Risky business going into a global forum with a potential terrorist suspect.

 

By Terry/Tavivoot

God I hope the ASEAN meet goes off well. A great deal is depending on it-like the reputation of Thailand as a whole.

“Yes” the Thai right wing is pinning the hope that the meet will solidify their position in Thailand. On the other side it is freedom, liberty, democracy and justice on the line. But how on earth did Thailand get to this point and “whatever” it is just plain bad news for everyone and literally speaking-Thailand ends up loosing.

So now with Abisit declaring that the ASEAN meet is off-limits to protesters-no matter what their rationale is-with an blanketed emergency decree, one just knows that the red shirt, a large group of democratic-Thaksin oriented dissident, will find that ban “un-acceptable.”

Well to make things really worse, Thailand has been aligning very strongly with the Burmese military junta in the past few weeks-with all sort of official statement.

And you know just what the Burmese dissident thinks of Thailand right now.

And you know what the Thai dissident thinks of Thailand right about now.

The reality of the fact is that both the Thai and Burmese dissident have a very strong global constituency. And these have been very active in protest at both Thai and Burmese embassies.

So you just can sort of imagine a nightmare scenario happening. Like the Thai and Burmese getting together and raise hell during the ASEAN meet-globally.

I really hope the Abisit government get this message of warning and try to do something about it. Please for god sakes-make some room for Thai dissidence to live in peace. And really, is there any point in making strong statements supporting the Burmese junta right before the ASEAN meet?