re: "Sudarat, Hillary has-beens" (PostBag, March 31)
Dear editor,
As the pseudonym chosen in his honour attests, Anti-Thaksinista could not be more wrong about Thaksin. Thaksin will be remembered when such bad people as the dictators who have boosted his renown by repeatedly overthrowing the supreme rule of law and smashing Thailand's form of democratic government with a constitutional monarchy are long gone. Those bullying dictators will be remembered as footnote examples of the bad people persistently interfering in politics to pursue their own self-serving agenda. Had they instead upheld and protected the constitution of the Thai nation, the democratic process could have developed to put Thaksin where he belongs, in prison for his drug war killings and other real crimes.
Thaksin might not be good, but being constrained by democratic principle, as witnessed in the failure of the sleazy Pheu Thai amnesty bill before the latest overthrow of the rule of law by bad people, he has done more good than the bad old boys with their bad old ways have ever done, even if Thaksin's motives were at heart just as bullying and undemocratic.
Unlike dictatorship, democracy is an inherently good thing: it just needs vigilance by good people to keep its principles upheld and honoured.
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 April 6, 2019, under the title "Democracy vigil" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1657544/songkran-must-go-on
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