Thailand’s Street Democracy
The Thai Constitutional Court has forced the prime minister to resign. The king is not neutral and democracy has lost its place.
December 9, 2008
THAILAND has fallen into a street democracy. We are concerned at the sight of mass power repeatedly overthrowing governments in that nation. Perhaps the democracy that has so much respect for the votes of the people in elections no longer has a place or any value.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has fallen. The Constitutional Court suspended the ruling party, the People’s Power Party, on suspicion of electoral fraud. The Court even banned Som
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