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It's called lese-majeste you cannot be critical of the royal family.

Last 2 issues of the Economist they complained about the law of not being allowed to speak out against the royal family.

1 posted on 01/27/2009 6:18:18 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN; fieldmarshaldj

His Highness Bhumibol Adulyadej deserves the Lord Cornbury award for 2009...


2 posted on 01/27/2009 6:21:08 PM PST by Clemenza (Red is the Color of Virility, Blue is the Color of Impotence)
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Economist???


3 posted on 01/27/2009 6:22:21 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12992577

The article that got Economist kicked out of Thailand.


6 posted on 01/27/2009 6:27:19 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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Thailand bans Economist magazine
Ah, back we go to days of yore,
To days when men were more,
When kings were met with knee to floor,
And critics shown the door.

Nor scribe nor text nor magazine
Shall venalize the king.
"We love 'im!", do the people sing,
"His critics up we string!"


10 posted on 01/27/2009 6:55:30 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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Just reading the headline with no other information, this poster was thinking there’s really only one thing which could cause something like that:

Insulting the King.

Sure enough.

Thais are pretty amazingly libertarian about a lot of things, but they are quite loyal to the royal family.


13 posted on 01/27/2009 7:03:25 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (During any "d" administration: USA's msm, become indistinguishable from the ussr's pravda.)
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