The elderly man who just couldn’t anymore with Thailand’s most renowned gadfly was slapped on the wrist with a THB1,000 (US$30) fine yesterday.
Weerawit Rungruengsiripol, a 62-year-old Redshirt activist, was fined by the Criminal Court for socking Srisuwan Janya this past October as he was on his way to file his 80,000th legal complaint, which concerned a comedy special that he didn’t like.
While we deplore violence in pursuit of silencing or stifling even the most annoying people – Srisuwan provides a study in the gadfly’s descent from truth-chaser to narcissist – the nation was so happy to see him punched in the face that people donated millions of baht for Weerawit’s legal defense.
Srisuwan was about to file a complaint to the Technology Crime Suppression Division about anti-government jokes told by stand-up comedian Udom “Note”…
