Quick Note on Thai situation.

Tonight I have been watching social media coverage of what is happening in Bangkok. for the first time in history this has been planned as a peaceful protest against the corrupt government of Khaksin and his sister Yinluck. So the sniper shots and the bomb today need some explanation.
In big picture terms this protest is against Thaksin and his running his sister's government from outside his country from which he is banned unless he is prepared to spend two year in gaol.
Several times his supporters have tried to move motions of Amnesty for current criminals, including of course Thaksin and those convicted of violent crimes from the last Red Shirt protests.
This time the people are rebelling against the corruption of the current puppet and corrupt government.
The sides if there are clear lines are business people, the army undercover and many of the young people of Thailand who have had enough. On the other side are those who support Thaksin mostly the police from who he came and those whom he anoints in his company connections in the oil and communications industries. The saddened and aged King tries to remain distant. The army has said it does not want to mount a coup, but I wonder if they are protesting too much.
When the protesters broke into the building from which the bomb was thrown the y found an abandoned building to which the electricity had been connected last week and a sizable cache of arms and whiteboard notations of suspected supporters of the protest. These artifacts are not those of an alternative splinter group. They look like the toys of secret service police.
Protesters were shocked by the introduction of violence which they wished to avoid and have done so. 
But who might be the international backers? Suggestions are that the USA is keen on Chevron's lusting about oil on the Cambodian/Thai border and much more. It is noted that the previous American ambassador, known to the Thais as Clit, was the first official to congratulate Thaksin when he grabbed power.  If as usual Zoe Daniel reports on the situation for the ABC watch out. she seems to have taken her own llne on Thai politics backing Thaksin as the revolutionary saviour of the poor. Watch this space.