re: "Srisuwan attacked while on 'Nose' job" (BP, October 19, 2022)
Dear editor,
The Bangkok Post is to be commended for the fittingly witty title "Srisuwan attacked while on 'Nose' job" for its report on the mild attack by a zealous Red shirt on the morally suspect Srisuwan Janya with his fondness for using the law to attack all sorts, often contrary to justice, such as his recent legal assault on comedian Udom "Nose" Taepanich, whose featured position on NetFlix suggests he is one of the more revered Thais currently promoting Thai soft power in accord with official policy.
Whilst it's understandable that some are angry with Srisuwan, peaceful remains the better approach. Like other public figures, Srisuwan deserves some hearty ridicule for his antics, albeit not so much as prime ministers, deputy prime ministers and other allegedly revered public figures, not excluding Nose himself or other types with noses unduly in the air. Actual punching, however, is playing by the rules of the likes of army General Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his enemies of democracy, which, as Srisuwan correctly points out, is not really what pro-democracy advocates should be doing.
A further ugly truth is that Thaksin's faithful Red shirts, in this case Weerawit Rungruangsiripol, do tend too often towards violence, being too inclined to be of the same rotten traditional mindset as exemplified by PM Prayut and his, who have for many, many decades set the Thai nation the example of using violence to get your way, that being precisely what a coup against the Thai people and their nation is.
Thaksin's war on drugs similarly set violence as the popular example to the nation almost as much as the regular coups against democracy. And then there are those more vile official evils such as Tak Bai, October 6, 1976, and other acts setting the official seal on extreme violence.
Don't follow the example of the bad people who commit, collude in, egg on, or sign off on violence.
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 21, 2022, under the title "Violence no solution" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2419421/violence-no-solution
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