Prayut can use his powers to right many wrongs
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I suggest that our "written laws (are) like spiders' webs, and would catch...the weak and the poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and the rich" (Anacharis), and that the time to make all equal under the law is now.
Why? Because PM Prayut seized absolute power precisely to cut through all obstacles in one stroke, like Alexander the Great’s Gordian Knot. If not now, when?
Consider that an individual, from a very wealthy family, killed nine people, yet won’t have to serve even a day in jail, and that the Red Bull heir, who allegedly ran down and killed a cop with his Ferrari years ago, hasn’t even been tried.
But, a poor couple digging for mushrooms for their own consumption in a protected forest were sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
The Koh Tao defendants stand a good chance of being convicted for the murder/rape of two British tourists even though their “confessions” were illegally obtained and the cops’ DNA analysis was performed by an unqualified lab.
Megaprojects like coal-fired plants or dams are pushed through without the local input required by law.
I suggest that this lack of the rule of law is a major obstacle to reconciliation, and must be rectified immediately, using Prayut’s absolute power if necessary.
Burin Kantabutra
