Bloodless revolution
Long lost friend asked on IM: “How’s it going?”
Me: “Great” (the conversation began around 9p.m. on Sep 20)
Long lost friend: “You from Thailand, right?”
Me:”yeb, I think the situation’s not as bad as it look.”
I didn’t know how the situation was at that moment since I live in Virginia, so I pointed out to this and this.
Here’s the current situation as of September 21:
- There is no gunfire or bloodshed. It’s a peaceful Coup.
- The situation appears to be calm in Bangkok and everywhere in Thailand.
- There has been some visibility of the army on the streets.
- Some people bring food and flower to the soldiers.
- Thailand still commit to democracy, and we will have a democratic election soon.
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:16 pm
It is so pleaceful that even the foreigner visiting Bangkok didn’t know that the coup is going on.
September 25th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
That’s better than what I was asked.
Him: If you are going there this time there will be lots of problem.
Me: I don’t think so.
Him: Anyway, what I wanted to say is I don’t understand why the military has to come out? I mean, in U.S. we don’t like Bush but the military doesn’t come out. We use vote.
Me: …
Me: … (you are such a bloody typical american who seems to think that everything in this country is always right and in the other countries they are all wrong!)