt to voice a political opinion, can expect any protection from attacks or the likes?!

From 2010 onwards you can attack any red shirt guy willy- nilly and just have to state "but they burned down Central..." and you are fine?

So when will that end?

Is it still okay to slap any Burmese in the face, because they burned down Ayuttaya?

Well Doc if these guys and girls would cease and desist their continual rabble rousing they might get some respect. But it seems they are bent on disrupting any group that is standing for something they don't agree with and they never miss a chance. They have the same right as anyone else to express their opinion but they don't afford other groups the same rights.

I am in no way supporting violence from any group and that should not happen but it's like kicking an old dog in a corner. Sooner or later he will turn and bite you.

Understood and agreed.

But I get the feeling that IF someone really would get attacked and would complain, it would be stated "well...you reap what you sow..." and that is not the way to go about it in any case!

Why isn't you reap what you sow the case? These low lives by far and large did no hard time for ludicrous crimes...and especially the higher management level ones. So a good thrashing is well deserved and maybe what they need to be put in their place.

These guys don't know when to call it quits..they're always gagging for clashes...well, when you ask for it...

Lynch- justice anyone?

So...if you break the law in one case...let's say, you were driving drunk...from now on, you have no rights anymore and whenever someone does something to YOU, it is okay, if I say "yeah...but YOU broke the law, so...reap what you sow"?!

Interesting understanding of "justice"!