Back from Bangkok today from the protest - different view point from the media

Firstly, it is good to be back from Bangkok from a four days holiday. I left with the understanding that the protest has started. But we still went ahead as planned.

After we reached there, it is peaceful as usual. (Business as usual) the danger and mess that is protrayed in the media is only restricted to an area of Bangkok. Generally, the people want to continue with their livehood, doing business or work to feed their family.

This turn of event gave me a few thoughts that I will like to record before I add more details.

1) Democracy is political system of the majority. (Define Democracy)
The Thailand government is the elected by the majority of the people. The minority should follow the will of the majority. If the minority is unpleased with the elected government, then they should wait for the next election to elect their desired leadership. If the present government is incompetent, the people who elected will vote for the opposition.

2) Protest is wrong. It is against the Law.
How can we trust the leadership of the protesters when they create unrest and disorderliness, roit against the police and causing damage to public property and private property. Is that the behaviour of good leadership?


3) Protest creates a unsafe environment for the tourism.
As usual, the Singapore Government discourage people to travel the Bangkok for the same reason. Tourists avoid the country and it hurts the tourism business. (I did not check the data, but I believe a good amount of the GDP is from tourism.

4) Protest is not in the interest of the country.
THe protesters claim to do it in the interest of the country but business is hurt, the country economic is hurt. Then how can it be in the interest of the country.

Disruption to the public transport system is not in the interest of the country.

5) Protesters livehood is affected
Just think for a moment, the protesters sit there for days. Where are they going to get the income to support their family? And they claim that times are bad and the economic of the country is bad. (It is time to wake up to WORK for a living, find a job. Money do not drop from the sky or grow on trees. Unless you own an orchard.)

6) Who provide the meals to the protesters??
If we look at the images from the media, we can see people provide meals to the protesters. In order to feed the hundreds and thousands, a good amount of money has to be provided. I wonder where the money come from. I read from the Straits Times that one of the eight leaders of the protest is a media tycoon. The word "tycoon" from dictionary.com means
1.
a businessperson of great wealth and power; magnate.
2.
(often initial capital letter) a title used with reference to the shogun of Japan.

How interesting....

In conclusion, good economic comes from good government with good stablity: political stablity and social stablity for growth and dvelopment.

The people of Thailand should not join the protest because when the opposition feel that they do not have the support of the people, they will not be able to protest any farther. One may not support the government, but go on do a good jobb in the workplace to ensure good economics for oneself and the country.