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Even I agree totally with your comment!
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Originally Posted by Beachlover
Even I agree totally with your comment!
At present Bangkok is in Hiatus for Songkran, so no crazy buggers running around with guns. Today is the last day of Songkran so we will see what tomorrow brings as this will no doubt colour my holiday. I am pretty sure that the hardliners among the Red Shirts are going to wait it out. Hopefully many will stay at home with their families in Isaan but when there is money on offer to protest, why the heck not? Just where does all this money come from? Okay, I guess it might be from the family of a certain ex PM but I wouldn't want to speculate.
We will see what happens over the weekend. After last Saturday's grim outcome I think the time for playing nice guys is over and when the police come back to play it will be with more purpose. IMO.
CVheers
Krobbie
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I think it is too late. This time the red shirts learned how to play :idea: The army and police are either unwilling or inept?
Expect PM to resign! Cannot see any oyher option.
Did anyone else in Australia see this week's Foreign Correspondent programme? No holds barred.
Sadly Equalizer, I suspect in my heart you may be right. My trouble is, I am ever hopeful.Quote:
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Cheers
Krobbie
Krobie you say when there is money on offer to protest, why the heck not.
Their bodies are for sale so why not their votes indeed
I made the decision to leave a week early.......talking to locals they all say its save.......but i doubt that.......with either side willing to concede defeat.....the word is that after songkran it will be on again......the easy solution here is for the King to step in and clear up the problem......he had done it before.....so why not now......do these people know how much it is costing the economy.......i would suggest not........looking at the protesters camp sites they are probably living better there than in the places at home......free food and water and some money as well......not a bad live style...almost like a holiday.......in the mean time they continue to kill the economy....do they really care I dont thinkso
Good article in Aussie newspaper. I suppose this will be sensed as well by the moderaters.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/op ... 5854709804
Anybody on this forum actually in BKK now? I am supposed to go there next week and don't know what to do. I was supposed to stay in Sheraton Sukhumvit which is next to Asok BTS. Anybody knows the situation there? My hormones are running high thinking of the massage places there and the bars in Silom but don't want to get in trouble.
Are the bars in Silom open? What is it like there now? I would really appreciate advice from someone who is actually there.
Akin
You'll love the pool at the Grand Sheratan. The Reds Shirts are not at Asoke but have from time to time in the past few weeks paraded up or down Sukhumvit. You don't even have to walk down on the street to get to BTS/MRT from the Sheratan, they have their own sky walk entrance.
I think that there's a pretty good consensus among the Bangkok resident posters that if you don't go looking for trouble you will not get into trouble. The bars and massage venues are not protest sites. If the army does another push I guess it could spill out around the original sites but if you keep up with the news you should get plenty of warning to stay out of the effected areas.
The only inconvenience is possible traffic jams and remember to not take a taxi if the route has to go near or through Ratchadamri. The BTS goes through with no problem. The only time it stopped was during the army action last week and that it did not stay closed very long. MRT closed one station (silom) for a short time.
Songkran went off pretty much as usual at at the usual spots. Lots of forien gay revelers at the usual gay venues but mostly Asian but it's been going that way for several years now in Bangkok.