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as you may have noticed, time has weighed heavy on my hands. but i've been enterprising.

i've got some t-shirts made up. "i survived the (tire)Burning of Bangkok"

they are in red, of course, although reversible to yellow if the need arises. the yellow side is the standard "i love the King" with hearts and bunnies.

the red side (outer side) we've got Toxin Squarehead (only head and ferocious finger visible) saying, "The moment the first bullet flies, i will be there! I am willing to fight to the last drop of your blood!"

on the back is Weng, in one of those vietnamese caps with a red star, dressed in khmer rouge blackpants and top, hoisting an AK47 aloft and proclaiming, "You have nothing to fear from my defensive gun!"

the shirts are only 35GBP (Weng says, "Special price for you, folang).

beej is handling the orders for me, so contact him. we're givin a 10% dozen order discount if you want to send some home to friends and family.

pics of the product soon. (the price is high because it is 100% organic cotton grown by contented farmers. seriously, look at the label. it's genuine.)

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Classic quote from Ratchaprasong News...

Bart Hoedemaker

Sickening suspression of freedom going on right now. I hope reds will siege victory and kill the communist dictators that rule thailand for so long

errrm... I think Siam Daeng will have something to say about that...

The others are trying to explain what communist and fascist is....

... and they are failing to note that anti-gay and anti-foreigner are traits of fascism AND Red Shirts.

(@Admin... Bill, would you like to mention that next time you are on their site?)

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From Ratchaprasong News

Sloan Bettis

Looks like Dr. Weng has stopped shaving. Sad to see him sitting there like that. Having a few good books will help to pass the time. Remember, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 28 years and left jail to become the President of the Republic of South Africa.

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Bettis must know a lot about Thailand!

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From Ratchaprasong News

Sloan Bettis

Looks like Dr. Weng has stopped shaving. Sad to see him sitting there like that. Having a few good books will help to pass the time. Remember, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 28 years and left jail to become the President of the Republic of South Africa.

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Bettis must know a lot about Thailand!

That guy is a classic!

He was the guy who wrote, "The TANKS are coming! Don't be afraid... their fronts are strong, but their tops and rear are weak!"

No tanks came... I think they parked some water cannons at Asoke.

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From Ratchaprasong News

Sloan Bettis

Looks like Dr. Weng has stopped shaving. Sad to see him sitting there like that. Having a few good books will help to pass the time. Remember, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 28 years and left jail to become the President of the Republic of South Africa.

:roll:

Bettis must know a lot about Thailand!

That guy is a classic!

He was the guy who wrote, "The TANKS are coming! Don't be afraid... their fronts are strong, but their tops and rear are weak!"

No tanks came... I think they parked some water cannons at Asoke.

He's a moron troll, yes I say it!!! That Sloan Bettis might be his fake name. He must be jerking off while he posting on Ratchaprasong News. I stop reading that Ratchaprasong News page or I will go out kicking some innocent trees again!

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From Ratchaprasong News

Sloan Bettis

Looks like Dr. Weng has stopped shaving. Sad to see him sitting there like that. Having a few good books will help to pass the time. Remember, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 28 years and left jail to become the President of the Republic of South Africa.

:roll:

Bettis must know a lot about Thailand!

i don't kno, 28 years in jail for all the leaders sounds like a really nice character test to me. if they can sit chained to those iron beds for twenty eight years, get out and tell their followers one more time, "Burn this mother fucker down!" hell, I'LL vote for em.

but twenty eight YEARS to consider their words and motivation is a requirement. twenty eight DAYS will not do.

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From Ratchaprasong News

Sloan Bettis

Looks like Dr. Weng has stopped shaving. Sad to see him sitting there like that. Having a few good books will help to pass the time. Remember, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 28 years and left jail to become the President of the Republic of South Africa.

:roll:

Bettis must know a lot about Thailand!

That guy is a classic!

He was the guy who wrote, "The TANKS are coming! Don't be afraid... their fronts are strong, but their tops and rear are weak!"

No tanks came... I think they parked some water cannons at Asoke.

damn they SO could have used his expertise at Tiananmen Square.

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Bump...

And... in Tianamen, it seemed like the best defense against tanks were two plastic bags of groceries and balls of steel!

Wonder what happened to that guy....

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speaking of huge, "som oh" sized balls, who show'd the greatest testicular fortitude in the recent troubles?

my vote goes to terryfrd. that boy is absolutely squirrelpack nuts. he hung in there tweeting while "Jonestown plus Grenades" unfolded around him. there was NO TELLING what those nutty mofos were gonna do, and terryfrd just kept tweetin/translatin. 1000x better than CNN up in the Dusitthani behind untouched plate glass.

ps now that the guy mentioned it, the tops and backs of those tanks do look really vulnerable. more beckoning than a porcupine at matin time.

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AN Australian man has been arrested in Thailand following two months of Red Shirt protests.

The man has been identified as as Conor David Purcell, an ex-soldier working in Bangkok as a language teacher, ABC News reported.

Mr Purcell, 30, was arrested under the emergency decree used to end almost the protests in Bangkok.

