Red shirt guards seize farmers' muster point on Friendship Highway

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Red-shirt guards seize farmers’ muster point on Friendship Highway



BANGKOK: -- About 30 red-shirt guards in black shirts and some cover their faces with masks erected make-shift tents at Samyaek Ban Wat trisection in Kong district of Nakhon Ratchasima with posters and placards warning farmers to stay away from the area.

The Samyaek Ban Wat trisection is the muster point where farmers from 20 northeast provinces will meet today to pressure the caretaker prime minister to pay for their rice sold under the government’s rice-pledging scheme immediately.

The farmers were told by their leader Nakorn Sriwiwat to meet and blockade the Friendship Highway to put pressure on Ms Yingluck Shinawatra today.

But he said that he has decided to shift the muster point to Ban Sratramk in Chokchai district of Nakhon Ratchasima instead to avoid confrontation with the red-shirts.

He said farmers will discuss what action should be taken to deal with the caretaker government, while insisting that farmers will continue to pressure her for the payment.

No farmers appeared at the muster point after they learned of the arrival of the red-shirt guards in the area.

One of the posters the red-shirt put up to oppose farmers reads “Democracy..No Hooligans Blockading Highway”, and another reads
“Don not come to make trouble in this area.”

They also have also installed loudspeakers on trucks ready to counter the farmers.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/red-shirt-guards-seize-farmers-muster-point-friendship-highway/


-- Thai PBS 2014-02-25

[TVGerry]

Red democracy! We can rally and protest but you can't!

Poor farmers are not getting paid and instead of helping them, these scum are threatening them.

[soihok]

Sad as it sounds - if things don't get sorted out at some point soon - civil war may be on the horizon.

[Valentine]

So far the beating of the war drums over the weekend does not bode well.

[Robby nz]

So Yingluck your, no doubt paid, red thugs are now going against the farmers who only want paid as promised for the rice they have sold to your government.

It gets worse by the day, bombings and shootings an now intimidation of the farmers.

[Thait Spot]

4 legs good, 2 legs better, red shirts best

Astonishing

[MaxLee]

There you have it, Rice Scam victims against the rest of Reddies NOT affiliated with Rice pledging schemes with orders from Dubai to prevent more uprising and shutdown the rice farmers' rights, the dearly farmers who voted Yingluck and co. in....

I told you so, there are redshirt mercenaries who couldn't care less about a few millions of farmers...

[crobe]

Very interesting - now it is red-shirts against the farmers

That should give a dilemma for some of the fanatical red-shirt posters on this forum, which side do you now support?

The red-shirts are in danger of becoming a marginalised group if they alienate more areas of support, the fear is that like all marginalised groups, they turn ever more to violent means

if they have not already done so that is.

[Davidhere]

Red democracy! We can rally and protest but you can't!

Poor farmers are not getting paid and instead of helping them, these scum are threatening them.

You can thank Thaksin's son Oak's televison network Voice TV for perpetrating and broadcasting the lies about farmers to their Thaksin sycophant viewers who get all riled up with their standard intimidation threats.

Always trying to stir the pot through his multiple avenues to do so, despite his 428 promises that he's finished with politics and plays no role with the Red Shirts.

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Edited February 25, 2014 by Davidhere

[crobe]

A turning point could easily come on Friday as it looks increasingly unlikely that funding will be found to pay the farmers more than a token amount, and reports from the BAAC that there will not be any funding for the next crop could cause the farmers to regroup for demonstrations

The reaction of the red-shirt/UDD camp to this will be interesting - will they try to stop the farmers with more direct means (rather than the spikes in the road by some parties unknown last time)

A direct confrontation between farmers and red-shirts will open up deep divisions, but it may be difficult to out the genie back in the bottle after the rabble-rousing speech at the weekend.

[Yunla]

The fact they can dress up in black masks and put up hostile placards on something called Friendship Highway without any sense of shame, says it all.

When will these people realise that Thailand needs less division and petty factionalism, not more.

[siampolee]

Indeed the hypocrisy of the Red Shirts and the Thaksin acolytes in general is amazing. Like wounded sharks they are now turning on those that have helped and stood by them in the past.

[thaipod]

The reds have lost a lot of supporters since this has started and now they will lose more as a lot of farmers were red and now are not backing the goverment or the red shirts anymore.

[Scamper]

As incensed as the farmers are at the Yingluck administration, they are still clearly intimidated by the UDD. And who wouldn't be ? These guys mean business. Democracy means no free expression. Period. And democracy means not protesting against this administration. You mess with democracy, you mess with them. The UDD have put their own line in the sand. The farmers - don't you dare come to where we are. We'll bludgeon you with democracy.

[Bluespunk]

The more fascist elements of UDD emerging once more.

[ManopY]

If this is Democracy!? => I prefer the "Military Dictatorship"!!!

Please Prayut, make a coup!

[seajae]

this is the udd in action, you do as we say or you suffer, you are allowed your own opinion as long as it is what we tell you it is. This is the result of their big meeting, intimidate the farmers so yl is not pressured as much, threaten them with violence if they dare to try to protest againt the ptp or arganize any rallies. The reds are showing their true colours, they are communists, we say, you jump or you and your families will suffer from the consequences. This is how they control the farmers and the vote in the north/northeast, with threats and violence, pathetic.

[Crushdepth]

Here we go, red democracy in action. Not only are farmers going to remain unpaid, they can also look forward to intimidation and bullying from pro-government goon squads.

This is going to blow up in the government's face, big time.

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[PatOngo]

The wheels are starting to fall off

[than]

Red democraty : North Korea same combat......

No opposition no free speech...... only the speech of Dubai traveler leaders.....

[JRSoul]

Better hope the election isn't declared void, because whichever way these guys voted last time, it's not going to be PTP next.

[marcusd]

How friendly

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[Artisi]

Well farmers, just roll the tractors and harvesters over the thugs telling you what to do- you will find they don't have any balls when confronted by an opposing force and will very quickly turn and run.

[Trembly]

this is the udd in action, you do as we say or you suffer, you are allowed your own opinion as long as it is what we tell you it is. This is the result of their big meeting, intimidate the farmers so yl is not pressured as much, threaten them with violence if they dare to try to protest againt the ptp or arganize any rallies. The reds are showing their true colours, they are communists, we say, you jump or you and your families will suffer from the consequences. This is how they control the farmers and the vote in the north/northeast, with threats and violence, pathetic.

Honestly, calling them communists is an insult to communists. These are just ideologically confused thugs. The level of cognitive dissonance required for any of them to actually call themselves communists or socialists is staggering.

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[thomash]

Red shirt guard? Sounds like and starting to act like the red guard during the time of Mao.

[winstonc]

come on people there must be someone prepared to defend these red guards..must be lunchtime.. or just very picky about the topics they read..

[smedly]

why are the police not shifting these redshirt thugs who are not demonstrating but gathering for confrontation - I'd like to see the state of their underwear if the farmers decided to carry on with their usual protest location

[Katipo]

The People's Red Democratic Dictatorship Of Thailand.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

More people used by Thaksin and kicked in the balls.

[Basil B]

About 30 red-shirt guards in black shirts and some cover their faces with masks erected make-shift tents at Samyaek Ban Wat trisection in Kong district of Nakhon Ratchasima with posters and placards warning farmers to stay away from the area.

Only 30 of them, not so long ago there would have been hundreds.