re: "'I know nothing!'" (BP, PostBag, January 8, 2021)
Dear editor,
Samanea Saman, thanks for the memories of after-school TV that flooded back with your apt noting of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon's "great impersonation of Sgt Schultz, from the 1960s sitcom, Hogan's Heroes." I have, however, one little quibble: in many cases, Sgt Schultz's professions of perfect ignorance were not entirely incredible.
If I might develop the comparison a little, let us hope that Thailand's heroic Hogans, also hounded by brutish authorities inflicting morally stunted law, are spending their New Year break hatching well-planned stratagems and digging tunnels to help collapse the foundations of the unnatural perversion of rule under which the authoritarian thugs have made the Thai nation POWs in their own country for near seven years in a long tradition of such internment by law and order.
But that raises questions: for one, if Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is the vain, cowardly, bungling Col. Klink, who is his German boss, the ultimate architect of the farce?
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 January 9, 2021, under the title "POWs in own nation" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2048087/headless-chickens
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