Taking Your Country Back, One Troop Train At A Time: Note Well, TEA Party Patriots

Protesters Seize Troops in Thailand

The most counterintuitive headline of the day belongs to Thailand's Red Shirt protesters, who turned the tables on the typical persecuted protesters narrative Wednesday. For several days, rumors have been circulating in the Thai capital that the government is preparing to crack down on protesters, using military force if necessary. Not ones to sit around and wait to be bashed in the head with rocks, the Red Shirts decided the best thing to do was deprive the government of its military. On Wednesday, a group of Red Shirts seized a train that was transporting Thai soldiers in the Kohn Kaen area, northeast of Bangkok. They swarmed the train, decoupled the engine from its cars, and have left a hapless group of soldiers guarding the weapons the train was transporting. Protesters say they won't release it until they're sure the men onboard aren't going to travel to the capital and reinforce the troops already harassing Red Shirts. The soldiers can't do anything but wait; the occupants of the 18-car train are far outnumbered by Red Shirts in Kohn Kaen. Local police are negotiating with the protesters for the release of the soldiers and the equipment.

Read original story in Al-Jazeera | Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Compare to dozens of Yankee gun-wagglers being meekly escorted about by police, or park rangers or, for all we know, Scoutmasters at their big "as close as we can get to the capital w/ heat" event Monday. We are almost ashamed of our countrymen.