"If the protesters line up along the side of the road, then that might not be a problem,'' Suthep said.
The government will not invoke the Internal Security Act for now as it has already drawn up a plan to handle the situation. "If they break the law and show tendency to be violent, then we will step up security measures,'' he said.
He admitted that the red shirts' threat to rally at the Suvarnabhumi Airport has caused public alarm and the stock market tumbling.
Suthep did not believe that if the red shirts' plan to take hold of key state agencies succeeds, they could bring down the government. "If they want to incite unrest, people across the country will not agree with that and will not give cooperation because they do not want to see the country plunge into turmoil,'' he said.
Arisman Pongruangrong
Arisman Pongruangrong, one of the key leaders of the red shirts said they would discuss their plan to rally at the Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday.
It is likely they would execute the plan but not to seize the airport, cause any turmoil or disrupt traffic. "We will just hold a press conference and hold placards with a message that Thailand does not have justice because they cannot take legal action against those who seized the airport,'' he said.
The number of the protesters will be small and the rally will last only one hour, he said.
Source: The Nation
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