Quote Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
When the PAD spearheaded the opposition movement against the Thai Rak Thai-led government, the then ruling party countered by portraying the yellow shirts as undemocratic forces.
As if.
Quote Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
While Pitak Siam and the government are trying to point the finger at one another for harming democracy,
Let Pitak Siam form a political party then- and see how many votes they get.
Quote Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
When the PAD again resumed street protests in 2008, two governments, led by Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat, tried to crush, rather than reason with, the opposition movement.
What nonsense- they were even allowed to occupy the international airport, and the military announced they were going to do nothing to stop it. This just a few months after Samak had won a safe electoral victory.