  Looking for democracy in Thailand's Democrat Party  December
11, 2013 Associated Press  BANGKOK (AP) — The Democrat Party has
seen the enemy.  The Democrats, whose veterans are at the
forefront of the anti-government protests that have shaken
Bangkok for the past six weeks, say the enemy is a brutal system
that has allowed their political nemesis to remain politically
powerful, even from far away in Dubai, in exile. The system has
driven them to launch angry protests that have left at least
five people dead and littered a few streets with the carcasses
of burned-out police trucks. It has kept the party from winning
a national election for two decades.  The enemy of the Democrat
Party? It's democracy.  Or as protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban
calls it, "the tyranny of the parliamentary majority."  When
Thailand's elected prime minister refused an opposition demand
to step aside, Suthep's answer this week was to effectively
declare a new government, in the form of a self-appointed
"People's Democratic Reform Co