Thai Protesters Confront US-backed Regime

As in Egypt, protesters come out as backlash against Western-fomented color revolutions unfolds. 

November 24, 2012 (AltThaiNews) - No sooner did the long-announced protest start (full background here), then police acting under orders of the Yingluck Shinawatra "Peua Thai Party" (PTP) led government began firing teargas at protesters challenging police lines.

Image: (@pissanuk - Twitter) Taken today, November 24, 2012, near the protest site. Clashes with over-zealous police acting on government orders have already taken place before the rally fully began, with the government declaring it has its notoriously violent "red shirt" mobs standing by to intervene if necessary.

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The catch is, of course, that several pro-government "red shirt" rallies had already taken place earlier in the year, allowed to paralyze the center of the city without any government restrictions or serious police presence. These same pro-government protesters had in 2009 and 2010 committed wide scale violence, killing by-standers, troops, police, even fellow protesters, while committing arson, vandalism, and city-wide looting. Many of their leaders who had openly called for violence, arson, and looting on stage, are now sitting MPs within the current Shinawatra regime. 

Now in contrast, anti-government protesters have faced preemptive moves by the US-backed ruling regime, to chill free speech, intimidate and restrict the number of protesters planning to attend the November 24th protests, and attempts by the police to restrict the protesters' movements to prevent the same sort of disruption their own pro-government protesters are regularly allowed to cause, or exceed. 

A Counter-Color Revolution in Thailand?

4 questions about Thailand's political chaos & major protests planned next week against Wall Street-backed client regime.

November 17, 2012 (ATNN) - The current government in Thailand is the result of foreign-backing, two-failed color revolutions in 2009 and 2010, and the building of a substantial populist-based voting bloc that doubles as a bizarre "red shirt" personality cult fashioned out of Communist ideology, but built around a Wall Street-backed billionaire.

The ruling Peua Thai Party (PTP) is currently led by Yingluck Shinawatra, but only symbolically so. PTP's campaign slogan in 2011 was literally "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does," referring to the real leader of PTP, Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin is currently living in self-imposed exile, evading 2 arrest warrants and a 2 year jail sentence for corruption. In true third-world nepotist style, he has been ruling for several years by proxy through a menagerie of siblings, cousins and relatives-in-law.

After a year back in power, infighting within its ranks, growing disappointment over its policies, and suspicion over its real political objectives, it appears that the Thai establishment is preparing for its first attempt to remove the PTP regime from power. To explain the background of this political crisis, and the greater geopolitical implications for both Asia and the Pacific, four questions have been asked and answered. 

Image: As mentioned in a myriad of foreign media publications, Thaksin's proxy party ran with the slogan, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." As Peua Thai faces charges that a convicted criminal was directly involved in their election campaign, many of the exhibits used against them in court will be of their own design and impossible to deny.

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