On the heels of yesterday's court decision to dissolve the government, the PAD is abandoning its occupation of the airport and protests. It claimed two victories. First, it said that it preserved the 2007 Constitution by preventing the government from changing it. Secondly, it claims that it toppled the government.
The second claim is utter nonsense. The government dissolved because of the court decision, plain and simple. Unless the PAD are claiming that they secretly influenced or pressured the judiciary to rule against the government, then they did not cause the government collapse.
The first claim does have some merit to it. They did use illegal methods to prevent the lawfully elected government from exercising its constitutional powers to meet. Those constitutional powers provide the ability to modify the constitution. So they did preserve the 2007 constitution from being modified by subverting it.
I'm sure glad that we didn't have patriots like that throughout U.S. history to "preserve" our constitution. You know, those terrible changes made like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal protection and the like. I shouldn't get too carried away. The changes that the government sought were not noble ones to preserve the liberties of its people, but rather to keep themselves from being removed from office.
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