Well, try to imagine yourself trying to return home after visiting another strange, exotic country. You don’t have a lot of money because you know you’re going to be home soon. Suddenly your flight is canceled. Not only that, all flights are canceled. You don’t have a hotel room booked. The restaurant in the airport is closed and you aren’t sure how to get to another restaurant outside. You have to be back at work in two days. You miss your wife and children and you know they are going to be worried about your safety. This is not exactly a “missed flight.”

Although the PAD demonized the current government as corrupt, their leaders are of exactly the same mold. The government was elected in an election that was rigged against them, fighting against a party that was created and supported by the junta, with vast government and military resources devoted to persuading voters not to vote for them. The Democrat opposition party was fully as guilty of vote buying as the government parties but the junta-appointed Election Commission declined to accept charges against them. The Peoples Alliance for Democracy is, in fact, trying to destroy democracy and bring about an appointed government (appointed by whom? They don’t say).

I’m afraid you’ve drunk the PAD kool-aid.