In her tearful interview with The Nation on August 23, Sirisakul Saikua quotes a revealing remark by her red-shirt husband Natthawut.
After being briefly jailed for his part in the 2007 (not 1997) storming of General Prem Tinsulanonda's Si Sao residence, he dismissed the episode as "Just a political game" in which he didn't kill anyone. True, although his wife felt humiliated.
Trouble is, the story doesn't end there. Things got more seriously out of hand earlier this year, when dozens of people did pay with their lives. Was it a game worth dying for?
Citizen Jane
Bangkok
Nothing new about unapologetic BBC
I applaud Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's stand against talking to the BBC until it has apologised for interfering in the private life of his son. Ferguson says the BBC never apologises. After John Shepherd's valiant attempts to get the BBC to acknowledge that it might possibly have made some mistakes in its reporting in Thailand, it is easy to sympathise with Sir Alex
RICHARD BOWLER
Bangkok
Do they know what's going on in the world?
Only 11 per cent of Americans read newspapers, the other 89 per cent get politically updated and informed by commercial TV stations, mainly by the constantly expanding Fox News - an expansion probably helped by the many whites who cannot take a black man in office. Only 20 per cent of Americans have a passport. In many European countries it is just the opposite - 80 per cent and more read one or more newspapers and have a passport, which they use.
Things can go very wrong in a country with a population with little knowledge of the world. Could that explain why "the war president" was elected twice?
A Johnsen
Chon Buri