re: "PM blasts Thaksin's charter rewrite proposal" (BP, December 14)
Dear editor,
Suthep Thaugsuban's deceitful piece of unreason, that "The constitution received 16.8 million votes in its favour [in] the referendum, so everyone must respect the people's decision," is fully consistent with the reaction of the self-elected current prime minister to former Prime Minister, now convicted felon, Thaksin Shinawatra's critical comments pointing out that Section 272 effectively turns the senate into a tool to hold on to political power, which amounts to legalized corruption. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been loyally served by the anti-democratic PDRC instigator since 2010, according to Suthep's own admission in June of 2014, when he boasted that they began colluding that early to overthrew the previous supreme law of the Thai nation, the 19th constitution.
Naturally, dictators do not want amendments to the constitution made up at their behest to further their own agenda untrammelled by democratic values. It's a sad thing when even the likes of Thaksin can teach good governance to the ruling politicians gloriously self-amnestied. But it cannot surprise that the likes of Suthep and other apologists for dictatorship repeat the falsehood that an election automatically confers democratic merit.
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 December 15, 2018, under the title "Dictator apologist" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1594494/dictator-apologist
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