OPINION

The correct answer

Re: "Abbot, four others face indictment", (BP, June 14)

I was surprised that the spokesman of the Office of the Attorney-General said that "some suspects may not be indicted in the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative fraud case if they did not answer charges".

If this is because of Thai law, then, for obvious reasons, it needs to be changed urgently, otherwise all an accused person has to do is avoid answering charges -- like what a certain abbot has done?

Re: "Nok Air apologises for pilots' chat 'targeting' Yingluck", (BP, June 14).

Nok Air chief executive Patee Sarasin did the right thing when he came out to apologise to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over comments in a Line app chat group made by the airline's co-pilot and a Thai AirAsia trainee pilot, who joked about her safety on board the airline's passenger plane.

The government should make sure that former national leaders, as well as other politicians, are accorded with convenience and sufficient safety while they are travelling within the country.

Nevertheless, this incident showed the undercurrent of negative feelings people have toward politicians, especially those who during the past few years have done so much damage to our country -- both in their corrupt practices, and actions that were dangerous to national security and sovereignty.

Hence, to prevent national conflicts from expanding further, political activities by these people should be stopped for the time being.

After ranting about the American presidential candidates, which he would be better off doing in an American newspaper as we in Thailand can't vote anyway, Eric Bahrt in his June 13 letter, "Cruelty to crocodiles", returned to his favourite topic: animal welfare.

As a sympathiser of Peta (People Eating Tasty Animals) I must say that that crocodiles are not only raised for making handbags, they also produce quite tasty meat.

Of course all raised crocs will eventually be killed. The same goes for raised cows and chickens.

I did have a good laugh at Ken Sowton's expense in his "Poms Trump Yanks" (BP, June 13). Sorry Ken. I must agree with Mr Gilead's letter regarding the funny and sometimes most bizarre hats atop of those heads of royalty and those not so royal. When the Spanish King Alphonso lisped, the entire nation lisped along, therefore the lisp in present day Castilian Spanish. (Today Alphonso could have availed himself of the services of a speech therapist).

Even my British friends on this "side of the pond", as you so ignorantly refer to us, (Britannia does not rule the waves anymore), find many of those hats funny looking, with the exception of course of those worn by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who dresses appropriately for her age.

I don't know what those on your side of the pond laugh at, aside from Donald Trump.

But then, you have that dishevelled looking man who dresses like a derelict and desperately needs a shave -- your soon to be leader, Jeremy Corbyn.