re: "Nate probe a let-down" (BP, Editorial, May 19, 2022)
Dear editor,
Yes, the hardly unexpected treatment of Nate Naksuk, former director-general of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) by his colleagues in Thailand's official justice system, as they call it, is a let down. However, like the alleged sex abuse unspoken for decades of its poster boy Prinn Panichpadki by those pillars of pollical correctness Thailand's "hilariously misnamed" (Time, Nov. 2013) Democrat Party, the latest publicly revealed workings of the OAG are likely but the tip of another long-nurtured iceberg of injustice.
If true as the Post's editor alleges that "Society wishes to see justice served," then Thai law, from the constitution down, needs to be radically reformed so that it in fact supports justice rather than the injustice that law corrupted by intervention dressing itself up in ostentatiously uniformed sacredness too often serves. The recent comments by the respected former prime minister Anand Panyarachun are salutary here. When, to take the tip of another righteously nurtured iceberg that collides constantly with justice in Thailand, the law allows globally honoured human rights activists to be be imprisoned for no just reason but merely for the "crime" under Thai law of peacefully protesting in favour of openness, transparency and accountability, then the law proves itself a tool of injustice, and the officials charged with executing such law are made tools of injustice committed against the good people of the Thai nation.
The Red Bull comedy making a mockery of the what passes for official Thai justice for a decade now is hardly the only depressing act being perpetrated by Thai law loyally served by Thai officials. There abounds yet worse legal evil.
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 22, 2022, under the title "Tool of injustice" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2313838/tool-of-injustice
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