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Writer jailed for 'insulting' Thai royals

By Voice, Created on: 19/01/2009, Last updated on: 17/06/2009

» Writer jailed for 'insulting' Thai royals Australian writer Harry Nicolaides is jailed for three years after being found guilty of insulting the Thai monarchy in his novel. Today news from the BBC, after heard the news I thought that maybe it time that maybe we should all discussing this kind of...

• Profiler commented : [quote="Chaiyo Thailand":3e862paq][quote="Profiler":3e862paq][quote="Chaiyo Thailand":3e862paq]"Every body's business is no body's business", still stands. Foreigners should respect Thai laws, it is the rights of the Thais, to pass any laws in their country. We (Thais) respect others' laws and we're subject to punishments if we break them.[/quote:3e862paq] Im sorry what?? Thais don't even respect their own law nor constitution...[/quote:3e862paq] 1) I said, "We (Thais) respect others' laws and we're subject to punishments if we break them." That means, we don't make comments/remarks/write books criticizing other countries' leaders. 2) (a) Calculate, the number of people breaking the law divide by the population of Thailand and multiply by 100 and the answer you get is the percentage of Thai population breaking the laws. Let me know what you get. (b) Can you tell me if Americans, British, Australians, Canadians, French..... have never had violence protests?[/quote:3e862paq] It's a diffrent matter of handling things when it comes to west, in countries like US and Europe we are patriotic but we also see that some things one just don't do. I mean look when Bush got re-elected, a lot of people got angry since they didn't want him as president, did you see them planning a coup to overthrow the government? They knew that they had to swallow the horsepill, to atleast have a stability in the country, and wait for the right moment... and now they have one from the opposite party, and a person nobody would dream of 30-40 years ago to sit as a president, and hopefully he can turn the tides. Stability, loyalty, respect are few aspects thais need to learn or it will end like Burma, and its already going that way. If you don't make an own opinion and just follow the mass which is exactly what the mobs have done, and been duped by the military you will never experience what it means to live in a civilized world.

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