re: "Police swarm Hong Kong ahead of flashpoint anthem debate" (BP, May 27, 2020)
Dear editor,
If you criminalize insulting songs, flags, political leaders and the like, then you do not respect the good morals of democracy. China clearly does not respect the Chinese citizens of Hong Kong, but instead uses the law to force a show of respect for symbols that that very law proves unworthy of the legally dictated show of worthless respect being forced by the state.
In marked contrast, neither the US flag nor national anthem need any such despotic force to be genuinely respected by the American people.
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 May 28, 2020, under the title "Anthem blues" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1925520/anthem-blues
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