Good morning,

Up to 200,000 red-shirted protestors demanded democracy and an end to the ‘invisible hand’ system in protests which continue today and, probably, over the weekend. The protestors want the current unelected illegitimate government to resign and certain ‘controversial’ court decisions re-examined (it is illegal to criticize court decisions and of course I would not dream of doing so). Above all, protestors want an end to the system where certain very highly placed members of the ‘bureaucratic polity’ determine the architecture of power – principally the Privy Councillor Prem Tinsulanonda (widely suspected of etc and also see below) and General Surayud Chulanont who used (and, it is said, helped organize) the military coup to help himself become prime minister in a period which coincided with enormous increases in the military budget and a number of military figures and their cronies enriching themselves. After the horror of the brainless PAD supporters attempting to destroy Thai democracy with the support of the invisible hands, it restores one’s faith in humanity to see people willing to put themselves out for the cause of fairness and democracy.

Amusingly, the Quisling Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose position as Prime Minister resulted from a shabby deal between the anti-democracy mob, the military and the invisible hands and who colluded with the military junta, called the demands ‘undemocratic.’

Police (moving extremely fast for the police) are planning more arrests in the plot to assassinate Privy Councillor Chanchai Likitjittha, who was named last week as one of the chief plotters behind the 2006 military coup. The plot, in addition to murdering a person now revealed as an enemy of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra, also called for exploding ten bombs near to demonstrators and arson attacks on banks and government buildings (readers might remember the bombs on New Year’s Eve a couple of years ago which were exploded with what has been described as ‘military precision’). Links with the people named above have been alleged – is this the police’s revenge against the military and the invisible hands who prevented them from acting during the PAD Disaster? Who else might be implicated? An ‘academic’ has called for the present government to be dissolved – how many more will follow?

Typically, the right wing has responded with violence. A PAD supporter deliberately crashed her car into demonstrators, injuring two people. It is highly likely that, as has been the case in the past, it was PAD goon infiltrators who attacked reporters during the demonstration yesterday.

Back tomorrow.