re: "'Political warfare' worries veteran critic" (BP, October 16, 2019)
Dear editor,
No, Mr. Boonmee, the Thai army is not "obsessed with national security," although it has indeed "failed to encourage the public to share a common goal." The army appears obsessed, rather, with waving baseless flags of national security at anything that threatens to move the Thai nation forward, including the long overdue reforms set out in the policies of Future Forward, which are detailed enough to also rebut Mr. Boonmee's accusation that "it has yet to offer any detailed development plans."
Consistent with the fakery of the national security flag waving, Mr. Boonmee correctly points out that there is in reality no "national threat," except in the fevered imaginations that led to such horrors as the indefensible torture and murder of thousands of Thais who were accused of having communist sympathies decades ago in the Red Drum murders and other atrocities. If by perverting the teachings of karma, the nationalistic religion known as Thai Buddhism in any way condoned then or now those murders of Thai citizens, then that is a morally repugnant stain on that religion. Religious devotion, however self-righteous, cannot justify evil. No more can blind loyalty to any other faith-based ideology, however right or left wing, that rejects reason and fact along with good morals.
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 17, 2019, under the title "Unjustifiable evil" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1773799/unjustifiable-evil
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