King Prajadhipok’s Institute: Unsuitable organization to be entrusted with Thailands’ political reform.

ที่มา thaifreenews

By Thai Farmer’s Son

Having heard that Dr. Boworsak Uwanno, secretary-general of King Prajadhipok’s Institute is moving for Thailand’s political reform, I am amused at his offering.

Do you think Thai people are so stupid that they don’t know who is neutral, who is fighting against whom, or who is the cause of the current political conflict?!!

The current political conflict is not between Democrat Party and Pua Thai Party, or between PAD and the Red-shirted people, but it is between “the elites or oligarchy” and “the mass democracy.” Politicians are not the root cause of these conflicts; they are just actors on the stage, not litigants.

The litigants are known by all Thais, but it is forbidden to talk about. If King Prajadhipok’s Institute does not accept this fact -- thinking that people are stupid and trying to delude itself that it is neutral -- it will not be able to solve the current political crisis.

King Prajadhipok’s Institute is in essence a “representative organization of the elites and authorities, and Dr. Bowornsak Uwanno is a direct subordinate of the oligarchy. That he has proposed himself to be a middle man to solve the political crisis is blatantly a “shamelessness.” Does he think that nobody knows the elites’ unabashed tactic.

Currently, I don’t think that there are any middle men left in the Thai society. No one is respected by both sides. Therefore, the conflict can be solved only if the people who are the “real” cause of the conflict show their willingness to solve it.

I can imagine, at the propose by King Prajadhipok’s Institute, that the new Constitution will be the cloak of the “70/30 system.” Yes, it will be the constitution that keeps the power of the elites at the cost of the people’s rights. The supposedly free organizations will finally be representatives of the elites and “will impede the rights and power of the people.”

The new Constitution will not respect the right and power of the people, but will empower those who are “appointed” by the elites. It is not complicating. It will not be different from the 2007 Constitution drafted by Kor Mor Chor.

In fact, Dr. Bowornsak is not honored enough to lead of the political reform. I don’t think that the academics who are invited to join Dr. Bowornsak’s initiation are respectable and can be honored for this assignment. These people have already sold their souls to the elites, e.g. the rectors of NIDA and Thammasat University.

Thailand’s current political conflict, in my opinion, is not only about classes’ fighting, but part of the society’s political development from agricultural to industrialized society. The general people are starting to realize their own power; thus cast their votes for their own benefits. For instance, the grass root people have voted for the party whose policy benefit them as seen in the case of TRT Party and former Premier Thaksin Shinnawatra.

Meanwhile, the Thai society is dominated by decades of propaganda about “divinity” or Baramee as when Mao Ze Tung was promoted and depicted to be “super human.” In the past several decades, Thailand has been a religious kingdom similar to that of Europe’s Dark Age when anyone who was against the monastery was accused of being a witch and was burnt for that sin.

The society at the dawn of industrialization is colliding with “the old religious realm” leading to the political crisis.

My article may be full of detours because I do not want to be burnt like the witches of the Middle Age. Those who have followed by work will know what I mean.

This is “the cause of the conflict.” If it is not accepted, it cannot be solved.

The attempt of the Prajadhipok’s Institute will certainly fail like Dr. Kothom Areeya’s initiation of a “joint talk” for national reconciliation that has come to naught a few months ago due to no cooperation. Besides, General Por, who is in the middle of the conflict, did not joined the talk.

In fact, the conflict can never be solved no matter who initiated (the attempt to solve it) if the fact -- that the current conflict is between “Oligarchy” and “Mass Democracy” -- is not accepted, thus, leaving “some group or someone” who is the real cause of the conflict out.

I am not quite concerned about the current political crisis because I believe that the society will find its own way out. The Thai society has reached its “pupa” stage, and it will finally grow into a “butterfly.” Now, the pupa must slough off. No one can stop that development process.

Finally, the people will win and the oligarchy is disappearing. This is social development.

Some institutes will disintegrate if they are not adapted to the changing society.

I also believe that the “2009 world economic crisis” will accelerate the disintegration of the oligarchy. In the industrialized society, there is no longer a place for sacred institutions that do not benefit the society.

The Thai media who are promoting the Prajadhipok’s Institute have not conducted self assessment. They do not realized that Thai people nowadays (in 2009) no longer believe the mainstream Thai media who have shown that their allegiance is with the elites.

PS
Politicians are not the cause of the problem. Politicians like Thaksin was leading the country well. People were daring to hope. The elites have used the army to destroy the Constitution, as well as the people’s unity and political stability.

Politicians are not corrupted any more than the elites who have long exploited the society. But politicians are people’s representatives, and people can remove them, but the elites cannot be changed. The latter are much richer than the politicians.

It is the elites who have created the rifts in Thailand for three years, not the politicians.

Cheers,
Kila1255