re: "Ambassador denies US conspired with any political party" (BP, June 27, 2023)
Dear editor,
Their fanciful allegation that "the US conspired with any particular political party or interfered in the May 14 general election," having been dismissed by the US Ambassador as it deserves, the increasingly desperate conservatives against progress need a new allegation to throw around. Happily, there is one at hand.
The desperately driven conservatives can allege Illuminati interference (that triangle! orange no less!) in the stunning endorsement by the Thai people of Move Forward and its raft of policies. Oh, wait, they seriously tried that after the last election when Future Forward's impressive but less stunning popularity proved that a large number of Thais welcome the reform that has been denied their nation for decades. Fear not: the manoeuvres to outflank such a wicked election result are not yet exhausted.
Will the conservative desperadoes next allege, in their fanciful lawfare plots against the will of the people, that Move Forward was unfairly assisted by foreign super heroes? How else could a party with such radical policies as equal justice for all, let alone actual democracy, have won such respect from so many Thais unless aided by Super Man, Spiderman, Captain Kirk and Spock, and of course Professor Dumbledore. The foreign, even interstellar and supernatural, influence now starts to become clear.
But wait, it might be even worse! What if the Buddha himself, a foreigner from Nepal of all places, were secretly supporting Move Forward merely because they blatantly and unashamedly favour his own insistence on compassion, right understanding, and all those other foreign notions he preached? Move Forward can be accused of following the Buddha's actual teachings. That'll teach those upstarts spouting foreign notions.
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 29, 2023, under the title "Conjuring up plots" at URL
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