I've never liked the colour red.
- not on my lips, not to wear, especially not on a football shirt.
Unfortunately, this post is about fashion as much as 3 for 2 offers are about saving.
The past couple of years of political unrest in Thailand has been characterized by the polarization between supporters of the King and Present PM and the ousted PM, Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecommunications mogul who was elected prime minster and ruled for a couple of controversial terms before in late 2007, the Thai Military took over in a bloodless coup and effectively demoted him as PM.
So what's with the colour code? The former wear yellow to symbolize their loyalty to the Thai Monarchy, inespecially the King: yellow is the colour for those born on Mondays according to Thai culture, while those robed in red support some notion of 'democracy' and are currently evoking havoc in the city of Bangkok and beyond to show support for the ousted PM Thaksin and to demand that the present PM - Cambridge and Eton-educated man Abphisit, who was recently elected as PM.
There have been a tantamount of rumours surrounding Red Shirt cladded warriors: that Thaksin himself had exchanged some collateral or even paid the Red Shirts to stage public disturbance. Their goal? to make the present PM assign so that there will be a new election run by the puppetmaster Thaksin from abroad.
At this point, the mass of Red Shirts have broken in to a hotel summit hosting representatives for Rulers of the Southeast Asia. There are road blockades consisting of parked taxis and scooters. They're burning down buses and Yesterday, the Military had decided to intervene.
Personally, I can not offer a peaceful resolution of this problem: it is almost as a see-saw situation when one primeminister is hate passionately by one side and worshipped like God, especially for those who've apparently recieved their little sum of gratitude from Thaksin instead.
Here's a little piece of satirical humor: this is an "application form" for the Red Shirts (National Democratic Front) protesting activitie
s. It'll give you a little idea of what the said demographic consists of
(Please fill out the sections printed out in red. We do not really care about the other sections)
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