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David Streckfuss
10 hours ago near Khon Kaen

This military junta is going to collapse on its own from its growing illegitimacy. First, it tries to sneak in martial law so it can position itself for a coup. Then it fails miserably as a mediator. The General launches the coup in order, he said, "to bring the situation back to normal quickly” and to “reform the political structure, the economy and the society.” It experiments in the first day, trying to uphold its legitimacy by suspending parts of the constitution. Then it is forced to just trash the 2007 constitution, its own offspring. It tries to ban every traditional source of information--tv, radio, cable stations. It must have feared what the world was saying. It tries to silence would-be critics. It calls in the politicians and detains them. It calls in academics and activists and detains them. Then it moves to journalists. It floods the streets with soldiers, hoping to intimidate any possible foe. Then tonight it can't even trust the Senate, so it trashes that. It forbids members of the independent agencies to make comment. (Side question: Will the independent agencies now monitor the measures and policies of the military junta?).

It's so scared it can't even trust its ideological friends who just yesterday were cheering on the men in green. Having eliminated the last vestiges of democracy, it isolates itself, only finding some way to hold onto power. And that's all it has. It has no legitimacy whatsoever. It just has guns that make people scared. Even then, people are beginning to chase the men with guns away.

It's going to be a horrible night for the generals.