re: "Peace, but poor miss out" (BP, May 21)
Dear editor,
Unfortunately, even if all true as they allege, not a single one of the junta's boasted "achievements" could ever have justified the coup. None dispute that it is nice not to have the PDRC mobs instigating confrontation as they deliberately "Shut down Bangkok" on behalf of those colluding with them to overthrow the supreme rule of law of the Thai nation.
But that could welcome cleansing of the streets could have been ended with at most a brief period of martial law had the army done its duty to the nation. There is no good reason to think the usual types of corruption are less today than they were four years ago, merely better concealed by the repressive ranks of good old boys patting themselves on their ample backs with luxuriously adorned wrists. Meanwhile, the moral corruption of the rule of law makes every former civil government look angelic.
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 23, 2018, under the title "No justifying coup" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1471137/no-justifying-coup
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