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I just heard the news reports here in Australia about the grenades and deaths in Bkk. Recent events (Echoes of previous events.) certainly dispel somewhat the power of generalisations about Thai people, such as "always friendly", "Always gentle", "everyone is Buddhist". It is a whole nation with all the diversity and potential for good or ill that any nation contains.

One thought did occur to me today, as I pondered on how costly it is to be "not at work" for weeks and weeks, let alone what it costs to support thousands, let alone tens of thousands, of people for weeks, who are not working. So the Red Shirts must have some big dollars behind them, hard to see how a pure "grass roots" movement could fund such large numbers over so many weeks. People still have to eat and pay for petrol, etc etc.

Mikel.