gandalf12 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 If they want to act in such a barbaric way then sentence them accordingly. If they want to be barbaric then they must expect to be treated in a similar manner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggold Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Wow, talk about a fevered anti-Red Shirt diatribe...I am not sure of the specifics of this case, but the frenzied, zealous and inflamed rhetoric of this article clearly is over the top.....A classic case of "Me thinks he protests too much". This article delves into historical events to contextualization them in support of its' basic intentions to diabolize and villify the UDD/RS's, so it is not off-topic to do likewise. Even invoking one of the 2010 R'song protest actions, and ignoring the coupist provocations of negating their votes and another one of their selected Govts. As if these protesters were anarchic, acting out in a political vacuum, and totally unprovoked...Just bad, bad people basically. In this instance, one-sidedly referencing when protesters sought to determine of there were snipers in that bastion of PAD-Dem, anti-protest location of Chulalongkorn Hospital. Everyone knows the hatred of the medical establishment had for Thaksin, and by extension, for those protesters..........That protest was a conflict between a coup-rooted administration and those opposed, and this hospital administration was an element of one side......same as currently. I am told Chulalongkorn University is the nerve center for the coup-mongers, providing comfort and material support to them using the Universities considerable resources. Even involving something called a 'war room'. Jumping on some isolated events as in this article to demonize the Red Shirts while ignoring many excesses of the current coup-mongers and their extremist actions, is seen for what it is......This writer could just as easily have written such a heated and frenzied article about any number of coup-monger actions of late, but those are deep-sixed for the most part.For example, torturing a guy for several days, then tying a guy's hands and feet and throwing him over a bridge, or Popcorn guys firing at unarmed people....No savagery there? Those are but two examples among many. give it up you're attempts at twisting things around is getting more and more pathetic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeCraker Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Barbarianism has three levels - lower, middle and upper. Only after having passing through all three levels are humans deemed to have crossed the threshold into civilisation And just when did this transition from Barbarianism to Civilization take place? Timeline of Wars - before 1BC 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh 1046 BC Shang-Zhou War in China. 580 BC - 265 BC Greek Punic Wars 499 BC - 448 BC Persian Wars 431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War 395 BC - 387 BC Corinthian War 343 BC - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium 334 BC - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 274 BC - 200 BC Syrian Wars 264 BC - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage 215 BC - 168 BC Macedonian Wars 205 BC - 201 BC Cretan War 191 BC - 188 BC Roman-Syrian War 135 BC - 71 BC Roman Servile Wars 89 BC - 63 BC Mithridatic Wars 58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars 55 BC - 54 BC Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain 53 BC - 51 BC Parthian War of Marcus Licinius Crassus 49 BC - 45 BC Caesar's civil war 44 BC - 30 BC Roman Civil War 34 BC-22 BC Chinese War Timeline of Wars - AD 1 - 999 43 96 Roman conquest of Britain 60 61 Boudica's Uprising 184 205 Yellow Turban Rebellion 533 534 Vandal War 772 804 Saxon Wars Timeline of Wars - AD 1 - 1199 1066 1088 Norman conquest of England 1096 1099 First Crusade 1145 1149 Second Crusade 1189 1192 Third Crusade Timeline of Wars - 1200 - 1299 1202 1204 Fourth Crusade 1206 1324 Mongol wars and conquests 1213 1221 Fifth Crusade 1215 1217 First Barons' War (England) 1248 1254 Seventh Crusade 1270 1270 Eighth Crusade 1271 1272 Ninth Crusade 1296 1328 First War of Scottish Independence Timeline of Wars - 1300 - 1399 1323 1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders 1326 1332 Polish–Teutonic War 1337 1453 Hundred Years' War Timeline of Wars - 1400 - 1499 1419 1434 Hussite Wars 1425 1454 Wars in Lombardy 1454 1466 Thirteen Years' War 1455 1485 Wars of the Roses Timeline of Wars - 1500 - 1599 1509 1512 Ottoman Civil War 1519 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 1529 1532 Inca Civil War 1531 1572 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire 1537 1548 Conquistador Civil War in Peru 1554 1557 Russo-Swedish War 1563 1564 Burmese–Siamese War 1568 1648 Eighty Years' War 1570 1573 Ottoman–Venetian War 1571 1571 Russo-Crimean War Timeline of Wars - 1600 - 1699 1600 1611 Polish–Swedish War 1602 1661 Dutch–Portuguese War 1618 1648 Thirty Years' War 1634 1638 Pequot War 1635 1659 Franco-Spanish War 1640 1701 Beaver Wars (Iroquois) 1642 1646 First English Civil War 1648 1649 Second English Civil War 1649 1651 Third English Civil War 1652 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War 1654 1660 Anglo-Spanish War 1655 1655 Peach Tree War (Susquehannock) 1675 1676 King Philip's War 1683 1699 Great Turkish War 1688 1697 Nine Years' War including King William's War 1689 1692 Jacobean Rising in Scotland Timeline of Wars - 1700 - 1799 1700 1721 Great Northern War 1711 1715 Tuscarora War 1712 1716 First Fox War 