Power to the people

[Baerboxer]

42 and still believes in fairies!

Coups are national pastime for the military.

You can't have a coup and not tear up the constitution because it wouldn't be constitutional .

What's the count now? 19 I think .

"42 and still believes in fairies!"

Well you still believe in Yingluck

[Baerboxer]

"If, in the future, Thailand faces an incident that requires military intervention, the charter won't be ripped up but temporarily suspended.

"If we tear it up again, the new charter will be nothing but a scrap of worthless paper," he says.

Extremely naive if he thinks this would be the last constitution. And already talking of the next coup, or military intervention as it is politely known.

The power of the military has to be curtailed so that options other than "interventions" can be pursued in the event of future problems.

Failing that it will be the same old, and guess what the results will be!

yes like a failed and shamed government stepping down without months of protests and eventually the military having to step in

Trying to cling to power was the cause of the problem - any shamed western government would have removed themselves from office instead of trying to cover up and lie about their very obvious misdeeds

It needs to be made very clear in the new constitution that should a similar scenario present itself in the future that there is clear provision for a government to be completely removed from office and a system that provides a temporary board installed to run things investigate and plug the holes that caused the event and possibly take criminal action against those that were removed

The government that was clinging to power at all costs...was that the government who called an election. An election that didnt appease the paid for army backed protestors because they could not get the support of the people to win an election. The army should have thrown its might behind the government an allowed an election to take place instead of permitting Suthep and his thugs to intimidate the electorate

They were in caretaker mode, having dissolved parliament in response to the mass protests against an amnesty bill designed to whitewash all crimes of their owner. They were carrying out unlawful electioneering and refused to abide by advice of the EC. Their supporters were attacking and killing protesters and intimidating judges and investigative NGO's. Some of their senior members were openly calling for illegal militia recruitment and the declaration of a separate state under their control.

And you think the army should have supported, what was probably the most corrupt government in Thai history? One openly controlled by a convicted criminal fugitive whose arrogant attempts at ramming through his personal whitewash amnesty sparked all the trouble?

[mango66]

42 ! he is very young,

too young or he stayed too much in USA;

He never studied in a democratic country !!

[greenchair]

"If, in the future, Thailand faces an incident that requires military intervention, the charter won't be ripped up but temporarily suspended.

"If we tear it up again, the new charter will be nothing but a scrap of worthless paper," he says.

Extremely naive if he thinks this would be the last constitution. And already talking of the next coup, or military intervention as it is politely known.

The power of the military has to be curtailed so that options other than "interventions" can be pursued in the event of future problems.

Failing that it will be the same old, and guess what the results will be!

yes like a failed and shamed government stepping down without months of protests and eventually the military having to step in

Trying to cling to power was the cause of the problem - any shamed western government would have removed themselves from office instead of trying to cover up and lie about their very obvious misdeeds

It needs to be made very clear in the new constitution that should a similar scenario present itself in the future that there is clear provision for a government to be completely removed from office and a system that provides a temporary board installed to run things investigate and plug the holes that caused the event and possibly take criminal action against those that were removed

Well no. In any civilized country

[rickirs]

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A properly drafted Constitution would last decades. The problem is that Thai politicos are too nearsighted to see past the next few months. They need to create a system of checks and balances, but no one wants to give up power to a branch of government they can't personally control or influence.

I don't understand why they want to draft a new constitution. Why not take the 1997 or 2006 constitution and repair the weaknesses in it.

Or take a good foreign constitution (US or Switzerland) and adapt it for Thailand. Making it new from zero seems a waste of time and surely there will be mistakes in it again.

So long as the military maintains veto power over the people, it is useless to consider any good foreign constitution. And such dominance of the military in the governance of Thailand is untypical even with other constitutional monarchies. The die needs to be broken before a new tool can be designed.

[fobuff]

"explains why the new charter should be Thailand's last" until another general thinks he will be the next great leader..

[surangw]

at what price ?

[maidee]

power to the people

does he mean multi millionaire in dollars military stages a coup and makes himself unelected PM ?