re: "It's the corruption, stupid" (Opinion, May 27)
Dear editor,
It is indeed, as Mr. Dawson sets out, the corruption.
The logic is not difficult. Fact 1: censorship is only ever used to enforce ignorance, in particular to conceal inconvenient truths. Fact 2: the current Thai government censors more than any civil government ever has or could. The conclusion about the ruling politicians necessarily follows. And since corruption always thrives best under those cozy blankets of censorship that protect it from just exposure, these logically certain conclusions explain both the coup and the denial of elections since May 2014. In conclusion, it being the best antidote to such self-serving censorship and the evils thus enabled, democracy is, as a result, feared by those who will justly lose out under it, and who therefore suppress it with a vengeance, as daily demonstrated these past four years.
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 May 28, 2018, under the title "Censors shield corrupt" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1474045/censors-shield-corrupt
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