Do you think every Southeast Asian country is dissatisfied with their government? I mean Thailand is doing much better than us and we don’t hear of Thais emigrating in droves, but they’re ousting prime ministers left and right over there.
And remember, its a parliamentary system over there, the same system lobbyists would have us believe will improve our lot over here.
What I would really like to see is having those assorted rebels and government agitators try their hand at the position they’re trying to vacate the incumbents from and see how they do since they seem to think they can do a better job than the incumbents. If I recall correctly, EDSA 1 wasn’t a complete success. It did topple a corrupt regime, but in the process replaced it with something just as corrupt and also totally negated and demolished every little good that the previous government had accomplished. Cory was so pigheaded and ill-advised by the opportunists that she let Malacañang get vandalized rather than taking an opportunity in turning it into a world class tourist attraction like the white house. She also lifted the mandatory 2 hours of prime airtime per week per station allocated to philippine cultural education just because it was Imelda’s idea. Just because the people of the previous regime was corrupt doesn’t mean ALL their ideas were bad ones.
EDSA 1 & 2 and the upheaval in Thailand had the same direct effects – they were middle-class led and upperclass-backed relatively peaceful revolts that deposed leaders who did not revolve in the same circles as the traditional elite namely the Marcos, Erap and Thaksin + his proteges. These guys had their issues but then, all won their first presidential elections or parliamentary elections by a sweeping majority. The political elites saw this as a threat to their dominance of the political scene and decided to use dirt on these politicos to get the public to play along.
According to PDSP founder and former head of Jesuits in the Philippines, Fr Archie Intengan, another People People would give the impression that we are unstable and politically immature country.
It’s better to use legal means such as Impeachment and elections to remove and replace leaders we don’t like and use People Power only as a weapon of last resort if all these means fail us
Update lang. The airport is now open again. It wouldn’t really benefit Thailand to prolong the ‘shut down’ as tourism is one of the major (if not the highest) money-making industries in Thailand.
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i wonder when would jay’s right eye wiLL grow-back?
poor guy. Lives Like kakashi for months.
Fortunately for Thailand, their Supreme Court saved the day and called on the abolition of the 3 parties involved causing the PM to resign and end the stand-off.
At least their Gov’t institutions are stronger and are not easily manipulated
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I doubt Jay would get a working eyeball to replaced the one that was gouged out. So far, we can only transplant corneas and not whole eyeballs.
Unless Jay is willing to use a prosthetic eyeball
tora: a prostethic eyebaLL. that would be cool. aside from an eyepatch, that is.
Dapat cybernetic optics with a red glow-spot.
tagasilab: Asero! harhar.