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Big rally turn-out surprises govt

Siam Pitak group plans to escalate protest action

Published: 29 Oct 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Buoyed by what it calls a big turn-out, the Siam Pitak group is planning to hold its next rally against the Pheu Thai-led government within a month.

Anti-government protest groups turn up in force at the Royal Turf Club in the Nang Loeng area. The Pitak Siam group, the rally’s organiser, claimed the event drew 20,000 people, while police estimates put the number at a more modest 6,000. PATIPAT JANTHONG

Gen Boonlert Kaewprasit, a retired officer and the core organiser, believes the campaign is gathering momentum.

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mutley
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Discussion 108 : 05 Nov 2012 at 12.48108
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I can't see a lot of difference between the parties here. Thai governance is appalling whoever is in power and votes are bought anyway. The 'big' people fill the 'little' peoples' heads with nationalistic nonsense instead of giving them a decent education since it it in their interests to keep them in the dark. Anyone who knows English history will know what they had to do to get good governance. Not that they have it now but it's still better than the Thais get.
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Discussion 107 : 01 Nov 2012 at 11.38107
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Nui: All your comments are straight forward and the count on attendance is more accurate than what Deputy PM Chalerm guesstimated. Whatever Chalerm said or predicted, the result always on the opposite end! That is amazing Thailand! One day he wants to be in-charged on the south, the next day some one took the post, ha!
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Discussion 106 : 01 Nov 2012 at 08.42106
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#95 - only 32% of all eligible voters voted PTP - even of all participating voters, PTP still failed to achieve a majority - garnering a mere 48%. Hardly sounds like a mandate. Sure, the Democrats got even less. Real progress will begin to be made when people stop putting their faith in politicians and self-serving parties of all kinds, and start putting that faith instead in themselves and their local communities pursuing pragmatism, not politics. Luckily for Thailand, the silent majority already seems to be doing this.
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Discussion 105 : 01 Nov 2012 at 08.39105
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#99 The World Bank consists of the most parasitic destructive corporate-financier interests on Earth. For a "people's power" proponent, John, you sure exhibit an affinity and an array of peculiar proclivities toward sources and institutions representing the very antithesis of human empowerment and freedom!
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Discussion 104 : 30 Oct 2012 at 09.57104
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This rally was legitimate D80 and did any one of the participant’s get violent calling for a coup or to burn down etc.? No it was a peaceful rally and the people who attended have the rights to express their feelings and disapprovals of a (the) Government. The Red’s and UDD could learn from how to organize such kind of rallies but do they want?
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Discussion 103 : 30 Oct 2012 at 07.11103
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johninbkk - com'n john, you can remember the loan default rate in about 2003 and 2004. The highest Thailand has ever seen. Every single expat living there remembers except you. I often research my self when you make outrages claims. Provide proof it isn't true. Remember Thai Framers Bank almost going bankrupt?
I love how this peaceful rally has all the reds and PTP fanboys up in arms. Once again, it's only democratic if PTP/UDD does it. Any one else and it's wrong.
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Discussion 102 : 30 Oct 2012 at 06.27102
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brilliant 101 - "Loans that were given to farmers, etc that about 99% defaulted on"
Please cite your source.

"And a change in the poverty line."
The change was to reflect inflation, *increasing* the number of people considered living in poverty. Without that change, the poverty reduction (as calculated) would have been even greater.
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Discussion 101 : 30 Oct 2012 at 05.49101
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brilliant - "Sound like disrespecting the entire academia of Thailand as well as 98% of the"

Interesting that there was a complete sentence there that continued...."foreigners in Thailand that I promise you are smarter than reds."
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Discussion 100 : 30 Oct 2012 at 05.06100
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johninbkk - ""...incidence of poverty in terms of headcount has fallen from 21.3 percent in 2000 (14.2 percent in 2000 based on the old poverty line) to 11.3 percent in 2004. "

Coincides VERY nicely with the highest default rate on personal loans in Thai history. Loans that were given to farmers, etc that about 99% defaulted on after they got their new cell phones, motorbikes and TVs. And a change in the poverty line. LOL, good old john spinning away.

dom -"PTP won because millions of voters used their brains and figured out that voting PT was better ..."

Sound like disrespecting the entire academia of Thailand as well as 98% of the
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Discussion 99 : 30 Oct 2012 at 02.0999
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bangmodken - Why must the anti-TS crowd resort to name-calling and personal attacks? World Bank Thailand Economic Monitor, Nov, 2005:

"...incidence of poverty in terms of headcount has fallen from 21.3 percent in 2000 (14.2 percent in 2000 based on the old poverty line) to 11.3 percent in 2004. This decline was mainly contributed by the reduction in the number of poor in the Northeast. The Northeast, which is the most populous region and houses more than half of Thailand’s poor, has seen a reduction in headcount from 35 percent of population in 2000 to 17.2 percent in 2004."
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