Choose wisely

re: "Pheu Thai primed to form govt" (BP, July 20, 2023) 

Dear editor,

Pheu Thai, it appears, now has an opportunity to prove to the Thai people whether it favours the boons of liberal democracy as seen in South Korea and Taiwan or whether it prefers Thailand's traditionally enforced feudal mindset where gaudily gilded demons stalk the land plucking rich pickings for themselves whilst brutally suppressing the progress needed to emulate the globally respected flourishing of South Korea and Taiwan, and of every every other nation thriving under liberal democracy. Thailand could and should have followed the path of those two nations, both of which exorcized military interference in civil matters back in the 1980s, but it was prevented from doing so at enormous cost to almost all of the Thai people, who deserve to be much better off in every way than the forced allegiance to despotic myth has reduced them to up to today.

If Pheu Thai genuinely cares for the Thai nation, it will now revise it's position on the reform of Section 112 of the Criminal Code. The abuse by self-serving parties of that law exemplifies more than any other factor what has made Thailand exactly what it is today: a nation where the rule of law is blatantly used to pervert justice for the people, in particular to thwart the Thai people's aspirations for democracy and its fruits both economic and cultural. 

Pheu Thai should now do the right thing by and for the Thai nation. It should unequivocally support Move Forward's modest amendments to the lese majeste law. That will not only protect Thailand's monarchy from the abuse it has suffered for many decades, glaringly so these last two months, by those who use the existing law made up for that most unrighteous and not remotely benevolent purpose to stunt Thailand's long deserved development. That law, as Move Forward and its supporters recognize, embodies the demon-haunted mindset backing brutally enforced ignorance that has retarded Thailand economically by persistently stunting its political, social and moral growth. Will Pheu Thai now choose what is right by and for the people? 

 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 July 24, 2023, under the title "Choose wisely" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2616451/choose-wisely