Innocent until proven guilty?
Re: "Judicial body suspends senior judge", (BP, March 12).
Your story about the suspension of a former chief court judge has a glaring omission: His name.
Or in Thailand, are senior members of the judiciary spared the ignominy of having their names published when they are punished for wrongdoing?
If so, it is further evidence of the undermining of the public's faith in judicial systems in Thailand -- an undermining actively aided and abetted by the Bangkok Post.
The cycle of self-interest
Re: "Saving Mother Earth", (PostBag, Mar 15) & "Why global governance is failing badly", (Opinion, March 14).
Hans Van Willenswaard refers to the concept of a sovereign nation as a "myth" which reflects a position embraced by the UN and elaborated in a book called Reflections on Earth Trusteeship.
The authors seek to replace existing legal definitions of ownership, determined by personal and nation-state sovereignty with an earth system governance model which they claim is necessary to address the "climate emergency" and the "biodiversity crisis", and thereby save nature from humankind.
In "Why global governance is failing badly", Antara Haldar criticised the UN saying it "has proven to be generally ineffectual, overly bureaucratic, and unfair in its treatment of the Global South", yet failed to mention that the UN is not trusted to fulfil its mandate to secure peace.
Meanwhile, Prof Haldar claims "the European Union, for all its flaws, has demonstrated that a supranational federation can work, allowing previously warring countries to pool sovereignty in exchange for economic and political stability." For stunning evidence that this is a lie see the recent independent news from Romania.
The EU is only succeeding in eroding individual sovereignty and human rights among member states. That undermines the foundation of individual sovereignty that modern civilisation is built upon. An individual's right to self-governance, encompassing autonomy over their body, actions and decisions, without external interference has been asserted as the foremost unalienable human right.
This extends to ownership of oneself and one's property.
The UN, despite proclamations to the contrary, has been seeking to end the sovereignty of nations and thus personal sovereignty for almost a century.
Mr Haldar blames sovereignty for the UN's failures while Van Willenswaard presumes to possess such an excellent paradigm shifting idea that everyone will voluntarily give up their sovereignty to save the Earth by embracing it. This is simply idealistic nonsense.
Communism didn't work, The EU's socialism is not working, and no one will ever embrace "earth trusteeship" at a practical level. Why? Because everyone relentlessly clings to the self idea.
Everyone is an ego seeking to fulfil self-interest. Governance by enforced altruism is impossible. Governance by propagandising fraudulent billion-dollar guilt/fear programs such as "climate change" and "pandemics" is also failing. Real altruism requires an evolutionary transformation of the individual, each one by one.
This is a spiritual matter not achievable by instituting newly minted governance models.
Not warming to denials
Re: "Bucking the trend", (PostBag, March 11).
Michael Setter is once again trying to convince us that man-made climate science is not real by claiming that a few scientists, including an "astrophysicist and aerospace engineer", represent a significant trend.
Sadly, for him, a whopping 97% of climate scientists believe that climate change is real and rising sea levels and weather extremes will continue to cause further harm if nothing is done. Unfortunately, Mr Setter and and his fellow conspiracy theorists are victims of a fraud perpetrated on us by the fossil fuel industry as far back as the 1950s.
They are alleged to not only have known about man-made climate change, but also have begun spreading misinformation disputing it, just so Mr Setter and his pals could scream about yet another imaginary conspiracy perpetrated on the world by "evil scientists". However, the ones who are evil are the ones who have thrust their snouts into the oil industry trough in return for spreading lies about anthropogenic global warming.