Thai protests

Word on the street is that PAD is drawing support from the south of Thailand, the Muslim states that want independence (and are willing to do stupid things to achieve it) and busing them in to Bangkok as protesters. In that case no wonder they have lots of knives and guns at their protests. If they are offering some sort of deal to those groups I'm sure the Thai people would like to know. Although it is possible that they are just buying their support like they buy the support of so many of the other protesters.