As in Egypt, protesters come out as backlash against Western-fomented color revolutions unfolds.
November 24, 2012 (AltThaiNews) - No sooner did the long-announced protest start (full background here), then police acting under orders of the Yingluck Shinawatra "Peua Thai Party" (PTP) led government began firing teargas at protesters challenging police lines.
Image: (@pissanuk - Twitter) Taken today, November 24, 2012,
near the protest site. Clashes with over-zealous police acting on
government orders have already taken place before the rally fully began,
with the government declaring it has its notoriously violent "red shirt" mobs standing by to intervene if necessary.
The catch is, of course, that several pro-government "red shirt" rallies had already taken place earlier in the year, allowed to paralyze the center of the city without any government restrictions or serious police presence. These same pro-government protesters had in 2009 and 2010 committed wide scale violence, killing by-standers, troops, police, even fellow protesters, while committing arson, vandalism, and city-wide looting. Many of their leaders who had openly called for violence, arson, and looting on stage, are now sitting MPs within the current Shinawatra regime.
Now in contrast, anti-government protesters have faced preemptive moves by the US-backed ruling regime, to chill free speech, intimidate and restrict the number of protesters planning to attend the November 24th protests, and attempts by the police to restrict the protesters' movements to prevent the same sort of disruption their own pro-government protesters are regularly allowed to cause, or exceed.
The Western media, as predicted, is already siding with the government. While outfits like Reuters gladly grant anti-government movements from Venezuela to Egypt, Syria, and even 2009-2010's Thailand absolute impunity to cause violence while portraying them as "peaceful" and "pro-democratic," Reuters has already labeled the current protests in Thailand as "royalist," portraying them as anti-democratic, and armed with "weapons, including knives and bullets" while cherry picking the crowd for the most unflattering protest signs possible. (The West's grievances with Thailand's constitutional monarchy are best encapsulated here.)
Why are Protesters in Thailand Angry with the Shinawatra Regime?
The current Thai government is led by Yingluck Shinawatra in name only. The 2011 PTP campaign slogan was literally, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does," referring to Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinwatra, the deposed Wall Street-backed billionaire ousted from power in 2006 after a collimation of mass-murder, treason, and corruption.
Image: As mentioned in a myriad of foreign media publications, Thaksin's proxy party ran with the slogan, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." Thaksin is an accused mass-murderer, a convicted criminal, and currently resides in Dubai to evade 2 arrest warrants. MORE>>
November 24, 2012 (AltThaiNews) - No sooner did the long-announced protest start (full background here), then police acting under orders of the Yingluck Shinawatra "Peua Thai Party" (PTP) led government began firing teargas at protesters challenging police lines.
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The catch is, of course, that several pro-government "red shirt" rallies had already taken place earlier in the year, allowed to paralyze the center of the city without any government restrictions or serious police presence. These same pro-government protesters had in 2009 and 2010 committed wide scale violence, killing by-standers, troops, police, even fellow protesters, while committing arson, vandalism, and city-wide looting. Many of their leaders who had openly called for violence, arson, and looting on stage, are now sitting MPs within the current Shinawatra regime.
Now in contrast, anti-government protesters have faced preemptive moves by the US-backed ruling regime, to chill free speech, intimidate and restrict the number of protesters planning to attend the November 24th protests, and attempts by the police to restrict the protesters' movements to prevent the same sort of disruption their own pro-government protesters are regularly allowed to cause, or exceed.
The Western media, as predicted, is already siding with the government. While outfits like Reuters gladly grant anti-government movements from Venezuela to Egypt, Syria, and even 2009-2010's Thailand absolute impunity to cause violence while portraying them as "peaceful" and "pro-democratic," Reuters has already labeled the current protests in Thailand as "royalist," portraying them as anti-democratic, and armed with "weapons, including knives and bullets" while cherry picking the crowd for the most unflattering protest signs possible. (The West's grievances with Thailand's constitutional monarchy are best encapsulated here.)
Why are Protesters in Thailand Angry with the Shinawatra Regime?
The current Thai government is led by Yingluck Shinawatra in name only. The 2011 PTP campaign slogan was literally, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does," referring to Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinwatra, the deposed Wall Street-backed billionaire ousted from power in 2006 after a collimation of mass-murder, treason, and corruption.
Image: As mentioned in a myriad of foreign media publications, Thaksin's proxy party ran with the slogan, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." Thaksin is an accused mass-murderer, a convicted criminal, and currently resides in Dubai to evade 2 arrest warrants. MORE>>
