Thread: Red-shirt mass rally planned on April 5

If an armed struggle ensues

i doubt very much that a full on armed "french revolution" style struggle will occur.

thais at every level have too much to lose, so it wont happen.

a few skirmishes, grenade hurlings and drive by's maybe, a few poor innocents will be killed and maimed as is normal during these upheavals, but thats all.

eventually some arrests and incarcerations on both sides will ensure mutual faces are saved and pride not diminished too much, both sides will declare themselves the best of friends, thais at heart, best country and people in the world etc.etc.etc., grinning generals, police chiefs and protest leaders will be seen in an orgy of self congratulation, mutual back slapping and some serious wai-ing will occur but life will probably carry on very much as before in the land of the free.

the "peasant class" may be thrown some crumbs, e.g. some infrastructure projects and some subsidies to soften the blow, but the elite will hardly be affected at all.

they rarely are.

Thai are too much of cowards to stage a real revolution based on ideals and principles,

not in their culture,

6) Not enough money paid.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Apparently all the reds were sent home at 7:00 this morning due to the poor turnout.

I noted a distinct lack of twitter coverage, etc. for this rally which I consider a bit strange as it was the first one they had held for nearly six months.

What do you all think the reason for the poor turnout were?

1) Apathy?
2) Resentment over the rice scheme payments (or non-payments)?
3) UDD out of touch with their grassroots supporters?
4) Just the hardliners showed up?
5) The "location" was too "controversial" for many?

I would pretty much say "yes" to all of those factors.

Both sides have a small "hard core", and a much larger "meh - ok" support goup. I think the reds have alienated a big proportion of their "lesser committed" support group - talk of militia, splitting the country, screwing lots over with the rice pledge. There was also a genuine under current that this gathering might have attracted violence, and many people were just not that prepared to put their life potentially on the line.

Quite the contrast to Lumpini.

Originally Posted by pickel

says it all really. its a metaphor for what they would do if they REALLY got control.

should really forgive them because in truth they just dont know any better.

Ideally the clean-up should be billed to the organisers.

^^ Supposed to be one of the most beautiful roads in Thailand (I am a bit "meh" about it to be honest). Seems somehow unfortunately symbolic that the reds gone and shit upon it.....

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Seems somehow unfortunately symbolic that the reds gone and shit upon it.....

Absolutely

The yellow protest sites were cleaned weekly and left in pristine condition. The contrast in some ways illustrates the fundamentally different mindset of the two groupings.

They certainly left a mess but I saw the same thing downtown near Sanam Luang and onto Rachadanern after the first big protest when the Southerners came up for the first time. It'll get cleaned up. It looks like there's still some stages there and the tents are still there on the right so they haven't walked away. Thailand is a craphole anyway pretty much everywhere outside of the landscaped properties of the wealthy and the inside of shopping malls. Reds don't have a monopoly on littering.

Red shirts disperse from Utthayan Road, to hold another rally after Songkran
April 7, 2014

Red-shirt demonstrators dispersed from their rally site at the Utthayan Road Monday morning, Channel 3 reported.

They dispersed after Jatuporn Promphan, the chairman of the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship, told them to return home and get ready to come back for a bigger mass demonstration after the Songkran holidays.

The red shirts gathered at the road, which borders Bangkok and Nakhon Pathom, Saturday to show their force to protect the government and warn the military against staging a coup.

nationmultimedia.com

what else would you expect from cattle of kwais,

Originally Posted by Gerbil

The yellow protest sites were cleaned weekly and left in pristine condition. The contrast in some ways illustrates the fundamentally different mindset of the two groupings.

Yes, it was nice of the dem governor of Bkk to arrange and pay for that cleaning...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Yes, it was nice of the dem governor of Bkk to arrange and pay for that cleaning...

Thakkies got more money than him so what's his excuse.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Seems somehow unfortunately symbolic that the reds gone and shit upon it.....

Absolutely

The yellow protest sites were cleaned weekly and left in pristine condition. The contrast in some ways illustrates the fundamentally different mindset of the two groupings.

Absolutely

Originally Posted by pickel

Thakkies got more money than him so what's his excuse.

He doesn't run the district council? & isn't able to allocate taxpayers money through the district council?

either way, it will most certainly be red sympathisers, as municipal council worker drones, who have to clean up the filth left by their thoughtless comrades as they scurried off back to their homes with their tails between their legs.

power to the people !!!!!

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by pickel

Thakkies got more money than him so what's his excuse.

He doesn't run the district council? & isn't able to allocate taxpayers money through the district council?

Nah, he's a greedy thieving megalomaniac schmuck with no balls or social conscience more likely.

Who gives a feck about the garbage?...It's another red herring to divert the fools from Butters' and Suthep's gay love affair...

Aren't we talking about Red Shirts, not Red Herrings?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by Gerbil

The yellow protest sites were cleaned weekly and left in pristine condition. The contrast in some ways illustrates the fundamentally different mindset of the two groupings.

Yes, it was nice of the dem governor of Bkk to arrange and pay for that cleaning...

Yes, when the PDRC moved back from the democracy monument the whole street was trashed. Even had overturned minivans blocking the streets. All the flower beds were completely destroyed and both sides of the road badly messed up with graffiti. I pass this area frequently and the former dem governer you mention had a small army of workers down there cleaning up the mess and replanting all the flower beds. However, the graffiti still remains and I'll try to get some pictures of it next time to illustrate that the southern folk are just as dirty as their nothern brothers............united at least in a mess of their own making.