Thread: Coup 2014 !!!! : Military 'takes control' in Thailand

Originally Posted by Dandyhole

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Reuters reports Yingluck out of detention in a "safe Place"

she is being detained in a safe place. One of the military camps in Saraburi. How can you read that into what was reported 10 hours ago?

Yes, still detained, but in a VIP facility

Waterboarded with Perrier, maybe.

Originally Posted by tomta

Originally Posted by Exit Strategy

Quote: Originally Posted by taxexile has china denounced the coup Good point.

I don' t think China is in the coup denouncing business. It might serve as a reminder or TienAn Men Square.

By the way, when girls are taking selfies with the handsome soldiers, they don't seem quite as happy as they did back in 2006 with the roses. Or is that just me? The troops look very edgy indeed.

Very different feel to this one, than 2006, dangerous game. If not played right, the army can not control the whole country.
Big trouble coming if things get out of hand, police and conscript soldiers may not follow BKK.

Hope clear heads will prevail, but people with guns are not happy in Issan.

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Not what one would call a huge response against the military takeover in the capital, given it was the first day of the weekend holiday

Much bigger than 2006. And look what that turned into.

Yes there is a real denial of what is going here by some.

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

There are a very few protesters at Central.

And it's easy to see why.

Not according to the US Ambassador in BKK, she sent a junior embassy official to the meeting for diplomats as she had to go elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Is she the first ever hiSo corrupt millionaire to actually be detained in Thailand?

The Rules of the Game for all Members of the Amart and their Sakdina Superiors state that no one of any higher class or influence shall be imprisoned with the rabble unless one plays outside of the rules of the Members.

Thaksin played outside the rules - they were going to make an example of him - and so he bolted.

You are clearly quite, quite mad.

I suspect your own folk back in whatever drear place you used to inhabit think you were, and, presumably, still are, a dickhead.

You have no vote here, you can never become Thai, you have no rights to residence and no Thai thinks of you beyond what pittance you might bring to the table. Why on earth do you continue to spout your drivel as if you are part of a constituency worth a hoot?

thegent should change his name to thekunt

Originally Posted by robuzo

Quote: Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post Seems a bit strange to me dissolving the senate as they basically controlled it anyway, the generals certainly not making life any easier for themselves. Dropping all pretense, which admittedly is strange for Thailand.

The Senate meetings over the past few weeks that have been trying to illegally appoint a new PM have been informal and involving only 70 or so senators, mostly appointed. It wouldn't be a good look at all if the whole Senate, elected and appointed, were to have a free and open debate.

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Is she the first ever hiSo corrupt millionaire to actually be detained in Thailand?

The Rules of the Game for all Members of the Amart and their Sakdina Superiors state that no one of any higher class or influence shall be imprisoned with the rabble unless one plays outside of the rules of the Members.

Thaksin played outside the rules - they were going to make an example of him - and so he bolted.

You are clearly quite, quite mad.

I suspect your own folk back in whatever drear place you used to inhabit think you were, and, presumably, still are, a dickhead.

You have no vote here, you can never become Thai, you have no rights to residence and no Thai thinks of you beyond what pittance you might bring to the table. Why on earth do you continue to spout your drivel as if you are part of a constituency worth a hoot?

Why do you Hooray-Henry?

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Originally Posted by tomta

Originally Posted by Exit Strategy

Quote: Originally Posted by taxexile has china denounced the coup Good point.

I don' t think China is in the coup denouncing business. It might serve as a reminder or TienAn Men Square.

By the way, when girls are taking selfies with the handsome soldiers, they don't seem quite as happy as they did back in 2006 with the roses. Or is that just me? The troops look very edgy indeed.

Very different feel to this one, than 2006, dangerous game. If not played right, the army can not control the whole country.
Big trouble coming if things get out of hand, police and conscript soldiers may not follow BKK.

Hope clear heads will prevail, but people with guns are not happy in Issan.

The story takes a different twist outside of BKK, Jim...

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Yes there is a real denial of what is going here by some.

Indeed there is, TS....

It's appearing throughout all circles.

Mad as hatters.

No Rural Surin, you just want to think that's the case. What will you be saying if and when there is real trouble? Will you come up with some other irrelevant nonsense? You want to believe that only Bangkok is anti-coup and the villagers in Surin or wherever couldn't care less? While there may not be some Red Flag racing down your peaceful little village soi, that doesn't meant that the villagers haven't been mobilized or radicalized. You think everyone else is the fool? Maybe look in the mirror.

