Thai coup d'etat

If you haven't heard about it read the news!

I know most of you, probably by my being an unpaid unofficial reddit sales person, read articles from reddit. Nonetheless, I have to point this one out. Late last night, I stumbled upon this. It reminded me a lot about the old videos and books about the many coups in Bolivia. The neat thing, though, is that usually accounts like this one come up months if not years or decades after the actual coup because one of the first items in most coup's agenda is to prevent the free flow of information and to arrest, torture and kill people who have not-so-positive things to say.

Just in case you didn't read through the whole thing (I don't blame you it is long!) here are some interesting links that come up towards the middle: 19Sep and pictures.

The internet is changing the way we go about business, ain't it? I wonder if one day we'll have the equivalent of the open source movement for news coverage. The main problem I can foresee is the one wikipedia struggles with: the credibility of the sources. However, you don't have to believe everything you read. After a while (much like with wikipedia) you know when a source is good and when one isn't. I think this problem would be a lot more bearable than the corporate control of the media that we have going on now around here.

On a completely different note, I hope king george doesn't decide that it is time for the US to go enforcing democracy in Thailand. So far, it seems that it is going to be this way, luckily. I've always believed that most peoples have the power to do away with their tyrants and I am sure the Thai people are no exception -- specially after reading the live internet journalism. That is the kind of thing that gets you arrested in times of coup yet Alpha_Binary doesn't seem to be scared that much. Hats off to her!