Holy shit folks, there’s been a coup d’etat in Thailand!
Update:
I had a chat with my Thai colleague… may be I’ll summarize this later:
Gary says: Egg, what do you think of the revolution in Thailand?
Egg says: peaceful actually
Egg says: this will gone in 1 or 2 days
Gary says: really?
Egg says: Bangkok love festival and dont like wall
Egg says: yeah
Gary says: so there’s no threat to the prime minister?
Egg says: no
Egg says: they are happy now
Gary says: so people like the prime minister?
Egg says: not at all
Egg says: he not good
Egg says: that why we happy
Gary says: so you think the military is just going to give up to the prime minister, when he comes back from new york?
Egg says: umm he wont back to thailand yet
Egg says: and family are in London
Egg says: they will fly here to set up something to fight by mouth
Gary says: and you think he’s going to win?
Egg says: i dont think so
Gary says: so you think the military is going to stay in power?
Egg says: yeah but not the bad power
Egg says: it’s good power
Gary says: but what if they don’t give up their power?
Gary says: didn’t this happen in 1991, and the military wanted to stay in power?
Egg says: no that one is only 1 man who hungry
Gary says: so what’s the military going to do this time? what’s their plan?
Egg says: it just make the prime minister not come to power again cos he want to sell our country
Gary says: he wants to sell thailand?
Egg says: part of thailand the land
Egg says: sell everything
Egg says: he quite dangerous
Gary says: well, when is the military going to give up their power?
Egg says: the power is still but we will vote for good ppl again
Egg says: we need good prime minister
Gary says: so they’re going to have another election?
Egg says: after we clear all bad away first
Gary says: seems like that might be hard…
Egg says: yeah but we have to
Egg says: our country lost so many thing for him already
Gary says: what kinds of things has he done?
Egg says: many
Egg says: all about money
Gary says: hmm… thanks for filling me in
You’re the closest thing I have to an ‘inside man’ over there. Keep us up to date on the ‘pulse of the region’ like only you can my friend.
There’s not much of a pulse on this island *cough*state-sponsored-and-censored media*cough* but I’ll try.
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For once, I knew about this before I read it here. Thank you Chicago Tribune!
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They have coups all the time… Haven’t they had more coups in the last 40 years than we’ve had national elections or something ridiculous? I believe the count is at about 18 or 19..
I guess elections take too long for them.