Reds March on Bangkok---Over and Out

Red shirt protesters as defiant as ever.

Bangkok. March 23, 2010. The red shirts continue to disrupt Bangkok traffic and remain on the front pages of Thai newspapers. But, the presence of their street circus has become a minor nuisance, rather than a major factor in my life or in the lives of other Bangkokians. On Saturday, March 20, about 65,000 protesters (not an insignificant number) and 2,000 of their vehicles, wound around the streets of Bangkok causing very temporary traffic mayhem until the lot passed through, finally arriving back at their rally base in the late afternoon.. A similar traveling entertainment caravan is promised for this Saturday (March 27). I have no idea where this will end, and the potential for violence, which has so far been avoided, remains. For variety, I’d like this story to get off the front pages, but for this observer, it’s “over and out” unless and until the picture changes significantly.