Summary

The Emergency Decree has been announced though no action as yet has been taken against the protesters. The government has retreated to the safe haven of Chiang Mai and remains eerily very detached from the crisis that is unfolding in the nation's capital. The terrorist acts in Mumbai provide a perspective. The public is clamoring for the PAD's head for causing disruption and economic damage, and though this is understandable, just imagine if instead of just sitting peacefully outside the airport, they had gone in and gunned down travelers inside the terminal.

The PAD must quit the airport blockade - their actions have already achieved the goal of exposing the government as incompetent and self-serving. Let the courts do their work and then let us beat them in the only appropriate way - through the ballot box.