If you look at the map, it is quite an intelligent blockading of the City that leaves the North-South huge expressways open....so you can transit from North to South, South to North, but you can't enter the City itself.
The Central city area is around Silom-Suhkumvit districts....the main economic apparatus of the City....so, from Monday, you can go past it, but you can't get to it.
The Yellow Shirts have thought this part out pretty well.
I noted in an article to the Bangkok Post some years back about Bangkok: The City of Bangkok, The City of the Angels, The Great Mother City, Krung Thep Mahanakorn, exists not for Thailand at all, but rather for the needs of The City itself.
In many ways, Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, has nothing to do with Thailand...it simply draws wealth, drugs, commodities, rice, child-sex slaves etc from poor Thailand to itself, and by doing so has profited immensely... and beautifully...and this has been the case for many hundreds of years, and the City has created a remarkable Elite with wonderful services, lovely people, excellent schools, great universities, excellent world-class hospitals (far superior to Australian Hospitals)efficient subways, skyrails, highways etc all running into...into itself. The Bangkok Elite will never peacefully agree to national democracy because by doing so they will lose too much, far too much.
The more that the Yellow Shirt Bangkokians demand their own status and wealth, and demand total minority power, the more the populous North of Thailand looks to Cambodia and the military genius Hun Sen for guidance and relief, and release. As for the South, the desire of the Muslim South is to break from Bangkok, and from Thailand, and join Malaysia.
The Central city area is around Silom-Suhkumvit districts....the main economic apparatus of the City....so, from Monday, you can go past it, but you can't get to it.
The Yellow Shirts have thought this part out pretty well.
I noted in an article to the Bangkok Post some years back about Bangkok: The City of Bangkok, The City of the Angels, The Great Mother City, Krung Thep Mahanakorn, exists not for Thailand at all, but rather for the needs of The City itself.
In many ways, Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, has nothing to do with Thailand...it simply draws wealth, drugs, commodities, rice, child-sex slaves etc from poor Thailand to itself, and by doing so has profited immensely... and beautifully...and this has been the case for many hundreds of years, and the City has created a remarkable Elite with wonderful services, lovely people, excellent schools, great universities, excellent world-class hospitals (far superior to Australian Hospitals)efficient subways, skyrails, highways etc all running into...into itself. The Bangkok Elite will never peacefully agree to national democracy because by doing so they will lose too much, far too much.
The more that the Yellow Shirt Bangkokians demand their own status and wealth, and demand total minority power, the more the populous North of Thailand looks to Cambodia and the military genius Hun Sen for guidance and relief, and release. As for the South, the desire of the Muslim South is to break from Bangkok, and from Thailand, and join Malaysia.
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