Originally Posted by Dr. HFH

IMO you may be overreacting a bit. I was there during the protests last Spring. Generally, Thais are a warm and gentle people. When I walked through the occupied areas last year everyone with whom I spoke inquired after my comfort and safety, expressing no concern for their own. Here they were, hundreds of miles from home, living on mats on the hot pavement, and they were offering me their own cool water, their own food. Outside of the occupied areas, there were many well armed troops. Again, all were friendly. I never felt unsafe, never felt that I was in danger.

Go to Bangkok, you'll be fine. If there's trouble, it will most likely be confined to a well defined geographical area, and is unlikely to be spontaneous and sudden. You'll likely have plenty of warning. What's more, Thais mostly understand what tourism means to their economy, and the last thing that any side wants is dead falangs.