MAKE THAILAND A CONSTITUTION AGAIN

     In 1997 I was elected to represent my province, Suphanburi, as one of the 99 members of Thailand's Constitution Drafting Assembly. I was elected chairman of the Assembly's Public Relations Committee tasked to lay out strategies to involve nation-wide people's participation and helped produced various PR materials including the one above. It was Thailand's 16th constitution that the people help drafted via local town halls and national public surveys. Military interventions throughout history keep us stuck with the present 20th constitution and the people demand a new one. Of course, sooner or later,  we will have a new constitution, and then a military intervention, and then the people's protest demanding political reform and a new constitution. It seems like a new normal in our every day political life. This infinite "POlitical VIrus Disease" can be named "POVID∞" (Read "POVID Infinity") The pandemic began in 1932 and no end in sight.......

Will the circle be unbroken?
"Will the (vicious) circle be unbroken? / By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting / In the sky Lord, in the sky ....."

("Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907
by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.)
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​Somkiat Onwimon                                                                                   
30 September 2020