re: "Anti-graft chief sets 2020 target" (BP, November 19, 2019)
Dear editor,
The NACC's full name as reported, the "National Anti-Counter Corruption Commission," means that this commission is tasked with being anti-counter corruption, that is, that it is opposed to (anti) opposing (countering) corruption. In other words, that it opposes ending or reducing corruption. That it is, in plain words, pro-corruption.
That sounds far too honest for the august body that has cleared, among others, the impressively watched deputy PM, the Rajabhakti Park plotters, and of course those involved in the amazingly expensive purchases of those infallible pointers to corruption in high places, the army's miraculous GT200s.
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 November 21, 2019, under the title "What's in a name?" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1798819/not-up-to-grade
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