Bad excuse for the coup: epilogue

George W Bush has been ridiculed around the world including by many Thai intellectuals. Bush deserves it. But the excuses for the coup as offered by its supporters, which include many big and small academics, are ultimately based on the same principle held by the Bush regime.

Bush administration has implemented the phone tapping operation secretly without the court's permission. The US held "terrorist" prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Base without charges or trials for years. Now it tries to redefine the Geneva Convention regarding the enemy combatants. All of these disregards of laws and US constitution are done in the name of protecting the Americans and their freedom. Bush said many times that these measures are necessary for the protection of Americans and their freedom which are more important than anything else.

Anything else = rule of laws, constitution, judicial system, freedom, and democracy?

The bottom line is -- the end justifies the means; fighting the crime by committing another crime. The US fights terrorism by terrorizing the world. They protect freedom by fear. They claim to fight for civilization, but they do so by uncivilization.

The Thai necessary evil and the only solution -- the coup-- is in fact not very unique after all. It is a kin to the thoughtless measures by the Bush administration and other regimes around the world. They are born of the same short-sighted and self-defeating principles. Needless to say, the "us or them" thinking is also scarily common among the Bushies and the opponents to Thaksin.

Those democratic people in the People Sector, including many leading academics, and George W. Bush whom they despise are not much different in this respect.

By the way, for those who think Thaksin is the worst crisis in the world and deserved to be ousted by a military coup, do you think how bad the Bush administration is? Don’t you think it creates much worse disasters throughout the world than Thaksin? Does Bush deserve a military coup or some drastic measures to get rid of him as a necessary evil and the only solution to rescue the world? Now you may understand how those “terrorists” think as well.

There is NO excuses for the coup .