Gracious royal response to a ‘damaging’ predicament

The pardons were in line with the advice offered by his father, who Grossman and Faulder referred to as a “very prominent critic” of the law in their 2011 book “King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life’s Work”. 
“In 2005, after an increase in politically inspired lese majeste complaints, King Bhumibol ... conveyed [that]: charges against those accused of lese majeste should be dropped, and those held in jail for lese majeste should be released. The use of the law ultimately damages the monarchy. When criticism is prohibited and people are jailed for lese majeste, ‘the damage is done to the King’.” 
King Rama IX’s graciousness showed, to me, that our beloved national father’s opinion on lese majeste is still the most suitable for Thailand today. It follows, then, that if people being jailed on this charge causes damage to the King, we should protect our highest institution by reforming our lese majeste law. 
Burin Kantabutra