Re: "Pheu Thai sends 'facts' to US", (Online, Feb 3).
Ruangkrai Leekijwattana, a member of Pheu Thai Party’s legal team, claimed the impeachment of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the National Legislative Assembly was “the impeachment of an elected politician by non-elected politicians”.
Mr Ruangkrai seems to believe that Thai politicians are absolutely untouchable and above all laws.
Thailand has been having trouble with its political rogues behaving as if no law can ever touch them.
Recently, a big political party here attacked judges who sentenced their leader to jail for corruption, by citing the same reason as Mr Ruangkrai did.
A politician who stands accused of setting alight government buildings across the country was awarded a cabinet seat in Thailand’s last elected government.
Finally, while the US embassy officials were invited to meet the red-shirt leader in the Northeast to find the facts, the leader of the opposition party has been chased with intent to kill by the so-called democracy heroes in the North and Northeast.
Opposition politicians still cannot meet their supporters, much less campaign for support, in these regions to this day.
Vint Chavala
Hidden sex workers
Re: "Sex workers so much more than statistics", (Opinion, Feb 4).
Sanitsuda Ekachai brought up some good arguments concerning sex workers. An occupation that goes back thousands of years and is still not solved. She is right saying “How come only sex workers get arrested and not the customers too?” Though few countries have that law, in Sweden for example, it has proven to be more dangerous for the sex worker. Pimps are the ones who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The only thing she did not touch upon was the other type of sex workers.
These are the ones who work for big corporations closing business deals for some of of their clients. You are talking megabucks in this field. And these woman are not poor young girls who are seeking greener pastures. They are well educated. Of course we don’t go after them. I wonder why.
Brian
Samui
Dual charging okay
Linus A E Knobel in his Thursday letter makes the point about “dual charging” in Thailand which is, I think we all agree, the norm here.
Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park is as the name suggests a “national” park. As such I think it only fair Thai nationals should enjoy their own parks, amenities and attractions at an affordable rate, if not indeed free.
A visit to a national park in the western world would cost a lot more than 400 baht because the vast majority of people can afford to pay it.
As a UK citizen I believe that I and my fellow citizens should be allowed to visit heritage sites such as Edinburgh Castle or Windsor Castle for a nominal fee and not the inflated prices charged to tourists.
Anyone caught littering or behaving in an anti-social way should be fined heavily regardless of how much they have paid for admission.
Perhaps, in this case, Thailand has got it right.
Dave Cronin
Heads in the sand
Re: ”Head in the clouds,” (PostBag, Feb 4).
Hogwash. One may as well go back to doing business with a paper and pencil, give up the smartphone for the handy-dandy wired phone, bring out the dusty abacus, and finally quit flying because it’s safer to go by boat.
Some CIOs really have to get over their control-freak attitudes, and quit using fear-mongering tactics to cow “users” that don’t know any better.
Porting business to the cloud may indeed expose a company to risk, but in reality there’s much more chance data is compromised in-house than by some random hacker. Going to the cloud has its pros and cons; in most cases it makes perfect sense, in some cases it does not.
But to suggest closing everything off and retreating 10 years of technology is simply bad business sense that will cost not only in efficiencies gained, but opportunity cost.
James Hitchcock
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