Dan,
I had heard various news reports of the red shirt events over there past few weeks, then my friend just got back from a three week vacation there. His girlfriend is Thai, and living in Toronto, but goes back for a few months each year. He said it was pretty crazy and she was out a few nights with red shirt activity. No bombs or guns that he was near, but said it was pretty tense. Saw some graphic images that did not make it outside the borders from a news perspective. They sure do like their shirt colours over there, its seems like just yesterday that the yellow shirts took over the airports.
Andrew
Ps: Sam, that's pretty funny, I saw the same star trek red shirt jpg the other day on google when searching news on the protests, it appears just under the news about thai red shirt movement.