Your editorial cartoon yesterday is a work of genius. The cartoonist has managed to portray the fact that the ex-PM is banned from overseas travel and this is largely her fault due to her role in the loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme.
While yesterday’s report said the police were red-faced after criticism of their search of her entourage in Chiang Mai, I am sure her brother, as portrayed in the cartoon, is suffering.
The courts can decide on her indictment, but how can there be suspicion of her trying to flee the country?
I am sure the government and the NCPO, along with other law enforcement agencies, will take specific steps to see that Ms Yingluck remains in the country for a free and fair trial.
R Srinath
Parks never learn
Re: "Shades of greed", (PostBag, Feb 11).
At a seminar in Chiang Mai in 2007, I confronted the then junta-installed minister of tourism on the 400-baht national park entry fees introduced under previous minister Plodprasop.
I reeled off a list of famous world attractions in expensive countries that cost less to enter. He agreed, rolled his eyes, and asked for my list.
Several months later the entrance fees reverted to 200 baht. Key to the decision was the fact that many tour operators stopped taking their busloads to these parks. It seems we never learn.
Andrew Bond
ATM skimming pattern
Re: "Man arrested for ATM card heist", (BP, Feb 11).
Has anybody else noticed these ATM heists have always the following in common? The ATM machines belong to the same bank, the skimmer is always foreign, the amount lost is millions of baht, but the money is never recovered.
Perhaps somebody should investigate.
Ken Sowton
Lakorn lacks value
Bravo to Mike Flynn for his “Lakorn brainrot” letter yesterday.
Indeed, watching beautiful people who never seem to work, live in ultra-beautiful, large, expensive houses, drive expensive cars and have lots of servants has always puzzled me. Their bullying attitudes, hysterical outbursts and violence to others seem ingrained.
These are the same, so-called privileged people that caused the Korean “nut rage” incident. Friends of mine have explained that poorer members of the population view lakorn as escapism from their drab existences.
I’d like to quote from a novel I know. “When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, his religion, we had better make certain to replace it with something of value” ― Robert Ruark, in the flyleaf of his 1955 novel, Something Of Value.
Jack Gilead
Cable car plan unwise
Re: "Uncertainty", (Life, Feb 9).
Sight-seeing cable cars may attract more day-time visitors, but such lightweight cable car systems do not seem suitable for campers with heavy goods for safety reasons.
Yet installing heavy-duty cable cars will not give a good return on investment. Cost performance and safety issues should be studied.
R H Suga
Soap hypocrisy
Re: "Lakorn brainrot", (BP, Feb 11).
Your correspondent deplores the fact that his wife watches quality drama on TV in England, but once back in Thailand watches Thai soap operas depicting “young, good-looking people in expensive houses, with no visible means of support, enjoying a high society life”.
Like Downton Abbey?
Michael Winckless
MacArthur returned
Re: “Prophetic words”, (BP, Feb 11).
Golani said he does not think Gen Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines. In fact, the general did, on Oct 20, 1944.
A Pattaya Yank
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