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Thai Protests Turn Violent as TV Station Is Stormed
NYT ^
| 4/9/10
| SETH MYDANS
Posted on 04/09/2010 8:43:42 AM PDT by Kartographer
In the first violent clash of a nearly monthlong standoff in Bangkok, antigovernment demonstrators stormed a satellite television station on Friday, climbed over rolls of barbed wire and beat back soldiers and riot police officers who confronted them with tear gas and water cannons.
The violence ended quickly as most of the security forces withdrew and the red-shirted protesters took over the station’s compound. The antigovernment station had been taken off the air as the government’s main action in enforcing a state of emergency declared Wednesday.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: thailand
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More SHTF in Thailand
To: Kartographer
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"anti government demonstrators stormed a satellite television station on Friday, climbed over rolls of barbed wire and beat back soldiers and riot police officers who confronted them with tear gas and water cannons Oh man! They are giving the opposition every opportunity to speak poorly of them. Next thing someone is going to use a non approved word and then they will have destroyed the whole movement.
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To: alieno nomine; angkor; Brian Allen; bsariwat; Central Scrutiniser; Fielding; Flash Bazbeaux; ...
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posted on
04/09/2010 8:53:19 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
To: Kartographer
At least it could never happen here.
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posted on
04/09/2010 8:53:58 AM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: ASA Vet
I thought about having Thai Ping for lunch.
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posted on
04/09/2010 8:54:29 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
To: I see my hands
Looks like Thailand has better more deicated ‘Teabaggers’ than we have here.
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posted on
04/09/2010 8:56:39 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
04/09/2010 8:57:01 AM PDT
by
Porterville
( I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum)
To: Repeat Offender
“At least it could never happen here.”
No can’t happen here not when so many have lost their weapons in tragic fishing boat accidents or washed to sea by hurricane Katrina or.......
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:00:47 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Ingtar
I've been doing the Thai Pings for years.
You are the first SA to use the Thai Ping Lunch joke.
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:09:05 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
To: Kartographer
No can’t happen here not when so many have lost their weapons in tragic fishing boat accidents or washed to sea by hurricane Katrina or....... Yup, mine fell out of a boat and floated away with the tide; ammo too. Darned carbon fiber, plastic, and wood stocks........ who knew they'd float?
I've since seen the error of my ways and decided guns are bad. I think others should have to buy up all of the guns so I won't be tempted to replace the ones that were lost at sea.
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:09:57 AM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: Kartographer
The rural socialists wants back in power. Hopefully the middle and business class can keep Thailand from turning into another Venezuela.
To: Kartographer
“What the government wants is peace and happiness,” he said. “It is the manipulation of information that is creating hate.”
This statement coming soon to a Democrat politician near you.
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:32:23 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Kartographer
I think the NYT was hoping the headline readers would read the first two words as “Tea Protests”.
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:33:26 AM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Kartographer
Which side should we be rooting for in this struggle?
To: ASA Vet
What can I say? I’ll wear the SA title with pride.
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posted on
04/09/2010 9:55:00 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
To: Kartographer; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
I guess the Revolution WILL be televised after all.
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posted on
04/09/2010 10:13:14 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: Kartographer
I hope Obama isn’t taking notes about what to do with opposition media.
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posted on
04/09/2010 10:37:13 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
To: Kartographer
More Marxist than Tea Party.
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posted on
04/09/2010 1:52:42 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: ASA Vet
this went down in Lat Lum Kaeo , a few miles from our house.
I hope our family members had the sense to STAY HOME !
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