Why are young activists in Thailand protesting against the monarchy? - BBC Newsnight
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- A student-led protest movement in Thailand is demanding reform of the monarchy - in a country where it's illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent. Please subscribe HERE bit.ly/1rbfUog
Thailand's lèse-majesté law, which forbids any insult to the monarchy, is among the strictest in the world.
Over the past five months a student-led protest movement has started demanding reform of the monarchy and an end to military coups, of which Thailand has had twenty in modern times.
The demonstrations sent shockwaves through a country which is taught from birth to revere and love the monarchy and fear the consequences of talking about it.
BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head reports for Newsnight.
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5.44 does the Thai guy in yellow shirt understand what's Jonathan explaintion about basic human right in uk ? Nah he doesn't .
He did understand but it seem like he couldn't come up with some good argument so he just changed the topic.
He’s the real pain in the ass. He’s a leader of a group that pro-coup d’état.
Yeah, but remember that this is the BBC who edited this clip to make the Yellow shirt loyalist look more foolish than he actually is. Trust mainstream media?
@@ppppugh7892 I definitely think this vid clip of BBC actually reported 100% accurate with what's going on in Thailand at the moment as protester leaders( some of them r kids ) who is speaking out have already been filed for jail from Thai gov.
He doesn't have any information or reason to argue with Jonathan, so he's changing the point.
Lol that guy thinks the English cant criticise their Queen
What a dumbass
It is a known fact that the Thai Ultra Royalists don't use their brain when they are talking.
@@pinkdog4077 cuz they don’t have one lol
He is a certified dumbass
He's just a piece of shit, have u ever seen brain in shit?
I am Thai, Prime Minister graduated from the same school as me. And the entire school student did not respect him
The prime minister has always been a....rough guy, to put it plainly, but do you and your friends remember why he, a soldier, has to be here, in this position?
We live in a country that democracy isn't democratic, at least, not in a practical way. To be a working democratic country, its people need to have a true ability to analyze and synthesize what's really best for them. Many elected prime ministers come and go... some with big chuncks of money that was supposed to be used for the country, some with even bigger chunks money that he couldn't spend them all after years of being exiled and still has enough money to ignite movements to come back to this country.
Believe me, I understand your point of view "Should we respect a man just want to stay in power, no matter what??" but what if....the thing he did, he did for the country... To protect this dumb country from being abused by some wicked family... to push the country forward, like it was supposed to, long time ago while being cursed at, sworn at... he knows and still goes on. I respect the man, I don't like him, but still respect the man. the time will tell, one day you guys might be proud to have a chance studying in the same school as him.
@@nangdang2729 Why we need to jealous dictator?
@Young Dre , is Trump different, in that matter
Yellow Shirt Guy: I can’t imagine what it’d be if people use such words against the British Queen.
The reporter: I don’t think so
Haha
Cultural differences exist.
Hahaha
@@Vplz_ Also i don' think the queen in England behaves like the king in thailand either/
@@leoseojun5778 lol yeah, thats an understatement.
We are not dust under the king's foot.
We are human.
When did any Thai King consider the people dust underneath their foot???
@@Iceyfire12 ใต้ฝ่าละอองธุลีพระบาท do you know it’s mean dust under the king 🦶
@@Iceyfire12 their is a word when we Thai people speak with the king 'ใต้ฝ่าละอองธุรีพระบาท' which means they calls themselves the dust under the king feet.
@@Iceyfire12 there are tons of propaganda, official word, and number of songs citing that people are just a dust under his majesty's feet.
@@Iceyfire12 You know nothing about Thailand. The foot in bhuddist culture is considered to be the lowest and dirtiest part of the body.
When speaking to the king or queen - Thais call themselves ใต้ฝ้าละอองธุลีพระบาท which is translated as Dust under his royal foot.
When speaking to the crowned prince of the royal family - We call ourselves ใต้ฝ่าละอองพระบาท the word “ธุลี” which mean “dust” is taken out. But the word “ละออง” which also means “dust” is still presence. Thus can either be translated as “We are dust under his/her royals foot”.(somewhat a better dust than the first categories).
When speaking to a royal family member(excluding those 1,2 categories). We Thais call ourselves ใต้ฝ่าพระบาท this time the word ละออง(which means dust) is taken out. Thus can be translated as “We are under his/her royal foot”.
