January 3, 2009
Even as the red shirt are in the process of re-defining themselves into a fighting force for democracy, to the point that red shirt leader Veera said, “Thaksin will always have a special place in the red shirt hearts for helping bring democracy to the grassroots,
but from here on we will increasingly be about fighting for democracy and against the military proxy government of Abisit.”
Those words must have been like a stake into the heart of military proxies such as Abisit,because since last week, coming out of the proxy side is nothing but a bunch of fierce attacks of the red shirt starting with Mark who said-only a day or two after his American style accepting to the PM speech that he seek peace with all parts of society.
Mark said, “The red shirt are nothing but a bunch of fake protesters who are paid to gather for political means and nothing more.”
Those are strong words indeed as in every red shirt rally so far, the numbers gyrates, not with the interest but with how big the venue is-meaning when the venue can accommodate about 100,000 about that amount showed up and when it can accommodate half that, about half that showed up.
To stop and think just a minuet how much money it would take if Mark was right and the people are being paid to attend, the amount staggers the mind and really turns Mark opinion into nothing but a lie mighty quickly.
In the mean time, all sort of people in the hundreds-from government ministers, to academic, to industry leaders, to politicians and others-have joined in a major chorus that the red shirt should stop for the sake of the country. Many of these, are the same people that only a month ago cheered the PAD occupation of the airports.
Yet Mark isn’t the only one painting the red shirt into a “monster”, Thep Turk just today told the much respected Thai Rath mass circulated that “I will seek to talk to the red shirt boss and that is Thaksin to see if I can reason with him to stop the red shirt political activities that is hurting the country.”
Again very strong words that just boils down the red shirt into a proxy of Thaksin interest. Thep Turk went further and said, “But Thaksin is welcome to return to Thailand but must face the just judicial system here.”
Again Thap Turk invokes strong feelings at the red shirt who after the coup, on countless cases, have had to witness a Thai judiciary system gone “active in hunting down the forces of democracy.”
It is getting way too much-this insistence that the Thai courts are fair-to the point that today Sae Nand, the one of the key man pulling the Mark’s government together and handles “Political Issues” for the coalition government, came out of no-where and said the privy council should be the one to appoint people to the Thai independent agencies like the Election Commission and the Anti-Corruption Body.
It is getting way too much-this insistence that the Thai courts are fair-to the point that today Sae Nand, the one of the key man pulling the Mark’s government together and handles “Political Issues” for the coalition government, came out of no-where and said the privy council should be the one to appoint people to the Thai independent agencies like the Election Commission and the Anti-Corruption Body.
That must have hit some nerves at the red shirt who are trying to get prople elected to positions, not appointed-and certainly not by the privy council. Sae Nand action is nothing but a ploy tpo draw a response from the red shirt-against the privy-so it can use in the turning the red shirt into a monster.
Mark, followed by Thep Turn and now Sae Nand, are all doing what they can to paint the red shirt into a force for being much hated in the upper class of Thai society. By linking Thaksin to the red shirt, obsessively as they have been doing, is nothing but an attempt to kill the red shirt legitimacy, reducing it to a force that only seek to get special treatment for a corrupted figure-Thaksin.
We will all have to wait and see how the red shirt will respond to all of this.But scanning the international press, practically all still brand the red shirt as Thaksin supporters. Not a single one brand it as a force fighting for Democracy.
Even with all the democratic banners at the last gathering of about 50,000 red shirt with most carrying democratic banners and very few Thaksin, foreign press still haven’t changed their tune.
The game is, “make them look like they are just interested in getting Thaksin off the hook.”In fact, if one wants concrete evidenc of what is going on-minus the propaganda on both sides-the sign of the changing time came much earlier with red shirt TV.
Even with all the democratic banners at the last gathering of about 50,000 red shirt with most carrying democratic banners and very few Thaksin, foreign press still haven’t changed their tune.
The game is, “make them look like they are just interested in getting Thaksin off the hook.”In fact, if one wants concrete evidenc of what is going on-minus the propaganda on both sides-the sign of the changing time came much earlier with red shirt TV.
In that there has to be a special fund raising to get money to get the red shirt TV channel going and today, we don’t know if the fund raising raised enough money or not because red shirt channel isn’t on the air yet.
If Thaksin is really behind the red shirt, a special donation of some 100 million baht for the TV station is really nothing for Thaksin, even these days of rumored that Thaksin is having money problems
But still the red shirt had to raise funds, and that seem clear enough that Thaksin and the red shirt do have some distance. And if this point isn’t clear enough, take the concept of the “phone in” which was use before to fill the venue with people.
Well there have been several rounds of gathering already that went on with no talk of a phone in by Thaksin.
If Thaksin is really behind the red shirt, a special donation of some 100 million baht for the TV station is really nothing for Thaksin, even these days of rumored that Thaksin is having money problems
But still the red shirt had to raise funds, and that seem clear enough that Thaksin and the red shirt do have some distance. And if this point isn’t clear enough, take the concept of the “phone in” which was use before to fill the venue with people.
Well there have been several rounds of gathering already that went on with no talk of a phone in by Thaksin.
And thousands and thousands still came to the meeting for protest. Veera, leader of the red shirt, said it simply, “We can always have a Thaksin phone in, but that isn’t what is important. What is important is that we gather to demand for democracy.”
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