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| Subject: LOL, Free Range Anti-Government Protesters: After Clashes, Thai Police Let Protesters Roam Freely Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:44 am | |
| A day after fierce clashes between antigovernment protesters and the police, Thai officials on Tuesday announced a new and novel tactic. Riot police officers cleared away barbed wire, put down their shields and opened the doors to a police compound that the protesters had vowed to lay siege to.
“In every area where there has been confrontation, we have now ordered all police to withdraw,” Bangkok’s police chief, Kamronvit Thoopkrachang, told the Reuters news agency. “It is government policy to avoid confrontation.”
Protesters who entered the compound were greeted politely by police officers. They even posed for photos together. As the protests appeared to wind down, the police also opened the gates to the prime minister’s office.
It was a sharp contrast to Monday, when Thai police officers aggressively stepped up their defense of government buildings in Bangkok, firing a hail of rubber bullets and tear gas and using water cannons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/world/asia/thailand-protests.html _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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