The last one. When we are speaking to a non-royal family aristocrat. We Thai call our selve ใต้เท่า which can be translated as “We are under his/her non-royal foot”.
These 4 nouns are taught to every Thai when we are 9-10 years old so its not surprise we are angry to think it happened.
Now you’ll understand everything when a Thai protester say something like “we will no longer be under his foot”.
Nothing is true from that yellow shirt guy.
And he was a doctor and former MP.
He is a pro-royalist and anti democracy
@Bill TYP
Agree!
@@jeans4484 Nah, he is a psychiatric patient lol.
Because young people doesn’t needs king anymore. Time has changed.
Young people are moved by 💴
We need our king but can I ask for better one
@@grogroge sorry not sorry but I willingly paid for the protestors Yas I mean I'm no investor I'm just ordinary student in Thailand as the same as other protestors you see we, as the suffering citizens of Thailand funding ourselves for protests and we not gonna stop til the end of dictatorship
every man is a king
Well, your comment surely don't know the works of Rama IX
Brave girl, what ever else you may say about her. She risks being jailed for many, many years if arrested and convicted of lese majeste
What a brave woman, that is how you end up pictured on money... or sadly, in a river. Praying for her.
Thank you Jonathan for risking your life here. Respected
Being a 'half Thai, half British' person living in the UK it always confused me as to why it's a prison sentence just for saying something 'negative' about the King and his Royal family. I used to ask my mother, what if he did something REALLY bad? She didn't like those conversations. I'd also ask about what they actually did for the country, not a lot it seems. I also found it unbelievable how the poorest people would literally give their last 'penny' in donation to the Royal family as if they were some kind of 'wishing well', even though they are the wealthiest monarchy in the whole world. Baffling.
@ian 1 half "English" i meant...by blood
Its all about wealth, power, control and silencing critics.
find your answer from the book " King never smile " or a lot keyword to put in the google such as " kingpins Frank Lucas"
His face was like, what? You Brits can say whatever you want to the Queen, and don't get punished? lol
We Thais actually say anything we want to the king on the internet...
LMFAO SO TRUE😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@charlielowes8495 yes but we used to got fucked up by doing that
@Phuttaraksa khiewkum sad truth 😢
@@tonwan5453 Nope we dont, explore this facebook group. “เยาวชนปลดแอก”.
We do mock the king and queen every single day. No one has been fucked up.
*FYI* the previous king isn't "beloved" anymore because most Thai youngsters are now free from the propaganda.
lmao unfortunately not most youngsters
Free from monarchist propaganda and straight into communism you mean. I have seen recent free youth slogan and logo. Definitely communists if you ask me.
You don't have to interview stupid idiot yellow shirt especially the one you talk to that very bad Dr. He was failed from last election.
@@inquisitorsteele8397 lol that was a meme that got ultraroyalist triggered.
@@lstkom78 It wasn't only ultraroyalist that triggered. Almost everyone else but free youth members are triggered by it.
I’m from Thailand but I can’t stop laughing at him! (And the rest Yellow shirt, who pro monarchy be like him) 🤣🤣🤣
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เก่งมาก กล้ามาก ขอบพระทัยกรมหลวงราษฎรบริรักษ์
hope they suceed and get rid of the parasites.
A leader who don't accepts criticism and cannot change himself. Not worthy to be a leader Even the word king
Japan's monarchy is probably the best model for a monarch in the 21st century a ceremonial figurehead with no political power.
@Milan Toth you’re full of shit
Prunus Serrulata stating the truth is making your mouth taste shit!
@Milan Toth Hello! It was 21st century now, It wasn't 10th century!
@@siaolikeshee3889 Sorry what?
@Milan Toth Absurdity of your comment just made me spechless. How does monarch having power decrease extremism? By prosecuting people who disagree with the monarch? If anything, monarchism leads to extremism. That's why we have protests in Thailand, that's why we had Russian revolution. These nations were divided by the extremism that monarchism creates, the people who despise the monarch and the people who love the monarch and this happens in countries where monarch has power. If a monarch is there only symbolically and the government is run democratically, there won't be clashes between the monarchists and those who oppose the monarch. I can't think of one example where monarch having power would decrease extremism. Sure, the monarch can impose ridiculous laws to cease riots and so on, but is that to you a good solution?
We will make Thailand better
We will fight
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" - Diderot
(A president enters the chat)
Hello slaves, thank you for electing me.
