Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Suthep rushes to appease Luang Pu after rally stage 'snub' | Bangkok Post: news
Suthep rushes to appease Luang Pu after rally stage 'snub' | Bangkok Post: news
This is one of the odd things about the Suthep coalition...it is made up of many disparate units...businessmen, uni students, trade unions, monks etc who don't particularly even like each otehr...but are united on the basis of throwing out the government yet not having a plan for the future...so the present shutdown of the city may well fizzle out, and I hope so because the only other option is a violent uprising/revolution which would not be in the interests of the country at all. It is a dangerous situation indeed. Just because one can 'shut down' a city, it doesn't mean it is a good idea at all and it would be very easy to lose control of such a mis-adventure to the detriment of everyone.
This is one of the odd things about the Suthep coalition...it is made up of many disparate units...businessmen, uni students, trade unions, monks etc who don't particularly even like each otehr...but are united on the basis of throwing out the government yet not having a plan for the future...so the present shutdown of the city may well fizzle out, and I hope so because the only other option is a violent uprising/revolution which would not be in the interests of the country at all. It is a dangerous situation indeed. Just because one can 'shut down' a city, it doesn't mean it is a good idea at all and it would be very easy to lose control of such a mis-adventure to the detriment of everyone.
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Monday, 13 January 2014
out of proportion Bangkok
it is the strangest situation. the yellow shirt movement has risen organised powerfully just in 2-3 months, and their leader, suthep was the deputy PM in a former government run by Abhisit...and was no one special, and wasn't someone whose life defined him as being anti-corrupt in any way.
the Yellow Shirt plan and activities are far outside what the situation called for even in emotional Thai terms.
the yellow shirt plan for the future is quite mysterious, blank, in fact, so there is a lot that is not being made public.
the only thing clear is to purge the country of the Shinawatra family...to make them go away or not exist anymore. hard to do to the very popularly elected prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
i believe the yellow shirts are surrounding her house and her family's houses today.
the yellow shirts know they don't actually have the power to do it...but they continue.
It is reminiscent of the shadow-puppetry prior to the purge of Indonesia years ago that led to the rise of Soeharto. Puppets and Shadows.
hopefully it will all fizzle out in usual Thai style.
the army is saying 2 things today: 1: we do support the government. 2: we do protect the people from the government.
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