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romeland
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Jingo - once you're dead, you're dead a long time... I thought I was scared of nothing, until that red shirt tried to attack me with a knife. Best to stay away until it ends... this is far more widespread than previously, and I find it hard to believe anyone will actually feel safe out at night wherever they are...
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:47 pm on May 15, 2010
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poskat
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I live across from MBK, the streets here are blocked off since friday, my job is closed until further notice (it's inside the closed off zone).
Location map
The taxi couldnt had to stop 800m from my place as the street had been blocked off (it was open at 6pm when I went out.)
A girl I know who lives at victory monument called me last night in tears that she had to go to work tomorrow but was afraid to go outside because of the fighting.
the fighting hasnt made its way up here, but it is along many places of the perimeter, and further in some places.
I'm thinking of relocating to pattaya for this week.....
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 8:38 pm on May 15, 2010
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BKKdreaming
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Quote: from romeland on 6:47 am on May 16, 2010
Romeland
When and where were you attacked by the Red Shirt ?
glad you got out OK
BK
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:17 pm on May 15, 2010
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S M E G M A
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Here is a good opinion article in today's Bangkok Post.
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Put an end to this rebellion
* Published: 16/05/2010 at 12:00 AM
* Newspaper section: News
I'm not in a popularity contest. I'm not a two-faced diplomat playing it safe and trying to please everyone. So let me say it loud and clear: It's a rebellion, so put an end to it _ with swiftness, severity and certainty.
The military coup in 2006 wrongly overthrew the then democratically elected prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. That was no democracy.
The coup council handed the power back to the people in 2007. The People Power Party (PPP) won the following election. That was democracy.
The PPP was banned by the Constitution Court for electoral irregularities and the parliament _ the democratically elected representatives of Thailand _ voted the Democrats into power. That was democracy.
The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) argue against the Democrat-led coalition government's legitimacy and protest for the government to step down and call a general election.
That was democracy.
And the UDD had won.
The goals of the UDD from the very start: They wanted a House dissolution. They will have one in September. They wanted a general election. They will have one on Nov 14. All within seven months and PM Abhisit Vejjajiva's term actually ends in January 2012, a year and a half from now.
They should be dancing in the streets, celebrating victory. Then we can all go to the voting booth in November. Peace and democracy. But no.
The truth has revealed itself. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship is simply using democracy as a front in the interests of dictatorship.
Refusing the peaceful compromise, forsaking the democratic process, continuing to harm the country for the interests of one man, Thaksin Shinawatra, fighting against security forces of the rightful democratic government of Thailand _ that's an uprising, it's a rebellion.
It's criminal. That is not democracy.
If you disagree with me and think the UDD is in the right, then let me simplify it: The next time you're pulled over by the law in a traffic stop, you should just burn tyres, shoot slingshots at the cop and call him a dictator.
Anyone with an arrest warrant? No need to surrender. Barricade and fortify your home, fire slingshots and fire-crackers and call the law tyrannical.
Buy a lifetime membership to the Association of Anarchists. You don't belong in a civilisation.
The UDD leaders agreed to the prime minister's terms. But instead, Thaksin Shinawatra ordered Maj Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol to step on the brake. Because in his mind, he's screaming: ''What about me!'' ''What do I get out of this entire peace and democracy shenanigans!''
Here's Thaksin's dilemma. Peace and the democratic process don't guarantee his return to power. Someone in Montenegro is kicking and screaming on the floor: ''Me! Me! Me! What about me!''
Accepting the compromise is a loss of face and may even make PM Abhisit look good in the eyes of the people, for biting the bullet and extending his hand. Thaksin Shinawatra can no longer rely on the voting booths. He can no longer rely on the democratic process.
The UDD has used democracy as a tool _ manipulated and exploited it to return Thaksin to power. Now that they are no longer confident that the democratic process will serve their interests, the UDD has transformed itself from a democratic movement into an uprising, a rebellion, a criminal organisation.
It's worth repeating: They wanted a House dissolution. They have one in September. They wanted a general election. They have one on Nov 14. That's democracy. Instead, they flushed democracy down the toilet.
So there's no negotiation other than the complete and total capitulation by the government to the UDD's every will and every whim. It's a total victory that will embarrass the government in the eyes of the Kingdom and of the world and may possibly bury the Democrat party. That's the game.
To Thaksin and the UDD, returning Thaksin to power is worth the 50-odd lives already lost. And that figure is bound to rise. More than 1,000 have been injured and that figure will rise. The billions of baht in economic damage. And that figure will rise.
It's an uprising. It's a rebellion. It's criminal.
The UDD is screaming: ''Now! Now! Now! Prime Minister resign now!'' Thaksin Shinawatra is crying: ''Me! Me! Me! I want my power back!'' That's not democracy. That's a child that needs to be put across the lap for a good spanking.