The previous king was a beloved grandfather type whereas the new one is a meth head womanizing uncle type where you need to lock up the silverware before he comes to visit.
And has done nothing but lived his life and hasn’t harmed the Local Thai people! Yet the Thais keep criticizing what he does in his own personal time lol!
@@Iceyfire12 If he does nothing why should he have billions and billions of dollars?
Sports bra wearing king lol
@@Iceyfire12 Notice how these people aren't criticizing the opposition hiding behind these kids in the streets - like Thaksin who actually did hurt the Thai people - mass murdered them by the hundreds.
Why should they every need to say that. I believed people knows what Thaksin did but we are talking about the monachy now.
No Kings. No Queens. No Lords. No Masters.
Maybe in 100 years. But I still doubt it.
No presidents?
This is impossible and undesirable.
No Hitlers , No Stalins and No Trumps .
@@barrybaz6692 No Queens
0:11 you can hear the sound “I hear too” but in Thai language it’s mean “Fuck you Tu” (Tu is nickname of Prime minister Prayut)
The king who favorite in Adolf Hitler style, he want to be Absolute Monachy. We stand up to against the new Adolf Hitler.
If he want to be an absolute Monarchy he have to deslove the parliment and change the consitiution. There have not been any such much move since his Corination or by any of his proxy. Go learn how to string a sentence and come back to me with facts.
Comparing him to Adolf Hitler! I think you have issues about comparing people of history!
@@NightSufer17099 He already changed the constitute.
Also, the king need the paliament to run the country because he won't do it.
Historically, all absolute monarch needed paliament to run everything but the monarchs had final absolute calls. I.E. German Empire under Kaiser(WW1), Japnese Empire during WW2, French empire under Napoleans.
@@demoscassi8055 When did he change it. If you mean the constitution change during the coup where he sign off on? If you actually understand the king role in the poltical word you understand that the king will sign off any change to the law or the constituion as long as these change are present to him by the poltical body that is in power, no matter what party (For or against him). I mean Rama 9 sign off so many law when Thaksin and his sister was in power and we all know they are not advocate for the royal family. I even the British Queen sign off on laws and rarely rejected them sicne its been filter through the elected parliment. Get yourself educated on the role of Mornarchy in Consitutional Mornarchy. If you are hang up on the consitution change during the last coup they look back in history and educate yourself on why the coup happen in the first place and why the other 65.8 million people didn't revolt on the street with the 'Protestor". Swear to god is like im talking to a bunch of ignorant white people who have no understandign of the poltical event that happen in thailand for the past 10 years.
@@NightSufer17099
Dear mate, the law that gave him supreme political power, extra wealth, personal military, ability to leave the country and 'work from home' from somewhere else like Germany.
Yeah, De Jure, it was the military that gave him the constitute to sign off.
De facto? They had backroom talk and wrote constitute to favor him. Constitute monarch's king/queen just sign off the constitution without doing anythings. He's gain too much from this constitution that the normal 'constitute monarch'.
Just because he doesnt own absolute power yet doesnt mean he took no extra power. He has much more power that his father nowaday and would be increased if there had been no protest.
He took crown property as his own.( Go check those companies' website and look at the shareholders and don't say you wont do coz you don't believe. If you don't believe, vindicate your own believe by go check it). Also he has several army units under his direct command. And so on.
In Thailand you can get in the jail 3-15 year if you damn the king. A lot of cases happen already
The situation is the same as in Indonesia. Everybody who againsts the central government will be jailed. Noted that there are thousands of young demonstrants jailed.
ASEAN spring is inevitable
The problem in Indonesia is that law about ITE which need to be reformed.
@@kamikaze0258 Do you mean "Asian" rather than "ASEAN"?
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q Association of Southeast Asian Nations
It won't be an easy fight, these 2 institutions' grip on power (and money) is enormous
Dear the untouchables, "Change has arrived."
The question should be, why do monarchies still exist in 2020?
Why does America still exist?
More Specific question is why monarchies having powers over the people still exist in 2020..
So, it will exclude constitutional monarchies such as in UK, Spain, and Japan from the answer of the original question.
Why? Because those countries having absolute monarchies are considered failed in social and politics development.
Why not?
Because the developments of countries politics happen all the time. One day, all countries will adopt new kind of politics and leave Feudalism and Absolute Monarchy behind.
Sorry for being aggressive. Actually, I am kinda new to this subject.
