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March 16, 2010 Agree about pacifism & the doulbe standard, but you completely overlooked how the current government came into power no amount of spin can get away from the fact that this government is only in power because of a military & judicial coup.The lead coalition partner, Abhisit's (not so) Democrats, refused to participate in elections before the coup, and even after having things rigged in its favour and competitors removed, its still afraid to face the people in an election.You also failed to look at the history of miltary coups in Thailand, where its always some military General or other deciding a group of corrupt' politicians need to be removed the first act of those generals is always to change the constitution to exonerate themselves, and then they move on to enriching themselves and whichever network they are aligned with.A push then comes for democracy from the people, sometimes elections are held and sometimes another coup occurs or even a self coup'.The people are never given the chance to remove governments The old saying: The rural mnasses elect the governments and the Bangkok elite removes them' is a cycle being repeated endlessly.Like it or not Thaksins TRT was the only government to win consecutive elections it should have been left to the people to decide when they want to remove that government.No lasting good will ever come from a military coup because two wrongs will never make a right.I have tried not to go into the background of HOW its been possible for the masses to be continually disenfranchised, but if you or your readers are interested, they could start with books by Paul Handley & Federico Ferrara. Your sho
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Daniella
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