re: "Regime must forget 'face' and do right thing" (BP, Opinion, April 28)
Dear editor,
In "Regime must forget 'face' and do right thing" (Opinion, April 28), Wasant Techawongtham soundly makes his point that their reliance on strict adherence to the rule of law cannot justify a judiciary who have allowed a natural treasure to be defaced in their name.
It would have been useful to also remind readers that being perfectly legal is not the same as being just, that merely following the rule of law is not at all the same as following good morals. As the last four years have shown, in the tradition of decades of such bad law, a morally corrupt rule of law that rejects justice is a very useful tool to wield over a subject nation whose people are unjustly denied a voice in their own government and society at the behest of a self-serving oligarchy.
It is as easy to imagine the regime allowing a promised election as acceding to Wasant's call to "do the right thing."
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 April 29, 2018, under the title "Being legal doesn't mean it's just" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1454513/being-legal-doesnt-mean-its-just
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