Chaos on its way

Re: "The BRT, should it stay or should it go?" (BP, Feb 22).

As the possibility exists that the BRT will not exist after April, it would not be a matter of great disruption to take the opportunity for a sneak preview of the "chaos" (to BRT commuters as well as motorists) that is in store by closing down the BRT for one day. Then conduct the interviews.

Benntenn
Give un-PC a chance

Why is the Bangkok Post, increasingly, becoming the mouthpiece for the left/green/liberal/PC movement?

Half of the people in the world who know anything of Donald Trump actually like him. They prefer his political naivety to the political correctness of the left. Isn't it better that a world leader speaks directly from his own mind? When did the Post last publish a letter from his side of politics?

Plastic bags are a huge convenience. To ban them might achieve something, but at what cost? They are so easily disposed of properly and so convenient to use and reuse. Ban them and we must buy them instead of getting them free. With a choice, I choose the shop which provides the most durable bags. Tesco's are far too frail to make a decent bin-liner.

People of normal weight drink and enjoy Pepsi Cola and Fanta. Most of the tax to save the voluntarily obese from themselves will be paid by the "normals". A mass penalty to save a few, and will it achieve anything at all? The normal will pay extra, the fat will stay fat. (Politically incorrect again, sorry fatties.)

We were born as meat-eaters, our canine teeth so testify. Perhaps as a rite of passage they should be extracted. They are quite unnecessary to devour a delicious bowl of bean curd.

The poorest suffer when a carbon tax is imposed. The C02 emissions "prevented" are dwarfed by the single eruption of one of the world's larger volcanoes. Until we learn how to tax those wicked volcanoes, please spare the rest of us.

Gamblers, and drinkers of alcohol must be taxed. I look for a rational justification, but what is it? Those with a predilection to gamble or to take a drink must pay money to those who do not.

Ditto smokers. Our own health is our own business. As they say, if you don't smoke, drink or gamble, you may not live longer but it will feel like you do. The shorter our sojourn, beyond retirement age, the smaller our burden on the state.

Please, give the easy-going, politically incorrect, a voice.

George Cuppaidge
I won't be scanned

I was a regular visitor to Bangkok for many years before the installation of full-body scanners at Suvarnabhumi airport. Such scanners with monitors installed beside them for all to see, are infringing on our personal modesty.

Besides, I don't know if the radiation emitted by these scanners are harmful to those being screened.

Thailand is one of the few countries in Asia with such machines and I question their necessity, in the name of security. I know Thai authorities will not remove them because of my one letter, and so, I will just skip visiting the Land of Smiles.

Terrence Shan
No one above the law

Re: "End the standoff", (PostBag, Feb 22).

No one should be above the law. The head monk is obviously avoiding capture. Part of that process entails him and his supporters to lie about his health and whereabouts. Lying should be reason enough for defrocking him and those his inner circle. But that's intra-Buddhist politics. It's the legal charges which are taking centre stage.

There are also peripheral issues like his Scientology-like cult following.

Kip Keino
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