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the redshirts have announced that:

while the redshirts were at the Interior Ministry searching for Abhisit and Suthep

2 redshirt people died, one shot by Abhisit’s security guard

and 3 redshirts were injured, one in hospital after being run over by the car with Abhisits secretary as passenger

Hi, I would like to add something else to this discussion.

Do any of you realise, the King of Thailand never actually chose to be the King in the first place…….It was a position he had no choice but to take.

Think about that for a second……………….

Being a King, despite what you may believe, isn’t exactly an enviable position…..

Do you realise how seriously hard the man has had to work, throughout his entire life? The responsibility? The responsibility of his family? The responsibility of an entire nation?

All looking to him.

These people, they have to work every single minute, of every single hour, of every single day…

And for one reason and one reason only, for the benefit of Thailand.

I’m sorry, but all of you who believe the King has other agendas, other than the good of the Thai people, are mistaken, and therefore your arguements are redundant.

You show me one single incident when the King has ordered, or been seen to be responsible for the distress or harming of a single individual throughout the entire duration of his reign?

Does anyone have any evidence of that?

19:46 Thai Local Time,

Thairath reports that Democrat Party had released its 5th official statement that officially condemns the Reds’ action.

link to the article: http://www.thairath.co.th/online.php?section=newsthairathonline&content=132607

Dear Nongmar, okay I got a bit carried away with the excitement of the past couple of hours, but Jakrapob is hardly a great spokesman for any colour (shirt) of Thai person – as far as I am concerned.
Also, I think you should get a new remote and/or cable operator. I was able to watch a lot of news coverage on many different channels, and go back to the soaps and Korean dramas in between !

My wife, in a car with other (red shirt) family members, reports that the army has moved some troops to the Thaicom satellite centre in Nontaburi; just like the coup in 2006

I am not sure that Thai workers in Kachin is so strange. Maybe they are workers the contractors know and trust, and also they may have skills that are needed. Contractors could afford to pay reasonable wages I am sure. Undoubtedly a local/provincial agreement. There are Thai skilled and semi-skilled workers in Laos, mostly recently hundreds or thousands I understand in developing a lignite mine in Sayaboury.

Watching on the net, the whole thing is quite surreal – watching rejoicing reds on stage at the same time as wondering if a crackdown will come.

Lets hope that the next lot in power show more humility that the last few!

err Regular Reader,
I took your advice. I was able to choose from comedy, a Korean drama, or ‘love the country’ ads featuring the voice of ‘Bird’ Macintyre followed by another announcement by the PM.
It doesn’t matter what station you watch, red or NBT, it’s going to be biased

– From local informants, NBT (State owned Channel) says that the Government has prepared ambulances and ERs throughout Bangkok (for unstated reason).

-Also there are some announcements asking people not to celebrate Songkarn (unverified).

– Rumors say, there might be a crack down by force tonight.

18.00

I just came back from Siam/Paragon/Centralworld.

Saw the demonstration – some red-shirts in front of the police headquarters.

Paragon and Centralworld closed now. Quite a few tourists out on the street in Siam because what else should they do….hardly any Thais.

Red-shirts have left, I didnt see the armoured army-vehicles anymore.

On the way back to Ari, on Phaholyothin saw some army persons watching traffic from bridges – not many however.