That question of yours is very.... unwise to begin with
@@yamyam2987 its not unwise at all, just because you are brainwashed to worship humans who in many ways are probably lesser than you doesn't mean I will.
Why does democracy still exist in 2020
6:00 "A mAjoRity of tHais" lol. Stahp! You're embarrasing me as a Thai.
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The people of Thailand are so brave and strong I hope change comes soon 🇹🇭
สู้ในระบบเลือกตั้งก็มี 250 สว มาช่วย + ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญคอยกำจัดนักการเมืองที่ไม่เข้าพวก
เพราะการเมืองในสภาแก้ปัญหาบ้านเมืองไม่ได้ ผู้คนลงจึงออกมาประท้วงบนท้องถนน...
is NOT just the young students, it is people of all ages!!! มีคำกล่าวว่า "ถ้าคุณอยากรู้ว่าใครกดขี่คุณจริงๆให้มองเฉพาะคนที่คุณวิจารณ์ไม่ได้"
One of the shittiest parts about the effects of this call for reformation of the constitution is the split between the older generations and millennials. You wouldn’t believe the damages it has caused between families, most of the parents are sadly still attached to the older norms and refuses to believe that the kids are doing this for nothing but the better future we need and there is no organization pulling strings behind this. We just want better lives, the simplest fact they won't get. How sad af is this? Smh 🤦🏽♀️
There used to be a system of honour among kings in the old times, kings MUST be HONOURABLE and live by the code of kings
Malo Otua . Not this Thing !
The current dual-executive system in Thailand is broken. The nation needs to be free. Either as a constitutional monarchy with a representative democracy or as a democratic republic.
@@lightgranite233 I'd actually prefer it to stay a monarchy
أختكم من اليمن , أبي متوفي من 3سنة بسبب الحرب وعندي 4أخوات وحالنا يعلم الله فيه واني متكفلة فيهم , واني الان قمت بعمل قناة
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واتمنى ما تسخروا مني , وأعرف إن هذه الطريقه غلط لكنها الطريقه الوحيده اللي اقدر من خلالها اكسب نقود حلال 💔💔 لا سامح الحرب اللي وصلتنا لذي المراحل…..
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أختكم من اليمن , أبي متوفي من 3سنة بسبب الحرب وعندي 4أخوات وحالنا يعلم الله فيه واني متكفلة فيهم , واني الان قمت بعمل قناة
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وربما أربح منها لكن ينقصني الكثير من المشتركين واريد منكم تدعموني وتوصلوني (1000مشترك) ... شكرا لكل اللي شتركوا بالقناة واسعدوني بدخولهم ..
واتمنى ما تسخروا مني , وأعرف إن هذه الطريقه غلط لكنها الطريقه الوحيده اللي اقدر من خلالها اكسب نقود حلال 💔💔 لا سامح الحرب اللي وصلتنا لذي المراحل…..
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Yellow shirt: "blablalbalbal"
red shirts: ok boomah
That Ultra-Royalist guy just show how ignorance they are , smh.
Thank you for this BBC. Well captured the situation in Thailand without any interfere from Gov. I personally thanks your feedback with Warong, the guy in yellow shirt, on what is allowed in England, however it would take him forever to accept this fact so does other royalist and his generations. The belief is so deep, the mutual benefit among them are so much...time will tell. Please continue to be with Thailand..still I have hope.
I just can't avoid talking about this part 0:07 it fits so perfectly
Sad to see this as I am living here as an ex-pat. I've got some young friends who are against the current gov and want to reform monarchy but even their parents would try to stop them.
Old people got 70 years of king propaganda, that's why they think the king is god and to criticize him is a sin.
Because young activists work under Sirinthorn Team. Sirinthorn team work for changing the new King to be Sirinthorn instead of Vachiralongkorn. Please take note Thailand have two sides for long time .
Good luck to the activists. Love from Australia.
I've had a connection to Thailand since 1980 and I'm amazed at the courage of these activists. Respect for the monarchy has never been optional. Punishments are Draconian.
OK but you're hearing this report from the BBC, a corporate neoliberal neocon outlet. Don't judge until you've heard ALL SIDES....
@@Pravda_Z I think that ship has sailed
@@Pravda_Z so what’s the other TH-cam channel that we should be watching?
