'Snooping academic' had anti Pheu Thai, Thaksin stickers

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Pheu Thai campaign posters defaced

Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 13.20
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A northern academic has been arrested for allegedly defacing campaign posters for the Pheu Thai Party’s candidate for Bangkok governor, Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen.

A police patrol on Wednesday arrested Haruethai Saithing, 45 in front of Lad Phrao Soi 45, with about 50 stickers with messages attacking the Pheu Thai Party and fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Mr Haruethai, a native of Chiang Mai, was found "snooping around" the campaign posters, according to the police patrol.

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gleentea
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Discussion 5 : 22 Feb 2013 at 11.205
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"Sure - and where did he get the stickers?"
He had them printed at any of a thousand print shops?
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Discussion 4 : 22 Feb 2013 at 06.144
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"He told police that he was working alone and no one had hired him to put the stickers on the Pheu Thai Party’s campaign posters." Sure - and where did he get the stickers?
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Discussion 3 : 22 Feb 2013 at 01.243
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just a sad individual way out of step from his fellow countrymen and the Thai electorate as a whole, or he was very well paid to get caught.....
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Discussion 2 : 21 Feb 2013 at 21.072
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Wow, could you imagine the whining, feet stomping, and hand wringing that would go on here and in the West if red shirts were arrested for defacing campaign posters (or burning down the city even)? The repetitive, abusive appeal to "human rights" they would endlessly moan about? Double standards indeed.
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Discussion 1 : 21 Feb 2013 at 14.331
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Good to see that there are people such as Khun Haruethai who have not yet fallen victim to the propaganda and intimidation tactics of the "red menace". However, the only campaign posters that I have seen damaged and defaced in Bangkok so far, are those of Khun Sukhumbhand, but there are no reports of any arrests of the ones responsible for these actions. No surprise !
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