Thailand 2011

[Filuwaúrdjan]

More of an electoral type event than an actual event, though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's amusing how everyone here loves Thaksin just because opebo hates him. He's an extremely corrupt, not all that democratic either kleptocrat.

Who here loves Thaksin?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Posters are not permitted to call for military coups on this board. Thanks/diolch.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh, it's perfectly fine for people to mention the possibility of a military coup; there's no point in denying reality just because it's rather unpleasant. But cheering it on? No. In the same vein, I wouldn't allow someone to cheer on (say) the BNP here. If we are to have civilised discourse (and this is one board on this forum where we generally manage that) then there have to be a few limits here and there.

I do appreciate the irony of the whinging though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of course many people do support military coups, why wouldn't we?

Yes, I understand that. But I don't approve of it (I was raised to think of fascism as a bad thing and I'm too stuck in my ways to change now) and don't think that it is appropriate on a board dedicated to the democratic process and (in the end) to the idea of democracy.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And after all, this board is dedicated not to advocating or supporting the 'democratic process', but simply to examining it (and of course it was once dedicated discussing it, but that is in the past, apparently).

My world, my rules.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So please lay out for us which political ideas are allowed and which are to be censored.

A quick check of the list of Capital Offenses* should make that fairly clear. Number six, in case you've not spotted it. You will be executed at noon. By a bear, it seems.

In all seriousness, it's a matter of common sense (so a collection of prejudices, namely mine). If you insist on complaining in a manner that would get you shot in one of your beloved dictatorships, then an updated set of rules and regulations may be written and posted up here and some point in the reasonably near future.

*The more American spelling option makes more sense in that context, naturally.