"We love your king," The American Ambassador Kristie Kenny told a small group of newspaper editors
meeting her at her residence. The ambassador stressed that she appreciated each country's need to have
its own laws.

The American Ambassador Kristie Kenny has reiterated that the United States would never interfere in Thailand's political affairs,
and that controversial Article 112 is a legal matter to be sorted out by Thais only.
Clarifying her embassy's and her own roles regarding the so called lese majeste law that recently led
to a jail sentence for a Thai-American, the envoy said her and the embassy's reactions to the case were
strictly that  a response to an individual case, and no more, no less.

The US Embassy's Facebook page had been overwhelmed with angry remarks, some of which expressed in
obscenities, after the United States' reaction to Joe Gordon's 20-year jail sentence was seen
as America siding with the antilese majeste movement here. Street protests were held.
Ambassador Kenny also bore the brunt of the wrath, with furious messages and some profanities
sent to her Twitter account.

She said her Twitter chat with her followers the day after Joe Gordon sentence was handed down
had been planned in advance and the embassy could not have known exactly when the verdict was going to comeĀ out
after delays and postponements. The issue of Joe Gordon and lese majeste came up during the Twitter chat,
and although she took diplomatic lines in answering questions, attacks on the embassy's Facebook page began
after the Twitter forum.

"I felt very bad about it," she said, repeating that Americans are friends to Thais on both sides of the political
divide.

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