Murder cover-up?
Re: "The gangsters in police uniform", & "Graft on display", (BP, Sept 17).
Anti-Corruption Division chief Pol Gen Jaroonkiat Pankaew is apparently trying to whitewash the 25 senior cops of aiding and abetting the murder of Pol Maj Sivakorn Saibua by Kamnan "Nok". BP reports that Nok and the gunman fled with a police escort, the (crime) scene was cleaned up, the gun was hidden, the security cameras removed, and the computer server thrown into a canal.
Pol Gen Jaroonkiat's suggestion that the 25 cops were all frozen into comas from witnessing the killing. Could all of the highly trained senior cops, each with many years of field experience, be frozen for the 10-plus minutes needed to clean up the murder scene and remove 15 CCTV cameras -- right in front of the police? And they escorted the killer to safety while in shock?
Burin Kantabutra
Pick a just policy
Re: "PM Srettha vows to eliminate speed pills", (BP, Sept 17).
How thrilling to hear that new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin's "government will eliminate the abuse of methamphetamine pills within its tenure".
It must be conceded that coalition partner Bhumjaithai does have a proven solution to solving illegal drug problems. Legalising cannabis really did pretty much end that illegal drug problem literally at a pen stroke.
It is also a just policy, recognising that adults have a right to engage in reckless behaviour that directly harms only themselves.
But if that sensible approach to solving illegal drug problems is to be followed, the same legal regulations must also be applied to that socially most harmful drug of them all, alcohol which is linked to increasing rates of some crimes such as domestic abuse, fatal traffic accidents or even rape.
The right of adults to seriously harm themselves by reckless drug use does not extend to directly harming others absent their consent as participants in the high fun.
Felix Qui
An unknown fate
Re: "Making a name for oneself in Thailand", (PostScript, Sept 17).
This week's PostScript generates interesting speculation on how the, it must now be assumed, late Edith Clampton (Mrs) was introduced to those unaware among Thai circles, although the BP has been remiss if this is the case if she is now pushing up the daisies.
Khun Edit? (among the Thai press, probably receiving her amused chuckle), Khun Edie? (most likely, but inviting her disapproval at informality), or Khun Death? (improbable, but possible in terms of Clampton's regular character assassinations, such as beady-eyed taxi drivers and other victims).
I hope Khun Hazel and Khun Parker are still with us.
As Winston once observed, and I am certain Edith Clampton would readily agree, "I am ready to meet my Maker, but is He ready to meet me?"
Ellis O'Brien
