Train rape: Beauty queen had enough of ugly "foxes"

Venting her sadness and anger online wasn’t enough for her, though.

 Panadda has taken more concrete action by organising a campaign to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition to change the law applying to convicted rapists.
She believes it’s next to useless to simply condemn the vicious criminal on Facebook or Twitter without taking action to back up your words. “As soon as we forget about this case and stop talking about it, there’ll be another,” she warns.
“No one who has a young daughter like me wants such a social fox to commit a crime like this and only get a jail term – and then do it again and again after he’s released. Some rapists repeat the crime six times. How can we live in such a society? I don’t want to keep letting this happen – I’m hoping I’ll see the situation change within my lifetime.”
The Criminal Code currently prescribes jail terms of four to 20 years in general cases of rape, while more violent cases are punishable by death. The people backing Panadda’s campaign, however, want anyone convicted of rape and murder given the death penalty, without exception.
If you feel the same way, mail a photocopy of your ID card – and a signed statement demanding that the law on punishment for rape be amended – to PO Box 43, Por Nor For Huay Khwang (Non-delivery Post Office), Bangkok 10327. Panadda will compile the documents and personally deliver them to the National Council for Peace and Order. Several well-known actresses are backing her on this, including Patcharapa “Aum” Chaichua and Chermarn “Ploy” Boonyasak.

It ain’t me, babe
The average person expressing his sentiments online does sometimes feel like his is a sole voice whispering from the distant wilderness, so there might be a temptation to “borrow” the much louder voice of a celebrity. The bonus in doing so on the social networks is that millions of people will routinely repeat what you’ve said in re-tweets and shares, whether they agree or disagree, and the discussion echoes across the Internet. Usually it takes hours or even days before someone interrupts and says, “Wait a second – is this information even accurate?”
The most recent case study of this phenomenon involves actor-rock singer Amphon “Nui” Lampoon. Nui has indeed previously shown support for the red shirts, but there was still a lot of rumbling across the Web when a photo of him made the rounds attached to a quote, both picture and words evidently a screenshot from Facebook. “You said Shinawatra cheated,” ran the quote. “How did he cheat? Show me the evidence. It’s pity that anyone just believes the hearsay. They are brainless.”
The continued dedication to the Shinawatra family and Thaksin in particular seemed plausible enough coming from a red sympathiser, so the comment “by Nui” was widely accepted as authentic – until he interrupted and said, “Wait a second – is this information even accurate?”
It is absolutely not, Nui tweeted as @righthandrock. He has never said any such thing. And he hasn’t been commenting online about politics at all lately – nor does he even have a Facebook account. Nui urged everyone who was listening to re-tweet his denial to set the record straight.