Purcell was arrested at his apartment complex in the city on Sunday.

Thai authorities say he incited unrest while speaking from the stage of the Red Shirt protest camp on two occasions, ABC News reported.

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AN Australian man has been arrested in Thailand following two months of Red Shirt protests.

The man has been identified as as Conor David Purcell, an ex-soldier working in Bangkok as a language teacher, ABC News reported.

Mr Purcell, 30, was arrested under the emergency decree used to end almost the protests in Bangkok.

Purcell was arrested at his apartment complex in the city on Sunday.

Thai authorities say he incited unrest while speaking from the stage of the Red Shirt protest camp on two occasions, ABC News reported.

Now there is a reason to celebrate!

Hope they lock him up or throw him into Myanmar with iPhones strapped to him.

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The curfew has been a nice change.

I've never seen Bangkok so quiet, serene and peaceful at night.

me too...

and cops are also having a good time making bucks... 2,000 baht fine and impounding vehicles.

Really what for parking in the wrong areas?

Thirty-six people were arrested in Bangkok for violating the 11pm-4 am curfew Sunday night, raising to 511 the number of arrests since May 20, the Metropolitan Police Bureau announced Monday.

Pol Maj Gen Piya Uthayo, spokesman of the Metropolitan Police, said 511 people have been arrested for violating curfew intentionally or without justified causes since May 20.

They were sentenced to two months in jail and a fine of Bt2,000 each. But the jail term was suspended and they were put on probation for two years, Piya said.

The Nation

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/is-it-ok-to-shoot-foreigners-and-journalists-20100521-w1ur.html

Jack Picone dodged snipers' bullets in Sarajevo. In Bangkok, he's on the other side.

THE heat is unforgiving in Bangkok right now, it is sweltering. I had been in the sun and heat too long and was feeling dreamy. My mind skipped back to when I was covering the war in Sarajevo in 1994.

The Serbs had surrounded the Bosnian capital. Marksmen would sit in the mountains encircling the city, shooting into the valley below, killing or delivering horrific injuries to the people of Sarajevo. Every time I left my hotel room I wondered if I was in the sniper's cross-hairs. Would I be next? I really wanted to see the face of the sniper.

Fast forward, as an M79 grenade landed with a hell of a bang in front of the bunker I was in. This is not Sarajevo, this is Bangkok 2010. I am in a Thai Army bunker face to face with a sniper. He looks ordinary enough, and has a young, boyish face. He has a high-powered rifle with telescopic sights and next to him is another soldier who has high-tech binoculars. He speaks in a low, reverent tone, relaying information to the rifleman. His conversation seems like a code, a mixture of numbers and co-ordinates about wind, velocity and direction. It is chilling.

The Red Shirts are about 200 metres up the road. They pop out of the side street and hurl one of their primitive improvised devices or launch one of their homemade rockets (fire crackers) that explode far short of the bunker I am in. I can't help thinking that the army is replying with heavy-handed and disproportionate force. But then I hear the sickening whirl of incoming high-velocity bullets, coming close to the bunker, followed by the thump of M79 grenades.

As the sniper listens to the directions his body becomes absolutely still, one eye closed tightly, the other plugged into the malleable eyecup of the telescopic sight, his index finger flitting between the guard that houses the trigger and the trigger itself. He listens intently to the murmur from his comrade sighting the Red Shirts through binoculars as they pop out from a side street, hurl a projectile or shout taunts at the soldiers.

The sniper's concentration is intense. Safety catch off, will he squeeze the trigger? A life hangs in the balance. No, the index finger moves slowly back to the trigger guard. I watch these micro moments repeated over and over again with great stress because I know that when he squeezes that trigger somebody is almost certainly going to die or be horribly maimed. His index finger slowly moves to the trigger, a slow, smooth, squeezing movement, then the explosion of the high-powered bullet. The sound is deafening.

The sniper and his comrade are like two surgeons operating with great precision. Ahead of the bunker, Rama IV Road, normally a major arterial road, is empty. The soldiers are becoming agitated by the return gunfire and exploding M79s, and send back a rain of bullets at the Red Shirts.

There is a lull in the fire, and in a twist of reality, one of the soldiers yells across the road to an officer in an adjacent bunker: ''Is it OK to shoot foreigners and journalists?''

I am mortified. There is a pause before the answer is screamed back from the adjacent bunker: ''No''.

I crane my head around a cement wall that adjoins the bunker and I can see foreign photojournalists in the distance. I call a colleague on my mobile phone and ask where she is. It is close to where the sniper is aiming. I say quietly: ''I am with army snipers and I think you are in their sights, get the f--- out of there, move to the side. I would go down the side street now, they are going to shoot!''

His finger squeezes again - it is excruciatingly slow - and his deadly payload is delivered again but she has moved out of the line of fire.

Jack Picone is a freelance photojournalist based in Bangkok.

Someone on Ratahcaprasong News linked to this story... obviously missing the parts about incoming high velocity bullets and M79 grenades.

And as far as 'indiscriminate' firing on Red Shirts, it's clear this was not the case from this eye witness account.

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