In a last desperate bid to cling to power, the regime plans to once again bus in mobs of its fanatical “red shirts” on January 13, 2014, just as anti-regime protesters announced plans to stage a massive, city-wide rally on the same day. Thai PBS reported in its article, “UDD to stage counter-rally on January 13,” that:
The pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will stage a rally in Bangkok to counter the People’s Democratic Reform Committee’s “Bangkok Shutdown” mass demonstration on January 13.
UDD co-leader Jatuporn Promphan said Thursday that the red-shirt movement would stage the counter-rally to open up Bangkok against the PDRC’s attempt to shut down the capital.
He said that red-shirt followers in the provinces had been told to hold mini rallies in their respective provinces from this coming Sunday onward before descending on Bangkok for the counter-demonstration.
Jatuporn also criticized the Election Commission for not seriously attempting to press ahead with staging the election of February 2. He demanded election commissioners who are not impartial to resign.
Last November, a similar stunt by the regime led to violent clashes and several deaths, with regime gunmen photographed and videoed shooting into crowds. The regime has conspired to use agent provocateurs to kill both their own “red shirt” supporters and police, has actually carried out the killings, and has since attempted to discredit the protesters despite ample evidence exposing the insidious plot.
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Astroturf – by the bus load. Last November, the fumbling regime resorted to busing in supporters to counter unprecedented numbers of protesters in the streets demanding an end to the Wall Street-backed Shinawatra regime. State resources, including an extensive police escort, were spent in an attempt to bolster the illusion that the current regime has the people’s backing – a page out of the old tattered playbook of despots everywhere. Not long after, violence predictably erupted.
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Just today, the regime announced that gunmen suspected of killing one of the regime’s own policemen were in fact deployed by them – meaning they, not the protesters, were responsible for the policeman’s death. The motivation behind the murder was to politicize the police and create an armed bloc to oppose the growing protests.
The regime’s Jatuporn Promphan and his plan to bus in red shirt supporters to Bangkok will only lead to more violence. The regime knows this, and is moving ahead in earnest, fully planning on escalating tensions and leveraging the subsequent violence to their advantage.
Images: Jatuporn Promphan has already led the regime’s “red shirt” supporters into Bangkok last November predictably leading to violence and loss of life. The only gunmen photographed and videoed were those of the regime, who, just as they did in 2010, seemed intent on killing those on both sides to escalate the conflict. However, within minutes of the violence, images of the regime’s gunmen began spreading across the Internet prompting the regime to call off the rally and bus its supporters back to the rural north and northeast the next day.
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Jatuporn Promphan, it should be noted, is currently a minister under the current regime of Thaksin Shinawatra and his nepotist-appointed proxy, sister Yingluck Shinawatra. He is on bail regarding terrorism charges related to a failed armed insurrection he helped lead in 2010 that led to the death of 92, thousands more injured, and extensive damage as a result of a campaign of looting and arson he and fellow “red shirt” leaders organized in the closing days of the conflict.