I agree 100% with JFL. It's like Stalinist Russia.

Sub - she is apppealing, and you're right: "there's a possibility that the sentence can be halved" TO 9 YEARS!!!! Why the hell should anyone have to spend one night in a jail for speaking words? Silly, ill-advised words. If I were to be subject to the malicious sanctions of an evil, corrupt, fascist government & judicial system for every stupid, bad-taste, or ill-advised thing I've ever said, I'd never be free. And how many of the readers of this blog can say the same? What's the matter with these idiots? (Whoops, there I go again! Khor tod, khrap. That statement is inoperable, as Nixon said.) This is a sick, degenerate society, with no love of freedom, and very little respect for intelligence.

May everyone in connection with the Thai government, the judiciary and the law-enforcement agencies, in this Buddhist society, receive their karmic rewards for all their actions. Is that a curse? Of course not! I'm simply being devout, acknowledging a law which operates like the law of gravity. Would you stand on the edge of a cliff, dressed in the impressive uniform of your office, surrounded by bank statements & symbols of your 'success' & burn used tampons, or whatever, stick gold leaf on an image, & chant some 'magic' incantation, then take that extra step, expecting to fly?