Re: "Pros at probes", (PostBag, March 7).
Remember the Rolls-Royce jet engines scandal at Thai Airways International last year?
I suspect, nay, I'm sure it involved no one in Thaksin's circles and that's why it was swept under the rug.
So were the Panama Papers, PTT's Rolls-Royce generators scandal, the abandoned 5.84-billion-baht police stations project, the non-inflatable army blimp, GT200 "bomb detector" dowsing rods.
Had they involved Thaksin's people, many heads would have rolled by now.
Let me adapt a line from a song popular among British soldiers in World War I and made famous by Gen Douglas MacArthur in 1951. "Richard Mille and a 300-million-baht loan never die, they simply fade away."
Somsak Pola
Return to corruption
The way a senior police officer gave a wai to Premchai Karnasuta sends a message that the latter has nothing to fear from police (Online, March 7).
If Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha fails to clean up the police and the military, Thailand's political scene is doomed to a return to corruption. It will probably be even worse in view of the worldwide chaos created by globalists' predatory policies, favouring corrupt governments who can be easily subverted with money.
Clara Holzer
Bring in young blood
Re: "Regime rattles sabre at young bloods", (BP, March 8).
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) should realise that our country's democracy failed in the past because most Thai politicians were old people of the old school of thought.
These people were either too ignorant of the constitution and the needs of the people and the country, or too self-serving that equity in society had become non-existent.
This time around, we should bar these bad politicians from entering politics -- or minimise their chances of success.
On the contrary, young Thais of every creed or colour should be enticed to enter politics by the government.
That should be the best way to embark on a meaningful and everlasting democracy in our country.
Chavalit Wannawijitr
Picture's blurred signal
Re: "Challenges to gender equality in Thailand," (Opinion, March 8).
It is quite extraordinary that a photograph of Muslim women wearing the burqa in southern Thailand is used to illustrate the threat to gender equality of emergency laws and not the threat to gender equality of the spread of fundamentalist forms of Islam that are foreign to the country.
Prof Vitit Muntarbhorn laments that the Gender Equality Act suffers from two over-broad exceptions: national security and religion. But he seems to be blind to religious issues and what this photograph is in fact showing.
Thierry Facon
Myanmar farce
Two articles on the Rohingya in the March 4 edition of Spectrum remind us of the absurd situation of a nation controlled by a military who see themselves as untouchable. Thailand is also ruled by the military, it decorates the general overseeing military actions in Myanmar, and allows a million people to live in fear, dire poverty, and an uncertain future.
Watson
No boobs or booze here
Re: "And the award goes to … not these films", (Bangkok Post Sunday, March 4).
There is another Thai blockbuster movie worthy of honourable mention "No Sex Here, Only Prostitutes". This film which tells how Thailand is not the right place to look for boobs or booze, features the story of two old farang lost in Pattaya; one is found dead bingeing in a beer bar. His body is surrounded by three weeping young girls.
The other one is found dead in his chair watching a Tiffany show, with one girl on his side. In both cases, police are still looking for their missing wallet and ask the four girls to leave town immediately. The film ends with a flurry of activities by immigration officers to figure out whether the two farang overstayed and why they had to die in Pattaya in spite of being in good company? A sequel "Do Not Bring Your Wallet To Pattaya" is planned for release after the next Thai elections.
Kuldeep Nagi
Something fishy here
Re: "Fukushima fish cause a big stink", (BP, March 7).
Both Japanese and Thai authorities must have been through safety procedures. Those restaurants can sue the activists.
RH Suga
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