Stuck in Thailand

The airport is still being held captive, which means we are still hostages of this [ed: goddamned mother-fucking stupid - Mathew] foreign country. The yellow-shirts took over the other airport, which was actually not in use but had been reopened to divert some planes there. The government (the Prime Minister) has declared a state of emergency around the two airports to allow the police and military to ignore standard civil liberties (like the right of people to gather, or to be in the airport at all). However, the protesters in the airport have said that they will not leave - they will fight til the death. This is not a promising statement. They want the Prime Minister to step down, he refuses. The army has not done anything one way or another, but they may stage a coup to take over the government if they do not decide to remove the protesters.

We attempted to look into taking a train home, which appears more complicated than you can believe. The only train that leaves the country does not pre-book. It would require that we purchased two tickets at the station as they came available. We would then need to take the train for 12 or so hours, then transfer to another train (that we would need to buy tickets for at THAT station) and then take a ferry 12 or so hours after that. Then we would take the ferry from Thailand to Malaysia, take another train from Malaysia to Singapore (once again, we would need another ticket...) The tickets are cheap, but who knows how long the wait would be to get them. As well, the total journey takes 2 days by train, ferry, and possibly bus. So we're going to wait until the airports open again. We have rebooked our hotel through the weekend.

I'm a little worried that violence may break out, as this appears to be a civil war waiting to happen. Some people support the PM and some don't. Who knows what's going to happen.

We should be safe. But it's a little scary.