"Wounded Australian" on handouts takes to red shirt stage

[Flashermac]

 

Bangkok Post

2 May 2010

 

 

Conor David Purcell, a former Australian military reservist, is a long way from home. The 29-year-old has two infected hip wounds, no money, no passport and [color:red]survives on handouts[/color] from his Thai and foreign friends. [And no visa? ]

 

But when he takes to the red shirt stage at Ratchaprasong, thousands of people stop and listen attentively to the Irish-born Aussie "military" man as he reads his speeches, which are immediately translated into Thai.

 

To the red faithful, he knows what he's talking about, whether it's discrediting government accounts of the Sala Daeng grenade attacks or the "criminality" of the April 10 bloodshed near the Democracy Monument.

 

The red shirt leaders nod their approval at Mr Purcell, who claims to have done "quite extensive" work with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and trained with the Singapore and Malaysia military.

 

"I don't think I should fight," Mr Purcell said when asked about his role with the red shirts. "What I'm trying to do is keep the world informed, those speeches which are then put on the internet are keeping the world informed."

 

[color:red]But in a conflict confused by multiple layers of lies and half-truths, Mr Purcell may only be adding to the puzzle by talking up his military credentials.[/color]

 

[color:blue]"You need to take what he says with a big dose of salt," said a source at the Australian embassy. "He's a big noter who gilds the lily big time."[/color]

 

Mr Purcell, who claims a political science degree from the University of Western Australia, says he had always been an admirer of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his poverty-alleviation policies. "His macro-economic policies, I thought, were brilliant; the fact that he seemed to be the first prime minister to focus on the poor and the majority of people." [bullshit ... the wanker has never heard of Pridi Bhanomyong.]

 

Mr Purcell, who says he is not paid by the reds, became "radicalised'' and "very angry" at the Thai government after what he witnessed during the April 10 fighting, which left 25 people dead. [When he was staying at KSR?]

 

"The criminality on that day was very similar to Bloody Sunday in Ireland," he said. "It was an insult to any soldier, it was an insult to any rules of engagement, it was an insult to any manly sense of honour that they tear-gassed a crowd of monks and businessmen." [A crowd of monks and businessmen with sticks and clubs? ]

 

He says he was injured by two silicon-coated bullets while trying to shelter behind an APC secured by the reds and now has a "dirty wound" which cannot be stitched and has to be treated with antibiotics. [singha or Chang?]

 

During the skirmish he lost his Australian emergency passport and 1,400 baht. [His entire life savings!] He signed a statutory declaration at the Australian embassy on April 20 detailing his ordeal. "They said you have to go home straight away, then they walked back into their air-conditioned office and made themselves a cup of tea," Mr Purcell said.

 

[color:red]The embassy source said Mr Purcell's behaviour and public statements were "disturbing" and they had advised him to return home. "He's actually broken quite a few Thai laws," the source said.[/color]

 

Mr Purcell denies he has interfered in Thai affairs, saying he has only given a "witness statement" of what actually happened on April 10.

 

He says he is now working with the reds' legal and public relations teams and is "throwing ideas out".

 

In his latest speech he asked the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Bangkok to the International Criminal Court and for the court to investigate the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation.

 

Mr Purcell says that when the protests are over he plans to continue his attempts to set up a charity here with connections to Vietnam and Cambodia. :content:

 

 

Anyone know the wanker?

 

[Torneyboy]

The embassy source said Mr Purcell's behaviour and public statements were "disturbing" and they had advised him to return home. "He's actually broken quite a few Thai laws," the source said.

 

 

So...deport him ..or lock him up...

[drogon]

Wow,stupidity never stops suprising me or is it another version of the farang beggar?

(if the reds 'win' then maybe does he expect them to 'reward' him?)

29 years old and no brain....former soldier and political science degree my ass.

 

Had my laugh today, thanks for that, someone 'fighting' for people in a country where he has no rights, can own no land, is discreminated against.

 

Irish + Aussie = Nutjob? (joke as I love Irish beer and Aussie kangaroos)

 

Well, I suppose he will end up in jail one day or another because he is unable to pay his (big?) overstay fine.

 

[color:red]he plans to continue his attempts to set up a charity here with connections to Vietnam and Cambodia[/color]

Well, he shows his true colors (and if the reds don't win then he has no hopes of setting up is pipe dream)

 

Amazing Thailand

[Nervous God]

To Ireland

[bust]

He's Irish not Australian......if he was an aussie he would slurr his speaches.

 

Amazing the amount of ex-military who wage a lone war against the target of the day. KNU are costantly arranging for people to be deported due to their over zealous approach to situations. This guy is from Bunbury WA. Obviously has seen better days.

 

 

[Flashermac]

I got told off but good by a colleague when I made the mistake of calling the BeeGees Aussies.

 

"THEY'RE NOT AUSSIES! THEY'RE BLOODY POMS!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bust]

Poms singing meaningless songs in very high voices

[eyebee]

But they ain't Poms, they're from the Isle of Man, which is not part of Great Britain!

[Mekong]

But they ain't Poms, they're from the Isle of Man, which is not part of Great Britain!

 

Incorrect Statement

 

Gibb Brothers may have been born on Isle of Man but to British parents therefore British. Much the same as if a Brit expat couple had a child whilst over in Thailand, that child would be British not Thai. Therefore Bee Gees are Poms.

 

I, on the other hand, was born in Port Erin on the Isle of Man, Manx Mother and British Father, and as such do have dual nationality, not that the Manx passport gets much use nowadays I just renew it for the fun of it.

[acockasian]

It is really sad the way Australia throws away its finest soldiers.

 

Every broke and drunk Australian I've met in BKK - so far down they are getting free food from Thais - seems to be former SAS.