re: "Criticism goes with the job" (BP, Editorial, December 30, 2019)
Dear editor,
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-O-Cha is right "that ridiculing him and his government is not a laughing matter." It is, on the contrary, a serious matter that every patriotic Thai who cares for good governance should undertake as a duty to the nation. Laughter at the absurd pretensions of the corrupt, the brutish, the lying, the repressive and the generally bad is a healthy response.
Such ridicule is a healthy reminder that the government should fear the people, who are the nation. When the people fear to mock the government or institutions, society is seriously sick, and that is no laughing matter.
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 1, 2020, under the title "No laughing matter" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1826714/injustice-at-ministry
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