Chuck Bao
6/5/2007, 05:17 PM
So, what’d you do if you were part of a military junta and afraid of a popular uprising after an ad hoc supreme court ruled to dissolve the largest political party with 14 million members and ban the party’s 111 executives (mostly pre-coup, elected members of parliament) from politics for five years?
In Thailand, you’d send everyone a SMS. Last week, the military junta (called Council for National Security, or CNS) asked all mobile telephone operators to send the following text message to their 30 million subscribers, or almost half of all Thai people.
"All Thais should embrace HM the King's words of advice. Be conscious. Cherish unity. Be sensible and respect laws...from CNS".
The mobile carriers aren’t or couldn’t send that message out in one go. It’s taking a week or so to reach everyone. I’m not sure why. It could be that my carrier was previously owned by the junta-deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.
Anyway, I haven’t received my SMS yet and I’m feeling left out. Maybe I won’t be conscious, or sensible or respect laws until I get mine.
I mean, it’s a bit odd when coup-makers think they need to send text messages to people about respecting the law.
I hate SMS. Maybe, I’m an old fuddy duddy, but my carrier is the worst at giving out my phone number to spamers. Now, I guess, junta spamers.
Anyone else have gripes about SMS?
In Thailand, you’d send everyone a SMS. Last week, the military junta (called Council for National Security, or CNS) asked all mobile telephone operators to send the following text message to their 30 million subscribers, or almost half of all Thai people.
"All Thais should embrace HM the King's words of advice. Be conscious. Cherish unity. Be sensible and respect laws...from CNS".
The mobile carriers aren’t or couldn’t send that message out in one go. It’s taking a week or so to reach everyone. I’m not sure why. It could be that my carrier was previously owned by the junta-deposed prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.
Anyway, I haven’t received my SMS yet and I’m feeling left out. Maybe I won’t be conscious, or sensible or respect laws until I get mine.
I mean, it’s a bit odd when coup-makers think they need to send text messages to people about respecting the law.
I hate SMS. Maybe, I’m an old fuddy duddy, but my carrier is the worst at giving out my phone number to spamers. Now, I guess, junta spamers.
Anyone else have gripes about SMS?