Comments:Red Shirts cause state of emergency in Thai capital
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[edit]Rest assured folks, there is no cabal. The Wikinews Cabal 03:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- Especially not one based in Thailand. Blurpeace 04:20, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- We lived in BKK for 3 years. If these uneducated folk would just let this brilliant, caring PM run the country and realize Thaksin robbed them blind......maybe BKK could get on with bringing in tourists and making money. 96.30.163.53 (talk) 10:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe. Two things that went off in my head when I was writing this was that the protesters were mostly made up of poor uneducated farmers and the PM is an "Oxford taught economist". Just some thoughts. Blurpeace 13:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, well, ...
- Thaksin is the one the Redshirts support - he did things like a 10 baht/month healthcare scheme for the poor. But, at the same time, he used his position as PM to rob the country blind.
- He's now a fugitive hopping around the world to countries that won't lock him up. If he went into Thailand he'd be slung in the Bangkok Hilton. He was kicked out of the UK when his diplomatic passport was revoked.
- Yeah, Absit seems a much nicer guy. Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 13:49, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- That should be quite an obvious fact. Those protesters are actually paid to protest. They're given free transportation, those red t-shirts, plus cash. If they weren't paid, would they be out there in the streets behaving like hooligans? I don't think many would. Bejinhan (talk) 07:20, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe. Two things that went off in my head when I was writing this was that the protesters were mostly made up of poor uneducated farmers and the PM is an "Oxford taught economist". Just some thoughts. Blurpeace 13:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- We lived in BKK for 3 years. If these uneducated folk would just let this brilliant, caring PM run the country and realize Thaksin robbed them blind......maybe BKK could get on with bringing in tourists and making money. 96.30.163.53 (talk) 10:25, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
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[edit]in thailand is excellent 169.241.28.193 (talk) 15:39, 20 May 2010 (UTC)