Came home tonight in a packed Skytrain. No strained faces beyond those who failed to get seat. The girls in the massage place next to where I had lunch still beckoned me with their gestures and grunts I recall seeing when I last went to view the bonobo apes at Dusit Zoo. The bars in the lower Sukhumvit sois were staying open to show the Champions League final at 0200hrs. The traffic outside, now well past the curfew, still flows. The Thai baht is still around the same markas has prevailed for the past month, the SET hasn't developed a bear run, Central World was still full of shoppers, tourists still poodle, and the TV stills churns out vacuous garbage. Never saw a soldier all day and, typically, never saw a copper who wasn't on points duty. Soi Cowboy still works, noodle sellers noodle, the offices are full of workers, department stores still sport legions of vacuous nose picking post adolescents and it's still fucking hot.

In short, no one who matters gives a fuck about this coup, about the Shinawattras, about fucking constitutions, about constitutional courts, about Amart Sakdina conspiracies, or about what happens next.

Normal life continues because politics in Thailand are irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

No Rural Surin, you just want to think that's the case. What will you be saying if and when there is real trouble? Will you come up with some other irrelevant nonsense? You want to believe that only Bangkok is anti-coup and the villagers in Surin or wherever couldn't care less? While there may not be some Red Flag racing down your peaceful little village soi, that doesn't meant that the villagers haven't been mobilized or radicalized. You think everyone else is the fool? Maybe look in the mirror.

The false sky is falling for some....TS.

For those whom haven't a clue.
More [in numbers] than you might consider.


Especially, amongst the blind Farang circle.
I'm sorry for you......and others of your ilk.

Mad as all get out.....

A Lao saying : Sabai, sabai.

Jai yen yen.

Originally Posted by thegent

The girls in the massage place next to where I had lunch still beckoned me with their gestures and grunts I recall seeing when I last went to view the bonobo apes at Dusit Zoo.

These kinds of comments rather spoil any message you attempt to communicate...

Its Saturday the stock markets are closed

Originally Posted by thegent

Came home tonight in a packed Skytrain. No strained faces beyond those who failed to get seat. The girls in the massage place next to where I had lunch still beckoned me with their gestures and grunts I recall seeing when I last went to view the bonobo apes at Dusit Zoo. The bars in the lower Sukhumvit sois were staying open to show the Champions League final at 0200hrs. The traffic outside, now well past the curfew, still flows. The Thai baht is still around the same markas has prevailed for the past month, the SET hasn't developed a bear run, Central World was still full of shoppers, tourists still poodle, and the TV stills churns out vacuous garbage. Never saw a soldier all day and, typically, never saw a copper who wasn't on points duty. Soi Cowboy still works, noodle sellers noodle, the offices are full of workers, department stores still sport legions of vacuous nose picking post adolescents and it's still fucking hot.

In short, no one who matters gives a fuck about this coup, about the Shinawattras, about fucking constitutions, about constitutional courts, about Amart Sakdina conspiracies, or about what happens next.

Normal life continues because politics in Thailand are irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Originally Posted by taxexile

they have just announced that the senate has been disbanded.

Yet oddly the Constitutional Court remains -- without a Constitution.

Probably allows the Senators a chance to run another day, depending on the outcome of recent events.

...CC has already damaged itself beyond repair and needs replacing anyway.

yet CC still there.. why?

Recall that one section of the constitution was retained.

The counter-coup has failed.

It's all just a big joke and social media photo-op for Thais.

Originally Posted by 9999

Some serious shit going down in CM right ...

Prominent The Nation Journalist Pravit summoned by Junta

Originally Posted by Pantyhole

Prominent The Nation Journalist Pravit summoned by Junta

Is this serious?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

He has a mangina

Bastid!! Made me look, but the real question here is why were you looking?

On another topic the expressions on the soldiers faces kind of reflect the weapons they're carrying, the smirking one has a nice seemingly new M16 while the other apparently has an old raggedy shot gun, must have been last in queue at the armory me thinks and he's not happy about it. The soldiers must also be very uncomfortable having to actually wear shoes..

Having said that, the guy posing is a real dork and if I were a soldier on guard post I'd not like to have anyone that close to me farang or not. On further consideration, especially a farang..

Originally Posted by Dandyhole

Prominent The Nation Journalist Pravit summoned by Junta

I saw his interview on the BBC, and he was very honest, and just said the coup was unacceptable in his opinion.

Now he has been called in to be threatened and bullied...