re: "No more than 20,000 at rally, predict security agencies" (BP, September 16, 2020)
Dear editor,
Yes. As the officials admit, the protesting students are peaceful. They are not "professional demonstrators", whatever that is: they are the young-adult children of comfortably off, middle-class Thais at the nation's leading high schools and universities. As intelligent young adults, they much prefer discussion and reasoning to violent confrontation. Thailand is lucky in the extreme to have such patriotic young citizens coming up to help the Thai nation better understand Thai affairs about which Thai law traditionally seeks to enforce ignorance in direct opposition to the foundational principles of democratic good governance. Contrary to the unjust law being protested, Thais do deserve to understand Thai affairs as well as foreigners have always been able to, and to each have an equal voice in determining the form of those public affairs of their nation.
It is also telling that the UDD, like the obsequious, scrabbling backers of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, and like the two-faced PDRC cadres still hanging around, run with tails tucked cravenly from any true call for reform. Yet some are so foolish as to think, to falsely claim, that the student protestors are in some mysterious way beholden to the likes of Thaksin! Such bizarre deceit is hard to comprehend as flowing from any decent motive. The only group of politicians with the courage of their professed ideals to publicly voice full support for the students are the straightforward women and men of the Move Forward Party, treated so unjustly in strict accord with it by the undemocratic law made up in pursuit of the traditional injustices being protested.
Felix Qui
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 September 17, 2020, under the title "Students in the right" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1986803/it-makes-no-sense
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