Likewise, Thai filmmakers opposing the ban order (most do) aren't doing it so that they can start making porn freely and hawking it on the street. If Mr Bean has his way, it doesn't mean he wants to rally people to verbally abuse each other with glee and impunity. Asking for the right to insult others may smack of saucy ultra-liberalism - even from a court jester - but there's a glaring misunderstanding from the conservative on this: the call for the repeal of gagging laws, both in the UK and here, isn't an encouragement for people to start spewing obscenities and offensive slurs in public. Yawning in distress, we gaze up at Mr Bean and his campaign. All doors have been banged shut along the bureaucratic corridor. Meanwhile the move by scholars, activists and citizens to petition parliament to amend the lese majeste law was rejected on Thursday, meaning the country's legislative arm will not even consider talking about it. Then this too: Earlier, the Constitution Court ruled the computer law and the lese majeste law, questioned on the same grounds of free-speech restriction, are not unconstitutional either. The filmmakers have also filed charges at the Constitution and Administrative courts.
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Walking down the same dingy alley is another movie declared by seven inquisitors as heresy, a destroyer of calm and peace: Shakespeare Must Die, murdered like poor Duncan earlier this year. The director, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, is also fighting the case in the Administrative Court. But anyway, the case was filed to the Constitution Court by the filmmaker of Insects in the Backyard, a film that was banned in 2010 on grounds of being against public morals - which scene or scenes exactly, the censor committee never made clear. "Even though is a limitation of freedom of expression to an extent," reads the Oct 26 verdict, "it follows the stipulation in Section 45 and does not upset the essence of freedom of expression." First, the Constitution Court has finally ruled the provision in the Film Act 2008 sanctioning the banning of movies is not unconstitutional, meaning movies deemed disruptive to national security or public morals can be banned - busted, blindfolded and booted to the crematorium. Do less than what you've been doing, and here you'd meet a fate much worse than an Elizabethan dungeon in the Tower of London.Ī few updates on the home front, for most got drowned out by our black deliriums over the tycoon-vs-starlet romance (with or without the bureaucracy of love a la wedding registration). Try Southeast Asia, my Duke, my Blackadder, my Johnny English - and you'll choke and churn, roil and run riot. Startling - for Mr Bean operates in England, the fertile hotbed of sardonic wit, televised mockery and creative foul-mouthedness. At Westminster, the King of Caustic Put-Downs and (sometimes, like at the Olympics) the Grand Duke of Fart Jokes, launched a campaign to object to a section of the Public Order Act that, he says, has fostered intolerance and advanced "the creeping culture of censoriousness" by outlawing insults. Without a wink, Mr Bean is asking for the right to insult.
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