Red shirts agree to delay bills

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Published: 1 Jul 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Core red shirt leaders have backed off from demands for immediate House deliberation of the four national reconciliation bills.

CHANGING AIM: Red shirt supporters rally at Lan Khon Muang near City Hall yesterday. The event was held by the Pheu Thai Party to clarify the government’s charter amendment bid.

The leaders announced the change in position yesterday at a rally at Lan Khon Muang plaza in front of City Hall. The red shirts have organised a series of rallies across the country over recent weeks to promote the bills.

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musashi
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Discussion 39 : 01 Jul 2012 at 16.2539
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englishbob #38: "Thais are generally pretty naive and quite ignorant about most subjects"

Your condescending attitude towards Thais, your posts boasting about "your investments" here, and your "multitude of friends who are dope takers" says a lot about you. For someone who cannot even survive in his own country, and need to reside somewhere else to make a living, may I suggest that you adopt a little humility or you might soon find yourself out of luck again.
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Discussion 38 : 01 Jul 2012 at 15.2638
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Robingrant - if only there was a shred of an iota of evidence to the contrary.
But day after day, Red Shirts (and the few BP posters who think PT are anything but Thaksin's tool) consistently prove us right. Everything that has occurred since August 2011 was predicted by us. The ineptitude, the inflation, the steps to avoid justice - didn't we warn you about this?
Thais are generally pretty naive and quite ignorant about most subjects. Trying to convince me that rice farmers, hookers and taxi drivers are the most politically aware civilians and that everyone else is wrong is futile. You have your social peers... I have mine.
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Discussion 37 : 01 Jul 2012 at 15.2037
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Englishbob

"The Red Shirts don't like the Whitewash Bills because they have been spoon-fed the propaganda that Abhisit and Suthep are murderers." - Read any foreign report on the 2010 crackdown on the Bangkok demonstrations and you will read that it was the military and the government who were responsible for the deaths of demonstrators. Thailand is on the 137th place on the world press index forum. This means that information in the mainstream media is regularly censored and its content controlled.
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Discussion 36 : 01 Jul 2012 at 15.2036
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#27, i already told you that the insult is just good for people without argument. You want that people eat your bad soup of propaganda pro yellow; so without interest. I take my lesson form my teachers not from people brainwashed and thinking they are something because they are privileged. Only a stupid man can think i am a puppet of somebody or a socialist. Beati pauperes spiritu.
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Discussion 35 : 01 Jul 2012 at 15.1335
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morula Discussion 29 :

"Something very strange going on here......

How can the Red Shirts change from one position to the complete opposite overnight?.....

Simple.....The army told them to shut up and be quiet.
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Discussion 34 : 01 Jul 2012 at 14.5534
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bikeme (D32):
I'm not suggesting you kow tow to anybody, merely pointing out that those who suggest that the Red Shirts are a spent force, or deluded dupes of Thaksin, are themselves deluded.
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Discussion 33 : 01 Jul 2012 at 14.3433
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Constitution Court judges can now sit back and relax. The PT and UDD had just given these judges a break.
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Discussion 32 : 01 Jul 2012 at 14.3132
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D9 Hillfarang / D31 Robingrant - so what you are saying is that either we cow tow to the mob called UDD or conflict will reign supreme in Thailand?? Can you say dictatorship??? Truly disappointing to see such mindlessness.
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Discussion 31 : 01 Jul 2012 at 14.1531
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Don't expect anything, they just play for time. Now is not the good time to do but it gives us the time to brainwash the people and then we can come back in force.
UDD with Korkaew and such are in for profiting, the Redshirts for supporting and loosing.
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Discussion 30 : 01 Jul 2012 at 13.5730
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Geoffo and englishbob and the others who disparage the Red Shirts and write them off as a spent force - dream on! Like them or loathe them, the Red Shirts are here to stay. Yesterday's large simultaneous rally in Khon Kaen, not mentioned in the press or by any poster here, is just one indicator of that.

As for englishbob repeating the tired old mantra that the Red Shirts are just Thaksin's dupes, his self delusion and patronising attitude displays a profound ignorance of what really motivates them.
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