StanG:

Where is your evidence for saying "millions of Thais ... supported the establishment and even joined Krating Daeng and Nawapol" in the '70s?

On your blog (as quoted here) you said: "Something happened in those three years between 1973 and 1976 that turned public opinion in a completely opposite direction." Where is your evidence that "public opinion" supported the '76 military/police actions?

What "happened in those three years" was a dramatic increase in democratic behavior and free expression of political ideas, which the military and conservatives didn't like. It didn't "turn[] public opinion in a completely opposite direction," it prompted the ones with the guns to decide to roll things back to pre-1973 -- public opinion be damned.

You have an odd attraction to the vague notion of "public opinion", as if it supports everything that happens. Just because millions of people currently support the Democrats doesn't mean they support, for example, the government's recent crackdown on free speech through draconian censorship laws, or, for another example, the nationalist rants against Cambodia. Just because the military decided to roll back democracy in 1976 doesn't mean "public opinion" was behind them.