PDRC to move its protest venue to Ratchadamnoen on Monday

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ANTI-GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN

PDRC shuts Lumpini rally site, heads for final battle

KESINEE TAENGKHIAO,

NUNTIDA PUANGTHONG

THE NATION

PDRC secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban makes a speech at the rally site of the Students and People Network for Thailand

Suthep to set up 'office' in Government House compound

BANGKOK: -- THE PEOPLE'S Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) will today end its rally at Lumpini Park and move all rally sites to Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge.

PDRC secretary general Suthep Thaugsuban last night made the final speech on the stage at the park.

Suthep yesterday made a speech at the Chamai Maruchet rally site of the Students and People Network for Thailand's Reform and advised the demonstrators that he would lead the march to Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge near Government House today.

After reaching the new rally site, he said he would lead the demonstrators to Parliament to observe a special meeting of the Senate to see if the new Senate Speaker would nominate a non-partisan prime minister for His Majesty's endorsement.

Suthep said he would set up his new office inside the Santi Maitree Building in the Government House compound.

He would make future statements from his new office and would hold meetings with any group that came to meet him. Protesters would not be allowed inside the compound, only some PDRC staff involved.

Suthep said the latest round of rallies would be the final battle. If the PDRC won by pushing for real reforms, he would return to live in Surat Thani but if he loses, people could visit him in jail.

Meanwhile, Phra Buddha Issara, the monk who is leading the PDRC rally outside Government Complex on Chaeng Wattana Road, cancelled all activities yesterday.

He rested behind the rally stage after he was injured by a water canon and teargas during a clash with police at the Royal Thai Police Club on Friday.

The Chaeng Wattana rally stage had only music shows yesterday. The PDRC protesters, who had occupied the country's five main television stations, returned to their rally sites yesterday.

Chumphon Junsai and Chitpas Kridakorn, who led the PDRC protest at MCOT (Channel 9) and returned to Lumpini Park, said MCOT had cooperated with protesters.

Buddhipongse Punnakanta, who led protesters at Channel 7 and returned to Lumpini Park, will protest at Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge on Rajdamnoen Avenue today.

Nathapol Teepsuwan, who led protesters at Channel 3 on Rama IV Road, said the demonstrations at the TV stations were not a threat to the media and the protesters had not intruded into restricted areas.

-- The Nation 2014-05-12

Wasn't the "FINAL BATTLE" last Friday? Now he is organising another Final Battle, give it up you stupid moronic little worm you have had more final battles than dinners and haven't won a single one. A Final is just that, the end, finish, the decider. You can't keep having finals until you win, you have more chance of winning an election than a final battle you lunatic and laughing stock of Thailand.

I think Monday (today) is the day of the final win, or?

But not won a single one???

Amnesty bill blocked

Parliament disolved

Elections blocked

Yingluck+Surapong (2 Shinawatra familie members) kicked out of government.

Caretaker period expired

That are some won battles.

[BobTH]

Hate to see them leave Lumpini Park, bye bye. Don't let the front gate hit you in the ass as you are leaving. Oh and ask the Monk to join you and clear out Chang Wattana also, thanks and bye bye. Hate to see you go, bye bye bye bye bye.

[rubl]

That's what civilised people do.....clean up after their mess.

Any chance of the reds taking any notice?

Difference is that the BMA is cleaning up the PDRC mess and the BMA not cleaning any UDD mess.

????

Assuming Aksa Rd. is in Bangkok and falls under the BMA, and assuming the UDD vacates the lot, the BMA will clean up.

[The stuttering parrot]

According to the other paper the suteps plans are in tatters.

His call for an appointed prime minister have been rejected by the military judicial the senate speaker and the EC.

Just wondering why the nation hasn't picked up on this?

It's a pity tv only has limited news sources otherwise we would get a more balanced view .

But then again some articles from all newspapers are a bit screwy.

[rubl]

According to the other paper the suteps plans are in tatters.

His call for an appointed prime minister have been rejected by the military judicial the senate speaker and the EC.

Just wondering why the nation hasn't picked up on this?

It's a pity tv only has limited news sources otherwise we would get a more balanced view .

But then again some articles from all newspapers are a bit screwy.

Have read the article maybe all parties will be a bit more inclined to sit around a table and discuss things. I have my doubts though.

BTW if TV would include articles of many more newspapers we would get total confusion here I think unless all news about a single subject was confined to a single topic. With most articles covering various topics that would seem somewhat impossible though.

[webfact]

POLITICS
Protesters leave Lumpini for Rajdamnoen


Photo : Charnnarong Porndilokrad

BANGKOK: -- Anti-government protesters on Monday cleaned Lumpini Park as they prepared to move to a new rally site at Makkhawan Rangsan Bridge on Rajdamnoen Road.

The People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) protesters had occupied the park for two months. The protesters were seen packing their belongings and their tents.

