Re: "Red shirts join protest with temple fair atmosphere", (BP, November 22, 2020)
It is good to see that the unity PM Prayuth promised, along with many other lies when he overthrew the rule of law to make himself PM back in May 2014, is finally coming to pass. Naturally, the Red Shirts who also protested for a more just society will support the younger generation doing the same. Hopefully, the better informed youngsters will also be able to teach the former Red Shirts a deeper understanding of the failures of many decades that Thaksin, for his purely selfish reasons, began to address. Thaksin's failure was to accept too much of the old myth: he did not go far enough to fix the root failures of Thainess.
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The above is the text that was actually posted as a quick comment on the article by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text of that quick comment as edited was published in PostBag on November 24, 2020, under the title "Failures of Thainess" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2024375/vaccine-no-panacea
Also worth noting is that Thaksin should be in prison for his drug war killings of thousands of Thais. Oddly, his fans who exalt him to unsurpassed bogey man stature insist that he not be prosecuted for actually being responsible for thousands of Thais killed unjustly. They instead make up absurd political charges knowing that no nation will extradite for such baseless allegations. It is almost as if his enemies want and need Thaksin to be thriving for some reason. The young protestors would be more likely to press the real charges of killing Thai citizens against Thaksin and those who colluded with his real crimes against the Thai people.
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