I got a comment in reply to this video that I feel requires highlighting mainly because of its length.
I commented the below on your VDO, so I might as well put it here:
#1 I don't like how you post your VDO w/o doing reseach and giving incorrect information. But I DON't generalize you as a representative of British people. I believe there's LOTS of good British people out there who take responsbility b4 posting VDOs.
However, I also disagree with those Thais who post aggressive responses as well. In fact, those who reponse are those who can't control their anger. For those who have more EQ, they have to take 1hour++ trying to write a long response to all VDOs posts in Youtube considering the amount of information we have in order to explain to make you understand taking our culture difference..
Sigh.. It's very tiring I can tell you. Nobody's going to be that free, so it's likely you will have more of impulsive stupid response.. Sorry for that I should say.
Like I mentioned before. A Thai person emailed me and said that they tell this story to many foreigners despite it being true, the story was also relayed to me by someone with a Thai wife so I thought I was on pretty steady ground in retelling it in the video. However, if it is not true then I don’t feel that the message of the video is any different. There ARE lese majeste laws in Thailand and people DO get put in prison under them. This is a fact and the substance of the video remains the same despite a minor factual error on my part. Like most of my videos this is opinion, it is not a facts video therefore leading with the weakest and most petty point is a debate fopah against you. It is amusing that people revel in such glee when they have a factual mistake to hold on to. I feel the joy people take, like you do here, in pointing this out is related to what little substance the rest of their argument, if any, has.
Oh, and I’m glad that you feel that there are lots of good British people out there, despite me.
#2 Please don't deny it. You marked ALL monarchy bad in your 1st VDO. If you only talk about your own monarchy in the UK then why you say so much about Thailand in your VDO, including putting it in the VDO title!???? If you take all references to the "Thai" out then I'll leave your DVOs all alone. Fair enough?
Why would I deny it? Monarchies are outmoded tyrannical oligarchies. As a libertarian and individualist, why would I support them?
I talk about Thailand because I had recently found out about the lese majeste laws and the YouTube ban and I thought “hmm, that would be a good subject for a video”. There is no hidden agenda here.
#2.1 Nope you didn't criticize our King but you criticize us having a King and protecting our King using our own "internal" law. I myself choose to have Youtube temporarily banned in my country in order to ask it to moderate its VDOs mocking & disrespecting our King. (FYI: the law is written by the PEOPLE through its democratic system, not by the King. the king's only there by name but no real power.)
This is why I am against democracy. I have no doubt that people are short minded fools that would cut off their nose to spite their face. When you let populism and mob rule dictate laws such as this then you have no one to blame when an evil king comes into power and then you find yourself locked up in a jail cell for having criticised him.
Remember this: Admiration is the emotion farthest from comprehension. Because you love the king so much, you cannot see that you are creating a rod for your own back.
#3 Yes, you have your right of free speech to say it, and so do I. No personal offence should be taken here either as we're supposed to have a civilized debate. Anyway, telling incorrect information (e.g., In Thailand, one can't stamp on the money, etc.) is not really a good practice of free speech.. Other foreigners will quote from you and there'll be no end to all misunderstandings we have everywhere now. You see, we have to spend so much time in answering all VDOs.. so it'd help if you do more reading-ups first..
Again you harp on this point. As if it makes up a substantial amount of my total argument. Hopefully all rational people can see what you are doing is petty.
#4 For the future concern, leave it for future. If our future king's not this great, surely enough that Lese Majeste Law won't be there for long!;) lol! If we're not happy, surely Thai people'll never fail to voice ourselves out! (as you've seen here! lol (* can't stop giggling here sorry) OK, serious talking, no system's absolutely best in all situation, neither monarchy nor absolute democracy will be 100% great.. I do expect something bad in future to happen, we'll have to wait and see.. But for now as I commented earlyer, the king's been the country only hope against all corrupted politician we've had from our democracy system.. So without monarchy, we can't guarantee if any other system will benefit us either..
Here’s a strange idea. Freedom.
If you have freedom then people who love the king can continue to love him and people who do not love the king can have their say.
Without freedom, like at the moment with lese majest, only one of these groups can have their say.
In short: Freedom allows all views whereas tyranny only allows a certain number, the freedoms allowed by liberty are a superset of those allowed by tyranny. In a free society the fascist can be a fascist, a collectivist can be a collectivist and an individualist can be an individualist. If the collectivist takes over then he will force all to adopt his particular philosophy. This is the base evil behind collectivism.
#4(cont'd) In fact, if we don't have our monarchy to balance the power, we'd have become like Myanmar where the army has absolute power. Things're not easy there. They king has his power cuz people like me and others here are ready to fight for him, so he's the only one who can persuade the citizen to share a mutual goal. In the army fight with students 10 yrs ago, he was the only one who can stop the fight
You need an absolute power to balance the power to stop you being ruled by an absolute power? Right.
PS. You seem to be more relaxed before the end of this VDO and I'm glad to see that. As I say, I don't want this to become personal or anything. I think it's because of our culture difference. Based on the Thai & Asian context, you look very aggressive in your 1st VDO that's why you got those hateful email. Those response like "go to hell," etc. have to be ignored.
Anyway, every country has educated & uneducated, high EQ & low EQ people. As a Thai I have to say sorry for that. Anyway, your VDO is better than some others that just express their ideas using monkey face & Photoshop.
Thanks for reading.
I don’t like the approach of videos like that. I don’t know what purpose is served by being wilfully offensive and obtuse without making a decent point. I offend people because they disagree with my ideas, not because I’m trying to be wilfully offensive.
Posted on: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:15 PM