Re: "'Gorgeous' cheerleader billboards spark war of words", (BP, Sept 14). The billboards with "gorgeous" head and bare-shoulder shots of 15 former Thammasat University cheerleaders that are meant to inspire students to join this year's cheerleading team are controversial and inappropriate.
Thammasat should produce graduates with intelligence and leadership qualities rather than seek to showcase its young students' sex appeal.
The university should be aware that even in the US, the Miss America contest is scrapping the swimsuit portion from its pageant.
The contest will no longer judge candidates only on their outward physical appearance. Instead, focus will be more on talent and social impact initiatives.
Therefore, wake up, Thammasat!
Chavalit Wannawijitr
No good politician
Recent history both near and far has convinced me there is no such thing as a good politician. So many examples worldwide. Firstly I will start with the current scandals in the so-called world's great democracy where a filthy rich billionaire craves power like no other. Then we have my own country, Australia, where the last decade has seen the most disgusting politics in a lifetime. Scott Morrison recently supported putting the retirement age up from 65 to 70. Then he wins PM by stealth and, because the polls currently see him as almost no chance to be an elected PM, he reverses this unpopular policy.
Nearer to home in all directions we see similar if not worse. To the east, Cambodia's Hun Sen silences anyone who opposes him by whatever means. Head south to Malaysia and the ex-PM is on charges of having stolen billions from the state. To the west we have a previously persecuted Nobel Peace Prize winner who is now complicit in genocide once she wins power.
In the centre of it all is Thailand. No one was happier for the country than I to see the end of the previous family fiefdom. The general would sort things out in 12 months or so and we will all live happily ever after. Years later, nothing has changed.
Then a year ago he promised an October 2018 election with the Post even putting a daily countdown to this day. Then, not possible he says, but Feb 24 will do. So now as we all think this date is locked in, the conditioning of the masses that all politicians are all so expert at hints that it may not be until May. He also denies other parties the right to campaign as he travels the country giving out promises of what he will do to improve things.
Lastly, as he is not elected is he getting the same salary as Yingluck? After all, he only had the country's best interest at heart when he took over at the end of a gun. Or is he still getting a general's pay packet despite doing no work in that area? Maybe he gets both? If he gets neither I have nothing but admiration for him but if he is, then he is no less guilty of exactly the same things of those he ousted. Please can someone tell me the last good politician anywhere on the planet. I rest my argument that there is no such thing.
Nik
Just a mouthpiece
Re: "Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail Reuters reporters", (BP, Sept 14).
Aung San Suu Kyi is just a junta mouthpiece, nothing more, nothing less. I wonder if she ever listened to Frank Sinatra singing, "The lady is a tramp".
General Golani
A quick recovery
I live just off Saladaeng Road where the area lost electric power about 9.30am on Sept 14. The response to this serous accident that included injuries and property damage by all departments was quick and professional. A great deal of damage was done to at least three utility poles and related wires. The large crew of workers clearing the area of tree branches and twisted metal from the crane was a good example of Thainess. What looked like a power loss that would last days only took about seven hours. All who worked on this event are to be commended for the professional work they did.
Barbara Foster
Futile monument
Re: "Monumental matters need city to clue in", (Opinion, Sept 14).
History is written by the victors. But even though Thailand won the Franco-Thai war of 1941, we haven't much written about it. Today, few people know what the Victory Monument commemorates: a victory in a futile war to unite Thai peoples under one flag. The war didn't achieve its full objective and what it did achieve was reversed after WWII.
Trairat
No safe answer
Timsahb in his Sept 15 letter "Koh Tao 'safe haven'" may feel safe in Koh Tao, but can he guarantee the safety of random tourists who are attacked, raped or murdered?
I think not. A doubling of the police and military on Koh Tao does as much good as the London police doubling the patrols on the streets in Whitechapel to catch Jack the Ripper. We all know the results of that effort. Has it occurred to Timsahb that the reason no one has ever been apprehended is because the perpetrator might be an investigator? Conspiracy theories abound. Why not give this one a whirl? Or, is that too outrageous to consider.
Dick and Jane
