Bangkok seems to have an attraction to Che Guevara. Locals wear the famous Che shirt and there’s no reason that the attraction should be any less in Bangkok than it is back home in Seattle where an expensive clothing store for children at Pike Place Market sells them to well healed high earning revolutionary parents in baby sizes. This stall at the Chatujak Market in Bangkok can fill the reddest of cadre’s Marxist-Leninist needs with posters and T shirts.
But Thailand is a monarchy, Massachusetts born King Bhumibol Adulyadej is currently the world’s longest reigning monarch. The people of Thailand revere their King and the government in Thailand is famously intolerant of dissent on the subject of the King and the royal family. The Internet is routinely searched for any signs of lèse majesté and those who brave or foolhardy enough speak out against the monarchy are hunted down, found and tossed into a prison system so harsh that even the most conservative or senile member of the US Supreme Court would be sure to find it cruel and inhuman.
Here’s what you see if you try and research the subject of the King of Thailand, even in English, from within Thailand:
Here’s the URL that I was delivered to: http://58.97.5.29/court.html It seems that it’s not only the Chicoms that have a Great Firewall
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