Cameraman threatened and detained by 'PDRC guards'

[tingtongteesood]

Will anyone be surprised by yet another report of thuggery, intimidation and violence by supporters of this so -called reform movement?. No. Another day, another report. And yet leaders of the movement now suggest that foreigners don't understand what is happening because the news is being translated to make the movement look bad . They say the motive is profit? I don't see any unfair reporting of the protests....they speak for themselves in the way they behave

they do indeed speak more about themselves when they spaek. this is why the Government leave them out there to lose support. It also plays hard on the wallets of the Coup backers the longer it goes on. Many of them now are bitterly regretting is as Chinese New year will flop for sure, and this will be Karma on the Thai Chinese that back Suthep.

Meanwhile, the Government get on with the job of stabalising the country. It's not them rioting, itns' not them blocking roads and closing offices, it's not them driving away tourists, its' not them sleeping out in parks and on streets making them smell like open toilets.

Meanwhile back at the PDRC sympathisers, it is another day of knee jerk, non-thought out posts stuck on the end of very well considered posts made by people who have access to more information even than Bluesky.

Cant see a anything other than bile in many posts these days from the Suthep side

I would say quite the same about the majority of your posts, pure biased bile. There are none so blind as those who do not want to see....

[GreenSnapper]

I had to pick my way through the protest crowds a couple days ago on a necessary errand near MBK. The type of person that the PDRC has guarding the entry and exit points are the lowest of thugs. Barely controlled vigilantes. I and my companion were frisked in a most embarrassing manner at one entrance while guards leered and snickered. Same hooligans as 2010, just changed shirt color only. These are the same hired types who will be enforcing Suthep's "New Order," I presume? God help us.

The thugs are the same. They are payed around 1000 baht per day and work for anybody who pays them. They have no political agenda.

Edited January 17, 2014 by GreenSnapper

[rubl]

 

So he was rescued by the real PDRC people after being grabbed by someone who claimed to be PDRC.

The thugs are coming out to try to take advantage of the situation.

How do you tell the difference between real and fake PDRC....one has a real , approved whistle and the other a counterfeit? What a farce. Attacking journos from a paper sympathetic to the cause. Does STUPID ring a bell?

 

same problem with red-shirts and fake-red-shirts.

Still, no further information of the group of attackers. Waiting for that.

Edited January 17, 2014 by rubl

[Fat Haggis]

One person that many Thais have cited as someone I should follow to "understand" the opposition's position is Michael Yon. I guess they think we farang all think alike.

Here is a recent Facebook entry on his page: http://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage/posts/763169057044150

For those who avoid Facebook, it's a entry about John Sparks interviewing Dr. Seri. In it, Michael Yon states that … "The Whistlers are a peaceful lot. If John Sparks tried this at a 2010 Red Shirt rally, there is a strong chance he would be killed within minutes -- or badly wounded."

I remember a couple of foreign journalist injured after the poo hit the paddle. But, I don't recall any incidents of any journalists being attack by "the red mob".

But, during this current rally, by the "peaceful lot", I have lost count of the physical attacks on the press.

BTW,

I believe Michael Yon fits somewhere between Suthep and Abhisit when it comes to impartiality.

It didn't help when Michael Yon also called on his "followers" to print the names and addresses and socialising locations of the red shirt leadership, give him his due, he has a very strong cult following, although his reporting, oops sorry he's not a reporter, his writing is very very ne sided, and all his followers seem to believe that his word is the whole truth and nothing but ...

[Anon999]

Will anyone be surprised by yet another report of thuggery, intimidation and violence by supporters of this so -called reform movement?. No. Another day, another report. And yet leaders of the movement now suggest that foreigners don't understand what is happening because the news is being translated to make the movement look bad . They say the motive is profit? I don't see any unfair reporting of the protests....they speak for themselves in the way they behave

Jumping on the band wagon before you read the item properly or just using part of the story for your own point of view? It quite clearly says, "a group of around 10 men tried to drag him into a dark corner, but was rescued by other PDRC staff after he called for help." Were they really PDRC staff or troublemakers dressed up for the part trying to tarnish the real guards?

Edited January 18, 2014 by Anon999

[Anon999]

If they were the red mob, he would have been torn to pieces.

Might be something to do with John Sparks.... The arrogant, backward idiot.

Ahh, having a go at trying to wind some people up? I don't think it's working.

You really should engage in some sober thought before posting some of your nonsense as the arrogant backward idiot in this regard is certainly not John Sparks, the respected Asia correspondent, who by the way has put out some sympathetic stories on the protestors.

