State Of Emergency In Pattaya, Chon Buri

I have been joining the chorus of complaints as an arm chair warrior only because I am so disappointed in this situation and wonder if the Thailand I first knew will ever return. I know this is not my country and if the people want to change their government and country by all means change it. But I just hate seeing it happen like this, with puppet masters and cannibalizing everything the country as a whole has worked for. This makes me angry because I feel it is just too reckless and hurting too many innocent people.

I think Whoever is in charge be they a supporter of whatever color shirt needs to show some muscle. I'm not taking about something extremely violent but definitely forceful enough to make people know who is in charge and what the law is. If no one obeys the law we all become savages and there is chaos. There is no progress and everyone suffers. Sure there are laws I don't like in my country but I follow them for the greater good and if they seem deeply unjust I follow the path to change them legally.

What is happening here goes beyond civil disobedience. It's is pure anarchy. There is too many pay offs, and propaganda for these actions to seem noble like good ole Thoreau sitting out the poll tax. 'Let me not become part of the wrong I condemn' that's what he said. Well people here are acting brutally and savagely. Maybe they have reason to be angry but do they act like people who could run the country? Who care about Thailand as a whole? No they seem like spoiled brats who just want to throw a fit if they don't get what they want.

This is a disgrace and showing the world what a house of cards Thailand has become. I say this with deep sadness. It's like scolding my son for not doing better on a test when I know he could have done better.

Maybe Thaksin got a raw deal. Maybe the yellow shirts had a point towards the other end that Thaksin was running the government by proxy. But if either side has a grievance you don't torch the country you love to make your point. They have become part of the wrong they condemn and thus themselves cannot be trusted.