Thread: Predict the next PAD move

Are there dozens of showers at the airport, or are these 1000s hot sweaty and smelly?

Originally Posted by melvbot

not the sandwich chain)

Surely nobody is stupid enough to go in there!

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by DrAndy

there is a mob in Chiang Mai stopping cars, bikes etc on the highway and asking whom they support

Birmingham City.

Ah, a fellow bluenose - bless.

when they no longer are paid their 200bht a day,

Sabang you keep posting this. It's ridiculous. You obviously aren't in touch with what is going on. I wonder if yopu have some reason to propagate this idea when everyone else who is against the PAD is saying that most of them are 'loaded.'


The closer we get to the King's birthday the more likely this will end by itself. If the gov't doesn't crack down on them before that day, I bet they'll disperse. It's a good day to leave because if the protesters leave the police won't be able to do much to them as they leave. If they were somehow to continue this by occupying another strategic location there are place. One person I know though occupation of the shipping port of Lamchabang would be another hand to the neck. Bangkok seems to be designed to allow the military to block entry easily. If you block certain roads you can stop most road traffic from the north or east etc. I just don't see this going much further from the current events though.

^It may not be as wild over there as it's painted to be.

Originally Posted by Rattanaburi

when they no longer are paid their 200bht a day,

Sabang you keep posting this. It's ridiculous.
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Maybe he keeps posting it because it's true. They are being paid.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Unless the government acts soon, civil war could break out

as I write, there is a mob in Chiang Mai stopping cars, bikes etc on the highway and asking whom they support. Do you think anyone has got the answer wrong yet?

Depends what colour shirt they're wearing.

There are more effective ways they could quickly bring the gov't to its knees, such as take over Bangkok's tap water pumping stations. I'm still baffled as to why they chose the airport.

Originally Posted by keda

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Unless the government acts soon, civil war could break out

as I write, there is a mob in Chiang Mai stopping cars, bikes etc on the highway and asking whom they support. Do you think anyone has got the answer wrong yet?

Depends what colour shirt they're wearing.

And as of today, if that shirt is regally yellow, the local taxi / buses, "rote que" will not pick you up, and you are probably going to be visiting your local hospital soon too!
Major backfire, the "AWE "is diminishing

Shouldn't that be a capital B?

Note to self: do not wear red or yellow when venturing out beyond the moo-ban boundaries.

I predict this:

Bangkok Pundit

Reuters:
The assault by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) was swift and savage, a head-on charge by a convoy of vehicles speeding down the wrong side of an expressway into scores of unarmed police.

As the terrified officers fled, some of them jumping through the open door of accelerating police vans, wild-eyed young men burst from the PAD vehicles, attacking with sling shots, fireworks, iron bars and wooden stakes.

The onslaught lasted no more than 15 seconds but left the five-lane highway, the main access route to Bangkok's besieged Suvarnabhumi airport, littered with broken glass and discarded police helmets and truncheons.

The police, who have orders not to retaliate against a movement backed by Bangkok's establishment grandees, had virtually no warning.

'The yellow people are coming,' one officer shouted, turning to run as the PAD vanguard, a large sound-truck blaring out anti-government vitriol, careered round the bend of the expressway exit.

Originally Posted by shuggy

seemingly the pad were all payed to go there, food etc... so why doesn't the opposition go one better and pay them more money to go home, problem solved

Complete rubbish, the majority of the PAD people are their on their own accord and believe in what they are doing.

It was posted elsewhere on TD that if the PAD don't achieve their goals through this effort, their next objects of interest are PTT facilties... No Petro for you!!!

Originally Posted by November Rain

But, that implies thinking, planning & forethought, Smeg. I'm surprised at you, thinking Thais are capable of it. For once, I tend to think the opposite - that they were dumb enough to go there to disrupt the PM's plans (or better to nab him ) and then realised, through the publicity they received, that this was quite a good, strategic place to have hold of, so stayed.

sounds the most likely senario, imo

If PAD really wanted to stir shit, they'd head not for the airports or seaports but refineries and oil storage facilities.

They are waiting for Wednesday and the 5th!

Why don't they all go home and have SomTam, and just leave everything to ASTV?

So much more exciting. And cheaper.

Who thinks that these people would really die for their cause, or are simply spouting typical infantile BS?

Originally Posted by Smeg

I'm still baffled as to why they chose the airport.

Really. You weren't about 10 posts back.

Smeg:
^ This is the reason the chose the airports (first), because it affects mostly foreigners (directly), plus gets more international attention.