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18-year-old's Facebook Posting Spurs 'Hate Campaign'

Fri, 28/05/2010 - 13:32 | by prachatai
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation

An 18-year-old high school graduate has become the subject of an on-line hate campaign over alleged insult of the Royal institution. Natthakarn Sakundarachat also claims that she has been refused a place at Silpakorn University because her highly controversial postings on her Facebook account. Natthakarn Sakundarachat, also known as “Karn Thoop” in cyber space, told The Nation yesterday she had received death threats both on-and off-line. Internet users have spread her picture and family details and vilified her through repeated forward mail, she said.

She described herself as the victim of an online "hate" campaign, although those offended by her Facebook postings ask whether she played a part by stirring things up.

“I would like to ask people in this country if we have liberty to choose our religious faith why can’t we have the right to choose who we love or not love as well?” Natthakarn said, adding that while some of her writings on Facebook should be treated as political writing it weren't meant to be taken seriously. She also alleged that some of the content attributed to her Facebook profile page has been fabricated by others and used in the on-line hate campaign on Facebook and people her to “go and die”, “to get out of Thailand”.

At press time, people in charge of admission at Silpakorn University could not be reached for a comment. But Natthakarn insisted her political belief and the on-line campaign led the university to be biased against her. She insisted her grade was good and her interview went well.

Natthakarn is a member of a socialist group of the red-shirt movement called Social Progressive Congress.She said she was disappointed and added she may not be able to study at any university for the upcoming school year as a result.

Natthakarn said her neighbours in Ratchaburi’s Baan Poeng district also received leaflets attacking her and family. She said police refused to accept her complaint, saying  they could not trace those behind the leaflets.

“I am afraid that I might be attacked,” she said. “Around my home, I have been accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy. When I went to the police two days ago the police told us to be careful. The whole district knows about it now… I feel that I am not getting justice. It has not been proven that I really defame [the monarchy]. Now I can’t even use a phone,” she said, adding that barrage of hateful calls had been made after her family details were revealed online.

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#11300 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Fri, 28/05/2010 - 16:25

Where are the Thai students,

Where are the Thai students, at Silpakorn, who will step up to defend not just Natthakarn Sakundarachat but civilization itself in Thailand?

Can the entire Thai nation be so cowed by this small, and they are very small in every dimension, group of Neonazis who blow themselves up with internet hot air that the nation cannot or simply will not stand up to them, face them down?

I'm waiting to see some signs of intelligent life in Thailand... yoo, hoo... anybody home?

#11306 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Sat, 29/05/2010 - 12:41

PPT links to the

PPT links to the Christian-Science Monitor

The major obstacle to political reform in Thailand is its law of lèse-majesté.... the law has been applied broadly to intimidate and – where expedient, to imprison – critics of the current political system... Lèse-majesté laws throw a cloak of quasi-religious adulation around the institution... by getting rid of this arcane law, the government would be opening itself up to democracy, growth, and the respect of its citizens... Instead, demonstrators are being treated increasingly like heretics... Red shirts have been demonized as terrorists and traitors in the eyes of the government and its backers.

PPT is struck by the first line emboldened above but to me the second is the more telling.

The de facto regime in Bangkok bears a striking resemblance to the Taleban once you substitute Jehovah/Jesus/Allah with the King of Thailand.

The actor in both the Taleban "of the book" and the Buddhist Taleban is not God or the King, but "his" self-appointed priesthood.

They claim to speak for God/the King, interpret others' opposition as acts against God/the King, and exact their vengeance as God/the King's own. The lèse-majesté laws are the Taleban's invention and have nothing to do with the King, other than that he explicitly disavowed them.

In all such cases God/the King has been shrunk to the status of an idol. A rather small idol that can be produced as required to smite one's enemies.

God/the King can stay... but the Taleban gotta go.

And we must be eternally vigilant against their return, for they simply have no place in politics.

I think it is true that "by getting rid of this arcane law, the government would be opening itself up to democracy, growth, and the respect of its citizens".

That's the problem. The de facto government hates and fears democracy; is composed of plutocrats who care not a whit for growth; and despises "its" citizens.

So this government will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming to the polls, and turned out there for good and all; their lèse-majesté laws repealed by the people; and democracy instated in Thailand over their politically dead bodies.

