re: "NHRC should strive for balance" (Editorial, December 30)
Dear editor,
Thailand has a ready litmus test of commitment to protecting the human rights of Thai citizens. It is the response to how Thai law should treat those who click "like" on international news articles whose truthfulness has never been rebutted. Aspiring human rights protectors who would side with South Korea's prestigious Gwangju Award for Human Rights of 2017 to the patriotic Thai citizen Jatupat Boonpatararaksa, the morally exemplary Pai Dao Din, likely put a just respect for human rights in Thailand above blind loyalty to the rule of unjust law.
In contrast, human rights pretenders who support the state locking up true Thai patriots merely because they have been labelled criminals by a morally corrupt law prove themselves fakes. A basic purpose of a human rights commission is not to blindly follow corrupt law merely because it is the law, but to protect citizens from unjust law whilst advocating for reform bad law and bad custom. This basic protection of all citizens' basic rights is also a duty of any decent constitution, which should rule out criminal and other law that allows human rights to be violated.
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 January 2, 2019, under the title "Rights pretenders" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1603942/prem-paves-the-way
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