In case you hadn't noticed the story was about a cameraman and likely fake guards. However, as can be expected you expand your post to include Suthep so you can state your personal view. Hoping for you to keep on topic would be far too much to expect.

Edited January 18, 2014 by Anon999

[maxme]

Will anyone be surprised by yet another report of thuggery, intimidation and violence by supporters of this so -called reform movement?. No. Another day, another report. And yet leaders of the movement now suggest that foreigners don't understand what is happening because the news is being translated to make the movement look bad . They say the motive is profit? I don't see any unfair reporting of the protests....they speak for themselves in the way they behave

Jumping on the band wagon before you read the item properly or just using part of the story for your own point of view? It quite clearly says, "a group of around 10 men tried to drag him into a dark corner, but was rescued by other PDRC staff after he called for help." Were they really PDRC staff or troublemakers dressed up for the part trying to tarnish the real guards?

Who knows but the PDRC has already manhandled a few reporters including foreign ones. So it could also be that they mistook him for a bangkok post reporter but the staff recognized him and intervened. In any case there hasn't been a single pdrc supporter claiming that the guards were actually red so... Then again time will tell

[kingalfred]

These self appointed security goons all around the city highlight how law enforcement is non existent.RTP you suck!! People and cars were being searched around Victory Monument on Rajavithi road last night and it wasnt the RTP.Lawlessness has been victorious.

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[Puccini]

This is starting to become reminiscent of Red Guards actions in 2010.

I sincerely hope we are NOT headed down the same road!

I fear that it will.

[jackrich]

Just shows what's to come with the "people's council". Press freedom will be non-existent, like in China or North Korea.

Soon everyone must hang a portrait of Suthep in his living room or be deemed a traitor to the revolution.

[Maestro]

Removed two flames and the replies.

[Ozymandias]

So he was rescued by the real PDRC people after being grabbed by someone who claimed to be PDRC.

The thugs are coming out to try to take advantage of the situation.

No surprise that you once again speculate from the outset in this tweet. Your desperation to deny any PDRC wrongdoing and attribute all blame for any and every example of violence to the 'others' is pretty transparently the work of a mind without the ability to discern or make balanced judgements. Perhaps you have watched too many Hollywood movies where good battles evil and there is no grey in between, and where the 'good people' can do no wrong. Certainly, both sides have many members with this depressingly extremist and blinkered mindset.

The depressing thing here is that as an 'outsider' yourself you have the potential to weigh things up in a rational manner and avoid the kind of dumb bias that besets the Thais. Instead, you buy into it without much thought at all.

When or if you take your blinkers off, you will see that neither side in this fight for power (for it's nothing more principled than this at its heart) cares much for the lives of its own supporters (cannon fodder) and far less for the well-being of anybody that opposes them. Violence, when it comes, could come from any or all of them. There are plenty of peaceful, non-violent people on both sides, to be sure, but there are also - on both sides - the malevolent thugs you insist only dwell in the opposite camp.

[Ozymandias]

Will anyone be surprised by yet another report of thuggery, intimidation and violence by supporters of this so -called reform movement?. No. Another day, another report. And yet leaders of the movement now suggest that foreigners don't understand what is happening because the news is being translated to make the movement look bad . They say the motive is profit? I don't see any unfair reporting of the protests....they speak for themselves in the way they behave

Jumping on the band wagon before you read the item properly or just using part of the story for your own point of view? It quite clearly says, "a group of around 10 men tried to drag him into a dark corner, but was rescued by other PDRC staff after he called for help." Were they really PDRC staff or troublemakers dressed up for the part trying to tarnish the real guards?

I very much doubt that the 'PDRC staff' are so stupid that they failed to recognise their own guards and as stated in another tweet, nowhere have the PDRC claimed that this was a 'red infiltration' - although if you are desperate to deny any wrongdoing by your side, I suppose you can blame any violent incident on an 'infiltration', can't you? Meanwhile, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the rest of us will accept that outrageous, unthinkable possibility: that there are violent malevolent thugs in the pay of the 'protest' movement.

[englishoak]

These self appointed security goons all around the city highlight how law enforcement is non existent.RTP you suck!! People and cars were being searched around Victory Monument on Rajavithi road last night and it wasnt the RTP.Lawlessness has been victorious. Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

The RTP have been told to leave protest zones alone and repeatedly warned by the army NOT to upset the Protests, they are completely neutralised and have been for good while.

Yes there is lawlessness and thats what you get when the police are told to stand down.