CDC: Empowering the people is a foundation of true democracy

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CDC: Empowering the people is a foundation of true democracy

BANGKOK, 2 March 2015 (NNT) - The Constitution Drafting Committee believes that empowering the people is the foundation of helping Thailand achieve true democracy.

The CDC and its sub-committee on public participation joined the Community Organisations Development Institute on Sunday to jointly host a seminar on the importance of the citizens’ assembly, which was aimed at hearing opinions of all organisations related to this new assembly.

CDC’s Vice Chairman Suchit Bunbongkarn delivered a special lecture on the charter drafting process, in which he insisted that the essence of the process is still to have more public participation in order to make sure that the new Constitution meets the public’s need and is accepted by all.

Regarding the concept of the citizens’ assembly, Mr. Suchit said that the intention is to help the people in all areas to be strong and able to be responsible for the works of the government while continuously inspecting the state use of power.

By keeping things in balance, Mr. Suchit believes that true democracy will come to Thailand and reconciliation will be achieved by those engaged in conflicts.


-- NNT 2015-03-02

[toybits]

Now Really! Are they SERIOUS?

[Snig27]

Funny how - in their confused and twisted privileged world - "empowering the people" does not include the right to let those people elect all their representatives and perhaps not even their PM. The primary reason where we are now is because the people were getting far too "empowered" to be allowed to continue.

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Funny how - in their confused and twisted privileged world - "empowering the people" does not include the right to let those people elect all their representatives and perhaps not even their PM. The primary reason where we are now is because the people were getting far too "empowered" to be allowed to continue.

A dishonest and rubbish comment.

[NeverSure]

"...empowering the people is the foundation of helping Thailand achieve true democracy."

LOL. Yeah, let's empower them to decide they can't protest, can't have honest polls, let's empower them to have the media repressed and certainly not empower them to choose their own leaders.

Let's empower them to have "attitude adjustments."

[noitom]

Thais keep talking about empowering the people is the true way to achieve democracy. Thais are very good at talking but no sincerity. Who believes Thais when they see stories like this?

[NongKhaiKid]

Insincerity Rules. Say the right things knowing those running the show will do as they want, for the benefit of the country of course.

[candide]

Empowering appointed people.....

[iReason]

"the essence of the process is still to have more public participation in order to make sure that the new Constitution meets the public’s need and is accepted by all."

"the intention is to help the people in all areas to be strong and able to be responsible for the works of the government while continuously inspecting the state use of power."

Dunno. Sounds good to me.

On paper at least.

Print it. In stone.

[shirtless]

Its was never really a democracy anyway it was a farce at best set some standards and codes for politicians and their parties .

[greenchair]

Empowering appointed people.....

I see what you are saying.

?????

[toybits]

They are talking in Code which the Kwai cannot understand. The Kwai don't count as people.

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

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Funny how - in their confused and twisted privileged world - "empowering the people" does not include the right to let those people elect all their representatives and perhaps not even their PM. The primary reason where we are now is because the people were getting far too "empowered" to be allowed to continue.

A dishonest and rubbish comment.

Please explain to us why his comment is rubbish. Its easy to say it is rubbish but please tell us point for point why, bacause from the majority of the Thai peoples perspective his comment is spot on. Everytime an elected government comes to power the military puts the country 10 years backwards. In 2006 the coup led to the replacement of the 1997 peoples constitution with the rightwing/traditional elites 2007 constitution. Even with the 2007 constitution they could not win an election and now they are re-writing their own 2007 constitution with the 2015 version and so we go on and on.

[Eric Loh]

Whenever I hear such contradictions like staging a coup to restore democracy and now this statement about empowering people when an elected government was snatched from the barrels of guns; I puke.

[chainarong]

Propaganda at the extreme end of worse , I don't know why you would want to empower the people, what about a referendum when you have finished mongrelising the constitution to suit the few, then you can gnash your gums.

[wabothai]

Yeah, start today !!!!!!

[Shaunduhpostman]

Perhaps the rather vague and brief article about such an important topic says it all. It was just the wind blowing, you can go back to sleep.

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Funny how - in their confused and twisted privileged world - "empowering the people" does not include the right to let those people elect all their representatives and perhaps not even their PM. The primary reason where we are now is because the people were getting far too "empowered" to be allowed to continue.

A dishonest and rubbish comment.

Please explain to us why his comment is rubbish. Its easy to say it is rubbish but please tell us point for point why, bacause from the majority of the Thai peoples perspective his comment is spot on. Everytime an elected government comes to power the military puts the country 10 years backwards. In 2006 the coup led to the replacement of the 1997 peoples constitution with the rightwing/traditional elites 2007 constitution. Even with the 2007 constitution they could not win an election and now they are re-writing their own 2007 constitution with the 2015 version and so we go on and on.

38 posts, your wrong, so some further research about your statement '...the Thai peoples perspective...'.

You explain your own 'statements' word for word, and I'll shoot them down again and again. I note you conveniently don't mention expensive scams to sway voters, all nicely constructed to line the pockets of a few with massive amounts of money and the fact that a large % of poor farmers got no benefits, puppet governments, red democracy (intimidation) schools, etc., etc.

Also, please explain in detail, since your such am expert how the current constitution almost completed is aimed at helping the right wing/ traditional elites.

Or perhaps what your not saying is that you support a very corrupt scaly dictatorship which regularly claims to be the protector of democracy.

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[waitforusalso]

Empowering the a specific group of people is a foundation of true yellow democracy

[nidieunimaitre]

QUOTE>>>>>CDCs Vice Chairman Suchit Bunbongkarn delivered a special lecture on the charter drafting process, in which he insisted that the essence of the process is still to have more public participation....<<<<<<UNQUOTE

>>>....a special lecture....? how does that differ from a regular lecture?

>>>....is still..... : sounds ominous, as in "we are loosing our patience with the public"

>>>....public participation... WOW, the public can actually participate in talks about it's own future? How lucky they are!- euh, participate with who?

[candide]

They have not given much details yet, but the general flavour I get is that they seem to put in place a system that would allow them to make a coup without having to resort to the usual legal coup or military coup. As concerns legal coup, even with double standards, there is a minimum of legal rules to follow if they don't want to be ridiculized by half of the world's lawyers. You can stretch things a bit, but not too much: i.e. they succeeded in ousting YL, but could not get rid of the remaining caretaker government as it would have been too obvious. Concerning military coup, they have never been popular on the international scene as we can observe again.

If you combine a "citizen assembly" who would have the power to impeach politicians (read in one of the news), various committees, unelected senate, the possibility to have a non elected PM in case of "crisis", etc... Of course we need to get the final details of the system, but I smell this flavour in the various announcements made....

[lucky11]

"...empowering the people is the foundation of helping Thailand achieve true democracy."

LOL. Yeah, let's empower them to decide they can't protest, can't have honest polls, let's empower them to have the media repressed and certainly not empower them to choose their own leaders.

Let's empower them to have "attitude adjustments."

....but one of this governments key objectives it to enable 'honest elections' to take place late 2015/early 2016 so basically you are talking rubbish!!!

Nobody can protest because all that does is slow the process down - just because it puts a kibosh on their corrupt activities it doesn't give them the right to protest about it, does it, because these are the people that are most unhappy about the reforms taking shape.

I think that YOU are the one that needs attitude adjustment if you cannot see the sense in what they are trying to achieve.

[Srikcir]

The CDC's idea of true democracy is to replace the ballot box with the suggestion box.

That is not participatory democracy.