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2010-04-19 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Thailand's military vowed on Sunday to "punish" anti-government protesters if they march on Bangkok's central business district,...

but will deal with Islamic radicals, murdering and bombing their southern territory, in a kinder gentler fashion. These guys getting talking points from the Beltway?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-19 13:22|| 2010-04-19 13:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I think they've been using real bullets down south for quite some time now. And if the protesters are getting at M79, hand guns, bombs, then why not the military?

Posted by Shanaynay 2010-04-19 15:45|| 2010-04-19 15:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I you can troll the archives of the Burg here to see the long trail of the Islamic campaign in the south. It took a while by reckoning before the authorities in Bangkok decided to 'get tough' and even then its been more of responding rather than going after the miscreants. How many deaths occured before the government altered its policy recently? How many have died in Bangkok and implements an energetic response?

As for the red shirts, how many were really 'red shirts'? At least here we have enough vid equipment on hand to identify infiltrators and agent provocateurs into a people's movement with a government doing its best to paint those protesting, the power grab of government, as terrorists. We're all waiting here for the government's Reichstag excuse to grab even more power.

It appears no different there than here in that the Islamists can rack up a long and large head count and the state doesn't view it as a threat to its power so it responded with far less 'anger' than towards the locals who they do see as a immediate threat to their power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-19 16:37|| 2010-04-19 16:37|| Front Page Top

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