Thanks Brendan.

To begin with, that "Red Shirt leader" wasn't shot in Bangkok in a drive-by. Check the link that's cited in this piece of drivel. It clearly states "A pro-government leader was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand's north-east." Udon Thani is a long way from Bangkok.

Second, Wikipedia is a lousy source for any writer, let alone one with foreign correspondent pretensions. Thailand's "civil liberties" aside from the lese-majeste laws, are the most liberal in Southeast Asia, perhaps in all of Asia. And its press, from the English-language Bangkok Post and The Nation to Thai Rath, the Daily News, and other Thai-language papers, have yet to concede reporting to the "unreliable street wisdom and bloggers" (except when it comes to foreigners who can't read Thai and don't know where to find papers they can read.)

Is this the same Brendan Kiley who can barely parse a local theater production, let alone Thai politics? Cute, very cute, SLOG. OMIT? I say VOMIT.

To begin with, that "Red Shirt leader" wasn't shot in Bangkok in a drive-by. Check the link, in this piece of drivel. It clearly states "A pro-government leader was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand's north-east." Udon Thani is a long way from Bangkok.

Second, Wikipedia is a lousy source for any writer, let alone one with foreign correspondent pretensions. Thailand's "civil liberties" aside from the lese-majeste laws, are the most liberal in Southeast Asia, perhaps in all of Asia. And its press, from the English-language Bangkok Post and The Nation to Thai Rath, the Daily News, and other Thai-language papers, have yet to concede reporting to the "unreliable street wisdom and bloggers" (except when it comes to foreigners who can't read Thai and don't know where to find papers they can read.)

Is this Brendan Kiley, who can barely parse a local theater production, let alone Thai politics? Cute, very cute, SLOG. OMIT? I say VOMIT.

I said that they were more like the Bolsheviks, and I'm sticking to it. This government may suck, but it is the Democratically elected government. It won in the last few elections fair and square. I supported the yellow shirts in the last round of protests, and the military coup that followed. But then they had a relatively free and fair election and who won? Thaksin. That tells me the majority of people voting WANT this government. Now I'm all for protesting perceived wrongs in an attempt to raise awareness and advocate change. But a protest movement that is trying to literally overthrow the democratically elected government is a step too far. And I'm not supporting it.

Let them go out in the countryside and convince the people to vote against Thaksin.