1715 1717 Yamasee War 1721 1763 Chickasaw Wars 1728 1733 Second Fox War 1739 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear 1744 1748 King George's War 1754 1763 French and Indian War (Part of the Seven Years' War) 1756 1763 Seven Years' War 1758 1761 Anglo-Cherokee War 1763 1766 Pontiac's War 1775 1783 American Revolutionary War 1776 1794 Chickamauga Wars 1779 1783 Anglo-Spanish War 1785 1795 Northwest Indian War 1789 1799 The French Revolution 1791 1804 Haitian Revolution Timeline of Wars - 1800 - 1899 1803 1815 Napoleonic Wars 1804 1813 Russo-Persian War 1808 1810 Rum Rebellion 1808 1833 Spanish American wars of independence 1810 1821 Mexican War of Independence 1812 1815 War of 1812 1813 1814 Creek War 1817 1858 Seminole Wars 1818 1828 Zulu Wars of Conquest 1820 1875 Texas–Indian wars 1821 1832 Greek War of Independence 1821 1848 Comanche–Mexico War 1825 1830 Java War 1827 1827 Winnebago War 1832 1832 Black Hawk War 1835 1836 Texas Revolution 1839 1842 First Opium War 1846 1864 Navajo Wars 1846 1848 Mexican-American War 1849 1924 Apache Wars 1850 1865 California Indian Wars 1853 1856 Crimean War 1861 1865 American Civil War 1864 1868 Snake War 1866 1868 Red Cloud's War 1867 1875 Comanche Campaign 1876 1877 Great Sioux War (Black Hills War) 1877 1877 Nez Perce War 1878 1879 Cheyenne War 1879 1879 Sheepeater Indian War 1879 1880 Victorio's War 1899 1901 Boxer Rebellion 1899 1902 Second Boer War Timeline of Wars - 1900 - 1999 1905 Russian Revolution 1910 1921 Mexican Revolution 1914 1918 World War I 1917 1923 Russian Civil War 1919 1923 Turkish War of Independence 1919 1921 Irish War of Independence 1927 1949 Chinese Civil War 1936 1939 Spanish Civil War 1939 1945 World War II 1946 1949 Greek Civil War 1948 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War 1950 1953 Korean War 1952 1960 Mau Mau Uprising 1953 1959 Cuban Revolution 1954 1962 Algerian War 1955 1975 Vietnam War 1961 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1979 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan 1980 1988 Iran–Iraq War 1982 1982 Falklands War 1990 1991 Gulf War 1991 1995 Croatian War of Independence 1992 1995 Bosnian War 1998 1999 Kosovo War Timeline of Wars - 2000 - To Date 2001 War in Afghanistan 2003 2011 Iraq War 2006 2009 War in Somalia 2008 2009 Gaza War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalpeen Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Let's hope those civilized yellow shirts..... . .......can save us all from barbarism by preventing any more red shirt elections. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGImInPattaya Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well for decades the poor everywhere in Thailand have had their human and economic rights trampled on by various political, social, and economic elites of various political stripes. Grassroots movements for economic, social, and environmental rights have been suppressed by violence and their leaders usually "disappeared." All this with very little useful condemnation or resistance from the educated middle-class and elites of Bangkok. Hence it's hardly surprising that these people who have had nothing but a diet of violence feed to them by Thai society react and lash out in the same manner against their perceived enemies. And instead of some toff writer for The Nation calling them monkeys (de-evolved humans) maybe he/she [one never knows with these Thai names] should be leading a drive to protect their right to one-person one-vote! It's not a "diet of violence" that's been fed to them, it's a government that openly states it will defy the law. This is bound to make certain people of certain intellect think that they too are above the law.Do you think any of the attackers was perhaps autistic and thus couldn't be held responsible for his behaviour? Oh, no, although you want to excuse these barbaric thugs, you don't think autism is a real disability, do you? I'm talking over decades and decades political, economic, and social conflicts in Thailand have been resolved with violence, with the powerful elites putting the boot to the necks of the poor. Therefore, not surprising Thais react with violence in so many situations...it's all most have every received from those in power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 '... the need for quality education that enables citizens to fully understand what the representatives who[m] they elect to run the country are really doing. With proper education, people have a better chance of distinguishing between truth and the lies and rhetoric ...'This is what many people who refer to the poorly educated northerners are talking about. They are referring not to 'ignorant peasants who know no better' but to an education system that is failing the majority of Thais. A system that suits the political elite of every hue because if ever the education system catches up with equality of opportunity, the political old guard will be the first casualty of a new age. