The truth recently discovered -- Regimes of truth, regimes of defamation -- Truth and treason in old Siam -- Chronology of Thai defamation-based laws -- Normalizing "abnormal times" and the endless state of exception -- Intent and import -- The insulted and defamed (the individual to the nation) -- The insulted and defamed (monarchy and lèse-majesté) -- The people -- Culture and traitor -- Thai-ification and colonisation -- Defamation and truth.