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Last November, a similar stunt by the regime led to violent clashes and several deaths, with regime gunmen photographed and videoed shooting into crowds .
Links Thailand: CONFIRMED – "Men-in-Black" Gunmen Were Regime Police CAPO also confirmed to have lied about "police dressed as protesters," in yet another egregious episode exposing Shinawatra regime as illegitimate and intolerable. January 2, 2014  (Tony Cartalucci) – It is now confirmed that black-clad gunmen seen atop the Labour Ministry building on December 26, 2013 during deadly violence last month that left two dead were in fact police. Thai PBS reported in an article titled, " National police chief admits men in black are police ," that: National Police Office commissioner Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew this morning admitted that the men in black†on the roof-top of the Labor Ministry’s building near the Thai-Japan youth centre in Din Daeng are police. The national police commissioner’s official admittance came as he led senior police officers to deliver best wishes and receive New Year blessings from the president of the Privy Council Gen Prem Tinsulanonda this morning. Pol Gen Adul admitted that “men in black†are police and vowed to investigate and bring them to justice procedure. He also admitted that the men in anti-riot uniforms who were seen smashing the windshields of a vehicle of a volunteer nurse are also the police.
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Since the 2006 coup that toppled his regime, Thaksin has been represented by US corporate-financier elites via their lobbying firms including, Kenneth Adelman  of the Edelman PR firm  ( Freedom House , International Crisis Group , PNAC ), James Baker of Baker Botts  ( CFR , Carlyle Group ), Robert Blackwill  ( CFR ) of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) , Kobre & Kim , Bell Pottinger  ( and here ) and currently Robert Amsterdam  of Amsterdam & Partners  ( Chatham House ). The protesters then, see the privatization and selling off of Thailand’s natural resources and infrastructure, the pending FTA’s the regime has been attempting to pass, the chaos in the nation’s south, the atrocious "war on drugs," and the use of Thailand to serve the strategic interests of the West, in particular the United States, as intolerable.
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