Bangkok
Protests
The admin alerted us at noon today to immediately dismiss our students due to anti-government protests in Bangkok. Protesters briefly took over a state-run television station, forcing it off air. They are pissed because they believe that the current PM, Samak Sundaravej, is just a puppet for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006. He is now in self-imposed exile in England. The Supreme Commander was just on TV saying that there was no need to declare an emergency or put the military on alert; they are expecting the police to handle the situation. The army chief said that there will be no coup.
My kids are hoping for no school tomorrow, but I highly doubt that’ll happen!
I was just grocery shopping, and people seem pretty nonchalant about the whole thing.
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Is Bangkok in Thailand? If so isn’t the king of Thailand who is the richest monarch in the world with a fortune of over 35 billion dollars? If what i say is right then why do thai people protest against the prime minister? Instead of doing that it is better to catch the king, hang him and take his money and solve problems.
You are right, I really like the word nonchalant of yours (coolly unconcerned).
This is a long story and very much concerned with 700 hundred years classic history of Siam or the Kingdom of Thailand. The whole situation(politics) need to be properly studied with out emotions but by ways of ” treating social facts as things ” as suggested form Max Weber the great sociologist.
There is nothing wrong when someone has great wealth but is it acceptable and justifiable from a society one resides.
An article about wealth… was written about this by a famous world famous magazine last week. Search engines would direct one to know more about this.
Sabai Sabai
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Tim
Belahcen–Good luck. People looooove the king. Everyone wears yellow (and when I say everyone, I mean almost EVERYONE) on Mondays to show their love for the king. They have “We love the king” bumper stickers. Yeah. He’s very popular.
Timothy–Thanks for the comment. I am reading up on the history of the conflict. Very interesting.
Please, a big mistake name is quoted ” trating social facts as things ” was from Emile Durkheim not from Max Weber, they are both great sociologists.
Please except my mistake!
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A big mistake here from myself ” treating social facts as things” was from Emile Durkheim, not from Max Weber, However they are both great sociologists. Sorry.
Tim
This week, the government declared state of emergency days, Tue and Wed…which I find totally unreasonable..