WHAT differentiates democracy from other political systems is that it doesn’t really need a symbol. The Michael Douglas character in the movie The American President hit the nail on the head when he said, in defence of his girlfriend who had joined protesters in burning the US flag, that the true spirit of democratic citizenship lies in tolerance of hostility and ideologies that don’t conform to your thinking.
That statement could be applied to the missing plaque in Thailand. (News report last weeks stated that a bronze plaque commemorating Thailand’s 1932 revolution had been removed from a public spot in Bangkok.)
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