BaronTT Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 JOHN TAYLOR, FROM LONDON, UK Sunday, 2015 local time (1415 BST) John Taylor lives in an apartment close to where the protesters are. I am really scared now. I feel even more like a prisoner. Somehow the red shirt protesters have got past the security forces and have surrounded our building. My fear is that they are going to set [the tyres] alight and try to choke us Within the last two hours they have dumped loads of soil and put stacks of tyres around the block. My fear is that they are going to set them alight and try to choke us. This is disgusting - there are lots of women and children in this block. I have no idea why the protesters would try to do this. Maybe they are trying to make a statement of rich versus poor. I tried to leave in the last hour-and-a-half but a protester put a grenade in my face and said: "You leave, you die." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8684405.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 True democracy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardKing Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 That can't be true. They are peace-love non-violent types. He must have mistaken the grenade for a bunch of daises! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 If a foreigner gets hurt or killed by them, doesn't that change the whole dynamic and they lose any kind of international support or sympathy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Soldiers disguised as reds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporty Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 If a foreigner gets hurt or killed by them, doesn't that change the whole dynamic and they lose any kind of international support or sympathy? Two have been killed already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acockasian Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 They aren't going to kill falang, rather, hold falang and then they are in the line of fire from the army. Or do it themselves so it gets blamed on the army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 Might be a good strategy for the reds (at least for the foreign medias) -> shoot the farangs (preferably with an M16 or any weapon the army has in its inventory) and then bring the journalists -> then slam the barbary and indiscriminate shooting of the army.... Hopefully the reds are too stupid to think about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acockasian Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 They thought of this, and talked about it, long ago. A few weeks ago both OH and Cent mentioned falang hostages and were slammed on the board for it. This is far from over and feeding compliant journalists is critical to the Red Shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carew66 Posted May 17, 2010 Report Share Posted May 17, 2010 John Taylor, eh? (Puffs on pipe) Those Duran Duran royalties sure dried up quick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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