In THE past it has taken a World Cup final or a thousand red-shirted revolutionaries to unify Italy.
A reported 30,000 or so red-shirted Thaksin supporters gathered in the capital, Bangkok, to submit the petition amid a high police presence.
Perhaps the dark-skinned vegetable seller lady was a spy for Agency "A", and the old bald T-shirted fellow selling hardware and sundry goods was a spy on the payroll of "B".
Röhm had built a million-man-strong paramilitary band of street thugs, the brown-shirted Storm Troopers, or SA.
As soon as I turned into the back street, the sound of the city went down immediately. From time to time, I saw several long-shirted figures walking slowly and orderly, but also at ease.
Within months, yellow-shirted royalist protesters were back on the streets in Bangkok, refusing to leave until the government did.
Prosecutors have shied away from the army's offences and instead chased up red-shirted arsonists.
The brief incursion into the parliament building was the latest tactic in the escalating campaign by thousands of red-shirted demonstrators to force Mr Abhisit's resignation.
Coincidentally, the blue-shirted woman also said that she did not know what to say.
