Fires...and maybe war

Bangkok is in flames

and so too is the town where I live.

There are about 500 redshirts camped at a radio station right outside my front yard.

Links to local news from today

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I'm not sure how the rest of tonight is going to pan out as the crowd outside my house is growing and have blocked all access to my street with piles of burning tyres.

 

Be safe Red..

 

It's just been announced that Ubon is under curfew and all residents should refrain from venturing outside after 6pm.

The worst part about this is I have no milk in the fridge.

edit: 8pm curfew, sorry.

 

What has those people so pissed off?

 

If things get desperate you can always tap one of those lactating girly-boys for you daily supply of milk



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It's a really long story and depends on which side of the fence you look from but te basics are...


They want the government to stand down and hold new elections.
They are pissed off about being less well off than the movers and shakers in gov/media.
They are tired of being ignored by the majority of governments over the past 60years, with the exception of the Thaksin administration who made populist policies trying to redistribute a bit of the wealth while at the same time lining his own pockets. He was subsequently ousted by military coup a few years ago.

And specifically today, they are pissed at the military/gov for putting an end to a 2 month stand-off which had been crippling Bangkok. They dispersed the crowds using lethal force. Many, many dead.

 

How far are you from Bangkok?

 

As far as you can get, more or less 10 hours.

The thing is most of the protesters come from this part of the country and today has seen the fires and bloodshed spread to 5 or six major cities.

Ah well. We'll see what happens.

 

Holy shit!

 

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Interesting times over there. Stay safe man.

 

Those third world country fucks


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To get an idea of what the current government wants, they want only 1/2 the parliament to be elected by the people since those pesky poor people got a majority last time.

 

Like Canada then.

 

Red stay safe over there my friend.

 

i pray the op stays safe, and when something like that happens someplace in the u.s., if its where i am at the time it does, that i will too.

every time i see something like that, it brings home the reality, that however easy it may be to deny, there is no place it can't happen.

 

While this is true that it can happen anywhere, I think the chances of a military coup in the US are pretty slim.

Besides when Americans riot we do it better with more destruction, i.e. L.A. riots after Rodney King.

 

There are potentially interesting things afoot here as well- including but not limited to the ecological and economic fallout from crude oil hemorrhaging from the Gulf floor.

I hope Red stays safe.

 

The U.S. does it in a more subtle way such that the general public isn't aware of it. It's more of a psychological approach used by the military to sell wars using the White House as a public relations front.

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Take care in these troubled times. god bless you and stay safe...