So funny you said this. Check out http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/world/asia/02thailand.html?hp.

“According to Mr. Keyes and other scholars, the movement in Thailand is not a broadly popular uprising like those in the Philippines that ousted governments, but rather the product of a relatively small alliance uniting several agendas. It pits a modern middle class allied with supporters of the monarchy against a business and financial elite that is championing the nation’s rural and unskilled poor.” (New York Times)

This is the paragraph that explains PAD the best. PAD is very different from other countries’ protest: PAD’s protesters is rarely people who directly suffer from the government’s policy. Instead, most of them are middle class and are brainwashed by a few media moguls.

And a way you justified the retaliation against NBT is very stupid. How about ASTV? Why don’t you talk about it? Don’t say that it is run by a private company so it doesn’t have to be objective.

Where is your moral standard?

People, especially Asians, are too naive to really believe in that democracy is the only route to economic success.

Remember, China and Singapore are good exceptions of the above claim.