Thaksin talar till rödskjortor vid Ratchaprasong

Nog för att jag är ful men aldrig i helvete att jag skulle vilja jobba i Mordor

Näää.. du är ganska söt och jobbet var väl i Solna?

Näää.. du är ganska söt och jobbet var väl i Solna?

I mordor ja, bland massa svartgula orcher

I mordor ja, bland massa svartgula orcher

Lämplig plats eftersom det just finns en del Gambianer som gillar just svart & gult.

Aaaaiik?

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Nu får du sluta googla på kammaren.. Hallå, verkligheten anropar No Buss

Googla? Hallå... jag har koll på mina afrikanska rötter. "Black & Yellow" har gått varm i stugan länge nu.

Röd strumporna invaderar... hoppas de städade upp allt skräp efter sig

Lite reaktioner på Thaksins tal.

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What raised eyebrows was his suggestion on who stands between Thailand and reconciliation, or between him and the road home. He was expressing deep gratitude to the red shirts, all right, but the way he did it also looked like a sad farewell. If you did not hear it, imagine the romantic "thank you" in the movie when the hero and heroine are about to break up.

"We have come as far as we possibly could together" was the apparent message. Unless you can come up with another interpretation for "You are the boatman who has taken me to the shore. It will be a new journey for me from now on, and you can't simply carry me and your boat up the mountain", that is.

The Democrats were quick to say to the red shirts, "We told you so". Noppadol was quick to call that an old, dirty trick to pit Thaksin against his own supporters. ASTV website was quick to ask why Thaksin never talked reconciliation when troops were getting restless, red shirts belligerent and Ratchaprasong mall-owners were becoming nervous about possible arson. Giles Ungphakorn was quick to brand Thaksin an egomaniac.

Are the red shirts, or the extremists in their ranks to be exact, becoming the liability obstructing Thaksin's attempt to get amnesty and return home a free man? This ASTV question may irk many people in the multi-layered movement, but the long faces among red-shirt leaders listening to the phone-in were a tell-tale sign that ASTV was not the only one doing the irking.

The red shirts have landed Thaksin on the shore. After an uprising in 2010, they gave his party a landslide election victory last year and installed his youngest sister as Thailand's first female prime minister. The journey from the beach head to the mountain does not require tens of thousands of protesters camped in a business district or relentless social media demonisation of the "elite".

In fact, the journey up the mountain requires the exact opposite. If Thai politics remains volatile, any amnesty formula that Thaksin could benefit from will be labelled hypocritically detrimental to the government's proclaimed reconciliation agenda. Thaksin must have realised that his amnesty plan and real peace must go hand in hand. While he may have been wrong about many things, he is right about that.

As far as Thaksin is concerned, though, it's no longer a question of right or wrong. It's now a question whether his U-turn has come too late. When so many people have been killed, buildings burnt and prejudice against "the other side" runs stronger and stronger and deeper and deeper, he can't simply tell his supporters to just drop it. And this is only half of the problem.

In his strongly-worded statement, Giles insisted that Thaksin is not democracy; in other words, not something the majority of Thai people have been fighting for. That is what many on the other side have been trying to say, but coming from him it may carry more weight. What is democracy? What constitutes justice? Giles is bringing out this subtext to the Thai political crisis loud and clear.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Thanks-for-the-ride-but-now-Ill-go-my-own-way-30182561.html