The point of Twitter is the value-added it provides with up-close and immediate accounts of breaking events, such as natural disasters and things like the Mumbai attacks.

These Thai Tweets are pretty boring opinions and useless news.

For insights into local opinions, the action is on Thai-language web boards. Pantip.com and comments areas on manager.co.th (pro-PAD) and prachathai.com (pro-democracy). Those would be the most prominent, of course there are others.

If you want English and don’t need the stuff fresh every minute, you look at the very impressive bangkokpundit.blogspot.com and New Mandala blogs. A lot more interesting than these Tweets.

Twitter can be interesting, but this stuff is pretty lame.

In Thailand every group has taken sides and split the country north south, rich poor and rural urban. If you think that taking over an airport is an acceptable practice, get back to me. And then tell me what would happen to you if you and a few friends took over LAX.

You obviously are from the US as there is no Congress here, there is little if any rule of law either. You probably don’t have a problem with the constitutional court deciding to rule on the charges against the three ruling parties without allowing or hearing their witnesses. Would that fly in the US? Let me know.

As you seem to like quotes from those long dead here is one more recent, yesterday, for you.

“While we respect the right to freedom of expression, seizing an airport is not an appropriate means of protest,”

Gordon Duguid
US State Department

And as you like Dr. King.

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“A riot is the language of the unheard.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat.”

All else is rhetoric.

If holding a 17 point airport is a “terror” tactic get back to me. If you noticed the videos the police backed off. The army has explicitly said no intervention is needed in political matters.

Oh and another thing… People do not have to illicit change by asking somebody else to do it for them. Little thing called personal liberty; this is not anarchy when every respects each others’s liberty. Thus, in reality “Fire Congress”. There is no need to make laws when they are self evident. The idea of clarity isn’t told to you. You seek answers.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Hu RAH!

The PAD which has a now quickly flagging support base, according to today’s polls, has resorted to terror tactics and is holding the country hostage.

PAD DOES have a choice, they could form a party and contest an election. The problem with that is their support base, the same one as the democrats, is only in the south and they would split the vote of the Democrats allowing the PPP or ? to win a huge majority in the house.

PAD through their Democrat allies can only hope to come into power by some undemocratic means as they cannot win at the ballot box. Thus the PAD’s New Politics that would disenfranchise the majority of the Thai voters, who just happen to be poor, rural and PPP supporters.