re: "They're both crimes" (BP, March 1, 2021)
Dear editor,
James Debentures is gravely wrong to suggest that Ratsadon's street activism and speaking out of truth is like robbing a bank.
The more accurate comparison of the Ratsadon leaders with the PDRC leaders is that of the street activist Jesus or the street philosopher Socrates with the likes of dictators who plot and commit a coup against their own nation, their own people, their nation's form of government and their nation's institutions.
Whilst it is true that bad people using bad law executed both Socrates and Jesus, those legal punishments for the "crimes" of speaking truth and standing up for justice on the streets, although rightly embarrassing the corrupt status quo of the political elite of ancient Judea and ancient Athens, were in no way deserved. In contrast, those true criminals most rotten who plot and commit coups, too often go free to meet and congratulate each other after perverting the law to amnesty themselves.
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 March 3, 2021, under the title "Of Jesus and Socrates" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2077243/gunboat-diplomacy-
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