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimedia Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 The same people that call the attackers of this monk "galahs" which is more a description suited to a group of kids with water paint all over themselves while playing in the back yard. Of course this is to downplay the gravity of the crime committed and is the only sign of admission of guilt one would receive from there supporters. "Galahs" a bunch of scallywags that got a bit playful in their eyes. They are very very quick to back that up with the usual "But the monk brought it on himself" excuse. Then the accusations fly of him being a PDRC supporter, not a real monk, that he attacked the red shirts first…Stories that are more mystical and imaginative than J.R.Tolkiens could possible conjure and is more suited to children's nursery rhyme books than on a "grown ups" political forum. When the OP states these "humans" as savages he does not mention the supporters that stand on the side lines that defend them. I think they are just as dangerous if not more dangerous. Without their support these savages would not be so emboldened and they would dissolve quicker than an aspirin in water. The supporters in the "beat the war drum" supporting terrorism and clapping and cheering upon hearing the "good news" in Trat is a true window into the wretched souls of these people. These supporters. These fanatics that denounce the very thing they have become. One thing can be guaranteed after guaging the reactions of these "supporters" is that my children will be shielded from this hatred and blind fanatical devotion and celebration of death, evil and wanton destruction that the red shirts embrace like a new born infant to her mothers teat. What is worse? The savage or the supporter and defender of savages. My children will be taught to avoid both. Excellent post,could only disagree with one point.These people do not have souls,they the devil incarnate. They have souls, but they have been twisted by their leaders. Good souls originally, but now souls sold to the devil, some never even knowing the sale was made. As bad as their actions, it is hard not to also feel sorry for them in their horribly manipulated states of being. They have sold their souls to the Devil - Illuminati. I notice your photo is an Illuminati sign, are you naive or more sinister? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGImInPattaya Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siripon Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class.After the mauling you received yesterday for your ignorant post about Apisit's son, I would have thought you would have been more contrite but here you are writing more nonsense. A considerable number of Thai monks are just ordinary folk who have ordained for various reasons, nothing to do with the ruling class. This monk, for instance, had just been to see a relative and was on his way to catch a bus back to Kalasin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scamper Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Cautionary article. " Democracy is not possible without two conditions. First is the rule of law, which applies universally, not tribally nor arbitrarily. Second is the need for quality education that enables citizens to fully understand fully what the representatives who they elect to run the country are really doing. " This is what Thaksin and the UDD emphatically don't want, because they know their germination will edge them out of the process. That is why - concurrently - the UDD is going after the judicial process, and " education " - as they see it - through the incitements on red shirt radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtFarmer Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 "Democracy is not possible without two conditions. First is the rule of law, which applies universally, not tribally nor arbitrarily. Second is the need for quality education that enables citizens to fully understand fully what the representatives who they elect to run the country are really doing. With proper education, people have a better chance of distinguishing between truth and the lies and rhetoric that are pumped out everywhere in this information age. It is the rule of law and education that have the power to tame the savage in us." I believe this...though a lot more than two... IF it was possible that here in the LOS law was equally applied...it is not... there is rich peoples law and then there is other law... no need to cite cases here... you all know them.. Education 100% correct... not bought and paid for degrees but a generation of well taught youngsters with the ability to study history and social sciences and things that will actually help them make good decisions going forward in their lives...it is the foundation for all of it,, not hours upon hours of cramming for useless exams.... but this piece is no revelation...just repitition of what apparently is only an ideal...as it is certainly not an original thought... I have heard the same ( not word for word mind you) spat out of a hundred different mouths here over the last 20 years but nothing has changed much... Kids need ethical role models..the role models of the current crop of "leaders" including the writer of this article represent the height of lawlessness ..shady dealings under the table payment,,, back room deals..... the children need real role models...mom and pop enter into it at this point ..those are the first to influence and teaching institutions come next... teaching them how to learn and what they learn that actually helps them see more than their limitations..... SO instead of rehashing the ideals...someone needs to make them real.