I'm starting to seriously doubt religion as a motive anyway, but not ready to rule it out either. apperatly people had the day off work and went to have their pictures taken with soldiers, etc. One guy kept something as a souverior. I read that since that King has been reigning, there have been like 7 coups, and he is now more popular than ever, and probably more powerful than some extremeist groups in his country. Go Thailand!!! I hope they will be okay through this.