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Can you please complete template {{peer review}} on the talk page about the article on the Australian writer being jailed in Thailand. {{publish}} is no longer sufficient to get an article on the main page and it must be sighted once it is verified that some fact-checking and editorial control has been performed. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

It's magic of Wikinews collaboration

Thanks for your comment on my cursory perusal of world reports to dig into this - making this article a real SYNTHESIS - such that non-neutral, cheap, noisy and 'small thinking' news reports, even comming from top world news sites, miserably failed to pain a real picture of the lawsuit. Of more than 30 news that I opened and put into this, I just found ONE NEWS ARTICLE which really put the REAL THING-paragraph of INSULT. Talk:Australian writer Harry Nicolaides jailed for three years for insulting Thai Royal Family

Note however, that, USA and Philippines laws on marriages are different from Thai laws. Here in the Philippines, our laws and courts recognize the Philippine Muslim Personal law amid our Shariah courts in Mindanao. A Muslim is allowed to marry at 4 wives on conditions. We have to respect their culture and religion. One more thing: the King of Thailand is not just a symbolic head of state. He is revered as semi-divine and a reincarnation (I myself do not believe in these since I am Catholic, but I respect these). The Thai Royal Family cannot under the law sue to protect itself, hence, like many insulting laws, the Thai law is good and even if harsh and draconian it must stay as culture and religion should stay as OPIUM of the people, just sayin.

BTW, I am here in the Philippines and with all due respect, I notice that you are posting on the opposite side of the planet - Bothell, Washington - Verizon Internet Services (here in Malolos, and in Manila, Philippines, when it is 1 pm, here, it is 1 am in New York; my cousin Maria Floro is economics professor of your American University. Best of Luck![1]--Florentino Floro (talk) 07:07, 22 January 2009 (UTC)