Comments on: Thailand divided http://www.reportageonline.com/2010/07/thailand-divided/ Magazine of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Brown http://www.reportageonline.com/2010/07/thailand-divided/comment-page-1/#comment-810 David Brown Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:29:05 +0000 http://www.reportageonline.com/?p=5200#comment-810 why do you claim "UDD leaders painted the conflict in broad strokes: we’re fighting against rich people who exploit us to live in luxury in the city. " whereas they really said they wanted new elections to be called maybe this is a class war but it has come to a head, not specifically just because of envy, because the rich and powerful decide who is in power and they will not accept the vote of the people Thailand has no democratic institutions because the military/royals keep violating them the military/royals must learn to accept the results of elections, and the rest of the country must organise themselves to compete for power freely without intervention by the military! why do you claim “UDD leaders painted the conflict in broad strokes: we’re fighting against rich people who exploit us to live in luxury in the city. ”

whereas they really said they wanted new elections to be called

maybe this is a class war but it has come to a head, not specifically just because of envy, because the rich and powerful decide who is in power and they will not accept the vote of the people

Thailand has no democratic institutions because the military/royals keep violating them

the military/royals must learn to accept the results of elections, and the rest of the country must organise themselves to compete for power freely without intervention by the military!

]]> By: David Brown http://www.reportageonline.com/2010/07/thailand-divided/comment-page-1/#comment-811 David Brown Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:29:00 +0000 http://www.reportageonline.com/?p=5200#comment-811 why do you claim "UDD leaders painted the conflict in broad strokes: we’re fighting against rich people who exploit us to live in luxury in the city. " whereas they really said they wanted new elections to be called maybe this is a class war but it has come to a head, not specifically just because of envy, because the rich and powerful decide who is in power and they will not accept the vote of the people Thailand has no democratic institutions because the military/royals keep violating them the military/royals must learn to accept the results of elections, and the rest of the country must organise themselves to compete for power freely without intervention by the military! why do you claim “UDD leaders painted the conflict in broad strokes: we’re fighting against rich people who exploit us to live in luxury in the city. ”

whereas they really said they wanted new elections to be called

maybe this is a class war but it has come to a head, not specifically just because of envy, because the rich and powerful decide who is in power and they will not accept the vote of the people

Thailand has no democratic institutions because the military/royals keep violating them

the military/royals must learn to accept the results of elections, and the rest of the country must organise themselves to compete for power freely without intervention by the military!

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