Update on Suwicha: Prosecutor extends period for filing appeal, hampering attempt to seek royal pardon
Fri, 15/05/2009 - 10:25 | by prachatai
According to Anont Nampa, lawyer for lèse majesté convict Suwicha Thakor, the public prosecutor has asked the Court to extend the period for filing an appeal that should have ended on May 3, to June 1. In effect, the case is not finished, and Suwicha’s family cannot start the process of seeking a royal pardon.
‘And if the prosecutor files an appeal during this time, the case will drag on,’ said Anont.
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Well, this make 'Draco' looks
Well, this make 'Draco' looks rather mild.
I wonder how HM the King puts
I wonder how HM the King puts up with this insubordination by all his self-declared "defenders"?
On his birthday in 2005, HM King Bhumipol clearly and unequivocally stated "In referring to what they said in the newspaper, in radio and television that they will not criticise what the King does and says, do not criticise, actually I want them to criticise because whatever I do, I want to know that people agree or disagree."
Yet the action of these PAD/Democrats "shows that they regard that the King is not human" but a being of such small consequence that his explicit wishes can be ignored with impunity; a mere tool of convenience for them to use for their own political ends.
They are doing their best to replace the reverence and affection for HM the King in the hearts of all of us who live in Thailand with fear of their putsch and of its arbitrary use of this draconian law, denounced by His Majesty himself.
I wonder how HM the King puts up with this endless stream of recalcitrant acts by all his self-declared "defenders"? Acts which harm his subjects, which drive a wedge between HM the King and his subjects, acts HM the King must now wait to undo because of the stream of roadblocks put in his way in their attempt to nullify him, to assert their own wills contrary to his explicitly stated wishes.