Duc_et_Pair
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Every time I was in Thailand (and no, luckily not in that place from hell, called Phuket) the national tv always repeated old newsreels of a young and fit King Bhumibol and slender and beautiful Queen Sirikit visiting projects. How good they were. The Good King. The Gracious Queen. Let us all bow down and revere them on our knees. What has Thailand ever done to receive such benevolence and grace from the God-given King? And pssst..... utter no word about the financial malversations, the corruption, the nepotism by the Royal House: they are divine, after all.
At every street corner, at the entrances to highways, at high buildings, in public parks, everywhere you are met with HUGE portraits showing the faces of the (much younger looking) King and Queen. Never in the world are the punishments so severe for the slightest critic on the King as especially in Thailand. And yes there is no other word for it than brainwashing the Thai.
You may not agree with it. Soit. That is why this is actually a discussion board. And we will never know what the average Thai actually thinks. Of course they better throw themselves on the knees and weep bitter tears. Uttering critic on the King was (and is) never appreciated, to put it with an enormous understatement.
At every street corner, at the entrances to highways, at high buildings, in public parks, everywhere you are met with HUGE portraits showing the faces of the (much younger looking) King and Queen. Never in the world are the punishments so severe for the slightest critic on the King as especially in Thailand. And yes there is no other word for it than brainwashing the Thai.
You may not agree with it. Soit. That is why this is actually a discussion board. And we will never know what the average Thai actually thinks. Of course they better throw themselves on the knees and weep bitter tears. Uttering critic on the King was (and is) never appreciated, to put it with an enormous understatement.
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