Democracy!!

A bit of an abstract concept really innit!

I am lead to believe that there are only 4 (Or 5) "True" democracie's (SP) in the world, Britain can proudly boast to be one of them, and yet those hypocritical yanks cannot!! (A fact which I love ta rub in their noses):

The reason that the democratic "oasis" of the mighty US of A is not, in fact, a true democracy is that any communist party, although not prohibited, is not allowed to run for government, therefore denying "The people" the choice of voting for that party, which negate's the entire principle of democracy.

My inspiration for this post was that I have just been watching the Thai news, which featured General Sonthi, the chappie who over-threw former prime minister Thaksin (now owner of Man City???)

The thing is that General Sonthi did a very un-democratic thing, for the sake of democracy. It's a contradiction yes, but true.

General Sonthi seems to be OK, after all he is the head of what is "Officially" a military junta, yet he is not taking advantage of his absolute power over Thailand, whilst pushing for a democratic resolution at the same time. And the fashion in which he took control was so "Cool" that nearly all Thai's and expat's here in the land of smiles barely noticed that abything happened at all. The bloke could be a despot but instead, it is likely that he will go down in Thai history as a saviour.

OK, got my political spiel of my chest, gotta go now cos' the misses and I have been drinking Gin and she has promised me a BJ. (We voted on it and I won)

DEMOCRACY, FUCK YEAH!!!!!