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muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 06:37 AM Jan 2014

Thailand protesters block early election vote

Source: BBC

Protesters in Thailand have surrounded polling stations, blocking early voting ahead of next week's general election, officials say.

One of their leaders has been shot dead during a clash with government supporters just outside the capital, Bangkok.
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Anti-government activists want PM Yingluck Shinawatra to step down and the political system to be reformed.
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Voting was either blocked completely or halted at 48 out of 50 polling stations in Bangkok.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25900604

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Since the protestors, aka the sore losers of the last election, are preventing voters in the only
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 11:40 AM
Jan 2014

places in Thailand where they might be the majority, what is their point?

And why does no one point out the remarkable restraint of the government that permits takeovers of government institutions, compare with the Ukraine government, compare the different consequences and results.

OregonBlue

(7,744 posts)
2. Sounds like you don't know much about what's going on in Thailand.
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 12:28 PM
Jan 2014

The current government is run by the sister of Taksin Shinawatra who is an oligarch who fled the country after he was convicted of major fraud. He gave lots of perks to people in rural areas to get elected and bought lots of votes but he was making crooked deals right and left that benefited his own corporations. One of those deals included a contract for communications with the junta in Berma. It was for hundreds of millions. It was negotiated in secret with no input from anyone except Taksin's appointed goons. Guess who's communications company was the sole winner of that contract?

She is nothing but a puppet of her brothers corrupt empire and the people want her gone.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Like others that have replied to me beginning with a personal insult, you also fail
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:13 PM
Jan 2014

to respond to my point that the elected, by voters, as in like a internationally monitored election, government has NOT resorted to even a smidgen of violence and has permitted the highly organized and amply funded by corporations "protests" to continue to the point of allowing takeovers of government buildings without resistance for months and months....but you already knew that.

Why are the "protesters" so afraid of elections? Why not fight the battle with the voters as offered?

 

Demenace

(213 posts)
5. Fred, you are not alone...
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:26 PM
Jan 2014


When honest people fail to speak up, people with no knowledge or honesty fill the public space and that is what is happening on most political threads nowadays. The same thing happened with the voting public when the 99% failed to show up and vote during mid term elections, the 1% rallied their uneducated few who voted against their own interest and you know how this story ends with the Tea party and Republicans in the United states.

You have to keep speaking up against dishonest people anywhere you find them, if you stop which is what they would like you to do, they win!

warrant46

(2,205 posts)
8. The 1% in Thailand want their boot heel on the neck of the poor
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 05:25 PM
Jan 2014

A fair democratic election is an anathema to them.

 

Demenace

(213 posts)
4. And you know more about the 1% trying to get power without winning elections...
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 01:21 PM
Jan 2014

So, it is now a bad thing for a government to weigh more towards the 99%? I thought that was what we have been asking for all these years? If the 1% and their election blocking thugs do not believe in elections, it is not the fault of the government. That we here will stand behind anyone who is blocking the practice of participating in elections will be a sad commentary on us, not the rural folks in Thailand who deserve a government that will put their interest above those of your rich pals and their goons on the streets!

warrant46

(2,205 posts)
7. PM Yingluck was elected in a FAIR Election by the poor people
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 05:22 PM
Jan 2014

The industrialists and the Rich want to have the military come in and create a new military Junta run by Thailand's one percent.

The rich will lose this election too.

The military in Thailand likes to perform Coups. They have done many in the last 50 years

OregonBlue

(7,744 posts)
10. In fact, the poor people in the north are paid for their votes. It's not even a secret in
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 12:19 PM
Jan 2014

Thailand. And it's not the industrialists and rich who oppose the current government, it's the middle class.

warrant46

(2,205 posts)
11. Regardless of how or why they vote their votes count
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 12:49 PM
Jan 2014

Yingluck was Democratically elected by a majority of the people.

And despite the attempts to stop Democracy she will win again.

Then the Military will conduct a Coup with the Blessing of Themselves, Upper Classes, the Prior Ruling Elite and the Rich who will then run a benevolent dictatorship. Just like the last 5 ruling Coups like these 3 in the last 20 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_October_1976_Massacre Thammasat University massacre



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_May

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Thai_military_crackdown

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
6. What they really need to block the vote is Voter ID laws.
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 03:07 PM
Jan 2014

Do it the GOP way, voter IDs, few polling places, no early voting, and voter registration drives restricted.
The tea party way.

 

Demenace

(213 posts)
9. And these are the elements some around here will have us cheer on!
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 05:34 PM
Jan 2014


That we are so smart that we have become the very thing we decry is so amazing!
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