Past sins abroad
Re: "What do they mean by ethics?", (PostBag, Aug 18).
That is an excellent observation on a similar case in which the judgement was not unethical as it was based on the thin line of being jailed abroad, i.e., a person's conduct in life can be separated by territory.
Jailing outside Thailand's jurisdiction is irrelevant to the ethical grounds of the case in Thailand. Crime committed outside one country is not prosecutable in another country.
However, the recent judgement indicates that, in appointing a minister, one has to consider all angles with no excuses, whether not being a lawyer or a seasoned politician.
It should be based on the feeling of a reasonable man to judge another in front of him as being ethical or unethical in his past life.
Impliedly, conscientious considerations should be exhaustive when appointing a man as his minister, especially when the country's fate is at stake.
One likes to think that if that previous case had been brought before the Constitutional Court after the recent case, the judgment could have been different based on the ratio decidendi (rationales behind the judgement) of the current Constitutional Court.
Fact or fiction?
Re: "Who do you trust?", (PostBag, Aug 21).
I was waiting for Mr Setter to start badgering everyone about mpox [given] that everyone's seen through his Covid nonsense.
It didn't take long.
And No, Mr Setter, Jessica Rose isn't "eminent". She's as discredited as the academic paper she co-authored, "Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in Association with Covid-19 Injectable Biological Products", was withdrawn.
And no, Mr Setter, the symptoms of mpox are not "vaccine-induced".
The word pox literally refers to "any of several viral diseases producing a rash of pimples that become pus-filled and leave pockmarks".
The symptoms of one, smallpox, have been found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummies, which I'm sure even Mr Setter can calculate predates the existence of any manmade vaccine.
Is Mr Setter going to keep banging on about the same sad, old conspiracy theories?
Or is there a chance he might find something interesting -- and believable -- to write?
Time to move on
Re: "Chaikasem ready to be next PM, denies reports of poor health", (BP, Aug 15).
As Thailand's political mover and shaker, Thaksin Shinawatra seems to have found he is too old for the new-age political game.
When former prime minister Srettha Thavisin's dismissal by the Constitutional Court for gross violation of ethics hit the news, Thaksin was quick to declare the name of former justice minister in the Yingluck Shinawatra government, Chaikasem Nitisiri, as Pheu Thai Party's next prime ministerial candidate.
Then again, [given what eventuated], it seems to have dawned on Mr Thaksin that Mr Chaikasem might be a bad political choice.
Mr Thaksin has been forced again to make an about-face going against his original playbook.
With that said, Thaksin should realise that the current era is "no time for old men!"