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Broken Leg
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Quote: from DrLove on 5:35 pm on Sep. 22, 2006
The press and websites are monitored. It would be a pity to see a permanent closure of Thailand's main forums.
How would they be able to close the websites?
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:38 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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Oz
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Same as they do in China, not close it but Block it! Just means stuffing around with Proxies which are a pain in the ass!
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 5:19 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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China Sailor
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What amazes me is that whenever anyone mentions a country with a Moslem leader a lot of Westerners who have not spent significant time overseas immediately begin comparing that country with the Islamic Republic in Iran or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Get real folks! Haven't you ever been to KL? Jakarta? Last I checked they had Moslem Governments and believe me a dedicated punter can find plenty of P4P action and plenty of beer.
Let’s get real folks; I doubt there will be any major changes in the P4P scene in LOS. Nor do I believe that the pending enforcement of the visa regulations will change. Remember that as the current Chinese Leadership has learned, a modern country is not necessarily run by its Leadership, but is run by its bureaucracy, and a bureaucracy is hard to change...
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:53 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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Gminn03
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I have been reading some of the posts. I'm considering getting a tourist visa for a few months arriving in Bangkok in November. Anyone have experience being in Bangkok in a past coup and an update on how its effecting or may effect soi cowboy, nana, and the freelance scene. Not sure if this coup means less free lance activity.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 9:26 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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FIB
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Quote: from FIB on 3:55 pm on Sep. 22, 2006
There was a call made by a "19 September network". They set up a website (with a Thai ISP!) which has now been closed.
Check http://diary.sanook.com/diary.php?u=bluejeans@sanook.com and page down to the english text.
And yes, the "demonstration" did happen. There were at least 10 people, under the close watch (and filming) of Thailand's new military overlords...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:27 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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China Sailor
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It seems as Taksin is lying low and letting events take their course. From Singapore's TODAY newspaper:
No more politics for Thaksin
Ousted Thai Premier calls for snap new polls, appeals for national reconciliation
LONDON — Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed yesterday that he was bowing out of politics, while calling for snap new elections and urging “national reconciliation” after the shock coup in Bangkok
In a statement issued in London, where he flew following the coup on Wednesday, the billionaire politician said he will devote himself to development and possibly charity work.
“The event in Thailand during the last two days should not detract from my main aim of national reconciliation”, which all Thais should pursue “for the sake of our King and country”, he said.
“We hope the new regime will quickly arrange a new general election and continue to uphold the principles of democracy for the future of all Thais.”
The statement added that Mr Thaksin “as of now will take a deserved rest”, adding that he “will be planning to work on research, on development and possible charitable work
for Thailand”.
Mr Thaksin finally emerged in public yesterday afternoon, after going to ground following his arrival in London Wednesday. Leaving his rented apartment with one
of his daughters, he initially appeared smiling and said he was looking forward to a
“holiday”. But returning a few hours later he was more tight-lipped, asking reporters to respect his privacy.
Not everyone thinks Mr Thaksin’s political career is over — one businessman who
travelled with him from New York was quoted as saying he could yet make a comeback.
“The Prime Minister has not given up his power,” businessman Tom Kruesopon, chief
executive of Boon Rawd Trading, told the Guardian daily. But most observers have
been sceptical, noting that Mr Thaksin is unpopular in Bangkok, even if his support outside the capital is greater.
“There are lots of people in rural areas who like Thaksin but I don’t think they’re
going to get on the streets and fight for him,” said Thai politics expert Tim Forsyth of the
London School of Economics.
In a statement read out on national television yesterday, the coup leaders banned
political parties from holding meetings or from conducting any other activities.
They also said they had installed the army security chief as the new head of national
intelligence and removed three other of Mr Thaksin’s top officials.
Meanwhile, the United States said it was reviewing its aid to Thailand following the coup. “We have made very clear in our statements that we consider the military
move a step backward for Thai democracy and a very sad development for Thai democracy,” said a senior State Department official. — AFP
I tend to think that Taksin will wait for the election have some reconstitued version of TRT run for office, and work behind the scenes to preserve his legacy...
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:34 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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Will Smith
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Sky news have just reported that Thaksin sent out for a Thai Takeaway last night.
He had No's 8, 17,21, and 48.
He sent No 17 back, her tits were to small! 
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:40 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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China Sailor
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Here is a report from Singapore's TODAY newspaper filed by one of their editors who flew in to see the coup firsthand:
What coup in Thailand?
RICHARD VALLADARES
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR
IN BANGKOK
LESS than 24 hours after Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin seized power in the wee hours of Wednesday, the indications of the coup were barely in evidence in the Thai capital.
“Where are the soldiers and the tanks?” I asked the cabby who drove me from Don Muang International Airport into the heart of the city close to the witching hour. “No have,” he said in his best English to my question in fractured Thai.
A 1am walk around the Pratunam shopping area and the food carts were still doing brisk business. Motorcycle taxi riders lounged around asking every passer-by if the needed a ride. And the 7-Eleven on the street was fast running out of food.
The BBC was back on cable TV. But the programming kept getting interrupted whenever former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra attempted to make an appearance.
At 8 o’ clock this morning, the hotel lobby was packed as tourists took advantage of the free breakfast. A couple of Malaysian tourists were blissfully unaware that Thailand was under martial law. The duo had been here for eight days.
Eager guides shepherded their charges into the 12 buses that had lined up in front of the hotel. A day of sightseeing wasn’t going to be interrupted — not even by a coup.
By 9am, the infamous jams had returned. Traffic on Sukhumvit Road was almost at a standstill. But that didn’t seem to bother the tourists from the West. Some were already scouring the streets for a bargain.
An hour later, Sanam Luang, the field that is the city centre and the site of anti-Thaksin protests earlier this year was deserted except for a flock of birds.
The only thing chaotic at Ratchadamnoen Nok — the road that had seen thousands of angry protesters torch building and government property in 1992 — was the traffic. Vendors went about their business selling lottery tickets at the Lottery Bureau, while others hawked their wares or slumbered under trees to escape the sweltering heat.
Further up the road, a crowd was gathered outside the Army Headquarters. The gaggle of journalists and cameramen were waiting for members of Mr Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai Party to visit the generals and “surrender”.
Finally, around 11am, I saw what I had trudged the streets to see: Tanks, soldiers and barricades. Six tanks were parked, serenely — if that’s the right word — on the street leading to the Vimanmek Mansion, a museum not far from Thailand’s revered king’s residence.
And closer to the palace at Wat Benchamabophit, the two tanks parked there were a tourist attraction. Locals and foreigners, adults and children, all draped themselves on the tanks, the soldiers and almost anything military, flashing V signs and as many pearly whites as they could.
The soldiers obliged with huge smiles and were rewarded with roses and other flowers and sometimes with packets of food. Friends, relatives and others captured the moment for posterity on camera.
It was then that the words of the cabby who drove me from the airport came back to me. He had said: “Coup? Nobody die so how coup? Thailand have no problem, Sir.”
Or as my Cajun relatives say -->
Allez, allez mes Amis, laissez les bons temps rouler!!!!
EDIT IN: Ok Duck, I fixed it...
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:23 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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Triband
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Cover me, I'm going in. No amount of tanks can stop a nation of hos. Amen!
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:37 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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Broken Leg
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Quote: from Oz on 6:37 pm on Sep. 22, 2006
Yes, they certainly seem to have been busy lately.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:57 am on Sep. 22, 2006
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