Comments on: Bad Day For Bangkok

By: KonThai

KonThai — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:08:16 +0000

This is the way Thai police and politicians always treat people who do not agree with them. That’s why the protesters want to change to the new political system. Although I do not agree with the protesters all the issues, I agree with them at this point that too much corruption in Thai society due to Thaksinomics (new term of corruption which the ousted PM brought to THAILAND a couple of years ago) and we need to do something to make those politicians and police realize that they have to change their behaviors. As you can see it is easy to become the PM in Thailand if you were Thaksin’s relative. The representatives and parliament didn’t do their job at all. Police always serve the politicians and never stand beside people at all.

By: Cashmere

Cashmere — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:30:47 +0000

Oh dear! I thought the situation in Bangkok has cleared up already till I saw you post..
I hope everything will settle down soon… ={

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:41:12 +0000

* update *

Forensic official identified the victim in a bomb attack in front of Chart Thai Party as a man aged between 40-50 years old.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:39:32 +0000

I couldn’t agree much more with you, Pat. Whenever I hear the term ‘Thai police’ it just makes me cringe. They simply haven’t got a clue, not a bloody clue. They’re not only corrupt to the point of nausea, but totally, totally incompetent and useless.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:20:49 +0000

There’s this clip of a policeman firing a tear gas canister into the crowd on the Nation’s website. Now I recall that from watching one of the shows on the Discovery channel that these tear gas guns/launchers are meant to be fired onto the ground around the proximity of a crowd, NOT aimed directly into the crowd like how you would a conventional gun or rifle as shown in this clip

This simply shows the lack of police training and incompetence in handling crowd control situations. These morons aren’t even properly trained to properly operate a simple crowd dispersal equipment such as the tear gas grenade launcher. Even a guy like me who’s just watched a few shows on the Discovery channel knows how to at least properly fire a tear gas grenade launcher.
Instead of using tear gas, why didn’t the police/government use water cannons which are just as effective and would’ve less likely escalated the situation.