Coup D'etat in Thailand Today, Again

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Late afternoon news here informs us that the Royal Thai military establishment has declared a coup d'etat, a taking over of all government authority.  A curfew has been decreed:  we cannot venture out of our homes from 10PM to 5AM.  That's really gonna disrupt our infamous nightlife.  All radio and TV stations seem to have been taken over by the military, and they are playing patriotic music perhaps to inspire everyone.  (Eek!)  The local internet news is slow-to-dead, as everyone is trying to get the word.  Apparently, the two major sides on the fundamental political divide cannot compromise after two days of Army-mediated pow-wows, and General Prayuth says, "Okay, we'll do it my way."
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As a radical lover of liberty, I can complain about the injustice of such a seizure of absolute power, and I could cite centuries of philosophical argument to back me up.  But since Thailand is my adopted home and I'm used to it, what in the hell do I expect?  Gotta live with it, albeit with embarrassment.  Sometime, somehow, all this will pass.  This is part of "normal" here.  Yet, as for the immediate future, all bets are off.
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The question on everyone's mind is:  what will the Red Shirts do next?  Earlier, they had vowed to draw the line if their complete elected government was ousted, threatening to take violently to the streets against the Army again if this happened.  Well, it happened.  Or did it?  I'm reading confusing stuff in the news, sometimes reading that the military claims that the government officials are to continue in their everyday functions.  Some news reports say that the Red Shirts at the west Bangkok protest site are returning to their up-country homes.  Will they stage a massive assault on Bangkok later when they can organize? Who knows?
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Apparently, the military agrees with a minority that true constitutional reform must come before new elections are held.  The present constitutional milieu allows anyone with enough votes to assume all the power of a tyrant, and the court system allows the elites to hold power far beyond their numbers.  It's a constitutional nightmare, a loose cannon situation.
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Thomas Jefferson's take on the importance of extra strong constitutional restraints on any political power is relevant here:  "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
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Our life here is not disrupted too much.  (Except for that dreadful martial music!)
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-Zenwind.
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