Coup d'etat

"Flanked by the Thai national flag, huge photos of the king and queen and "most wanted" posters of Thaksin and his wife, protesters said they had no grand scheme to reinvent government. They just want the current government tossed out.

"The Cabinet must resign and they all must be imprisoned," said Thiwa Thongkaew, a 43-year-old office worker from the tourist resort of Krabi."

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For about a week now over 30,000 Thai protesters have over run the prime minister's office in an attempt to make him resign. They think that he his Corrupt and has too many ties to the former PM who was ousted in a coup d'etat in 2006. The most recent developments though are that union leaders and utility companies in the country have joined the fight.

They've cut off electricity, water and phone to the government office's and the trains and airports aren't running. This is a highly coordinated strike at the leader they want ousted. And it didn't occur because all 30,000 of them collaborated and decided to do this.

It was a general consensus among a large group which was a call to arms to the rest of the country to join in. It is an attempt at a completely bloodless coup. One that is very symbolic of the peoples true power in a democracy; the ability to tell your leader you want them out, and having the ability to take actions that will force them out.

Why is it that here in America even though millions of people call for the impeachment of George W. nothing is done about it. Millions of people in America VS 30,000 in Thailand. It is because we don;t take action like the people of Thailand decided to do. They got up walked in to the leaders office and said "You're Fired".