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...Unlike Thaksin, Samak has deep connections with the palace; his family served as royal courtiers for generations. And though the former Bangkok governor defined his earlier career as a blustery hard-liner, Samak has so far used restraint against the people occupying his offices. The riot police charged with breaking up the Sept. 2 confrontation, for instance, did not carry guns. While Samak is hardly a touchy-feely politician, he, like his predecessor Thaksin, displays a deft common touch that is often lacking within Thailand's political class. If a snap election were held tomorrow, Samak's PPP would most...
...cause and to heckle the Republican National Convention. By the time the demonstrations against the GOP were underway, however, the letters had melted into partisan illegibility, reading "democrat" or "democratic." Protesters later reached the triangular zone across the street from the Xcel Energy Center, where barbed-wire fences and riot police separated the boisterous Republican-bashing crowd from the few delegates inside...
...back alleys and side streets. When the march reached the triangular park, there stood a few dozen brave Republican Party supporters, chanting their approval of the Iraq war. Meanwhile, in the middle of the march line, a group of Industrial Workers of the World bellowed a profane chant while riot police flanked the march, holding sticks and ominous riot guns...
...parachute-sized faux Declaration of Independence held by a dozen marchers was approaching just as an elderly bearded man taunted the riot police by hopping to and fro while hitting his forehead on the sign he was holding. The riot police stared ahead through their shields...
...news! A small group of self-proclaimed anarchists, calling themselves Funk the War, peeled away from a peaceful protest on the streets of St. Paul and erupted into violence. They pounded cars, smashed windows, hurled bottles and pushed a flaming garbage bin into a police car. Police in riot gear broke up the melee with tear gas and arrested as many as 100 people...