Pro-democracy groups back in focus after projected messages

[webfact]

Pro-democracy groups back in focus after projected messages

By The Nation

 

 

In the wake of messages projected on Sunday (May 10) on the walls of buildings and sites related to the 2010 red-shirt crackdown, the authorities are now keeping a close eye on all pro-democracy groups.

 

The projected messages, reading “finding the truth”, also went viral on social-media.

 

Though police are guarding the sites where the messages were projected, no moves have been made to prosecute those behind the campaign.

 

Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-General Pakkapong Pongpetra said police was collecting evidence to see if the expression of such messages violated other people’s rights.

 

Meanwhile, authorities are tracking down the 40 or so people who attended the memorial ceremony for Khattiya “Seh Daeng” Sawasdipol – an Army major-general who supported the red-shirt movement and was shot in the head on May 13, 2010 while being interviewed by a New York Times journalist.

 

The attendees of the memorial will be prosecuted for allegedly violating the emergency decree.

 

Red-shirt activist Anurak Jeantawanich, 51, was arrested for allegedly organising the ceremony, but he denied the allegation and has been let out on a bail guarantee of Bt30,000.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387856

 

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[daveAustin]

No Red fan, but can't silence the will of a proper democracy in the making. This ain't Burma. Something will give soon.

[YetAnother]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

police was collecting evidence to see if the expression of such messages violated other people’s rights.

 

exactly What Rights ? the right that they have Rights ?  such BS is akin to 'national security'; can mean anything you want it to mean , which , of course, means it means nothing at all

[yellowboat]

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

the authorities are now keeping a close eye on all pro-democracy groups.

Thought Thailand was a democracy.  There shouldn't be a need for groups that are for democratic rule.  Or perhaps this is an omission that there isn't a representative government running the country, but rather, army thugs running wild.

[DPKANKAN]

47 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

exactly What Rights ? the right that they have Rights ?  such BS is akin to 'national security'; can mean anything you want it to mean , which , of course, means it means nothing at all

Perhaps they should do that to the 'Junta'!!!. They violate peoples rights everytime they open their mouths!!????????????????????????????????

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-General Pakkapong Pongpetra said police was collecting evidence to see if the expression of such messages violated other people’s rights.

Junta on a suppression witch hunt again...

[BobbyL]

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

No Red fan, but can't silence the will of a proper democracy in the making. This ain't Burma. Something will give soon.

Absolutely. In this modern age of social media there is no way the brainwashing and indoctrination by the Thai establishments will be able to continue.

 

It definitely won't end soon, but it will certainly end at some point in the near future. I for one cannot wait.

[rkidlad]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Metropolitan Police chief Pol Lt-General Pakkapong Pongpetra said police was collecting evidence to see if the expression of such messages violated other people’s rights.

Sorry, what the hell are you talking about? You are collecting evidence to see if someone's right to free expression is violating someone else's rights? What did the message say again? "Seek the truth". The only people I can see who would be offended by this are people who have something to hide. 

 

And to think there are some goons on this website who think this sort of governance is okay. People who take the time out of their day to defend the junta and even the CCP. Truly pathetic human beings. 

 

 

[Mikeasq60]

8 hours ago, daveAustin said:

No Red fan, but can't silence the will of a proper democracy in the making. This ain't Burma. Something will give soon.

Same in America something will give soon, keep watching the news!

[graemeaylward]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

the authorities are now keeping a close eye on all pro-democracy groups.

At last an admission that the current government is anti-democracy!  

What does it mean to be pro-democracy?

The pro-democrats generally embrace liberal values such as rule of law, human rights, civil liberties and social justice, yet their economic positions vary.

[Relocated]

Democracy needs bleeding blood to grow. It won't come that easy. 

And even though you get it, it doesn't guarantee satisfaction. 

Without educated public with high civility, it will follow footstep of Philippine or Venezuela. 

[connda]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Though police are guarding the sites where the messages were projected,

...should read:

"Thought police are guarding the sites where the messages were projected..."

[Burma Bill]

Loosely linked - has anyone had difficulty in opening this post:-

 

"Thaksin says Thai lockdown a mistake"

 

I can't so any "Big Brother" involvement!

[rasmus5150]

10 hours ago, daveAustin said:

No Red fan, but can't silence the will of a proper democracy in the making. This ain't Burma. Something will give soon.

They don't want proper democracy. They just want 200thb a day for demonstrating and creating unrest.

They still believe Thaksin's lies, that if they vote for him (or his Red pawns) everybody will have a house and pick-up truck in less than a year.