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Pitak Siam rally national security threat, PM says

Published: 23 Nov 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Tomorrow's Pitak Siam rally poses a threat to national security, which justifies the invocation of the Internal Security Act (ISA), Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday.

Crowd control police officers rest in hammocks in the compound of Government House. They have been assigned to deal with tomorrow’s Pitak Siam rally. CHANAT KATANYU

Appearing on the TV pool in the evening, Ms Yingluck said intelligence reports indicated that the rally was aiming at toppling the democratically elected government in violation of the constitution.

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bluebkk
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Discussion 59 : 23 Nov 2012 at 17.1359
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Everybody knows this country is ruled from a distance by a convicted criminal on the run. To achieve this he had to incite violence, killings and arson by his red brigades , he had to buy millions of votes and now it is cash-in time....Since he is a megalomaniac and since he does not live here anymore he seems totally out-of-touch with reality...He obviously dictates his cronies how they should think and what they should say. And he keeps dreaming the people in Thailand love him....Keeps forgetting he broke the law and now wants to use dictatorial methods to stop a rally against him??? This man should be made president of the moon.....
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Discussion 58 : 23 Nov 2012 at 17.0558
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@morgo #55: And how about people who want a real democracy and not the distorted Shinawatra version without checks and balances, with a criminal fugitive as the thinker for the government and suspected terrorists who are only not in jail because they are MPs and have immunity? Democracy is more than getting enough votes every couple of years. Look at the former soviet “democratic” counties. Often the ruling parties received 90% and more of the votes. Was that democratic? I know the example if not perfect but you get the idea.
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Discussion 57 : 23 Nov 2012 at 17.0357
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Is it so difficult to understand, that these people want to express their frustration and opinion?No one asked openly for a coup and no one said to freeze the country for 5 years. This misunderstanding was corrected. If this protest gets violent, then it is the fault of this government with all their restrictive and dictatorial rules and measures, which drives the people mad.
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Discussion 56 : 23 Nov 2012 at 17.0056
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So it's ok when the red skirt leaders promote violence, "bring in one million liters of fuel to burn Bangkok down" and actually go thru with it?

The reds set a precedent, the silent majority is just following suit and as a Thai, I completely support it. What goes around comes around. The Taksin clan will go down again...some people never learns their lesson...
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Discussion 55 : 23 Nov 2012 at 16.0955
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It sure is strange that people would want to attend a rally that purports to be in favour of anti democracy.
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Discussion 54 : 23 Nov 2012 at 16.0854
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D49 : In my opinion,polls are easily manipulated both by the questions they ask,how they ask these questions(leading or not leading)and who they ask these questions. Anyone could make a poll which gave the wanted result.
Opinion polls tell you what between 1000-2000 selected people thinks,in a country of 66 million. LOL! Absurd.
They don't publish who the target groups for these polls are or how the questions are presented and are therefore useless as hints of what the general public actually thinks.
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Discussion 53 : 23 Nov 2012 at 16.0753
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I can't believe the support here for Boonlert. A reminder from a prior BKK article about his admitted goals: "If I had military power in hand, I would have staged a coup. I am now waiting to see how Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief, will react to my call. I am still confident he has not changed his stand or sided with the government...If a coup did take place, an interim government would be set up. If this was not acceptable to other countries, we could close the country." (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/318949/seh-ai-govt-must-go) Close the country? For good?
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Discussion 52 : 23 Nov 2012 at 15.1752
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The caption on frontpage says "Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra asked the public to stay away from the Royal Plaza and Gen Boonlert Kaewprasit's Pitak Siam rally on Saturday,..." Did she say that, I wonder.
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Discussion 51 : 23 Nov 2012 at 14.5851
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Why Pitak Siam inciting a change of government by force? Not corruption or disloyalty or mismanagement of this government, because there is no evidence. Before the previous rally, they promised to show evidence of corruption and until now there is none. The old power that has been controlling Thailand's societies through corruptions, illegal trading of drugs, prostitution, money lending-just to name a few, is losing ground to the rapidly awakening of the masses on their political rights and the right to better quality of life. If it is not about these, then what exactly are they demanding? The Country is now moving forward.
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Discussion 50 : 23 Nov 2012 at 14.4350
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I think the gov. has realized that it is "game over" after 15 month dividing the country in reds and yellows. And there is nothing that the gov. can do to stop the change of gov that will come soon.
It is time for madam PM to resign or she will be fired.
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