Our oppinion on CONFISCATED POWER..

Confiscated Power or in the term of Coup D’état or often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a (typically small) part of the state establishment. Usually the Military replaced the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government.

The Confiscated Power succeeds if its opponents fail to thwart it, the usurpers allow them to consolidate their positions, obtain the surrender of the overthrown government or acquiescence of the populace and the surviving armed forces, and thus claims legitimacy. Coups d’état typically use the power of the existing government for the takeover. As Edward Luttmak remarks in Coup D’état: A Practical Handbook: A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder. In this sense, the use of either military or another organized force is not the defining feature of a coup d'état.

As an example, the Confiscated Power happened in Thailand in 2006. It was happened on 19^th September 2006 when the Thailand Royal Army Force made the Confiscated Power on the Thailand’s Government which is rule by the Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. It was the first time happened in Thailand since fifteen years and followed by the political crisis whose involved Thaksin and his political enemy. It was happened a month before the Thailand National Election which is on 15^th October 2006. The constitution had been suspended, the parliament had been dissolve and also the election had been canceled by the Royal Army. They also had declared the Army Law and detained the cabinet members. There is no injuries and dead happened during this process.

Based on the title above, the Confiscated Power legal or not? Based on our opinion, we agreed it is legal if there is an emergency in the country with the ruler approval. The emergency may happened when there is a critical political crisis, war, nature disaster and many more. During this emergency situation, the government may be dissolved by the ruler and the army will take reign. It is because when army had take over the government, all the citizens must follow the Law of Army.

It becomes not legal when the Confiscated Power suddenly happened without the reasonable matters. As an example, Malaysia is a democratic country which is the government bodies was elected by the citizens with the approval of Yang Di Pertuan Agong. Suddenly, the Malaysian Royal Army Force had accomplice to take over the reign of Malaysia by roll the government bodies. They block the parliament, detained the cabinet members and endure the Prime Minister. This kinds of Confiscated Power is not legal and its may appeal the outside helps. When these kinds of things happened it may attract other country to interrupt in settling the disputes and as we knows, it must have the bad intention to take over the country because of our mineral resources like petroleum and many more.

By Nazrul Syazwan, Fazlida, Aisyah