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So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?

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You Still Free?
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9/6/2008 7:52 AM
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So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?

Here you'd be sent to prison....
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Until six days ago when the men in uniform led him away at Bangkok airport, Harry Nicolaides was just one more flamboyant expatriate in Thailand. He visited first from Australia five years ago, and made his living as an English teacher with a bit of writing on the side.

He wrote seedy columns about his escapades with Thai bar girls and serious articles about child pornography. He described himself as “an individual who achieved brilliance with raw talent and tenacity”. He liked to wear Panama hats and cream suits.

Last Sunday, as he was about to board a flight home to Melbourne, his career came to a crashing end.

You Still Free?
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9/6/2008 7:54 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?

Since then he has been locked in a cell - ill, scared and suicidal, and facing a 15-year sentence on one of the gravest charges in the Thai criminal code. Mr Nicolaides, 41, is not a drug smuggler or gunrunner, like plenty of the other foreign prisoners here. The trouble in which he finds himself is over nothing more vicious than an obscure and forgotten book.

Mr Nicolaides is the latest person to be charged with lèse-majesté, the crime of defaming the monarchy. In 2005 he published a novel entitled Verisimilitude, which contains references to rumours about the “romantic entanglements and intrigues” of the family of the Thai king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and particularly his son, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn. The contentious material amounts to 103 words that could change Mr Nicolaides' life.

The Bush and I
User ID: 451005
9/6/2008 8:01 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
If you've ever been to Thailand, you know that talking smack about the king will get you thrown in jail no matter who you are. There's huge ornate framed posters of him everywhere -- car dealerships that I saw in Bangkok/Chang Mai/Chang Rai had the most. I can't believe this guy would set foot there knowing this.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 433203 (OP)
9/6/2008 8:59 AM

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So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush? I take it none so far... So where the fuck is the police state? Just look to Baltimore and other cities for that, because we are still in "police state" infancy ....

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 487016
9/6/2008 9:25 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
No, of course Americans are not locked up for bad-mouthing Bush. They get 'suicided'. Geddit? Remember Margie Schoedinger? [link to www.opednews.com]

antilib
User ID: 431481
9/6/2008 9:27 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?

No, of course Americans are not locked up for bad-mouthing Bush. They get 'suicided'. Geddit? Remember Margie Schoedinger?
[link to www.opednews.com]

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 487016

There have been quote a few questionable suicides.

And not all from bashing Bush but any politician who you expose.

Baldwin / Castle 2008
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 487016
9/6/2008 9:31 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
Yes. The Clintons have their own 'death list'. The most well-known is of course the so-called suicide of Vince Foster. Experienced private investigators are sure he was shot in the White House.

feeling quite safe
User ID: 497976
9/6/2008 9:35 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
thankfully, i've been smart enough not to ever post anything that requires defending.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 433203 (OP)
9/6/2008 9:46 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
thankfully, i've been smart enough not to ever post anything that requires defending. Quoting: feeling quite safe 497976 worried it might come back to haunt you knowing they record and store everything.....

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 497976
9/6/2008 9:49 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
thankfully, i've been smart enough not to ever post anything that requires defending. worried it might come back to haunt you knowing they record and store everything..... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 433203 one can make a statement without being personally inflammatory. i have nothing to defend.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 498241
9/6/2008 9:51 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
All this 'police state bullshit' is just to enable the left to feel ok about themselves whilst they engage in treasonous activities.

antilib
User ID: 431481
9/6/2008 10:06 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?

thankfully, i've been smart enough not to ever post anything that requires defending.

worried it might come back to haunt you
knowing they record and store everything.....

one can make a statement without being personally inflammatory.

i have nothing to defend.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 497976

I agree with you User ID: 497976

I wish more people would realize that when you refrain from
using metaphors you're adding more to a debate.

Even if you don't agree, it's just more civil.

Baldwin / Castle 2008
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 497976
9/6/2008 10:09 AM

Re: So, how many people have been locked up for defaming Bush?	Quote
There's nothing I care enough about to put myself or my family at risk. If Imagination can't win the game, then I'm the loser. And that's fine.

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