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Originally published Sept. 20, 2009
Thailand’s so called new politicians standing for — for what exactly? — once again made it possible that the kingdom featured the headlines of CNN. Citizens hunting down citizens with batons, machetes and glowing metallic eyes.
While red shirts were protesting peace- and cheerfully at a Bangkok rally despite torrential rains — it’s always pouring when the reds gather, understand? — the yellows provoked martial law. And again are sure that they do the right thing.
Despite appeals from the country’s leadership that they’re actually fighting for an absurd cause the yellows engaged villagers and security forces in battles along the Thai-Cambodian border. Many got hurt, but none arrested.
Again. This is no red publication. The exiled man’s anew assertion that he could bring the country back to glory because without him Thailand risks becoming a failed state, this may please a few reds. But not Thailand’s silent majority.
The exiled man’s stubbornness and a yellow mob standing for anarchy and contempt are an easy explainer why Thai people are forced away from politics. The exiled man wants it again all, while the yellow leadership shows no leadership at all:
They distanced themselves from the marauding mob demanding that the government should talk with them directly. Again, this is a strictly hierarchical, cultish movement. Nothing at the bottom is done without the top’s blessing.
By turning the countryside into a bucolic battle zone they not only discredit nation and crown. Hate only deepens. But look!
The yellows obviously try to distance themselves from their own. They didn’t even wear yellow, but instead of tried to look like locals and farmers. So you could always blame the local ignorants for triggering unrest.
The country needs more of such yellow subversion for the sake of a clearer verdict on election day, whenever that will be. But in a country where the blind can see more clearly than the seeing with all their turning a blind eye to, in such a country the blame game, spinning and twisting of facts will go on as long as there’s partial accountability.
Come on yellows, show us more of that true color of yours you’re obviously ashamed of to show now.
And the great divide becomes more and more partial.
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