Reality check 1
Comparing Yellow and Red protests only works in that both comitted acts that were against the law.
There the equivalency
ends.
The Yellows may have illegally occupied the airport and staged a long term protest and occupation of Govt House,
but I dont recall readng any reports of them burning the buildngs down, building petrol soaked tyre barricades topped with sharpened bamboo spears, setting off IEDs and attempting to blow up infrastructure such as power lines, using M79 grenade lauchers to attack crowds buldings and skytrain stations, violently invadng medical facilities and terrorising staff to where hosptals were evacuated, stealing gas trucks wth the intention of detonatng them outside tower blocks, or firing busts of assault rifle fire at the Army, Police and innocent bystanders.
To suggest that both groups are equally bad is plain dishonest partisanship at its worse and most transparent.
Reality Check 2
Thaksin was and is the most corrupt manipluative liar in a house full of them, and was and is a convicted crimininal fugtive from justice. He is Thailands version of Alberto Fujimori, and like Alberto belongs behind bars. The current conviction against him is only the first....there are
17 other criminal cases pending his return. Those do not include the numerous charges of crimes against humanity he should be charged with, for Tak Bai, the drugs war, and other abuses. Given that he actvely worked for an opposition power (Cambodia) and used his sojurn on the run to interfere with Thai national interests and domestic security he is also arguably a treasonous insurrectionist traitor who should be tried for economc, social and poltical terrorism. He is a liar, a cheat, a theif, a coward, and a traitor.
His family and clan, including his Imelda Marcos like ex wife and Palinesque sock puppet sister the PM are equally morally bankrupt and criminally corrupt. They are liars, cheats, perjurers, corruptors, and greedy money grubbng nepotistic tax evaders. They are a nest of vipers that need driving into the sea, having been stripped of all power, titles and assets first.
Reality Check 3
Thailand is NOT a functioning democracy in any recognisable form at all. It is a demo-crazy banana republc lawless mess, run by the most dishonest, incompetant mob rule pack of ballot buyng political jokes in the world.
The PT party, having been in power less than 6 months, have already implemented one blue sky idiot policy that has had a bad effect on the economy (oil price tinkerng) and now is set to repeat that wth rice schemes...moves that economists and academics said would not and could not work. The media has already been attacked and subjected to direct threats by PTs shabby red shirt rice paddy commie mobs, and in several incidents reporters and the public have been attacked by them while the police stood by and watched doing, as ususal, nothing to enforce the law.
The courts seem to spend all their time on haitus eating som tam and playng golf rather than tryng crminals and terrorists, who are as a result released on bail just in case they are needed around Christmas time when Big Brother is set to return. The King himself and his Privy Counsellors are due to be held to political ransom via the inadmissable (under normal rules) UDD "Free Thaksin" petition that the AG wll no doubt forward, ignoring the law and precedent, thus placing HM and his Counsel in a very awkward postion indeed.
And should, as threatended, BB choose to return come Christmas time, convenently in the middle of High Season, while one half of Thailand is screaming adulation and showering him with red red roses, the other half will almost certanly scream for his head on a judicial spike and shower the government with abuse and possibly bricks.
As Ned Stark would say.....
WINTER IS COMING.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
