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Linking to this article in Thailand could get you jailed: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/king-bhumibol-adulyadej-of-thailand-the-monarch-whose-silence-is-deafening-1979998.html While the men with the M16s sat outside my door yesterday I telephoned a Thai lawyer friend and...

Army dressed like journalists, shooting into temple, sniper in "self defence", killing of clearly marked medics. Any convention not broken? Does anyone think that a regime behaving like this to delay elections six months was committed to holding elections in six months?

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Looks like that point has already been reached in Thailand - red Siam is the socialist faction within the red shirt movement - Thailand: The Announcement of Sayam Dang (Red Siam) No. 4. "Our Path Towards True Democracy". Dang Siam 've Been Following the situation During the months of April...

Distressed Thai woman on Facebook just asked Michael Yon "Can you tell me what to think? I really don't believe this." No one believes anything CNN says even if they quote the official death toll: One soldier dead, shot by his own side. 80, almost certainly unarmed (unless you count fireworks...

This Thailand situation has made me think - at what point is OK to overthrow the state in armed revolution? How much repression is necessary? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution Not much more to say now. Just curious what others think.

Interesting to compare this Thai newspaper's take on the temple attacks, with The Independent's... pretty much a lesson in propaganda and disinformation: "Col Sansern also said that there were attempts to attack protesters taking at Wat Pathumwanaram, in Ratchaprasong, where more than 5,000...

Federico Ferrara: Here are some comments I offered in a short email interview with a Reuters correspondent in Bangkok. 1. What happens from here. Do the red shirts go underground with their leadership now detained (or in the case of Seh Daeng, killed)? In some ways they had very much a...

Michael Yon thinks this is hilarious: http://bit.ly/cOKL1Y -- his latests "reports" have been that and the fact that "Tampons are hard to find in Bangkok". People on his FB page love it, saying "please tell the truth about those terrorists that love Thaksin, not our dear King"... he's blocked me...

1000 people trapped inside temple for over a day (was supposed to be a refuge) escape this morning. They were pinned down by snipers - likely right wing vigilantes - in a military controlled zone. Ten dead. What is becoming clearer from speaking to various sources is that red shirts are highly...

"For Mr Abhisit, who always seemed such a decent man, this is a victory, but a victory of which he can only decently feel ashamed." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7131331.ece Big up Richard L. Parry who stood at the front lines with protesters.

"The red-shirt protesters who massed in Bangkok more than two months ago don't accept that they can be excluded from playing an active part in the modern life of the nation. They are angry because Mr. Thaksin was overthrown in a military coup in September 2006. And they are angry that their...

Thanks Polystyle. Right wing newspaper commentator for The Nation (Thai government propaganda rag) has just called for the government to set up vigilante groups of "concerned citizens". Jesus, it just gets worse. Seems people want a full replay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gaur "Let's do...

Video - protest crushed: "He said that earlier in the afternoon he witnessed a Thai man being shot by the military just metres from the temple. "I saw the bullet come straight out of the other side of his chest and he just dropped to the ground," he said. When he and a monk went to help the...

Terrorist taken out by brave Thai army:

"Politics 101: Make them so afraid they'll love you forever. Put your mind in the head of the person governing the apparatus. It's the simplest formula in governing a state. The average person is not aware of this because they can't imagine how vicious one has to be." Recommend everyone check...

Counting the friends I've lost over this on more than one hand now. Course I could've just ignored it. But it's hard when you feel passionate. Human rights are a universal issue imo.

Yep, but as I say... that's a result of the media war. btw I wasn't suggesting I'm the voice of reason, I'm saying the person with the most responsibility should man up... (btw it's possible you could be arrested for what I just said in the last sentence in Thailand).

http://tinyurl.com/2wyawp2 would imagine my comments at the bottom here will be taken very badly =( Someone needs to be a voice of reason. As someone said earlier if brother & sister are fighting, who needs to take responsibly? Unfortunately Daddy loves one of his children more in this case...