Yea. Watch my videos ❤️
أختكم من اليمن , أبي متوفي من 3سنة بسبب الحرب وعندي 4أخوات وحالنا يعلم الله فيه واني متكفلة فيهم , واني الان قمت بعمل قناة
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وربما أربح منها لكن ينقصني الكثير من المشتركين واريد منكم تدعموني وتوصلوني (1000مشترك) ... شكرا لكل اللي شتركوا بالقناة واسعدوني بدخولهم ..
واتمنى ما تسخروا مني , وأعرف إن هذه الطريقه غلط لكنها الطريقه الوحيده اللي اقدر من خلالها اكسب نقود حلال 💔💔 لا سامح الحرب اللي وصلتنا لذي المراحل…..
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we need more coverage of this.
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Solidarity from the youth here in the PH!
Support thai democracy movement
So Informative and such a powerful documentary.
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I will tell everyone that the King of Thailand has nothing to do with laws that prohibit people from insulting or insulting the King, it is the government
As someone from Nepal, a nation which recently abolished monarchy, I just felt like giving my views on this. If the Thai people are not happy with the deeds of their royals, it is of utmost importance to improve their royals, reduce their executive power, and so on, but abolishing monarchy is not a good solution at all !! In Nepal, the lifestyle of royals were not that lavish to criticize as of Thai, but the first catastrophe was the Royal massacre in which the beloved royal family was murdered, and the king's brother was made the new king. As none of the new king's family was dead (though the new queen was severely wounded),people suspected he was behind it. As the government wasn't able to conduct the elections for a long time because of the civil war, the king dismissed the government, and made a cabinet of ministers on his leadership. He assured that he would reinstate democracy after the civil war, and elections were over, but people started to strike. Eventually, without harming more people, he just stepped down in 19 days. The following days marked with excessive outer interference in the constitution making process, ethnic,and geographic hatred, large Corruption scandals, constant attacks against the Nepali culture via several bills, biased role of the President, and so on. This has caused huge unrest in Nepal nowadays, and Nepalese are at the moment, again asking for monarchy, and Hindu nation !
14 years is not recent. The Nepalese who you say are asking for monarchy / Hinduism as national religion are a very small but loud radical minority. Most of which include the paid goons of King Gyanendra and his associates.
they're not even asking to abolish the monarchy, they are asking for it and that hedonistic king to correct his ways.
Indeed. For any reasonable person, that is not an unreasonable demand.
This is their next level water festival.
Perhaps with blood on does it descends deeper into the abysm
Add to cursed comment.
Nothing can stop youth from changing the system. It is now or never we , gen Y have been living in this kind of government for more than 10 years. And it is keep on going. It must be changed.
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How could one becomes so ignorant to compare Thai king with British Queen, is there article 112 (Lèse-majesté) in England? Freedom of speech is so limited like what is happening in Thailand? Corruption and quality of life of Thailand is the same as England? What an aberrant excuse!! He may not suffer from the current situation or possibly got benefits that's why
By the people . For the people ....Good job youngsters ......It's time for change
Does anyone know what happened to Palm? I have been googling and can find not trace of her. 1:51
Aragon: Friends, you bow to no one
King of Tuiland: love me or be left in jail 15 years
I just want to praise the reporter who report in the middle of a chaotic protest
Not a hard one to figure out.
Why?
Thailand will never wake up from this nonsense.
smells like freedom. ohhh yeahhhh
Guy in Yellow needs help facing reality and stop living a life of denial.
5:30 what a clown.
Finally huh?
A king without the people in his heart is not a king for the people, instead, a tyrant and a traitor to the country.
Rama10 was actually no different from his father.
I respect all those who fight for #Freedom, #Democracy, #HumanRights and the #RuleOfLaw in #Thailand.
I am against #Dictatorship, #Fascism, #Totalitarianism and #Authoritarianism in #Thailand
Therefore, I accuse the king, the government, the ruling parties and, last but not least, the military for violent repression against activists.
Even the Thai people who love tradition should understand that the majority of pro-democracy activists are not against the monarchy in itself, but instead demand to democratically reform it.
I wish that protesters against the de facto military government will no longer be violently suppressed and, of course, murdered, but that the movement will end successfully.
You are jewish
2020 is a really bad year. I really don't recall of any event I enjoyed 😖
President -elect Joe Biden.
