newuser, I have a question: Can you think impartially? Is it posible for any one to think impartially? No. Everyone has his/her biases and preferences, and no matter how hard you try to hide those, they somehow get reflected in your posts. I read some of the mesasges in this thread, they are all but impartial. We are discussing politcis here, so let's be politically incorrect. Sometimes you can speak your mind and say directly what you want to say. Your chances of getting dumbera re more when you try to balance youir views and in the disguise of impartiality, you become more and more partial. The result: you are more confused.. and when you are confused, you cannot think, speak and write right. You need freedom to speak your mind, understandable. Someone like you deserves freedom to write what he wants to write, see what he wants to see because you are one of the elites. To make things worse (or better?) you are abroad. Now, think of the pepople in Nepal: How many can read and write? Youi exercise yoru fredom of speech and write an article for a newspaper, how many people in Nepal will read it? How manyt of them will understand it? How many people will even get to see it? Not many. So freedom of speech and this and that you all are worried about applies only to a handful- elites of Kathmandu. It means nothing to an average Nepali who has to work hard to feed his family. For an average Nepali at this point of time, peace and security are more important, and that's what the King has promised to deliver. If you ask me, what do I value more, peace or freedom, I value peace than all those freedom and representatives ideals. Right now, we need negative liberty (freedom from) not positive liberty (freedom to, in the words of Issah Berlin) if we are to deal woith the Maoists effectively. liberty and freedom are always there, in every society, no mater how tyrranical or despotic.