The political turmoil in Thailand continues unabated. The crazy yellow shirt protesters who closed down the airports last year have been replaced by the crazy red shirt protesters who love Thaksin who, well… I honestly wouldn’t know where to begin and it’d be a disservice to them if I tried to name their crowning achievement when they’re still going strong.
Thaksin, who says he loves Thailand so much, is goading his fan club on daily to perform increasingly insane acts of dubious legality. Todays act of insanity is to block all traffic around Victory Monument (including access to the hospital there).
Thaksin’s fan club has said that if the PM and some members of the privy council (some royal thing I don’t fully get the purpose of) don’t quit by 4pm or some such time that they’ll storm government house, despite the fact they’ve previously said they wouldn’t. Despite also saying the Asean Summit would be left undisturbed earlier today, that is also now a target if said people don’t resign.
This is all in the name of democracy of course, not for Thaksin’s benefit at all. Just ask him how hard done by he is and how everyone won’t stop picking on him, he’ll tell you. Oh wait, you don’t need to ask because he’ll just tell you whether you want to hear it or not.
Thailand treats its convicted fugitives so unfairly.
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