re: "Bad judgement is risking lives" (BP, Opinion, April 6, 2020)
Dear editor,
Yes, Veera Prateepchaikul, the uninformed and ill-considered decision at Suvarnabhumi Airport to "let 152 arriving Thai passengers go home on Friday night after they protested and refused to enter quarantine at state facilities" was another "stupid mistake," and as you say, "again, it involves an army officer". You wonder why? The answer is no state secret: quite the contrary.
Because, Veera, the sacred do not make mistakes. The sacred are infallible. The sacred are beyond puny human law. The sacred are above justice. The sacred hold none their equal. The sacred is unaccountable. That is what it means to be sacred.
That is why Thailand, the Thai people, remain so much worse off in every way than they deserve to be. The sacred has been a curse on Thailand for many decades as its unmitigated pursuit of all too earthly power, property and prestige has retarded the Thai nation in every way: socially, politically, economically and morally.
If only it could cleanse itself of the accursed traditions of sacredness, the Thai nation would flourish as it deserves to.
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 7, 2020, under the title "Sacred, but cursed" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1894490/lets-see-more-testing
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