They are scheduled to depart the park at 2.14pm. The march to Makkhawan Rangsan will be led by Suthep and core leaders.

The march will pass Rajdamri road, Rajprasong and Pathumwan intersections, Phaya Thai road, Rajthevi intersection, Urupong, Yommarat and Nang Leung intersections before arriving at Makkhawan Rangsan which is opposite United Nations headquarters.

Upon arrival at the site, some protesters will go to the Parliament to monitor the Senate's special session on the political situation.

Bomb squads are scheduled to check the park for possible abandoned explosives after the protesters leave.


-- The Nation 2014-05-12

[stoffel45]

Really hope for the sake of the country and it's people that this will be the final and decisive move, in which this corrupt institution, what this government is, will be given the final blow.

Yingluck will be more happy in Dubai anyway, Chalerm will find another country where ear drops will be available, and life can become normal again.

If a new government will be installed, there first priority should be freezing the assets from the old politicians who were in on the rice program and compensate with the confiscated money all the farmers who have suffered.

Then the economy will be on track soon, investors will come back and tourism will bloom again to the old level.

Well, wouldn't that be lovely.

Injustices exist or even Thaksin's money couldn't buy votes.

Agreed the "SandMan" is utterly megalomaniac and corrupt and cares only for his vision of himself.

Agreed that the "Earmeds" man is cursed with the same 'self-visionary' illness.

The 'Girlie' she has to carry the can. Yes from the same 'brood' but I think not rotten to the core. Just a fairly empty shell which has been used and discarded.

Bangmod - tragically, I don't think this is going to go away.

Thai Rakh Thai is where the problems of an unwell man began.

Thai Wreck Thai could be where he ends it.

Let us hope not.

[chotthee]

"The Chaeng Wattana rally stage had only music shows yesterday."

Monk & Music concert

[wandasloan]

According to the other paper the suteps plans are in tatters.

His call for an appointed prime minister have been rejected by the military judicial the senate speaker and the EC.

Just wondering why the nation hasn't picked up on this?

It's a pity tv only has limited news sources otherwise we would get a more balanced view .

But then again some articles from all newspapers are a bit screwy.

All newspapers have the fact that Suthep's plans are rubbished. The Nation version just has a different spin, that's all.

We can't pick a new PM, senior judge says

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/We-cant-pick-a-new-PM-senior-judge-says-30233417.html

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[CanInBKK]

That's what civilised people do.....clean up after their mess.

Any chance of the reds taking any notice?

I think, generally speaking, that civilised people first and foremost do not go to other people's homes to make a mess at all. What you're extolling seems a little less than civilised - they come into my home, chase me out or restrict my movements....

Your home is In Lumpini Park?

If not then what are you blathering on about?

Umm, I can't speak for wandasloan but my interpretation is that the PDRC is being lauded for cleaning up a mess which they shouldn't have created in the first place - up until now, nobody has been able to show that the PDRC have been paying for the use of Lumpini Park (yes, it's a "public" park but this does not extend to overnight stay). You should probably take off your yellow tinted glasses and be more objective.

Oh no. Are you American? It sounds very American to see the world in such simple-minded terms of "us-them". I am apolitical here in Thailand politics, not my country and not my problem.

I simply asked if he lived in Lumpini Park since he said it was his "home".

Too typical of an american to see everything from a hostile & presumptive political perspective.

Am I American? Hmmmm, I thought my screen name (in case you're browsing from a mobile device) AND my avatar0 would be dead giveaways.

[rubl]

"The Chaeng Wattana rally stage had only music shows yesterday."

Monk & Music concert

and a bit of fireworks to end the day?

"Chaengwattana protest site occupied by anti government protesters was struck again by two M 79 grenades Sunday night, injuring one guard."

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/725434-more-m79-grenades-hit-bangkoks-chaeng-wattana-protest-site/

[CanInBKK]

Your red tinted glasses are showing.

Both yellow and red messes shouldn't have been created in the first place.

The only difference is that yellows are being acknowledged as at least cleaning up their mess.

If wandasloan is being challenged for the feeble comparison to her home, probably best not to try and step in and attempt to defend it and just let her take it on the chin for her foolishness. Otherwise, you end up stepping in something else that you have to scrape off your shoes.

As much as I hate beating dead horses, my glasses are in fact clear, literally and figuratively. Living in a condo on Ratchadamri road, the Reds and Yellows have both impacted me during their sieges (admittedly Yellow more than Red as simply no alternative public parks around here - I used to visit Lumpini almost daily before the protests). I can only be objective and say that neither camp had any right to be where they were or do what they did.

As for the PDRC being the "saints" people are claiming them to be I can only attach the following pics from Richard Barrow's twitter feed (please don't tell me the PDRC uniform coincidentally looks like the BMA uniform):

[See the bears]

Can someone set me straight?

Didn't Suthep say that this final showdown was going to take only 3 days?

