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[coalminer]

My wife likes to watch in the background the PAD Channel and their manifestations.

This morning when I returned from bringing my kid to school, my wife told me that the PAD was now promoting a "total closure of Thailand", "pit prathet Thai" and they wanted all the foreigners to leave Thailand.

This sounds pretty serious.

Has anybody else heard or read this?

[soundman]

News to me. I watch the ASTV chanel for a few hours each day.

Sounds like somebody is telling a few porky pies. "go hok nair norn"

[Maestro]

All posts made by the self-confessed returned banned member missismiggins and the replies to these posts have been deleted.

Next, all other posts that are not on topic, ie are not an answer to the OP’s question question whether anybody had heard about the rumour he posted, will be deleted. To refresh everybody’s memory, this rumour and the OP’s question were as follows:

coalminer, on 2008-09-17 14:25:49, said:

...This morning when I returned from bringing my kid to school, my wife told me that the PAD was now promoting a "total closure of Thailand", "pit prathet Thai" and they wanted all the foreigners to leave Thailand...

Has anybody else heard or read this?

The topic will be temporarily closed while I do this clean-up, which will take some time. After it is reopened, please post only if you have heard or read about PAD promoting a "total closure of Thailand", "pit prathet Thai" and that PAD wants all the foreigners to leave Thailand, accompanied with a citation of the source and if possible a link if the source is on the Internet, an image of the news article if the source is a printed publication, a video clip if the source is a television program.
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[steveromagnino]

I am not aware of any of the claims made by the original poster ever being claimed by PAD, and none of the Thai translations in any of the threads created by this poster appear to link to that.

If any party could be claimed to have been closing the ridiculously easy doors, it would be TRT with their enforcement of property laws (after ignoring them for a while as they sold property to foreigners in Phuket) and also elimination of a few Visa classes for foreigners wanting to invest as well as their rewind on most of the open business policies created by the Democrats (retail deregulation, telcom regulation, etc etc).

[Moonrakers]

Personally I am pleased that this thread was cleaned up. I refused to reply to it before because the discussion that took place was as though the OP was fact and the PAD were planning to embark on some sort of 'Ethnic cleansing' on account of what somebody's wife may have heard (Misunderstood?) on TV.

Lets hope that somebody could either prove or dis-prove the OP, or let this one go to sleep.

[Maestro]

This thread has been running for five days and seven hours and in over a hundred deleted posts nobody has been able to confirm having heard or read anything on the radio, on television or in the printed media regarding the rumour about which the OP asked. It is always difficult to disprove the non-existence of something but given the subject of the rumour it is reasonable to assume that if it were true it would have been reported in the local media in the meantime and some ThaiVisa members would have picked it up.

Therefore, this topic is now closed. It is an excellent example of the risks one can run when posting a wild, unfounded rumour, even if it was told by a trustworthy person like one’s wife. Generally, it is best to ignore a rumour, wait a day or two and if nothing is reported in the media forget it.


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