Red shirts in Bangkok burning stock exchange, newspaper

[cindy25]

just heard from a friend in Bangkok that the socialist Thaksin Red shirts are burning the Bangkok stock exchange, Bangkok Post etc

[cesarcongo]

yeah the government was smart enough to start shooting them on site and piss them off. Regardless of their ideology or views its just wrong to kill your citizenry when they go apeshit its also unwise Blow Back for the thai government I call it

[devil21]

yeah the government was smart enough to start shooting them on site and piss them off. Regardless of their ideology or views its just wrong to kill your citizenry when they go apeshit its also unwise Blow Back for the thai government I call it

The gov't even called out the snipers. I'm making a note of that for homeland purposes.

http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Actor13-May.-16-10.07.jpg

[Bman]

The gov't even called out the snipers. I'm making a note of that for homeland purposes.

All of these type of things are why I avoid large groups, and massively populated areas like the plague.

[cindy25]

government has a legitimate duty to maintain tranquility. these red shirts invaded shopping malls, set up squatter camps in residential areas, and won't leave until handout master Thaksin is allowed back.

MacArthur ended the bonus march in 1930, and was right to do so.

[aspiringconstitutionalist]

I think the French Revolution ought to have proven the stupidity of violent popular revolutions.

[dwdollar]

I think the dinosaur news likes to portray the protests in Greece and Thailand as exclusively socialist. I'm sure socialists are in the mix but...

Try to use some common sense.

[angelatc]

I don't understand how or why so many soldiers follow these orders. It's one thing to defend your country from foreign invaders, but to fire upon your own countrymen? That's just wrong.

[Bern]

...
As a government-ordered curfew was set to begin at 8 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern) as many as 20 fires were raging across the city, including the Bangkok Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Bangkok’s electrical grid, a high-end shopping complex and a cinema, as some protestors took their anger into other parts of the city.

A government television station and the English-language Bangkok Post were reported to be under siege, and there were reports of violence and rioting spreading to other parts of the country.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/811400--bangkok-burns-after-thai-army-violently-storms-protest-zone?bn=1