re: "Silently complicit in a far-fetched ruling" (BP, October 3, 2022)
Dear editor,
In his latest, Veera Preteepchaikul belatedly makes a couple of good points, such as his question of Prayut: "whether he has the moral decorum to accept that fact." There has, of course, been no doubt about the answer since May 22, 2014, when Prayut and his overthrew the Thai people's popular form of democratic government in order to further their agenda of propping up a tradition of systems of self-serving indulgence lurking behind gilded lies of sufficiently selfless service, benevolence and like fantasies.
As Veera explains, there is no shortage of silent complicity in fostering injustice, typically in strict accord with the rule of law made up to enable such injustice. In the too many sad stories, for example, of Thai patriots being arrested and sentenced to years in prison for peaceful acts expressing their opinions, a right allegedly protected by the same constitution, the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" inevitably comes to mind, with its reeking complicity of silence. Would a genuinely good person, after all, remain silent while such insults to justice are perpetrated in strict accord with unjust law?
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 6, 2022, under the title "Silence is black" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2407933/same-wavelength
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