Angel
New Member
Re: “TRC dissolved”, (BP, March 8).
What next after the Thai Raksa Chart Party’s (TRC) dissolution?
When an animal is cornered, with no other options, its survival instinct kicks in. It will fight tooth and nail for its survival. With the dissolution of the TRC, attempts to dissolve other rival parties are in the air. You can smell it. Hypothetically, if they were to be dissolved, desperate measures may materialise. And it doesn’t bode well for the country. I therefore urge those with levers of power to consider carefully the consequences of such actions. To let cool heads prevail over us-vs-them instinct, biologically programmed into us via evolution.
With each contest of power, the ice-cream cake (economic opportunities) is melting away, while our neighbours’ cake is expanding as reflected by their GDP growth. For a Buddhist country like ours that preaches compassion, tolerance, and understanding, we use emotions on steroids far more than our cerebral cortex.
The biological reality is most of the people in power today won’t be there in 20 years. But young parties and their representatives such as Future Forward will be.
Is it time then for a supra-national government comprising all major parties? For instance, the Democrats may acquire the Ministry of Finance; Pheu Thai gets the Ministry of Commerce and Transportation; Future Forward gets the Ministry of Education; Palang Pracharath gets the Ministry of Defence and so forth.
Alternatively, drawing on the Malaysian constitutional monarchy system, where each ruler takes a rotated turn as head of state every five years, each major party can likewise run the country and all ministries for five years, after which the next party will automatically take over. Other parties waiting for their turn will serve as opposition.
Absurd as these ideas are, they are better than the cycle of “election- and-coup” we have had thus far.
The bottom line: Politics is negotiable. Paying bills is not. Let Pheu Thai and Future Forward survive.
Edward Kitlertsirivatana
Suicide no solution
Re “Cries for help go unheard”, (BP, March 10).
Indeed, the recent high-profile suicides among school and university students were sad because of their cries being unheard. In a small way, the words in the 2009 film, World’s Greatest Dad, might be possible to help a few to bear in mind:
“If you’re that depressed, reach out to someone and remember suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems”.
Songdej Praditsmanont
More WWII debate
Poland’s ambassador Waldemar Dubaniouski does an admirable job in defending Poland’s record during WWII in his letter, “Poland has a clean slate”, (PostBag, March 10).
However, Poland’s factual record is quite different from the ambassador’s claims. The Germans did indeed shoot those who helped Jews and other minorities.
The same rule applied to every country occupied by the Germans. In most countries (including Germany itself), there were those who hid Jews and took those risks out of humanitarianism. Yes, there were a few Polish families who did rescue Jews and others, but the majority of Poles helped the Germans round up Jewish families, and then enjoyed occupying their homes and stealing their wealth and possessions.
Mr Ambassador, you have what is known as a poor case for a bad lawyer.
Auschwitz Annie
Passing the buck
Dear Polish Ambassador to Thailand:
You are doing what Americans call “Passing the buck”, but you should also acknowledge the opposite expression, “The buck stops here”.
Modern Germany acknowledged the atrocities committed against the European Jewish population during WWII. Why can’t you own up to the same thing?
Jack Gilead
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