Or at least that’s what we’re being assured by the government.
I am in awe at how incompetent our police and soldiers and law enforcers are. I mean I have always known they are useless to some extend, but really to have your fire trucks, public buses and army tanks climbed on and hijacked so easily, how can we ever feel safe in this city?
Two days ago we were out shopping at Tha Prachan when I was told the tanks were coming to the area and that state of emergency was declared. And I tell you we were just on the Chor Por Ror and Phitsanulok just at most 30 minutes before it all started but somehow all the way back into the city we found these roads all blocked and flocked with our nation’s finest rednecks.
To be able to block such big roads is such little time is amazing. What did the cops do, just watched? What did the soldiers do when they started climbing the tanks, just watched?
Amazing Thailand really, I am impressed by how awfully incompetent this whole nation is.
OK, thanks to Marky who finally made those soldiers do their job, I’m glad it all worked out with no casualties–at least not by the hands of the government’s side.
And really do you really believe they were for real when they “surrendered”. Come on, don’t let this stupidity drag on.
It’s come to the point that I wonder why Thaksin is still alive. His daughter is on Facebook, along with hundreds, even thousands, of other twenty-something Bangkokians whom her dad pissed off this week, I am sure he’s not that hard to find, especially when she keeps updating her status about what she’s doing and where, and at times complete with pictures of herself and daddy.
One other thing that pissed me off. Where the fuck was the PAD? You guys were all balls when it was your turn, closing down airports and things, but when your enemies were out torching buses, where were you? Watching the whole ordeal in the comfort of your Hua Hin resort homes?
This country pisses me off each day I grow older.
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I hear you. It’s easy to get so angry when reading about the incompetence of some of the people involved.
However, the hypocrisy demonstrated by the powers that be is also mindboggling.
Thailand is being ruled by the elite rich in Bangkok and they are very afraid to lose it all should true democracy ever come, because for sure it would mean an end to their corruption (don’t think Thaksin was the only corrupt rich Thai).
Still a long way to go.
By tiz on 04.15.09 4:30 am | Permalink
As in the past, it’s not surprising that a quite a few prominent exiles were about to keep & build their business empire & money-making machines in Thailand (e.g. Chin Sophonpanich of BKK)… or even sway political opinions from abroad.
BTW, whatever make you think they REALLY wanted him (that’s Thaksin) back immediately?
By Jet So on 04.15.09 9:48 am | Permalink
I’m so glad they yellow shirts didn’t come out, we don’t need the other crazy mob running around at the same time.
I think the kid-gloves used by the police and military here are hilarious, anywhere else and they just open fire at the fuckers.
I enjoyed reading over the weekend about Abhisit not having the support of the police or military. It’s funny considering everyone claims he was put there by the military.
By Ben on 04.15.09 12:40 pm | Permalink
dear gnarly kitty,
yet again, that was awesome writing. and yet again, I shall quote the core bits and put them on zib21.com. all the best, MS
By Manfred on 04.15.09 5:21 pm | Permalink
No one, not even the UDD, expects the surrender to be permanent. It was just an end to a battle, an avoidance of the massive bloodshed that would have taken place had the UDD continued to provoke the authorities into a full-on crackdown at Government House. (Funny how the PAD was never threatened with a full-on crackdown during two months at the same site, nor with forcible removal from Bangkok’s two airports.)
The grievances of the UDD should make this just the beginning. Somebody ripped the lid off of Pandora’s box and released the furies; they never will return quietly to their previous confinement, and instead will wreak havoc until they feel justice has been done. We should prepare for many traffic jams, cancelled events and states of emergency until that day comes. And come it will…within decades, maybe, but it will.
By Bangkok Expat Mama on 04.15.09 8:52 pm | Permalink
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