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Home » News from Thailand » coup in thailand » 'Anti-coup protesters get paid'
'Anti-coup protesters get paid'
You can earn a nice pocket money by protesting against the coup. On social media, amounts are offered from 400 to 1.000 baht. This says Nathawat Chancharoen, spokesman for the military authority (NCPO). According to him, one of the sponsors is the slot machine operator.
The NCPO warns demonstrators not to allow themselves to be used by people 'who mean evil'. Nathawat points out that the NCPO is trying in every possible way to find solutions to get out of the national crisis.
“We are trying to convince protesters to work together through negotiations. But if the demonstrations continue, we must enforce compliance with the law, and if demonstrations are held after XNUMX p.m., the curfew will be violated.'
(Source: Website Bangkok Post, May 27, 2014)
Photos: Anti-coup protest Monday at Victory Monument.
Ah yes, what do you want all those professional protesters of all colors have now lost their permanent jobs due to the military coup …..
(allow me to express this sarcasm for a moment)
“We are trying to convince protesters to cooperate through negotiations. But if the demonstrations continue, we must enforce compliance with the law, and if demonstrations are held after XNUMX p.m., the curfew will be violated.'
Weird turn of phrase, so you can protest before 22 pm ??
@ Davih H That's not too bad. Under martial law, gatherings of more than five people are prohibited. After 22 p.m., the curfew is also violated, so demonstrators are in violation twice.
small addition: these are meetings of five people with a political character. Don't ask me how they want to measure that because I really don't know. So you can go out for dinner with a few friends, but you can't talk about politics.
Dear David,
Sorry, but I don't think your sarcasm is quite appropriate. You also know that in the past most protesters were paid to protest in Bangkok. Because of this political wrangling, we now have the (hopefully short-term) military coup and as usual throughout the country, the ordinary Thai and the "small" traders are once again the victims of the curfew.
Moderator: please comment about Thailand.
Well, the regime also knows how to nip this in the bud, Facebook and Socialcam is or will be blocked.
These are the latest antics of (paid) protesters. If you go beyond the rules that apply now, then you grab and take the consequences, right?
Also mention that Suthep's group paid a lot more. I hear around me that it was about 2000 per day, free etc, tent and transport. When that dried up, the unmotivated protesters went home and the group became smaller and smaller.
Indeed, and there are now quite a few Suthep supporters who are anti-coup.
A number of professional protesters live in my condo building. In recent months one day in red, the next day in yellow with a whistle. The red shirts paid 300 Baht per day, the yellows paid 500 Baht for a day of 'sitting', and 2000 Baht for a day's walking from location A to location B. Partly risk money I think with all those grenades and M79s.
Are these professional protesters anti-coup? No. They just take up their jobs again (selling fruit, riding motorbikes, selling raffle tickets for the Thai state lottery).
They smile as always. It's all in a game. Ma pen rai.
Please mention the source or link, so that what you say can be checked!
According to the spokesman, one of the sponsors exploits slot machines, I don't know exactly how to interpret that, but it's actually funny because gambling is officially prohibited in Thailand.
Exploitation is therefore allowed and possible for the foreign market apparently because in public you will not find a slot machine assuming that the well-known 'fruit bandits' are meant by that.
Old news in fact, but good that it is coming out in the open, as well as vote buying in elections that multiple parties in Isan are guilty of. My wife and her family in the Isan will only vote if they are paid to do so. The people of the parties come to their homes and pay there because there is police control at the polling stations. But if the local police are not controlled by the federal police then they don't take it so closely and some like Thai 'whisky', a bend that burns your guts out.
It says 400 to 1000 baht per day……..??? can someone explain to me who gets 1000 baht and who gets say the minimum???
Moderator: please don't chat.
With all these demonstrations I always wonder why the protest signs etc. are usually set up in English. It seems to me to be a purely Thai affair. Given the poor knowledge of the English language of most Thais, there will be many who do not even know what they are proclaiming.
@ Renévan You will also see banners and protest signs with English texts at demonstrations in other non-English speaking countries. Explanation: this is how you get the attention of the international media.
It was clear to me that you would get attention from the foreign press, but without the text in English you will get it just as well. But at the time of the redshirt protests, we were visiting my wife's brother who showed all kinds of protest material with English lyrics. But when asked if he knew what the lyrics meant, he couldn't answer. With this I just want to say that in my opinion the protest leaders are abusing their supporters. I have been told that behind the strategy of the protests is a large advertising agency (event organizer) in Bangkok. I don't know if this is the case, but given the good organization of both the red and yellow protests, this would not surprise me.
Now, in the current situation, to take to the streets and demonstrate against the “Junta”, it takes real courage. The possible heavy prison sentence that you can get for this is a risk that you don't want to take just for a few baht.
The lady in the photo with the slogan “Junta uses stolen national budget to pay the farmers” waves here with a not nonsensical text, which I think she supports one hundred percent.
In any case, she deserves my respect.
This woman waves a completely nonsensical text. The farmers are paid from the state treasury, which some have had to wait for more than a year. It is a shame that due to corruption and utter incompetence on the part of most members of the government, all agreements regarding payments went to waste. That's what happens when you try to get a bunch of ragtag and incompetent criminals to run the country. If you are a minister because you are the brother-in-law, the sister, the friend of the friend of the wife of the former prime minister, who has thoroughly scoured the public treasury, and otherwise has no quality necessary to govern the country, then you get these kinds of situations. Unable to follow? If you've been following Thai news for the past 10 years, you should have seen it all coming.
Moderator: don't just comment on each other, but on the article.
Yes, the problems can never be solved in Thailand, if everything is only about the money, that has been around for as long as corruption has existed, I just wonder where that money comes from that is paid, because whether it is 400 is a hundred or more, I see people every day waving their flag, then they are smarter than those who work in the fields all day for 300 bath, so the truth is, what is wisdom, you may say so.