American Citizen Arrested For Insulting King of Thailand

[MattShizzle]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_re_as/as_thailand_monarchy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_re_as/as_thailand_monarchy)
The king of Thailand can suck on my sweaty balls and then swallow the entire contents of a septic tank from a banquet hall from a beer, bean and prune festival. Also, he is retarded and fucked his mother, father, grandmother, siblings and who the hell knows what other family members.

Seriously, this is even more reactionary than capitalism having a monarch who it's illegal to insult. Pretty much feudalism.

[PhoenixAsh]

Good...you Yanks need to learn more respect for foreign cultures.
/jk
;) :-P

seriously though...he got arrested for posting a link 4 years ago to a banned book about the king and translating a banned biography. How idiotic can laws get? Well...It seems they can get even more idiotic because the punishment is a minumum of three years. Even more idiotic is that he did all this while he was a resident of the US and living there.

Horrid.



So...OP...better not go to Thailand ;)

[Magón]

The guy was probably just trying to pull his own Hangover Part II.

[Johnny Kerosene]

Good...you Yanks need to learn more respect for foreign cultures.
/jk
;) :-P




I know you were joking, but it said the guy was Thai born, that he was 54, and that he lived in the US for 30 years, meaning he lived somewhere else, presumably Thailand, for 24 years. Thus, he doesn't fit the usual definition of Yank.

That said, that's pretty fucked up that he got arrested for that.

[Princess Luna]

the king of Thailand is a fucking dick, and i hope he gets explosive diarrhea

also i bet we won't hear a peep from the U.S. government about this, of course if it happened in China, Iran, or any other state not friendly to the the U.S. there would be a huge outcry.

[MarxSchmarx]

One thing that will help is that his case should make it easier for local Thai activists seeking to abolish lees majesty laws to press their case - especially if they can use him as an example to all who enter.

For instance, if there are posters in Australian or Japanese airports that say something like - crack a joke about his majesty, spend 3 years in a Thai jail - my guess is that this will have an effect on Thailand's image as a welcoming place. After all it's one thing for drug users to risk their freedom, it's a whole other thing when well-to-do family tourists realize that a lot of what they would do without incident in the Philippenes or Guam can get in serious trouble for doing in Thailand.

I mean, as bad as insulting Kim Jong Il, the worst they will usually do is deport you from North Korea for insulting him.