re: "TRC dissolution turns up political heat" (Opinion, March 8)
Dear editor,
The fact that the Constitutional Court's reason for dissolving TRC was for the high crime of "opposing the democratic system with the King as head of state" begs an obvious question. What, then, is to be thought of the ruling politicians who did not merely oppose "the democratic system with the King as head of state," but who actually smashed it?
Smashing the democratic system is, by definition, exactly what every coup against Thailand's constitutions has done. The constitution, that supreme legal foundation of all other laws and state institutions, the very foundation of Thailand's "democratic system with the King as head of state," is overthrown by every coup against it. So what are Thai citizens to make of those who, having smashed their nation's democratic system, are still dancing on the shattered remnants near five years later?
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 March 9, 2019, under the title "Shattered remnants" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1641628/politicians-to-blame
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