Better future beckons

re: "MFP proposes amnesty for those with contrarian political views" (BP, October 16, 2022) 

Dear editor,

Again, the Move Forward Party (MFP) offers constructive proposals to move Thailand forward to a better future. The bold initiative to amend the plain undemocratic sect.112, one of the more manifestly unjust sections of the criminal code, stands out for its moral courage, but so, too, does the ratification of the International Criminal Court statue, which might also promise an effective means to bring Thaksin to justice for his crimes against the Thai people that left thousands dead in his populist drug wars egged on by bad people, along with the long overdue justice for the Tak Bai massacre. Perhaps even the October 6, 1976 massacre could finally see some justice done? The other proposals presented are equally concrete and constructive for an economically stronger, morally healthier nation.

A poll on each of the MFP proposals would be useful, likely proving most illuminating. The polls done on the Ratsadon reform proposals before Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha used Covid as an excuse to stamp them down showed majority support for all of their proposals. Is there any reason to think that that groundswell of support for such reform has not strengthened over the last couple of years? MFP has likely judged correctly what the Thai nation has come to understand what it needs for a better future for all Thais. It is not yet more of the same old ways of the bad old days of bad old men. 

 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 October 18, 2022, under the title "Better future beckons" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2416790/heavy-ukraine-price