Thailand, welcome your new dictator.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-1 ... artial-law

I thought it was AP,he's been missing and so is LKL.maybe a love nest!

Thailand has been having riots and protests for years now it seems.

Uncle of my husband lives in Thailand. According to him, the riots were mostly centered in the capital city and some other bigger cities in the south. In the north were he lives, they only got in contact with it via television. I dont wanna say it was not bad, what is happening in this country, but at least its not like Syria, where a large number of the countries citizens need to be afraid for their lives.

Northern Thailand backs the government. The issue here is very simple; the old elites keep losing the elections and they're mad. They have had coups to get rid of the election winners, and recently they've been trying to get the army to intervene again... The elite faction gets most backing in Bangkok and the south and the majority faction is supported in the north. The elite faction at one point had a coup-installed government for several years that culminated in protests by so-called Red Shirts who are with the majoritu faction and they were repressed with a great deal of violence...

Since at least the early 70's. This photo from the Thammasat University Massacre in 1976 garnered the photographer a Pulitzer prize:

to the apparent pleasure of some of the on-lookers

let's face it, some humans enjoy watching and/or engaging in violence

It is one of the constant states of the human condition.

The one positive to the new dictator that I can see is that the curfew affects tourists who may now not be able to go out and so casually buy and rape little children in the back alleys of Thailand. Maybe this will put a dent in the international child sex circus that is Thailand. But I doubt it