If Thailand wanted to do well in the world, it would be putting a lot of energy into fixing this stuff up, not wasting it on idiotic crap like gaoling people for saying silly things & refusing to stand up for the Royal Anthem.

Tourist income is for peasants. The PAD/military/Democrat putsch didn't think twice about closing down air-travel between Bangkok/Thailand in pursuit of power. They'd raze the entire country if they thought they'd still be able to sell it out from under the Thai people when they were done.