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seastallion Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class. Castes??? This is Thailand, not India. Furthermore, you have just alleged that Buddhist monks are "paid for lackeys" of "the ruling class". Plainly not the "ruling" party. I can only extrapolate from that that you do not think the Shinawatras are "ruling class. If not a troll with this statement, "Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around,", you would certainly be a deluded socialist, perhaps a coal miner's son from Newcastle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkungbank Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 School time we are given test to proved how much we have learned , during University also the same reason given to us before we able to graduate, in love our partner do the same to test how sincere we are to them. In God also did the same test how we served His words and son, In country also the same thing happen now that we tyrant or really a good citizen.This is nature occurrence to divide good and evil, white and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchisaan Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class. Nothing wrong with slapping a monk around?? Everytime you post something it gets more and more disgusting. Please do everybody a favor and crawl back under the rock you came from. Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animatic Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 The same people that call the attackers of this monk "galahs" which is more a description suited to a group of kids with water paint all over themselves while playing in the back yard. Of course this is to downplay the gravity of the crime committed and is the only sign of admission of guilt one would receive from there supporters. "Galahs" a bunch of scallywags that got a bit playful in their eyes. They are very very quick to back that up with the usual "But the monk brought it on himself" excuse. Then the accusations fly of him being a PDRC supporter, not a real monk, that he attacked the red shirts first…Stories that are more mystical and imaginative than J.R.Tolkiens could possible conjure and is more suited to children's nursery rhyme books than on a "grown ups" political forum. When the OP states these "humans" as savages he does not mention the supporters that stand on the side lines that defend them. I think they are just as dangerous if not more dangerous. Without their support these savages would not be so emboldened and they would dissolve quicker than an aspirin in water. The supporters in the "beat the war drum" supporting terrorism and clapping and cheering upon hearing the "good news" in Trat is a true window into the wretched souls of these people. These supporters. These fanatics that denounce the very thing they have become. One thing can be guaranteed after guaging the reactions of these "supporters" is that my children will be shielded from this hatred and blind fanatical devotion and celebration of death, evil and wanton destruction that the red shirts embrace like a new born infant to her mothers teat. What is worse? The savage or the supporter and defender of savages. My children will be taught to avoid both. Excellent post,could only disagree with one point.These people do not have souls,they the devil incarnate. They have souls, but they have been twisted by their leaders. Good souls originally, but now souls sold to the devil, some never even knowing the sale was made. As bad as their actions, it is hard not to also feel sorry for them in their horribly manipulated states of being. I suppose you could apply that logic to the Germans. Certainly. Many where manipulated and never realised till too late, and some were just dragged along. Some knew what they were doing and liked it, they took their punishment in full measure, and no one avoided some measure of punishment for decades. Some of the WWII era Germans I always felt sorry for, others, not a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGImInPattaya Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 (edited) I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class.After the mauling you received yesterday for your ignorant post about Apisit's son, I would have thought you would have been more contrite but here you are writing more nonsense. A considerable number of Thai monks are just ordinary folk who have ordained for various reasons, nothing to do with the ruling class. This monk, for instance, had just been to see a relative and was on his way to catch a bus back to Kalasin.Yes yes yes...we've all seen the stories in the papers. Some of you people are so myopic in your political views and can't see the forest for the trees as they say. I don't wish this particular monk any harm and I'm glad there doesn't seem to have been any serious harm inflicted on the fellow. And of course, there are some monks doing good things for the poor and disposed, just as I'm sure there are at least two or three Catholic priests who haven't diddled young boys. The point is that as a group, and on the whole, priestly castes serve those in power and therefore deserve no special deference by those seeking changes in the structure and goverence of their societies. The sight of people giving the back of their hands to monks could be a sign of their political maturity and their realization that most of the monks, and certainly their leadership, aren't in favor of democracy. Edited March 27, 2014 by OMGImInPattaya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animatic Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class.After the mauling you received yesterday for your ignorant post about Apisit's son, I would have thought you would have been more contrite but here you are writing more nonsense. A considerable number of Thai monks are just ordinary folk who have ordained for various reasons, nothing to do with the ruling class. This monk, for instance, had just been to see a relative and was on his way to catch a bus back to Kalasin.Yes