Thailand's junta warns over 'Hunger Games' salute

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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military rulers said Tuesday they are monitoring a new form of silent resistance to the coup — a three-fingered salute borrowed from "The Hunger Games" — and will arrest those in large groups who ignore warnings to lower their arms.

A midnight-to-4 a.m. curfew remained in effect for the rest of the country, including Bangkok, where the raised arm salute was unveiled over the weekend as an unofficial symbol of opposition to the coup.

On Sunday, authorities deployed nearly 6,000 soldiers and police in Bangkok to prevent planned protests against the coup. Amid the heavy security, creative forms of protest emerged. Some people wore masks as they walked through a central shopping district. Others joined small flash mobs, or stood alone, and flashed three fingers in the air.
Asked what the symbol meant, protesters have given varying explanations. Some say it stands for the French Revolution's trinity of values: liberty, equality, fraternity. Others say it means freedom, election and democracy. A photo montage circulating online paired a picture from the science fiction blockbuster "The Hunger Games" with a graphic of three fingers labeled, 1. No Coup, 2. Liberty, 3. Democracy.

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personally, they're being arrested because hunger games flat out sucks.
 
thais are obsessed with movies and victims of "group think" mentality. saw this the other day lol.
 
thais are obsessed with movies and victims of "group think" mentality. saw this the other day lol.

you say a lot of stupid shit. but this is particularly stupid.

anything that begins with : "blacks are" "thais are" "mexicans are" "australians are" or whatever is usually going to be stupid.
 
you say a lot of stupid shit. but this is particularly stupid.

anything that begins with : "blacks are" "thais are" "mexicans are" "australians are" or whatever is usually going to be stupid.

You're the idiot here. Thai culture does encourage group mentality.
 
you say a lot of stupid shit. but this is particularly stupid.

anything that begins with : "blacks are" "thais are" "mexicans are" "australians are" or whatever is usually going to be stupid.

you realize it is indeed possible to make observations on groups of people?

or would you prefer to dig your head into the sand in favour of being overtly politically correct?
 
You're the idiot here. Thai culture does encourage group mentality.

And they sell dvd's on every street corner for next to nothing. :icon_chee
 
they need to fix this shit before i go there for vacation
 
they need to fix this shit before i go there for vacation

The curfew was lifted in a bunch of tourist hotspots like samui and pattaya.

Im in bkk now and it isnt so bad
 
you say a lot of stupid shit. but this is particularly stupid.

anything that begins with : "blacks are" "thais are" "mexicans are" "australians are" or whatever is usually going to be stupid.

blacks are darker than white people
 
Hopefully they'll have an uprising over there and clean out the old regime.
 
It's better than complete all out war. Signifying you are displeased is more peaceful. The government should wake up or it could be a lot worse. People can only be held down for so long until they realize they have all been duped. :icon_lol:
 
you realize it is indeed possible to make observations on groups of people?

or would you prefer to dig your head into the sand in favour of being overtly politically correct?

indeed i do. but when i made the observation that you are an idiot i took a moment to decide whether i could extrapolate that all sherdoggers are idiots and when i realized that generalization was too broad i kept it narrow and just called you an idiot.

at least i didn't call you an asshole, right?
 
You're the idiot here. Thai culture does encourage group mentality.

show me a culture or society that doesn't feature group mentality and i'll show you a picture of me on top of your mom.
 
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