Thailand: Red Terror - Regime Thugs Firebomb Protest Leaders Home, Threaten OpponentsTony Cartalucci Four men early on Thursday morning threw a molotov cocktail at the family home of Chitpas Bhirombhakdi, a former deputy Democrat Party spokeswoman and now one of core protest leaders under the anti-government Peoples Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC). The bottle filled with petrol and with a lit wick was thrown at the house in Ramkhamhaeng Soi 12 in Ramkhamhaeng area of Bangkok about 3.30am Thursday. The house belongs to Ms Chitpass father Jutinan Bhirombhakdi. The attack occurred about an hour after Ms Chitpas returned to the house. For weeks, led by misogynist taunts and the posting of pictures taken from Ms. Chitpas Facebook page with distasteful captions added by Thaksin Shinawatra lobbyist Robert Amsterdams hired pen, Andrew McGregor Marshall, Chitpas Bhirombhakdi has been the target of harassment not focused on the message shes brought to the stage, but rather personal insults regarding her family, their business, and her trivial daily activities. It is interesting that in 2010 I sensed that some of the media was somehow bought off or seduced by the violent protesters and their leader. Some of the strongest evidence was indirect. When I wrote words that did not match the narrative (such as that bullets were coming from the red shirt camp and the Royal Thai Army was showing immense discipline), some journalists openly attacked me, not my work. When journalists resort to ad hominem attacks, that is a bad sign. This was not true of all journalists. Many did fine work, but there was a powerful undercurrent of mob journalism and many were afraid to break from the narrative. It appears now, with a firebombing of a protest leaders house, gone completely uncondemned by the regimes propaganda front, that verbal abuse has turned into physical abuse, with the former serving as justification for the latter. Other incidents this week included the regimes red shirts threatening teachers and parents who voiced opposition to the regime. Regime thugs gathered outside Regina Coeli College in the northern city of Chiang Mai, the epicenter of some of the most notorious pro-regime violence, in a show of political intimidation, and intolerance. Another group of the regimes red thugs gathered outside the home of Chiang Mai Cultural Council president Chao Duangduan for also speaking out against the regime. Bangkok Posts article, Chiang Mai red-shirts threaten PM critic, stated: Worawut Roojanapinan, leader of the red-shirt group Rak Chiang Mai 51, led about 50 supporters to rally in front of Chiang Mai provincial hall to vent anger after Chao Duangduan claimed former prime minister Thaksin is the root cause of disorder in the country. The Chiang Mai Cultural Council president also demanded that Ms Yingluck resign from her role as a caretaker premier to pave the way for the national reform. In a statement read out by Mr Worawut, the group called on Chao Duangduan to step down from her position, citing the fact that her resignation would protect the provinces main cultural organisation from political exploitation. The protesters said they wanted Yaowares Shinawatra, the younger sister of Thaksin and elder sister of Ms Yingluck, to replace Chao Duangduan. Mrs Yaowares is former president of the National Council of Women of Thailand. Aggressive measures would be launched to pressure Chao Duangduan to leave her post if she ignored their demand, the statement said. The bizarre, violent, and nepotist demands made by the Rak Chiang Mai 51 group, notorious for violently disrupting an anti-HIV/AIDS parade, hacking to death an elderly man outside his own home, and hitting a female lecturer after the group attempted to disrupt a university reunion, have added to the growing climate of fear and intimidation used by the regime while it attempts to cling to power. Meanwhile, undeterred, anti-regime protesters took to the streets by the thousands today in the first of two warm up rallies ahead of a third mass mobilization this Sunday, December 22, 2013. Two previous mass marches inNovember and December have dwarfed even the largest pro-regime rallies held at the very height of its popularity and power years ago. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 