Ricardo

I'm sure you are not talking about the place behind Big C since there is no temple there.

kerryk, on 2012-05-26 21:27:54, said:

Coups seem to take the place of impeachment and conviction,
in a land where they never have the balls to make the laws strong enough
to remove thieves and brigands from the top offices.

If coups are accepted by the society as a whole,
and not just decried by the losers only, then they are a part
of what society accepts, and thus not illegitimate.

With 19 of them, so far, it seems to be a relief valve for a particular type
of societal disfunction, in a society not used to functioning as the rest of
the world expects it should.

Not saying this is good or that it always works well,
but this appears to be how it functions here,
because it does NOT function normally, and never has the last 80 years.
Why; is a doctoral thesis of massive proportions.

Clearly some sociological / philosophical differentiation from the west is
even greater here that the rest of Asia. We can bemoan it, but only slow,
gradual time will change it. In this case the young, learning of the better way,
accepting it over time, and the old dinosaurs dying off and being replaced
by modern thinkers.

Laws such as this proposal can only be seen as a death-throe of the old ways,
trying to claw back for one more shot, and likely the pendulum will swing back
the other way soon. We still have far too many dinosaurs and junior dinos in power.

In Thailand it already requires that an MP must be a graduate, that has never been the case in most real democracies

There have been issues with the parking lot concession at Swampy since before it was open.  Does anyone remember this:

http://www.nationmul...l_18113079.html

A Thai businessman claimed that a sister of PM Thaksin demanded a bribe of 48 million baht to give him the Suvarnarnabhumi parking concession & then gave it to someone else!