Soldiers on guard around Suvarnabhumi after dismissal of police

[pilotp]

Whatever - loads of flights cancelled today outbound - mainly Vietnam and china

Prevented the in laws going home - work tomorrow is not going to happen !!

[casualbiker]

Whatever - loads of flights cancelled today outbound - mainly Vietnam and china

Prevented the in laws going home - work tomorrow is not going to happen !!

Why?

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[kingalfred]

Just dump the Royal Thai Police .The most ineffective organization in Thailand,and that takes some doing.

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[hawker9000]

Whatever - loads of flights cancelled today outbound - mainly Vietnam and china

Prevented the in laws going home - work tomorrow is not going to happen !!

'Think this is a different matter entirely, having to do with the quarrel that's currently escalating between the chinese & vietnamese in the S. China Sea.

[daveAustin]

The police should be dismissed from posts everywhere. Apart from no traffic control, things would run so much more smoothly.

[ShannonT]

Just came from Suvarnabhumi. Spent 3 hours there and didn't see a single soldier.

[casualbiker]

Just came from Suvarnabhumi. Spent 3 hours there and didn't see a single soldier.

So is that good or bad?

not sure with your post!

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[hawker9000]

Just came from Suvarnabhumi. Spent 3 hours there and didn't see a single soldier.

So is that good or bad?

not sure with your post!

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You really need to ask that question? 'Seems obvious enough to me (but then again, I read the topic title...). Anyway, it's just a situation report. These are worthwhile, especially when they correct a factually incorrect topic title. Thanks, Shannon.

Edited May 22, 2014 by hawker9000

[Basil B]

Obviously not all police. Dr Seri has been arrested at the airport by the DSI. Eight charges including insurrection.

There is no truth in the rumour that two of those charges were for crimes against fashion and abuse of a toupee...............

We agree on Seri. Nationalist nutjob with a very bad style sense.

Also just so your aware Immigration are police!

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Actually, I don't think that's quite right. RTP and Immigration officers are different organizations. In the past, immigration police have actually aacompanied RTP on some of their raids in the lower Sukhumvit area. RTP checking for drugs & underage; immo checking on immigration status. There's clearly a difference. Obviously, immo officers have some police powers (such as authority to detain & transport) however.

Currently The Immigration is a division of RTP. But according to wiki plans to separate are being considered : Office of Immigration Bureau (under plan to separate from the Royal Thai Police to become independent authority)

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The original article did say "Troops have been stationed in the surrounding areas of Suvarnabhumi International Airport"

[Bkkbound]

Once people are no longer paid to vote on one particular party, the elections should be respected by everyone for a 4 year period - if you vote on the opposition you must accept the outcome of the elections. As it is now and has been for a long time in Thailand, we know that paid to vote is the reason people can't accept the results.

Will you "vote buying" morons PLEASE give it a f'ing rest!!! First, vote buying has been going on by ALL parties since "democracy" was introduced to Thailand. That's a fact. Second, if you actually read more than comic books, you would be well aware that "vote buying" doesn't mean a damn thing. Even Korn, one of the more respectable Democrats openly admitted that in the last Election, where Yingluck and PTP won, the Democrats spent MORE in vote buying than PTP, and they still lost, and stated that vote buying has NO EFFECT on the outcome of the vote. People take the money, then vote for who they want anyway.

Try finding another dead horse to beat and bitch about.

If as you claim vote buying has NO EFFECT why do any political parities do it?

Would you go out and spend a large amount of money and get nothing for it more than once?

Buying the vote of individuals probably has little effect, buying the Poo Yai however is different, the intimidation of the individuals starts right there.

Scrap the Poo Yai system as it stands at the moment, then you may see a change.

myth and legend... Dems spend more on buying votes than PTP = no effect and Korn confirms it

I listened to the interview and Korn didn't confirm anything. He suggested scenarios.. I am not saying they haven't because I believe they all have at some time or other.

It does seem that the Democrats have paid a small amount of money to poorer less well off people to attend their rallies. I suppose you could say that is helping the poor and allowing them to decide for themselves like Korn said in the interview!

In my wife's village just outside Nakhon Pathom PTP and others have indeed paid directly via canvases for the vote (Nakhon Pathom is 4 districts out of 5 PTP. the other one was Democrats but now is Chart Thai pattana)

PS: father in law was a staunch Red shirt. TV was always on.. not so much in the last few months. I think still a red shirt just not UDD as in he's grassroots wants change (he's from Khon Kaen) but bored and sick of the Thaksin whoring that is UDD.

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It does not sound to me like you have been in a issan village when voting takes place, the dominant thugs, really do ensure what they have paid for happens and its a farce, the bigger vote buying scandal is the corruption of the election officials and police who do not enforce voting procedures. The biggest farce was the feb election when the reds were not paying out so no one in my v illage was voting, until a truck load of red thugs/ police from another area turned up and started threatening with a load of nonsense, my immediate family members all decided to party in my house and the thugs looked but did,nt care to come onto my property... Democracy in thailand is corrupted to the point thats its pointless debating it.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Bkkbound

[casualbiker]

Just came from Suvarnabhumi. Spent 3 hours there and didn't see a single soldier.

So is that good or bad?

not sure with your post!

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You really need to ask that question? 'Seems obvious enough to me (but then again, I read the topic title...). Anyway, it's just a situation report. These are worthwhile, especially when they correct a factually incorrect topic title. Thanks, Shannon.

Hawker ... I understand that.. but on Shannon's previous posting history I wasn't sure. And I'm pretty sure that the OP states no troops in the airport!

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[hawker9000]

Just came from Suvarnabhumi. Spent 3 hours there and didn't see a single soldier.

S is that good or bad?

not sure with your post!

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You really need to ask that question? 'Seems obvious enough to me (but then again, I read the topic title...). Anyway, it's just a situation report. These are worthwhile, especially when they correct a factually incorrect topic title. Thanks, Shannon.

Hawker ... I understand that.. but on Shannon's previous posting history I wasn't sure. And I'm pretty sure that the OP states no troops in the airport!

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I passed thru the airport myself on the morning of the 20th and saw no sign of any troops anywhere until I was almost at the 1st toll booth headed into town, and THEY were pulled over, but headed in the same direction (i.e., into town). If there were troops hanging out somewhere totally outside the airport fenceline, not even visible to vehicles/highway traffic, I almost don't see how that's relevant.. But if you insist they were there somewhere in the region, and that that is relevant, then ok. There sure wasn't any noticeable presence to arriving passengers.

Edited May 22, 2014 by hawker9000