Q&A: Why did the PAD in Thailand occupy the airport? Do they hate foreigners?
Question by Joe R: Why did the PAD in Thailand occupy the airport? Do they hate foreigners?
The “People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD)” in Thailand has captured the main airports and prevented people from travelling to, or via Thailand. They seem to want the prime minister to resign, and also to change Thai democracy so that only rich and privileged people can vote.
But why did they choose the airport in particular? Do they want visitors to stop coming?
In reply to “no protestor on runway, they can easily allow flights to [come and] leave”. I don’t think is true at all, they have barricaded the roads with trucks and military barbed wire to stop people coming. They have seized police officers and beaten people.
From the outside they look like a terrorist organisation that uses “vote buying in poor rural areas” as excute to ignore the respected one-man-one-vote system. If there’s a vote problem fix it! Don’t kill your economy and make the world think you use terrorists tactics…
My grandma has cancer and I can’t take my last-minute flight (UK -> Aus) to see her, because it Thai airways (BKK) 
If she’s dead when I get there I will never visit “Amazing Thailand” or the “Land of Smiles” again
Link on how PAD treat police (which would have to be there this was a ‘stable’ normal airport which can right flights) – I mean C’mon Get Real!
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2008/11/29/124380911470
Best answer:
Answer by michael w
Thais do not hate foreigners as its their biggest earner. They picked the airport because it would cause the most publicity to their cause. My advice to them would be to find another way to protest as this occupation will in the end only lead to bloodshed.
What do you think? Answer below!
1. why close airport, who close the airport?
the protester said for more than a week telling that they are going to airport on that day, but government did nothing, no talk, not police road block, and let it all happen.
even on the first day, they took hours to move in to the airport outside of bangkok, but in the airport, things went on like not thing was going to happen, and when the protester there. the goverment shut down the airport. it was no protester on the runway.(even now). no protester in the immigration area. they can easily let all the flight leave the country.
it is just like all the crash we have seen over the year. everyone can read a newspaper will know what will happen in when, but government don’t?!!! let thing happen and point the finger… it is the same dirty trick thais have seen for many many year.
2. why you are so IGNORANCE saying that
“change Thai democracy so that only rich and privileged people can vote” ????????????
now their are 2 groups
“a group that want to see thailand develop with out corruption”
Vs
“a group that thing corruption is the way to develop thailand” (i am not kidding, they think that they said that out loud. )
the first group currently wearing yellow and close the air port right now asking and seeking for a way to reduce corruption in the country. they see that thailand have never had real democracy since every election majority of people in the north willing to sell there vote
the second group currently wearing red, and benefit from this dirty corruption money, they are asking to get the master of corruption, thaksin back to power.
so this 2 groups made it clear they will not walk the same path.
the people say that thailand had democracy, one person one vote, bkk people are wealthy, poor rural are support current gov.. they are ignorance.
saying it with out even know the country background
this people do not know that
-one person one vote are democracy but if people got money and give their vote to whoever give him/her the most, that is not democracy..
and this is the fake democracy currently being use and support by this government, people in the north and northeast in thailand.
-the southern rural, which more than 3000 of them has been kill resulted from thaksin miss-taken policy, also poor and need help. they also say no to this government.
-a lot of poor people in bangkok who work day to night living in a small apartment, no big house no farming land also say no to this gov
-a PM from a democratic state can not remove any law enforcement and take over any news media who try to investigate any of his and his family wrong doing as thai PM, taksin had done.
-northern and northeast rural are not poor if you see their house, car, farm, the way they spend money.
Have you ever heard that some thai parent sell their child for money? Do you know where this parent came from? Somebody say north? Then thing why they do that for money when they got their own land and farm?
Why farmer in the south has never had a record of doing that?
Thaksin put a lot of money into that area (but not education) because he know the nature of this people, and big part of the money he put here were taxes from the hardworking people in another place. it is no wonder why people in the north and northeast love him, but people in the other place hated him.
it is all about
who think corruption and benefit from corruption are bad for the country
and
who thing the other way around are the way to go for a democratic a state.