Paid Ruffians

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People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) thug stands proudly in front of canceled departures at the seized Suvarnabhumi airport.

From the editorial desk at the Straights Times:

"The sight of paid ruffians occupying Bangkok's main airports for three days now (even the sensitive control tower was taken over) has been vividly damaging to the country."

"For Thailand's sake and the continuance of fragile democratic institutions, no elected government should be run out of office by persons and special interests acting unconstitutionally. The PAD can register itself as a party and try to win office legally, but it must abandon its laughable proposition that only one-third of parliament shall be elected and two-thirds appointed. Class-based representation is the road to perdition."

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