We Love Your King Kristie Kenny US Embassy in Thailand
"We love your king," The American Ambassador Kristie Kenny told a small group of newspaper editors
meeting her at her residence. The ambassador stressed that she appreciated each country's need to have
its own laws.
The American Ambassador Kristie Kenny has reiterated that the United States would never interfere in Thailand's political affairs,
and that controversial Article 112 is a legal matter to be sorted out by Thais only.
Clarifying her embassy's and her own roles regarding the so called lese majeste law that recently led
to a jail sentence for a Thai-American, the envoy said her and the embassy's reactions to the case were
strictly that a response to an individual case, and no more, no less.
The US Embassy's Facebook page had been overwhelmed with angry remarks, some of which expressed in
obscenities, after the United States' reaction to Joe Gordon's 20-year jail sentence was seen
as America siding with the antilese majeste movement here. Street protests w…
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