re: "We must stay united, says PM" (BP, August 7, 2020)
Dear editor,
Dear Mr. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who most saliently overthrew Thailand's previous supreme rule of law, you appear to labour under some notion that the Thai nation, the Thai people that is, might not be united. Please allow me the pleasure of correcting that misguided belief: the Thai nation is united.
The Thai people are united in their support for the patriotic young students protesting for a better future because they love their Thai nation. They might not love you, but that is no bad thing. They do not love dictatorship, but that is surely a very good thing. They do not love forced ignorance of Thai history and of Thai affairs, than which so healthy a loathing nothing could be more patriotic or expressive of true love of the Thai nation. They do not love the corruption with which decades of successive anti-democratic governments have infected the very law and the institutions defined under the supreme legal pillar that is the constitution, so often overthrown when it looked as though the good morals of democracy might at last take firm root; but again, this disdain for the malaise at the heart of their nation is not so much to be condemned as to be commended.
Yes, there is some dissent, but the hate-filled rants of radical right-wing fanatics seeking to again divide Thai society, setting Thai against fellow Thai by spreading fake claims about the brave students, are but a small minority, unrepresentative of Thai thinking and attitudes in 2020. As the only solid evidence, the recent polls, show, the Thai nation solidly supports the students whose love for their nation moves them to protest for its betterment, a sublime expression of true patriotism. Have no fear Mr. PM. Thailand remains happily united.
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 August 8, 2020, under the title "United? It already is" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1964779/united-it-already-is
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