Doubtless the story that put lao khamhom in danger of being charged with sedition is "dust underfoot" and the charge of sedition as reynolds reminds us is closely associated with the auglicised-french term lese majeste the story as this article has illustrated contains elements that can easily put lao khamhom in jeopardy narrative that siam /thailand was never colonised the prominent thai critic sulak sivaraksa notes that because of his best seller fa bo kan lao khamhom was subject to close. Scrutiny and malicious claims he was slandered as a communist and lese majeste offender in effer the sarit military regime came to power only months after the publication of his small book.