re: "Prayut apeing Thaksin" (BP, PostBag, 2018, October 1)
Dear editor,
In his letter, "Prayut apeing Thaksin" (PostBag, October 1), Somsak Pola might indeed be correct that the army boys who stole the nation from the Thai people by overthrowing Thailand's previously existing form of democratic constitutional monarchy are merely copying Thaksin; that would mean only that Thaksin might also be guilty of acting like Thaksin. It cannot excuse others who out-Thaksin even Thaksin's examples.
The current Minister of Defence and Deputy PM general (retired), has explicitly stated that the devices had been tested and were found to work as claimed. Now, it is entirely plausible that Thaksin also set an example of lying among his various honest mistakes, but that does not make later lies by others any the less lies or any less excusable. If the army signed off on the GT200s and persisted in their defence of the plainly indefensible, then they are guilty of, at the very least, gross incompetence that renders them unfit to serve as soldiers, let alone to dictate to the entire nation they have further corrupted by suppressing democracy and its healthy mechanisms in ways that Thaksin could never dream of. Thaksin, after all, did not amnesty himself as the politicians now dictating promptly did after giving themselves absolute power to, among other rewards of seized power, divert vast funds to the group that they have since officially retired from to become full time politicians in hyper-versions of Thaksin at his worst, absent the restraints of democratic principles and processes.
Whilst Thaksin will doubtless be pleased to note that there are those who still look backwards to his ways as exemplary, many of the the rest of us would prefer that Thailand move forward.
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 October 2, 2018, under the title "Besting Thaksin" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1550382/future-learning
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