re: "Too many generals" (PostBag, August 3)
Dear editor,
Johnny Waters ("Too many generals". PostBag, September 3) is to be commended for a timely reminder of a blatant example of corruption in Thailand's body politic. No one doubts that some civil politicians have been seriously corrupt, but at least they did not make up rule of law to whitewash anything on the scale of the amazing number of army generals living off the Thai people in return for doing little more than furthering the vested interested of army generals and their allies intent on maintaining a status quo that appears to primarily benefit the excess of army generals and the colluding oligarchy that likes things the way they have been for too long, however many coups it takes to keep things that way.
A Thai government genuinely intent on reform to eradicate corruption would not promote such an example to the rest of Thai society.
Nor is there is any need to imagine the outcry had Thaksin sought to whitewash his corruption by a similar legal whitewash, at least not after he had selfishly betrayed the oligarchy that had until then lauded him as one of its own favoured poster boys.
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 September 9, 2018, under the title "Generals live off the people" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1536782/herbicide-not-so-harmless
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