Tuesday 2 September 2008

Southeast Asia is revolting

Normal service will be resumed soon!

Currently in Malaysia on a research trip but clearly chose the wrong country to go to this summer as all the excitement is taking place to the north in Thailand where Thai students, unionists and the middle classes appear to have decided that they don't like democracy anymore because the poor keep voting for the 'wrong' party and electing politicians that they don't like.

How terribly inconvenient of them!

Guys think you need to go back to school and look up the meaning of democracy. I had to live through 18 years of a government I didn't like while most of the world has had to put up with 8 years of Geroge W Bush because a narrow majority of Americans preferred him to the democrats.

Anyway don't be surprised to see Thailand's 19th coup take place soon -- ostensibly to 'save' the country from chaos and to write another constitution which will again try to keep those pesky poor people out.

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