Looks like your time is up land scammer! Go back to Surat Thani with your hired thugs!

[See the bears]

Can someone set me straight?

Didn't Suthep say that this final showdown was going to take only 3 days?

Looks like your time is up land scammer! Go back to Surat Thani with your hired thugs!

[wandasloan]

Difference is that the BMA is cleaning up the PDRC mess and the BMA not cleaning any UDD mess.

Not entirely true, private citizens and entrepreneurs are also cleaning up behind The Kamnan.

Like the poster just a bit above, I do not seek to flog a deceased equine, poor thing. But something pretty tiny caught my eye as I was getting to the end of a fairly lengthy story in one newspaper. I don't want to make it a big deal, but I though it was interesting. The story was about the cleanup, and what the PDRC people did, and didn't do to clean up but after several hundred words, there was this:

A garbage trader said there were many plastic water bottles and a lot of discarded paper every day at Lumpini Park. Some people had gathered them and sold the rubbish to her. She has visited the park almost daily to buy the rubbish...

Now, first of all, this woman makes her living this way. Probably she has a saleng, (I'm going to assume she does) but anyhow she buys old papers and plastic and rubber and so on, carts them off somehow, and sells them to recyclers and the like. There are lots of people who do this, and lots of people and homeowners and businesses charge the saleng (wo)man for this. (My own house gives trash to the saleng man, and we are extremely grateful he even comes to take it away, actually.) But I stress she's quite used to being charged, it's the usual way for her, and it's generally accepted. And I don't for an instant think The Kamnan or his disciples do this, they are collecting millions in unaccountable cash daily and have no reason to deal with trash, real or human - or amounts involving bills of a green hue.

But I really wonder about just how picayune and miserly these so-often big-spending PDRC donaters are that some among them would actually organise and actually charge a saleng dealer for their empty plastic water bottles at their Lumpini Park demonstration.

To me, that is the height of class warfare or the depths of it, doing that at a political rally. I would have thought that just the good vibes alone of a PDRC rally would cause them to give away their rubbish and wish the saleng lady choke dee. But no, they charge for it just like some nouveau-riche hi-so snob. {{Sigh}}.

In the Grand Scheme of Things, barely a butterfly flapping its wings. But remakable, at least to me.

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[Morch]

Difference is that the BMA is cleaning up the PDRC mess and the BMA not cleaning any UDD mess.

Not entirely true, private citizens and entrepreneurs are also cleaning up behind The Kamnan.

Like the poster just a bit above, I do not seek to flog a deceased equine, poor thing. But something pretty tiny caught my eye as I was getting to the end of a fairly lengthy story in one newspaper. I don't want to make it a big deal, but I though it was interesting. The story was about the cleanup, and what the PDRC people did, and didn't do to clean up but after several hundred words, there was this:

A garbage trader said there were many plastic water bottles and a lot of discarded paper every day at Lumpini Park. Some people had gathered them and sold the rubbish to her. She has visited the park almost daily to buy the rubbish...

Now, first of all, this woman makes her living this way. Probably she has a saleng, (I'm going to assume she does) but anyhow she buys old papers and plastic and rubber and so on, carts them off somehow, and sells them to recyclers and the like. There are lots of people who do this, and lots of people and homeowners and businesses charge the saleng (wo)man for this. (My own house gives trash to the saleng man, and we are extremely grateful he even comes to take it away, actually.) But I stress she's quite used to being charged, it's the usual way for her, and it's generally accepted. And I don't for an instant think The Kamnan or his disciples do this, they are collecting millions in unaccountable cash daily and have no reason to deal with trash, real or human - or amounts involving bills of a green hue.

But I really wonder about just how picayune and miserly these so-often big-spending PDRC donaters are that some among them would actually organise and actually charge a saleng dealer for their empty plastic water bottles at their Lumpini Park demonstration.

To me, that is the height of class warfare or the depths of it, doing that at a political rally. I would have thought that just the good vibes alone of a PDRC rally would cause them to give away their rubbish and wish the saleng lady choke dee. But no, they charge for it just like some nouveau-riche hi-so snob. {{Sigh}}.

In the Grand Scheme of Things, barely a butterfly flapping its wings. But remakable, at least to me.

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Wouldn't call it class warfare - more like the usual greasing of wheels that makes this country lurch forward. Most of the people directly involved aren't necessarily hi-so, rich or big-spending.

The two guys handling our building's offerings said it was about which guard you knew and how early you got there.

Their main beef seemed to be with the BMA workers using city trucks to corner the "market".

Reading that very same article on the BP post, the garbage trader was actually talking about coming there regularly to buy, and how convenient it was with garbage separated and placed in designated places. Rather a positive article, overall.

[CanInBKK]

Sad to say that Lumpini won't be reopened tomorrow as first expected due to the awful state of the park. According to the BMA it'll be at least Monday before the public is allowed back.