I enjoyed the Space Aliens landing in London. 🛸🛸🛸👽
أختكم من اليمن , أبي متوفي من 3سنة بسبب الحرب وعندي 4أخوات وحالنا يعلم الله فيه واني متكفلة فيهم , واني الان قمت بعمل قناة
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وربما أربح منها لكن ينقصني الكثير من المشتركين واريد منكم تدعموني وتوصلوني (1000مشترك) ... شكرا لكل اللي شتركوا بالقناة واسعدوني بدخولهم ..
واتمنى ما تسخروا مني , وأعرف إن هذه الطريقه غلط لكنها الطريقه الوحيده اللي اقدر من خلالها اكسب نقود حلال 💔💔 لا سامح الحرب اللي وصلتنا لذي المراحل…..
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@@whenindoubtmutemyownmouth5180 BLM is nothing but rioters, they haven't done ANYTHING for equality and now they turned even more americans against the cause because they went outside rioting.. destroying cars, stores and property. Not to mention beat people up, raped and killed. Also, why are you celebrating Biden? He's literally the definition of the "political elite" that young americans are so against.
Lol this country will never join the developed world if they are like this. You can't even criticize your king, meaning whatever he does is correct and justified. He can be the richest monarchy in the world and have 20 wives, while most Thais are still poor and no one can say a thing lol
Thirr averge iq is 84..meaing thier literally retarded. So yeah lol
5.35-5.52 หน้าแตกไปดิอีหมอวรง😂😂😂
Thai Monarchy is a family business. They do nothing but they are earning 👌 easy
The Thai Army need to stand by the people. The Thai people have such an amazing history. The ONLY nation in the world that was not destroyed by colonial powers.
I took a while to look into how Siam avoided that. Good business, influnce, luck, loosing land to France and not starting anything went a long way.
Not wanting to get on the wrong side of Britian having seen what happned to China during the first Opium War got that Bowring Treaty (1855) sorted. Britain gained significant concessions from that.
It's interesting stuff.
@Boyce Bailey Yet these Protestors Act like the Old Thais never did anything smart and they are actually the Smart ones ahahaha
@Boyce Bailey well you won’t be arrested for not standing up. It’s only if you publicly bad mouth the monarchy and consistently do it! Basically Thais have been doing it since movie theaters were in place so it’s a tradition something not complicated and fairly easy to do. Something the west can either find annoying or actually different.
They won’t make a handicapped in a wheelchair to stand up. Honestly I sleep before the movie starts and wake up in the first 5 minutes nothing happened and of course I didn’t stand lol. It’s not strict strict! Just don’t come to Thailand and bad mouth the monarchy which shouldn’t even be an issue for foreigners who come to actually enjoy Thailand.
Anyone here from Thailand?
Those student protesters....should immigrate to other countries if they don't like Thailand and compatible with the Thailand monarchy.....Immigration and NOT demonstration......Thanks.....Logic and reasonable
I don't think your statement sounds logical and reasonable though
now you see what we have to dealing with these kind of people.
Lol. Why's there are no IO in English news can they speak English at all?
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There are ways to keep the monarchy without making them like gods you can’t say bad stuff about, and even make monarchy profitable. Britain is a great example of that, and that guy tried to compare that oppressive people born with a silver spoon to the people born with a silver spoon that actually benefit the country and not oppress its citizens.
Hong Kong ? Taiwan ? BBC
It’s Thailand 🇹🇭, not Hong Kong 🇭🇰 or Taiwan 🇹🇼, ok?
Thank you for your reporting'!
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I am appalled by the fact that we still monarchs in the 21st century.
Not everything must be changed. Duh
@@yamyam2987 You're kidding, right? We have proven, as humans, time and time again, that no leading body of any nation should be one chosen on the merit of inheritance, but one of popular vote.
Vive la revolution! We Brits need the balls to do the same.
Honestly we kind of do need the monarchy as shit as it is because it does help with international relations.
@@sillylittlemonkey7130 not really but I can't be bothered to deal with this argument at midnight tbh
If you had this king you would.
Do it and all of you'll be shoot to dead.
The Thais speak so fondly of their former monarchs. Indeed, the passing of the last king was seen as a tragedy and Thais all over the world mourned.
Today, little is said about the current king. The disappointment is palpable. ‘It’s time to become a man and put away childish things’.
Opt for democracy like India but everything has drawbacks 😅
Hi
India is a huge ,and have largest population , India should adopte monarchy
@@SatishKumar-rc4pl tera baap raja banega??
@@fourthright Bhai maa baap par kyu ja rahe ho ,
@@SatishKumar-rc4pl tera mausa raja banega??