Let me repeat it again: They wanted democracy. They had democracy. We can all go to the voting booth on Nov 14. But they flushed democracy down the toilet and chose instead, a rebellion.
And when there's a rebellion, the government must put down the rebellion. Otherwise, we have anarchy. The law must be swift, severe and certain _ any student of criminology can tell you that.
I've watched television and read newspapers all this weekend. Most so-called intellectuals, academics and media talk about reconciliation. Well, that's easy and safe _ using a thousand flowery words without saying anything worthwhile.
We reap what we sow. Again, I'm not in a popularity contest. I'm not a two-faced diplomat playing it safe and trying to please everyone. So let me say it loud and clear _ it's a rebellion. To preserve civilisation, the government must put down the rebellion _ swift, severe and certain.
UDD members have lost their lives. This is unfortunate. It should never have happened. They should all be in our prayers and their families should be assisted in any way possible. But they've died in a rebellion against the rightful, democratic government of Thailand.
The security forces that have lost their lives. This is unfortunate. It should never have happened. They should all be in our prayers and their families should be assisted in any way possible.
Journalists and other innocent bystanders have lost their lives. This is unfortunate. It should never have happened. They should all be in our prayers and their families should be assisted in any way possible.
It didn't have to come to this. It shouldn't have come to this. But here we are on the brink of anarchy because of the pride, greed and vengefulness of one man, and of the indecisiveness, uncertainty and lack of leadership of another.
Let me repeat: We reap what we sow. It's a rebellion. Put an end to it, swift, severe and certain. Or step down and let the rebels take over. The longer this crisis drags on, the closer we are and the deeper we will be in a state of anarchy.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 11:16 pm on May 15, 2010
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Kaymanx
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THAI PM CONSIDERING CURFEW AFTER 25 DIE IN CLASHES
By Jocelyn Gecker, Associated Press Writer – 28 mins ago
BANGKOK – Thailand's leader warned violence was on the rise in Bangkok and hinted Sunday that a curfew may be imposed on the sprawling metropolis of more than 10 million people after three days of rolling street battles that have killed 25 people.
A towering column of black smoke rose over the city Sunday as protesters facing off with troops set fire to tires serving as a barricade. Elsewhere, they doused a police traffic post with gasoline and torched it.
Schools were ordered shut Monday due to the violence that has killed 25 people since a military operation began Thursday to seal off a 1-square-mile protest camp occupied for weeks by anti-government demonstrators demanding early elections.
Speaking on his weekly television program, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva insisted that the military operation to quell protests was the answer in ending the country's two-month-long crisis.
"Overall, I insist the best way to prevent losses is to stop the protest. The protest creates conditions for violence to occur. We do realize at the moment that the role of armed groups is increasing each day," he said.
He said his deputy prime minister and the military were meeting to discuss a possible curfew. Abhisit said he had asked the education minister to postpone the beginning of a new school semester, due to begin Monday, for a week.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:47 am on May 16, 2010
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Kaymanx
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Quote: from S M E G M A on 11:16 am on May 16, 2010
Here is a good opinion article in today's Bangkok Post.
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* Published: 16/05/2010 at 12:00 AM
But here we are on the brink of anarchy because of the pride, greed and vengefulness of one man, and of the indecisiveness, uncertainty and lack of leadership of another.
This is the best part in the above opinion post. The Abhisit government's biggest folly, IMHO, was in not pursuing the criminal cases against Thaksin and bringing him back swiftly to face trial. Strangely, and comically, they pussyfooted all along, letting the brigand get away and mock Thailand, and all Thais, by floating and flying freely around the world and spreading his canard about an undemocratic system in Thailand. And he got stronger in the process, or at least regained enough of his megalomaniacal powers of self-delusion, to instigate the present vindictive acts of treason against his country.
This is one conundrum in the TiT situation that I have not been able to quite figure out. They must be regretting this now.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:04 am on May 16, 2010
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Baquawn
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Quote: from romeland on 8:54 pm on May 15, 2010
Rio here I come
Good bye.
Make sure you don't talk shit again to the same people who you are surrounded by in the middle of a demonstration. That will get you in trouble in any other place in the world.
You got "Threatened" for being an idiot. Don't look for sympathy.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:14 am on May 16, 2010
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koolbreez
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To pursue the criminal cases against Thaksin, he has to physically be in court to answer the charges. They are still there, there i.s no statute of limitations as long as he's out of the country.
As to getting him back into the country, he first has to land in a country that is sympathetic, with extradition treaties, to Thailand's cases against him. That is why he left England, they were in the process of changing their mind about his plight. Dubai has no extradition treaty with Thailand, though one is in the works. The same with all the other countries he is traveling in now. He is traveling under different passports, and to countries that have no extradition treaties with Thailand. He is no longer traveling under a Thai passport, that has been revoked.
Maintaining diplomatic relations, and having extradition treaties, are the stumbling blocks in getting him back into the country legally.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:24 am on May 16, 2010
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