re: "Police prepare charges in abbot's sex scandal case" (BP, May 6, 2022)
Dear editor,
Whilst the cynical reaction would be to ask who would not have thought it of a Thai Buddhist monk, an abbot no less, to be indulging in perfectly natural human desires for money and consenting sex, the headline making case of the former Phra Kato and his devotees raises, yet again, the modern issue of audio and video recordings of naughtiness often far more grave than a bit of sex in the temple.
Audio and video recordings are plainly powerful pillars for justice. Perhaps there should, therefore, be a campaign to get a lot more such revealing videos out into the public domain, rather than seeking to suppress them as usual. Should the Joe Ferrari video have been suppressed because it upset Joe and his fans? Should this monk's audio have been suppressed because it upset him and his loyalist devotees?
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 May 9, 2022, under the title "Be fair to all" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2306758/elephant-in-the-room
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