You cant kill everyone, but as well you cant make everyone rich, the 6th episode on Thailand's Democracy

The King of Thailand, is to be the richest monarch in the world, with a estimated personal net worth of US$ 35 billion. He has a controlling stake in numerous firms including Siam Cement and Siam Commercial Bank.

While living in clean flats and halls in Bangkok, the Bangkok establishment lost out with sticky rice. Lost touch to the grass-root people. Bangkok, is a vast metropolis of about eight million people, with an typical catastrophic traffic system. I can say the traffic through the city was already a mess, before the red shirts arrived. In my opinion the culture of the mega cities, with there artificial reality, entertainment savvy, is incompatible to the culture of the rural areas, where people still dig the earth with their hand.

This are two worlds which are out of sync, the metropolis, cooled down by an wast array of air-conditions, with the beauty and glamour world, with the fast and rich ideology, the religion of the survival of the fittest. The metropolis is predominantly a matrix of, banks, hotels, shopping malls, corporate headquarters. The metropolis is located aside of the domestic or international airports, this is one of the two major hubs to get in and out besides highways for private mobility. Inside of such metropolis all is conditioned to work for there survival and guarantee on 24/7 bases that the arteries do not die off. By arteries I mean the canalization, the traffic flow, the flow of information an the constant stream of broadcasted entertainment, all is powered by fossil fuels or nuclear power.

You can see this everywhere around the word, just the sizes are different. The metropolis is an human miss construction, there where executive power is concentrated, the government, the military, the police and the political nomenclature.

The metropolis is dictating what is called the current culture, what is in and what is out, based on a commodity thinking which is totally disconnected to the production process. The farmer, the grass root is still in touch with the nature, he kills his chicken, he plants, waters and harvest the rice, with his own hand. The body is connected and not disconnected. Inhabitants of such a metropolis are just tourist when there visit nature on their free weekends. For them nature is a nice or ugly background image for their family photo, to be captured on their digi cams. Metropolis people live more in there minds and the majority of them are administrators, bureaucrats and in servicing, soon they will need high and thick walls around there cities to be safe, "gated communities".

Speaking of leaders of political parties a former economics professor educated at Oxford, what the current prime minister Abhisit is, does not play well with the grass root, furthermore the Absinth government is born in the army. They all went to the one and only elite military academy. By the way also Thaksin was educated there, in the special section which supplies manpower to the police. Thaksin was a cop.

The blood collection which took place some days ago is a symbolic ritual of "non citizens", only rural people could do this. For many westerners deeply disgusting, but in Thai culture it is a oath to pull blood over ones door and road, this says something of the role of animalistic believes, still a live in Thai society, they do exist in Oxford also but only in cinemas or on DVD's.

Today on the rally I have met with, Jaran Ditapichai, it has been explained to me that he is one of the two so called ideologist beside Weng Tojirakden. We set down in typical white plastic garden chair and started an interesting conversation about the present movement. He explains to me, the UDD is not yet an organization its a network, in the 2nd step the task will be, to build UDD as an organization with substance.

Many other people outside of the rally complain that the redshirts have no agenda no ideological master plan. Mr. Jaran Ditapichai told me at the moment, they have chosen the form of an demonstration / rally, this first step of Thai democracy should lead to the basic idea of peoples sovereignty. This means that it is harder for the dominant class to exploit the people, by buying there votes, simply spoken that no dominant clan is in power, who does not believe in peoples sovereignty. This is the basic step for the UDD, the white paper, the master plan, the ideology, the… can follow later. Interestingly the King, or the emperor was also called "the sovereign".

If I compare this to the western system of democracy? You ask me if this is just a softer approach to exploitation? Yes we can vote, yes the government, if not too corrupt stays the full legislation in office, yes and we can vote again. But do we have personal sovereignty, I say no we don't. Predominantly people work for money, not much money is left for there private use, the high proportion goes back to the industry. Yes they are free to shop, pay tax, medical services, education of their children, pay off their mortgages for car and home and happily, they can go on holidays for 3 weeks and pay to the tourism industry. This is not sovereignty this is the soft version of slavery, called western democracy. Yes you can, execute free speech without ending up in Myanmar, but is free speech the only value?

On my question how the clerics play, Mr. Ditapichai tells me that in Thailand they are not in power, the only countries where they are powerful and play a part in the game is Vietnam and Myanmar. Furthermore we speak about the importance of the red shirt rally in context of Asia. In my opinion China must shiver, even when surprisingly CCTV4 aired an 2 hour documentation in chinese, covering the red shirt really and their background.

In my opinion the redshirt coalitions is doing an pioneering job for the whole Asian hemisphere. It is the second largest movement in Asia after Falung Gong, the religious sect, which has fallen out with Chinese government. That speaks for it self. The opposition attacks the redshirt coalition by saying that they are anti monarchistic, this was in Thailand a direct way to prison, today people openly or secretly criticizing the monarchy, that never happened before.

As we can see Thailand is in transition, in a natural transition, in my opinion that happens because all kind off factors are contributing to this transition process. For sure not only the red shirt's, or Thaksin, they all play an important role. This transition is kicked off from all participating parties including Abhisit, the yellow shirts and the King. Independently from, if they like it or not, this is already beyond their control.

Yes we could have a potential first hero, which deservers a big statue in the center of the city, right beside of the Democratic Monument. Mr. Thaksin is the biggest single sponsor of cash to the Thai people, his Billions have been sized by the supreme court. I can understand that loosing Billions hurts and creates emotional anger, but if Mr. Thaksin could relax about that los. He would get an statue of honor, as the biggest hero of the transition time. Well yes, maybe first he hast to explain this to his wife, why he accepts the forced donation.

My closing statement for today, the red shirt coalition needs to start urgently an think tank as the americans call it, or a group of people who write, study, research. The agenda which comes into play after the rally.

Now someone has to talk and listen to the people which came to the rally to Bangkok, what there projections are. This could become the biggest collection of collective thoughts. Get out and harvest red shirts.

It needs an mechanism of regulations, how to distribute the tax money, out of the private pocketers, to the grass root people. Improving, on affordable health care, bank loans, micro investments, affordable education and infrastructure.

The rift between the "culture of the citizens" and the rural population needs to be addressed, to avoid further alienation and ignorance.

Tomorrow morning the redshirts will march to the 11th infantry regiment where the current government is in hiding, to start negotiations with them to step down.

Bipolar sticky rice, Pink shirts, Yellow shirts, Red shirts: you cant kill everyone, but as well you cant make everyone rich.