Thailand braces for mass ‘red shirt’ protests

March 11, 2010

“Thailand has mobilised about 40,000 security personnel ahead of mass rallies by “red shirt” opposition protesters over the coming days.” – from BBC

Well, hello 2008, all over again. Only this time, I’m not in Thailand. Seeing news like this makes me happy I’m no longer living there. But that makes me sad because Thailand is definitely one of the places I feel at home in. Honestly, I don’t see what more there is to protest about. Stuff over the last two years have shown that neither party’s will ever be satisfied with either government. Whether their respective governments do a good job of looking after the country, well they both have done their bit so we can’t really say one is better than the other, it just depends on who you’re talking to.

The saddest thing about this, from what I’ve seen in 200,8 is that while these two political lots duke it out, its the people who just want to go about their business trying to earn a decent living who will suffer. And a decent living isn’t exactly easy to earn in Thailand if you aren’t one of those lucky ones who have the right everything. Maybe its less a matter of which government is less corrupt or ‘better’ but more a matter of who can slap these political idiots upside the head and tell them to fuck off and stop creating trouble so their country can maintain some form of economic stability for everyone.