<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color: black">The appointment of &quot;Democrat&quot; Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the new Thai Prime Minister is the final stage of the second coup against an elected government. </span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt">So another Constitution Day has come and gone.<span>&nbsp; </span>Just as constitutions themselves come and go.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">But while most people just enjoy yet another December holiday, the fact that December 10^th is Constitution Day for Thailand tends to overshadow the fact that it is International Human Rights Day for the rest of the world.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">The horrific and deadly attacks on hotels, a station, a Jewish centre and other sites in Mumbai have led the media to call this episode India&rsquo;s 9/11. <br /></span></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">The ouster of a constitutionally elected government may be only the beginning of trouble. </font><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Many analysts believe that the decision Tuesday by Thailand&rsquo;s Constitutional Court to dissolve the People&rsquo;s Power Party (PPP), Chart Thai Party, and the Matchima Thipatai Party &ndash; the three key coalition parties which constituted the large component of former Prime Minister Somchai Wongswat&rsquo;s government &ndash; will put an end to the political crisis. What they have not considered is the strong possibility that the events leading to and resulting from the dissolution could actually lead to a larger and wider conflict. </font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">Today the Constitutional Courts dissolved the democratically elected governing party in Thailand for the second time, forcing the Government to resign. This follows the refusal of the Armed Forces and the Police to follow government instructions to clear the two international airports blocked by armed PAD Fascists.</span></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I have become one of the thousands who have been held hostage by the self-styled People&#39;s Alliance for Democracy indefinitely shutting down Bangkok&#39;s Suvarnabhumi Airport. After arriving at Seoul&#39;s Incheon Airport to board a flight via Hong Kong to the Thai capital on Wednesday, I was told by the Cathay Pacific staff that it was impossible because the connecting flight from Hong Kong had been cancelled indefinitely, along with all other flights to Bangkok.</font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">The transcript of the public address system, Suvarnabhumi International Airport.<span>&nbsp; </span>Readers are asked to imagine the following announcements read in a female voice combining the tones of maternal assurance with those of a tempting seductress.</span></p>

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The PAD are demanding that the elected government resigns. This is despite the fact that the government has the backing of the majority of the Thai population and even the majority of Bangkok citizens. This backing has been proven by repeated elections. The PAD want a dictatorship to replace democracy because they deem that the majority of the Thai electorate are too ignorant to deserve the right to vote.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">It must be something catching.<span>&nbsp; </span>If you call yourself &lsquo;democratic&rsquo;, then you&rsquo;re not. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">First the People&rsquo;s (self-selected minority) Alliance (of un-democratic leaders and sheep-like followers) for Democracy proposes a New Politics that is not new and certainly not democratic.</span> </p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Today it was revealed that a member of the Democrat Party has proposed an amendment to the lese majeste law. Below is a rough translation of two main section</font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">So some unnamed evil-doers hatched a dastardly plot to spiritually drive spiritual tacks or nails into the 6 points of the spiritual hexagon that surrounds the equestrian statue of King Rama V, thus preventing the spiritual power emanating out of the statue from saving the nation.<span>&nbsp; </span>But the leader of the People&rsquo;s Alliance for Demagoguery, Sondhi Limthongkul, was alert enough to counter this threat.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma">By the standards of US presidential elections, a landslide is apparently defined as one candidate getting 55% of the popular vote. <span>&nbsp;</span>So President-Elect Obama is some way off that, for all the headlines.</span></p>