yes yes...we've all seen the stories in the papers. Some of you people are so myopic in your political views and can't see the forest for the trees as they say. I don't wish this particular monk any harm and I'm glad there doesn't seem to have been any serious harm inflicted on the fellow. And of course, there are some monks doing good things for the poor and disposed, just as I'm sure there are at least two or three Catholic priests who haven't diddled young boys. The point is that as a group, and on the whole, priestly castes serve those in power and therefore deserve no special deference by those seeking changes in the structure and goverence of their societies. The sight of people giving the back of their hands to monks could be a sign of their political maturity and their realization that most of the monks, and certainly their leadership, aren't in favor of democracy. Bilious bull faeces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zydeco Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I think the writer should think before accusing political opponents as less evolved. Name calling in Thailand causes crazy reactions. A monk got beaten . very sad. Bringing that to some sort of anti spiritual crescendo misses the point. Beating a monk isn't the end of society, Thai society began its long slide years ago. Its just the rich and supposedly educated in bangkok were to busy with their heads up their as to notice. Nothing that wrong with slapping a monk around, like all priestly castes, they are just bought and paid for lackeys of the ruling class.After the mauling you received yesterday for your ignorant post about Apisit's son, I would have thought you would have been more contrite but here you are writing more nonsense. A considerable number of Thai monks are just ordinary folk who have ordained for various reasons, nothing to do with the ruling class. This monk, for instance, had just been to see a relative and was on his way to catch a bus back to Kalasin.Yes yes yes...we've all seen the stories in the papers. Some of you people are so myopic in your political views and can't see the forest for the trees as they say. I don't wish this particular monk any harm and I'm glad there doesn't seem to have been any serious harm inflicted on the fellow. And of course, there are some monks doing good things for the poor and disposed, just as I'm sure there are at least two or three Catholic priests who haven't diddled young boys. The point is that as a group, and on the whole, priestly castes serve those in power and therefore deserve no special deference by those seeking changes in the structure and goverence of their societies. The sight of people giving the back of their hands to monks could be a sign of their political maturity and their realization that most of the monks, and certainly their leadership, aren't in favor of democracy. Grade school vulgar marxism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 both sides are to blame Yep. Hey Ulysses G....how did you get the honorary title of: "Unwanted Member"...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonao Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 (edited) Wow, talk about a fevered anti-Red Shirt diatribe...I am not sure of the specifics of this case, but the frenzied, zealous and inflamed rhetoric of this article clearly is over the top.....A classic case of "Me thinks he protests too much". This article delves into historical events to contextualization them in support of its' basic intentions to diabolize and villify the UDD/RS's, so it is not off-topic to do likewise. Even invoking one of the 2010 R'song protest actions, and ignoring the coupist provocations of negating their votes and another one of their selected Govts. As if these protesters were anarchic, acting out in a political vacuum, and totally unprovoked...Just bad, bad people basically. In this instance, one-sidedly referencing when protesters sought to determine of there were snipers in that bastion of PAD-Dem, anti-protest location of Chulalongkorn Hospital. Everyone knows the hatred of the medical establishment had for Thaksin, and by extension, for those protesters..........That protest was a conflict between a coup-rooted administration and those opposed, and this hospital administration was an element of one side......same as currently. I am told Chulalongkorn University is the nerve center for the coup-mongers, providing comfort and material support to them using the Universities considerable resources. Even involving something called a 'war room'. Jumping on some isolated events as in this article to demonize the Red Shirts while ignoring many excesses of the current coup-mongers and their extremist actions, is seen for what it is......This writer could just as easily have written such a heated and frenzied article about any number of coup-monger actions of late, but those are deep-sixed for the most part.For example, torturing a guy for several days, then tying a guy's hands and feet and throwing him over a bridge, or Popcorn guys firing at unarmed people....No savagery there? Those are but two examples among many. more or less agree. journalism at its worst. I guess they get paid or sponsored a lot to churn out cheap dirty propagana like this, im guessing they have very wealthy sponsors. pretty much every time i read a The Nation option piece these days i feel like i am staring in to the face of blatent yellow shirt propaganda. Edited March 27, 2014 by moonao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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