Frustrated with the lack of freedom of speech in Thailand.

Organization is the key to change, and that's being carefully monitored here. Speech is critical to that. The government's strategy is to jail leaders or potential leaders. It's the strategy of most repressive governments, including (here I go again) the USA. There "freedom of speech is permitted" until people start listening to you and your movement grows to a size significant to make a difference (eg Occupy). Here they're much more "proactive", nipping off free speech in the bud under the ever convenient lese majeste law, which is basically any criticism or attack against the status quo. Building a large political movement is the key, one that ideally runs across class lines, eg that unites the working class in the north and south with the Bangkok youth and intelligentsia around core issues like fairer distribution of income and a real democracy. The strategy of the people who own Thailand is "divide and conquer", play on people's differences rather than what they have in common. Get people hating each other so they'll never unite. Organizers for change emphasize what people from any part of Thailand have in common vs. the people at the top, who live in the rich stratosphere of complete disconnection with ordinary people.

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