Thailand: protesters throw own blood over government buildings

nice... protesters should do that to our government buildings. fill the streests of DC with blood and make all those war mongering politicians wade through it daily. doubt it would do much but I think they should be covered in the blood they've spilled.

that is insane

LOVE the way they are throwing the blood, and the police are standing in the back ground.

Hey, we can do that here, before the corporations and banks suck the last drop from us and from our great, great, great grandchildren. We now owe those institutions 200X our gross domestic project. And you wonder why our educational system has backed off of math? Our decline in education is not by accident, but by design. Thank God, you all (two words) do not believe the government BS about how bright you are.

It might be helpful to know that protesters are customarily paid in Thailand.
In this case, by former Prime Minister and media baron Thaksin Shinawatra, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Thailand, who is in exile for having ripped off the Thai government in unpaid taxes of billions of dollars.
Thaksin was formerly police chief in Bangkok. Decades ago he steered the Thai police mobile phone contract to his son and over time bought a large percentage of Thai radio and television stations. Imitating Rupert Murdock and Silvio Berlusconi, Thaksin used those media outlets (and lots of cash) to portray himself as a democratic man of the people representing the poor of the outlying areas of the north and east of Thailand. In power, he had Muslim insurgents and suspected drug users killed without trail by the police and military, and ripped Thailand off big-time.
After his exile from Thailand and attempts to extradite him from Britain, he skipped around the world for a while. He was most recently in Cambodia hiring friends in the Cambodian government.
Thaksin is eager to try and get back to Thailand both to return to power and to try and recoup billions in seized assets that the Thai Supreme Court found had he had illegally acquired at government expense.

I think what they did, if you read the article, was beautiful. It was showing that "it came from their heart" and that the "blood of the common people were mixing together to fight for democracy". If only this was the way blood had to be shed for democracy.

That's a bold statement, but I agree... that blood should be put in good use. What's wrong with using fake blood? Good fake blood...? Cow's blood?

If i am going to give blood, it isn't going to be so it can be pored away on the street.

WOW(*_*)that is shockingly awesome and gross, anyone on their way to a fed reserve building? i would like to make a deposit

Considering that 1 in 100 adults has AIDS in Thailand, this was pretty reckless and irresponsible.
Fantastic symbolism though.

A new bar has been set for the most intense protesting across the planet.

Now that's the way to protest! Sign me up!