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Re: "In defence of Danes", (PostBag Nov 7). I stand corrected by GMT. Apologies to all Danes _ absolutely no slur intended. Still, my point had nothing to do with nationality but with the need for justice to be done.
As to the issues of mistakes being made, I would argue that a competent, fair-minded judge who hands down the death penalty does so in good faith. He does not intend to make a fatal mistake any more than a surgeon, pilot, or police officer does. His use of the death penalty under a fair judicial system is done dispassionately for the good of society.
BOB GOSLING
River needs 'straightening'
I am an amateur engineering buff and for years now I have studied the flooding issue. I feel that the fastest and least costly means to deal with severe flooding in Thailand is to increase the flow of the Chao Phraya River by ''straightening'' it just west of the Klong Toey port.
That could increase the flow of the Chao Phraya tremendously.
Lagging education and potential severe flooding have to be the two greatest threats to Thailand's national security today, and dealing with the slow flow of the Chao Phraya is inevitable: Thais can do it now, or most certainly Thais will have to do it later, as the Chao Phraya runs the risk of becoming more of an inland sea than a river. His Majesty the King has invested much time, energy and resources over the decades to improve education and to deal effectively with water management in the Kingdom of Thailand and it is now up to Thais to follow his lead in these crucial endeavours.
GUY BAKER
PostBag pundit beats Fox
The most satisfying thing about seeing President Obama get re-elected was imagining the humiliation that Fox News crackpot Dick Morris must have felt: he had predicted Mitt Romney would win 300 electoral college votes.
In a PostBag letter (Sunday, Oct 28) I predicted that Mr Obama would probably win Ohio and thus win the election.
In an earlier PostBag letter I wrote that although Mr Romney won the first debate it would not effect the outcome of the election and that debates are meaningless. Again I was right.
So why waste your time listening to the right-wing morons on Fox News when you can learn the truth by simply reading my PostBag letters?
ERIC BAHRT
Assassination plot a ploy
Re: ''Plot doubts grow as Thaksin drops Tachilek'', (BP, Nov 7)
Of course there are doubts about whether or not Thaksin ever intended to join the rally in Tachilek: nothing Thaksin does is ever about sincere commitments, but always about how to gain political advantage.
The message of Thaksin's aborted meeting with his red-shirt followers in Tachilek will not in the end be about those followers, or about his status as a convicted fugitive, or about his influence on the Thai government from abroad, but about the news that's much, much hotter than any of that - the whiff of an assassination plot!
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other western media outlets close to Robert Amsterdam will cover the assassination plot, not the Tachilek event, and the implication will be that the selfish, unaccountable, royalist elite in Thailand are so jealous of Thaksin they will go to any lengths to stop him.
Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has got all the facts on this assassination plot already - just as he knew the identity of the man who killed the policeman at the Twenty Pub in 2001. Some people have suggested that his son, Duangchalerm, might have shot Snr Pol Sgt Maj Suwichai Rodwimud, but Chalerm had the hard evidence down pat that time too. He even provided the name of the murderer - ''Puet'', wasn't it? And didn't the prime minister at the time, Thaksin Shinawatra, promise that the culprit would be brought to justice? So where's Puet now?
LUNG KIP
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