re: "Majority want election date to be clearly set: Poll" (BP, March 4)
Dear editor,
Who would not want a clear commitment to an election date, preferably earlier rather than later? Who, indeed, would not want an election or a freely elected government?
Most obviously, those who oppose the categorical moral imperative underlying democracy that the people of the Thai nation, as much as the people of any other nation, have the right to determine the form of their government and of their society. These regressives do not want elections presumably because they fear, with good reason, that such respect for good morals poses a threat to their traditionally undeserved power, property and prestige. Thus, they reject the ideal that all are equally citizens of the nation with exactly the same right to a voice in the evolution of the customs, the laws, the institutions and the politics of their nation.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on March 5, 2018, under the title "Threat to their power" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1422435/we-need-food-activists
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