Joshua Kurlantzick is a fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and has a blog post (no link can be provided given the sensitivity of the subject) on the Wikileaks cables related to Thailand:

Theoretically, Thailand’s monarchy is “above politics” – the royal institution does not involve itself in political life, and is theoretically a constitutional monarch, like Queen Elizabeth II. Of course, Thais and experienced Thailand watchers know this is not the case; Thailand scholar Duncan McCargo, at Leeds University, coined the term “network monarchy” to explain how the palace influences politics through a network of its supporters and loyalists. But the recent batch of leaked cables show in much more detail….

Though these cables will be blocked from servers in Thailand, and Bangkok-based newspapers and bloggers will refer to them without referencing the royal family, for fear of being charged with lèse majesté, undoubtedly many Thais will find out about them, just as they have found out about most other stories about the royal family. Of course, Thailand’s government will officially ignore them. But eventually, it will have to address their substance.

BP: Actually, BP is fairly sure they won’t address the substance publicly and hence this is part of the problem because it is the failure to adapt to different circumstances which will likely be even more perilous in the future. The establishment is adverse to any form of change and prefer to keep things as they are. Hence, the position will be to cast doubt on the cables. Some elements of the media have already labeled one of the statements in the cables a conspiracy theory. Others just completely ignore – as best summed up by Nattakorn’s gag using tape over his mouth.