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As the  thumbnail and title would suggest on this video, I am discussing well my attendance at a pretty peaceful Thai protest, and by attendance, I mostly went there to see what was going on, but as you can see in the thumbnail, I have got my Thai flag, I'm holding it up, I’ve got my Thai flag down there and went down to just see what was going on. Very interesting and I am getting into this in great detail on our paid news service. You can email us at [email protected], that's [email protected]. I am plugging things real quick too. Pancake Palace a new restaurant we've opened up here in downtown Bangkok. Pancake Palace, all day breakfast, American diner food; we've got chilli, Buffalo wings and cheeseburgers. All kinds of good stuff but back to the main point of this. On the paid new service I am going to go into detail of what I saw and things there, but it was it was refreshing frankly.

Protests here in Thailand, especially Bangkok, kind of make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up sometimes because of past experience quite frankly. It has been a harrowing experience to; I went through the events of 2010 where otherwise peaceful protests really kind of mushroomed into something that turned into a very bad situation; it was not good for anybody. I understood the arguments and the sentiments of those who were effectively on "both sides" of all the issues or many different sides of the issues but this was different. This was, first of all, for Jatuporn and Sonthi to be involved in the same event. I mean anybody that knows the history of Thai politics out here, that would be like, I don't know, back in the United States, It would be like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump co-hosting a protest against something else. I mean it's a pretty big deal and it shows that across the political spectrum - Thais, myself included - are upset at what we view as a threat to the sovereignty of this great country. And it's really not even political. It's not even partisan.

Nobody down there was really talking about anything partisan, it was just ‘foreigners leave us alone. We are a sovereign country’. Be it Cambodia, the World Economic Forum and apparently - I am doing another video contemporaneously with this one talking about Paetongtarn - apparently had some call with Macron, which by the way in the last two years, anytime Macron gets mentioned, I'm like first of all, why? What does France have to do with anything going on out here? And secondly, what's she talking to him about? How to be a leader that nobody likes and is sort of clinging on to power based on very tenuous principles, not even principles, very tenuous legalities because it is my understanding Macron is not overly popular back in France. And he's gone through a no confidence vote that apparently, they just ignored or something. I don't understand French politics but long story short, all Thais are concerned right now that our sovereignty is being infringed and undermined and this country may be under threat by outside forces and powers. Look, Thailand has never been colonized, and it is one of the reasons I like it; it is one of the reasons I became fascinated by Thailand and ultimately became a Thai is because it's a country that values its nationalism, it values itself, it values its heritage, it values its customs, it values its history, it values its sovereignty, it values its institutions, and it's not really interested in being subsumed by whatever this Global movement of supranationalistic banal totalitarianism. Nobody is interested in it here. It was refreshing to see that manifest peacefully and in a big way down at Victory Monument, and again I am making further commentary on that in the paid news service again [email protected].