So exactly what is going on in Thailand? If you know more than we are being told, please tell us because we don’t really know anything except what the msm is reporting.
It seems to me that Michael Yon, or anyone out of their element, would have no real choice but to report only what he sees and hears from whoever his contacts are.
And we do not have access to the inner sanctum to be able to guage fairly what is going on.
All we know is that the insurgency is backed by a former PM and that this guy is not a good guy.
If you know something different, please tell us. I am serious.
Good guy or bad guy is subjective and has no meaning. He was the first, and only, elected Prime Minister in Thai history to serve out his term. He was also re-elected but his second term ended early when he was thrown out by a coup.
He was a brilliant businessman and politician and got elected by catering to the poor rural vote which had usually been ignored by Thai politicians in favor catering to the middle/upper class. In a country where the Royal Family is seen as the patron of the poor, this upset the political dynamics tremendously and led to the coup.
After the coup, a number of government agencies were setup to retroactively create laws to ban politicians aligned with the former PM from politics. After these politicians were banned from politics, the deck was stacked and the current PM, Abhisit, was 'elected'.
As a side effect of the coup, this led to an even greater political awakening in the rural poor as they saw their champion being thrown out by the established power base in Bangkok.
The protesters in Bangkok have been calling for new elections to finally put a properly elected Prime Minister in position. Abhisit is dead set against it since he, and his party, know they will be thrown out. Instead of simply calling for new elections, something he was very vocal about when he was in the opposition, he chose to use violence to crackdown on the protesters resulting in over 80 dead and over 1500 injured.