#11307 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Sat, 29/05/2010 - 19:40

Come gather 'round

  • Come gather 'round people
  •  Wherever you roam
  • And admit that the waters
  •  Around you have grown
  • And accept it that soon
  •  You'll be drenched to the bone.
  • If your time to you
  •  Is worth savin'
  • Then you better start swimmin'
  •  Or you'll sink like a stone
  • For the times they are a-changin'.
  •  
  • Come writers and critics
  •  Who prophesize with your pen
  • And keep your eyes wide
  •  The chance won't come again
  • And don't speak too soon
  •  For the wheel's still in spin
  • And there's no tellin' who
  •  That it's namin'.
  • For the loser now
  •  Will be later to win
  • For the times they are a-changin'.
  •  
  • Come senators, MPs
  •  Please heed the call
  • Don't stand in the doorway
  •  Don't block up the hall
  • For he that gets hurt
  •  Will be he who has stalled
  • There's a battle outside ragin'.
  •  It'll soon shake your windows
  • And rattle your walls
  •  For the times they are a-changin'.
  •  
  • Come sons and daughters
  •  Throughout the land
  • And don't criticize
  •  What you won't understand
  • Your granpas and your grammas
  •  Are beyond your command
  • Your new road is
  •  Rapidly agin'.
  • Please get out of the old one
  •  If you can't lend your hand
  • For the times they are a-changin'.
  •  
  • The line it is drawn
  •  The curse it is cast
  • The slow one now
  •  Will later be fast
  • As the present now
  •  Will later be past
  • The order is
  •  Rapidly fadin'.
  • And the first one now
  •  Will later be last
  • For the times they are a-changin'.
#11311 - by danellecpl (visitor) () | Sun, 30/05/2010 - 04:28

It is quite dangerous to live

It is quite dangerous to live in Thailand. You know why?
If some one hates you, wants to frame you up, he/she posts comments against Monarchy in your blog or Facebook against the arcane lese-majeste law, you do not have time to read it and delete it when find it is unsuitable to read. You will be getting into serious trouble. You might end up in the jail. Wah! this is no joke. How terror is it?

#11312 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Sun, 30/05/2010 - 06:18

I think that's exactly what

I think that's exactly what has happened to Chiranuch Premchaiporn, danellecpi.

#11370 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Sat, 05/06/2010 - 15:59

Hmmm... what other states are

Hmmm... what other states are like Thailand?

Israel's Two Spaces

Pro-government students interviewed in the press said they were ’shocked to see faculty members, together with students from the left and Arab students shouting slogans against Israel’. Their classmates posted pictures of the protests on Facebook, asking likeminded students to ‘identify their classroom “friends”’.

A Facebook group was created to call for my resignation: by the end of the day more than 1000 people had joined. As well as hoping that I die and demanding that my family be stripped of our citizenship and exiled from Israel, members of this Facebook group offer more pragmatic suggestions, such as the need to concentrate efforts on getting rid of teaching assistants who are critical of the government, since it is more difficult to have me – as a tenured professor – fired.

What is troubling about these pro-government students is not that they are pro-government, but the way they attack anyone who thinks differently from them, along with their total lack of self-criticism or restraint. If this is how students at Israel’s best universities respond, what can we expect from the rest of the population?

I don't live in Bangkok, thank goodness. Reading some comments at New Mandala, for instance, Thailand’s reddest and bloodiest month, leads me to believe that Bangkok and Tel Aviv are at about the same level of fascist bestiality at present.

I hope more people are not killed by the "brightest" of the "pure Thai" and "pure Israeli" fascists in the "best" universities of each respective nation.

#11374 - by john francis lee (visitor) () | Sun, 06/06/2010 - 12:04

Hmmm... what other country

Hmmm... what other country does the "new" Thailand resemble?

'Kai Ou' wins thousands of supporters despite crisis

Many Internet users have joined Sansern fan clubs, starting pages dedicated to him in various social media. They said his charm lies in his smile, voice and communication skills. One recent Internet popularity poll even rated him higher than heartthrob actor Ken Thiradej among female netizens.

The forensic pathologist is replaced by her "supplier" as kinky Thai heartthrob. The ambitious young colonel who opened up the killing fields of Bangkok when no general could be found to do the "job" is now number one with the "metros" of Bangkok.

They tell me that "crush videos" are popular enough in the United States that some people have tried to ban them.

A crush fetish is a paraphilia which primarily consists of the desire to see others (generally a desirable potential partner) crush or step on an object or an animal. Crushing by feet can be the main focus (although other methods are implemented, such as sitting on the target object or animal). The foot (barefoot or in shoes) is thus often idolised in crush erotica such as magazines, audio tapes and crush films. The term "hard crush" refers to the intensification of the fetishistic activity/experience by the realization, description, or imaginary portrayal of the compaction death of larger and arguably more pain-susceptible animals (e.g. reptiles, birds, mammals)...

...members of the "rural horde"... Thai "peasants"?