‘Dust underneath the feet’ Bull Shit! No one never should be like that.
There is no such thing as a "commoner" - we are all royalty, we are all sons and daughters of GOD in this lonely universe. Everyone should have a title. Life in the universe is so rare, each of us has limitless value. Think about that. The rest of space is empty of life, we are literally precious.
Not in Thailand... and tons of other countries.
Random chance.
@@makeracistsafraidagain it's a very very rare and precious random chance then
@@makeracistsafraidagain you believe in consciousness right? I mean, consciousness is pretty wacky far out stuff right? Conscious is irrefutable proof that the universe has some pretty wacky so-called "magical" or "supernatural" properties to it. So why couldn't the whole universe have it's own consciousness like we do? Who really knows the full extent of the properties of consciousness, even inanimate objects might have some rudimentary form of consciousness. I mean like consciousness might be all-purvasive for all we know. Anyways maybe there wasn't random chance, but guided evolution, like the one consciousnesses of the universe that people like to call "God" might influence every atomic transaction in every cell. In other words atoms are smart, there's consciousness in everything. Even microbes seem to gave have rudimentary consciousness. Nothing is random, it's a cosmic dance of light and sound and music, and we are the player in this cosmic play. The real substance of this universe is consciousness - which is pure magic. "Magic" is the core of existence, because without consciousness then nothing truly exists or is aware to experience anything. Without consciousness then everything is just dead inanimate atoms bouncing around randomly. Look no further than yourself to see "magic" or "spirits". You are a conscious living spirit right here, right now - and that's CRAZY. It is crazy that we are self-aware. I mean, what IS consciousness???
The real music is named "Prathet Ku Mee" and in English, it means 'my country also have' This song was a big controversy before and I actually profound that this music was founded. I hope Thailand haven't ban TH-cam as Porn hub for causing "controversy".
I'm Thai I love our monarchy you said in UK you can say everything about your monarchy but this is Thailand we have different cultures
especially respect cultures
if you study about Thai history you may know why Thailand not Colonize with any country and I
unsatisfied with BBC why you report fake news about 30% is fake news
BBC loves criticizing the Thailand because they love to gossip and bad mouth their monarchy! They can’t stand that it’s one of our laws and a simple one! Thai people can live their every day life without even mentioning the monarchy but these protestors make it seem like they are the normal ones when they are obsessed about bad mouthing the monarchy on a daily basis for the rest of their lives LoL!!!!
@@Iceyfire12
Amplifier?
أختكم من اليمن , أبي متوفي من 3سنة بسبب الحرب وعندي 4أخوات وحالنا يعلم الله فيه واني متكفلة فيهم , واني الان قمت بعمل قناة
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وربما أربح منها لكن ينقصني الكثير من المشتركين واريد منكم تدعموني وتوصلوني (1000مشترك) ... شكرا لكل اللي شتركوا بالقناة واسعدوني بدخولهم ..
واتمنى ما تسخروا مني , وأعرف إن هذه الطريقه غلط لكنها الطريقه الوحيده اللي اقدر من خلالها اكسب نقود حلال 💔💔 لا سامح الحرب اللي وصلتنا لذي المراحل…..
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@@Iceyfire12 so you think his wives dramas are fake? Those video x and general fufu are fake?
5:35 So he believes.
He doesn't care how long Thai people jail for free speech > Shame on him
ใส่ร้ายอีกฝ่ายด้วยการว่าfake new ทำให้เกิดความแตกแยก หมอวรงค์ ไทยภัคดีคือ สส. สอบตก การขับเคลื่อนนี้เขาหวังผลประโยชน์ในอำนาจมืด ด้วยการกระทำที่ช่างน่าสมเภชและน่าจยะขแยงเป็นอย่างยิ่ง
Protests are banned in the UK
We couldn't fight alone!
We need your people from around the world to support us!
A King earns the love of his people...
And politicain earn people love division.
They got paid. Fact.
Like we used to say back in the day.........OFF THE PIGS!!!! Responsible governments should cut ties with dictatorships......if there are any.
Just so you know. Thai mainstream press didn’t show us this entirely content and only praise that royalist who mentioned the queen. They skipped the part you told him “people in UK don’t have to be afraid of getting caught in order to say almost anything to the queen” They skipped that part!!!!!
A very sad news in Thailand.
She's a very brave Woman.