there is more gunfire in these skirmishes between red shirts , pheu thai dogged by their more militant faction , the united front for democracy against dictatorship ( both formerly , most incredulously in name , thai ruk [ love ] thai and perhaps other names as well given their chameleon appellations and my faulty mutable memory , obtuse nature , and cavalier ennui concerning the whole subject ) , and , presumably , in altercations with southern students , a few who might even be my students , who for perhaps no other ratiocination than patriotic fervor toward the regionally born party as conditioned onto them by their parents , as their parents before them , support the bourgeoisie yellow shirts or democracy party which has been commandeered and enveloped by the peoples democratic reform committee in these unrelenting street demonstrations against the prime minister , whose elongated strings stretch to a fugitive sibling and former prime minister in exile .