OPINION

Sluggish justice

Re: "Pheu Thai eyes riding red tide to victory", (Opinion, July 2) and "Nattawut to direct Pheu Thai initiative", (BP, June 16).

Just wondering why Nattawut Saikuar is still around? He should be in jail for life. He instigated protesters to burn down Bangkok decades ago and he is still a free man!

Why is justice so slow?

Re: "Competition on convenience", (BP, June 29).

Companies strive for monopolies to maximise profit -- not serve customers. Thus, CP has the lion's share of the convenience store industry (with 83.05% from 7-11 and Lotus's Go Fresh).

Central Group is a distant second (with 4.8% from Family Mart and Tops Daily), and the remaining 12.16% belongs to others. For example, on the short 1km stretch of soi between my house and Central Bang Na, we have three large 7-11s and one small Family Mart.

By any measure, an 83% market share is highly monopolistic. If the Office of the Trade Competition Commission had been living up to its name, this should not have happened.

How can we make the convenience store industry, so important to our daily lives, serve customers, not monopolists?

Re: "Dealing with dogs", (PostBag, July 1).

I thank Ray Ban for his considered reply to my original letter calling for a ban on pit bulls.

I acknowledge the issue is complex and agree with much of what he says. But it is not enough to euthanise a dog involved in a serious attack on a human. We must come up with a solution to minimise the risk of further attacks by pit bulls/Rottweilers and so on. So short of banning them, which I admit is never going to happen, I suggest the following.

Many countries require dog owners to be licensed. I propose that Thailand require owners of all dog breeds that were originally bred for fighting to be licensed. This should involve a police check that the owners have the ability to keep the dog in a secure yard or compound, from which escape is impossible.

Any time the dog is taken outside the yard it must be kept on a leash and muzzled. I would also suggest that all such dogs should be sterilised, for I am sure seasonal hormonal influences might have a bearing on their aggression. Any breach of these conditions should result in heavy fines, cancellation of the licence, and removal of the dog.

Further, any future incident such as the several attacks reported in the Bangkok Post over the past year should result in the owners being charged with endangering public safety, with possibly lengthy prison sentences.

Unfortunately, this is Thailand, and as my Aussie mates would tell me: "David, you're peeing into the wind."

Re: "Anutin, Jurin test positive", (BP, June 29).

Public Health Minister Anutin is not a unique example among politicians with multiple inoculations who have Covid disease. Anthony Fauci with four jabs is ill and so is Justin Trudeau with multiple jabs but nevertheless suffering his second round of Covid infection.

The data show the more a person is vaccinated the more their immune system becomes weakened against viral infections.

This is vaccine-induced acquired immune deficiency syndrome which is accompanied by antibody-dependent enhancement.

These are but two reasons the vaccines are neither safe nor effective. Let's not vaccinate young children with experimental gene therapies. It is a crime.