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Friday, 24 June 2022

Chronic cronyism

re: "Senators hiring kin deemed 'legal'" (BP, June 21, 2022) 

Dear editor,

He might well be right about the strict legality according to Thai law made up for that purpose. In his glorious defence of traditional, systemic Thai nepotism, however, Senate Speaker (who else?) Pornpetch Wichitcholchai  goes much further, insisting that "if hiring cousins broke no law, it would also not violate moral ethics either." 

How, after all, could anything that strictly follows law created with intent to pervert justice be less than morally perfect? This is regrettable because it publicly exposes the moral values of such model Thais in all of their ethically stunted reality. 

 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 June 24, 2022, under the title "Chronic cronyism" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2332923/chronic-cronyism 

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